Audio-Visual Aid: An Effective Means to improve Parental Awareness toward Habits and Malocclusion Prevention in Children

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Kiran ◽  
Swati Dwivedi ◽  
Satyaki Arora ◽  
Deepa Singal ◽  
Varun Nikhra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Preventive Dentistry ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Oral Habits ◽  
Parental Awareness ◽  
Normal Individuals ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Visual Aid ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

ABSTRACT Introduction Malocclusion is a very prevalent disorder of children. These disorders are frequently the result of deleterious oral habits. These disorders and their etiology are very difficult to explain to the parent, but the advent of audio-visual aids has solved this dilemma for the clinician. They allow the clinician to make the parents understand problems and also to compare with normal individuals. Aim The aim of the present study was to evaluate the awareness of parent toward malocclusion and the efficiency of audio-visual aid in improving parent awareness and compliance toward treatment. Materials and methods A sample size of 100 was estimated which were selected randomly from patients coming to the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, IDS Bareilly. An audio-visual aid was prepared describing the oral habits and their associated malocclusions. A self-prepared questionnaire was presented to the parent before and after the audio-visual aid was shown to them. Their awareness and change in attitude was recorded. Results There was statistically significant (p ≤ 0.001) improvement in the knowledge and attitude toward treatment after audio-visual aids were used. Conclusion Audio-visual aid is effective in improving awareness toward malocclusion caused due to oral habits. How to cite this article Chandra S, Singal D, Arora S, Dwivedi S, Kiran K, Nikhra V, Chandra N. Audio-Visual Aid: An Effective Means to Improve Parental Awareness toward Habits and Malocclusion Prevention in Children. World J Dent 2014;5(2):98-101.

scholarly journals EFFICACY OF AN AUDIO-VISUAL AID IN IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS TOWARDS INFANT ORAL HEALTH CARE FOR EXPECTANT MOTHERS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chahita Mahesh Lalchandani ◽  
Sandeep Tandon ◽  
Tripti Sharma Rai ◽  
Anupama Kajal
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Oral Health Care ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Maternity Hospitals ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Visual Aid ◽  
Expectant Mothers ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Infant Oral Health

Aim: The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a PowerPoint Presentation in Up-grading the knowledge and awareness towards infant oral health care among expectant mothers. Methods: This was a cross sectional survey conducted in various maternity hospitals throughout Jaipur city, India. A 15 minute PowerPoint Presentation based on infant oral health care was presented to a total of 120 expectant mothers. The participants were made to fill a 15-point questionnaire on the same subject before and after the presentation. Based on a formulated scoring criterion, the knowledge and awareness level of each participant was quantified pre-intervention and post-intervention. The data thus obtained was analysed using descriptive statistics and chi square test, with the level of significance set at P<0.05. Results: There was a very high statistical difference (p=0.000) between the mean scores of the participants before and after the presentation, from 5.55 to 13.96 out of a maximum possible score of 15. The range of scores improved from 0-14 pre-presentation to 9-15 post- presentation. A significant improvement was seen in the mean scores of every socio- demographic group (p=0.000). A relatively high number of participants (85.8%) agreed that the presentation would change how they care for their child in the future. Conclusion: Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the use of audio-visual aids is beneficial in improving the knowledge and awareness towards infant oral health care among expectant mothers. Further research can be conducted to evaluate different designs of various audio-visual aids and their long-term efficacy catering to different socio- demographic groups. KEYWORDS Expectant mothers, infant oral health care, awareness, audio-visual aid, pregnant women, maternal awareness

EFEKTIVITAS BOOKLET TERHADAP PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP PEMELIHARAAN KESEHATAN GIGI MULUT PADA IBU HAMIL

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Rahmaini Fitri
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
The Body ◽  
Wilcoxon Test ◽  
Percentage Increase ◽  
Oral Diseases ◽  
Health Maintenance ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

Pregnancy causes physiological changes in the body and as well as in the oral cavity. Dental and oral diseases associated with pregnancy that is, gingivitis, periodontitis and pregnancy granuloma. Mouth dental disease during pregnancy is not only influenced by the pregnancy itself but rather the lack of knowledge about dental and oral health maintenance. Efforts to improve the knowledge of pregnant women about oral health is done by providing information, information necessary for health education media. In this case the media is created and used to improve the knowledge of pregnant women is the booklet. This study aimed to analyze the differences in knowledge and attitudes before and after maintenance booklet oral health in pregnant women. This study is a quasi experiment with one group pre  and post test design. The sample is the first trimester pregnant women who come to the health center in Sentosa Baru Medan as many as 34 people. Analysis of the data  forcompare the average difference in scores of knowledge and attitudes before and after the intervention used the Wilcoxon test. The results showed there is an increased knowledge and attitude maintenance of oral health in pregnant women after being given a booklet with a value of p < 0.001, a percentage increase of 30% knowledge and attitudes percentage of 37%. The conclusions of this study is increased knowledge and attitude maintenance of oral health in pregnant women after being given a booklet.

