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Online platforms to teach Nutrition Education to children: a non-systematic review.

2016

espanolIntroduccion: la obesidad infantil es actualmente considerada un problema a nivel global. La educacion nutricional (EN) ha sido identifi cada como un factor para prevenir el sobrepeso y la obesidad en los ninos. Durante los ultimos anos se ha incrementado el interes en metodos novedosos para ensenar este conocimiento a los ninos, especialmente a traves del uso de Internet. Objetivo: revisar y analizar la evidencia disponible con respecto a los programas de EN dirigidos a ninos a traves del uso de Internet. Resultados: se identifi caron 3 formatos para transferir EN a ninos a traves del uso de Internet: plataformas disenadas para comunicarse con otros ninos o con profesionales, plataf…

‘An apple a day’?: Psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists report poor literacy for nutritional medicine: international survey spanning 52 …

2021

Nutritional interventions have beneficial effects on certain psychiatric disorder symptomatology and common physical health comorbidities. However, studies evaluating nutritional literacy in mental health professionals (MHP) are scarce. This study aimed to assess the across 52 countries. Surveys were distributed via colleagues and professional societies. Data were collected regarding self-reported general nutrition knowledge, nutrition education, learning opportunities, and the tendency to recommend food supplements or prescribe specific diets in clinical practice. In total, 1056 subjects participated in the study: 354 psychiatrists, 511 psychologists, 44 psychotherapists, and 147 MHPs in-t…

Attitudes of Italian dental and dental hygiene students toward tobacco-use cessation

2010

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the smoking habits of Italian dental and dental hygiene students and to assess their knowledge on the health effects of cigarette smoking and their attitudes toward tobacco-use cessation (TUC) in dental practice. Materials and methods: Data was collected from 220 students attending the Dental and Dental Hygiene Schools (DS and DHS, respectively) at the University of Palermo (Italy). Results: The percentage of smokers amongst DS and DHS students was similar (32.78% vs. 32.5%) with 67.77% of DS students and 77.5% of DHS agreeing that the damages to health caused by smoking were covered in their didactic course work. A high percentage of DS (…

Lifestyle counseling to reduce body weight and cardiometabolic risk factors among truck and bus drivers – a randomized controlled trial

2015

Objectives We conducted a randomized trial among overweight long-distance drivers to study the effects of structured lifestyle counseling on body weight and cardiometabolic risk factors. Methods Men with waist circumference > 100 cm were randomized into a lifestyle counseling (LIFE, N=55) and a reference (REF, N=58) group. The LIFE group participated in monthly counseling on nutrition, physical activity, and sleep for 12 months aiming at 10% weight loss. After 12 months, the REF group participated in 3-month counseling. Assessments took place at 0, 12, and 24 months. Between-group differences in changes were analyzed by generalized linear modeling. Metabolic risk (Z score) was calculated fr…

Oral health counselling in changing schoolchildren's oral hygiene habits: a qualitative study.

2006

Abstract –  Objective:  This study explored oral health counselling concerning changes of oral hygiene habits in 11- to 13-year-old schoolchildren within a theoretical framework of the transtheoretical model and the motivational interview. Methods:  The follow-up data (2002–2003) formed two sequential parts: the first part comprised 66 counselling sessions in 2002; the second part included 31 counselling sessions in 2003. Thirty-one (n = 31) schoolchildren were included in the counselling sessions that were conducted by four dental hygienists. The audiotaped and transcribed data were analysed qualitatively by using content analysis. Results:  In 2002, nearly every schoolchild needed to esta…

Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout in Spain and Brazil: ProQOL Validation and Cross-cultural Diagnosis

2017

Abstract Context Palliative care professionals' quality of life has emerged as a growing issue of interest in health care literature, centered on concerns about professionals' compassion within a context of work characterized by pain and death. Objectives The aim of this study was threefold: 1) to study the psychometric properties of both the Spanish and the Portuguese versions of the ProQOL scale, by means of confirmatory factor analyses; 2) to offer a diagnosis of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue levels of Spanish and Brazilian palliative care professionals; and 3) to compare levels in ProQOL between countries. Methods Two surveys with a cross-sectional design were carried o…

Health promotion curricula: cross-national comparisons of essential reading.

2000

Teaching-learning methods and their effect on professional development and the development of graduates’ competencies / Métodos de enseñanza-aprendiz…

2018

This article analyses the effect of the teaching-learning methods used in Spanish universities on three measures of educational output: average mark, graduates’ assessment of their professional per...

Enfermeiras e profissionais durante a epidemia de gripe de 1918: Análise através da imprensa española

2018

espanolObjetivo: La epidemia de gripe de 1918 se considera una de las mas letales de la historia de la humanidad, ocasionando una alta morbilidad y mortalidad que quedo reflejada en la prensa espanola. Por ello, pretendemos abordar los acontecimientos relativos a la epidemia en relacion con los profesionales de Enfermeria desde la perspectiva periodistica. Material y metodo: A partir de diez cabeceras de periodicos espanoles se ha procedido a la extraccion de las informaciones relativas a profesionales de Enfermeria, desde el 1 de enero de 1918 hasta el 31 de diciembre de 1920, procediendo a su organizacion y caracterizacion tematica. Resultados: Se obtuvieron un total de 555 unidades de an…

Memoria escolar y conocimientos didáctico-disciplinares en la representación de la educación geográfica e histórica del profesorado en formación

2020

El presente trabajo pretende examinar el modo en que los futuros docentes de Educación Primaria y Secundaria representan las materias de Geografía e Historia para valorar la incidencia que dichas representaciones pueden tener en su futura práctica profesional. Para ello, se ha diseñado un cuestionario mediante el cual se pretende analizar el peso de la memoria escolar y de su formación pedagógico-disciplinar en su forma de conceptualizar dichas materias y, sobre todo, en la adopción de determinadas perspectivas y finalidades socio-educativas. El estudio ha contado con la participación de 124 estudiantes de la Universitat de València (España) (84 procedentes del Grado en Maestra/o en Educaci…