scholarly journals Comparison of the Effect of Virtual Education and Group-Based Education on Anthropometric Indices in Overweight and Obese Healthcare Women - An Educational Intervention Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (33) ◽  
pp. 2778-2783
Author(s):  
Soraya Siabani ◽  
Farahnaz Zare ◽  
Hossein Ashtarian ◽  
Mitra Darbandi ◽  
Mansour Rezaei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Virtual Education ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Anthropometric Indices ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
The Mean

BACKGROUND Obesity is the main cause or the facilitator of many physical and psychological diseases worldwide, specifically in developing countries including Iran.(1,2) It is estimated that worldwide about 3% of total health expenditure is spent annually on the treatment of obesity related disorders.(3) We wanted to compare the efficacy of two methods of education including virtual education through Telegram messages and group discussion, on anthropometric indices in health care service providers suffering from overweight or obesity in Kermanshah. METHODS This three-arm randomized control trail (RCT) was conducted on 102 overweight/obese female healthcare providers in Kermanshah. Using Excel RAND function, the eligible participants were randomly allocated into three groups; two intervention groups- Telegram message, and group discussion - and one control group. Anthropometric indices including height, weight, waist circumference (WC), and hip circumference (HC) were measured using standard instruments. Data was analysed with SPSS16 using Independent and Paired t-test, Chi-square, and ANOVA. The significance level was considered as p≤0.05. RESULTS Participants’ mean age was 41.9 ± 6.3 years. Mean of BMI was 29.8±3.8 Kg/m2. The mean of weight, BMI and HC of the three groups were not significantly different before intervention; however, the mean of the changes for all three variables in the intervention groups were significantly different (p<.001). CONCLUSIONS Telegram and group discussion were effective on anthropometric indices of healthcare providers; however, comparing the mean change of variables in two intervention groups showed that Telegram method was more effective than group discussion in Weight, BMI, WC, and HC reduction (p<0.05). KEY WORDS Anthropometric Indices, Health Education, Health Personnel, Obesity

scholarly journals Effect of Mother's Group Discussion on Puberty Health Education on Knowledge and Practice of Adolescent Girls about Puberty Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar khosravi ◽  
Narges Sadeghi ◽  
Mahsa Sadat Mousavi
Keyword(s):  
School Counselors ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Knowledge And Practice

Introduction: The effect of mothers' group discussion on the level of knowledge and practice of adolescent girls about puberty health in public high schools in Ghaemieh in 2019. Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental interventional study with a pre-test-post-test design with the control group. In this study, two schools were randomly selected and 40 students from each school were selected as a sample. Group discussion sessions with the mothers participated in a circular manner were held during 4 sessions for each intervention group once a week for 40 minutes for a month. In this study, the standard questionnaire of Alizadeh Cherandabi et al (2014) was used to measure the knowledge and performance of the students. T-test was used to compare the mean scores of variables before and after the intervention. All statistical operations were performed by SPSS Version 16 software and the significance level was considered P <0.05. Results: The results of independent t-test showed that before the intervention, the mean scores of knowledge and practice about puberty health were not significantly different between the two groups (P> 0.05). The intervention was significantly higher than the control group (P <0.05).  Conclusion: The analysis of the findings of this study confirmed the effectiveness of education through group discussion in promoting the knowledge and practice of adolescent girls about physical puberty health.  Therefore, officials, health educators and school counselors are advised to hold regular training sessions as a group discussion for mothers of teenage girls  

Effects of Relationship Enrichment Training on Improving Marital Satisfaction of Infertile Couples: A Randomized Control Trial

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi ◽  
Khodayar Oshvandi ◽  
Masoumeh Rostami-Moez ◽  
Arezoo Shayan ◽  
Farideh Kazemi
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Infertile Couples ◽  
Relationship Enrichment

