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ArticleHealth education research2023

Mixed method evaluation of a clinic waiting room-based health education program in the Dominican Republic.

S Cohen, M Halpern, S Stonbraker

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Article in Health education research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A Pilot Study on the Feasibility and Usability of a Midwife-Led Visual Educational Tool for Sex Education.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

S CohenHarvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1111-7311
M HalpernClínica de Familia La Romana, C. Gaston Fernando Deligne 168, La Romana 22000, Dominican Republic.
S StonbrakerClínica de Familia La Romana, C. Gaston Fernando Deligne 168, La Romana 22000, Dominican Republic.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Information visualizations to facilitate clinician-patient communication in HIV care (Info Viz: HIV)R00NR017829 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI STONBRAKER, SAMANTHA · 2020 to 2022
$717k
Information visualizations to facilitate clinician-patient communication in HIV care (Info Viz: HIV)K99NR017829 · NINR · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI STONBRAKER, SAMANTHA · 2018 to 2019
$181k
NINR NIH HHS K99 NR017829NINR NIH HHS R00 NR017829
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Waiting rooms provide an ideal location to disseminate health information. In this mixed-methods study, we evaluated waiting room-based health education talks at two clinics in the Dominican Republic and explored recommendations for implementing this intervention in similar settings. The talks addressed noncommunicable diseases, sexually transmitted infections, family planning and gender-based violence. We conducted pre- and posttests to assess attendees' change in knowledge and conducted semi-structured interviews with a subset of them. We conducted a semi-structured focus group with educators. Analyses included Wilcox Signed Rank Tests and McNemar tests for pre- and posttests, conventional content analysis for individual interviews and transcript coding for the focus group. Patient participants were 69.3% female aged 39.6 years (SD = 13.5) on average at one clinic (n = 127) and 100% female aged 17.4 (SD = 1.3) on average at the second clinic (n = 24). Focus group participants (n = 5) had 4.8 years (SD = 3.3) of health educator experience on average. Pre- and posttests showed significant improvement (P < 0.05) across all talks. Qualitative interviews emphasized engaging, clear and brief content delivery with visual aids. The focus group highlighted the importance of patient-centered design with culturally concordant delivery and identified implementation challenges. Findings demonstrate that waiting room-based education talks improve knowledge and provide suggestions for similar interventions.

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Sexually Transmitted DiseasesWaiting RoomsDominican RepublicFemaleHealth EducationHumansMaleSex Education

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PMID36715740
PMCPMC10226269
OpenAlexW4318541181

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