Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000605
Kemmyo Sugiyama, T. Tsuboya
Background: Comprehensive teamwork among medical experts, nursing-care experts and non-experts are essential in promoting medical and nursing care services in a community for the well-being of all residents. For accomplishment, inter-professional workshops have been conducted in various places throughout Japan. However, only a few studies have evaluated the effect of these activities, and most of them included only medical experts. Thus, we launched a community-based participatory research (CBPR), consisted of serial workshops in Tome City, a northeastern rural area in Japan. To our knowledge, this is the first study to quantitively evaluate the effect of CBPR. Methods: We held workshops including small lectures at a frequency of 1-2 times a month during six months. The participants discussed issues of medical or long-term care in Tome City. At baseline and the final workshops, we distributed to the participants questionnaires where they graded scores on the quality of cooperation among medical and nursing-care services in Tome. The summed scores were used as our main outcome. The higher scores mean better integration. Results: The median (range) of the scores for overall participants were 101.0 (66.0) at baseline, and 89.0 (76.0) at the end, with no statistical difference observed (p=0.50). Similar results were observed when stratified by number of times attending to other workshops and medical or nursing-care profession. Conclusion: No improvement in collaboration was observed after serial workshops in 6 months. Further discussions would be needed how we can promote better collaboration among professionals and citizens for the achievement of residents’ well-being.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000614
Tchokossa Ma, A. Ba
The study investigated the knowledge and use of contraceptives among female adolescents in selected secondary Schools in Ife Central Local Government Area of Osun State. The study surveyed 397 female adolescent students using purposive sampling technique. An adapted instrument was used to elicit information from the respondents. Five research questions were asked and answered while two hypotheses were tested and verified at 0.05 level of significance. The results among others showed that 244 (61.5%) of females adolescents had adequate knowledge of contraceptives in the study area. The results also showed that the factors that are enhancing the use of contraceptive among secondary school adolescents are proper sex education (77.8%) outreach service (71.5%) and proper orientation (69.5%). In addition, the findings revealed that there was no significant difference in the knowledge of contraceptive of female adolescents of different age categories (F=2.394; p>0.05). The study therefore recommended among others, that female adolescent should be properly educated on sex education.
{"title":"Knowledge and Use of Contraceptives among Female Adolescents in Selected Senior Secondary Schools in Ife Central Local Government of Osun State","authors":"Tchokossa Ma, A. Ba","doi":"10.4172/2161-0711.1000614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0711.1000614","url":null,"abstract":"The study investigated the knowledge and use of contraceptives among female adolescents in selected secondary Schools in Ife Central Local Government Area of Osun State. The study surveyed 397 female adolescent students using purposive sampling technique. An adapted instrument was used to elicit information from the respondents. Five research questions were asked and answered while two hypotheses were tested and verified at 0.05 level of significance. The results among others showed that 244 (61.5%) of females adolescents had adequate knowledge of contraceptives in the study area. The results also showed that the factors that are enhancing the use of contraceptive among secondary school adolescents are proper sex education (77.8%) outreach service (71.5%) and proper orientation (69.5%). In addition, the findings revealed that there was no significant difference in the knowledge of contraceptive of female adolescents of different age categories (F=2.394; p>0.05). The study therefore recommended among others, that female adolescent should be properly educated on sex education.","PeriodicalId":73681,"journal":{"name":"Journal of community medicine & health education","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2161-0711.1000614","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70517718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000585
Cruz Feliciano MA, Pabon Cruz K, Carrion Gonzalez IS, Vargas Bernal MI
Objective: Teen pregnancy and sexually risky behaviors among adolescents represent a major public health concern. Despite reduction of teen birth rates, Hispanic adolescents still report higher rates in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups. Under uncontrolled community and school settings, iCuidate! was implemented for assisting Puerto Rican youth reduce sexual risk behaviors in high risk communities. Methods: A prospective assessment was conducted among adolescents that participated in the intervention. A stratified probabilistic sample of 185 adolescents was re-contacted and comparisons were made between participants that completed and not completed the intervention in terms of intent to have sex, sexual encounters, contraceptive methods, teen pregnancy, and improvement in life coping skills. Results: After intervention’s completion participation, adolescents were more likely to ask sexual partner to use any birth control or condom that non-completers. Completers reported 75% less probability of reporting sex ever than those non-completers after controlling for age and gender. They also were more likely to indicate higher intentions to have sex. Among those adolescents that indicated not having sex before starting the intervention, 12.0% had sex and from those that had sex after the intervention, 1.2% reported being pregnant or gotten someone pregnant. Conclusions: The investigation found that an impact in knowledge and attitudes were experienced. Despite teen pregnancy prevention did not reach statistical significance, it resulted in lower incidence than the general population of adolescents.iCuidate! resulted effective in changing the perception towards abstinence, condom utilization, and in delaying age of first sexual encounter.