Background: Infertility can cause low marital satisfaction. Marital satisfaction has an important effect on infertile couples’ health. Objective: This study aimed to assess the effect of relationship enrichment training on improving the marital satisfaction of infertile couples. Methods: This randomized clinical trial was conducted on 50 infertile couples in the infertility center of Fatemieh Hospital in Hamadan, Iran in 2018. Participants were matched for demographic characteristics and randomly assigned to intervention and control groups (each group had 25 couples). Informed consent was obtained from all participants. The Enrich Marital Satisfaction questionnaire and demographic information were used to collect data before the study and two months after the intervention. Two trained midwifery students taught only the intervention group the relationship enrichment topics in seven sessions (each session = 90 minutes). The data were analyzed by SPSS Statistics version 21 using analysis of covariance, independent t-test, chi-square, and Mann–Whitney. The significance level was set at p ≤ 0.05. Results: There was no significant difference in demographic and obstetric information between the two groups (p >0.05). The mean of marital satisfaction in the intervention group significantly increased among women and men from 151.00 ±28.61 to 154.88 ±22.62 and from 152.56 ±27.33 to 159.24 ±22.14, respectively, (p <0.001). Conversely, the mean of marital satisfaction decreased among women and men from 158.13 ±13.86 to 146.25 ±19.53 and from 164.25 ±17.00 to 153.17 ±27.50 in the control group (p=0.02). Conclusion: Relationship enrichment training can be effective in promoting the marital satisfaction of infertile couples. Registration number: The National Center for Strategic Research in medical education, No. 960185.

scholarly journals Patient’s Utility for Various Attributes of Diabetes Care Services

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinaytosh Mishra ◽  
Cherian Samuel ◽  
S. K. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Waiting Time ◽  
Diabetes Care ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Care Services

Diabetes is rising like an epidemic in India. The prevalence of diabetes in India has reached an alarming level of 72.95 millions. The purpose of this article is to assess the relative importance of various health care service attributes in diabetes care. Our study uses secondary research and focus group discussion to identify the attributes of a diabetes specialty clinic. The attributes included in the questionnaire were the quality of the care provide by the health care givers, spend per visit, hospitalization expense, waiting time and the distance to the hospital. Conjoint analysis was used to assess the relative importance of the attributes. It was found that the hospital’s quality was the most important attribute while the distance to the hospital was the attribute with the least importance. Although the quality of the hospital is the most important criterion in selecting a hospital in diabetes care, factors like waiting time, spend per visit, and hospitalization expense play an important role in the selection. We assess the relative importance of these factors for the diabetic patients in India. The study is first of its kind and could help policy makers in designing better health care services in diabetes care.

Adapting services to the needs of children and families with complex migration experiences: The Toulouse University Hospital’s intercultural consultation

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gesine Sturm ◽  
Zohra Guerraoui ◽  
Sylvie Bonnet ◽  
Françoise Gouzvinski ◽  
Jean-Philippe Raynaud
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
The University ◽  
Migration Experiences

This article presents the recently created intercultural consultation at the Medical and Psychological Health Care Service (CMP) of the University Hospital la Grave at Toulouse. The approach of the intercultural consultation was elaborated in response to the increasing diversity of children and families using the service in Toulouse. It is also based on local research that indicates the difficulties service providers encounter when trying to establish a solid therapeutic alliance with families with complex migration backgrounds who accumulate different disadvantaging factors. The intercultural consultation adapts existing models of culture-sensitive consultations in child mental health care in France and Canada to the local context in Toulouse. We describe the underlying principles of the intercultural consultation work, the therapeutic and mediation techniques used, and the way the work is integrated into the global service provision of the CMP. The process is illustrated with a case study followed by a discussion of the innovations.

scholarly journals An evaluation of factors affecting the management of COVID-19 in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed S.M Sadrul Huda ◽  
Afsana Akhtar ◽  
Segufta Dilshad ◽  
Syeeda Raisa Maliha
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Health Care Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social

