scholarly journals Implicit attitudes toward the elderly among health professionals and undergraduate students in the health field: a systematic review

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-421
Author(s):  
Madson Alan Maximiano-Barreto ◽  
Bruna Moretti Luchesi ◽  
Marcos Hortes Nisihara Chagas
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Implicit Attitudes ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
Health Field

Abstract Objective To perform a systematic review of articles evaluating implicit attitudes of health professionals and undergraduate students in the health field toward the elderly. Methods The PsycINFO, PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and LILACS databases were searched for relevant articles published in English, Portuguese and Spanish using the following search terms: implicit attitude AND (elderly OR aged OR older people). Seven articles were selected. Results The majority of studies were conducted in developed countries and found negative attitudes toward the elderly, with males exhibiting more negative attitudes than females. Conclusion The articles analyzed in this review demonstrate an implicitly negative attitude among professionals and students in the field of health toward the elderly.

scholarly journals The Role of Education and Knowledge about Aging in Creating Young People’s Attitudes to the Elderly

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Goriup ◽  
Danijela Lahe
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Older People ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
School Students ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Intergenerational Cooperation

AbstractIntroduction: With the intensive growth in the number of older people and prolonged life span in the contemporary postmodern society, it has become increasingly important to build positive intergenerational cooperation and promote education on aging and older people, especially between younger and older generations. That is why the authors, on the basis of empirical research and scientific literature, examined knowledge about aging among young people and the connection between knowledge about aging and the formation of negative attitudes towards older people.Methods: The study involved 609 secondary school students aged 15 to 19 years.Results: The survey results showed that only one-fifth of the young population has good knowledge about aging. The relationship between knowledge about aging and ageism is negative, which means that young people with less knowledge about aging often have a negative attitude towards older people.Conclusions: Based on the obtained results, the authors underline the importance of integrating gerontology content in all stages of education.

An E-Health System for Promoting Wellbeing in the Elderly

2013 ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Botella ◽  
Rosa M. Baños ◽  
Ernestina Etchemendy ◽  
Diana Castilla ◽  
Azucena García-Palacios ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Economic Cost ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Health Application ◽  
Therapeutic Activities

The disproportionate increase in the world’s aged population, especially in developed countries, is one of the biggest challenges for developing health and social development policies. Developed countries are starting to include e-health applications in their health policies; these are effective programs that can reach large numbers of people at a much lower economic cost. The “Butler System” is an e-health application designed specifically for older people and the health professionals who work with this population. The Butler System is a multi-user platform with various levels of action, which includes resources that enhance elderly users’ social integration, learning, socio-emotional networks, leisure and training in emotional regulation skills. Furthermore, the platform allows practitioners to continuously monitor older people’s emotional states and offers various clinical resources and therapeutic activities. Tools such as the Butler System could become integral to supporting and promoting healthy habits for the elderly and assisting the health professionals who work with this population.

Evaluating Elders' Bio-Psycho-Social Health Dimensions Using Their Smartphones

2020 ◽  
pp. 166-177
Author(s):  
Enrique Moguel ◽  
José García-Alonso ◽  
Javier Berrocal ◽  
Juan M. Murillo
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Functional Status ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Coordinated Care ◽  
Elder People

The percentage of elder people in developed countries is increasing rapidly. A high percentage of them usually present multiple and chronic diseases. A patient with several diseases requires specific and coordinated care that is difficult to configure. Different frameworks can evaluate their functional status and identify the required care, together with the associated cost to the health system. Nevertheless, these frameworks are usually questionnaires that have to be periodically performed by the patients with the assistance of already overloaded professionals. In this chapter, the authors make use of mobile technologies to build a system capable of monitoring the activities of the elderly and analysing these data to assess their bio-psycho-social status. The experiments carried out show us that it correctly evaluates these patients and reduces the effort required by health professionals.

scholarly journals Clinical Educators' Reactions to Ageing

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Mandy ◽  
Kevin Lucas ◽  
Lisa Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Clinical Education ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
Clinical Educators ◽  
South East England

