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[Health education in sexuality and family planning. A experience].

We present an educational health experience in Sexuality and Family Planning, carried out jointly by health care professionals in a Health Care Center and by teachers at a Job Training School within its area, with three groups of students, mostly adolescents. Four sessions were conducted: Sexual education: sexuality and health. Sexual relations. Family relations. Family planning. Evaluation of the previous sessions. In each session, there was a presentation made by the teacher/expert, after which working groups of 4-5 students were formed. Finally, everyone came together again to discuss their work. In each session, several group techniques were used to motivate a higher degree participation, lower inhibition, and deepen mutual contacts. Results have been positive, both for students and teachers, with an increase in knowledge, a variation in attitudes towards the subject, and because it was something different from everyday studies.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1992

In the eye of the beholder: pretesting the effectiveness of health education materials.

Health educators at the University of Massachusetts evaluated five posters to determine whether students comprehended, identified with, and were motivated by the messages, which dealt with aspects of safer sex, alcohol use, and stress management. Pretesting, they suggest, provides an opportunity for remedying design flaws before distributing materials, improving effectiveness, and saving money by assuring that the target audience receives the intended message. Six suggestions for improving effectiveness and acceptability of printed health education materials are offered.

Attitude to Health↗
PubMed1989

The theory behind health education and elderly people health maintenance.

The attainment of full health potential may be possible for all, through health education and health promotion. At all times, the concepts of normalisation, self determination, participation, motivation and, at such times when assistance is needed, coordination of services should be borne in mind. From womb to tomb, lifestyles can be shaped in a way that is more conducive to health. The basic messages will be the same worldwide but require to be tailored to the different needs and conditions appertaining to individuals as they become elderly.

Aged↗
PubMed2004

Designing effective written health education materials: considerations for health professionals.

PURPOSE: Written health education materials can only be effective if they can be read, understood, and remembered by patients. The purpose of this article was to review the literature about features that should be incorporated into written health education materials to maximize their effectiveness, identify where there is consensus and debate about which features should be incorporated, and develop recommendations that health professionals can use when reviewing their existing materials and designing new materials. METHOD: Literature review of published research and education articles. RESULTS: There is a large number of features that need to be considered when designing written health education materials so that they are suitable for the target audience and effective. Although there is consensus about the majority of features that should be included, further research is needed to explore the contribution of certain features, such as illustrations, to the effectiveness of written materials and the effect of well-designed written materials on patient outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Health professionals need to provide their patients with written health education materials that are patient-orientated and designed according to the best practice principles in written health education material design.

Health Education↗
PubMed1994

General practitioners' use of health education material. Results from a nationwide survey in Denmark in 1991. The Danish Health Education Study Group.

In November 1991 69% of a random sample of 998 Danish general practitioners (GPs) participated in a survey by anonymously filling in a mailed questionnaire concerning the way in which they use health education in their practices. Among the participating GPs, 97% used health education material. The study showed differences in attitudes towards and use of health education material. The material most often used by GPs at the consultation concerned diet/overweight, allergy and pregnancy. Pamphlets and posters in the waiting room mainly dealt with vaccination, alcohol and smoking. The female practitioners were generally most sympathetic to the use of health education material, but they are also those most critical of material advertising for medicine. The male practitioners thought that there was too much material and that they did not have enough time to use it.

Adult↗
PubMed1996

[Focus groups: preliminary experiences in educational health programs in Brazil].

Since 1989, the public health education section of the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, has been using the focus group technique to identify educational problems and evaluate programs being developed. The focus group is a research technique that allows qualitative data to be collected through group sessions involving 6 to 15 persons with some shared trait (for example, sex, age, occupation, role in the community). The group discusses various aspects of a specified subject. This paper describes five research projects in which this technique was used. The projects were carried out by professors in the School of Public Health/USP in the state of São Paulo between 1989 and 1992 with population groups and in health institutions. These experiences showed that the technique is efficient, permitting rapid identification and in-depth analysis of problems from the point of view of the population. Among the drawbacks to the technique is that it uses a small and nonrandom sample, which means that in certain cases focus groups should be considered a complement to quantitative studies. The data described here provide knowledge of perceptions, ideas, opinions, expectations, and social images-in short, the cultural and verbal universe of the population. With this information, educators and administrators can plan and evaluate education programs on the basis of the needs and views of the people they serve, putting into practice the plan to make education more democratic and responsive to the needs of its public.

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