scholarly journals Evaluation of influence factors on parents' adherence to the immunization

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
O.R. Boyarchuk ◽  
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V.A. Mishchanchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Influence Factors ◽  
Primary Prophylaxis ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Primary Care Doctors ◽  
Commitment Level ◽  
Key Words Vaccination ◽  
Incorrect Information

In spite of individual and social benefits of immunoprophylaxis, the level of vaccinal refuses are steadily high. There are many influence factors on parents' adherence to the immunization, most of them are generated by incorrect information about immunoprophylaxis. Purpose — to study parents' commitment level to the immunization and factors, which can influence on it, also to compare received results with similar, received in 2015 year. Materials and methods. The level of commitment, influence factors on this rate and sources of information, which are mainly used by parents for gaining knowledges about immunization, were determined based on interrogation of 82 parents of both ill and healthy children. Interrogation was provided by personally developed questionnaires. Results and conclusions. Positive attitude was determined in 63.4% of respondents, negative — in 6.1%, uncertain — in 30.5%. The fear of side-effects and mistrust of immunobiological remedies manufacturers were defined as dominant factors. Other factors such as religious belief and false contraindications for immunization were also defined. Parents, who used the information from their doctor as dominant source, were determined as more adherent to the vaccination. These results were compared with a similar research, which was provided in 2015: positive trends in the attitude towards certain vaccines are seen, the structure of rejection causes is stable. Educational efforts, especially aimed at primary care doctors, can help to raise commitment to immunization. The research was carried out in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki Declaration. The study protocol was approved by the Local Ethics Committee of these Institutes. The informed consent of the patient was obtained for conducting the studies. No conflict of interest was declared by the authors. Key words: vaccination, immunization, primary prophylaxis, prevention of diseases.

scholarly journals RURAL WOMEN'S APPLICATION OF THE TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATIONS RELATED TO BREEDING AND CARE OF DAIRY CATTLE IN SOME VILLAGES OF KAFRELSHEIKH GOVERNORATE: تطبيق الريفيات للتوصيات الإرشادية الخاصة بتربية ورعاية ماشية اللبن بمحافظة كفر الشيخ

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayada Al - Shawadfi Awad - Izzat Ibrahim Al - Dumeiri
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cattle ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Standard Criterion ◽  
Correct Information ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Implementation Level ◽  
The Village ◽  
Incorrect Information ◽  
Technical Recommendations

The main objective of this research was to study rural women's application for the technical recommendations related to breeding and care of dairy cattle in some villages of kafrelshiekh governorate. Sample size amounted to 346 respondents were selected from three villages in three districts in a simple random way as a standard criterion for selection, the villages were selected are: Gama moon from Desouq district, Meniat Meseer from kafrelshiekh district, and the village of ElKafr Elbahary from Killeen district. The most important results were; the level of implementation of the rural respondents for the technical recommendations related to feeding of milk Cattle and technical recommendations related to preparation of milking & milk production was moderate, while their implementation level of technical recommendations for the health care of dairy cattle was high. The most important reasons for not execute of the rural women respondents for the technical recommendations related to care of dairy cattle in the three studied areas were: high prices of fodder or breeding inputs, or because the rural women respondents have false and incorrect information, or because the correct information is not available to them. The most important sources of information which the rural women respondents were depending on to obtain information related to the care of dairy cattle were: their personal experiences, veterinarian, mother or mother-in-law, and the husband.  

scholarly journals Crossover trial to test the acceptability of a locally produced lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) for children under 2 years in Cambodia: a study protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. e015958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bindi Borg ◽  
Seema Mihrshahi ◽  
Mark Griffin ◽  
Chhoun Chamnan ◽  
Arnaud Laillou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Setting ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Phnom Penh ◽  
Nutrient Supplement ◽  
Animal Source ◽  
Multiple Micronutrient ◽  
The University ◽  
Supplementary Foods ◽  
Medical Research Ethics

