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Winhusen, T.; Theobald, J.; Lewis, D.; Wilder, C. M.; Lyons, M. S. – Health Education Research, 2016
Individuals with opioid use disorder experiencing a non-fatal opioid-overdose (OOD) are at heightened risk for future OODs; there are no interventions to facilitate treatment enrollment for these patients. Our goal was to develop and initially test the "tailored telephone intervention delivered by peers to prevent recurring…
Descriptors: Intervention, Delivery Systems, Peer Counseling, Prevention
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Ell, Kathleen; Oh, Hyunsung; Wu, Shinyi – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objective: Safety net care systems are experiencing unprecedented change from the "Affordable Care Act," Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) uptake, health information technology application, and growing of mental health care integration within primary care. This article provides a review of previous and current efforts in which social…
Descriptors: Social Work, Intervention, Patients, Federal Legislation
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Nielsen, Jannie; Bahendeka, Silver K.; Bygbjerg, Ib C.; Meyrowitsch, Dan W.; Whyte, Susan R. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Background: Health professionals assign diabetes patients "homework" in that they give them instructions on how to manage diabetes, recognizing that most diabetes care takes place in the home setting. We studied how homework is practiced and whether knowledge and behavioral practices related to diabetes self-management diffuse from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Diabetes, Homework
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Jenkins, Carolyn; Arulogun, Oyedunni Sola; Singh, Arti; Mande, Aliyu T.; Ajayi, Eric; Benedict, Calys Tagoe; Ovbiagele, Bruce; Lackland, Daniel T.; Sarfo, Fred Stephen; Akinyemi, Rufus; Akpalu, Albert; Obiako, Reginald; Melikam, Enzinne Sylvia; Laryea, Ruth; Shidali, Vincent; Sagoe, Kwamena; Ibinaiye, Philip; Fakunle, Adekunie Gregory; Owolabi, Lukman F.; Owolabi, Mayowa O. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Stroke is the leading cause of neurological hospital admissions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the second leading cause of death globally. The Stroke Investigative Research and Education Network [SIREN] seeks to comprehensively characterize the genomic, sociocultural, economic, and behavioral risk factors for stroke and to build effective teams…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Medical Research, Health Education
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Ajaegbu, Okechukwu Odinaka; Ubochi, Ijendu Ihuarulam – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2016
Health is essential for social and economic development of any country. Nearly 10 million children in developing countries die each year before reaching the age of five from ailments, mostly pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria. The socio-cultural belief about the causation of disease and its curability has direct correlation with the treatment…
Descriptors: Health, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Surveys
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Koski, Kaisu – Journal of Research Practice, 2011
A number of art projects are currently tackling the medical domain. This activity stems from a perceived need to increase the transparency and democracy of the medical domain, and it often questions the power relations and the one-dimensionality in current medical practices. This article sheds light on how artists process medical themes,…
Descriptors: Democracy, Artists, Medicine, Art Products
Woodley, Lisa Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to describe the lived experiences of Hispanic / Latinx nursing students as they acculturate into the profession of nursing. In addition, this study sought to describe differences in experiences of Hispanic / Latinx nursing students related to gender, English and Spanish language fluency, family immigration…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Acculturation, Hispanic American Students, Nursing
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Fredericks, Marcel; Kondellas, Bill; Fredericks, Janet; Langer, Michael; Ross, Michael W. V. – Education, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to establish the necessity to fully and effectively integrate the sub-disciplines of educational foundations, such as psychology and philosophy, in addition to the natural and social sciences, within medical and health-related educational programs. This is particularly pertinent in Catholic and other religiously…
Descriptors: Health Education, Empathy, Caring, Catholics
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Grube, Michael – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Dealing with violent cancer patients can be particularly challenging. The purpose of this study was to collect data on the frequency, quality, and underlying variables affecting violent behavior as well as to examine the role played by this behavior in the premature interruption of treatment. A total of 388 cancer inpatients were examined by…
Descriptors: Violence, Aggression, Mental Disorders, Cancer
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Monajemi, Alireza; Schmidt, Henk G.; Rikers, Remy M. J. P. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2012
Introduction: Illness script theory offers explanations for expert-novice differences in clinical reasoning. However, it has mainly focused on diagnostic (Dx) performance, while patient management (Mx) has been largely ignored. The aim of the present study was to show the role of Mx knowledge in illness script development and how it relates to…
Descriptors: Expertise, Medical Students, Physicians, Medical Education
Nicol, Allison A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Nurses must possess culturally competencies to effectively care for patients of diverse backgrounds. The groundwork to build cultural competence in nurses should be laid in nursing school. Nursing faculty are obligated to develop and provide appropriate cultural learning opportunities for nursing students. However, students enrolled in community…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad, Transformative Learning
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Njie-Carr, Veronica P. S.; Jones-Parker, Hazel; Mignano, Jamie L. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2016
As of July 2015, over 15 million people worldwide were undergoing lifesaving antiretroviral therapy to treat HIV, marking the achievement of an important Millennium Development Goal. More research is needed to determine sustainable interventions to engage patients in HIV care. We explored the perceptions, facilitators, and barriers of engagement…
Descriptors: Patients, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Drug Therapy, Intervention
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Martin, Gillian S. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
Research on the routines of doctor-patient consultations has been conducted in language and culture concordant dyads and in dyads where either doctor or patient uses a foreign language; yet there is an absence of scholarly engagement with consultations where both participants are using a foreign language. In seeking to address this gap, this…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Physician Patient Relationship, Socialization, English (Second Language)
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Madjar, Nir; Kushnir, Talma; Bachner, Yaacov G. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
Perceived psychosocial abilities (i.e., competence in addressing the psychosocial aspects of patient care) and low frustration tolerance (LFT) (i.e., intolerance of physical or emotional discomfort) have been established as significant attributes of experienced medical professionals. We aimed to expand our understanding of the role motivation…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Medical Students, Student Motivation, Prediction
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Funderburk, Jennifer S.; Shepardson, Robyn L.; Krenek, Marketa – Journal of American College Health, 2015
Objective: To describe how behavioral activation (BA) for depression and stimulus control (SC) for insomnia can be modified to a brief format for use in a university primary care setting, and to evaluate preliminarily their effectiveness in reducing symptoms of depression and insomnia, respectively, using data collected in routine clinical care.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Depression (Psychology), Sleep, Primary Health Care
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