{"title":"Outcomes of a Culturally-Based Sexually Risk Reduction Intervention for Adolescents in Puerto Rico: A Cohort Evaluation Report","authors":"Cruz Feliciano MA, Pabon Cruz K, Carrion Gonzalez IS, Vargas Bernal MI","doi":"10.4172/2161-0711.1000585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0711.1000585","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Teen pregnancy and sexually risky behaviors among adolescents represent a major public health concern. Despite reduction of teen birth rates, Hispanic adolescents still report higher rates in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups. Under uncontrolled community and school settings, iCuidate! was implemented for assisting Puerto Rican youth reduce sexual risk behaviors in high risk communities. Methods: A prospective assessment was conducted among adolescents that participated in the intervention. A stratified probabilistic sample of 185 adolescents was re-contacted and comparisons were made between participants that completed and not completed the intervention in terms of intent to have sex, sexual encounters, contraceptive methods, teen pregnancy, and improvement in life coping skills. Results: After intervention’s completion participation, adolescents were more likely to ask sexual partner to use any birth control or condom that non-completers. Completers reported 75% less probability of reporting sex ever than those non-completers after controlling for age and gender. They also were more likely to indicate higher intentions to have sex. Among those adolescents that indicated not having sex before starting the intervention, 12.0% had sex and from those that had sex after the intervention, 1.2% reported being pregnant or gotten someone pregnant. Conclusions: The investigation found that an impact in knowledge and attitudes were experienced. Despite teen pregnancy prevention did not reach statistical significance, it resulted in lower incidence than the general population of adolescents.iCuidate! resulted effective in changing the perception towards abstinence, condom utilization, and in delaying age of first sexual encounter.","PeriodicalId":73681,"journal":{"name":"Journal of community medicine & health education","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2161-0711.1000585","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70516760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000583
A. Tafese, A. Nega, D. Getasew, G. Er-ku
Background: Ergonomics is the science of fitting jobs to workers by taking into account the requirements of the job and peoples’ physical and mental capacities. Knowledge and practice about computer ergonomics helps employers and data processing workers to develop strategies that used to reduce the effects of poor computer ergonomics in the selected population. Objectives: the aim of the study is to assess knowledge and practice towards computer ergonomics among desk top users of secretaries and data processing workers who are working in different departments or staffs in university of Gondar. Methods: An institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted from the 1st February to June 2nd week, 2016 on secretaries and data processing workers in university of Gondar. Stratified sampling was used to get the total sample size of 260 participants. A self-administered structured questionnaire and observational checklists have been used to collect quantitative data on assessment of knowledge and practice of computer ergonomics. All the questionnaires have been checked visually, coded and entered into SPSS version 20 software package and also for analysis. Result: Among the total respondents 152(58.5%) of the participants were females while the mean age of the study participants was 29.62. About 165(63.5%) of the study participants had information about computer ergonomics with the mean knowledge and practice 51.9% and 48.1% respectively. Conclusion: Even though the workers had a good knowledge their practices were below the mean score. So the concerned body should be responsible to improve the awareness of the workers on computer ergonomics practice through office ergonomics strategies.