IntroductionThe acceptability and efficacy of existing ready-to-use supplementary and therapeutic foods has been low in Cambodia, thus limiting success in preventing and treating malnutrition among Cambodian children. In that context, UNICEF and IRD have developed a locally produced, multiple micronutrient fortified lipid-based nutrient supplement. This food is innovative, in that it uses fish instead of milk as the animal source food. Very few supplementary foods have non-milk animal source foods, and in addition they have not been widely tested. This trial will assess the novel food’s acceptability to children and caregivers.Methods and analysisThis is a cluster-randomised, incomplete block, 4×4 crossover design with no blinding. It will take place in four sites in a community setting in periurban Phnom Penh. Healthy children aged 9–23 months (n=100) will eat each of four foods for 3 days at a time. The amount they consume will be measured, and at the end of each 3-day set, caregivers will assess how well their child liked the food. After 12 days, caregivers themselves will do a sensory test of the 4 foods and will rank them in terms of preference.Ethics and disseminationEthical clearance was received from the University of Queensland Medical Research Ethics Committee (2014001070) and from Cambodia’s National Ethics Committee for Health Research (03/8 NECHR).RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: LNS-CAMB-INFANTS;NCT02257437. Pre-results.

scholarly journals Between Education and Memory: Health and Childhood in English-Canada, 1900-1950

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-72
Author(s):  
Mona Gleason
Keyword(s):  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
English Canada ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Health Curriculum ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
English Canadian ◽  
Second World

Abstract Despite contemporary concerns regarding the state of Canadian children's health, historians in Canada have yet to fully explore how conventional medical experts and educators thought about, and safeguarded, children's health. This paper explores the interplay between two sources of information regarding the provision of healthy children between 1900 and the end of the Second World War in the English Canadian context: curricular messages regarding health and illness aimed at public school children and the oral histories and autobiographies of adults who grew up in this period. Rather than simply juxtapose official health curriculum and lived memory, I argue that the two co-mingled to produce differing kinds of embodied knowledge aimed at the production and reproduction of hegemonic social values in the English Canadian setting. These values co-existed both harmoniously and uncomfortably, depending very much upon the priorities of, and socially constructed limitations placed upon, particular families in particular contexts.

scholarly journals Platelet phenotype in children with ANKRD26-related thrombocytopenia

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
D. M. Polokhov ◽  
D. V. Fedorova ◽  
A. V. Pshonkin ◽  
A. A. Ignatova ◽  
E. A. Ponomarenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flow Cytometry ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Functional Disorders ◽  
Pediatric Hematology ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Platelet Size ◽  
Shape Changes ◽  
Apparently Healthy

The mechanisms of hemorrhagic manifestations in patients with ANKRD26associated thrombocytopenia (ANKRD26-AT) are poorly understood. The aim of this work is to detect possible morpho-functional disorders of platelets in patients with mutations in the ANKRD26gene by flow cytometry with activation. The study was approved by the Independent Ethics Committee of the Dmitry Rogachev National Medical Research Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology. 8 children aged from 1.5 to 15 years were examined. The platelet count ranged from 29 to 172 thousand/μl, with a median of 60 thousand/μl. The severity of hemorrhagic manifestations was assessed on a standardized scale (Pediatric Bleeding Questionnaire, PBQ) and it ranged from 0 to 5 points, with a median of 3.5 points. Platelet activation was performed with a CRP + TRAP mixture. Comparison was carried out with the results of examination of 26 apparently healthy children (control group, CG) aged 2 to 15 years. When compared with CG, patients showed an increase in platelet size (FSC; p= 0.018) and granularity (SSC; p< 0.001) after activation. In contrast to the CG, the correlation between FSC and SSC of platelets in patients was not significant (cor. = 0.55; p= 0.15). Patients showed a high, significant relationship between the number and FSC of platelets (cor. = –0.93; p< 0.001), as well as an increased density of CD42b (p < 0.001) and a decrease in the proportion of procoagulant platelets (p= 0.01) after activation. The revealed changes indicate violations of the mechanisms of activation and shape changes of platelets in patients with ANKRD26-AT.

scholarly journals Cystoscopic features of the ureteral orifices in children with vesicoureteral reflux