Ageism and negative attitudes towards ageing have been identified within the literature as a cause for concern. Reactions to ageing are known to be strongly positively correlated with attitudes towards older people in general. Moreover, the link between ageist practice and quality of care is also established, but implications for education and training have not been explored. The aim of this study was to investigate the reactions to ageing of clinical and fieldwork educators of undergraduate students. Clinical and field work educators are largely responsible for all the clinical education received by these students and thus have the potential to be to be highly influential in the development of their attitudes towards the elderly. Reactions to ageing were measured among clinical educators registered with a University in South East England using The Reaction to Ageing Scale, and scores were classified into typologies. Results were obtained from 62% (n=87) physiotherapy and 87% (n=81) podiatry clinical educators and 71% (n=53) of occupational therapy fieldwork educators, attending training sessions. There was a significantly greater proportion of gerophiles among the physiotherapists than among the other groups. Podiatry gerophiles were significantly older than gerophiles in the other professional groups. The results from this small study suggest that further national work is indicated to examine attitudes in a larger population.

scholarly journals Assessment of attitudes towards the use of topical corticosteroids among patients, prescribers and pharmacists in the Republic of Macedonia

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Marija Glavas-Dodov ◽  
Maja Simonoska-Crcarevska ◽  
Vanja Sulevski ◽  
Renata Slaveska Raicki ◽  
Agron Starova
Keyword(s):  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
Topical Corticosteroids ◽  
The Republic

Apart from the time-proven, gold standard treatment of many topical conditions with corticosteroids, the phobia of using topical corticosteroids (TCs) is a phenomenon unveiled among groups of patients, parents, as well as health professionals. Health professionals’ attitude to TCs could have a significant impact on the trend of TCs-phobia among patients. Therefore, it is essential to address this issue as TCs-phobia is something which could also have important implications in medication adherence and compliance to prescribed treatment. Bearing in mind that no survey had been conducted to investigate this matter in Republic of Macedonia (RM), a self-completed questionnaire has been created to assess attitudes and their prevalence associated with TCs-phobia among patients and health professionals with aim to describe the attitude, explore the reasons behind revealed phenomenon and define directions for future interventions needed to advance the healthcare in this field. Our findings show that the TCs-phobia is present among surveyed population (21.6 and 34.22% of all responders expressed negative attitudes or fear of TCs use, respectively). It is also concluded that ~27% of patients on TCs-therapy admitted that they feared of using the medication. However, there is a higher frequency of negative attitudes regarding the use of TCs among the health professionals (~39%) than among patients, where the TCs-phobia is more prominent among non-dermatologists than dermatologists. Moreover, negative attitude and fear of TCs use is universal among paediatricians (73.91%). Portrayed interventions needed to identify and manage the TCs-phobia can lead to improvement of adherence and predicted responsiveness of TCs-therapy.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Educational Asthma Interventions in Schools: A Systematic Review of the Literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Carla Carvalho Coelho ◽  
Laís Souza Barretto Cardoso ◽  
Carolina de Souza-Machado ◽  
Adelmir Souza-Machado
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
School Staff ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Controlled Clinical Trials ◽  
Asthma Symptoms ◽  
The Impact

Objective. To review the literature on the impact of educational asthma interventions in schools regarding the knowledge and morbidity of the disease among children and adolescents.Methods. A systematic review was conducted for controlled clinical trials investigating the effectiveness of educational asthma interventions for students, asthmatic or nonasthmatic, families, and school staff. Databases were CENTRAL, PubMed, LILACS, MEDLINE, and SciELO. Articles published in any language were considered, in the period from 2005 to 2014, according to the PRISMA guidelines.Results. Seventeen articles were selected (N=5,879 subjects). 94% of the interventions (16 of 17 studies) were applied in developed countries that were led by health professionals and most of them targeted asthmatics. Asthma education promotes the improvement of knowledge about the disease in at least one of the evaluated areas. 29% of the interventions (5 of 17 studies) showed a reduction of the asthma symptoms, 35% (6 of 17 studies) reduction of the hospitalization instances and emergency visits, 29% (5 of 17 studies) reduction of school absenteeism, and 41% (7 of 17 studies) increase in the quality of life of the individuals.Conclusions. Educational interventions in schools raise the awareness of asthma and weaken the impact of morbidity indicators.