scholarly journals Lean thinking: using 6S and visual management for efficient adverse event closure

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. e001197
Author(s):  
Ziad Alzahrani
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Event ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Process Map ◽  
Lean Principles ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Safety Reporting ◽  
Visual Aid ◽  
Medication Incidents

BackgroundWe focused on a busy Adult Oncology Department having over 130 staff members, with around 70 of them being physicians with different levels of specialties. A multidisciplinary committee was formed in the department, consisting of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, a medication safety representative and a quality specialist to look after all reported incidents.Local problemThe department staff at the institution in question in this study expressed their concern about the surging number of reported incidents, delays in closing reports within the set timeframe, ambiguity of individuals’ roles at the committee level and errors in using the safety reporting system (SRS). Accordingly, this study focused on the development of a visual aid through the creation of a functional process map to help clarify team roles and stipulate the steps for adverse event closure.MethodsThe Sort, Set-in order, Shine, Standardise, Sustain and Safety and visual management lean principles, as well as the eight lean wastes—Transportation, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Overprocessing, Overproduction, Defect and Staff underutilisation—were introduced in early May 2016 and used during SRS committee meetings over 3 years.InterventionThe indicators used were the average number of days for both medication and non-medication incidents from the day of reporting until the closure. The extent that the limit was exceeded was compared.ResultsThe average number of days until closure showed a reduction from 67 to 37 and 134 to 61 between Periods I (2016) and III (2018) for medication and non-medication incidents, respectively.ConclusionsThe developed process map was a useful communication tool. It helped to sort process activities, team roles and streamline the process. It brought the average number of days until closure within the acceptable 45-day limit for medication incidents. Thus, using visual aids in the working environment is helpful in improving communication among the workers.

scholarly journals Standardization of dot-ELISA for the serological diagnosis of toxocariasis and comparision of the assay with ELISA

1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eide Dias Camargo ◽  
Paulo Mutuko Nakamura ◽  
Adelaide José Vaz ◽  
Marcos Vinícius da Silva ◽  
Pedro Paulo Chieffi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Toxocara Canis ◽  
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ◽  
Serum Samples ◽  
Specific Antibodies ◽  
Normal Individuals ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Dot Elisa ◽  
Stability Time

The dot-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (dot-ELISA) was standardized using somatic (S) and excretory-secretory (ES) antigens of Toxocara-canis for the detection of specific antibodies in 22 serum samples from children aged 1 to 15 years, with clinical signs of toxocariasis. Fourteen serum samples from apparently normal individuals and 28 sera from patients with other pathologies were used as controls. All samples were used before and after absorption with Ascaris suum extract. When the results were evaluated in comparison with ELISA, the two tests were found to have similar sensitivity, but dot-ELISA was found to be more specific in the presence of the two antigens studied. Dot-ELISA proved to be effective for the diagnosis of human toxocariasis, presenting advantages in terms of yield, stability, time and ease of execution and low cost.

Satisfaction of Postoperative Patients on Pain Management Program its Relationship to the Knowledge and Attitudes of Chinese Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 6609-6626
Author(s):  
Shuyuan Li
Keyword(s):  
Pain Management ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Chinese Patients ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Pain Management Program ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

This study is a cross-sectional survey of the satisfaction of postoperative patients its relationship to the knowledge and attitudes of Chinese nurses on pain management. Data were sourced out from two groups of respondents participated in the study, 75 post-operative patients and 97 in-service nurses from the health institutions China. The study was conducted for five-months. Ethics protocols were observed before and after the conduct of the study. Findings showed that post-operative pain management program among the participating medical institutions in China were assessed to have moderate level of satiation by the patients. All the components namely pain relief experience, care provided by the nurses, education provided as to pain management, and therapeutic dialogue provided by the nurses were all assessed by postoperative Chinese patients at a fair level. Meanwhile, gender and education of post-operative patients can be considered as factors in the planning and implementation of pain management program. Consequently, similar to studies conducted worldwide, Chinese nurses do not establish yet an optimal level of knowledge and attitude towards pain management. Meanwhile age, experience, education are factors on the knowledge and attitude on pain management among nurses. Finally, positive moderate relationship is established between patient satisfaction and knowledge and attitudes of nursing staff towards pain management. The findings of these study call for action and reform in the implementation of pain management program focusing on the major role and development of 21st century nurses. Practical implications of the study are discussed.

