Dissertations / Theses: 'Health personnel attitudes'

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Brookbank, Kathleen. "HIV : impact on community health nursing personnel." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/834518.

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Danielsson, Birgitta. "Hyperlipidaemia : an evaluation of management and attitudes among doctors and knowledge and attitudes in the population /." Stockholm, 1999. http://diss.kib.ki.se/1999/91-628-3699-4/.

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Hendricks, Janine Jolene. "Job satisfaction levels of health care professionals in a public hospital." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/11058.

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Health care professionals play a pivotal role in contributing towards the sustainability of a healthy economy and the standard of quality health care. It is therefore important that organisations understand what influences the job satisfaction levels of health care professionals as it could have an impact on their motivational levels and ultimately the quality of health care that is provided. The aim of this study was to assess the levels of job satisfaction amongst health care professionals in a public hospital in the Eastern Cape. Research for this study included a literature review to define what job satisfaction is and to establish a theoretical foundation to identify the factors that influence job satisfaction. Various motivational theories were explored after which Herzberg’s two-factor theory was identified to serve as a theoretical basis for investigating the job content and organisational factors that influence job satisfaction. Selected demographic factors that could possibly influence levels of job satisfaction were also identified. An empirical study, consisting of a survey with a questionnaire as measuring instrument, was conducted amongst 146 health care professionals at a public hospital in the Eastern Cape. The purpose of the questionnaire was to determine the extent to which job content factors and organisational factors that were associated with job satisfaction were present in the jobs of health care professionals in state hospitals. In addition, the purpose was also to determine whether selected demographic variables had an influence on the responses provided to the factors that were associated with job satisfaction and the job satisfaction levels of the target group. The major findings of the study indicated that all job content and organisational factors had an influence on the job satisfaction levels of health care professionals in a public hospital. Three factors namely Achievement, Responsibility and Work itself were identified to have a significant positive influence on the job satisfaction levels. Relationships between the demographic variables and the job content and organisational factors were identified. Work itself, Responsibility and Achievement were the top three factors whilst leadership/supervision, Human Resource systems and policies and Remuneration and benefits were the bottom three factors in terms of presence in the organisation and influence on the job satisfaction levels of health care professionals. Safety aspects, work environment standards, availability of resources, remuneration and benefits were amongst the major concerns highlighted. The job content factors were identified to be overall more present than the organisational factors. Recommendations were suggested to address the areas of concern that were highlighted in this study in order to ensure high levels of job satisfaction amongst the health care professionals.

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Farrell, Kathy, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Health care professionals' perceptions of health promotion." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1996, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/34.

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The concept of health promotion is an alternative and emerging orientation. Here the belief is that all people have strengths and are capable of determining their own needs, finding their own answers, and solving their own problems. Most health care professional have been educated in the medical model of health. In this model, the health care professional, especially the physician, plays an active part as an expert on disease; the patient or client has essentially a passive role, and the disease rather than the person is the focus. The role of health care professionals in health promotion is an important one and will continue to expand with the new focus of the province of Alberta's health system. The focus of that system, and other health systems in Canada and abroad, is increasingly upon health promotion rather than disease treatment. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of a variety of health care professionals working in the community and in the hospital setting relating to health promotion. The study takes a non-experimental approach utilizing a descriptive design. All professional staff including registered nurses, occupational therapists, recreational therapists, physiotherapists, respiratory therapists, social workers, dental workers, nutritionists, speech-language pathologists, and physicians working in Palliser Health Authority were asked to participate in the survey. Two hundred and thirteen staff responded to a questionnaire desgined to reflect their perceptions on the importance of health promotion, determinants of health, principles of health promotion, and skills and knowledge of health promotion. Staff were also asked to identify health promotion activities occuring at their work site, possible barriers to health promotion, and what was needed regarding training and support. Some of the major findings include: 1) Staff perceive health promotion to be an important part of their job. However staff working in the community perceive health promotion to be more important than those working in the hospital. Physicians were the least positive about questions pertaining to the importance of health promotion. 2) Staff perceive that the purpose of health promotion is to strengthen peoples' control over their health, but responses also indicate uncertainty concerning how control is to be defined and effected. 3) When asked to identify health promotion activities at their work site, the majority of staff pointed to the provision of information to individuals and groups. Community development was listed by very few staff. 4) When staff were asked to identify barriers to health promotion they identified the following in the order: lack of resources, old attitudes about health and health promotion, lack of support from the organization and doctors, lack of knowledge/education, and lack of communication between health care workers.
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Morgan, Natalie D. G. "The impact of health care reforms on community health nurses' attitudes /." St. John's, NF : [s.n.], 2002.

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Guo, Nan. "Knowledge, attitudes, practice (KAP) and organizational support on delivering smoking cessation services on Guangzhou health care professionals." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B39558186.

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Garossino, Candance Jo. "Nurses' attitudes towards the care of the dying." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29709.

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Terminally ill patients and their families describe hospital care as nonsupportive to their needs during the final phase of life. Nurses generally are not comfortable with a supportive role when caring for the dying and tend to adhere to a curative role. The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study therefore was to describe the attitudes of general staff nurses working on medical-surgical units in hospitals towards the care of the dying and to ascertain the relationship between these attitudes and the education and experience of the nurses. An adaptation of the model for role episode, conflict, and ambiguity by Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, Snoek and Rosenthal (1964) was the applied theoretical framework. The sample consisted of 197 randomly selected registered nurses employed full or part-time on general adult medical-surgical hospital units in British Columbia. The majority of the sample were married, Protestant females, between the ages of 26 and 45 years who were prepared at the diploma level in nursing. The mean length of time worked as a nurse was 8.5 years with a mean of 7.5 years on medical-surgical units. Attitudes towards the care of the dying were generally ambiguous, neither negative nor positive as measured by scores obtained on the ‘Questionnaire for Understanding the Dying Person and His Family’. Additionally, half the respondents did not believe that nurses should be the primary health care professionals equipped to deal with the emotional reactions of the dying yet three-quarters of the sample believed that patients turned to nurses to discuss such emotional issues. Data revealed that close to two-thirds of the respondents had received structured death and dying content in their basic nursing education yet less than half furthered their death and dying education since graduation. Overall death education for the sample was low. A small positive correlation (r=-0.26) was found between respondents' death education and their attitudes towards the care of the dying; no significant association was found between respondents' level of general nursing education and their attitudes. Although there was variability in the amount of professional and personal death experience, over half of the respondents experienced between one and three terminally ill patient deaths on their medical-surgical units per month. Additionally, the majority of respondents had experienced the death of an immediate family member. Overall death experience was low to moderate. A small, but significant positive correlation (r=0.24) was found between overall death experience and attitudes' towards the care of the dying; no significant association was found between general experience and attitude. Findings suggest that supportive nursing care is not being demonstrated with dying patients and their families. However, the influencing natures of death education and death experience on nurses' attitudes are positive, thereby providing the nursing profession with two possible ways of positively influencing nurses' attitudes to the care of the dying.
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July, Emma. "Awareness, attitudes and referral practices of health care providers to psychological services in Botswana." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1166.

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The provision of psychological services is vital considering the complex nature of psychosocial issues facing people today. Nevertheless, the provision and utilization of psychological services has not been given due recognition in most African countries, including Botswana. Botswana is one of the countries faced by the challenges of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and other mental health problems, as well as poverty and unemployment. To date statistics on the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana, published annually by the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA) reflect an increased rate of mental illness and psychosocial problems. Considering the complex nature of issues that impact negatively on people in Botswana, there is a need for awareness and the provision of psychological services in the primary health care system. There is little research on the place of psychology and psychological services in Botswana. The availability of such information is crucial for the planning of effective community-based psychological services. The present study employed a quantitative research method to explore and describe awareness and attitudes towards psychological services and referral practices in relation to psychological problems, of health care providers in Botswana. The participants in the study were chosen, based on a non-probability, purposive sampling method. The sample consisted of ninety-six persons and constituted medical doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and clinical social workers from governmental and non-governmental institutions from Gaborone and Francistown in Botswana. Data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics in order to identify the mean, ranges and standard deviations. Frequency counts and percentages of the participants’ responses were computed. The results of the study revealed an awareness of available psychological services, positive attitudes towards psychology and psychological services and a reasonable percentage of referrals to psychological services. The results also revealed that available psychological services were limited and not easily accessible to patients. There was also an indication of a shortage of trained professionals to offer psychological services in health care centres, which resulted in psychological problems being referred to social workers.

