Humor, Well-Being, and Health Literacy

2022 ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Patrícia Rodrigues ◽  
Manuela Soares Rodrigues ◽  
Diana Pinheiro ◽  
Cecília Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Difficult Situations

Health influences general well-being, and well-being affects future health. Oral health professionals report a decreased well-being and a higher burnout. This chapter measures and evaluates the perception of the health professional and the patient about factors of stress and well-being. It evaluates the strategies used to overcome the anxiety and stress that involve the meeting. Two surveys applied by questionnaire, with face-to-face and online dissemination, the first to patients and second to dentists, were done. Of the 245 patients, 46% consider themselves to be anxious. The instruments used in a clinical environment cause discomfort, and their noise is the predominant cause for this fear. Of the 306 dentists, 80% show the ability to face difficult situations. Finally, 90% have an awareness that contributes to the well-being of others. Oral health professionals should prepare themselves with techniques to develop a therapeutic relationship that is more positive, calm, and less stressful.

Māori Research(er) in Three Poems

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Jacquie Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ruth Behar ◽  
Seeking Help

These three poems re-present the findings from a research project that took place in 2013 (Kidd et al. 2018, Kidd et al. 2014). The research explored what health literacy meant for Māori patients and whānau when they accessed palliative care. Through face-to-face interviews and focus groups we engaged with 81 people including patients, whānau, bereaved loved ones, support workers and health professionals. The poems are composite, written to bring some of our themes to life. The first poem is titled Aue. This is a Māori lament that aligns to English words such as ‘oh no’, or ‘arrgh’, or ‘awww’. Each stanza of the poem re-presents some of the stories we heard throughout the research. The second poem is called Tikanga. This is a Māori concept that encompasses customs, traditions and protocols. There are tikanga rituals and processes that guide all aspects of life, death, and relationships. This poem was inspired by an elderly man who explained that he would avoid seeking help from a hospice because ‘they leave tikanga at the door at those places’. His choice was to bear his pain bravely, with pride, within his cultural identity. The third poem is called ‘People Like Me’. This is an autoethnographical reflection of what I experienced as a researcher which draws on the work of scholars such as bell hooks (1984), Laurel Richardson (1997) and Ruth Behar (1996). These and many other authors encourage researchers to use frustration and anger to inform our writing; to use our tears to fuel our need to publish our research.

scholarly journals What helps and hinders the provision of healthcare that minimises treatment burden and maximises patient capacity? A qualitative study of stroke health professional perspectives

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. e034113 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kyle ◽  
Dimitris Skleparis ◽  
Frances S Mair ◽  
Katie I Gallacher
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Care Coordination ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Treatment Burden ◽  
Long Term Conditions ◽  
Patient Journey ◽  
Patient Capacity ◽  
The Impact

ObjectivesTreatment burden is the healthcare workload experienced by individuals with long-term conditions and the impact on well-being. Excessive treatment burden can negatively affect quality-of-life and adherence to treatments. Patient capacity is the ability of an individual to manage their life and health problems and is dependent on a variety of physical, psychological and social factors. Previous work has suggested that stroke survivors experience considerable treatment burden and limitations on their capacity to manage their health. We aimed to examine the potential barriers and enablers to minimising treatment burden and maximising patient capacity faced by health professionals and managers providing care to those affected by stroke.SettingPrimary and secondary care stroke services in a single health board area in Scotland.ParticipantsFace-to-face qualitative interviews with 21 participants including stroke consultants, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, psychologists, general practitioners and health-service managers.Outcome measuresData were analysed using thematic analysis to ascertain any factors that influence the provision of low-burden healthcare.ResultsBarriers and facilitators to the provision of healthcare that minimises treatment burden and maximises patient capacity were reported under five themes: healthcare system structure (e.g. care coordination and autonomous working); resources (e.g. availability of ward nurses and community psychologists); knowledge and awareness (e.g. adequate time and materials for optimal information delivery); availability of social care (e.g. waiting times for home adaptations or extra social support) and patient complexity (e.g. multimorbidity).ConclusionsOur findings have important implications for the design and implementation of stroke care pathways, emphasising the importance of removing barriers to health professional provision of person-centred care. This work can inform the design of interventions aimed at nurturing autonomous working by health professionals, improving communication and care coordination or ensuring availability of a named person throughout the patient journey.

The injured worker's role in the recovery process

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Injured Worker ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Principal Method

The injured worker himself is provides the most powerful of all healing and recovery forces, and yet is the most ignored in contemporary disability management practice. The well-meaning attempts to assist the worker return to work by health professionals may actually be prolonging his disability. It's very difficult for most health professionals to step outside the heath professional paradigm and remember that the injured worker is the entity most capable of recovery, and most responsible for it. If the health professional is “ working harder than the injured worker”, the chances of a successful outcome are minimised. Associating with other professionals by way of referrals, team management practices make it even harder to step outside the health professional paradigm of “we know what's best for you.” The advantage of “encouraging”, “allowing”, “permitting” the injured worker to take the lead role in his own recovery is that the worker can resume the central place in his own life and not become beholden to others. Self-determination in recovery is the principal method whereby an injured worker offsets the psycho-social elements of the cause of, and the recovery from, any workplace injury. Psycho-social reasons are the principal reasons why a person becomes injured in the first place and takes longer to recover than he might otherwise do. Without placing the psycho-social element in a place of prominence, much input by Rehabilitation Providers, Physiotherapists, Physicians and other health professionals is not only ineffective, but contributing to the very psycho-social elements which caused the problem in the first place. Allowing the injured worker to take responsibility for his own recovery is vital to this recovery and preventing injury in the future. Health professionals need to be constantly vigilant that their input is contributing to the injured worker helping himself, and not usurping that role.

