Now or future? Analyzing the effects of message frame and format in motivating Chinese females to get HPV vaccines for their children
Cancer has been identified as the second leading cause of death globally [1]. Among different types of cancers, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer for females, accounting for 11% of deaths and approximately 9% of new cancer incidences among women worldwide [1]. In response, vaccines have been developed to prevent the infection of Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a known cause of cervical cancer [2]. A substantial proportion of cervical cancer incidence is preventable through HPV vaccination, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends routine HPV vaccination for children aged 11 to 12 years...
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sixiao Liu, Janet Z. Yang, Haoran Chu Source Type: research
Analysis of the Relationship among Health Awareness and Health Literacy, Patient Satisfaction Levels with Primary Care in Patients Admitting to Primary Care Health Centers
For most present and future patients, healthcare is a very complex system. Patients and/or their health care representative are expected to be informed about their health problems and services, to know their responsibilities and rights, and to be able to make decisions about their health. The realization of this expectation will only be possible if people have knowledge and competence in health-related matters; that is, they have adequate health literacy [1,2]. Health literacy is linked to literacy and entails people's knowledge, motivation and competences to access, understand, appraise, and apply health information in or...
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Özlem Örsal, Pınar Duru, Özgül Örsal, Kazım Tırpan, Abdullah Çulhacı Source Type: research
TEMPORARY REMOVAL: ‘Breast cancer won’t kill ya in the breast’: Broaching a rationale for chemotherapy during the surgical consultation for early-stage breast cancer
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Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Virginia Teas Gill Source Type: research
Patient education and engagement in postoperative pain management decreases opioid use following knee replacement surgery
The incidence of chronic opioid use after surgery among preoperatively opioid-na ïve patients is now well-known [1,2]. Within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), patients on opioids before surgery will utilize opioids longer postoperatively compared to opioid naïve patients [3]. Overprescribing can contribute to opioid abuse and misuse [4,5]. (Source: Patient Education and Counseling)
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Meghana Yajnik, Jonay N. Hill, Oluwatobi O. Hunter, Steven K. Howard, T. Edward Kim, T. Kyle Harrison, Edward R. Mariano Tags: Short communication Source Type: research
'Breast cancer won't kill ya in the breast': Broaching a rationale for chemotherapy during the surgical consultation for early-stage breast cancer
Conversation analytic research on end-of-life matters has illuminated our understanding of how medical professionals talk about death with terminally ill patients, revealing how they deliver difficult diagnostic news, topicalize the possibility of death, explore patients' feelings about dying, and discuss plans for end-of-life care [1 –7]. This research shows that medical practitioners exhibit significant caution around the topic of death and dying when speaking with patients who are nearing the end of their lives, if they discuss it at all. (Source: Patient Education and Counseling)
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Virginia Teas Gill Source Type: research
A Cup of Magic
I carefully untied the knot at the back of Mr. Arnold ’s1 hospital pajamas, boggy after another night of sweating. I took the saturated gown off his back, dropping like a lead vest around his waist. “I heated up the towel in the microwave this time,” I said, carefully unraveling the steamy tendrils of terrycloth. “Thanks,” he replied, barely a whisper. I slowly pulled the warm towel down his back to help clean him up before he changed out of his pajamas, “That’s nice,” I think he muttered, buried in a sigh. (Source: Patient Education and Counseling)
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 4, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ken Kitayama Tags: Discussion Source Type: research
Communicating with providers about racial healthcare disparities: The role of providers ’ prior beliefs on their receptivity to different narrative frames
Over the past decade, there has been a surge of training activities for healthcare providers aimed at eliminating healthcare disparities [1]. However, there is scant evidence about how to effectively communicate with providers about this topic. This gap is problematic, as communication that contradicts people ’s preexisting beliefs can lead to resistance [2] and “boomerang effects,” in which the communication has the opposite of its intended effects [3]. Communication about racial healthcare disparities is likely to be susceptible to resistance and boomerang effects, since a considerable number of White Americans fee...
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 3, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Diana J. Burgess, Barbara G. Bokhour, Brooke A. Cunningham, Tam Do, Johanne Eliacin, Howard S. Gordon, Amy Gravely, Dina M. Jones, Melissa R. Partin, Charlene Pope, Somnath Saha, Brent C. Taylor, Sarah E. Gollust Source Type: research
Testing Makes Us Stronger ™: Evaluating the correlation between exposure and intermediate outcomes targeted by the campaign’s messages
HIV continues to disproportionately affect gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (collectively referred to as MSM) of color in the United States. In 2015, black or African American (hereafter referred to as black) MSM (BMSM) accounted for 39% of estimated HIV diagnoses among MSM [1]. Young BMSM in particular suffer the most severe burden as 38% of new diagnoses among BMSM occurred in those aged 13 –24 [1]. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends all MSM be tested for HIV at least once per year and sexually active MSM might benefit from testing every 3 to 6 months [2]. (Source: Patient ...