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Hugo, Charmaine June. "Mental health literacy and attitudes of human resource practitioners in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53498.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: South African companies need to contend with numerous transformation and development issues since the country's re-entry into the international marketplace. One component that is receiving increasing attention is the wellbeing of employees in the drive to remain competitive within the global economy. This study argues that mental illness is a component of employee wellbeing that has been ignored, even though these conditions are highly prevalent and costly to businesses. The lack of recognition, research and information about mental illness in the workplace raises questions about the knowledge and orientation of human resource (HR) practitioners. This study therefore aimed to investigate and describe the mental health literacy and attitudes ofHR practitioners in South Africa. Methodology: This study had a descriptive purpose and employed a sample survey research design to distribute a mail questionnaire to a randomly selected sample of human resource practitioners registered with the South African Board for Personnel Practice (SABPP). The measuring instrument comprised mental health literacy and attitudes scales that have been extensively researched and reported to have sound psychometric properties. Three vignettes portraying mental disorders selected for their relevance to the business world (i.e., depression, panic disorder and alcohol abuse) were used as aids to achieving the research aim. A standard statistical package (SPSS 10.0) was utilised to determine descriptive and inferential statistics with an accepted 5% level of significance. Results: A response rate of 31% was achieved yielding an equal distribution of responses across the study vignettes. HR practitioners who acted as respondents to this study were found to be illiterate regarding mental illness and to hold subtle negative attitudes towards the mentally ill. Less than 10% could recognise mental illness as opposed to the majority who regarded the behaviour in the vignettes as normal responses. Whereas just over a third could correctly name the diagnosis described in the vignettes, only 7% were able to identify panic disorder. Most respondents believed that psychosocial stress factors caused mental illness, while only 29% where of the opinion that biological factors had a role in the aetiology of mental illness. Respondents favoured psychological and lifestyle treatment strategies and opposed medical treatments, irrespective of the type of mental illness presented with. Although as a group respondents showed mainly positive attitudes towards the mentally ill, evidence was found that the commonly held myths of danger/violence and the irresponsible/ childlike nature of the mentally ill were adhered to. Conclusions: The HR field should take cognisance of the reality of mental illness. Urgent steps need to be taken to adequately equip HR practitioners and students with both evidencebased knowledge and a positive orientation to enable the effective management of these conditions in the workplace. Attention should be given to addressing common mistruths and misconceptions, and to creating an awareness of the significant role that the HR practitioner can play in timeously recognising and appropriately dealing with employee mental health problems so that companies can benefit by the optimal utilisation of human resources.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Agtergrond: Suid-Afrikaanse maatskappye het te doen met verskeie transformasie- en ontwikkelings aangeleenthede sedert die land se terugkeer na die internasionale mark. Die welstand van werkers is 'n aspek wat toenemend aandag verkry met hierdie strewe om mededingend te bly in die globale ekonomie. Hierdie studie argumenteer dat geestessiekte as 'n komponent van werkerwelstand geïgnoreer word, alhoewel dit algemeen voorkom en besighede heelwat geld kos. Die beperkte herkenning, navorsing en inligting oor geestessiekte in die werkplek lei tot vrae omtrent die kennis en inslag van Menslike Hulpbron- (MR) praktisyns. Derhalwe, ondersoek en beskryf hierdie studie die kennis en houding jeens geestesgesondheid van MH-praktisyns in Suid-Afrika. Metodologie: Hierdie studie se doel is beskrywend van aard en maak gebruik van 'n steekproef opname navorsingsontwerp. 'n Vraelys is gepos aan 'n ewekansig gesellekteerde steekproef van MH-praktisyns wat geregistreer is by die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad vir Personeelpraktyk. Die meetinstrument bestaan uit geestesgesondheid kennis- en houdingskale wat ekstensief nagevors is en wat beskryf is om goeie psigometriese eienskappe te besit. Drie gevaUestudies van geestessteurings relevant tot die besigheidswêreld (depressie, panieksteuring en alkoholmisbruik) is gebruik as hulpmiddels om die navorsingsdoeiwit te bereik. Standaard statistiese sagteware (SPSS 10.0) is gebruik om beskrywende en afleidende statistiek te bepaal met 'n aangenome 5% vlak van betekenisvolheid. Bevindings: Altesaam 31% van vraelyste is beantwoord en dit was eweredig verdeel tussen die verskillende gevallestudies. MH-praktisyns wat deelgeneem het aan hierdie studie het swak kennis omtrent geestessiekte en subtiele negatiewe houdings ten opsigte van persone met geestesiekte getoon. Minder as 10% kon geestessiekte identifiseer teenoor die meerderheid wat die gedrag in die gevallestudies as normaal beskou het. Net oor 'n derde kon die diagnose korrek benoem en slegs 7% kon panieksteuring korrek identifiseer. Meeste van die respondente het geglo dat psigososiale stresfaktore geestessiekte veroorsaak, terwyl net 29% van mening was dat biologiese faktore 'n rol speel in die etiologie van geestessiekte. Respondente het psigologiese en lewensstyl behandelingsmodaliteite verkies bo mediese behandeling en dit was onafhanklik van die tipe geestessteuring wat voorgekom het. Alhoewel die respondente as 'n groep hoofsaaklik 'n positiewe houding getoon het ten opsigte van persone met geestessiekte, was daar bewyse dat algemene mites ondersteun is en dat persone met geestessiekte beskou is as gevaarlik/aggressief en as onverantwoordeliklkinderlik. Gevolgtrekkings: Die MH veld moet die realiteit van geestessiekte aanvaar. Dringende stappe moet geneem word om MH-praktisyns en studente te voorsien van uitkomsgebaseerde kennis en 'n positiewe houding sodat effektiewe hantering van hierdie toestande kan plaasvind in die werkplek. Algemene onwaarhede en miskonsepsies moet aangespreek word en die bewustheid van die betekenisvolle rol van die MH-praktisyn moet benadruk word. Geestesgesondheidsprobleme van die werker moet betyds herken word en toepaslik gehanteer word sodat maatskappye voordeel kan trek uit die optimale gebruik van menslike hulpbronne.

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Abdul, Rouf P. V. "Exploring patient and health professional use, views and attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicines during pregnancy." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=228640.

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The aim of this doctoral research was to explore CAM use in pregnancy from the perspectives of pregnant women and health professionals. The research was conducted in four phases: a systematic review of the published literature from 2008-2012; cross sectional surveys of two cohorts of women during the first and last trimester; and a cross sectional survey of health professionals (midwives, obstetricians, anaesthetists) at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. The systematic review reported a significant proportion of women used CAM during pregnancy with prevalence rates ranging from 5.8% to 74.2%. The study of health professionals identified that more than 30% of respondents have prescribed, referred or advised the use of CAM to pregnant women. The main associated factor for CAM use was, 'personal use of CAM', with an odds ratio of 8.26 (95% CI 3.09–22.05; P < 0.001). Two thirds of women (63%) reported using CAM, excluding vitamins and minerals, during early pregnancy. The independent predictors of CAM use identified were: use by family and friends (OR 4.1, 95% CI 2.3–7.3, p < 0.001); ethnicity (non-white British) (OR 3.4, 95% CI 1.8–6.8, p < 0.001); and use prior to pregnancy (OR 2.4, 95% CI 1.2–4.8, p = 0.014). Two thirds of women (61.4%) reported using CAM, excluding vitamins and minerals, during the third trimester. The independent associated factors for CAM medicine use identified were: CAM use before pregnancy (odds ratio [OR] 4.36, 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.39–7.95, P<0.001); a university education (OR 2.41, 95% CI 1.46–4.0, P<0.001), and CAM use by family or friends (OR 2.36, 95% CI 1.61–3.47,P<0.001). The lack of an evidence based approach together with the reliance on the advice of family and friends is of concern given the lack of robust data of efficacy and safety. To date, four peer reviewed papers from this doctoral research have been published.

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Bröms, Margareta. "Attitudes among Swedish medical personnel towarduniversal varicella vaccination and other new vaccines for children." Thesis, Nordic School of Public Health NHV, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-3639.

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Background: Thea ttitudes, knowledge, and experience of health personnel regarding vaccines and preventable diseases contribute importantlyto the success of vaccination programs. Aim: This study aimed to valuate the opinions of healthpersonnel involved in the care of children on the introduction of various new and older vaccines to the Swedish childhood vaccination. We particularly examined the knowledge of varicella diseaseas chickenpox and shingles and attitudes toward the varicellavaccine. Method: We created and administered aquestionnaire on vaccineprioritization forseveral vaccines, including hepatitis A and B,BCG(BacilleCalmette-Guérin) vaccine to preventtuberculosis, pneumococcal, meningococcal, HPV (human papilloma virus), rotavirus, influenza,respiratory syncytial virus,andTBE(tick bornencephalitis virus),and also explored health personnel’s knowledge about the VZV (varicella zoster virus) vaccine and its diseases. In 2006, the study targeted 600 nurses and physicians in Gothenburg, Sweden, whereas the current study in 2012 followed up with 160 school healthcare personnel. Results: The 2006 questionnaire generated 191/600 responses (32%), compared withthe 2012 follow-up questionnaire, which generated 40/160 (25%) responses from school health care personnel. Medical personnel ranked vaccination against hepatitis B highestin both studies. However, our data showed an important shift in attitude regarding HPV and rotavirus vaccination, which ranked lowestin 2006 but higher priority in 2012. Respondents also gave high priority to BCG. In 2006,only 34 of 138 respondents (25%) knew that a varicella vaccine was available, and universal varicella vaccination was generally ranked lower compared with other various vaccines. Additionally, pediatricians and personnel from infectious diseases department in the hospital having direct experience with these verity of varicella and zoster diseases were more likely to support universal varicella vaccination. Interestingly, in 2012 only one third of school healthcarepersonnel favored universal varicella vaccination.The health professionals xpressed a general demand for information and in-depth nowledge about the newer vaccines. Conclusion: If Swedish authorities decide to implement universal varicella vaccine into the current successful vaccination program for children, relevant healthcare personnel will require further education about VZV vaccineand disease

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Guo, Nan, and 郭楠. "Knowledge, attitudes, practice (KAP) and organizational support on delivering smoking cessation services on Guangzhou health careprofessionals." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39558186.

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Hall, Bruce A. "An assessment of human resource professionals' world view thinking and perceived personal wellness as an indicator of professional support for wellness programs in the work place." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1048371.

