Pub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1177/17579759241270980
Sergio Montalt-García, Israel Villarrasa-Sapiña, Gonzalo Monfort-Torres, Javier Molina-García
{"title":"La conducta de actividad física durante el horario escolar: contribución a las recomendaciones diarias en edad infantil.","authors":"Sergio Montalt-García, Israel Villarrasa-Sapiña, Gonzalo Monfort-Torres, Javier Molina-García","doi":"10.1177/17579759241270980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241270980","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142394177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-08DOI: 10.1177/17579759241283740
Cyprien Zinsou, Ghyslain Guedegbe, Alexandra Angel, Paul Bouanchaud, Ashley Jackson, Isidore Kikissagbe, Beth Brogaard
RésuméLe diaphragme Caya, de taille unique, est une méthode de contraception efficace dans multiples contextes. Pourtant, la recherche sur son acceptabilité, utilisation, et continuation en Afrique de l'Ouest francophone reste limitée. Ce projet pilote a introduit Caya à Cotonou et Bohicon, Bénin pour mieux comprendre comment Caya est utilisé. 225 adoptantes ont participé à une enquête, six mois après avoir choisi la méthode. 30 adoptantes, 15 hommes de la communauté et 15 prestataires ont participé à des entretiens approfondis. L'étude a révélé que les adoptantes choisissent la méthode parce qu'elle était non hormonale et ne provoque pas d'effets secondaires. Six mois après avoir adopté Caya, 76,4 % des adoptantes continuaient à l'utiliser ; celles moins instruites et avec 1 enfant ou plus, étaient plus susceptibles de continuer à utiliser Caya. Cela indique que dans ce contexte, Caya est une méthode acceptable qui ajouterait de la valeur aux autres méthodes contraceptives.
{"title":"Comprendre l'adoption et la continuation de l'utilisation du diaphragme Caya au Bénin : une étude à méthodes mixtes.","authors":"Cyprien Zinsou, Ghyslain Guedegbe, Alexandra Angel, Paul Bouanchaud, Ashley Jackson, Isidore Kikissagbe, Beth Brogaard","doi":"10.1177/17579759241283740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241283740","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>RésuméLe diaphragme Caya, de taille unique, est une méthode de contraception efficace dans multiples contextes. Pourtant, la recherche sur son acceptabilité, utilisation, et continuation en Afrique de l'Ouest francophone reste limitée. Ce projet pilote a introduit Caya à Cotonou et Bohicon, Bénin pour mieux comprendre comment Caya est utilisé. 225 adoptantes ont participé à une enquête, six mois après avoir choisi la méthode. 30 adoptantes, 15 hommes de la communauté et 15 prestataires ont participé à des entretiens approfondis. L'étude a révélé que les adoptantes choisissent la méthode parce qu'elle était non hormonale et ne provoque pas d'effets secondaires. Six mois après avoir adopté Caya, 76,4 % des adoptantes continuaient à l'utiliser ; celles moins instruites et avec 1 enfant ou plus, étaient plus susceptibles de continuer à utiliser Caya. Cela indique que dans ce contexte, Caya est une méthode acceptable qui ajouterait de la valeur aux autres méthodes contraceptives.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142394176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-06DOI: 10.1177/17579759241277116
Andrea Lutz, Olivier Duperrex, Aude Gendre, Karin Zürcher
Background: COVID-19 pandemic and confinement measures had a major impact on the health and well-being of the population. Health promotion and prevention (HP&P) professionals had to rethink their practices to respond to the challenges raised by the pandemic context. This study aimed to build a professional consensus on the HP&P priorities (apart from the COVID-19 fight) in the early times of the pandemic in Switzerland and to identify the most relevant interventions to respond to these issues.
Methods: HP&P experts from the three main linguistic regions of Switzerland reached a consensus through a two-round Delphi methodology with online questionnaires in June-July and October-November, 2020. Out of 282 experts contacted, 121 (43%) contributed in the first round and 99 (35%) in the second.