Influence Counseling with Smart Calendar Media (Kalpin) to Knowledge and Attitude of Pregnant Women about First 1000 Days of Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Yanik Muyassaroh ◽  
Ana Afifah
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Nutrition Counseling ◽  
Lecture Method ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Good Nutrition ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Analytic Design

Malnutrition in pregnant women has an impact on the health of the next generation. Therefore, nutrition counseling first 1000 days of life needs to be given. Good nutrition during the period of 1000 days starting from early pregnancy until the child’s second birthday. This study aims to determine the effect of counseling with “Kalpin” or Smart Calendar on knowledge and attitude of pregnant women about the first 1000 days of life. This type of research is a comparative analytic design with pre-test and post-test control group. Nutrition counseling activities carried out by the lecture method using a smart calendar. Measurement of knowledge and attitude of pregnant women perfomed twice: before and after the extension granted. Analysis of the data used were bivariate analysis test Independent T-Test and Mann Whitney. The result shows influence of counseling about first 1000 days of life with Kalpin to knowledge (p = 0,000) and attitude of pregnant woman (p = 0,000) about first 1000 days of life. For health service can be a new input in efforts to improve the quality of service with realization the Program Healthy Indonesia that include first 1000 days of life.

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF NURSES TOWARDS POST-OPERATIVE PAIN MANAGEMENT IN MUHAMMADU ABDULLAHI WASE TEACHING HOSPITAL KANO – NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Rabiu Musa ◽  
◽  
Halima Muhammad ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pain Management ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Postoperative Pain Management ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Post Operative Pain ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Nurses Attitude ◽  
Prolong Hospital Stay

Knowledge and attitude of Nurses towards post-operative pain management in Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase Teaching hospital Kano. Knowledge and skills of Nurses towards post-operative pain managements haven being an issue in Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching hospital due to workload, inadequate staffs, lack of adequate equipment’s to access patient level of pain .Aim to assessed the knowledge level of Nurses towards post-operative pain management, to determine the level of Nurses attitude towards post-operative pain management and identified the complication of inadequate post-operative pain management in Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital Kano. Post-operative pain management has being an integral issue in patient who has undergone surgery leading to poor wound healing and prolong hospital stay. The descriptive research design was used to uncover knowledge and attitude of nurses towards postoperative pain management , a self-structured questionnaire was administered to population of fifty eight (58) respondents and sample size of fifty(50) was determined using Taro Yamane formula for determining sample size n= N/ (1+N(e)2). Method of data analysis was done using SPSS version 22. The result of the study shows that Nurses have a good knowledge and attitude towards post-operative pain managements. It was concluded that Nurses in surgical wards should indulge into continuing education programmed, in-house training and seminars in pain managements to boost their knowledge and skills.

scholarly journals The potential of the pinhole as a visual aid in the developing world

2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony S. Carlson ◽  
Warren A. Carlson ◽  
William F. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Relative Performance ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Lighting Conditions ◽  
Vision Correction ◽  
Visual Aid ◽  
Comparative Measure

Purpose: Providing vision correction in communities where healthcare facilities are unavailable is problematic. Here, we explore the possibility of using pinholes as near visual aids in the developing world.Method: Uncompensated (without the pinhole) proximal visual acuities (VAs) were measured and recorded for one eye of 45 presbyopic subjects over the age of 50 years in photopic (250 lux) and scotopic (20 lux) conditions. The proximal VAs were then repeated while the subjects looked through nine different pinholes.Results: The VAs varied with the diameter of each pinhole. A comparative measure was devised to determine the relative performance of different diameter pinholes as a near visual aid. The results suggest an improvement of more than 40% in VA in about 67% of subjects in good lighting conditions and about 60% in poorer lighting conditions.Conclusion: By creating more awareness that there are other ways of improving vision that cost almost nothing, visual impairment can be reduced until spectacles become available.

scholarly journals Psikoeduakasi C4ME Untuk Mengatasi Gangguan Sindrom Pramenstruasi Pada Taruni Militer

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Eunike Setiawati ◽  
Andri Adi Wijaya ◽  
Sri Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Premenstrual Syndrome ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Military Education ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Randomized Design ◽  
Behavioral Techniques ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
The Military

