scholarly journals Social Networking App Use Among Primary Health Care Professionals: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesc X Marin-Gomez ◽  
Francesc Garcia Cuyas ◽  
Ramon Reig-Bolano ◽  
Jacobo Mendioroz ◽  
Pere Roura-Poch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Primary Health

BACKGROUND Several studies have been conducted to analyze the role social networks play in communication between patients and health professionals. However, there is a shortage of studies in relation to communication among primary health professionals, in a professional context, using the various mobile phone apps available. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to explore mobile phone social networking app use among primary health care professionals for work-related purposes, by comparing the most widely used apps in the market. METHODS We undertook a cross-sectional study using an anonymous Web survey among a convenience sample of 1635 primary health care professionals during August and September 2017. RESULTS Of 483 participants in the survey, 474 (98.1%, 95% CI 97.1%-99.4%) were health professionals who commonly accessed social networking sites and 362 (74.9%, 95% CI 71.1%-78.8%) accessed the sites in a work-related context. Of those 362 respondents, 219 (96.7%, 95% CI 94.8%-98.5%) preferred WhatsApp for both personal and professional uses. Of the 362 respondents who used social networking sites in a work-related context, 276 (76.2%, 95% CI 71.9%-80.6%) rated social networking sites as useful or very useful to solve clinical problems, 261 (72.1%, 95% CI 67.5%-76.7%) to improve their professional knowledge, and 254 (70.2%, 95% CI 65.5%-74.9%) to speed up the transmission of clinical information. Most of them (338/362, 94.8%, 95% CI 92.5%-97.0%) used social networking sites for interprofessional communications, and 204 of 362 (56.4%, 95% CI 51.2%-61.5%) used them for pharmacological-related consultations. CONCLUSIONS Health professionals frequently accessed social networking sites using their mobile phones and often for work-related issues. This trend suggests that social networking sites may be useful tools in primary care settings, but we need to ensure the security of the data transfer process to make sure that social networking sites are used appropriately. Health institutions need to increase information and training activities to ensure the correct use of these tools.

scholarly journals Social Networking App Use Among Primary Health Care Professionals: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey

10.2196/11147 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. e11147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesc X Marin-Gomez ◽  
Francesc Garcia Cuyas ◽  
Ramon Reig-Bolano ◽  
Jacobo Mendioroz ◽  
Pere Roura-Poch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals Prenatal evaluation in primary care in Northeast Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Pereira da Silva ◽  
Antônio Flaudiano Bem Leite ◽  
Roberto Teixeira Lima ◽  
Mônica Maria Osório
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Prenatal Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Logistic Regression Method

OBJECTIVE: To characterize prenatal care and verify possible factors associated with its adequacy. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study based on interviews with health care professionals and consultations on official documents of women attending prenatal of the primary health care in the city of João Pessoa, capital of Paraíba, in the Northeast region of Brazil. Prenatal care was evaluated by an index with criteria referring to aspects of structure, process and outcome, denominated IPR/Prenatal. The multivariate logistic regression method revealed that demographic, socioeconomic, reproductive and maternal morbidity variables were possible determinants for prenatal adequacy. RESULTS: The survey involved 130 services and 1,625 primary health care patients. Prenatal care was adequate in approximately 23% of the cases. Low prevalence of referral to maternity, educational strategies and examinations were observed. The analysis showed that nonadolescent women (OR = 1,390), with a longer period of schooling (OR = 1.750), higher per capita income (OR = 1,870) and primiparous women (OR = 1,230) were more likely to have an adequate prenatal. CONCLUSIONS: Prenatal care, when evaluated by broader criteria, showed a low percentage of adequacy. Strategies should be developed to ensure the referral to the maternity where the birth will take place and health education activities and examinations to provide adequate prenatal care in the municipality under study. In addition, factors associated with adequacy must be considered by managers and health professionals.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitudes and preventive practices of primary health care professionals towards alcohol use: A national, cross-sectional study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. e0216199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esperanza Romero-Rodríguez ◽  
Luis Ángel Pérula de Torres ◽  
Fernando Leiva-Cepas ◽  
José Ángel Fernández García ◽  
Sara Fernández López ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Preventive Practices ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals The evaluation of knowledge and activities of primary health care professionals in promoting breast-feeding

