scholarly journals Augmented Reality: A New Learning Experience among Health Care Professionals

BioMedica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Masood Jawaid ◽  
Zubair Ahmed Siddiqui ◽  
Anum Sohail Siddiqui ◽  
Muhammad Usman Karim
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Feedback Form ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
Brand Recall ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospitals

<p><strong>Background and Objective:</strong> Augmented Reality (AR) is an effective tool for learning as well as marketing with multilateral interactive communication. It allows brands to give their customers unique experiences with the convenience of tapping into their mobile devices. This study was conducted to assess the perceptions of healthcare professionals (HCPs) to learn through AR and its effectiveness in HCPs&rsquo; engagement and learning experience.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> An interventional study was conducted with HCPs across various tertiary care hospitals in Pakistan from May 2020 till December 2020.<strong> </strong>An<strong> </strong>AR based activity was carried out with the HCPs where they used pictures of objects around them to create a message. These were geo-tagged to a question related to hypertension and participants answered each question. Mobile application &ndash; WallaMe was utilized for this activity. At the end of the activity, HCPs were requested to fill a feedback form based on their experience with the AR app. Data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS version 22.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> AR stimulated learning &nbsp;gives the participants an overall exciting (80%), captivating (81%), and fruitful learning experience (82%). AR for marketing campaign was more effective for Brand Recall with paper based campaign for 82.8% and more effective than digital campaign for 85.6% participants. AR was recommended by 80% participants for learning and brand recall.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> AR is a useful tool to enhance user experience for learning as well as improves brand recall and can be used for marketing campaigns.</p>

scholarly journals Towards a New Learning Experience through a Mobile Application with Augmented Reality in Engineering Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 4921
Author(s):  
Santiago Criollo-C ◽  
David Abad-Vásquez ◽  
Marjan Martic-Nieto ◽  
Fausto Andrés Velásquez-G ◽  
Jorge-Luis Pérez-Medina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
New Learning

With the rise of information technology and digitization, education has been faced with the need to adopt new learning models using technology to create innovative educational methodologies. In addition, due to pandemic restrictions and in order to help contain the spread of the virus (COVID-19), all educational institutions have been forced to switch immediately to online education. The application of augmented reality (AR) in education provides important benefits, such as increased engagement and interactivity, and can help to minimize the negative effects of the disruption of face-to-face education. Therefore, this paper focuses on describing the effect of an augmented reality mobile application (NetAR) that was developed for engineering students as a complement to traditional education. To achieve this objective, an experimental group and a control group were established to work with the application for three weeks for three hours a day. Moreover, there are a number of usability issues with AR that may impact learning effectiveness and motivation. Therefore, the usability of the application was evaluated with the IBM Computer System Usability Questionnaire (CSUQ) tool. The usability results show that users are satisfied with NetAR, and the statistical data from the control group indicate that the application positively affects learning.

scholarly journals Assessment of awareness towards pharmacovigilance programme of india and reporting of adverse drug reactions among nurses in a tertiary care hospital

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 1357
Author(s):  
Atul Jain ◽  
Arpita Singh ◽  
Ajay Kumar Verma ◽  
Manish Soni
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Feedback Form ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Adr Reporting ◽  
Proper Training ◽  
First Contact

Background: The success of PvPI depends upon spontaneous reporting of ADRs by health care professionals especially nurses as they are usually first contact persons for patients in case of ADRs after use of medicines. Underreporting of ADRs due to inadequate reporting culture among health care professionals is the main hindrance in the path of this programme. So, to assess the awareness, attitude and practices of nurses regarding PvPI and ADR reporting this study was undertaken.Methods: It was a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study in which 130 nurses responded. The 12-items questionnaire feedback form provided by Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) was used to assess the awareness of nurses towards pharmacovigilance programme and Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) reporting practices.Results: After analysing the questionnaire, it was observed that, despite satisfactory level of awareness and interest of the nurses to participate in this programme, still there is meagre ADR reporting practices among the nurses.Conclusions: Lack of reporting culture and improper communication is the root of problem which should be overcome in future by proper training for patient safety.

ATTITUDE & BELIEF OF HEATH CARE WORKERS TOWARDS HYDROXYCHOLOROQUINE CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS VERSUS PERSONAL HYGIENE PRACTICES IN EARLY PHASE OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC – A WEB BASED SURVEY IN PRE-VACCINE TIME.

