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Trial reportThe European journal of general practice2017

Designing and evaluating a health education session on respiratory infections addressed to caregivers of children under three years of age attending day-care centres in Porto, Portugal: A community-based intervention.

Ana Manuela Ferreira da Silva Alexandrino, Rita Isabel Garrido Vieira Dos Santos, Maria Cristina Damas Argel de Melo, José Adelino Mesquita Bastos

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in The European journal of general practice, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ana Manuela Ferreira da Silva Alexandrinoa Department of Physiotherapy , School of Allied Health Technologies, Polytechnic Institute of Porto , Portugal.
Rita Isabel Garrido Vieira Dos Santosa Department of Physiotherapy , School of Allied Health Technologies, Polytechnic Institute of Porto , Portugal.
Maria Cristina Damas Argel de Meloa Department of Physiotherapy , School of Allied Health Technologies, Polytechnic Institute of Porto , Portugal.
José Adelino Mesquita Bastosb Department of Health Sciences , University of Aveiro , Portugal.
Polytechnic Institute of Porto · PTCentro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga · PTUniversidade do Porto · PT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAcute respiratory infections (ARI) are common in children, increasing the pressure on clinicians to prescribe antibiotics and affecting public health Objectives: This study aimed to design a health education session (HES) for caregivers of children, and to evaluate its effects on caregivers' needs, as well as on their knowledge and attitudes concerning ARI.

methodsA generalized model of developing, implementing and evaluating a community-based intervention was followed, including caregivers of children under three years of age. Caregivers were randomly distributed into an intervention group (IG) (n = 41) and a control group (CG) (n = 51) and the HES was administered to the IG. The caregivers' needs as well as knowledge of and attitudes to ARI were evaluated in both groups, before (M0) and two months after the HES (M1).

resultsAt M0 the caregivers from both groups had 'some or great need' about all HES domains; at M1 the caregivers in the IG expressed 'no or low need', whereas the CG maintained 'some or great need' about all HES domains (0.011 ≤ P ≤ .047). Concerning caregivers' knowledge of and attitudes to ARI, at M1 there was a higher frequency of caregivers with right answers in the IG than in the CG (IG =7.5 ± 1 versus CG =6.0 ± 2; P = .000). Those differences occurred in domain (e) nasal clearance techniques, revealing a higher percentage of caregivers who used correctly nasal irrigation (P = .000), nasal aspirators (0.000 ≤P ≤ .001) and nebulization (P = .000) in IG.

conclusionThe HES met the caregivers' needs regarding ARI and increased their knowledge and attitudes towards ARI, especially regarding nasal clearance techniques.

Indexed as

Models, TheoreticalAcute DiseaseAdultCaregiversChild Day Care CentersChild, PreschoolFemaleHealth EducationHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansInfantMalePilot ProjectsPortugalRespiratory Tract InfectionsHealth educationinfectious diseasespaediatricspatient involvement empowermentpreventionpublic health and community medicineself-management

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PMID28270028
PMCPMC5774287
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