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Selected AbstractsEVALUATION OF THE RURAL SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TRI-DIVISION ADOLESCENT HEALTH PROJECTAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, Issue 3 2003Lucio Naccarella ABSTRACT: The Adolescent Health Project (AHP) was a rural pilot project aimed at strengthening the relationship between general practitioners (GPs) and adolescents within three Divisions of general practice. The evaluation assessed the implementation of the AHP model and strategies and their impact. The AHP used a centralised management/support and local delivery model. The AHP improved GP relationships and comfort with dealing with young people, and improved GP relationships with school counsellors. Divisional relationships with local schools improved. Students reported increased knowledge about GPs, increased confidence and comfort with accessing GPs. The AHP delivered a popular project to GPs, GP clinics, schools, school counsellors and students, which built the capacity of divisions, GPs, and schools to improve adolescent health care provision. Further research questions have emerged: What are the patterns of relationships between GPs and adolescents, and between GPs and school counsellors, and what strategies work best to sustain such relationships? [source] Making Nutrition Services Work for Socially Excluded Groups: Lessons from the Integrated Nutrition and Health ProjectIDS BULLETIN, Issue 4 2009Mukesh Kumar A relatively large proportion of India's underweight children belong to groups facing multiple disadvantages. Addressing child malnutrition among these communities is critical if India is to eliminate undernutrition and achieve the MDG goals. This article draws evidence from the Integrated Nutrition and Health Project II (INHP-II), a USAID funded project, implemented by CARE in India, to show how, by ensuring universal service coverage, a programme can enhance equity and inclusion. INHP-approaches such as: Nutrition and health days (NHD); prioritising home contacts; system strengthening; community participation; tracking left-out children; enhancing convergence and coverage of nutritional and health services, all help to improve nutritional outcomes among all sections of society, particularly socially excluded groups. [source] Children's Dental Health Project CelebratesJOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY, Issue 2005Article first published online: 6 AUG 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Evaluation of the rural South Australian Tri-division Adolescent Health ProjectAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, Issue 3 2003Lucio Naccarella ABSTRACT:The Adolescent Health Project (AHP) was a rural pilot project aimed at strengthening the relationship between general practitioners (GPs) and adolescents within three Divisions of general practice. The evaluation assessed the implementation of the AHP model and strategies and their impact. The AHP used a centralised management/support and local delivery model. The AHP improved GP relationships and comfort with dealing with young people, and improved GP relationships with school counsellors. Divisional relationships with local schools improved. Students reported increased knowledge about GPs, increased confidence and comfort with accessing GPs. The AHP delivered a popular project to GPs, GP clinics, schools, school counsellors and students, which built the capacity of divisions, GPs, and schools to improve adolescent health care provision. Further research questions have emerged: What are the patterns of relationships between GPs and adolescents, and between GPs and school counsellors, and what strategies work best to sustain such relationships? [source] Do smoking attitudes predict behaviour?ADDICTION, Issue 10 2008A longitudinal study on the bi-directional relations between adolescents' smoking attitudes, behaviours ABSTRACT Aims Prevention and intervention programmes focus frequently upon retaining or creating negative attitudes towards smoking in an effort to prevent adolescents from smoking. As the focus upon attitudes is central in these programmes it is essential to know whether smoking attitudes actually precede smoking behaviour or, conversely, are affected by it. Therefore, in the present study we examined to what extent bi-directional relations existed between smoking attitudes and behaviour. Design Data were used from the three annual waves of the ,Family and Health' project. Setting Participants were asked to complete questionnaires individually at their homes. Participants Addresses of families consisting of two parents and two adolescents were obtained from the records of 22 municipalities in the Netherlands. At baseline, 428 families participated with a response rate of 94% at the third measurement. Measurements Self-reports were used to assess adolescents' smoking attitudes and behaviour. Associations between smoking attitudes and behaviour were tested using structural equation modelling. Findings Findings revealed that smoking attitudes did not predict smoking consistently over time. However, past smoking affected subsequent attitudes moderately, suggesting that adolescents who started to smoke developed less negative attitudes towards smoking. Conclusions The current findings imply