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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice"”.
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Contraceptive Use Across Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Contraceptive Use in Women Seeking Care at Sun Yat-sen University Hospital, China and Monduli District Hospital, Tanzania
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine and compare contraceptive choices in women in China and Tanzania and to assess the factors associated with their contraceptive choice. STUDY DESIGN: A prospective cohort trial was performed at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China (06/2013 …
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Improving Compliance via Education, Reminders, and Evaluating Physician-Patient Concerns in Glaucoma
… patients were interviewed regarding glaucoma knowledge, medication usage, concerns, and fears. They were counseled, given educational handouts, and reinterviewed after 4 weeks. All 16 glaucoma specialists were also surveyed regarding their concerns for their patients. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: …
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Improving Nutritional Knowledge of Caregivers in Hyderabad, India: A Pilot Study
… to undernutrition, a caregiver's nutritional knowledge is a more important determinant. Caregivers can improve their nutritional knowledge through nutritional counselling, which is already one of the standard management options for treating children with mild to moderate malnutrition. …
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Using Ethnography to Capture Learner Experience in Handover Simulation Modules
… diverse, and integral parts of modern medical practice, involve the transfer of patient responsibility from one team of providers to another.1 This transition of care is often fragmented and has been shown to cause various adverse events, including patient injury, medication errors, and …
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Improving Awareness of Skin Cancer in Organ Transplant Recipients of Color
… administered to assess and compare skin cancer attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge especially risk factors and features specific to skin of color between skin of color and non-skin of color organ transplant recipients. Patients from a patient list obtained from the University of Texas …
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Cellphone-Based Intervention to Promote Lethal Means Safety in Suicidal Adolescents
… of youth suicide is a significant public health concern. Lethal means restriction is the practice of removing potentially dangerous items from a suicidal individual's environment to promote safety. It is widely accepted that lethal means restriction is a best practice for the prevention of …
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Healthcare Provider and Community Adult Knowledge and Beliefs about Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
… minority (SGM) youth face discrimination and health/healthcare disparities in American society (Mustanski, Birkett, Greene, Hatzenbuehler, & Newcomb, 2014a). Researchers have demonstrated connections between discriminatory beliefs (e.g., homophobia), beliefs about environmental etiology of …
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Knowledge and Perception of Cervical Cancer and Screening Programs of Women Seeking Care at Monduli Hospital in Tanzania and St. Paul Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… a 2010 survey assessing Tanzanian women's knowledge and attitude towards cervical cancer demonstrated over 75% of respondents correctly identified early marriage and multiparty, other studies demonstrated a lack of knowledge about cervical cancer screening and HPV transmission among …
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National Practices, Attitudes, and Training Surrounding Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Procedures for Adolescents
… by pediatricians. For these patients, sexual health and contraception are important parts of primary care. Despite this, pediatricians are often less comfortable providing contraceptive counseling and lack training to administer long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), a highly effective …
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Aligning Patients' Defibrillator Status with their Goals of Care: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Project at Parkland Hospital
… A subset of patients with ICDs in the Parkland Health system were found to have poor ICD knowledge, had few discussions regarding ICDs with healthcare providers, and held preferences to not deactivate their ICD shocks in end-of-life (EOL) scenarios. Poor knowledge and communication inhibit …
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"¿Hacia Donde Vamos?": Interventions to Improve Pediatric Subspecialty Care for Immigrant Children in the Dallas-Area as Informed by Caregiver Experiences
… in the United States have insufficient access to health care and that these issues extend across the lifespan. Immigrant children, who represent approximately a quarter of all children in the US, are significantly more likely to be uninsured and to experience more difficulties accessing health …
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Predicting Intention to Wean from the Bottle Among Hispanic Mothers
<p><em>Background.</em> Hispanic children carry a disproportionate burden of prolonged bottle use and associated disease. Children in low-income households who use the bottle beyond age 12 months are at risk for iron deficiency anemia, obesity, and early childhood dental caries.</p> …
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Perceived Barriers and Benefits of HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Among University Students in Nigeria
… based on the Theory of Gender and Power and the Health Belief Model adapted with information from the qualitative phase was then developed, pilot tested and administered to 301 students attending the University of Lagos.</p> <p><strong>Analysis</strong>. Responses generated from KIs and FGs were …
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Consider the Source : The Effects of Adult Sources of Human Immunodefciency [sic] Virus and Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Information on Teen Risk Behaviors for Sexually Transmitted Infection
… Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), are major health problems for adolescents, who represent over 26% of new cases of STIs diagnosed annually in the United States. Half of all HIV cases in people under age 25 result from sexual transmission during adolescence. Adolescent STI prevention is a …
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Partner Communication and Factors Associated with the Decision to Obtain an HIV Test Among Chinese/Chinese American Community College Students in Northern California
… of HIV testing.</p> <p>Using constructs of the health belief model, an online and paper-pencil, crosssectional design survey was administered at four community college campuses in Northern California (N=230). Results indicate 30% of respondents obtained HIV testing. The most common reasons for …
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HIV Risk Among Nursing Students in Rwanda : Self-Efficacy, Knowledge and Attitudes
… hit countries. Nurses are often the leading health professionals in rural communities and at the forefront of the fight against the HIV pandemic. Little has been written on how nurses are prepared to intervene successfully along the continuum of HIV prevention and care. A mixed-methods …
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Benefits and Barriers to HIV Testing in a Population of Federal Detention Inmates
… the rate of new infections and improving the health and life expectancy of those living with HIV. There are however several high-risk populations in the US that remain largely unreached by HIV testing efforts, some of which could be reached while they spend time in prison or jail. Per current …