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
R.A. Nakonechnyy ◽  
◽  
A.Y. Nakonechnyi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Vesicoureteral Reflux ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Ureteral Orifice ◽  
Bladder Mucosa ◽  
Topographic Characteristics ◽  
Helsinki Declaration

Purpose – to establish cystoscopic prognostic criteria for vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in children. Materials and methods. Clinical material covers 270 patients with VUR II–IV grades aged 9 months to 14 years and 22 healthy children. The study included patients with VUR in the period of clinical and laboratory remission without symptoms of neurogenic bladder. During cystoscopy, the condition of the bladder mucosa was assessed; location, shape, hydrodistention degree, and ureteral orifices contractility. Results. Patients with VUR were diagnosed ureteral orifices in the form of: horseshoes – 127 (47.04%) patients, stadium – 106 (39.26%) and golf holes – 37 (13.7%). They were in the zones: A – 13 (4.81%) children, B – 154 (57.04%), C – 67 (24.81%), D – 36 (13.33%), and were characterized by the hydrodistention degree: H0 – 7 (2.59%) patients, H1 – 173 (64.07%), H2 – 60 (22.22%) and H3 – 30 (11.11%). In children with VUR, sluggish peristalsis of the ureter orifices clearly prevailed – 252 (93.33%) cases, relative to active peristalsis in only 18 (6.67%) patients. Conclusions. For ureteral orifices in the form of a stadium and with more pronounced signs of deepening, which are shifted to zone B and laterally to the sidewall of the bladder, with a hydrodistention degree above H1 has a positive association with VUR at the highest specificity of tests. Unfavorable prognostic diagnostic markers for effective minimally invasive interventions in patients with VUR should be considered ureteral orifices, which combine such morpho-topographic characteristics as pronounced signs of deepening to the shape of a golf hole, lateralization to the sidewall of the bladder in zone D, and hydrodistention H3 degree. The research was carried out in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki declaration. The study protocol was approved by the Local ethics committee of all participating institution. The informed consent of the patient was obtained for conducting the studies. No conflict of interest was declared by the authors. Key words: vesicoureteral reflux, ureteral orifice, cystoscopy, children.

scholarly journals Digital Marketing to Promote Healthy Weight Gain Among Pregnant Women in Alberta: An Implementation Study (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn E Graham ◽  
Jana L Moore ◽  
Rhonda C Bell ◽  
Terri Miller
Keyword(s):  
Weight Gain ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Healthy Pregnancy ◽  
Pregnancy Weight

BACKGROUND As the use of digital media for health promotion has become increasingly common, descriptive studies exploring current and innovative marketing strategies can enhance the understanding of effective strategies and best practices. OBJECTIVE This study aims to describe the implementation of a provincial digital media campaign using complementary advertising platforms to promote healthy pregnancy weight gain messages and direct a Web audience to a credible website. METHODS The digital media campaign occurred in 3 phases, each for 8 weeks, and consisted of search engine marketing using Google AdWords and social media advertising through Facebook. All advertising materials directed users to evidence-based pregnancy-related weight gain content on the Healthy Parents, Healthy Children website. RESULTS Google Ads received a total of 43,449 impressions, 2522 clicks, and an average click-through rate (CTR) of 5.80%. Of people who clicked on a Google ad, 78.9% (1989/2522) completed an action on the website. Across all Facebook advertisements, there were 772,263 impressions, 14,482 clicks, and an average CTR of 1.88%. The highest-performing advertisement was an image of a group of diverse pregnant women with the headline “Pregnancy weight is not the same for every woman.” CONCLUSIONS This study supports the use of digital marketing as an important avenue for delivering health messages and directing Web users to credible sources of information. The opportunity to reach large, yet targeted audiences, along with the ability to monitor and evaluate metrics to optimize activities throughout a campaign is a powerful advantage over traditional marketing tactics. Health organizations can use the results and insights of this study to help inform the design and implementation of similar Web-based activities.

scholarly journals Concentration of 25(OH)D in blood serum and certain aspects of the clinical course of juvenile scleroderma