{"title":"Assessment of Knowledge and Practice of Computer Ergonomics among Secretaries and Data Processing Workers in University of Gondar, Northwest Ethiopia, 2016","authors":"A. Tafese, A. Nega, D. Getasew, G. Er-ku","doi":"10.4172/2161-0711.1000583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0711.1000583","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Ergonomics is the science of fitting jobs to workers by taking into account the requirements of the job and peoples’ physical and mental capacities. Knowledge and practice about computer ergonomics helps employers and data processing workers to develop strategies that used to reduce the effects of poor computer ergonomics in the selected population. Objectives: the aim of the study is to assess knowledge and practice towards computer ergonomics among desk top users of secretaries and data processing workers who are working in different departments or staffs in university of Gondar. Methods: An institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted from the 1st February to June 2nd week, 2016 on secretaries and data processing workers in university of Gondar. Stratified sampling was used to get the total sample size of 260 participants. A self-administered structured questionnaire and observational checklists have been used to collect quantitative data on assessment of knowledge and practice of computer ergonomics. All the questionnaires have been checked visually, coded and entered into SPSS version 20 software package and also for analysis. Result: Among the total respondents 152(58.5%) of the participants were females while the mean age of the study participants was 29.62. About 165(63.5%) of the study participants had information about computer ergonomics with the mean knowledge and practice 51.9% and 48.1% respectively. Conclusion: Even though the workers had a good knowledge their practices were below the mean score. So the concerned body should be responsible to improve the awareness of the workers on computer ergonomics practice through office ergonomics strategies.","PeriodicalId":73681,"journal":{"name":"Journal of community medicine & health education","volume":"97 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2161-0711.1000583","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70516864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000592
J. E. Park
The majority of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) cases have occurred in the Middle East and South Korea. MERS transmission and severity has shown different patterns in those areas. Viral, host, and environmental factors may be the cause of such differences. The MERS virus in South Korea has exhibited higher genetic variability and mutation rates compared with in the Middle East. Host factors including race, population structure, and health behavior may also relate to the differences in outbreaks. Finally, characteristics of the transmission environment, including factors such as hospital systems and population density, could contribute. This article reviews the factors associated with the different attributes of MERS outbreaks in the two regions.
{"title":"Differences in MERS Epidemiology in the Middle East and South Korea","authors":"J. E. Park","doi":"10.4172/2161-0711.1000592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0711.1000592","url":null,"abstract":"The majority of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) cases have occurred in the Middle East and South Korea. MERS transmission and severity has shown different patterns in those areas. Viral, host, and environmental factors may be the cause of such differences. The MERS virus in South Korea has exhibited higher genetic variability and mutation rates compared with in the Middle East. Host factors including race, population structure, and health behavior may also relate to the differences in outbreaks. Finally, characteristics of the transmission environment, including factors such as hospital systems and population density, could contribute. This article reviews the factors associated with the different attributes of MERS outbreaks in the two regions.","PeriodicalId":73681,"journal":{"name":"Journal of community medicine & health education","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2161-0711.1000592","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70517237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000604
Alaa H Alsharif, Fahad Al-Tayyeb, B. Aljasir, A. Bargawi
Background: Depression is one of the growing chronic diseases due to modernization and risk factors like poverty and unemployment. Almost 4.4% of the world population complaining of depression according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Depression need early screening and intervention to pick up the cases and prevent the complication associated with depression like suicide. Depressed patient cannot recognize the symptoms of depression although depression can affect the functioning and quality of life for the depressed patient. This is why screening is a necessary action also to measure the prevalence of depression in a community and to plan a public health care intervention supporting the community to cope with depression. Aim: The aim of this study is to build up a data base that could be utilized in the development of mental health program. Objectives: As there is a lack in the community based estimate of depression this study was conducted to assess the female’s depression prevalence and building a data base about depression status. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study design to measure the prevalence of depression among females 18 years and more, living at KFNGRCJ in Jeddah using the Arabic version of the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) tool. Result: Out of 727 distributed questionnaires, there were 443 included in the study showing the prevalence of depression was 12.4%. According to the severity the mild cases were 76.4%, the moderate cases were 20% and the sever cases were 3.6%. Conclusion: This study shows the magnitude of depression among female resident at KFNGRCJ in Jeddah is almost equal to the WHO estimates and near other studies done in Saudi Arabia. Single and divorced females are associated with depression.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000623
K. Tebb, F. Rodriguez, Melisa Price, Felipe Rodriguez, C. Brindis
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000636
C. Bhusal, S. Bhattarai
Background: Male involvement in birth preparedness plan and complication readiness is a care and support provided by men during pregnancy, child birth and postpartum period for safe delivery by reducing three delays. This study aimed to determine social factors associated with husband involvement in Birth Preparedness Plan and Complication Readiness in Dang district, Nepal. Methods: Community based cross-sectional study among 125 husbands whose wives was delivered within last 12 months between May-November 2016 was conducted in Dang district Nepal. Randomly 3 wards were selected out of 11 existing wards from Tulsipur Municipality; records regarding child birth within last 12 months in selected wards were reviewed from Rapti Zonal Hospital and by using snowball sampling respondents were selected from 8, 9 and 11 wards. Results: The mean age was 23.28 ± 0.63. Among total, 57.6% respondents were involved in at least 5 components of Birth Preparedness. After adjustment couples who had love marriage were found 3.66 times more likely to involve (OR=3.66; CI=1.01-13.28, p=0.048). Husbands whose wives had formal education were more likely to involve (OR=11.92; CI=2.56-54.97, p=0.001). Similarly non-agricultural husbands were less likely to involve (OR=0.02, CI=0.01-0.44, p=0.013), likewise whose spouse were engaged in non-agriculture were 6.27 times more likely to involve (OR=6.27; CI=1.25-31.68, p=0.026). In addition who earned were more likely to involve (OR=140.78; CI=7.85-252.63, p=0.001). Conclusion: Male Involvement was significantly higher among husbands having love marriage, non-agricultural work and who earned. It is also predisposed by spouse education and spouse occupation. This study concerns stakeholders should focus on strategic behavior communication program regarding reproductive health including birth preparedness plan. .