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The primary purpose of this study was to design an instrument, the Professional Support Survey (PSS), to assess one's extent of world view thinking relating to wellness programming. The secondary purpose was to use the Perceived Wellness Survey (PWS) and the PSS to determine if a relationship exists between HR professionals' personal wellness and their support for wellness programs in the work place. Face and content validity was established for the PSS, test-retest analysis confirmed significant reliability («T, = 0.9239 and «T2 = 0.9464), and a significance test found - = 0.846 and adjusted - = 0.8662. The study found that HR professionals' levels of personal wellness are reflected in their decisions to support wellness programs. Further, the more exposure HR professionals have to wellness management issues (i.e., the company having a formal program, the number of activities, and budget allocations for programming), the more likely they are to support wellness programs from a programmatic standpoint.
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Scott, Edward Sherman. "Digital research cycles how attitudes toward content, culture and technology affect web development /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002637.

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Burnett, Donna Oliva. "Beliefs and intentions of U.S. registered dietitians toward evaluating psychological factors related to food and weight concerns of weight management clients and making referrals." Thesis, Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009r/burnett.pdf.

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Baker, Norma G. L. "Health care restructuring in acute care settings : implications for registered nurses' attitudes /." St. John's, NF : [s.n.], 2002.

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Boyd-Flanagan, Sandra L. "A comparative study: Health care providers and student attitudes towards persons with HIV seropositivity or the definitive diagnosis of AIDS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/430.

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Moore, Bridgit R. "Assessing Allied Health and Nursing Post-Secondary Career and Technical Education Teacher Attitudes and Beliefs About Reading." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4757/.

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This study examined allied health and nursing career and technical education (CTE) teacher beliefs and attitudes about reading. Since beliefs and attitudes influence the way teachers teach, it is important to understand what those beliefs and attitudes are, especially in relationship to reading in subject matter classrooms. One hundred twelve individuals responded to a written survey concerning their attitudes and beliefs about reading. A four-factor solution was achieved with a principal components factor analysis. A significant number of variables were associated with the factor labeled Reading Apathy, which appears to be indicative of the condition known as aliteracy among faculty who participated in the study. Professional development activities grounded in novice-to-expert theory are suggested as a way of overcoming the phenomenon. Recommendations for future research involve a more detailed study to further characterize the condition of aliteracy and its impact on student learning.

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Chakare, Rejoice Sesedzai. "Attitudes towards adolescent friendly health service provision among health workers at a primary health care clinic in Windhoek, Namibia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79966.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Health statistics on adolescents in Namibia indaicate high incidences of teenage unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, baby dumping, maternal ill health, early marriages and STIs including HIV. These are indicators of underutilisation of adolescent friendly health services (AFHS) by adolescents as education on these problems are covered in it. Although Government has made some strides to esure implementation starts, there is a recognisable lack of its adoption by health workers. The aim of this study was to establish the reasons for the slow adoption of AFHS practices by health workers at Katutura Health Centre. A quantitative non-experimental cross-sectional descriprive research approach was used in this study. Evidence using both primary data collected in the field through self-administered semi-structured questionnaires (with both open and closed questions) and secondary data collected in the literature review was employed . A census of the entire population of health workers was prefered over sampling. A total of 56 health workers accepted to participate in the study and the questionnaire, 46 of which returned it within a stipulated three weeks data collection period. Descriptive statistics was utilised together with frequencies, mean and basic collection. Eighty two percent of the sample participated in the study of which 67% respondents were female and 33% were male. The majority of the respondents (78.3%) had tertiary education. The results indicated: AFHS were not known to the majority of health workers; there is slow adoption of AFHS; and the programme introduction could have been done better. Factors significantly associated with adoption of AFHS are knowledge of such services, sex, level of education, job position, work experience and effective implementation of the programme. A probability value of p<0.05 was adopted. The programme is well appreciated despite concerns of lack of training and proper implementation. Key recommendations were on staff recruitment, retention and training of health workers; creation of space for implementing AFHS and marketing the programme. The system is in place, what is left is to tighten some loose ends and programme is up and running.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Gesondheid statistieke oor die jeug in Namibië verwys na hoë voorkoms van ongewenste tiener swangerskappe en onveilige aborsies, weg gooi van babas, swak moederlike gesondheid, vroeë huwelike en seksueel oordraagbare siektes, insluitend MIV. Dit is aanwysers van die onderbenutting van jeug vriendelike gesondheidsdienste (AFHS) deur die jeug, as die onderwys op hierdie probleme gedek word. Hoewel die regering 'n paar implementerings begin het, is daar 'n beduidende gebrek van aanneming deur gesondheidswerkers. Die doel van hierdie studie was om die redes vas te stel vir die stadige aanvaarding van AFHS praktyke deur gesondheidswerkers by Katutura Gesondheids Sentrum. 'n Kwantitatiewe, nie-eksperimentele navorsingsbenadering is gebruik in hierdie studie. Bewyse uit beide primêre data wat ingesamel is in die veld deur middel van self-geadministreerde semi-gestruktureerde vraelyste (met beide oop en geslote vrae) en sekondêre data wat ingesamel is in die literatuuroorsig was gebruik. 'n Sensus van die hele bevolking van gesondheidswerkers is verkies in plaas van steekproefneming. 'n Totaal van 56 gesondheidswerkers het aanvaar om deel te neem aan die studie en die vraelys, waarvan 46 teruggedien is binne die vasgestelde tydperk van drie weke se data-invorderingstermyn. Beskrywende statistiek is gebruik saam met frekwensies, gemiddelde en basiese versameling. Tagtig en twee persent van die steekproef het deelgeneem aan die studie, waarvan 67% respondente vroulik en 33% manlik was. Die meerderheid van die respondente (78,3%) het tersiêre opleiding. Die resultate het aangedui: AFHS is nie bekend aan die meeste van gesondheidswerkers nie, en daar is stadige aanneming van AFHS; en die program inleiding kon beter gedoen gewees het. Faktore wat beduidend verband hou met die aanneming van AFHS is kennis van sodanige dienste, geslag, vlak van onderwys, werk posisie, werkervaring en doeltreffende implementering van die program. 'n Waarskynlikheid waarde van p <0,05 is aangeneem. Die program is goed waardeer ten spyte van kommer aan 'n gebrek van opleiding en behoorlike implementering. Belangrikste aanbevelings was op die personeel werwing, behoud en die opleiding van gesondheidswerkers; skepping van ruimte vir die implementering van AFHS en bemarking van die program. Die stelsel is in plek, wat oorbly om gedoen te word, is om 'n paar los punte te versterk en die program is aan die gang.

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Bäckström, Matilda, and Sandra Jonsson. "Attityder till patienter med beroendesjukdom - patienternas och vårdpersonalens upplevelser : En litteraturstudie." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-22881.

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Bakgrund: I Sverige lever cirka 300 000 människor idag med ett alkoholberoende, 700 000 personer lever med ett riskabelt bruk av alkohol, samt cirka 55 000 individer skattas för närvarande att leva med narkotikaberoende. Vårdpersonal möter denna stora patientgrupp inom vårdens alla delar. Syfte: Att beskriva vårdpersonalens attityder mot patienter med beroendesjukdom samt patienternas upplevelser av vårdpersonalens attityder. Syftet var även att beskriva de valda artiklarnas undersökningsgrupp. Metod: Litteraturstudien hade en deskriptiv design bestående av 11 vetenskapliga artiklar. Databaserna Medline via Pubmed samt PsycINFO användes för artikelsökning. Huvudresultat: Resultatet visade att vårdpersonalen beskrev att de ansåg att patienter med beroendesjukdom själva orsakat sin sjukdom och därmed inte förtjänade någon vård. Det framkom även att patienterna upplevt diskriminering, kränkning, negativa attityder och särbehandling i vården. Enligt patienternas beskrivningar så medförde denna upplevelse till att många patienter avstod från att söka vård. Slutsats: Patienterna med beroendesjukdom som deltog i de inkluderade studierna blev bemötta med negativa attityder och diskriminering från vårdpersonalen. Denna negativa upplevelse beskrevs medföra att vissa patienter avstod från att söka vård. Viktigt är därför att vårdpersonalen skaffar sig kunskap om beroendesjukdomen och ser alla patienter som egna individer med behov och reducerar sitt diskriminerade sätt att agera på.
Background: In Sweden it is estimated that there are about 300 000 people living with alcohol addiction today and approximately 700 000 people with harmful use of alcohol, and an estimated 55 000 with drugaddiction. Healthcare staff will meet this large group of patients everywhere. Aim: Describing health care professionals attitudes toward patients with addictive disorders and patients experience of the health care professionals attitudes. The aim was also to describe an outline of the selected articles of this group. Method: Literature study came from descriptive design consisting of 11 scientific articles. Article search by database Medline thrue PubMed and PsycINFO. Main results: The results showed that professional staff statedthey believe patients with addictive disorders self-inflicted their illness and therefore did not deserve any help. It also showed that patients experienced discrimination, abuse, negative attitudes and discrimination in the health care system. According to patient experience this caused many from seeking further treatement. Conclusions: Patients with addictive disorders were often met with negative attitudes and discrimination from health care professionals. This negative experience resulted in that many patients refrained from seeking treatemtent. It is therefore important that health care professionals receive professional training and education in addictive disorders in order to view every patient as a separate individual in order to reduce any discriminatory behaviour.

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Kellogg, Wendy Jean. "Barriers of mental health professionals in "willingness to treat" AIDS and HIV seropositive clients." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/781.

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Iwu, Chukwuma Gervase. "A model of employee satisfaction amongst health-related professionals in South Africa : the case of Western Cape." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2617.

