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Developing empowering health counseling measurement

2006

Abstract Objective This article describes the derivation of an instrument (Empowering Speech Practices Scale) for assessing the empowerment of dyadic counseling, the evaluation of the validity and reliability of the ESPS and the results acquired with the instrument from hospital counseling. Methods ESPS was constructed on the basis of empowerment theory and foregoing conversation analytic research. Nurses and patients assessed the same counseling session by way of parallel statements. Structure and reliability of the scale were evaluated with Cronbach alpha, percentage of agreement, factor analysis and logistic regression analysis. Results According to these preliminary results, ESPS descri…

business.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectValidityUsabilityGeneral MedicineCronbach's alphaNursingScale (social sciences)Nurse educationPatient participationbusinessEmpowermentPsychologyReliability (statistics)media_commonPatient Education and Counseling
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Breast cancer screening programmes: Challenging the coexistence with opportunistic mammography.

2014

Abstract Objective This study investigated predictive factors of women's participation in organized mammography screening (OrgMS) and/or opportunistic mammography screening (OppMS) when the two screening modes coexist. Methods Questionnaires were sent to 6,000 women aged 51–74 years old invited to attend an OrgMS session between 2010 and 2011 in France. Data collected concerned the women's healthcare behaviour and their socioeconomic characteristics. Women without a personal or family history of breast cancer that could explain their participation in OppMS were retained in the generalized logits analysis. Results The data of 1,202 women were analysed. Of these, 555 (46.2%) had attended OrgM…

medicine.medical_specialtyBreast NeoplasmsMedical OveruseBreast cancer screeningBreast cancer5. Gender equalitySurveys and QuestionnairesCancer screeningHealth careHumansMass ScreeningMedicineMammographyFamily historySocioeconomic statusEarly Detection of CancerComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSAgedmedicine.diagnostic_testbusiness.industry[ SDV.SPEE ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologieGeneral MedicineMiddle Agedmedicine.disease3. Good healthSocioeconomic Factors[SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologieFamily medicinePhysical therapyFemale[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologieFranceMammography screeningPatient ParticipationbusinessMammography
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Personal health promotion through personalized health technologies — Nuadu experience

2009

Poor lifestyles — overweight, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, sleep deprivation, and stress — are significant risk factors to chronic illnesses, which cause majority of the health care costs. Hence, behavioral change towards healthy lifestyles is one of the keys to health care cost containment. Personal health systems (PHS) offer tools to support behavioral change. As health risks, personal needs and preferences vary from an individual to another, personalization of the PHS is needed. In Nuadu project we have developed a PHS integrating several different personal health technologies. This system was studied in a large (N=354) randomized controlled trial where employees with several hea…

medicine.medical_specialtybusiness.industryEnd userInternet privacyUsabilityPersonalizationHealth promotionHealth carePhysical therapyMedicineMobile technologyPatient participationBiomedical technologybusiness2009 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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