背景:男性参与分娩准备计划和并发症准备是男性在怀孕、分娩和产后期间通过减少三次延迟为安全分娩提供的护理和支持。本研究旨在确定尼泊尔Dang地区与丈夫参与分娩准备计划和并发症准备相关的社会因素。方法:对尼泊尔Dang地区2016年5月至11月12个月内分娩的125名丈夫进行基于社区的横断面研究。从图尔西普尔市现有的11个区中随机抽取3个区;对Rapti地区医院选定病房过去12个月内的分娩记录进行了审查，并通过滚雪球抽样从8、9和11个病房中选择了应答者。结果:患者平均年龄23.28±0.63岁。在总数中，57.6%的应答者至少参与了生育准备的5个组成部分。经调整后，有爱的婚姻的夫妇有3.66倍的可能性涉及(OR=3.66;CI = 1.01 - -13.28, p = 0.048)。妻子受过正规教育的丈夫更有可能参与其中(OR=11.92;CI = 2.56 - -54.97, p = 0.001)。同样，非农业丈夫参与的可能性较小(OR=0.02, CI=0.01-0.44, p=0.013)，同样，配偶从事非农业的丈夫参与的可能性是其6.27倍(OR=6.27;CI = 1.25 - -31.68, p = 0.026)。此外，有收入的人更有可能参与(OR=140.78;CI = 7.85 - -252.63, p = 0.001)。结论:有爱情婚姻、从事非农业工作和有收入的丈夫的男性投入度显著高于有工作的丈夫。配偶的教育程度和配偶的职业也会导致这种情况。本研究关注利益相关者应关注生殖健康的战略行为沟通计划，包括生育准备计划。
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000637
G. Ali, S. A. Ali, S. Ali
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000606
Laila Abushaar, A. Ismail
The recent introduction of information technology has improved the quality of healthcare services. In many developing countries, including Malaysia, patients suffer from a shortage of trained medical specialists and teleconsultation (TC) would ease access to specialists. The need to know if doctors are willing to accept such technology has prompted this study. The objective of the study therefore was to measure the acceptance, knowledge, and attitude towards tele-consultation among doctors in Conselor Tuanku Muhriz, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (HCTM) and to identify the factors which influence its acceptance. Factors such as socio-demographics, knowledge, attitude, perceived ease of use (PEOU) and perceived usefulness (PU) towards tele-consultation were chosen according to the technology acceptance model (TAM) and some literature. This was a cross-sectional study based on a quantitative method. Data was collected from HCTM outpatient clinics in Cheras area, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in March 2017. A total of 90 questionnaires were collected from eight different outpatient clinics in HCTM. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) (version 22.0) was used to analyse the data. The results showed an acceptance rate of 63.3% among doctors in HCTM. The study also showed that perception of usefulness and positive attitude had a significant association with the acceptance of TC. In conclusion, this study has revealed the important factors that have influenced tele-consultation acceptance as perceived usefulness and positive attitude. Furthermore, the overall findings from the study suggest that TAM is an appropriate model for explaining physicians' technology acceptance decisions.
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