Medicina ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giedra Levinienė ◽  
Aušra Petrauskienė ◽  
Eglė Tamulevičienė ◽  
Jolanta Kudzytė ◽  
Liutauras Labanauskas
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Breast Feed ◽  
Primary Health Care Centers ◽  
Health Care Centers

The objective of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and activities of Kaunas primary health care center professionals in promoting breast-feeding. Material and methods. A total of 84 general practitioners and 52 nurses participated in the survey, which was carried out in Kaunas primary health care centers in 2006. Data were gathered from the anonymous questionnaire. Results. Less than half of general practitioners (45.1%) and 65% of nurses were convinced that baby must be exclusively breast-fed until the age of 6 months, but only 21.6% of general practitioners and 27.5% of nurses knew that breast-feeding with complementary feeding should be continued until the age of 2 years and longer. Still 15.7% of general practitioners and 25% of nurses recommended pacifiers; 7.8% of general practitioners advised to breast-feed according to hours. Half of the health professionals recommended additional drinks between meals; onethird of them – to give complementary food for the babies before the age of 6 months. One-third (29.6%) of the health professionals surveyed recommended mothers to feed their babies more frequently in case the amount of breast milk decreased. Conclusions. The survey showed that knowledge of medical personnel in primary health care centers about the advantages of breast-feeding, prophylaxis of hypogalactia, and duration of breast-feeding was still insufficient.

scholarly journals Patient safety challenges in primary health care: a scoping review

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlise Rigon Dalla Nora ◽  
Mariur Gomes Beghetto
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Enhancing Resources

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify the patient safety challenges described by health professionals in Primary Health Care. Methods: a scoping review was conducted on the LILACS, MEDLINE, IBECS, BDENF, and CINAHL databases, and on the Cochrane, SciELO, Pubmed, and Web of Science libraries in January 2019. Original articles on patient safety in the context of Primary Health Care by health professionals were included. Results: the review included 26 studies published between 2002 and 2019. Four categories resulted from the analysis: challenges of health professionals, administration challenges of health services, challenges with the patient and family, and the potential enhancing resources for patient safety. Conclusions: patient safety challenges for Primary Care professionals are multiple and complex. This study provides insight into resources to improve patient safety for health care professionals, patients, administrators, policy makers, educators, and researchers.

scholarly journals PRIMARY HEALTH CARE ATTRIBUTES IN BREASTFEEDING CARE

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Camargo de Oliveira Melo ◽  
Ana Márcia Spanó Nakano ◽  
Juliana Cristina dos Santos Monteiro ◽  
Maria Cândida de Carvalho Furtado
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Degree Of Orientation ◽  
Student’S T ◽  
Student’S T Test

ABSTRACT Objective: TO analyze the presence and extent of the Primary Health Care attributes in the breastfeeding process based on the experience of the health professionals in the services certified by the Amamenta Brasil Network in comparison with non-certified services. Method: cross-sectional and descriptive study with a quantitative approach, using the PCATool-Brazil - version for professionals, which was applied to 53 health professionals, physicians and nurses, from a city in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was applied, using Student’s t-test and the Mann-Whitney test. Results: the services certified by the Amamenta Brasil Network scored higher on Longitudinality(6.7)and Coordination-information systems (8.3).The professionals who were trained by the Amamenta Brasil Network scored higher on Coordination-information systems(8.4)and on Comprehensiveness - available services (7.0).These two groups also gave more positive answers to the other attributes. Conclusion: the services certified by and the professionals who were trained by the Amamenta Brasil Network demonstrated a higher degree of orientation towards Primary Health Care. The data appoint that the better performance on the attributes is related, among other factors, to the professionals’ being better qualified to develop practices that value the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding, in accordance with the principles of Primary Health Care.