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This study's main aim was to develop a model of employee satisfaction for health-related professions in South Africa. Health-related professions refer to a variety of practitioners who work in the healthcare sector mostly in support capacity to the clinical or medical practitioner. They include laboratory technologists, pharmacists, radiographers, emergency medical services (paramedics), nurses, and optometrists. These practitioners comprise a diverse group who deliver high quality care to patients across a wide range of care pathways and in a variety of settings. This band of professionals was chosen as the focus of the study because most studies, which relate to health workers' satisfaction and motivation in South Africa, have concentrated on medical doctors and nurses without a commensurate interest in other health-related professionals. The study is a multi-faceted one, and incorporates both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The study is also exploratory because no model of this kind exists amongst health-related professions of South Africa. Permission to access selected institutions for the study was granted before the researcher approached the population for the study. The researcher decided not to use a sample, but to include all members of this population in the participating institutions in order to get as many participants as possible. From a total population of 987, only 117 usable questionnaires were returned. Data that was collected was coded for Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) suitability. SPSS was utilized to generate the frequency and descriptive statistics. The data collection instrument was the Plus Delta Organizational Climate Questionnaire, which was modified on the basis of a preliminary study. The data instrument achieved a coefficient alpha (Cronbach) of 0.8, which extended its reliability. With the use of factor analysis, this study was able to identify seven (7) factors which influence employee satisfaction within the health-related professions in South Africa. These factors include Role Clarification and Job Design, Equitable Performance Management, Integrated Leadership and Knowledge Sharing and Self-efficacy, while the other factors include Family-friendly Work Environments, Leader Credibility and Innovation, and Excellent Customer Relations and Technology. These factors make up the model of employee satisfaction for health-related professions considered in this research. While the researcher suggests that further studies should be conducted in order to establish the validity of the model, the researcher also makes a call for a data collection instrument to be distilled from the model. However, this study will undoubtedly add to the sparse literature on health-related practitioners. This position is assumed because most literature on health professions' job satisfaction/dissatisfaction favours doctors and nurses. The study will also assist in understanding some of the reasons for the often reported sense of job insecurity among practitioners in South Africa. The study has produced a model, which health-related professions can utilise to manage themselves better. It is hoped that the model will serve health-related professions with better gains, such as reduction in health-related professional attrition, elimination of low levels of trust between management and staff and reduction in high incidences of absenteeism, which constituted research problems of this study.

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Rossiter, Rachel Cathrine. "Exploring the Experience of Dialectical Behaviour Therapists: Challenging Therapeutic Pessimism Related to Borderline Personality Disorder." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4092.

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The public mental health setting wherein clinicians work with clients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) provides a continual challenge for clinicians. For many decades a pervasive therapeutic pessimism has surrounded any discussions of attempts to work with clients with BPD with this population being viewed as ‘too difficult’ and ‘impossible to work with’. This pessimism and the ensuing counter therapeutic responses have been well documented in the psychiatric literature. The development of treatments such as dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), a cognitive-behavioural therapy, for BPD has provided a basis for therapy for which there is increasing evidence of successful outcomes. Despite this evidence, the pervasive pessimism has been slow to lift. A limited literature explores attempts to positively influence clinician responses to this clientele. Within the public mental health service in which this research is based, DBT is well-established as a therapeutic modality. In the course of providing training, consultation and supervision for parts of this service, anecdotal evidence emerged suggesting that the impact of practising as a DBT therapist was greater than anticipated and DBT may provide a tool for facilitating a positive change in clinician responses. Given that this perception is not described in the literature it was appropriate to begin research in this area employing a qualitative methodology. This research explored the experience and impact upon mental health clinicians in a public mental health service undertaking training in DBT and practicing as DBT therapists. In-depth, semi structured interviews were conducted in July 2005 with clinicians practising as DBT therapists. Data analysis revealed a marked shift in perspective from ‘management to treatment’. Participants described positive professional and personal impacts of training and practising as DBT therapists. An enhanced capacity for self-awareness and ‘living life to the full’ was described by a number of participants. This initial research suggests that the practice of DBT by clinicians can generate a positive shift in both personal and professional identities that translates into a more optimistic and humanistic approach to clients diagnosed with BPD. Such a change may represent a significant challenge to the prevailing mental health discourse and practice

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Ngirababyeyi, Alfred. "Attitudes towards mentally ill in professionals working in Ndera neuropsychiatric hospital in Rwanda." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/7739.

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ABSTRACT: This quantitative study investigated the attitudes toward the mentally ill in professionals working in Ndera neuropsychiatric hospital. The research questions explored were centered on the attitudes of directly involved and supportive professionals toward mentally ill clients and also on the difference between the attitudes of directly involved and supportive professionals toward mentally ill clients and demographic variables. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are differences in attitude between direct care providers and supportive professionals toward the mentally ill clients. The Community Attitudes towards Mentally Ill (CAMI) scale (Dear & Taylor, 1982; Taylor, Dear & Hall, 1979; Taylor & Dear, 1981) was used. A total of 72 members of the staff, including 55 directly involved staff and 17 supportive staff members, participated in the survey. A summary interpretation of the main findings in this thesis reinforces the assumption that negative attitudes towards people with mental illness received in Ndera neuropsychiatric hospital are in existence, even though the majority have favorable attitudes towards the mentally ill. This suggests that persons with mental illness may encounter stigmatizing attitudes from mental health professionals. This study represents one of the first to explore professionals’ attitudes towards the mentally ill. It is hoped that this work will highlight the need to explore the influence of attitudes in the delivery of high quality healthcare. The provider–patient relationship is at the heart of effective treatment and the detrimental impact of prejudicial judgments on this relationship should not be ignored. This study also demonstrates that professionals with different roles report different attitudes and this suggest that they would behave differently towards patients with mental illness. The directly involved professionals have been found to have more positive attitudes than the supportive professional and this seems to show that as individuals improve their ability to interact with persons with mental illness, they become more tolerant. The present study demonstrates that the sociodemographic variables tested have no impact on the attitudes of the professionals working in Ndera neuropsychiatric hospital. The extent of mental health training (as part of general health training) and duration of experience of working in mental health settings did not influence attitudes. Finally, this study demonstrates that there is no correlation between the attitudes towards mentally ill patients and their inclusion in the process of decision-making.

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Motswaledi, Mmabotsha. "Cultural issues in the treatment of hospitalised, malnourished children : an exploratory-descriptive study of the attitudes of health professionals and mothers in a rural hospital setting." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17314.

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Culture plays a significant role in the treatment of certain illnesses and in the maintenance of good health in communities. In hospitals, professionals are constantly faced with medication non-compliance and other defaulting behaviour by health consumers or patients due to lack of their sensitivity towards cultural issues. It is true that most Africans are faced with a dilemma of choosing between Western treatment approaches and their own traditional healing. Therefore some may need still to adopt both Western and African approaches. The study examines the attitudes of both the professionals and mothers with malnourished children towards the cultural values linked to the treatment modalities. An exploratory- descriptive method is used as a focus for the study. Because of the illiteracy of the mothers, an interview schedule was used to collect data and get impressions about certain issues. A questionnaire was used to collect data from the professionals; which included nurses, an occupational therapist, a physiotherapist, and people working for the Kwashiorkor Centre. Both the literature review and other studies showed that there is a difference in attitudes regarding cultural issues in the treatment of malnourished children between the health consumers and the health professionals. Findings of this study revealed negative attitude towards mothers who used traditional medicine before coming to hospital. Mothers felt that they were reprimanded regarding their cultural value systems. This study includes recommendations that health professionals need to be sensitive to the cultural belief system of the health consumers for better compliance and service delivery. It is recommended that health care providers be aware of their value systems and above all respect those of the consumers. To facilitate better participation in health education programmes it is important that these programmes are culturally sensitive.

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Contos-McCord, Meredith L. "Health care professionals' opinions and practices concerning foodborne illness and food safety education during prenatal care." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1221310.

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The problem of this study was to determine health care professionals' opinions and practices concerning foodborne illness and food safety education during prenatal care. Data were collected from Indiana health care professionals using a mailed questionnaire. The results found that 71.7% of respondents do not provide foodborne illness and food safety education during prenatal care, however, 80.6% would like to. Most of the respondents indicated that they do not have the time (71.4%), resources (57 1%), or knowledge (25.7%) to provide this information to patients. Many of the respondents indicated that they have not received information on foodborne illness during pregnancy and are unaware of the recommendations to provide this information during prenatal care. The opinion questions found that most agree that foodborne illness can be serious in pregnancy and would like to learn more about the risks of foodborne illness to pregnant women and the fetus.
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Webb, Janet Marie. "Information about primary care physicians considered most useful by managed health care consumers." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1370.

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Read, Gary Frank Hoyland. "A qualitative study aimed at describing & interpreting the changing symbolic meanings of HIV/AIDS which encountering HIV-positive patients introduces into the personal & professional identities of selected health care professionals." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002550.

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This study aimed at describing and interpreting the changing symbolic meanings of the Acquired Immunodefiency Syndrome (AIDS) which encountering a Human Immunodefiency Virus (HIV)-positive patient introduced into the personal and professional identities of six health care professionals in a subregion of the Eastern Cape. With the exponential increase of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, medical practitioners have become increasingly exposed to HIV infected patients. This study has considered the psychological structures developed by practitioners in an attempt to control and understand their situation in the context of HIV/AIDS. In order to describe these psychological structures the existential phenomenological approaches of L. Binswanger (in Needleman, 1963), A. Giorgi (1975) and F.J.Wertz (1985) were employed. Through these procedures, the structure of the experience of encountering an HIV infected patient was elucidated. This comprised the first goal of this study. The second goal focused on interpreting these descriptions by way of the symbolic meanings and definitions implicit in the structure of this experience. For this latter purpose the approach of symbo1ic interactionism was used, in particu1ar the understandings outlined by H. Blumer (1969). This theory was seen as appropriate in that the encounter between the practitioner and patient was primarily located in interpersonal parameters. The findings were discussed in terms of the two dominant metaphorical frameworks used by the subjects to comprehend the disease - namely the perspectives of society and the biomedical model. These two frameworks were critically evaluated in the context of HIV/AIDS, the needs of HIV infected individuals as well as the needs of the general practitioner. The process of the encounter was found to be very significant for practitioners in terms of their conceptualisations of HIV/AIDS. Old understandings were reinterpreted within the interpersonal context and replaced with more appropriate symbolic metaphors upon which to base practise. This study has revealed these new understandings were limited and constrained with regard to understanding and treating HIV/AIDS in that the subjects were still influenced by the metaphors of the biomedical model. These constraints were examined in the light of both personal and professional meanings and identities. This study concluded by making suggestions for modification of the medical practitioner's role in the context of HIV/AIDS.