Results: A strong consensus emerged about the importance of tackling mental health problems, non-communicable diseases and their main risk factors, as well as multiple social determinants of health. Although they believed that HP&P priorities changed in this context, experts reported that professional practices had only partially adapted to this new context due to multiple constraints (political, strategic, financial). The experts noted the need to adapt the means of communication to reach the different target groups. They underlined the potential of communication via digital technologies, but also drew attention to the risk of widening social inequalities due to the unequal access to these resources.
Conclusions: This study generated new insights and confirmed pre-established knowledge regarding the orientations the field of HP&P should follow. While stressing the need to consolidate the traditional missions of the field (i.e. the fight against non-communicable diseases and the actions on social determinants of health), experts surveyed in this study also revaluated health priorities and rethought the way of developing HP&P actions in this specific context of the early pandemic of COVID-19.
{"title":"Health promotion and prevention in early times of the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a Delphi study in Switzerland.","authors":"Andrea Lutz, Olivier Duperrex, Aude Gendre, Karin Zürcher","doi":"10.1177/17579759241277116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241277116","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>COVID-19 pandemic and confinement measures had a major impact on the health and well-being of the population. Health promotion and prevention (HP&P) professionals had to rethink their practices to respond to the challenges raised by the pandemic context. This study aimed to build a professional consensus on the HP&P priorities (apart from the COVID-19 fight) in the early times of the pandemic in Switzerland and to identify the most relevant interventions to respond to these issues.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>HP&P experts from the three main linguistic regions of Switzerland reached a consensus through a two-round Delphi methodology with online questionnaires in June-July and October-November, 2020. Out of 282 experts contacted, 121 (43%) contributed in the first round and 99 (35%) in the second.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A strong consensus emerged about the importance of tackling mental health problems, non-communicable diseases and their main risk factors, as well as multiple social determinants of health. Although they believed that HP&P priorities changed in this context, experts reported that professional practices had only partially adapted to this new context due to multiple constraints (political, strategic, financial). The experts noted the need to adapt the means of communication to reach the different target groups. They underlined the potential of communication via digital technologies, but also drew attention to the risk of widening social inequalities due to the unequal access to these resources.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study generated new insights and confirmed pre-established knowledge regarding the orientations the field of HP&P should follow. While stressing the need to consolidate the traditional missions of the field (i.e. the fight against non-communicable diseases and the actions on social determinants of health), experts surveyed in this study also revaluated health priorities and rethought the way of developing HP&P actions in this specific context of the early pandemic of COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142381978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In recent years, there has been a notable increase in vaccine hesitancy among individuals. It is crucial to identify the factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy to effectively address this issue. This study aims to investigate the impact of social media-specific epistemological beliefs on vaccine hesitancy and the mediating role of health perception in this impact. This study is a cross-sectional study conducted with 444 parents. Data were collected using the Personal Information Form, the Social Media-Specific Epistemological Beliefs Scale, the Perception of Health Scale, and the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale. When there is no mediator variable, the total effect of social media-specific epistemological beliefs on vaccine hesitancy is statistically significant (β = -0.219, p < 0.001). However, it was found that health perception did not mediate the relationship between social media-specific epistemological beliefs and vaccine hesitancy (β = 0.0038, 95% confidence interval (-0.0090, 0.0205)). Furthermore, it was determined that social media-specific epistemological beliefs positively predicted health perception (β = 0.136, p < 0.01). Health perception was found to have no significant effect on vaccine hesitancy (β = 0.028, p > 0.05). It can be concluded that social media-specific epistemological beliefs negatively predict vaccine hesitancy, and this effect is independent of health perception. Primary healthcare professionals should consider incorporating interventions aimed at enhancing individuals' social media-specific epistemological beliefs into their health education programs related to vaccines.
