{"title":"Do social media epistemological beliefs and health perception impact parents' vaccine hesitancy? A mediation analysis.","authors":"Cahide Çevik, Ebru Yavuz, Fatma Çakmak, Reyhan Ündere, Asiye Doğan Cengiz","doi":"10.1177/17579759241270956","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579759241270956","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, there has been a notable increase in vaccine hesitancy among individuals. It is crucial to identify the factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy to effectively address this issue. This study aims to investigate the impact of social media-specific epistemological beliefs on vaccine hesitancy and the mediating role of health perception in this impact. This study is a cross-sectional study conducted with 444 parents. Data were collected using the Personal Information Form, the Social Media-Specific Epistemological Beliefs Scale, the Perception of Health Scale, and the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale. When there is no mediator variable, the total effect of social media-specific epistemological beliefs on vaccine hesitancy is statistically significant (β = -0.219, <i>p</i> < 0.001). However, it was found that health perception did not mediate the relationship between social media-specific epistemological beliefs and vaccine hesitancy (β = 0.0038, 95% confidence interval (-0.0090, 0.0205)). Furthermore, it was determined that social media-specific epistemological beliefs positively predicted health perception (β = 0.136, <i>p</i> < 0.01). Health perception was found to have no significant effect on vaccine hesitancy (β = 0.028, <i>p</i> > 0.05). It can be concluded that social media-specific epistemological beliefs negatively predict vaccine hesitancy, and this effect is independent of health perception. Primary healthcare professionals should consider incorporating interventions aimed at enhancing individuals' social media-specific epistemological beliefs into their health education programs related to vaccines.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"46-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142381977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global Health PromotionPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1177/17579759241248401
Nora K Lenhard, Crystal An, Divya Jasthi, Veronica Laurel-Vargas, Ilon Weinstein, Suet K Lam
{"title":"Virtual global health education partnerships for health professional students: a scoping review.","authors":"Nora K Lenhard, Crystal An, Divya Jasthi, Veronica Laurel-Vargas, Ilon Weinstein, Suet K Lam","doi":"10.1177/17579759241248401","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579759241248401","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Although there is rising interest in virtual global health (GH) education in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been no report on the body of literature describing virtual education partnerships for health professional students. This scoping review examines virtual GH partnerships involving health professional students, including any barriers identified or best practices and ways to address them.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We searched PubMed for studies describing virtual GH education partnerships using keywords related to GH, virtual learning, and partnerships. Inclusion criteria were that the activity was virtual, involved health professional students in two or more countries, and was reported in English or Spanish. In-person clinical electives and interventions that had not yet occurred were excluded. Study quality was assessed using the Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument (MERSQI).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The search algorithm yielded 308 articles. Seventeen studies met full inclusion criteria. Four studies described asynchronous formats, whereas 13 were synchronous. Common challenges included scheduling challenges, language barriers, and technological limitations. Suggested improvements included having increased faculty support and expanding partnerships to multiple languages. The median MERSQI score was 8.25 out of 18 possible points.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There are limited studies investigating the effectiveness of virtual GH education partnerships, and more robust evaluation is needed to further understand the optimal role of virtual education in teaching GH skills. Despite logistical challenges, virtual partnerships can provide innovative GH education through bidirectional educational exchanges that students find valuable.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"14-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142019138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global Health PromotionPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1177/17579759241279541
Césaire Koukponou Djokpon, Oswald Goukodadja, David Houeto
{"title":"Accidents de la voie publique et inégalités sociales de santé à Cotonou en 2021.","authors":"Césaire Koukponou Djokpon, Oswald Goukodadja, David Houeto","doi":"10.1177/17579759241279541","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579759241279541","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Au Bénin, les accidents de la voie publique sont préoccupants et causent des décès et des blessures graves, surtout chez les motocyclistes. Les inégalités sociales de santé aggravent cette situation en affectant davantage les populations défavorisées. L'objectif de notre étude était de montrer que ces accidents suivent un gradient social, et d'orienter les interventions et les politiques visant à réduire les disparités en matière de sécurité routière. Il s'agissait d'une étude transversale, descriptive et analytique qui a porté sur 185 patients hospitalisés pour des lésions consécutives à un accident de la voie publique et en mesure de répondre à un questionnaire. Les données ont été collectées à partir des dossiers médicaux des patients et d'entretiens individuels. L'étude a révélé que les traumatismes de la voie publique étaient fréquents parmi les admissions (24,97 %), avec une prédominance chez les jeunes hommes (70,81 %). Parmi les sujets, 57,84 % des traumatisés avaient un niveau socio-économique bas. Les parties du corps les plus touchées étaient la tête et le cou, et les extrémités des membres. Les fractures étaient les lésions les plus fréquentes (62,70 %). Les accidents impliquant une moto représentaient 83,06 % des cas. La fréquence des fractures était plus élevée dans le groupe des accidentés ayant un niveau socio-économique bas et un niveau d'instruction bas. L'amélioration des conditions socioéconomiques et la promotion de moyens de transport alternatifs sûrs pourraient réduire les accidents de la voie publique et les inégalités sociales de santé. L'État pourrait y jouer un rôle clé.