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Brännström, Margareta. "Ett liv i berg och dalbana : innebörder av att leva med svår kronisk hjärtsvikt i palliativ avancerad hemsjukvård utifrån patienters, närståendes och sjuksköterskors berättelser /." Umeå : Univ, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1026.

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Morén, Erik, and Margareta Spets. "Att vårda patienter med suicidproblematik – Vårdpersonalens upplevelser och attityder : En litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-28737.

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Bakgrund: Suicid är den vanligaste yttre dödsorsaken i Sverige. Årligen avlider ca 1100 personer i Sverige och ca 800 000 personer över hela världen på grund av suicid. De största riskfaktorerna för suicid är cancerbesked, tidigare suicidförsök, traumatisk huvudskada, epilepsi, kronisk sjukdom eller smärta samt vissa psykiska sjukdomar och tillstånd. Patienter med suicidproblematik beskriver att relationen med vårdpersonal har betydelse och skamkänslor inför vårdpersonal förekommer. Syfte: Syftet med föreliggande litteraturstudie var att beskriva vårdpersonals upplevelser av och attityder till att vårda patienter med suicidproblematik i sjukhusmiljö. Syftet har även varit att granska de datainsamlingsmetoder som använts i de inkluderade artiklarna. Metod: Litteraturstudie med deskriptiv design grundad på tio vetenskapliga artiklar av kvalitativ ansats. PubMed och Cinahl har använts vid databassökningarna. Artiklarna har lästs i sin helhet av båda författarna med fokus på resultat och metod. Huvudresultat: Litteraturstudien visar att vårdpersonalens känslomässiga upplevelser var likartade. Vårdpersonal som inte har utbildning inom psykiatri kan ha sämre attityder mot patienter än vårdpersonal med utbildning inom psykiatri. Eventuella skillnader i attityder kan finnas hos personal med annan trosuppfattning. Vårdpersonalen har behov av att prata om samt förstå situationen när en patient har suiciderat. Dokumentation ses som en belastning då det tar upp tid som kan läggas på patienten. Slutsatser: Majoriteten upplevde en känslomässig belastning vid vårdandet av patienter med suicidproblematik. Vårdpersonal som saknar utbildning inom psykiatrin visar skillnader i attityder gentemot patienter jämfört med vårdpersonal som har utbildning i psykiatri. Detta bör uppmärksammas för att tydliggöra utvecklingsområden inom vården av patienter med suicidproblematik.
Background: The most common external cause of death in Sweden is suicide. Approximately 1100 people in Sweden and 800 000 worldwide annually commits suicide. The main risk factors for suicide is cancer diagnosis, previous suicide attempts, traumatic head injury, epilepsy, chronic disease or pain, as well as certain mental illnesses and conditions. Patients with suicidal problems describe that the relationship with healthcare professionals is important and that there is a sense of shame in front of them. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe experiences and attitudes of health care personnel towards working with suicidal patients in a hospital setting as well as examine the data-collection methods used in the included articles. Method: Literature review with descriptive design based on ten scientific articles with qualitative approach. The databases PubMed and Cinahl has been used to gather the articles included in this study. The articles has been read in their entirety by both authors with focus on the result and method to determine the eligibility för this study. Main Result: The literature study shows that the emotional experiences of healthcare professionals were similar. Healthcare professionals who do not have education in psychiatry may have lesser attitudes towards patients than healthcare professionals with psychiatric education. Some differences in attitudes can be found in staff with different beliefs. Healthcare staff need to talk about and understand the situation when a patient has committed a suicide act. Documentation is seen as a load since it takes a lot of time from nursing work with the patient. Conclusion: The majority of the population experienced an emotional endeavor while caring for suicidal patients. Healthcare professionals who lacks education in psychiatry shows disparities in attitudes towards patients compared to healthcare professionals who have an education in psychiatry.

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Finck, Susan A. "Gender, management style, and decision-making of human resource managers in heath promotion and wellness programming." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1048381.

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This study investigated the relationship between gender, management style, and decision-making regarding wellness programming by human resource managers. From a sample of 200 members of the Society for Human Resource Management from the state of Indiana, 83 individuals participated in this study. Each participant completed the 10-item Sargent and Miller Leadership Questionnaire, and ranked, in order of importance, five possible benefit offerings (of which wellness programs was one) that their organization could offer its' employees. T-test analysis revealed that gender was not an indicator of management style preference, nor was it an indicator of the perceived importance of wellness/health promotion programs. Although gender did not show any relevance to management style or the support of wellness programs, the use of correlational analysis did reveal a slight correlation between management style and the support for wellness programs.
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Goodwin, Rena Marie. "SELF-STIGMA, ATTITUDES, AND PREFERENCES WHEN SEEKING MENTAL HEALTH AND SPORT PSYCHOLOGY SERVICES: A STUDENT-ATHLETE POINT OF VIEW." UKnowledge, 2017. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/khp_etds/47.

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This study explored student-athletes’ attitudes, stigmas, and preferences toward mental health and sport psychology services. Previous research has identified that student-athletes report similar rates of distress compared to the general student population (Davoren & Hwang, 2014; Frank, Hautzinger & Beckmann, 2013). While student-athletes are in need of mental health services, previous research has also found that student-athletes can benefit from the use of sport psychology services. Previous research has demonstrated the need to support student-athletes as people, students, and athletes (Andersen, Miles, Robinson, & Mahoney, 2004; Bond, 2002; Friesen & Orlick, 2010; Miller & Kerr, 2002). However, not all athletic departments offer mental health and sport psychology services for their student-athletes. Additionally, student-athletes, coaches, and athletic departments, often stigmatize mental health and sport psychology services which results in underutilization. In order to better understand the need and preferences of using these services from a student-athlete’s perspective, this study surveyed 174 iv NCAA Division 1 athletes. The findings of this study revealed that student-athletes were more likely to seek mental health and sport psychology services if they had a) positive attitudes toward seeking help, b) low levels of self-stigma and c) services accessible within their athletic department.

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Wilger, Sophia, and Ingela Niemeijer. "Vårdpersonals attityder till personer med psykisk sjukdom : en litteraturstudie." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Caring Sciences and Sociology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-3842.

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Syftet med denna beskrivande litteraturstudie var att beskriva vårdpersonals attityder till personer med psykisk sjukdom. Litteratursökning genomfördes i databaserna Medline och PsycINFO och totalt valdes 15 vetenskapliga artiklar ut. Resultatet delades in i två huvudkategorier: attityder till psykisk sjukdom samt skillnader i attityder. Resultatet visade att vårdpersonal generellt sett hade en negativ syn på personer med psykisk sjukdom och ansåg att de var farliga, oförutsägbara och mer benägna att ta till våld. Detta ledde till att personalen försökte undvika konflikter med dem och de tyckte även att det var svårt att kommunicera med dem. Attityderna varierade beroende på vilken sjukdom personen led av. Exempelvis ansågs en person med schizofreni vara långt mer farlig än en person med depression och den senare ansågs ha större chans till tillfrisknande. Sjuksköterskor och läkare var positiva till psykiatriska vårdinrättningar i bostadsområden men de ville inte ha sådana där de själva bor. Sjuksköterskor tycktes ha en mer positiv attityd än läkare till personer med psykisk sjukdom och de som jobbade inom psykiatrin hade en mer positiv attityd än de inom somatisk vård. Några större, entydiga skillnader mellan män och kvinnor har inte funnits, men yngre personal tycktes vara mer negativa än äldre.

The aim of this descriptive literature review was to describe the attitudes of health personnel towards people with mental illness. The literature was gathered through the databases Medline and PsycINFO and a total of 15 scientific articles were chosen. The result was divided into two main categories: attitudes to mental illness and differences in attitudes. The result showed that health personnel in general had a negative view of people with mental illness and they regarded them as dangerous, unpredictable and violent. The personnel tried to avoid unnecessary conflicts with them and thought of them to be hard to communicate with. The attitudes varied depending on what psychiatric illness the person suffered from. A person with schizophrenia was believed to be more dangerous than a person with depression and the latter was believed to have a higher chance to recover. Nurses and doctors were positive to mental health services in residential neighbourhoods but didn't want to live next door to a person with a mental illness. Nurses seemed to have a more positive attitude than doctors to people with mental illness and personnel working in psychiatric care had a more positive view than personnel working in somatic care. Any unequivocal differences between men and women have not been found, but young health personnel seemed to be more negative than elder.

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Carter, Michael Joseph. "Male obesity : a qualitative study of clinical attitudes and perspectives : a project based upon an independent investigation /." View online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/5873.

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Häggqvist, Nicole, and Lisa Viström. "Att vårda patienter med psykisk ohälsa i den somatiska vården : En litteraturstudie om vårdpersonals upplevelser och attityder." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-105548.