PurposeThe study aims to gain insights into the management of COVID-19 in Bangladesh to identify the factors that are relevant to managing the pandemic in a developing country.Design/methodology/approachThe study was carried out by pursuing the archival method. The information was collected from credible newspaper reports over the previous months, as well as articles published on the subject of COVID-19.FindingsThe research revealed important and relevant dimensions of the health sector in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. The major factors were doctors, nurses (health service providers), patients, (customers) and society. This is a pioneering paper, which documents the major lessons learned from the management of COVID-19 in Bangladesh concerning three stakeholders of the health-care system, i.e. providers, patients and society. This paper covers the situation regarding the ongoing pandemic from three perspectives – provider, customers and society, and thus, may help to develop future research regarding the development of health-care management models for addressing the pandemic.Research limitations/implicationsThe major limitations of this paper is its over dependence on secondary sources for collecting the information.Practical implicationsThis paper presents the learnings from the pandemic in health-care management in different categories (e.g. social, doctor/nurse, patients), which can help the managers in understanding different dimensions of the health-care sector from different perspectives. The problems as well as the learnings stated in the paper can help the policy makers implement such strategies to ensure better delivery of the medical health-care service during a pandemic.Social implicationsThis paper clearly reveals the social dimensions of the COVID-19 by assessing the social aspects of COVID-19 management. Both social stigma and support are traced out during evaluating the situation. Thus, the social forces will be able to rethink about their role in addressing the social costs of pandemic.Originality/valueThis is a commentary piece.

scholarly journals EHR Model for India: To address challenges in quality Healthcare (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prashant Kanade ◽  
Dr Divya Bhatnagar ◽  
Dr Arun Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Health Record ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Electronic Health Record System ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Record System ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Electronic Health

UNSTRUCTURED Abstract: In this paper there is a discussion on providing a standard system for health care service providers and patients. We have carried out the detailed study of guidelines provided by ministry of health and family welfare to adopt the electronic health record system. The major aim is to eliminate the conventional health record system. The major focus in this research is to propose the interoperable electronic health Record system (IEHR), and test the feasibility and acceptance of the EHR. Further there is a scope to promote the services in select locations such as hospitals and primary health centres. Medical centres can store patient’s health information with minimal efforts.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN ANTARA LIMA DIMENSI MUTU PELAYANAN RAWAT JALAN DENGAN KEPUASAN PASIEN

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 708-715
Author(s):  
Mokh. Firman Ismana
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Patient’S Satisfaction ◽  
The Relationship

Kepuasan pasien merupakan merupakan tingkat kepuasan dari persepsi pasien terhadap layanan kesehatan dan merupakan salah satu indikator kinerja. Apabila pasien menunjukan hal – hal yang bagus mengenai layanan kesehatan dan pasien mengindikasikan dengan perilaku yang positif maka akan dapat mengambil kesimpulan bahwa pasien merasa puas terhadap layanan tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara lima dimensi mutu pelayanan rawat jalan dengan kepuasan pasien di RSUD Arjawinangun Kabupaten Cirebon Tahun 2015. Jenis penelitian deskriptik analitik dengan desain Cross Sectional. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah jumlah seluruh pasien yang berobat ke rawat jalan RSUD Arjawinangun pada bulan Januari tahun 2015 sebanyak 9.707 pasien. Jumlah sampel sebanyak 385 pasien yang diambil secara Accidental Sampling. Data dianalisa secara statistic menggunakan uji Chi Square pada tingkat kemaknaan 5% (0,05). Variabel yang diteliti yaitu variabel dependen: kepuasan pasien, variabel independen: Bukti Fisik (Tangibles), Kehandalan (Reliability), Ketanggapan (Responsiveness), Jaminan (Assurance), Dan Empati (Empathy). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan ada hubungan yang bermakna antara Bukti Fisik (Tangibles) dengan kepuasan pasein (p = 0,034), ada hubungan yang bermakna antara Kehandalan (Reliability) dengan kepuasan pasein (p= 0,000), ada hubungan yang bermakna antara Ketanggapan (Responsiveness) dengan kepuasan pasein ( p= 0,000), ada hubungan yang bermakna antara Jaminan (Assurance) dengan kepuasan pasein (p= 0,000), ada hubungan yang bermakna antara Empati (Empathy) dengan kepuasan pasein (p= 0,000).Kata Kunci: Kepuasan Pasien, Lima dimensi mutu ABSTRACTPatient’s satisfaction is the satisfaction level of the patient’s perception of the health services and is one of the performance indicators. If the patients shows the good things about the health care service and the patients indicated by the positive behavior will be able to infer that patients are satisfied with the health care service. This research aimed to determine the relationship between the five dimensions of quality of outpatient care with patient’s satisfaction in RSUD Arjawinangun Kabupaten Cirebon 2015. The type of this research is descriptive analytic with Cross Sectional Design. Population in this research is the total number of outpatients treated at RSUD Arjawinangun Kabupaten Cirebon through Januari 2015 as many as 9707 patients. The total sample of 385 patients were taken by accidental sampling. Data were analyzed statiscally using Chi-squared test at 5% (0.05) significance level. The dependent variable analyzed in this research is patient’s satisfaction and the Independent variable in this research are Tangibles, Realiability, Responsiveness, Assurance, and Empathy. Judge from the analysis above, we conclude that the result of this research showed the relationship between Tangibles with patient’s satisfaction (p = 0.034). There is relationship between Reliability with patient’s satisfaction (p = 0.00). There is relationship between Responsiveness with patient’s satisfaction (p = 0.00). The relationship between Assurance with patient’s satisfaction is also influence with p = 0.00, and the last of variable, there is relationship between empathy with patient’s satisfaction (p=0.00). The result of this research can be followed up by efforts to improve the Tangibles, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance, and Empathy by providing technical training to every officer to increase the ability to carry out the services.Key Word : Patient’s Satisfaction, Five dimensions of  quality