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"85-90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricia Pérez-Wilson, Mariano Hernán-García, Daniel Millor-Vela, Carlos Alvarez-Dardet, Jorge Marcos-Marcos
{"title":"Propuesta de metodología cualitativa para la valoración externa de un proyecto basado en el desarrollo de activos comunitarios.","authors":"Patricia Pérez-Wilson, Mariano Hernán-García, Daniel Millor-Vela, Carlos Alvarez-Dardet, Jorge Marcos-Marcos","doi":"10.1177/17579759241312063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241312063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"17579759241312063"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144188269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tatjana Gazibara, Jelena Cakic, Milica Cakic, Anita Grgurevic, Tatjana Pekmezovic
{"title":"Online information seeking about sex and sexually transmitted infections among high school adolescents in Belgrade (Serbia).","authors":"Tatjana Gazibara, Jelena Cakic, Milica Cakic, Anita Grgurevic, Tatjana Pekmezovic","doi":"10.1177/17579759251334395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759251334395","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Many adolescents do not have access to sexual and reproductive health education due to the lack of structural support specific to cultural formatting and overall negative attitude toward this type of education. Therefore, adolescents often use the internet as the main source of health information. The purpose of this study was to investigate specific internet websites associated with online searching for information about sex and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional study was carried out on 702 high school students in Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. Relevant data were obtained through an anonymous questionnaire. The questionnaire included socio-demographic characteristics, use of the internet and online platforms. Electronic health literacy was tested by the e-Health literacy scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All students used the internet. The prevalence of seeking online information about sex was 31.9% and 12.4% about STIs. Being a boy, having lower grades, attending the humanities-languages program, being younger when using the internet for the first time, using forums and social media, but not websites run by physicians, and browsing online information about STIs were associated with seeking online information about sex. Girls, who had lower grades, had higher family income, were older when they first started using the internet, used social media and websites run by physicians and searched for online information about sex were more likely to seek online information about STIs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Adolescents in this study sought online information about sex more often than STIs. Social media were used to search both topics online, suggesting that participatory media which offer engaging content could be the preferred manner of online learning about sex and STIs. These online resources could be used for information delivery about reproductive health for high school students.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"17579759251334395"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144152270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María Angélica Saldías-Fernández, Denisse Parra-Giordano, Mirliana Ramírez Pereira
{"title":"Acceso y cobertura sanitaria universal al aborto en países de Sudamérica: estudio de caso ideográfico.","authors":"María Angélica Saldías-Fernández, Denisse Parra-Giordano, Mirliana Ramírez Pereira","doi":"10.1177/17579759251332969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759251332969","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"17579759251332969"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144080664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Davoud Pourmarzi, Petya Fitzpatrick, Merryn McKinnon, Stephen Lambert
{"title":"The where and the why: sources of information about COVID-19 vaccines among migrants in Australia.","authors":"Davoud Pourmarzi, Petya Fitzpatrick, Merryn McKinnon, Stephen Lambert","doi":"10.1177/17579759251334391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759251334391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Access to timely, accurate health-related information can protect migrants' health during public health crises. However, unmet language needs, social alienation and mistrust were among the barriers that migrants faced in accessing official information about COVID-19 and recommended vaccines. This study aimed to explore information-seeking behaviour about COVID-19 vaccines among Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) born migrants in Australia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>With an explanatory mixed-method approach, we employed an online survey followed by semi-structured interviews. Survey and interviews were advertised through migrants-specific organisations' websites and social media posts, and Facebook advertisements. The survey collected data on socio-demographics, sources of information, preferred communication channels and information-gathering capacity from 300 individuals between September and November 2021. Seventeen adults participated in interviews between December 2021 and