scholarly journals Migration, Retention and Return Migration of Health Professionals Comment on "Doctor Retention: A Cross-sectional Study of How Ireland Has Been Losing the Battle"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Latha S. Davda ◽  
David R. Radford ◽  
Jennifer E. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Education And Training ◽  
Shortage Of Doctors

Medical education and training of health professionals are linked with their recruitment and retention. Practising as a competent health professional requires life-long continuous training and therefore training structures in health systems appear to influence doctors job satisfaction, their well-being and their intentions to remain in that health system. The commentary critiques aspects of the paper on doctors retention in Ireland, while drawing some parallels with the United Kingdom. There appears to be an emerging type of health professional migrants ‘education tourists’ who travel to other countries to obtain medical education creating new routes of migration and this presents new challenges to source and destination countries. The global shortage of doctors and other health professionals further exacerbates health inequalities as seen in the present pandemic and therefore the increased need for research into health professionals’ migration and their integration.

scholarly journals Toxic directions and their impacts on health organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e45591110237
Author(s):  
Joemar Braga Alves
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
Business World ◽  
Effective Leaders ◽  
Great Relevance

This article intends to open space for future research on the development of more effective leaders in Health Organizations, in the sense that when the health professional realizes that the actions of their leader are abusive, they can signal and even protect themselves from the effects that such actions can affect your performance and organizational well-being. Private health organizations (HO), like all profitable organizations, need to survive in the business world, not only offering quality services, but guaranteeing profits for the functioning of their activities. And in this scenario of great competition, modern questions arise about the possible styles or types of leadership that would be more appropriate to make health organizations achieve their goals, that is, it would be necessary to make organizations achieve their goals that the directions of the Health Organizations apply abusive supervision, because what has been observed, today, is that in the eagerness to earn profits, or to reach their goals, some HO leaders are very inclined to exercise abusive leadership. Therefore, the key point of the research will be to analyze the impacts of an abusive coordination on the performance of health professionals at work with a focus on “service provision”; such a study is of great relevance to the organizational world and, mainly, to health organizations (HO), as these are the main responsible for “excellence in the provision of health services to society”.

scholarly journals Characterizing the Content Related to Oral Health Education on TikTok

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 13260
Author(s):  
Laurie Fraticelli ◽  
Colette Smentek ◽  
Delphine Tardivo ◽  
Julien Masson ◽  
Céline Clément ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Periodontal Diseases ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
Social And Emotional

Neglecting oral hygiene in adolescents negatively affects dental caries and periodontal diseases, in addition to social and emotional well-being. Thus, the TikTok platform (ByteDance, Beijing, China)as a social media could be a powerful channel to provide health-related information and educational content. This study aims to assess the quality of the TikTok videos corresponding to #oralhealtheducation. Sixty-nine videos were identified. Three oral health professionals (OHP), three health education professionals (HEP), and ten of TikTok’s target audience watched and evaluated the videos from a qualitative questionnaire. OHP detected false or incorrect information in 11.6% (8/69) of the videos. At least two HEPs reported being unable to detect this type of content or whether the video met dental ethics standards in both the videos. Disagreement was observed among the professionals themselves. The evaluation indicated that TikTok’s target audience was satisfied with the products viewed with an average score of >2.5, unlike the professionals, whose average score was <2.5 on a scale of 0 to 5. Users are advised to think critically and to consider the content of TikTok oral health videos with caution. The involvement of health professionals in the writing and validation of the videos could be an added value to positively respond to the needs of the adolescents.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the use of topic nasal decongestants in university students from health sciences courses

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Lenz ◽  
Kézia Santos Cardoso ◽  
Ana Carla Rangel Bitti ◽  
Tadeu Uggere Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Intensity Scale ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Nasal Decongestants ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Health Field

Nasal decongestants in Brazil are available without prescription. They are one of the most requested medications in Brazil. The use of nasal decongestants, however, may lead to serious consequences. For this study, university students majoring in the health field were evaluated in terms of their profile regarding the use of nasal decongestants. Additionally, health sciences seniors were evaluated regarding their level of knowledge concerning the correct and proper use of nasal decongestants. Among the 71.8% of respondents who had already used topic nasal decongestants, 64.3% had used this medication for at least 15 days and 64.6% had started using it due to nasal obstruction. The gathered data indicate that the pharmacist was the main health professional reported as having provided patients with guidance on how to use this medication. A five-point Likert Type intensity scale (3.6 ± 0.08) shows that a regular level of knowledge has been observed among the students. Most of the students polled were concluded to incorrectly use topic nasal decongestants. Furthermore, the results of this study indicate that the future health professionals are not well prepared to promote health education for patients concerning the rational use of nasal decongestants.