近年来,个人对疫苗犹豫不决的情况明显增多。为有效解决这一问题,找出导致疫苗犹豫不决的因素至关重要。本研究旨在探讨社交媒体特有的认识论信念对疫苗接种犹豫不决的影响,以及健康认知在这一影响中的中介作用。本研究是一项横断面研究,共有 444 名家长参与。使用个人信息表、社交媒体特定认识论信念量表、健康感知量表和疫苗犹豫量表收集数据。在没有中介变量的情况下,社交媒体特定认识论信念对疫苗接种犹豫的总效应具有统计学意义(β = -0.219,p p > 0.05)。由此可以得出结论,社交媒体特有的认识论信念会对疫苗接种犹豫产生负面影响,而且这种影响与健康认知无关。初级医疗保健专业人员应考虑在与疫苗有关的健康教育计划中纳入旨在增强个人社交媒体特定认识论信念的干预措施。
{"title":"Do social media epistemological beliefs and health perception impact parents' vaccine hesitancy? A mediation analysis.","authors":"Cahide Çevik, Ebru Yavuz, Fatma Çakmak, Reyhan Ündere, Asiye Doğan Cengiz","doi":"10.1177/17579759241270956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241270956","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, there has been a notable increase in vaccine hesitancy among individuals. It is crucial to identify the factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy to effectively address this issue. This study aims to investigate the impact of social media-specific epistemological beliefs on vaccine hesitancy and the mediating role of health perception in this impact. This study is a cross-sectional study conducted with 444 parents. Data were collected using the Personal Information Form, the Social Media-Specific Epistemological Beliefs Scale, the Perception of Health Scale, and the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale. When there is no mediator variable, the total effect of social media-specific epistemological beliefs on vaccine hesitancy is statistically significant (β = -0.219, <i>p</i> < 0.001). However, it was found that health perception did not mediate the relationship between social media-specific epistemological beliefs and vaccine hesitancy (β = 0.0038, 95% confidence interval (-0.0090, 0.0205)). Furthermore, it was determined that social media-specific epistemological beliefs positively predicted health perception (β = 0.136, <i>p</i> < 0.01). Health perception was found to have no significant effect on vaccine hesitancy (β = 0.028, <i>p</i> > 0.05). It can be concluded that social media-specific epistemological beliefs negatively predict vaccine hesitancy, and this effect is independent of health perception. Primary healthcare professionals should consider incorporating interventions aimed at enhancing individuals' social media-specific epistemological beliefs into their health education programs related to vaccines.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142381977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1177/17579759241270957
Elizabeth Dodge, Katia Hazim N Abu Shihab, Basil H Aboul-Enein, Nada Benajiba, MoezAlIslam Faris
The university setting is an ideal setting to implement nutrition education interventions. Because the transition to college life often overlaps with young adults' increase in independence in food choice and nutrition related behavior, this is an optimal time to target this population and several models exist to best utilize the college setting to support nutrition education interventions. This review aimed to examine the effectiveness of nutrition interventions in university student populations across the League of Arab States. A scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines was conducted across 14 databases for relevant publications published through May 2023 to find studies conducted across Arab countries. Quality assessment was conducted using the Effective Public Health Practice Project tool. Seven primary studies were included in this review. Although the interventions and outcome measures were disparate, there were positive impacts of the interventions, including improved nutrition knowledge and nutrition habits, knowledge of nutrient sources, and knowledge about the relationship between diet and disease. Recommendations to maximize the efficacy of nutrition interventions conducted across the League of Arab States include purposeful design of the intervention based on a theoretical framework, the use of a control group in the research design, and follow-up measures to examine post-intervention effects. Consideration should also be given to intervention duration and availability in college-students' schedules. Adaptation of intervention materials, measures and delivery methodologies should emphasize local foods, food culture and dietary practices.