Different situations and lifestyles in the military education academy require the women Navy cadets to adapt to high levels of stress. Stress can potentially disrupt the menstrual cycle and worsen the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) which can reduce their performance as military cadets. This study aims to determine the effect of psychoeducation of Care For Menstruation (C4ME) on overcoming PMS problems in the Navy Academy. C4ME covers health counseling activities that provide information about menstruation and involves interventions based on cognitive-behavioral techniques to cope with PMS symptoms. This quasi-experiment used non-randomized one-group pretest-posttest design. Fifteen women Navy cadets were recruited. Quantitative data were collected using questionnaires of knowledge and attitude towards menstruation and were analyzed using a parametric statistical t-correlated sample. Qualitative data were collected from interviews before and after the intervention and were analyzed using a content analysis. The results show that C4ME psychoeducation is effective in increasing knowledge of menstruation (p = 0.01), changing participants' attitudes toward menstruation being more positive (p <0.01) and decreasing the symptoms of PMS experienced by participants.Keywords:  C4ME Psychoeducation, premenstrual syndrome, women navy cadet Abstrak: Perbedaan situasi dan gaya hidup di akademi pendidikan militer menuntut para taruni Akademi Angkatan Laut (AAL) untuk beradaptasi dengan level stres yang tinggi. Stres berpotensi dapat mengganggu siklus menstruasi dan memperparah gejala sindrom pramenstruasi (PMS) yang dapat menurunkan produktifitas taruni. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh psikoedukasi Care For Menstruation (C4ME) dalam mengatasi masalah PMS pada taruni AAL. Program psikoedukasi meliputi kegiatan penyuluhan kesehatan dan intervensi dengan teknik kognitif-perilaku untuk mengatasi gejala PMS. Metode kuasi-eksperimen dengan non-randomized design one-grup pretest-posttest digunakan. Partisipan penelitian adalah lima belas orang taruni AAL. Data kuantitatif tentang pengetahuan dan sikap terhadap menstruasi diukur menggunakan kuesioner, sedangkan data kualitatif diperoleh melalui wawancara sebelum dan sesudah dilakukan intervensi. Data kuantitatif dianalisis dengan statistik parametrik t-correlated sample, sedangkan data kualitatif dianalisis menggunakan analisis konten. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa psikoedukasi tentang menstruasi efektif dalam meningkatkan pengetahuan (p=0,01), mengubah sikap partisipan menjadi lebih positif terhadap menstruasi (p<=0,01), dan menurunkan gejala PMS pada para taruni.

scholarly journals The Effects of Covid-19 on the Digital Literacy of the Elderly: Norms for Digital Inclusion

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia I. Martínez-Alcalá ◽  
Alejandra Rosales-Lagarde ◽  
Yonal M. Pérez-Pérez ◽  
Jose S. Lopez-Noguerola ◽  
María L. Bautista-Díaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Group 2

The current sanitary crisis due to COVID-19 has further evidenced the enormous digital exclusion of older adults. Furthermore, the crisis has urged older adults to adopt new technologies to facilitate their tasks, as well as to provide them with an effective means against loneliness and social isolation caused by the confinement. In light of this, Digital Literacy is necessary for all those excluded from the digital era, who are characterized mainly by little or no ability to effectively use technologies. Nevertheless, detailed studies showing the leap from mixed (Blended Learning, BL) to digital literacy in the elderly have not been published. The objective of the present research was to analyze the level of Digital Literacy with the Digital Literacy Evaluation (DILE) of two groups of elderly adults with different levels of literacy (Group 1: G1, and Group 2: G2) during three stages: BL (Aug–Dec 2019); Transition (Feb–Jun 2020); and Digital (Aug–Dec 2020). Comparisons were made before each educational level (pre-pre-pre) and after each educational level (post-post-post) and during consecutive periods before and after each semester (pre vs post) and throughout different educational levels (G1: Basic 1, B1; Basic 2, B2; and intermediate 1, I1; and G2: Intermediate 1 to 3, I1, I2, and I3). Subsequently, considering all the elderly who had passed at least one of the literacy levels, we worked with a total sample of 176 older adults. The comparisons showed that, before the pandemic, G1’s pre digital literacy levels increased between B1 and B2 and that the differences continued with that increasing trend between the B1 level and the I1 completely digital treatment, and the same was observed for post measurements. On the other hand, for the G2, the differences in the DILE were statistically significant between the pre-condition of I2 (before the pandemic) and the I3 (completely digital treatment); and between the pre-conditions of I1 and I3; the same results were obtained for post treatments. Also, pre vs post scores on the DILE were statistically significant and older adults increased progressively their digital literacy despite the COVID-19 pandemic and jumped to the digital age.

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