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Direct linkRania Abu Alhaija; Ali Abdel Halim Hasab; Nessrin Ahmed El-Nimr; Dalia Ibrahim Tayel – Health Education Research, 2024
This intervention study aimed to assess mothers' knowledge of iron-deficiency anemia (IDA). It also measured the impact of a health education program on their level of knowledge and their infants' IDA rates in rural areas of Nablus Governorate. Using a randomized pretest--posttest control group design, the efficacy of 3 months' education program…
Descriptors: Mothers, Health Education, Diseases, Program Effectiveness
Gavin Robert Walker – Research in Drama Education, 2024
Despite the often-crucial roles played by music within theatre-based public health promotion strategies, theoretical explorations regarding music within applied theatre literatures remain largely underdeveloped. This article highlights musicking -- a reconceptualization of music from an object to a participatory act that can profoundly influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Theater Arts, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Scotty John Landry – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Hope has a powerful influence on individuals, especially those battling critical illness. The problem is the Make-A-Wish wish-granting experience was never designed to improve the health care of children being granted a wish; thus, hope was a mere by-product of the wish experience. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to…
Descriptors: Diseases, Medical Services, Psychological Patterns, Program Evaluation
Raun, Loren H.; Campos, Laura A.; Stevenson, Elizabeth; Ensor, Katherine B.; Johnson, Gwen; Persse, David – Journal of School Health, 2017
Background: Rates of uncontrolled asthma vary by demographics, space, and time. This article uses data on ambulance-treated asthma attacks in children to analyze these variations so that school districts can improve their asthma management interventions. Methods: Incidence rates of 1826 ambulance-treated asthma attacks for children aged 5-18 years…
Descriptors: Diseases, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students
Nelson, Mark Ian – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
A textbook model of a contagious disease, the dynamics of which are represented by the SIS epidemic model with saturating treatment, is considered. I show that this model, as originally formulated, is not dimensionally consistent. The model can be fixed by including a dimensional constant [alpha] of value one (with units individuals[superscript…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Models, Communicable Diseases, Epidemiology
Download full textRoss, Abigail M.; Wharff, Elizabeth; Horowitz, Lisa – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2020
Background: Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents; age-adjusted suicide rate increased 30% from 2000-2016. Medical illnesses are a known risk factor for suicide, establishing medical settings as a key venue for detecting suicide risk. Nurses have the potential to play a critical role in early detection of medically ill…
Descriptors: Patients, Nurses, Suicide, At Risk Persons
Rosengren, Karl S.; Jiang, Matthew J.; Kalish, Charles W.; Menendez, David; Hernandez, Iseli G. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Lockhart and Keil have written an interesting monograph focusing on the development of reasoning about medicine, a relatively underexplored area of research with potentially broad implications with respect to the design of more effective medical interventions. In a set of fifteen studies with well over 2200 participants they examine how children…
Descriptors: Medicine, Developmental Stages, Logical Thinking, Medical Services
Brosseau, Lucie; Wells, George A.; Tugwell, Peter; Egan, Mary; Dubouloz, Claire-Jehanne; Welch, Vivian A.; Trafford, Laura; Sredic, Danjiel; Pohran, Kathryn; Smoljanic, Jovana; Vukosavljevic, Ivan; De Angelis, Gino; Loew, Laurianne; McEwan, Jessica; Bell, Mary; Finestone, Hillel M.; Lineker, Sydney; King, Judy; Jelly, Wilma; Casimiro, Lynn; Haines-Wangda, Angela; Russell-Doreleyers, Marion; Laferriere, Lucie; Lambert, Kim – Health Education Journal, 2012
Background and purpose: The objective of this article is to create guidelines for education interventions in the management of patients ([greater than] 18 years old) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: The Ottawa Methods Group identified and synthesized evidence from comparative controlled trials using Cochrane Collaboration methods. The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Guidelines, Medical Education, Patients
Moricca, Michelle L.; Grasska, Merry A.; BMarthaler, Marcia; Morphew, Tricia; Weismuller, Penny C.; Galant, Stanley P. – Journal of School Nursing, 2013
Asthma is related to school absenteeism and underperformance in elementary students. This pilot study assessed whether school nurse case management (CM) in children identified with asthma impacts academic performance and school absenteeism in one school. A validated questionnaire was used to identify children at risk for asthma and CM was provided…
Descriptors: Diseases, Screening Tests, At Risk Students, Referral
Miller, Kim S; Winskell, Kate; Berrier, Faith L – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objectives: The past decade has seen changes in US HIV policy in sub-Saharan Africa in response to a new Administration and far-reaching technical, scientific and programmatic developments. These include dramatically increased access to life-saving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and related services, the roll-out of voluntary medical male…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Surveys, Intervention, Parents
Latkin, Carl A.; German, Danielle; Vlahov, David; Galea, Sandro – American Psychologist, 2013
Neighborhood factors have been linked to HIV risk behaviors, HIV counseling and testing, and HIV medical care. However, the social-psychological mechanisms that connect neighborhood factors to HIV-related behaviors have not been fully determined. In this article we review the research on neighborhood factors and HIV-related behaviors, approaches…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Well Being, Social Environment
Wolfe, Lynne A.; Krasnewich, Donna – Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2013
The congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) are a rapidly growing group of inborn errors of metabolism that result from defects in the synthesis of glycans. Glycosylation is a major post-translational protein modification and an estimated 2% of the human genome encodes proteins for glycosylation. The molecular bases for the current 60…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Congenital Impairments, Metabolism, Comorbidity
Dormuth, Colin R.; Carney, Greg; Taylor, Suzanne; Bassett, Ken; Maclure, Malcolm – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2012
Introduction: Knowledge translation (KT) initiatives have the potential to improve prescribing quality and produce savings that exceed the cost of the KT program itself, including the cost of evaluation using pragmatic study methods. Our objective was to measure the impact and estimated savings resulting from the distribution of individualized…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
Bernardez, Mariano L. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
How can organizations avoid the negative, sometimes chaotic, effects of multiple, poorly coordinated performance improvement interventions? How can we avoid punishing our external clients or staff with the side effects of solutions that might benefit our bottom line or internal efficiency at the expense of the value received or perceived by…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Intervention, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
Malkoc, Mehtap; Karadibak, Didem; Yldrm, Yucel – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2009
The aim of this study was to assess the effect of physiotherapy on ventilator dependency and lengths of intensive care unit (ICU) stay. Patients were divided into two groups. The control group, which received standard nursing care, was a retrospective chart review. The data of control patients who were not receiving physiotherapy were obtained…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Hospitals, Outcomes of Treatment