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Brun, Sandra, and Clara Hansson. "Munvård - Den lågt prioriterade omvårdnadsåtgärden : Vårdpersonalens upplevelser av att utföra munvård hos äldre." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-30192.

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Utförandet av munvård hos äldre är en omvårdnadsåtgärd som har betydelse för människan och dess helhet, trots vetskap om detta har munvård kommit att vara den del inom vården som ofta bortprioriteras. Därför är det av stor vikt att uppmärksamma vårdpersonalens upplevelser av att utföra munvård för att förstå varför munvård negligeras. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva vårdpersonalens upplevelser av att utföra munvård hos äldre. En litteraturstudie genomfördes där resultatet grundas på 11 vetenskapliga artiklar som svarar mot syftet. Resultatet beskrivs i fem olika teman: Upplevelser av rädsla och känslor av obehag, komplex omvårdnadsåtgärd som väcker etiska dilemman, upplevelser av rutiner och ansvarsområden, en lågt prioriterad omvårdnadsåtgärd och vårdpersonalens behov av kunskap. Resultatet visar vårdpersonalens upplevelser av att utföra munvård i sammanhang som färgas av vårdmiljö, kompetens och attityder. Resultatet belyser bland annat vårdpersonalens egen tandvårdsrädsla som påverkar munvården de erbjuder. Utförandet av munvård ansågs som en komplex uppgift, så vida att omvårdnadsåtgärder som involverade inkontinensskydd föredrogs. Om vårdpersonal erhåller mer tid och kunskap kring utförandet av munvård kan upplevelsen av omvårdnadsåtgärden förändras. Därför bör ytterligare forskning kring upplevelser och utbildning appliceras inom vårdområdet.
The execution of oral care amongst seniors is a care action which carries great importance for the person and its being. Despite aforementioned knowledge, oral care is often neglected within the health sector. Therefore it is of utmost importance to highlight the experiences of health care professionals conducting oral care, in order to further discern the nature of its neglect. The literature review attempts to explain the prevailing experiences of health care professionals in regards to oral care. The literature review was conducted on the basis of 11 articles of scientific nature interpreting the formulated question. The outcome formed five categories: the experience of fear or discomfort, complex care that provokes ethical dilemmas, responsibilities and routines, an overlooked care act, knowledge requirements. The result illustrates health care personnel and their experience of oral care in the context of care environment, competence and attitudes. Furthermore, it exposes dental phobia as a factor affecting the available and recommended care. The execution of oral care proves to be a complex task, to the extent that aid for incontinence was preferred. If health care personnel had further training of oral care execution the experience of providing this type of care could change. There is a discrepancy between theory and practice when it comes to providing oral care. Consequently, additional research of experiences and education ought to be conducted within this field of health care.

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Moreira, Sara Cristina Oliveira Martins. "Atitudes dos técnicos de educação e técnicos de saúde face é educação sexual em meio escolar." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/715.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Psicologia da Saúde
A Educação Sexual em meio escolar é uma temática transversal ás áreas da saúde e da educação. Com a Lei n.° 3/84 que estabelece o direito ao planeamento familiar e à educação sexual inicia-se uma longa caminhada peia implementação da temática no seio escolar. Desde então foram realizados inúmeros esforços a nível formativo, educativo, político, cultural e social em prole de uma efectiva educação para a saúde na esfera da sexualidade. A sexualidade é uma esfera repleta de valoração e emotividade. Se, por um lado, tal nós faz únicos, também pode constituir um obstáculo ã vivência e respeito peio que è diferente. Abordar a sexualidade num contexto escolar , em todas as suas vertentes, requer um trabalho interdisciplinar. investimento e formação dos técnicos de educação e de saúde. Com este estudo pretendemos perceber quais as atitudes subjacentes à temática da educação sexual em meio escolar por parte dos técnicos de educação e dos técnicos de saúde e de que forma podem condicionar a implementação de programas de promoção de uma vivência positiva da sexualidade infanto-juvenil.

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Sergakis, Georgianna G. "Pre-professional allied health students' knowledge, attitudes, beliefs about aging and intentions to work with older adults." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1164820005.

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Fornstedt, Cecilia. "Medical Technology and eHealth for Prevention against LifestyleRelated Diseases : A survey of attitudes among health center personnel and patients prescribed with physical activity on prescription (PAP)." Thesis, KTH, Människa och Kommunikation, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-210310.

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With an aging population that suffers from comorbidity, healthcare is facing grand challenges. In order to meet the demand, digitalization is thought to be an opportunity. Digitalization of curative care, such as diagnostics and treatment, have been initiated and is today used and appreciated. Preventative care, on the other hand, has not been included in the digital adaptions to the same extent and there are few scientific studies within the area. Nonetheless, a further proactive care that meets patients and healthcare personnel are of interest to several actors. The Swedish Government has a vision that Sweden, in 2025, will be world leading within eHealth. For that to be possible, digital preventative care have to support and complete the preventative work that is performed today. The present study has investigated the attitude towards Connected Medical Devices for Prevention (CMDfP) within the primary care. By a mixed-methodology including questionnaires, the opinions of 24 health center personnel and 17 patients prescribed with Physical Activity on Prescription (PAP) were collected and analyzed. The results show that health center personnel are willing to prescribe connected eHealth devices for prevention and patients are willing to use the devices prescribed. Additionally, among the respondents there is a belief that CMDfP could facilitate in order to increase the adherence to PAP without any major impact on the personnel's workload. By digitalizing preventative care, it is possible that people will be able to live healthier and therefore not require care to the same extent as today. Reasons to the possible results are that digital tools within curative care have been shown to generate positive outcomes to chronically ill patients that utilize home care. Additionally, studies of preventative care have generated positive outcomes to the health of the population in several countries. It is therefore likely that the combination, digital preventative care, would be rapidly relished. These thoughts align with the positive results on attitudes of this study. Before CMDfP could be prescribed to patients, pilot studies have to be performed and new work routines including reimbursement models, have to be established within healthcare. These are all areas of future work within medical engineering.
Med en åldrande population som lider av samsjuklighet, står hälso- och sjukvården inför stora utmaningar. För att möta behovet är digitalisering en möjlighet. Digitalisering av åtgärdande vård, så som diagnostik och behandling, har redan påbörjats och är idag uppskattat. Preventiv vård har, å andra sidan, inte varit inkluderad i den digitala utvecklingen och därav saknas det vetenskapliga studier inom området. Dock är en mer proaktiv vård av stort intresse för flera aktörer. Sveriges regering har en vision att Sverige, år 2025, ska vara världsledande inom eHälsa. För att detta ska vara möjligt måste digital preventiv vård möta och komplettera det preventiva arbete som bedrivs idag. Denna studie har undersökt attityderna till Uppkopplade Medicinsktekniska Hjälpmedel för Prevention (UMHfP) bland primärvården. Genom en metod som inkluderat enkätundersökningar, inhämtades och analyserades attityden av 24 personer från personalen på vårdcentraler och 17 patienter med Fysisk Aktivitet på Recept (FaR). Resultaten visade att primärvårdspersonal är villiga att förskriva UMHfP och att patienter vill använda de hjälpmedlen som förskrivs. Dessutom har respondenterna tro att UMHfP kan underlätta att förbättra följsamheten till FaR utan att påverka personalens arbetsbörda nämnvärt. Genom att digitalisera den preventiva vården är det troligt att befolkningen kommer få ett hälsosammare leverne och därför inte behöva vård i samma utsträckning som idag. En anledning till detta är att digitala hjälpmedel för åtgärdande vård har visat sig vara positivt för kroniskt sjuka patienter som hemsjukvårdas. Dessutom har studier inom preventiv vård indikerat flera positiva konsekvenser för invånares hälsa världen över. Det är därför troligt att digitala hjälpmedel i kombination med preventivt arbete snabbt kommer bli uppskattat. Dessa spekulationer sammanfaller väl med det positiva resultatet från denna studie. Innan UMHfP kan förskrivas till patienter måste pilotstudier genomföras och nya arbetssätt inklusive betalningsmodeller måste införas i hälso- och sjukvården. Detta är kommande arbeten inom medicinsk teknik.

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Augustin, Ida, and Joakim Magnusson. "Sjukvårdspersonals attityder till patienter med borderline personlighetsstörning med eller utan självskadebeteende : En litteraturstudie." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-210641.

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BAKGRUND: Litteraturen antyder att sjuksköterskor stigmatiserar och diskriminerar patienter med vissa diagnoser, i synnerhet schizofreni och borderline personlighetsstörning (BPS). BPS beskrivs som den psykiatriska diagnos med störst laddning och kring vilken det florerar flest stereotypa fördomar. SYFTE: Genom granskning av befintlig forskning i form av originalartiklar publicerade i vetenskapliga tidskrifter avser denna studie att sammanställa befintlig kunskap om sjukvårdspersonals attityder till patienter med borderline personlighetsstörning med eller utan självskadebeteende. METOD: Systematisk litteraturstudie. Litteratursökningar utfördes i databaserna PubMed, CINAHL och SCOPUS. RESULTAT: 21 studier inkluderades i resultatet. En rad olika studier påvisade en allmänt negativ attityd gentemot patienter med BPS med eller utan självskadebeteende. Vårdpersonal skattade mer negativa erfarenheter av att vårda patienter med BPS i jämförelse med schizofreni och depression. Vårdpersonal tenderade att skatta patienter med BPS som mer farliga, mindre trovärdiga samt ansåg att de hade mindre interpersonella färdigheter. SLUTSATS: Vårdpersonal, inte minst sjuksköterskor uppvisar negativa attityder i en icke försumbar utsträckning till patienter med BPS med eller utan självskadande beteenden. Detta kan leda till en inadekvat vård och behandling för den berörda patientgruppen.
BACKGROUND: The literature shows that nurses stigmatize and discriminate against patients with certain diagnoses, particularly schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder is generally described as being among the more heavy psychiatric conditions, and therefore very mired in stereotypes and prejudices. AIM: To summarize the current knowledge regarding attitudes of health professionals relating to borderline personality disorder and self-harm. METHOD: Systematic literature review. Literature search was made in the databases PubMed, CINAHL and SCOPUS. RESULTS: 21 studies were included in the results. A variety of studies demonstrated a general attitude of negativity toward patients with BPD with or without tendencies of self-harm. Clinicians reported more negative experiences working with BPD patients than with schizophrenia or depression patients. Caregivers tended to assess BPD patients as being more dangerous, less credible and having less interpersonal skills. CONCLUSION: Healthcare professionals, especially nurses, exhibit negative attitudes to a significant extent toward BPD patients as well as patients with self-harm tendencies. This may lead to inadequate care.

