Integrating family planning and reproductive health information into livelihood training programs for young people in Souhag

Integrating family planning and reproductive health information into livelihood training programs for young people in Souhag [Arabic]

10.31899/sbsr2021.1040 ◽

2021 ◽

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Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Training Programs ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Peer Educators ◽

Job Seekers ◽

Education Programs ◽

Men And Women ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

Study Participants

This infographic describes interventions conducted in Souhag, Egypt, aimed at increasing demand for private family planning health (FP/RH) services among young men and women (aged 18-35 years). In this intervention, male and female job seekers received five days of integrated FP/RH and livelihood training. Peer educators delivered the training, shared materials and social media platforms for more information, and gave participants the names of private doctors and pharmacists trained by the project. The infographic provides an overview of the interventions, perspectives from study participants, and lessons learned for integrating FP/RH into workers' health education programs.

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A comprehensive model to address reproductive health and family planning needs of factory workers in Port Said [Arabic]

10.31899/sbsr2021.1042 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Comprehensive Model ◽

Peer Educators ◽

Factory Workers ◽

Garment Factory ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

Study Participants ◽

Port Said ◽

Garment Factory Workers

This infographic describes interventions conducted in Port Said, Egypt, aimed at increasing demand for private family planning health (FP/RH) services among young men and women (aged 18-35 years). The intervention was aimed at young garment factory workers, where selected factory workers were trained to serve as peer educators and to provide FP/RH messages to their co-workers, referring them to the infirmary nurse for more information and counseling, as needed. This nurse referred those who desired more services or FP methods to trained physicians and pharmacists. The infographic provides an overview of the interventions, perspectives from study participants, and lessons learned for integrating FP/RH into workers' health education programs.

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A comprehensive model to address reproductive health and family planning needs of factory workers in Port Said

10.31899/sbsr2021.1041 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Comprehensive Model ◽

Peer Educators ◽

Factory Workers ◽

Garment Factory ◽

Increasing Demand ◽

Study Participants ◽

Port Said ◽

Garment Factory Workers

This infographic describes interventions conducted in Port Said, Egypt, aimed at increasing demand for private family planning health (FP/RH) services among young men and women (aged 18-35 years). The intervention was aimed at young garment factory workers, where selected factory workers were trained to serve as peer educators and to provide FP/RH messages to their co-workers, referring them to the infirmary nurse for more information and counseling, as needed. This nurse referred those who desired more services or FP methods to trained physicians and pharmacists. The infographic provides an overview of the interventions, perspectives from study participants, and lessons learned for integrating FP/RH into workers' health education programs.

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Psychometric Post-Examination Analysis in Medical Education Training Programs

Advances in Medical Education, Research, and Ethics - Handbook of Research on the Efficacy of Training Programs and Systems in Medical Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1468-9.ch012 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 221-242

Author(s):

Emanuele Fino ◽

Bishoy Hanna-Khalil

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Training Programs ◽

Assessment Methods ◽

Learning Objectives ◽

Assessment Data ◽

Education Programs ◽

Medical Practitioners ◽

Medical Educators ◽

Increasing Demand

Assessment in medical education has changed dramatically over the last two decades. The current, global call for medical practitioners has encouraged medical schools to open their doors and expand their curricula, generating an increasing demand for guidance with regards to the assurance and improvement of the quality of training programs and systems. This chapter provides the reader with an overview of psychometric post-examination analysis. The authors' view is that these are strategic educational assets that can help medical educators to understand and evidence the extent to which assessment data and their interpretation reflect the achievement of learning objectives, and the validity of assessment methods implemented in medical education programs.

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Life Quality and Participation of Disabled Children and Young People: Design and Methods of a Transformative Study

International Journal of Qualitative Methods ◽

10.1177/16094069211016713 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 160940692110167

Author(s):

Snæfrídur Thóra Egilson ◽

Linda B. Ólafsdóttir ◽

Anna Sigrún Ingimarsdóttir ◽

Freyja Haraldsdóttir ◽

Ásta Jóhannsdóttir ◽

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Keyword(s):

Life Quality ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Control Group ◽

Childhood Disability ◽

Disabled Children ◽

Sequential Mixed Methods ◽

Study Participants ◽

Design And Methods

The LIFE-DCY research project has two aims. First, to evaluate disabled children’s quality of life (QoL) as reported by themselves and their parents, and second, to locate commonalities, differences, and conflicting issues in the processes that may influence disabled children’s life quality and participation. This paper describes the study design, methodology, and methods along with lessons learned. In addition various methodological and ethical concerns are raised. A sequential mixed-methods design was applied. In Phase one (mapping) we used KIDSCREEN-27 to study how disabled children evaluate their QoL compared with the perspectives of their parents and those of non-disabled children and their parents. Using the Participation and environment measure we also studied parents’ perspectives of their children’s participation in different social contexts. Altogether 209 disabled children and their parents, and 335 children in a control group and their parents (paired reports) participated in phase one. Phase two (unpacking) consisted of 14 case studies with disabled children aged 8–18 years and focus groups with 21 disabled people aged 19–35 years. The initial analysis was inductive and data-oriented. We then used critical and transformative lenses to shed light on how meaning was made of life quality and participation in relation to the context in which study participants found themselves. The LIFE-DCY research promotes an understanding of how important aspects of life quality and participation may intersect within different contexts and at different times. The theoretical understandings from this study may also help unpack various aspects of childhood disability in terms of knowledge and power and enhance understandings of how ideas about normality and childhood disability are constructed.

