Global Health PromotionPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1177/17579759231206795
Anissa Collishaw, Anna Snider, Paul McNamara, Sampson Nuvaga, Anny-Flore Bilame
{"title":"Impact of a video-based nutrition education program on the nutrition knowledge of students and parents: evidence from the North Region of Cameroon.","authors":"Anissa Collishaw, Anna Snider, Paul McNamara, Sampson Nuvaga, Anny-Flore Bilame","doi":"10.1177/17579759231206795","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579759231206795","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Schools are an attractive platform for improving the dietary knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of children and their families, yet limited nutrition knowledge amongst educators can impede nutrition education efforts. Information and communication technology (ICT) can potentially overcome this barrier, yet there is limited evidence for its effectiveness in school settings in low- and middle-income countries.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We implemented a randomized field experiment in 50 schools in the North Region of Cameroon to assess the effectiveness of a school-based nutrition education program at improving the nutrition knowledge of fifth and sixth grade students and their parents. We evaluate the relative effectiveness of video-based versus typical classroom instruction. Nutrition knowledge is assessed using a pre-post questionnaire and analyzed using analysis of covariance.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We find that students exposed to the video treatment improved their nutrition knowledge scores by 0.45 standard deviation more (equivalent to an additional 1.3 out of 14 correct answers) than students that received traditional classroom instruction. There is no differential impact of video on the nutrition knowledge scores of parents.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Videos can improve knowledge gains compared with typical classroom instruction, but questions remain as to the conditions under which videos and other ICT are most effective as instructional tools.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"60-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138292054","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":"Educational interventions for promoting sexual and reproductive health in school counselors: a three-arm, randomized control trial comparing lecturing, buzz group and role-play.","authors":"Fatemeh Alavi-Arjas, Maryam Firouzabadi, Farnaz Farnam, Mohadeseh Balvardi, Mahdiye Taheri, Hedyeh Riazi, Naimeh Pourramezani, Zohreh Keshavarz","doi":"10.1177/17579759231212436","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579759231212436","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>School-based sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education is often reported as being inadequate and/or inconsistent. This study aimed to investigate the educational interventions for promoting SRH in school counselors and compare the results in three groups: lecturing, buzz group and role-play.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>An intervention quasi-experimental design was employed to evaluate the usefulness of educating SRH topics by using interactive teaching methods for 120 school counselors. Changes in the participants' knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy toward SRH education were evaluated by each group using a pretest and a posttest.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results of this study revealed that 75% of counselors deemed SRH training vital and felt that the best SRH educators are health care providers and the reason might be their lack of educational skills. They also stated that the most significant barriers to education in schools include concerns about parental feedback and lack of appropriate abilities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The present study showed that the use of all three methods (lecturing, buzz groups and role-play) in SRH training improves the level of knowledge, attitude and self-efficacy; although role-play could have been more effective than lecturing in improving counselors' knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"70-79"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139106790","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 : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1177/17579759241232387
Helen Elizabeth Denise Burchett, Rebecca S French, Sally Griffin, Málica de Melo, Joelma Joaquim Picardo, Dylan Kneale
{"title":"Developing a theory of change - the importance of rich process data and authors' insights into context, implementation and mechanisms.","authors":"Helen Elizabeth Denise Burchett, Rebecca S French, Sally Griffin, Málica de Melo, Joelma Joaquim Picardo, Dylan Kneale","doi":"10.1177/17579759241232387","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579759241232387","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Theories of change explaining how interventions work are increasingly important, yet the methods/data to develop these are less advanced than for evaluating effects.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a systematic evidence synthesis to develop a theory of change for structural adolescent contraception interventions. We reflect on the utility of the information provided in evaluation reports.</p><p><strong>Findings/discussion: </strong>Few of the included evaluations presented their theory of change, or included rich, qualitative process data. Authors' descriptions of context and implementation, typically in introduction and discussion sections, were very useful. These helped to understand the intervention's context, how it was experienced and why or how it had the effect that it did. We recommend incorporating rich process evaluations into studies, and reporting contextual insights into the intervention's development, implementation and experience. We also recommend including these data and insights within syntheses that aim to develop theories of change.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"137-140"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11568639/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140029271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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":"https://doi.org/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":"17579759241248401"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","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}
Anna Dion, Ivan Sarmiento, Mateja Šajna, Neil Andersson
{"title":"Integrating knowledge systems for holistic approaches to addressing knowledge and health inequities: combining fuzzy cognitive maps.","authors":"Anna Dion, Ivan Sarmiento, Mateja Šajna, Neil Andersson","doi":"10.1177/17579759241261049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241261049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describes fuzzy cognitive mapping as an accessible and robust tool to strengthen community engagement in health promotion research. We outline how fuzzy cognitive mapping can combine, compare, and contextualize knowledge and priorities from diverse population groups as well as from evidence syntheses. We present procedures to represent a shared perspective across populations or population groups through reconciling maps by simple or weighted averaging. We present a novel second approach to reconciling derived from discourse analysis. We then present two procedures to contextualize one knowledge in another knowledge. The first procedure draws on Bayesian updating, providing a formal way to account for stakeholder knowledge in contextualizing other knowledge sources, including evidence syntheses. A second approach compares discourse patterns across maps derived from different sources. We provide examples of each procedure, describe how each may contribute to greater incorporation of patient- and community-level input in decision-making, and share tools for researchers interested in applications of fuzzy cognitive mapping.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"17579759241261049"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914240","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":"Concrétiser la promesse de la promotion de la santé par la décolonisation.","authors":"Mihi Ratima","doi":"10.1177/17579759241259601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759241259601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":"31 2","pages":"7-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142082222","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 : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1177/17579759231191494