that smoking behaviour predominantly shapes smoking-related attitudes, rather than vice versa. Focusing merely on smoking attitudes is probably not enough to prevent adolescents from smoking. [source] Experience and meaning of user involvement: some explorations from a community mental health projectHEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, Issue 3 2002Carole Truman Abstract With an increased interest in and policy commitment to involving service users in the planning and delivery of health service provision, there is a clear need to explore both the rhetoric and realities of what user involvement entails. In the present paper, by drawing upon an evaluation of a community-based exercise facility for people with mental health problems, the authors explore ways in which the reality of user involvement is subject to a range of configurations within health services. The paper describes a piece of qualitative research that was undertaken within a participatory framework to explore the nature of user involvement within the facility. The data have been analysed using a grounded theory approach to provide insights into: the organisational context in which user involvement takes place; factors which encourage meaningful participation on the part of service users; perceived barriers to user involvement; and issues of sustainability and continuity. This research approach has enabled the authors to explore the views and experiences of users, service providers and referral agencies in relation to the nature and potential for user involvement. The findings illustrate ways in which user involvement may take place under both flexible and formal arrangements across a variety of activities. The present paper provides an account of some of the meanings and experiences of what ,successful' user participation may involve and the conditions which underpin ,success'. The authors conclude that successful and meaningful user involvement should enable and support users to recognise their existing skills, and to develop new ones, at a pace that suits their particular circumstances and personal resources. This process may require adaptation not only by organisations, but also by service providers and non-involved users. [source] Catching life: the contribution of arts initiatives to recovery approaches in mental healthJOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC & MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 8 2007H. SPANDLER phd ma ba This paper draws on a qualitative study that was undertaken as part of a national research study to assess the impact of participatory arts provision for people with mental health needs. It explores how arts and mental health projects may facilitate some of the key elements of what has been termed a ,recovery approach' in mental health. It is argued that it is precisely these elements , the fostering of hope, creating a sense of meaning and purpose, developing new coping mechanisms and rebuilding identities , which are hard to standardize and measure, yet may be the most profound and significant outcomes of participation in such projects. Therefore, in the context of a growing emphasis on recovery-orientated mental health services, while not necessarily being appropriate for all service users, arts and mental health initiatives could make an essential contribution to the future of mental health and social care provision. [source] Public health projects for preventing the recurrence of neural tube defects in the United States,,BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH, Issue 11 2009Julianne S. Collins Abstract BACKGROUND: The recurrence risk for neural tube defects (NTDs) in subsequent pregnancies is approximately 3%, or 40 times the background risk. Prevention projects target these high-risk women to increase their folic acid consumption during the periconceptional period, a behavior which decreases their recurrence risk by at least 85%. This study surveyed birth defect surveillance programs to assess their NTD recurrence prevention activities and to identify components of intervention projects that might be implemented in states with limited resources. METHODS: In 2005, the National Birth Defects Prevention Network developed and distributed an online survey to primary state birth defects surveillance contacts for the purpose of gathering information on NTD recurrence prevention activities in the United States. RESULTS: Responses came from 37 contacts in 34 states and Puerto Rico. There were 13 active NTD recurrence prevention projects, four past projects, and three planned projects. Fifteen past and present projects recommended that women with a prior NTD-affected birth take 4.0 mg of folic acid daily, and four projects provided folic acid to the women. Reasons given for not having an NTD recurrence prevention project included staffing limitations (53%), lack of funds (47%), lack of priority (18%), and confidentiality/privacy concerns (6%). CONCLUSIONS: Only 15 states and Puerto Rico had or were planning NTD recurrence prevention projects. An NTD recurrence prevention project using minimal resources should consist of timely case ascertainment, educational materials, and mechanisms for disseminating these materials. Birth Defects Research (Part A), 2009. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] | ||||||||||