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Svensson, Ylva, and Matilda Pråme. "HBTQ-personers upplevelser av vårdmötet." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25653.

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Bakgrund: HBTQ-personer som grupp lider i större utsträckning av psykisk ohälsa i relation till övriga befolkningen. Dessutom förekommer hög alkoholkonsumtion, rökning och fetma mer frekvent bland HBTQ-personer. Tidigare forskning visar även att dessa personer i vissa fall mottager sämre vård på grund av sin HBTQ-identitet. Detta kan ta sig uttryck genom bland annat verbal trakassering och nekande av vård. Detta strider mot sjuksköterskans kärnkompetenser som inkluderar att erbjuda alla lika vård samt aktivt arbeta med att förbättra vården så att den är säker och trygg för alla.Syfte: syftet med denna studie var att belysa vad HBTQ-personer har för upplevelser av vårdmötet.Metod: Metoden som valdes var en litteraturstudie baserad på tio vetenskapliga artiklar med kvalitativ ansats.Resultat: Resultatet visade att HBTQ-personer ofta upplever det ansträngande att komma ut till sjukvårdspersonal. Brist på kunskap, exkluderande kommunikation samt normativa antaganden om sexuell läggning och kön var faktorer som genererade negativa upplevelser. Positiva upplevelser förekom när sjukvårdspersonal och sjukvårdsmiljöer upplevdes öppna och accepterande samt när sjukvårdspersonalen upplevdes ha relevant kunskap. Negativa upplevelser kunde leda till sämre vård i form av uteblivna medicinska undersökningar eller att HBTQ-personer valde att inte söka vård.Konklusion: Att HBTQ-personer har goda upplevelser av vården är viktigt för deras allmänna hälsa. Negativa upplevelser grundar sig i hetero- och cisnormativa bemötande medan positiva möten kännetecknas av öppenhet, acceptans, respekt och professionalitet. För att optimera upplevelser och kvaliteten av vården för HBTQ-personer bör sjukvårdspersonal ges möjlighet till att utveckla sin kunskap.Nyckelord: attityder, erfarenheter, HBTQ-personer, sjukvård, sjukvårdspersonal, upplevelser
Background: As a group, LGBTQ persons tend to suffer from some physical and emotional health issues to a greater extent than the general population. In addition, research has shown that they may receive inferior health care in the form of verbal harassment or denial of care, because of their LGBTQ identity. This is contrary to nurses´ core competencies, which include offering equal care to all patients as well as promoting a non-discriminatory health care environment.Aim: The aim of this study was to illustrate how LGBTQ persons´ experience health care situations and events.Method: A literature review based on ten qualitative studiesResults: The results showed that LGBTQ persons often struggle with “coming out” to health care personnel. Lack of knowledge of LGBTQ issues, discriminatory communication and hetero- and cis-normative assumptions about sexuality and gender identity were prominent factors that generated negative experiences. Negative health care experiences sometimes lead to inferior health care in terms of missed medical examinations, or the choice to not seek health care.Conclusion: It is important for their overall health that LGBTQ persons have positive health care experiences. Negative experiences are due to hetero- and cis-normativity while positive experiences are characterized by openness, acceptance, respect and professionalism. To optimize the experiences and the quality of health care for LGBTQ persons, heath care personnel should be given the opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding of LGBTQ issues.Key words: attitudes, experiences, LGBTQ persons, healthcare personnel, healthcare

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Igel, Louise, and Jennifer Nordberg. "Kunskap – nyckeln för att se och vårda personen bakom suicidförsöket." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-132713.

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Titel: Kunskap – nyckeln för att se och vårda personen bakom suicidförsöket Bakgrund: Suicidförsök är en personlig tragedi inte bara för patienten utan också för de närstående och har likaså en stor inverkan på personalen. Därför är det viktigt att personalen har en positiv attityd till denna patientgrupp för att ge en så trygg och personcentrerad omvårdnad som möjligt. Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka faktorer som påverkar vårdpersonalens attityder till patienter som behöver sjukhusvård till följd av suicidförsök. Metod: En litteraturstudie innehållande 10 kvantitativa artiklar genomfördes. Artiklarna granskades, analyserades och sammanställdes i ett resultat. Resultat: Vårdpersonalens attityder till patienter som gjort suicidförsök var övervägande positiva. Faktorer som bidrog till positiva attityder var bland annat högre utbildningsnivå och längre erfarenhet inom yrket. Faktorer som bidrog till negativa attityder var bland annat liten erfarenhet av patientgruppen och mindre utbildning i att vårda patienter som gjort suicidförsök. Konklusion: Resultatet visar att vårdpersonalens attityder är övervägande positiva men att ytterligare utbildning krävs för att ytterligare förbättra attityderna och skapa en mer personcentrerad och tryggare vårdmiljö för denna patientgrupp. Nyckelord: attityd, patient, sjukhus, suicidförsök, vårdpersonal
Title: Knowledge – the key to see and care for the person behind the suicide attempt Background: Attempted suicide is a personal tragedy not only for the patient but also the family and likewise has a major impact on the health care personnel. Therefore, it is important that the personnel have a positive attitude to this patient group to provide as safe and person-centered care as possible. Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that contribute to the attitudes of the health care personnel to the patients who need hospitalised care following a suicide attempt. Methods: A literature study containing 10 quantitative articles was conducted. The articles were examined, analyzed and compiled in a result. Results: The attitudes of health care personnel to the patients who have made suicide attempt were mainly positive, contributing factors as to why it was satisfactory included higher level of education and longer experience in the profession. Contributing factors to the opposite attitude included little experience of this patient group and less education in caring for patients who have made suicide attempt. Conclusion: The results show that the attitude amongst health care personnel to patients who have made suicide attempt is mainly good but more education in caring for this patient group is essential to create a safer and more person-centered nursing environment. Keywords: attitudes, attempted suicide, health care personnel, hospital, patient

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Zitianellis, Marina Sophia. "An exploration of health professional's perceptions of the role of clinical psychologists." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002601.

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The South African government has initiated the transformation of health services in the country towards primary health care (PHC) in order to provide comprehensive care to individuals and families. The move to PHC involves an increased need for collaboration between health professionals. It is proposed that for effective team-work to take place, an understanding of the roles and functions of team members is imperative in providing quality mental health care. This study explored health professionals’ perceptions of the role and function of clinical psychologists working as part of a health care team in a community context. Three focus groups and three individual interviews were conducted with social workers, nurses and doctors. The data was then processed and analysed using a grounded theory method. The research highlighted the importance of knowledge, and how this affects referrals, perceptions, inter-professional relations and the perceived usefulness of clinical psychology and clinical psychologists. What is of significance is the potential power that the health professionals have as gatekeepers between the general public and clinical psychologists.

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Stilp, Curt Carlton. "Rural Interprofessional Health Care Education: a Study of Student Perspectives." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3624.

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As the cost for health care delivery increases, so does the demand for access to care. However, individuals in a rural community often do not have access to the care they need. Shortages of rural health care professionals are an ever-increasing problem. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 sought to increase health care access by focusing on team-based care delivery. Thus, the need to educate health care students in the fundamentals of team-based practice has led to an increased emphasis on Interprofessional Education (IPE). While past research focused on urban IPE, a literature gap exists for the effects of a rural team-based educational experience on practice location decisions. This study examined how rural IPE influenced health profession students' perspectives of what it means to be a member of a rural health care team and explored what factors go into making decisions of where to live and provide care. Motivational Theory provided the framework for a mixed methods approach with data from student reflective journaling and a post-experience Q sort. Analysis yielded important understandings about the impact of rural IPE. Accordingly, having a rural IPE experience provided positive motivation for returning after graduation. Further, the time spent in rural IPE generated understandings of what it means to live and provide care to a rural community. One important new discovery gained is the clinical setting is not where most IPE took place. As a result, social interactions with fellow students and community members achieved the goals of rural IPE. Despite these influential findings, noted barriers to genuine rural IPE persisted. In the end, students, educators, and rural health care professionals need to be aware of the multiple factors that guide decisions of where to live and provide care.

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Galo, Luntu. "A case study describing factors perceived to be impacting staff satisfaction amongst health care professionals at the East London Hospital complex." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003905.