February 2022. The qualitative data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The survey participants' mean age was 41.4 ± 11.8 years and 52% were male. Around 70% reported that the Australian government was among their main sources of information, and 37% preferred receiving information via email or SMS. Around 70% agreed that they can easily access the information they need, feel included in government communications, and can distinguish between fake and good information. Around 60% agreed they could access information in their language, while approximately 50% of respondents indicated they had difficulty understanding vaccine information. Analysis of the interview transcripts revealed that the information sources used depended on their perceived need, their information-gathering capacity, ease of access and trust in sources. Lack of trust in official sources made it more difficult to accept uncertainty. Sources of information favoured included community networks and personal experience.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>To ensure equitable access to health information, health communications should be tailored to migrants' specific needs, preferences and information-gathering capacity. Such communication should be practised in all aspects of health, not only during a public health crisis, to improve trust in official sources.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"17579759251334391"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144050943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aurelie Van Hoye, Mathieu Winand, Laurianne Crochet, Franck Simon, Florence Rostan, Fabienne Lemonnier, Stacey Johnson, Benjamin Tezier, Anne Vuillemin
{"title":"Health promotion in French national sports federations: the challenge of settings-based approach implementation.","authors":"Aurelie Van Hoye, Mathieu Winand, Laurianne Crochet, Franck Simon, Florence Rostan, Fabienne Lemonnier, Stacey Johnson, Benjamin Tezier, Anne Vuillemin","doi":"10.1177/17579759251332968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759251332968","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has shown that sports clubs call upon support from national sports federations (NSFs) to develop into a setting to promote health. The present study investigates how French NSFs themselves promote health. A two-step case study design was undertaken. A website analysis of 51 NSFs recognized as health promoting by the French National Olympic Committee was executed to examine health promotion (HP) visibility, and presence in strategic plans, committees and programs. Based on this search, four NSFs were chosen for an in-depth study, including interviews with representatives and a document analysis. Data were analyzed based on the Ottawa Charter strategies for HP. Results across all studied NSFs confirmed that NSFs are committed to HP, but HP is not mentioned directly, not visible, nor properly understood. Rather, a health topic approach is adopted, specifically focusing on strategies to enhance social and physical health. HP implementation lacks coordination, where resource investment is based on the sports ministry's focus on specific health topics, in a reactive manner, to implement national policies. NSFs' implementation of HP is very similar to that of a sports club, demonstrating that sports federations' vision and actions towards HP have to quit the silo and health topics approach in order to better support HP in their affiliated clubs. Future research should investigate determinants of HP implementation among NSFs. Practical implications include a recognition of HP beyond health topics, an integration of health as a transversal aim in NSFs' policies and programs, and a governance system to coordinate HP activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"17579759251332968"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144024441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual storytelling as democratizing knowledge: relational concepts of transdisciplinary health impact through film.","authors":"Kate P R Dunn, Gary W Hayes","doi":"10.1177/17579759251317517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759251317517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the transdisciplinary collaboration between health practitioners, Indigenous community members, and doctoral researchers to democratize knowledge transfer enhancing social justice outcomes in the context of hepatitis C awareness with Indigenous communities in Alberta, Canada. Utilizing the impactful intersection between media and healthcare disciplines, two social science researchers built on each other's qualitative research projects using relational engagement and participatory action research to co-create a DocuStory film and accompanying impact campaign. Diverse expertise and varied life experiences contribute unique perspectives transferring insights informing knowledge translation. Communication scholars, media producers, and academics are exploring the social function of documentaries and how they can be used to generate change. This innovative collaboration draws on the strength and creativity of transdisciplinary relationships providing opportunity for social justice praxis at the intersections of culture, theory, health, and media. This successful approach is relevant for numerous health topics and inspires transdisciplinary collaboration and media innovation in health promotion.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"17579759251317517"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promotion de la santé dans la Zone de santé d'Ibanda au Sud-Kivu en RD Congo : évaluation de l'application des principes de la charte d'Ottawa.","authors":"Hermès Karemere, Arlette Buhendwa, Binja Biani Daniella, Kabika Kitoka, Paul Bahati Hombo, Asifiwe Mpuruta, Munatsi Bikulo Noble","doi":"10.1177/17579759251320650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759251320650","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"17579759251320650"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143651416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}