{"title":"Effectiveness of nutrition interventions targeting university-level student populations across the League of Arab States: a systematic scoping review.","authors":"Elizabeth Dodge, Katia Hazim N Abu Shihab, Basil H Aboul-Enein, Nada Benajiba, MoezAlIslam Faris","doi":"10.1177/17579759241270957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241270957","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The university setting is an ideal setting to implement nutrition education interventions. Because the transition to college life often overlaps with young adults' increase in independence in food choice and nutrition related behavior, this is an optimal time to target this population and several models exist to best utilize the college setting to support nutrition education interventions. This review aimed to examine the effectiveness of nutrition interventions in university student populations across the League of Arab States. A scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines was conducted across 14 databases for relevant publications published through May 2023 to find studies conducted across Arab countries. Quality assessment was conducted using the Effective Public Health Practice Project tool. Seven primary studies were included in this review. Although the interventions and outcome measures were disparate, there were positive impacts of the interventions, including improved nutrition knowledge and nutrition habits, knowledge of nutrient sources, and knowledge about the relationship between diet and disease. Recommendations to maximize the efficacy of nutrition interventions conducted across the League of Arab States include purposeful design of the intervention based on a theoretical framework, the use of a control group in the research design, and follow-up measures to examine post-intervention effects. Consideration should also be given to intervention duration and availability in college-students' schedules. Adaptation of intervention materials, measures and delivery methodologies should emphasize local foods, food culture and dietary practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142336813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1177/17579759241279740
Evelyne de Leeuw, Mumtaz Meeran
{"title":"Des milieux de vie favorables à la santé planétaire et au bien-être: Considérations pour le thème de la 25<sup>e</sup> Conférence mondiale de l'UIPES, à Abu Dhabi, en 2025.","authors":"Evelyne de Leeuw, Mumtaz Meeran","doi":"10.1177/17579759241279740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241279740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142336812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1177/17579759241279741
Evelyne de Leeuw, Mumtaz Meeran
{"title":"Entornos para la salud planetaria y el bienestar: Consideraciones sobre el tema de la 25ª Conferencia Mundial de la UIPES, Abu Dabi, 2025.","authors":"Evelyne de Leeuw, Mumtaz Meeran","doi":"10.1177/17579759241279741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241279741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1177/17579759241279732
Evelyne de Leeuw, Mumtaz Meeran
{"title":"Settings for planetary health and well-being: Considerations for the conference theme of the 25th Global Conference of IUHPE, Abu Dhabi, 2025.","authors":"Evelyne de Leeuw, Mumtaz Meeran","doi":"10.1177/17579759241279732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241279732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1177/17579759241270914
Kirtan Rana, Madhur Verma, Pranay Lal
Introduction: Health warning labels (HWLs) are one of the key strategies for tobacco control. The current study assessed the individual characteristics affecting the noticeability of HWLs and the thought of quitting smokeless tobacco (SLT) on noticing HWLs. We further estimated the temporal changes in noticeability and thought of quitting after noticing HWLs over time in India.
Methods: Data from two rounds (2009-2010 and 2016-2017) of GATS (Global Adult Tobacco Survey) from India were analysed to understand the pattern of SLT usage and estimate the relative changes in the noticeability of HWLs and the thought of quitting SLT among those who noticed HWLs. Sampling weights were used during the analysis. Multivariate binary logistic regression was used to explore the determinants for the noticeability of HWLs and encourage the intention to quit SLT after noticing the HWLs.
Results: About 25.9% and 20.6% of participants consumed SLT daily or non-daily in two rounds of GATS. Overall, there was a 14% relative increase in noticing the HWLs and a 20% increase in the thought of quitting in GATS-2 compared with GATS-1. The adjusted odds ratio of observing HWLs among SLT users was 1.51 times (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.44-1.58) in round 2 compared with round 1, while the odds ratio concerning the thought of quitting SLT after noticing HWLs was 1.95 times (95% CI, 1.84-2.06) in round 2 compared with round 1.
Conclusions: We observe a consistent increase in the noticeability of HWLs and intentions to quit in SLT users, with significant variations across socio-demographic characteristics calling for concerted efforts. SLT being the major form of tobacco usage in India and Asian countries, HWLs alone cannot bring down the consumption rates, and it needs to be supported by strict implementation of SLT legislation for long-lasting impact.