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-50
Author(s):  
L.I. Omelchenko ◽  
◽  
O.M. Mukvich ◽  
D.L. Ismakaeva ◽  
O.A. Belskaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin D ◽  
Blood Serum ◽  
Clinical Course ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Vitamin D Status ◽  
Vitamin D Supplements ◽  
Commercial Kits ◽  
Juvenile Scleroderma

Purpose — to assess the vitamin D supply in children and adolescents with systemic juvenile scleroderma (JS), taking into account its onset and clinical course at different periods of the child's development. Materials and methods. 14 children of 1 year 3 months —17 years old with systemic JS and 10 healthy children of the control group were examined. The concentration of 25(OH)D was determined in blood serum using commercial kits Vitamin D3 — Screeningkit, Switzerland, according to the manufacturer's instructions. Results. All patients with systemic JS showed a decrease in serum 25(OH)D levels — (24.55±9.32) ng/ml, compared to healthy children — (39.98±3.11) ng/ml. The lowest concentrations of the circulating form of vitamin D in the blood serum were in patients with limited form of systemic JS with Parry–Romberg hemiatrophy and «saber strike» — (14.07±3.38) ng/ml, as well as with the onset of generalized rapidly progressive JS in children at puberty — (16.31±4.6) ng/ml. Conclusions. Children with JS are shown to assess their vitamin D status by monitoring the serum concentration of 25(OH)D in order to decide whether to prescribe vitamin D supplements. The research was carried out in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki declaration. The study protocol was approved by the Local Ethics Committee of the participating institution. The informed consent of the patient was obtained for conducting the studies. No conflict of interest was declared by the authors. Key words: children, juvenile scleroderma, vitamin D.

scholarly journals Actor and Partner Effects of Touch: Touch-Induced Stress Alleviation Is Influenced by Perceived Relationship Quality of the Couple

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Difei Liu ◽  
Yi Piao ◽  
Ru Ma ◽  
Yongjun Zhang ◽  
Wen Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Stress Alleviation ◽  
Induced Stress ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Commitment Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Because of the impact of close partner's touch on psychological and physical well-being by alleviating stress, it is important to explore the influence factors that underlie the stress-alleviating effect of close partner's touch. Previous studies suggested that the stress-alleviating effect was different when individuals were touched by different persons. Specifically, the stress was reduced significantly when the individual was touched by the close partner compared with the acquaintance and the stranger. However, whether the stress-alleviating effect of touch was modulated by the close relationship quality is unknown. To examine this question, the participants (n = 61) performed a 3 (i.e., alone, partner no-touch, and partner touch) × 2 (i.e., safety and threat) within-subjects experiment. The results revealed that the stress of the participants alleviated significantly while close partners present with touch compared with without touch during facing a threat. We also found that the relationship quality of couple-members (i.e., participants perceiving the quality of alternatives and the partners' commitment level) modulated touch-induced stress alleviation. Participants perceiving the low quality of alternatives and the high partners' commitment level showed stronger touch-induced stress-alleviating effect than participants perceiving the high quality of alternatives and the low partners' commitment level. The explained variance was around 16.8% jointly for actor and partner effects. These findings provide evidence for explaining the reasons for touch-induced alleviating stress and have important implications for predicting the future effect of interactive behaviors.

“It's Not Humanly Possible to Do Everything”: Perspectives on Intervention Decision-Making Processes of Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erinn Finke ◽  
Kathryn Drager ◽  
Elizabeth C. Serpentine
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individualized Education Program ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Interview Methodology ◽  
Communication Interventions

Purpose The purpose of this investigation was to understand the decision-making processes used by parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) related to communication-based interventions. Method Qualitative interview methodology was used. Data were gathered through interviews. Each parent had a child with ASD who was at least four-years-old; lived with their child with ASD; had a child with ASD without functional speech for communication; and used at least two different communication interventions. Results Parents considered several sources of information for learning about interventions and provided various reasons to initiate and discontinue a communication intervention. Parents also discussed challenges introduced once opinions of the school individualized education program (IEP) team had to be considered. Conclusions Parents of children with ASD primarily use individual decision-making processes to select interventions. This discrepancy speaks to the need for parents and professionals to share a common “language” about interventions and the decision-making process.

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