scholarly journals Fibromyalgia in Health Care Worker During COVID-19 Outbreak in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahidah AlEnzi ◽  
Sara Alhamal ◽  
Maryam Alramadhan ◽  
Ahmed Altaroti ◽  
Intisar Siddiqui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Rapid Screening ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
The Face ◽  
Care Worker

Background: In the face of the contemporary COVID-19 pandemic, health service providers have emerged as the most at-risk individuals who are likely to contract the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).Aim: To measure the prevalence of fibromyalgia (FM) during COVID outbreak among health workers in Saudi Arabia using FiRST and LFESSQ tool.Methods: The study employed a cross-sectional methodology to explore the prevalence of Fibromyalgia among health workers at different health care settings in Saudi Arabia. The assessment of the prevalence of fibromyalgia among health worker was determined by using the Fibromyalgia Rapid Screening Tool (FiRST) and London Fibromyalgia Epidemiological Study Screening Questionnaire (LFESSQ) questionnaires. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data.Results: The sample size included 992 participants. The prevalence of fibromyalgia using FiRST and LFESSQ was 12.6 and 19.8%, respectively. In this study, the prevalence of fibromyalgia was higher in females when compared to males. Most of the respondents have Vitamin D deficiency. The relationship of fibromyalgia was significantly associated with the participants who worked during an outbreak, who covered COVID-19 inpatient, covered in-hospital on call and in area quarantine.Conclusion: The study's findings demonstrate that the prevalence of Fibromyalgia among health service providers during the current COVID-19 pandemic is considerably higher and that there are potential interventions that may be employed to mitigate the prevalence of the infection during the COVID-19 crisis.

scholarly journals Penguatan Kebijakan One Health dan Jejaring Laboratorium Dalam Deteksi Dini Leptospirosis di Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farida Dwi Handayani ◽  
Diana Andriyani Pratamawati ◽  
Wening Widjajanti ◽  
Muhidin Muhidin ◽  
Bernadus Yuliadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
One Health ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Treatment

Abstract International Leptospirosis Society stated Indonesia as a country with high leptospirosis incidence and ranked third in the world for mortality. Rikhus Vektora, in 2015 - 2017 in 25 provinces in Indonesia, showed that positive leptospirosis rats were found in all regions. However, Health Service Providers (PPK) both at the basic and advanced levels stated that they were unable to carry out a diagnosis of leptospirosis cases. Meanwhile, the data also showed that in the provinces where no leptospirosis cases reported, there were Leptospira bacteria found in captured rats both in settlements and remote areas. This condition causes leptospirosis like the phenomenon of the iceberg that is seen as no cases while the facts in the field of many people infected with late treatment. One Health approach in cross-sector leptospirosis data integration from a related department is needed in determining priorities for the prevention of leptospirosis. It is necessary to establish a laboratory network to obtain faster information regarding the enforcement of the diagnosis of leptospirosis cases. The proposed policy recommendations are the discovery of leptospirosis cases with capacity building for doctors and health workers through clinical lectures, cross-sector joint surveillance, and strengthening of laboratory networks for early enforcement of leptospirosis diagnose. Keywords: leptospirosis, one-health, laboratory, early detection, Indonesia Abstrak International Leptospirosis Society menyatakan Indonesia sebagai negara dengan insidens leptospirosis tinggi dan peringkat ketiga dunia untuk mortalitas. Hasil Riset Khusus Vektor dan Reservoir Penyakit (Rikhus Vektora) pada tahun 2015 - 2017 di 25 provinsi di Indonesia menunjukkan bahwa di setiap provinsi ditemukan persentase tikus positif bakteri Leptospira. Namun, penyedia Pelayanan Kesehatan (PPK) baik yang ada di tingkat dasar maupun lanjutan menyatakan belum mampu untuk melakukan penegakkan diagnosa kasus leptospirosis. Sementara itu, data juga menunjukkan bahwa pada beberapa provinsi yang menyatakan tidak ada kasus leptospirosis ditemukan adanya bakteri Leptospira pada tikus yang ditangkap baik pada ekosistem yang dekat dengan pemukiman maupun yang jauh dari pemukiman. Kondisi ini menyebabkan leptospirosis seperti fenomena gunung es yaitu terlihat tidak ada kasus sementara fakta di lapangan banyak orang terjangkit yang terlambat diobati. Pendekatan ‘One Health’ dalam integrasi data leptospirosis lintas sektor (Dinas Kesehatan, Dinas Peternakan, Dinas Pertanian) diperlukan dalam penentuan prioritas penanggulangan leptospirosis. Selain itu, perlu dibuat jejaring laboratorium agar didapatkan informasi lebih cepat terkait penegakan diagnosis kasus leptospirosis. Rekomendasi kebijakan yang diusulkan adalah penemuan kasus leptospirosis dengan capacity building dokter dan tenaga kesehatan dengan cara ceramah klinis, surveilans bersama lintas sektor dan penguatan jejaring laboratorium untuk penegakan dini diganosa leptospirosis. Kata kunci: leptospirosis, one-health, laboratorium, deteksi dini, Indonesia