Judi Aubel
{"title":"Grandmothers - a cultural resource for women and children's health and well-being across the life cycle.","authors":"Judi Aubel","doi":"10.1177/17579759231191494","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579759231191494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Grandmothers exist in all societies. Especially in the non-western Majority World, where Elders are both highly respected and responsible for transmitting their knowledge to younger generations, there is extensive anecdotal evidence of Grandmothers' role in health promotion and healing. However, due to Eurocentric and reductionist views of families and communities, in the extensive past research on maternal, child and adolescent health issues across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, and in Indigenous societies in North America, Australia and New Zealand, scant attention has been given to the role of Grandmothers. This paper addresses this oversight and supports the imperative to decolonize health promotion in the non-western world by building on non-western worldviews, roles and values. Based on an eclectic body of both published and gray literature, this review presents extensive evidence of Grandmothers' involvement across the life cycle of women and children and of the similar core roles that they play across cultures. While in some cases Grandmothers have a negative influence, in most cases their involvement and support to younger women and children is beneficial in terms of both their advisory and their caregiving roles. For future research and interventions addressing maternal, child and adolescent health, the conclusions of this review provide strong support for: adoption of a family systems framework to identify both gender-specific and generation-specific roles and influence; and the inclusion of Grandmothers in community health promotion programs dealing with different phases of the life cycle of women and children.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"23-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10435110","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 : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-03-27DOI: 10.1177/17579759241236462
Heitor Martins Pasquim, Rodrigo Soto Lagos, Phillipe Augusto Ferreira Rodrigues, Priscilla de Cesaro Antunes
{"title":"De la epidemiología de la actividad física a la epidemiología crítica de las prácticas corporales: una propuesta desde Latinoamérica.","authors":"Heitor Martins Pasquim, Rodrigo Soto Lagos, Phillipe Augusto Ferreira Rodrigues, Priscilla de Cesaro Antunes","doi":"10.1177/17579759241236462","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579759241236462","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"80-85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140307321","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 : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1177/17579759231211232
María Ángeles Villanueva Borbolla, Agustín Pernia, Marisol Campos Rivera
{"title":"Determinación social de la obesidad, la diabetes y la hipertensión arterial desde las narrativas de mujeres de una comunidad indígena en el sur de Morelos, México.","authors":"María Ángeles Villanueva Borbolla, Agustín Pernia, Marisol Campos Rivera","doi":"10.1177/17579759231211232","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579759231211232","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objetivo: </strong>comprender los procesos críticos (PC) de determinación social de la obesidad, la diabetes y la hipertensión (ODH) en una comunidad nahua de México.</p><p><strong>Metodología: </strong>estudio cualitativo de registros de un taller de fotovoz, donde las participantes fotografiaron su entorno y analizaron las causas y posibles soluciones a la ODH. Para analizar los PC de la ODH utilizamos como método la investigación narrativa y, como referente teórico, la epidemiología crítica.</p><p><strong>Resultados: </strong>la ODH se reproduce social e históricamente a través de PC destructivos vinculados con las relaciones de producción global y de género. Estas determinan modos de vida deteriorantes que limitan la atención a la salud, comprometen la salud mental, producen contaminación y diferenciación de uso de espacios, y reducen oportunidades para alimentarse nutritivamente y realizar actividad física. Todo ello se expresa como ODH y problemas de salud mental. Los PC protectores ante estas expresiones incluyen la atención estatal, las oportunidades de trabajo, y la promoción de dispositivos culturales y comunitarios.</p><p><strong>Conclusiones: </strong>nuestros resultados aportan a la discusión global sobre cómo las condiciones históricas de vida son parte de la determinación social de la ODH. Comprender los PC y sus expresiones locales puede orientarnos hacia la descolonización de la forma de pensar y hacer promoción de la salud.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"59-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138483210","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 : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-01-23DOI: 10.1177/17579759231211828
Madalitso Z Phiri
{"title":"The specter of race in global Covid-19 responses: the future is decolonial.","authors":"Madalitso Z Phiri","doi":"10.1177/17579759231211828","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17579759231211828","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Covid-19 pandemic reified pre-existing inequalities predicated on anti-Black racism, imperial geographical cartography, and the violent language of biomilitarism. In this reflective essay I deploy tools of historical sociology to underscore the importance of race, racism, racialization, and global responses to pandemics. I considerer the following questions. First, how can world society develop ideas and concepts for the imagination of a post-imperial global health regime? Second, can alternative futures be imagined if the monopolistic control of power, global scientific processes and knowledge regime is framed around a problematic lexicography of a Eurocentric totalizing project of being human? Lastly, if there is a scientific consensus that we need alternative futures, what kinds of knowledge is needed to bring about a post-imperial liberated order? The future of global health regime is a decolonial one predicated on a new biopolitics. I provide four paradigmatic approaches to subvert imperial global health: (i) pivoting ecocide in the imperial global health regime; (ii) abandonment of a Eurocentric conceptualization of racial hierarchy and modernity; (iii) disbanding the commodification of public health; and (iv) organizing a new world order through health reparations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46805,"journal":{"name":"Global Health Promotion","volume":" ","pages":"43-51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11363459/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139542426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}