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PubMed2000

[Impact of a community network of psychosocial support in perinatal health].

OBJECTIVE: Determine the impact of a community intervention in perinatal health in, cities of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. PATIENTS, MATERIAL AND METHODOLOGY: A community intervention was designed including pregnant women (n = 1233), and finally 1148 (6.74% of loss) group intervention (n = 261) control group (n = 887). Intervention consisted of five visits prior to delivery during the 22nd, 26th, 30th, 34th and 38th weeks, as well as a visit during the first 8 days in puerperium, providing social and educational support. In regards to the control group, they were visited in two different occasions, week 22 and purperium, indicating them to continue with their regular care. The outcome variables were perinatal mortality, premature birth (< 37 weeks), low weight at birth (< 2500 grams) and perinatal morbidity. RESULTS: Perinatal mortality rate was smaller in the intervention group 3.8 per 1000 born alive; perinatal mortality in the control group was 13.1. No statistically considerable difference was found in premature birth, in low weight at birth and in perinatal morbidity. CONCLUSION: Community intervention provides a support to pregnant women under psychosocial risk factors; nevertheless, it does not contribute to considerably decrease premature birth, low weight at birth or perinatal complications.

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PubMed2000

Community network linkages during a health controversy.

The communication of complex scientific and technical health risk information in a community context is little understood and seldom studied. The study reported here examines how information about an environmental health controversy is obtained, exchanged, and used within the community as decision makers and public health officials struggle to protect lake-source drinking water for a community of 55,000. Findings suggest that public health officials may need to broaden their communication strategies to reach less integrated groups with quality scientific and technical health risk information.

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Diabetes education project: community networking in rural Utah.

People in rural areas often lack the financial resources, workforce, and professional network needed to sustain a diabetes education pro gram in their own community. HealthInsight, a nonprofit organization that works to improve the quality of health care in its community, developed a 2-day seminar in an effort to facilitate the networking of rural health professionals who educate patients with diabetes and to help those educators better learn how to use existing resources. Participants included nurses, dietitians, diabetes educators, quality managers, and education directors from hospitals and home health agencies in both rural and metropolitan areas. Speakers presented information on a variety of topics related to program development, and a resource manual containing numerous materials was given to each participant. At the end of the seminar, the group turned in goals for their own programs. Too often, providers of health care compete rather than collaborate with one another. There is a great need for such networking opportunities among health care professionals working on common goals--especially in rural areas.

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PubMed1995

Elders using a community network: profile of a champion.

Computer networks serve as convenient, efficient, and enduring vehicles for delivering nursing services to patients at home. The ComputerLink, a nurse-supervised computer network, provides information, decision support, and communication services to caregivers of people with Alzheimer's Disease [1]. The data obtained in the original experiment included daily logs of each caregiver's use of ComputerLink (n=606 days), records of each caregiver's ComputerLink access behavior (47 subjects; 3875 accesses), and transcripts of the public communications (n=749) posted on the ComputerLink's open electronic bulletin board. In this paper, we present a case study of an early user's pattern of connections to ComputerLink as an atypical example of how elders make use of computer networks.

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PubMed1996

Exploring the determinants of support provision: provider characteristics, personal networks, community contexts, and support following life events.

To explore the determinants of support provision in the natural disaster context, we followed House (1981) and developed a model that specifies how characteristics of the providers, their personal networks, and the community contexts in which they live facilitate or impede their ability to provide support. All three sets of factors affected support provision during Hurricane Andrew, but the pattern of effects differs for the preparation and short-term recovery phases of the hurricane. Age, income, network density, and local economic conditions had significant effects on support provision in the preparation phase. Income did not have a significant effect on short-term recovery support, but religion, house damage, the size and diversity dimensions of network structure, and the local bonds and sentiments dimensions of community attachment did. After comparing the explanatory power of our model in the two phases, we conclude by investigating the implications of this test for understanding the determinants of support provision more generally.

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Using a community networking approach in a bereavement program.

This paper reviews the history of St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Program. St. Anthony's provides bereavement counseling and death education to the community using a networking approach involving the educational, religious, social, and mental health organizations in the area. At present, this model features a church satellite program, grief recovery and anticipatory grief seminars, on-going bereavement support and social support groups, volunteer speakers' bureau, a volunteer staffed bereavement team, and training of psychology, nursing, and medical students.

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