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
Bikram Das ◽  
D. Suresh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Preventive Measure ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Heath Care ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospitals

Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the attitude & beliefs of Health Care Workers (HCWs) regarding personal hygiene practices & hydroxycholoroquine chemoprophylaxis as a preventive measure of COVID-19 infection. Design: Predesigned & validated survey proforma was circulated among individual as well as groups of HCWs through social-media from a period th th of 9 May to 30 June and responders who completed full questionnaire were included in the analysis Setting: The study was a web based survey among HCWs belonging to Public or Government hospital, private tertiary care hospitals having >50 beds & nursing home with 1-50 beds. Participants: The study included HCWs of >18 years of age consisting of doctors, nurses, allied health care professionals who completed the survey. Result: Among total 262 responders 123(46.95%) were attending/visiting COVID-19 cases directly during the survey.Total166 (63.36%) doctors, 80 (30.53%) nurses,3 (1.15%) house-keeping and rest from other category participated in the survey. All responders (100%) adopted at least one or multiple methods of personal hygiene for infection control Having shower after duty and using hand sanitizer were most commonly preferred practices among HCWs. Only 88 (33.59%) responders had taken Hydroxychloroquine at the time of survey and majority 172 (65.65%) deferred any kind of chemoprophylaxis. Majority 227 (86.64%) practiced some precaution at their staying place as well. Conclusion: During early pandemic majority of the Indian HCWs had a higher attitude and belief towards personal hygiene as the best preventive measure towards COVID-19 infection rather than belief on hydroxychloroquine chemoprophylaxis which is still advised for caregivers and close contacts in existing national guideline.

scholarly journals Anxiety among Doctors during COVID-19 Pandemic in Secondary and Tertiary Care Hospitals

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Riazul Hasan ◽  
Zeeshan Hamid ◽  
Muhammad Talha Jawaid ◽  
Rashida Kaizar Ali
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Associated Risk Factors ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospitals

Objective: To assess the level of anxiety among doctors during COVID-19 pandemic and the associated risk factors. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from 30th April to 16th May, 2020 in Karachi, Pakistan. The data was collected via an online web-based questionnaire. Questionnaire was used to assess anxiety level using GAD-7 scale among health-care professionals and the risk factors playing role in it. Results: One hundred and fifty-one doctors participated in our study. Out of these 151 participants, 69 (45.7%) had mild, 22 (14.6%) had moderate, and 5 (3.3%) had severe symptoms of anxiety, whereas the remaining 55 (36.4%) had no anxiety according to GAD-7 scale. The median [interquartile range (IQR)] GAD-7 scale scores are 6.0 [3.00-9.00]. Females showed more severe degrees of measurement of anxiety symptoms than males. Doctors dealing with COVID-19 patients showed higher level of anxiety as compared to the doctors who were not dealing with COVID-19 patients, having a significant difference (U = 9.697, p = 0.008). One hundred and forty-one (93.4%) participants were concerned about being exposed to COVID-19 at work and 112 (74.2 %) thought they have inadequate protective equipment for safety. Conclusions: During COVID-19 pandemic, doctors exhibited different grades of anxiety. In order for healthcare workers to perform to the best of their capability, certain guidelines and interventions are needed. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.3113 How to cite this:Hasan SR, Hamid Z, Jawaid MT, Ali RK. Anxiety among Doctors during COVID-19 Pandemic in Secondary and Tertiary Care Hospitals. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(6):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.3113 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

scholarly journals Psychological Implications of The Late Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic among Medical Undergraduates, Attending Clinical Wards Rotations in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Rawalpindi, Pakistan: An Online Survey-Based Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arham Ihtesham ◽  
Ather Iqbal ◽  
Muhammad Sarfraz Khan ◽  
Ali Murad Jamal ◽  
Shahzaib Maqbool ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Late Phase ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Predisposing Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical Undergraduates ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospitals

  COVID-19 is proving to be a double-edged sword for health care professionals. It is not only causing physical malfunctioning but mental suffering among medical undergraduates. This study demonstrates the psychological impact and various predisposing factors causing mental distress. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study involving 157 medical undergraduates of Third, Fourth, and Final year MBBS being trained in tertiary care hospitals of Rawalpindi, Pakistan in September 2020, when the graph of COVID-19 was flattening. Data was collected through a self-designed questionnaire for demographic details and DASS-21. The mean and standard deviation was calculated for depression, anxiety, and stress levels. Frequencies and percentages were calculated for the severity of DASS-21 and predisposing factors. Data analysis was done through SPSS. V. 25. Out of 157 students, there were 80(51%) males and 77 (49%) females. The mean age was 22.52 (SD=1.60). The overall mean score of anxiety was 7.43 ± 4.53, depression was 7.75 ± 4.12, and stress was 8.15 ± 4.53. This study found that the most common reason for stress and anxiety among students attending wards was the fear that they might infect their family members 42 (26.8%), followed by the fear of getting infected themselves 39 (24.8%). This study doesn’t exhibit a significant mental burden of grave concern however, the anxiety level was high among the Third year and depression level was high among Final year students. Fear of infecting family members and contracting the virus themselves were common reasons for distress.  

scholarly journals Educational Intervention to Improve the Knowledge, Attitude, Practices of Health Care Professionals and Students Regarding the Pharmacovigilance in Tertiary Care Hospitals

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
M. Pramod Kumar ◽  
T. Sasi Kumar ◽  
C. Indira ◽  
K. Gayatri ◽  
B. Hima Bindhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Adr Reporting ◽  
Kap Survey ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospitals ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Introduction: An adverse drug reaction (ADR) is any noxious, unintended, and undesired effect of a drug, which occurs at the doses which are used in humans for prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy, which is reported by ‘‘the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problem” known as PV. ADRs are significantly underreported worldwide. A KAP survey usually conducted to collect information on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices about general and/or specific topics of a particular population. Aim and Objectives: To evaluate the KAP studies on the educational intervention to improve the knowledge, attitude, practice of health care professionals and students regarding the pharmacovigilance in tertiary care hospitals. To evaluate, assess and evaluate the measures the knowledge, attitude and practice of PV among students and Health Care Professionals in tertiary care hospital of India. Methods: Pharmacists and HCPs were asked to complete a paper-based 21 item questionnaire. Results: A total of 250 pharmacists received the questionnaire and 214 agreed to participate, giving a response rate of 85.6%. In knowledge, component of ADR were known by 71.2% and the term PV and ADR were answered correctly (97.3%). In practice 55.9% attended the PV workshop and 88.8% were willing to implement ADR reporting in practice. Conclusion: Most of the participants had relatively better knowledge and practice towards PV and ADR reporting. Majority of the health care professional felt ADR reporting to be important. The study also shows, after counseling to them we got better response and results than before. The finding of our study suggests that there is scope for improving the ongoing Pharmacovigilance activities in India. There is a need for continuing educational initiatives for pharmacist and other health care professionals.

scholarly journals Antibiotic susceptibility Patterns against Upper Respiratory Tract Pathogens in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalim Ullah ◽  
Marvi Baloch ◽  
Javeid Iqbal ◽  
Ayaz Ali Khan ◽  
Hamid Saeed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Antibiotic Susceptibility ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Antibiotic Consumption ◽  
Upper Respiratory Tract ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospitals ◽  
Susceptibility Patterns

Abstract Backgrounds In Pakistan, despite the surge in antibiotic consumption scanty of literature evidences exist regarding antibiotic susceptibility patterns in URTIs. Thus, we conducted the study to evaluate the antibiotic susceptibility patterns in URTIs.Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted by collecting 259 culture samples from tertiary care hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan. Using simple random sampling, culture reports of even numbered patient were included as per study inclusion criteria.Results Two hundred sixty samples were processed out of which only 144 (55.4%) samples yielded growth, i-e., 42.7% males and 49% females. In males, the resistance was high against ceftazidime (19.3%), ampicillin (13.1%), ciprofloxacin (11.6%) and gentamicin (10.8%), while in female samples it was significant against cefuroxime (6.9%), ampicillin (5.4%), tobramycin (4.6%) and ciprofloxacin (6.5%). Besides, males were sensitive against imepenem (25.8%), amikacin (22%), ceftazidime (19.3%), ciprofloxacin (19.3%) and piptaz (16.2%), while females were sensitive against amikacin (9.2%), imepenem (9.2%) and ciprofloxacin (6.9%). Overall, carbepenems, imipenem (35%) and meropenem (30.8%), were found highly sensitive followed by aminoglycosides (amikacin; 31.9%), quinolones (ciprofloxacin; 26.3%), piptaz (19.2%) among penicillin and cephalosporin, while resistant was maximum against cephalosporin (ceftazidime; 25.4%) followed by penicillin (ampicillin, 18.5%) and quinolones.Conclusion These data suggested that P. aeruginosa and Klebsiella , were the most frequent bacterial isolates in URTIs of Lahore, Pakistan. These isolates were resistant to ampicillin, cefuroxime and ceftazidime, but were sensitive to carbapenem and aminoglycoside class of antibiotics. Thus, health care professionals, policy makers and drug regulators must devise policies to overcome the menace of growing antimicrobial resistance.

