Ozaveščanje javnosti o paliativni oskrbi

Ozaveščanje in izobraževanje splošne javnosti o paliativni oskrbi lahko izboljša tako paliativno oskrbo kot zadnje dneve življenja bolnikov z neozdravljivo boleznijo. To je tudi namen mednarodnega programa Zadnja pomoč (Last Aid), v okviru katerega poteka skupnostno izobraževanje o paliativni oskrbi, ki ga izvajajo v 18 državah. V Sloveniji smo ga začeli izvajati v drugi polovici 2019 in doslej izvedli 25 tečajev. Do zdaj se je tečaja udeležilo 350 ljudi, 255 jih je izpolnilo in vrnilo ocenjevalne vprašalnike. Namen prispevka je predstaviti analizo evalvacije tečaja Zadnja pomoč v Sloveniji. Na podlagi analize podatkov, pridobljenih s kvalitativno in kvantitativno metodo, lahko ugotovimo, da je bil izobraževalni program dobro sprejet tudi v slovenskem okolju, saj so bili udeleženci zelo zadovoljni tako z vsebino kot z izvedbo tečaja. Z najvišjo oceno (5) je tečaj v celoti ocenilo 87,7 % udeležencev, posamezne module pa je z najvišjo oceno ocenilo več kot 75 % udeležencev. Medtem ko so udeleženci večinoma pozitivno ovrednotili interaktivnost tečaja in priložnost izmenjave izkušenj na njem, pa analiza evalvacije kaže tudi, da je treba program nadgraditi z dodatnimi temami.

The Evaluation of Cultural Competence in Healthcare

The article seeks to stimulate dialogue about the evaluation of cultural competence in healthcare. The first part of the paper presents the different attempts to measure cultural competence in the field of healthcare and critically analyses the problems that arise concerning the use of instruments that measure the cultural competence of health providers. The second part of the article focuses on the evaluation process of the first cultural competence educational programme for healthcare workers in Slovenia, serving as an example to demonstrate the importance of complementing quantitative methods with qualitative ones and to emphasize the need to shift the focus from measuring the cultural competence of individual healthcare workers to the evaluation of educator performances, patient perspectives, and the cultural competence of healthcare institutions as a whole.

Izboljševanje zdravstvene pismenosti nosečnic z uporabo sodobnih pristopov v zdravstveni vzgoji

Optimalne zdravstvene izide v nosečnosti povezujemo s stopnjo zdravstvene pismenosti, ki je danes prepoznana kot ključna socialna determinanta zdravja. Namen integrativnega pregleda literature je bil preučiti, kateri sodobni pristopi (intervencije) zdravstvene vzgoje za dvig zdravstvene pismenosti nosečnic so razviti v svetu ter kakšna je vključenost strokovnjakov drugih disciplin v intervencije zdravstvene vzgoje. Pregledani so bili članki, objavljeni med letoma 2010 in 2021, iz naslednjih elektronskih podatkovnih zbirk: Cinahl in Medline (prek baze EBSCOhost), PubMed in ScienceDirect. V končno vsebinsko integrativno analizo je bilo umeščenih pet kvantitativnih raziskav. Zbrani podatki so bili analizirani z metodo tematske analize. Raziskave poročajo o vplivu zdravstvene pismenosti na prepričanja/stališča, znanje in življenjski slog med nosečnostjo, obenem pa tudi kažejo na to, da je vključevanje drugih, nezdravstvenih strokovnjakov v zdravstvenovzgojne intervencije zelo omejeno. Vidne so spremembe v pristopu sodobne zdravstvene vzgoje, a hkrati tudi to, da je ta proces prepočasen in nezadostno progresiven.

Izobraževanje odraslih na področju zdravja: pomen družbenokulturnih dimenzij in interdisciplinarnosti

Izobraževanje odraslih na področju zdravja postaja vedno bolj obsežno polje v andragogiki ter drugih družboslovnih, humanističnih in medicinskih vedah, kar se med drugim odraža v samostojnih revijah, interdisciplinarno zasnovanih razpravah o raziskovanju, v mednarodnih projektih, mnogovrstnosti praks in tudi v pestrosti poimenovanj: zdravstvena vzgoja, izobraževanje za zdravje, zdravstveno izobraževanje, vzgoja in izobraževanje za zdravje, razvoj zdravstvene pismenosti ali zdravstveno opismenjevanje, ozaveščanje o zdravju. V tej tematski številki je odnos med izobraževanjem in zdravjem/boleznijo osvetljen z dveh zornih kotov. Prvi obravnava vpliv izobraževanja, vključenosti v izobraževalne programe na zdravje in dobro počutje. Drugi zorni kot razmerja med zdravjem in izobraževanjem odpira pogled na izobraževanje, ki je ciljno pripravljeno z namenom izboljševanja znanja o zdravju/bolezni.