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Prevalence of postpartum family planning utilization and associated factors among postpartum mothers in Arba Minch town, South Ethiopia

Contraception and Reproductive Medicine ◽

10.1186/s40834-021-00150-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Biresaw Wassihun ◽

Kidist Wosen ◽

Asmare Getie ◽

Kalkidan Belay ◽

Rehal Tesfaye ◽

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Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Antenatal Care ◽

Odds Ratio ◽

Postnatal Care ◽

Associated Factors ◽

Adjusted Odds Ratio ◽

Educational Status ◽

Postpartum Women ◽

Postpartum Family Planning ◽

Study Participants

Abstract Background Contraception allows women to realize their human right to decide if and when to have children and helps people to attain their desired family size. Yet 214 million women of a reproductive age in developing countries who want to avoid pregnancy are not using a modern contraceptive method. Women who have recently given birth are among the group with the highest unmet need for contraception. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess the prevalence of postpartum family planning use and associated factors among postpartum women in Southern Ethiopia. Methods Institution based cross-sectional study design was conducted. A structured and pretested interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data from study participants. Study participants were selected using a systematic random sampling technique by allocating proportionally to each health facility. The data was entered using EPI data version 3.1statistical software and exported to Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22.0 for further analysis. Both bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to identify associated factors. P values < 0.05 with 95% confidence level was used to declare statistica significance. Result Overall, 44% of postpartum women utilize postpartum family planning. Having an antenatal care visit [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) =1.89(95%CI, 2.42–7.90), having planned pregnancy [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 1.17(95%CI, 1.60–2.28)], being married (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) =2.86(1.94–8.73), and having a college and above level educational status (AOR) =1.66(1.28–3.55) were significantly associated with utilization of postpartum family planning. Conclusion This study showed that the prevalence of postpartum family planning was 44%. Marital status, educational status of mothers, the status of pregnancy, and having an antenatal care follow-up during pregnancy were some factors associated with postpartum family planning utilization. Therefore, strengthening family planning counselling during antenatal and postnatal care visits, improving utilization of postnatal care services and improving women’s educational status are crucial steps to enhance contraceptive use among postpartum women.

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Older adults’ philanthropic crafting of face masks during COVID-19

Craft Research ◽

10.1386/crre_00051_1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 223-245 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Christine Guy Schnittka

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Health Care ◽

Social Media ◽

Virtual Community ◽

Well Being ◽

Moral Values ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Front Line ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Front Line Workers

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, people of all ages began sewing fabric face masks. Organized through separate grassroots movements, oftentimes using social media platforms, people pooled their resources to make masks for front line workers and others in desperate need. While some people sold these face masks, many participated in philanthropic crafting, donating them to hospitals and other health care centres. Older adults were identified early on as being particularly vulnerable to the effects of the virus, and so their response to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic through crafting was salient. This study investigated the experience of philanthropic hand crafting by older adults who were living through the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty-seven older adults of age 60–87 who sewed masks for others were interviewed. A comprehensive data analysis of these interviews yielded 39 descriptive codes that were collapsed into eight themes: emotions, engagement, meaning, relationships, accomplishment, intellect, moral values and agency. One finding was that there were psychological, relational and existential benefits for the crafters. Making masks allowed participants to help other people, and it gave the participants a feeling of value, worthiness and purpose. Additionally, participants felt more in control in a chaotic world as they made masks to protect themselves, their loved ones, as well as strangers. The philanthropic crafting enhanced older adults’ well-being in many ways, and lessons learned from this study could be extended into ‘normal times’. For example, more older adults would be able to participate in craft-based philanthropy if they had access to the tools and materials. They would be more motivated if they received thank you notes and pictures of the recipients using their handmade gifts, and if they could express their creativity more. Finally, creating a physical or virtual community for older adults around craft philanthropy would help older adults feel more connected to and supported by their peers, and the community at large.

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Leveraging Social Media for Human Factors Research in Health Care

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/1071181321651029 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 82-85

Author(s):

Rupa S. Valdez ◽

Annie T. Chen ◽

Andrew J. Hampton ◽

Kapil Chalil Madathil ◽

Elizabeth Lerner Papautsky ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Social Media ◽

Human Factors ◽

Disaster Response ◽

Academic Research ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Ethical Implications ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Study Participants ◽

Human Factors Research

There has been a significant increase in using social media for academic research and there is an opportunity for human factors professionals to incorporate these platforms into their research. Social media platforms provide a rich space to study extant data on health information communication, behaviors, and impacts and to recruit study participants. In this session, panelists will discuss using social media to study health-related topics including health management, gender-based violence, disaster response, self-harm, patient ergonomics, and secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. They will share how they have collected and analyzed data and recruited study participants from social media platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. They will also speak to the benefits and challenges of as well as ethical implications for using social media for research. There will be space for a moderated discussion to identify ways social media can be leveraged for human factors research in health care.

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