scholarly journals Effect of face-to-face verbal feedback compared with no or alternative feedback on the objective workplace task performance of health professionals: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. e030672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Elizabeth Johnson ◽  
Mihiri P Weerasuria ◽  
Jennifer L Keating
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Prediction Interval ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Risk Of Bias ◽  
Verbal Feedback ◽  
Face To Face

ObjectiveVerbal face-to-face feedback on clinical task performance is a fundamental component of health professions education. Experts argue that feedback is critical for performance improvement, but the evidence is limited. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the effect of face-to-face verbal feedback from a health professional, compared with alternative or no feedback, on the objective workplace task performance of another health professional.DesignSystematic review and meta-analysis.MethodsWe searched the full holdings of Ovid MEDLINE, CENTRAL, Embase, CINAHL and PsycINFO up to 1 February 2019 and searched references of included studies. Two authors independently undertook study selection, data extraction and quality appraisal. Studies were included if they were randomised controlled trials investigating the effect of feedback, in which health professionals were randomised to individual verbal face-to-face feedback compared with no feedback or alternative feedback and available as full-text publications in English. The certainty of evidence was assessed using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations approach. For feedback compared with no feedback, outcome data from included studies were pooled using a random effects model.ResultsIn total, 26 trials met the inclusion criteria, involving 2307 participants. For the effect of verbal face-to-face feedback on performance compared with no feedback, when studies at high risk of bias were excluded, eight studies involving 392 health professionals were included in a meta-analysis: the standardised mean difference (SMD) was 0.7 (95% CI 0.37 to 1.03; p<0.001) in favour of feedback. The calculated SMD prediction interval was −0.06 to 1.46. For feedback compared with alternative feedback, studies could not be pooled due to substantial design and intervention heterogeneity. All included studies were summarised, and key factors likely to influence performance were identified including components within feedback interventions, instruction and practice opportunities.ConclusionsVerbal face-to-face feedback in the health professions may result in a moderate to large improvement in workplace task performance, compared with no feedback. However, the quality of evidence was low, primarily due to risk of bias and publication bias. Further research is needed. In particular, we found a lack of high-quality trials that clearly reported key components likely to influence performance.Trial registration numberCRD42017081796.

scholarly journals Challenges and opportunities for health professional providing care for refugees and migrants

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Chiarenza
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Professional ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Communication Barriers ◽  
Low Health Literacy ◽  
Effective Care ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Health professionals face specific challenges providing care for migrants and refugees, including communication barriers, misunderstanding due to cultural differences, patient’s low health literacy. Rather than relying exclusively on a preconceived knowledge about migrant cultures, health professionals should invest more in the relationship with the patient listening and giving prominence to the patient’s story. This part of the WS will explore the soft-skills needed to establish a trustful and effective care relation with migrant and refugee patients. (20’)

scholarly journals eDelphi survey to shape the content of a digital resource to enhance parental health literacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
O Kolokotroni ◽  
E Hadjigeorgiou ◽  
C Gourounti ◽  
V Christodoulides ◽  
A Sarantaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Formative Research ◽  
Nominal Group ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Antenatal Classes

Abstract Background Information-seeking on the internet is very prevalent, in contrast to low attendance of antenatal classes. In addition to varying quality, few digital resources are developed using participatory research approaches. Methods Antenatal learning needs were explored in a modified Delphi survey among the professional community and parents-to-be/new parents. A list of 174 topics was developed using the Nominal Group Technique among antenatal educators and representatives of local professional associations. In an online survey, the relative importance of each was rated on a 5-point scale by the wider professional community and general public. Topics rated by ≥ 80% as at least “very important” or by ≥ 50% as “essential” by either group were shortlisted and re-rated by delegates of the annual Midwifery conference. Analysis 193 health professionals (77.7% midwives) and 275 mothers-to-be/new mothers (56.4% attendance of antenatal classes) participated in the online survey. Based on pre-set criteria, 95 topics (54.6%) were identified, 55 (31.6%) nominated by both groups. Among 18 themes, those with the highest number of nominated topics were: Breastfeeding, Prematurity, Giving birth, Caring for Baby and Mental health & well-being. There was good agreement between the two groups (r = 0.88) and in the top 20 single topics, thirteen were common. Priorities were largely unchanged in the last round, but a number of new topics emerged, including pre-eclampsia and domestic abuse. On a 1-10 scale, health literary of expectant parent was rated at M = 5.7 (SD 1.5) by professionals. Conclusions In a “changing landscape” of antenatal education, new technologies provide opportunities for broader reach. This formative research study explored the perceived learning needs and local priorities in order to shape the content of Baby Buddy, a public health digital intervention to enhance the health literacy of new parents and support the educational role of health professionals. Key messages Local needs and priorities for a digital parenthood platform were identified using a Delphi method. Participatory formative research can maximize the potential though co-creation and co-ownership.

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