{"title":"Noticing health warning labels and intentions to quit smokeless tobacco products: results from two Global Adult Tobacco Survey rounds, India.","authors":"Kirtan Rana, Madhur Verma, Pranay Lal","doi":"10.1177/17579759241270914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241270914","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Health warning labels (HWLs) are one of the key strategies for tobacco control. The current study assessed the individual characteristics affecting the noticeability of HWLs and the thought of quitting smokeless tobacco (SLT) on noticing HWLs. We further estimated the temporal changes in noticeability and thought of quitting after noticing HWLs over time in India.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from two rounds (2009-2010 and 2016-2017) of GATS (Global Adult Tobacco Survey) from India were analysed to understand the pattern of SLT usage and estimate the relative changes in the noticeability of HWLs and the thought of quitting SLT among those who noticed HWLs. Sampling weights were used during the analysis. Multivariate binary logistic regression was used to explore the determinants for the noticeability of HWLs and encourage the intention to quit SLT after noticing the HWLs.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>About 25.9% and 20.6% of participants consumed SLT daily or non-daily in two rounds of GATS. Overall, there was a 14% relative increase in noticing the HWLs and a 20% increase in the thought of quitting in GATS-2 compared with GATS-1. The adjusted odds ratio of observing HWLs among SLT users was 1.51 times (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.44-1.58) in round 2 compared with round 1, while the odds ratio concerning the thought of quitting SLT after noticing HWLs was 1.95 times (95% CI, 1.84-2.06) in round 2 compared with round 1.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We observe a consistent increase in the noticeability of HWLs and intentions to quit in SLT users, with significant variations across socio-demographic characteristics calling for concerted efforts. SLT being the major form of tobacco usage in India and Asian countries, HWLs alone cannot bring down the consumption rates, and it needs to be supported by strict implementation of SLT legislation for long-lasting impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1177/17579759241248401
Nora K Lenhard, Crystal An, Divya Jasthi, Veronica Laurel-Vargas, Ilon Weinstein, Suet K Lam
Introduction: Although there is rising interest in virtual global health (GH) education in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been no report on the body of literature describing virtual education partnerships for health professional students. This scoping review examines virtual GH partnerships involving health professional students, including any barriers identified or best practices and ways to address them.
Methods: We searched PubMed for studies describing virtual GH education partnerships using keywords related to GH, virtual learning, and partnerships. Inclusion criteria were that the activity was virtual, involved health professional students in two or more countries, and was reported in English or Spanish. In-person clinical electives and interventions that had not yet occurred were excluded. Study quality was assessed using the Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument (MERSQI).
Results: The search algorithm yielded 308 articles. Seventeen studies met full inclusion criteria. Four studies described asynchronous formats, whereas 13 were synchronous. Common challenges included scheduling challenges, language barriers, and technological limitations. Suggested improvements included having increased faculty support and expanding partnerships to multiple languages. The median MERSQI score was 8.25 out of 18 possible points.
Conclusion: There are limited studies investigating the effectiveness of virtual GH education partnerships, and more robust evaluation is needed to further understand the optimal role of virtual education in teaching GH skills. Despite logistical challenges, virtual partnerships can provide innovative GH education through bidirectional educational exchanges that students find valuable.
{"title":"Virtual global health education partnerships for health professional students: a scoping review.","authors":"Nora K Lenhard, Crystal An, Divya Jasthi, Veronica Laurel-Vargas, Ilon Weinstein, Suet K Lam","doi":"10.1177/17579759241248401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241248401","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Although there is rising interest in virtual global health (GH) education in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been no report on the body of literature describing virtual education partnerships for health professional students. This scoping review examines virtual GH partnerships involving health professional students, including any barriers identified or best practices and ways to address them.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We searched PubMed for studies describing virtual GH education partnerships using keywords related to GH, virtual learning, and partnerships. Inclusion criteria were that the activity was virtual, involved health professional students in two or more countries, and was reported in English or Spanish. In-person clinical electives and interventions that had not yet occurred were excluded. Study quality was assessed using the Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument (MERSQI).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The search algorithm yielded 308 articles. Seventeen studies met full inclusion criteria. Four studies described asynchronous formats, whereas 13 were synchronous. Common challenges included scheduling challenges, language barriers, and technological limitations. Suggested improvements included having increased faculty support and expanding partnerships to multiple languages. The median MERSQI score was 8.25 out of 18 possible points.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There are limited studies investigating the effectiveness of virtual GH education partnerships, and more robust evaluation is needed to further understand the optimal role of virtual education in teaching GH skills. Despite logistical challenges, virtual partnerships can provide innovative GH education through bidirectional educational exchanges that students find valuable.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142019138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}