scholarly journals Physicians’ and Nurses’ perspectives on the importance of advance directives in tertiary care hospitals

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Nasreen Panjwani ◽  
Raisa Gul ◽  
Fauziya Ali ◽  
Robyna Khan
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Advance Directives ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Palliative Care Services ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospitals

Objective: This study aimed to explore and identify the nurses’ and physicians’ views about Advance Directives and identified their perspectives on its importance, in the context of Pakistan. Methodology: Using a purposive sample, six physicians and seven nurses from two tertiary care hospitals in Karachi participated in the study. Data was collected using semi structured interviews that were transcribed verbatim. The interviews were coded and categorized manually. Analysis of the data drew four categories: roles of physicians and nurses in the End of life care, challenges they faced while taking end of life care decisions; their perspectives about Advance Directives, and the scope of acceptability of Advance Directives in the context of a Pakistani society. Results: This study revealed that patients’ families and physicians usually take decisions for patients’ End of Life care. Although majority of participants acknowledged the usefulness of Advance Directives, they explicated several issues that may be encountered in implementing it. The issues included non-disclosure of diagnosis to the patient in Pakistani culture, the tedious legalization process involved, and the potential problem of forged documents. Conclusion: Participants recommended establishment of Palliative Care services before execution of Advance Directives. This study indicated viability of Advance Directives; however, a wider exploration would be required in terms of study population. Reforms to support this concept would be required in systems, structure, legal policy, and training of Health care professionals. Besides these transformations, promotion of public education about the advantages of Advance Directives could enhance their acceptability among the general population.

scholarly journals A questionnaire based study to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and perception towards pharmacovigilance among doctors in rural hospital, Jammu, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 2247
Author(s):  
Shallini Gupta ◽  
Kanika Khajuria ◽  
Vijay Khajuria ◽  
Niraj Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
District Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Adr Reporting ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Pharmacovigilance Center ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospitals

Background: Monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is very important to minimize or prevent drug caused harm. Thus, pharmacovigilance deals with it and ensures the patient safety. However, most of pharmacovigilance centers are concentrated in the urban tertiary care hospitals and contributes the maximum reports of ADRs. Participation of the rural health workers is equally important towards the success of pharmacovigilance.Methods: The study was conducted using a pre-validated questionnaire among forty doctors in rural Sub district hospital Akhnoor, Jammu after approval of the institutional ethical committee of Government Medical Jammu. The questionnaire consisted of 16 questions (7 related to knowledge, 4 related to attitude, and 4 related to practice and one question pertained to under reporting). The responses were recorded, and data obtained was analysed and presented as number and percentage.Results: Total 66.6% doctors gave correct response regarding the definition of pharmacovigilance and purpose of pharmacovigilance was given by 76.6% of doctors. 70% agreed that ADR reporting is a professional obligation for them. 80% responded that health care professionals are responsible for reporting ADRs. 63.3% of them were aware of a pharmacovigilance programme of India. A total of 96.6% doctors agreed that reporting of ADR is necessary and 93.3% were of the view that pharmacovigilance should be taught in detail. Majority of doctors have experienced ADRs in patients and 36.6% have seen the ADR reporting form. However, only 10% have ever reported ADR to a pharmacovigilance center. No remuneration (50%), lack of time to report ADR (30%), belief that a single unreported case may not affect ADR database (10%), and difficulty to decide whether ADR has occurred or not (10%) were important causes for under reporting of ADRs.Conclusions: Current study has shown that majority of the doctors have good knowledge and attitude about pharmacovigilance. However, under reporting is still a major concern among rural doctors and efforts are needed to address this problem of under reporting by conducting CMEs on regular basis.

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