scholarly journals Understanding technology mediation and new service provider roles in health care

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasia Daskalopoulou ◽  
Kathy Keeling ◽  
Rowan Pritchard Jones
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Advance Technology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Health Care Service Providers

PurposeService research holds that as services become more technology dominated, new service provider roles emerge. On a conceptual level, the potential impact of different roles has been discussed with regard to service provider readiness, job performance and overall experience. However, as yet, there is sparse empirical support for these conceptual interpretations. The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of the new service provider roles that emerge due to the increase of technology mediation in services.Design/methodology/approachThis study follows a qualitative methodology. Insights are drawn from in-depth interviews with 32 junior and senior health-care service providers (across 12 specialties) and 5 information governance/management staff.FindingsThis analysis illustrates that new service provider roles include those of the enabler, differentiator, innovator, coordinator and sense-giver. By adopting these roles, health-care service providers reveal that they can encourage, support and advance technology mediation in services across different groups/audiences within their organizations (e.g. service delivery level, peer-to-peer level, organizational level). This paper further shows the relationships between these new service provider roles.Originality/valueThis study contributes to theory in technology-mediated services by illustrating empirically the range of activities that constitute each role. It also complements prior work by identifying that service providers adopt the additional role of sense-giver. Finally, this paper provides an understanding of how by taking on these roles service providers can encourage, support and advance technology mediation in services across different groups/audiences in their organization.

scholarly journals A randomized clinical trial on the effects of remote intercessory prayer in the adverse outcomes of pregnancies

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 2379-2384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Inês da Rosa ◽  
Fabio Rosa Silva ◽  
Bruno Rosa Silva ◽  
Luciana Carvalho Costa ◽  
Angela Mendes Bergamo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Randomized Clinical Trial ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Intercessory Prayer ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Double Blind

The scope of this article was to investigate whether intercessory prayer (IP) influences the adverse outcomes of pregnancies. A double-blind, randomized clinical trial was conducted with 564 pregnant women attending a prenatal public health care service. The women were randomly assigned to an IP group or to a control group (n = 289 per group). They were simultaneously and randomly assigned to practice prayer off-site or not. The following parameters were evaluated: Apgar scores, type of delivery and birth weight. The mean age of the women was 25.1 years of age (± 7.4), and the average gestational age was 23.4 weeks (± 8.1). The average number of years of schooling for the women was 8.1 years (± 3.1). The women in the IP and control groups presented a similar number of adverse medical events with non-significant p. No significant differences were detected in the frequency of adverse outcomes in pregnant women who practiced IP and those in the control group.

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