Health Education

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Attitudes toward care of the terminally ill: an educational intervention.

This quasiexperimental study examined the effect of an educational program on attitudes toward caring for terminally ill persons and their families. Participants were 115 undergraduate students: intervention group, N = 49; control group, N = 66. Pre- and ...
Katherine H Murray Frommelt (Am J Hosp Palliat Care, 200301-02)
attitudes-toward-care-terminally-ill-educational-intervention.asp

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Development of assessment tools to measure organizational support for employee health.

OBJECTIVE: To develop systems that measure and effect organizational support for employee health. METHODS: Multiple studies and developmental projects were reviewed that show the process of instrument development, metric quality testing, utilization ...
Thomas Golaszewski, Donald Barr, Nico Pronk (Am J Health Behav, 200301-02)
development-assessment-tools-measure-organizational-support-employee.asp

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The development of an Alzheimers disease channel for the Michigan Interactive Health Kiosk Project.

The overall objective of this article is to describe the development and implementation of an Alzheimers disease (AD) module for the Michigan Interactive Health Kiosk Project. This project provides access to health information via 100 kiosks located in ...
Cathleen M Connell, Benjamin A Shaw, Sara B Holmes, Margaret L Hudson, Holly A Derry, Victor J Strecher (J Health Commun, 200301-02)
development-alzheimer-s-disease-channel-michigan-interactive-health.asp

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A randomised, clinical trial comparing the effectiveness of hospital and community-based reminder systems for increasing uptake of influenza and pneumococcal vaccine in hospitalised patients aged 65 years and over.

Hospitalisation represents an opportunity to identify unimmunised people at risk for the complications of influenza and pneumococcal disease. We conducted a randomised controlled trial of two strategies to increase uptake of influenza and pneumococcal ...
C R MacIntyre, M A Kainer, G V Brown (Gerontology, 200301-02)
randomised-clinical-trial-comparing-effectiveness-hospital-community.asp

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Womens health and the internet: understanding emerging trends and implications.

Internet has become a major information source, yet little is known about why women use the internet for obtaining health information. In this paper, we propose and test three exploratory models to explain internet use for obtaining health information: ...
Sanjay K Pandey, John J Hart, Sheela Tiwary (Soc Sci Med, 200301)
women-s-health-internet-understanding-emerging-trends-implications.asp

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Efficacy of a psychoeducative group program for caregivers of demented persons living at home: a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVES: To test the efficacy of a psychoeducative group program for informal caregivers of persons with dementia. METHODS: The study was a multicenter randomized controlled trial. Randomization was stratified according to sex and kinship. ...
Réjean Hébert, Louise Lévesque, Jean Vézina, Jean-Pierre Lavoie, Francine Ducharme, Carole Gendron, Michel Préville, Louis Voyer, Marie-France Dubois (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200301)
efficacy-psychoeducative-group-program-caregivers-demented-persons.asp

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The Support and Family Education (SAFE) program: mental health facts for families.

Although more than half of adults who have a serious and persistent mental illness live with their families (1), less than 10 percent of families of outpatients with schizophrenia receive support or education (2). Such services fail to be provided ...
Michelle D Sherman (Psychiatr Serv, 200301)
support-family-education-safe-program-mental-health-facts-families.asp

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Monitoring compliance with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes in west Africa: multisite cross sectional survey in Togo and Burkina Faso.

OBJECTIVES: To monitor compliance with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes in health systems, sales outlets, distribution points, and the news media in Togo and Burkina Faso, west Africa. DESIGN: Multisite cross sectional ...
Victor M Aguayo, Jay S Ross, Souleyman Kanon, Andre N Ouedraogo (BMJ, 200301)
monitoring-compliance-international-code-marketing-breastmilk.asp

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Squires Quest! Dietary outcome evaluation of a multimedia game.

BACKGROUND: Fruit, juice, and vegetable (FJV) consumption among children is low. Innovative programs are needed to enable children to increase FJV intake. Psychoeducational multimedia permits the delivery of interventions as designed and capitalizes on ...
Tom Baranowski, Janice Baranowski, Karen W Cullen, Tara Marsh, Noemi Islam, Issa Zakeri, Lauren Honess-Morreale, Carl deMoor (Am J Prev Med, 200301)
squire-s-quest-dietary-outcome-evaluation-multimedia-game.asp

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Tribal connections health information outreach: results, evaluation, and challenges.

In 1997, the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), initiated a program of intensified outreach to Native Americans, initially focusing on the Pacific Northwest in collaboration with the Pacific ...
Fred B Wood, Roy Sahali, Nancy Press, Catherine Burroughs, Theodore A Mala, Elliot R Siegel, Neil Rambo, Sherrilynne S Fuller (J Med Libr Assoc, 200301)
tribal-connections-health-information-outreach-results-evaluation.asp