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Hannah J. Badal, Vanessa Boudewyns, Jennifer D. Uhrig, Euna M. August, Paul Ruddle, Jo Ellen Stryker Source Type: research
Effects of prenatal education on complaints during pregnancy and on quality of life
Pregnancy, a physiological event that poses an important burden and stress for the woman ’s body, lasts 280 days from the last day of menstruation, or 40 weeks. Actual length of pregnancy is 267 days from the day of fertilization [1–3]. Pregnancy causes many important changes in the maternal organism such as anatomical, physiological, biochemical, and psychological [4–6]. The reas on for these changes are the protection of the developing fetus, satisfying metabolic needs and removing waste that has been formed, experiencing anatomical changes for the birth process, and protecting the health of both the mother and the...
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Seda Kara çay Yikar, Evşen Nazik Source Type: research
Patient perspectives on how living with a mental illness affects making and maintaining healthy lifestyle changes
Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the US has a mental illness. As a group, these individuals are sicker and die earlier than the general population, with a reduced life expectancy of at least a decade [1 –4]. Some of this health disparity may be related to cardiometabolic side effects of certain psychiatric medications [5–8], but much is due to modifiable health behaviors including sedentary lifestyles [9,10], poor diet [11], and smoking [12,13] that, left untreated, can result in higher risks o f cardiovascular disease. (Source: Patient Education and Counseling)
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - September 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Bobbi Jo H. Yarborough, Scott P. Stumbo, Julie A. Cavese, Micah T. Yarborough, Carla A. Green Source Type: research
Discussing Death: Making end of life implicit or explicit in paediatric palliative care consultations
In the suburbs of an Australian city, a doctor and nurse from a paediatric palliative care service are visiting a family for the second time in a week. Sitting with the family in the backyard, they discuss a nine-year-old boy who is inside the house. Half an hour into their conversation, and shown in Table 1, the boy ’s future becomes their focus: (Source: Patient Education and Counseling)
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - August 31, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stuart Ekberg, Susan Danby, Johanna Rendle-Short, Anthony Herbert, Natalie K. Bradford, Patsy Yates Source Type: research
Health insurance literacy and awareness of the Affordable Care Act in a vulnerable Hispanic population
The United States ’ health care system has faced an array of challenges, including high costs, health inequities, and high uninsured rates, among others. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a monumental health reform effort also known as Obamacare, aimed to address several of the system’s shortc omings, most importantly the high rate of the uninsured which stood at 17% of the population (51 million people) in 2009 [1]. The ACA’s passage in 2010 has allowed more than 20 million Americans to obtain coverage under its provisions [2]. (Source: Patient Education and Counseling)
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - August 31, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Suad Ghaddar, Jihyun Byun, Janani Krishnaswami Source Type: research
The Taxonomy of Everyday Self-management Strategies (TEDSS): A framework derived from the literature and refined using empirical data
During the last two decades, interest in self-management approaches and interventions for people with long-term conditions has grown substantially [1 –5]. Self-management is commonly defined as strategies individuals perform to live well with long-term conditions, including medical, role and emotional management [6]. This definition is grounded in the Corbin and Strauss [7] model of illness-related work, which highlights the pervasive demands p laced on individuals who live with a long-term condition. (Source: Patient Education and Counseling)
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - August 31, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Åsa Audulv, Setareh Ghahari, George Kephart, Grace Warner, Tanya L. Packer Source Type: research
A decade of litigation regarding surgical informed consent in the Netherlands
Medical claims and malpractice lawsuits are the final stage of a clinical process where a patient feels aggrieved, maltreated, disappointed, dissatisfied or had expectations that were not lived up to [1 –3]. An important reason for patients to file a medical malpractice suit or complaint at a medical disciplinary board (MDB) is an inadequate surgical informed consent (SIC) process [4,5]. Until now the frequency, characteristics, clinical circumstances and legal outcome of malpractice claims and M DB decisions concerning SIC (in the Netherlands) have not been systematically analysed and described. (Source: Patient Education and Counseling)
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - August 29, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: M.M. Veerman, L.A. van der Woude, M.A. Tellier, J. Legemaate, M.R. Scheltinga, L.P.S. Stassen, W.K.G. Leclercq Source Type: research
Updates on pEACH activities - the National Knowledge Translation Project
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Source: Patient Education and Counseling - August 28, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