scholarly journals Nutritional Care for older adults in Primary Health Care, from the perspective of health professionals

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Lou de Melo ◽  
Maria Angélica Tavares de Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Nutritional Care ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Theoretical Saturation

Abstract Objective: to characterize and analyze Nutritional Care (NC) for older adults in Primary Health Care (PHC), identifying how food and nutrition actions (F&N) were performed and the conceptions that guided them. Methods: a cross-sectional, quantitative and qualitative study was performed in PHC in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, in two phases: i) a census study was carried out of health units, N=28 (100%), with managers who answered a structured interview to assess NC; followed by descriptive analysis. ii) a deeper investigation of this diagnosis was performed, using semi-structured interviews with key informants (interviewees) of care for older adults; being a nutritionist was not a criteria, as there were only three such professionals throughout the entire PHC, and one of the health regions studied was not served by a nutrition professional. The concept of theoretical saturation was used for the sampling plan; content analysis was carried out and the inferences were supported by references of integrality and aging. Results: NC for older adults was highlighted by individual care, predominant in all the services studied (28) (100%); nutritionists participated in this activity in just nine units (32.1%). Theoretical saturation was achieved with nine interviews. According to the discourse analysis, F&N actions were generic, focused on the treatment of diseases, influenced by negative aspects attributed to aging, there was no planning based on the needs of the territory, and health professionals identified themselves as information transmitters, leaving the responsibility of acting on such information to the older adults themselves. Conclusion: F&N actions were guided by the biomedical paradigm, fragmented, restricted to disease management, imputing the responsibility for health to the individual themselves. Thus, NC distanced itself from the promotion of healthy aging, weakening its strategic role in the quest for integrated care.

scholarly journals Readers’ perceptions of the Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care: A cross-sectional study

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhona Macdonald ◽  
Malcolm Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Management Committee ◽  
Primary Health

IntroductionThe Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care (JEPHC) is a subscription free, peerreviewed online publication, intended to promote the publication of emergency primary health care research covering original studies, editorials and reviews. Data collected from annual surveys have been utilised since 2003 to provide the journal’s Editorial Team and Management Committee with readers’ preferences and perceptions of the journal in relation to planning and development of quality standards and content appropriate to the journal’s readership. This study provides a comparative analysis of survey results from the 2004 and 2006 surveys. The objective of this study was to provide the journal’s Editorial Team and Management Committee with results from the survey to assist future planning.MethodsA cross-sectional methodology based on data collected from questionnaire surveys utilised in 2004 and 2006, was used to solicit the views and content requirements of visitors to JEPHC. Data collected from all survey responses (n=100 in 2006 and n=44 in 2004) was intended to provide a snapshot of the journal’s readership in relation to professional status, content preferences and usefulness of editorial standards as means of supporting research needs, and encouraging future research content. As this article evaluates and reports the results of a quality audit, ethics approval was not required.ResultsThe majority of respondents from both surveys were identified mainly as paramedics, while remaining respondents represented a cross section of other health professionals, educators and researchers. Reasons given by most respondents for visiting JEPHC were to locate peerreviewed articles and case histories relevant to clinical practice. Most respondents rated JEPHC equally with other peer-reviewed journals. The majority of respondents (86%) indicated that they would consider writing for the journal, while 50% of those who indicated that they would not, expressed a lack of skills, motivation or knowledge as being the main reasons. Less than 50% of respondents in the 2006 survey indicated that they knew about the Journal Impact Factor or its usefulness to research.ConclusionAs the majority of respondents in both surveys were identified mainly as paramedics, results from the study cannot be generalised to the wider population of emergency primary health care professionals. The large difference in sample sizes between the 2004 and 2006 surveys renders inferential statistics relating to quality, as problematic. Identification and consistency of content that is of most interest to readers is evident in both surveys. However, to more accurately determine relevance and quality of content, and the significance of publishing standards which are representative of the journal’s wider readership, modification of the survey design and/or setting may be required to attract a higher response rate in future surveys.

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