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This thesis was born from a concern the researcher had with regard to negative reports in the media emanating from 4 babies that died at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital Peadiatric ICU unit due to power supply failure. The most significant of these negative reports was in 2007 when the Daily Dispatch ran a series of articles regarding what they termed avoidable deaths over the last 14 years. The ease with which staff communicated with the media together with the high absenteeism rate and high turnover was a cause for concern. When the researcher analysed the history of the problem, it immerged from the respondents’ responses that the rationalistion process undertaken by the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDoH) was a significant root cause to the problem. The literature review focused on three areas viz.: Organisational Culture, Organisational Change, Foundations of Satisfaction. This focus was used to confine the problem to a manageable project but secondly each of the aspects are interwoven. Routledge (2010) notes that culture is the reflection of the values advocated by a founder or leader by way of his/her day to day actions. This is done by the leader creating a perception or viewpoint that assists the employees to achieve the organisation’s mission, vision and goals. In any organisation change is a constant and it needs to be effectively managed. With government institutions like the East London Hospital Complex (ELHC) directives come from the top and are implemented by an unprepared and untrained leadership and management cadre and clear communication of vision and objective of the desired outcomes never happens. The aim of the research was to: describe the existing Organisational Culture present at ELHC (Perform an organisational diagnosis); describe the impact of change (rationalisation) and to analyze why there was such a high staff turnover. It is clear from the results of the survey conducted that significant dissatisfaction prevailed relating to how the institution was managed. Dissatisfaction amongst the health professionals was general but also specific to the following: leadership and management issues, fairness, remuneration and lack of resources. The recommendations therefore focused on developing management and leadership within the proposal of Dubrin’s model (2001).

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Lindberg, Maria. "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) an Unclear and Untoward Issue : Patient-Professional Interactions, Experiences, Attitudes and Responsibility." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Vårdvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-168319.

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The overall aim of the present thesis was to investigate experiences of living with multidrug-resistant bacteria (MDRB), using methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization as an illustration, and to develop and validate a tool to describe healthcare personnel’s attitudes towards patients with MDRB. A further objective was to study MRSA-colonized persons’ and healthcare personnel’s experiences of patient-professional interactions and responsibilities for infection prevention. Four empirical studies were conducted. A total of 18 MRSA-colonized persons and 20 healthcare personnel were interviewed regarding their experiences, and a total of 726 RNs responded the MDRB Attitude Questionnaire. The findings revealed the difficulties associated with living with MRSA colonization, which was described as something uncertain, and as an indefinable threat that has to be managed in both everyday life and in contacts with healthcare. Interactions with healthcare personnel were described as unprofessional owing to personnel’s inappropriate behaviour and insufficient information provision. According to the personnel, achieving adequate patient-professional interactions required having knowledge and experiences of MRSA. They also experienced difficulties in providing tailored information to patients. The MRSA-colonized persons described their unwanted responsibility to inform healthcare personnel about the colonization, but also felt responsible for limiting the spread of infection to others. Furthermore, responsibility for infection control was regarded as shared between healthcare personnel and patients. The personnel described such responsibility as a natural part of their daily work, although it was not always easy to adhere to hygiene precautions. The MRSA-colonized persons felt that healthcare personnel have insufficient knowledge of the bacteria and of hygiene precautions. The MDRB Attitude Questionnaire showed that registered nurses do have knowledge deficiencies. The MDRB Attitude Questionnaire has adequate psychometric properties. In conclusion, MRSA colonization constitutes a psychological strain for carriers, and interactions with healthcare personnel resulted in feelings of stigmatization. The present thesis indicates that there is a need to improve healthcare personnel’s knowledge, behaviour and emotional response in relation to patients with MDRB, in order to ensure patient safety and address patients’ needs. The heads of department is responsible for such improvements, and the MDRB Attitude Questionnaire is useful in identifying areas in need for improvement.

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Shirley, Susana Pereira Viriato O'Connor. "Nós e a metadona: Atitudes e crenças dos profissionais de saúde face ao tratamento de manutenção com metadona (MMT)." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/918.

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Sendo a toxicodependência um problema à escala mundial e sendo específica das sociedades modernas, todas as acções promovidas para debelar este fenómeno, têm-se demonstrado infrutíferas. Com o incremento das patologias associadas ao consumo de opiáceos (HlV/Sida, hepatites, tuberculose), as sociedades sentiram necessidade de implementar programas de tratamento que fizessem face a estas problemáticas. O tratamento de manutenção com metadona destaca-se actualmente, dos restantes sendo o que, mais valias apresenta, no combate às referidas patologias, associadas ao consumo de opiáceos. Apesar de ser o tipo de tratamento mais investigado na actualidade pelo corpo científico, a forma como os técnicos preconizam este tratamento, pode influenciar a eficácia do mesmo, sendo para tal necessário o estudo das atitudes e crenças que os próprios profissionais apresentam do mesmo. Nesta investigação, analisamos o tipo de crenças e atitudes dos profissionais que intervêm no tratamento de manutenção com metadona e se estas são influenciadas por variáveis como a profissão, o género, os anos de experiência e a região a que o profissional pertence. Este estudo explora as atitudes e crenças de 175 profissionais de saúde, em função do tratamento de manutenção com metadona e da toxicodependência em geral. Os resultados encontrados sugerem que as atitudes e crenças em função do tratamento de manutenção com metadona são influenciadas pelas variáveis em estudo, designadamente, a categoria profissional, os anos de experiência do técnico na toxicodependência, a região em que o mesmo preconiza o tratamento e o género.

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Jeevanandam, Lohsnah. "Burnout, coping, self-efficacy, attitudes towards people with disabilities, and negative psychological variables in service providers working with people with intellectual disability : a cross-national compariosn across Australia and Singapore /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19642.pdf.

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Knipström, Liel, and Björn Österblom. "Personer med substansbrukssyndrom och deras upplevelser av hälso- och sjukvården : en litteraturstudie." Thesis, Sophiahemmet Högskola, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:shh:diva-4142.

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Bakgrund Substansbrukssyndrom [SBS] är ett globalt och nationellt folkhälsoproblem, detta till trots är studier med fokus på att förmedla de erfarenheter personer som lever med SBS har av bemötande från vårdpersonal få till antalet. Då nästan sju procent av den vuxna befolkningen i Sverige har ett SBS är sannolikheten stor att en sjuksköterska, oberoende verksamhetsområde, någon gång kommer att ha omvårdnadsansvar för en person med SBS. Genom att belysa deras erfarenheter önskar författarna bidra till en bättre förståelse för det positiva förhållningssätt som redan finns och hur det kan säkras, men även att belysa förbättringsmöjligheter i bemötande och omvårdnad. Syfte Syftet var att beskriva hur personer med substansbrukssyndrom upplever bemötandet av vårdpersonal inom hälso- och sjukvården. Metod En icke-systematisk litteraturöversikt genomfördes och resultatet bygger på 17 vetenskapliga artiklar. Dessa inhämtades genom sökning i databaserna PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo samt genom manuell sökning. Alla inkluderade artiklar granskades utifrån det av Sophiahemmets Högskolas bestämda bedömningsunderlag gällande kvalitetsgranskning. En integrerad analys användes för att bearbeta resultatet och detta resulterade i huvudkategorier och subkategorier. Resultat Resultaten presenterades i två huvudkategorier som sedan delades upp i fyra underkategorier: nedprioriterad och misstänkliggjord, misstro och skepsis, skuldbeläggande och förakt samt partnerskap och medmänsklighet. Vårdpersonalens attityder gentemot patienterna med SBS verkade utgöra ett hinder för ett professionellt och empatiskt bemötande, något alla patienter upplevt åtminstone en gång. Resultaten var dock inte entydigt negativa då många patienter även upplevt bemötande från vårdpersonal som uppfattades som positivt och professionellt. Slutsats Studiens resultat visade att det finns kunskapsluckor gällande de levda erfarenheter personer med SBS har. Vidare visade resultatet att ytterligare forskning och utbildning krävs för att klarlägga varför hinder föreligger för omvårdnad i relationen mellan patient och sjuksköterska samt vad som kan göras för att förhindra stigmatisering och ytterligare lidande för personer med SBS.
Background Substance use disorder [SUD] is a global and national public health issue. However, there are few testimonies that focus on the experience of people living with SUD in their encounters with health-care personnel. As nearly seven percent of Sweden’s adult population has a SUD, there is a high probability that a nurse, regardless of field of practice, at some point, will have nursing responsibility for a person with a SUD. By highlighting the experience of the persons living with SUD the authors’ hope to contribute to a better understanding of positive attitudes and behaviour from health-care personnel that needs reinforcement but also what can be done to improve approach and nursing care. Aim The aim of this study was to describe how people with substance use disorder experience the attitudes of the staff in the health care system. Method A non-systematic literature review was conducted, based on 17 scientific articles of both qualitative and quantitative study design. The database searches were performed in PubMed, CINAHL and PsycInfo using appropriate keywords. The chosen articles were subjected to a quality assessment using an assessment basis provided by Sophiahemmet University. The content was then analysed and subsequently grouped into main categories and subcategories. Results The findings were divided into two main categories and subsequently into four subcategories: demoted and suspected, distrust and scepticism, blame and contempt, partnership and compassion. The attitudes of health care personnel were perceived as a barrier to professional and compassionate care, which all of the patients had experienced at least once. However, the results were not unequivocally negative as many patients had also experienced encounters with health-care personnel that were perceived as positive and professional. Conclusions The literature review revealed that there are still knowledge gaps in the lived experience perspective of people with SUD. Furthermore, the literature review showed that extended research and education is needed to elucidate why there are barriers for a caring nurse- patient relationship and what can be done to prevent stigmatization and further suffering for people with SUD.

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Clark-Alexander, Barbara. "Dental hygienists' beliefs, norms, attitudes, and intentions toward treating HIV/AIDS patients." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002428.

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