scholarly journals The Impact of Stakeholders on Health Services Development: An Empirical Investigation on the Surgical Department at King Fahd General Hospital, Saudi Arabia

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Ala’Eddin Mohammad Khalaf Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Jeddah City ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health Service Development

The current research investigates the stakeholders influencing health services development at King Fahd General Hospital KFGH in Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia. This study proposes and tests a six factors model that influences health services development. These factors include government regulations, competitors, suppliers, patients, public, and health service providers as independent variables; the dependent variable is health services development. In order to explore this issue, a quantitative method was used to collect primary data through a questionnaire, which was administered in KFGH in Jeddah city in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The researches targeted 141 surgeons in this research as a sample because of the small population. A purposive sample was used to choose the participants in this research. The research retrieves 130 valid questionnaires; representing 92%.The results confirm significant differences in the influence of these factors on health service development. The research concludes that there is a significant influence of governmental regulations, competitors, suppliers, patients, public, and health service providers on health services development. The research recommends enhancing the awareness of stakeholder factors by studying the effects of governmental regulations, competitors, suppliers, patients, public, and health service providers. The last is adopting and updating medical and non-medical technology to maintain health service development.

scholarly journals M-health Services Equipped with Public-Sector Community Health Centers in China: Investigating Adoption using UTAUT and Channel Expansion Theory

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Adnan Zahid Chudhery ◽  
Sarah Safdar ◽  
Fenggang Li ◽  
Hakeem-Ur Rehman ◽  
Raza Rafique ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Community Health Centers ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Expansion Theory ◽  
Care Consultation

Abstract Background: This study is to investigate the acceptance of a public-private joint venture, which is formed in-between public-sector community health centers (PCHC) and private-sector m-health service providers and can be a potential solution for two practical problems. The first problem is about PCHCs, which are operating about forty-one percent underutilization rates. The second problem is the lack of a revenue-generating business model for m-health service providers' while having a surprising number of registered users with daily health-care consultation queries. This joint venture will help to bridge the strengths of the public-sector health-care system (e.g., highly qualified doctors, offline health-care facilities) with the strengths of private-sector m-health service providers (e.g., a dramatic number of registered users, daily health-care consultation queries) resulting in a win-win situation for both parties. Methods: The data collected from doctors associated with a territory hospital in Hefei, China, and analyzed using partial least squares, a structural equation modeling technique. Results: This study extended the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology with the channel expansion theory. We explored that perceived media richness, government support, effort, and performance expectancies positively influence behavioral intention to deliver health-care consultation using m-health services that are equipped with PCHCs. Surprisingly, social influence and facilitating conditions found insignificant in the Chinese context. Conclusion: It can help the government healthcare authorities, and policymakers to build confidence in PCHCs, and to improve PCHC resource utilization. It can help m-health service providers to build confidence in m-health services resulting in a revenue-generating business model.

scholarly journals Psychological distress among health service providers during COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e0246784
Author(s):  
Khagendra Kafle ◽  
Dhan Bahadur Shrestha ◽  
Abinash Baniya ◽  
Sandesh Lamichhane ◽  
Manoj Shahi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Mental Health Center ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Health Service Providers

