The knowledge and the opinion of patients on the government package called ‘fast oncological therapy’ – a pilot survey study

Objective: A pilot study was conducted to determine the currentscope of practice of South African physiotherapists working in intensive care units in the government and the private sectors. These findings were compared to the findings from a European survey with regard to the role of the physiotherapist in European intensive care units.Methodology: Ninety questionnaires were distributed nationwide to secondary and tertiary government hospitals as well as to private practitioners involved in cardiopulmonary physiotherapy. The private practitioners included in this survey were listed in the Private Practitioners Association Official Members Directory. Junior and senior physiotherapists working in the intensive care units of their respective hospitals participated in completing the questionnaire. Comparisons between government and private sector data and between the South African survey and the European survey were carried out using the 2test for non-parametric data. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.Results: Fifty-four questionnaires were analyzed and represented 60% of questionnaires sent out. Respondents to the South African survey reported 28% percent of all ICUs had between 9 - 12 beds; 83% physiotherapists indicated the availability of an on-call service during the night and 96% physiotherapists had a weekend physiotherapy service. Ninety-two percent of physiotherapists working in the government sector supervised students compared to 44% of physiotherapists in the private sector. Between 9% and 27% of physiotherapists in government and private hospitalsactively participated in research in ICU. There were no statistically significant differences in the use of respiratory physiotherapy, mobilization and positioning between respondents to the European survey and those of the South African survey respectively.Conclusion: The response rate to this questionnaire was good. It was evident from this pilot survey that the scope of practice of physiotherapy in ICU didn’t differ significantly between the government and private sector in South Africa. The role of the intensive care physiotherapist in South Africa was similar to that of the European physiotherapist working in ICU.

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Early referral makes the decision-making about fertility preservation easier: a pilot survey study of young female cancer survivors

Supportive Care in Cancer ◽

10.1007/s00520-014-2526-3 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 23 (6) ◽

pp. 1663-1667 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Jayeon Kim ◽

Jennifer E. Mersereau

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Cancer Survivors ◽

Fertility Preservation ◽

Young Female ◽

Survey Study ◽

Early Referral ◽

Pilot Survey ◽

Female Cancer Survivors

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Factors influencing adults’ immunization practices: a pilot survey study of a diverse, urban community in central Ohio

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/s12889-016-3107-9 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Alexa M. Sevin ◽

Cristina Romeo ◽

Brittany Gagne ◽

Nicole V. Brown ◽

Jennifer L. Rodis

Keyword(s):

Urban Community ◽

Survey Study ◽

Pilot Survey ◽

Factors Influencing

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Understanding user satisfaction with Chinese government social media platforms

Information Research: an international electronic journal ◽

10.47989/irpaper865 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Feng Yang ◽

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Shan Zhao ◽

Wenyong Li ◽

Richard Evans ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

User Satisfaction ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Online Survey ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Survey Study ◽

Chinese Government ◽

Study Results ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

The Government

Introduction. The purpose of this paper is to understand government social media from the perspective of user satisfaction and to evaluate it in the context of presentation, content and utility of the government affairs' microblogs in China. Method. Based on the comprehensive information theory, this study will generalise descriptions about the factors affecting the user satisfaction in the existing research. Analysis. Taking Chinese government affairs microblogs as examples, the paper utilises structural equation modelling to analyse an online survey study. Results. Its result indicates that presentation, content and utility have a positive influence on user satisfaction with Chinese government social media platforms. Conclusions. This study gets rid of the oversimplified description of the application of government social media, and could provide policy reference for subsequent adoption strategies of government social media.

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