Zdravstveni kotički in izobraževanje za zdravje v splošnih knjižnicah

V članku je prikazana raziskava o zdravstvenih kotičkih v slovenskih splošnih knjižnicah. Namen je bil analizirati dejavnosti zdravstvenih kotičkov in predstaviti prednosti ter pomanjkljivosti oz. izzive. Uporabljene so bile različne metode zbiranja podatkov: intervjuji s knjižničarji, analiza spletnih strani in družbenih omrežij ter opazovanje. Rezultati so pokazali, da se knjižnice zavedajo pomena izobraževanja za zdravje in organizirajo veliko število izobraževanj za zdravje, vendar pa se ta le v manjši meri izvedejo v zdravstvenih kotičkih. Zdravstveni kotički so urejeni in smiselno umeščeni v knjižnični prostor, potrebovali pa bi nove strategije za izobraževanje za zdravje. Poseben izziv pri načrtovanju in izvajanju izobraževanja za zdravje so informacijsko slabše pismeni uporabniki, saj mnogo priložnosti pridobivanja informacij ponujajo prav splet in družbena omrežja. S spremenjeno strategijo izobraževanja bodo lahko v prihodnosti zdravstveni kotički imeli močnejšo vlogo pri ozaveščanju uporabnikov na področju zdravja.

The Impact of Culture on Learning Transfer in Burkina Faso and Ghana

Culture is a predominant force in people’s lives that impacts learning and thus culture influences learning transfer. Because working across nations has become the norm and every year billions of dollars are spent on professional learning around the world, it is crucial for organisations to understand the role culture plays in the learning transfer process. Using a multidimensional model of learning transfer and the six dimensions of national culture model as conceptual frameworks, this qualitative study used a case study approach to examine the impact of culture on learning transfer in Burkina Faso and Ghana, West Africa. Interviews were conducted with 20 principals who attended leadership professional learning in Ghana and Burkina Faso. Data collection also included observations and document analysis. Findings indicated that several cultural factors influenced learning transfer in these two nations in the areas of pretraining and follow-up. Based on these findings, the author offers recommendations.

Building Evidence for the Impact of Older Adult Learning on Active Ageing

Lifelong learning constitutes one of the pillars of active ageing on the basis that learning reinforces wellbeing and enables older people to stay healthy and engaged in society. This paper reports on a pretest-posttest study carried out at the University of the Third Age in Malta that measured the impact of late-life learning on levels of active ageing. The findings demonstrated that participation in older adult learning has a strong positive impact on the participants’ levels of active ageing and constitutes a resilient source of social capital in later life, and that people who presumably have had positive early experiences of education are more motivated to engage in late-life learning. The paper concludes that lifelong learning in later life acts as a possible mitigation to the social isolation, cognitive impairment, and age discrimination that people tend to experience in later life.

Folk High School as a Supportive Environment for Participants with High-Functioning Autism

The aim of this article is to explore the Folk High School as a supportive environment for participants with neuropsychiatric functional impairments, primarily high-functioning autism, from the perspectives of the participants, the staff, and the principals. The participants’ perspective consisted of 21 interviews, the teachers’ perspective was observed in three focus-group interviews, and the principal’s perspective through 19 telephone interviews. Folk High School is shown to be supportive because it: (i) creates a safe and caring environment, (ii) places the individual participant at the centre of its operations, and (iii) is based on the provision and articulation of clear structures. A limited focus on the classroom and the course content is too narrow for a group of individuals with high-functioning autism. It is important to examine the relationships between different categories of workers and how they, in an interwoven symbiotic system, can provide the participants with the best possible conditions for learning.

Bilingualism and Language Education to Improve the Cognitive Health of Older Persons

This article explores whether lifelong bilingualism can be associated with delayed age-related cognitive decline, with cognitive (or brain) reserve as the mechanism that compensates by positively increasing the functional capacity of the brain for older persons. A structural review of recent psychoneurolinguistic studies shows that older bilinguals display several years of delay in dementia symptoms as compared to monolinguals, as well as that positive effects exist in bilingual brain networks, also related to other neurodegenerative disorders. The field is clearly missing an established methodology, nevertheless, lifelong bilingualism can be considered to induce cognitive reserve. Drawing from these implications, we hypothesize that successful ageing could be facilitated by the active use of multiple languages, and in this light, we discuss language education for older persons, the role of Third Age Universities, the implementation of crucial aspects in such courses, and the proper assessment of the effectiveness of language proficiency and cognition.