Background COVID-19 pandemic has provoked a wide variety of psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, and panic disorders, especially among health service providers. Due to a greater risk of exposure to the virus, increased working hours, and fear of infecting their families, health service providers are more vulnerable to emotional distress than the general population during this pandemic. This online survey attempts to assess the psychological impact of COVID-19 and its associated variables among healthcare workers in Nepal. Materials and methods For data collection purposes, Covid-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index (CPDI) Questionnaire, was used whose content validity was verified by Shanghai mental health center. Data for the survey were collected from 11 to 24 October 2020 which was extracted to Microsoft Excel-13 and analyzed. Results A total of 254 health care workers from different provinces of the country participated in this study with a mean age of 26.01(± 4.46) years. A majority 46.9% (n = 119) of the participants were not distressed (score ≤28) while 46.5% (n = 118) were mild to moderately distressed (score >28 to ≤51) and 6.7% (n = 17) were severely distressed (score ≥52) due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Female participants (p = 0.004) and participants who were doctors by profession (p = 0.001) experienced significantly more distress. Conclusions COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the psychological distress amongst health care service providers. The findings from the present study may highlight the need for constructing and implementing appropriate plans and policies by relevant stakeholders that will help to mitigate the distress among health service providers in the current pandemic so that we can have an efficient frontline health workforce to tackle this worse situation.

scholarly journals Family Caregivers’ Satisfaction towards the Communication of Health Service Providers in Tertiary Care Hospital of Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Sonam Shrestha ◽  
Basant Maharjan ◽  
Swosti Acharya ◽  
Manisha Dangol ◽  
Sunil Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Health Service Provider ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Service Providers

Introduction: Patient and family caregivers’ satisfaction is an essential measure of the quality of care and a determinant of health service utilization. Measuring family caregivers’ satisfaction with health service providers is important for understanding and improving the quality of care at health facilities. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the satisfaction of family caregivers towards the communication of health service providers. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted by the development of a questionnaire at one of the tertiary care hospitals. Self-administered questionnaires related to demography and different dimensions on the satisfaction of caregivers towards the communication of health service provider was designed. Sixty caregivers were provided questionnaire and data was collected. Descriptive analysis, frequency, and percentage were calculated using SPSS 23 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) Results: The study showed that the majority of the caregivers (40%) were of the young age group (31-40 years). More than half (53%) of the caregivers were satisfied with different ways of communication about the patient's condition and treatment. In terms of communication mode, the majority of the caregivers were satisfied with related different ways of communication about the patient's condition and treatment (53.3%) followed by verbal (63.6 %) and non-verbal (50.6 %) respectively during their stay at the hospital. Conclusion: The current study found that caregivers were satisfied with the communication provided by health service providers. This suggests that the treatment provided to patients might have better outcome measures. Additionally, it may help to reduce the anxiety among caregivers regarding the patients’ condition.

More and More is Less and Less

1985 ◽  
Vol 146 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Richman ◽  
Arthur Barry
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Health Service Providers

SummaryThe idea of massive unmet need for mental health services is a myth, generated and perpetuated by processes within the system which provides psychiatric care and within society. Diffusion of the traditional boundaries of mental health care, lack of norms and standards, medicalisation and ‘healthism’, specialoid practice and patient selection, diversion of resources from the longterm mentally ill and their absorption by better-functioning patients, substitution and development of new mental health service providers, and changes in the threshold for help-seeking all affect our assumptions of need. Needs are less massive, if the boundaries of psychiatry are defined so as to include only those disorders which the profession is best able to treat.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Cost Sharing in Health Services in Geita Distrct, Tanzania

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Robert Ngelela Shole
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Cost Sharing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Service Provision ◽  
The Impact

A study on the impact of cost sharing in health services was carried out in Geita District focussing on health service provision. A sample size of 96 respondents includes 24 health workers and 72 households’ heads. Household heads were chosen to represent the community receiving health services. Health workers were chosen to represent health service providers who are providing health services in the study area. A cross sectional research design was adopted involving administration of structured questionnaires to both primary and secondary partners, complemented by relevant documentation. Statistical Package for Social services (SPSS) software was employed in data coding and analysis. The study revealed that the aim of cost sharing on health service is good. But the nature of the Tanzanians of being poor among the poorer and poor government procedure for sensitizing its policies before implementation impend the target and objectives of cost sharing on health service. More than 67% people earn less than 50,000 per month and more than 10% do not attend hospital services if they become sick. Also, more than 58% of people are not aware about cost sharing on health service. The study makes the following recommendations to improve health service provision under cost sharing policy. The spirit of working very hard in production activities should be done by all Tanzanians to reduce poverty. The government should educate its people at all levels such as villages, wards, division, district, region and national to make them aware on any policy like cost sharing on health service. Capacity building should be done to health workers to follow all the guidelines and conditions of cost sharing on health service provision.

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