ROBIHO – A Robot Companion for Elderly People’s Homes

2013 ◽  
Vol 282 ◽  
pp. 158-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo J.S. Gonçalves ◽  
Pedro M.B. Torres ◽  
Paulo Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Robotic System ◽  
Intelligent Robot ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Social Robotic ◽  
At Home

In developed countries elderly people is gradually increasing. Society is abandoning their parents and/or gran-parents, and often are found dead at home without any aid or care. To reduce these problems, a robot was designed to assist the elderly in their homes. ROBIHO is an intelligent robot that has the ability to navigate in homes and monitor human daily routines. This robot is also a companion and enables communication with family, friends, health professionals and authorities. This paper presents the new social robotic system, ROBIHO and its technology.

scholarly journals Measuring Explicit Prejudice and Transphobia in Nursing Students and Professionals

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
Jesús Manuel García-Acosta ◽  
María Elisa Castro-Peraza ◽  
Lilisbeth Perestelo-Pérez ◽  
Amado Rivero-Santana ◽  
Ángeles Arias-Rodríguez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Explicit Prejudice

Trans* people frequently report attitudes of prejudice/transphobia in health professionals. Conversely, health professionals indicate the lack of adequate training to care for these people and its impact on the quality of care provided. Objective: Our objective was to evaluate the explicit prejudices/transphobia of health students and professionals and compare them with the general population in Tenerife. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with the Genderism and Transphobia Scale (GTS) and the Negative Attitude towards Trans* people Scale (EANT) with a total of 602 participants. Results: We found a low mean level of explicit prejudice/transphobia, with little/no differences between occupation groups. Explicit transphobia was correlated with being a man, less educated, and heterosexual, and not personally knowing a trans* person. Men and women were less transphobic about trans* people whose identities coincided with their own. Conclusion: All participants showed a low mean level of explicit transphobia. This result is not incompatible with unconscious prejudice, which may translate to discriminatory behaviors. Interventions to change negative attitudes are still needed, since even a small percentage of transphobic health professionals could exert a considerable negative impact on health care. In professionals without transphobic attitudes, the barriers identified by trans* people might be a problem due to the lack of specific training.

scholarly journals ATTITUDES TOWARDS ECT: A SURVEY OF POLISH MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Antosik-Wójcińska ◽  
Gabor Gazdag ◽  
Łukasz Święcicki ◽  
Beata Majtczak ◽  
Janusz Rybakowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Utilization Rate ◽  
Psychiatric Ward ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Study Population

Background: Although the efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been well established, the utilization rate of ECT has decreased in Poland in recent years. One of the main reasons could be the negative attitude towards ECT in the community and by mental health professionals. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge about and attitudes toward ECT in Polish mental health professionals including psychiatrists and non-physicians: nurses, psychologists, social workers.Subject and methods: Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in two large Polish hospitals were approached to participate in the survey by completing a 28-item questionnaire. The specific hospitals have been selected due to the fact that they were located in the same province of Poland (Mazowsze), had similar catchment area and profile, provided similar mental health services with only one exception; one offered ECT while the other did not. Of the 185 questionnaires that had been distributed, 165 were completed yielding a response rate of 89.19%. The study population consists of 85 psychiatrists and trainees and 80 nonphysicians.Results: Psychiatrists did not differ from other mental health professionals with respect to the knowledge and attitudes toward ECT. However, there were significant differences in the attitude (9.1±3.8 vs 7.1±3.3; p<0.001) and knowledge (5.9±3.8 vs 2.8±4.1; p<0.001) scores between those professionals, who have ever worked in a psychiatric ward where they could observe ECT sessions and those who have not had such an opportunity.Conclusions: Frequent witnessing of ECT sessions seems to be the most effective educational intervention to change negative attitudes towards ECT.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review Of Implicit Attitudes And Their Neural Correlates In Eating Behaviour

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Gallucci ◽  
Lilia Del Mauro ◽  
Alberto Pisoni ◽  
Leonor Romero Lauro ◽  
Giulia Mattavelli
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Implicit Attitudes ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Food Attitudes ◽  
Present Systematic Review

Abstract An increasing number of studies suggests that implicit attitudes toward food and body shape predict eating behaviour and characterize patients with eating disorders (EDs). However, literature has not been previously analysed, thus differences between patients with EDs and healthy controls and the level of automaticity of the processes involved in implicit attitudes are still matters of debate. The present systematic review aimed to synthetize current evidence from papers investigating implicit attitudes towards food and body in healthy and EDs populations. PubMed, EMBASE (Ovid), PsycINFO, Web of Science and Scopus were systematically screened and 183 studies using different indirect paradigms were included in the qualitative analysis. The majority of studies reported negative attitudes towards overweight/obese body images in healthy and EDs samples and weight bias as a diffuse stereotypical evaluation. Implicit food attitudes are consistently reported as valid predictors of eating behaviour. Few studies on the neurobiological correlates showed neurostimulation effects on implicit attitudes, but the automaticity at brain level of implicit evaluations remains an open area of research. In conclusion, implicit attitudes are relevant measures of eating behaviour in healthy and clinical settings, although evidence about their neural correlates is limited.

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