Objectives: To assess knowledge, attitudes of nurses and midwives regarding adverse event at the clinical departments at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in 2019 and explore some related factors. Subjects and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study on 149 nurses and midwives at clinical department at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in 2019. Results: The percentage of good knowledge, good attitude are respectively: 79.2%; 78.5%. There are significant association between nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge of adverse event and educational attainment, attendance in adverse event training, the frequency of monitoring and supervision by supervisory staff (p < 0.05); between their attitudes toward adverse event and income from hospitals, attendance in adverse event training, discussion with colleagues about adverse event (p < 0.05). Conclusion: regular training, raise awareness and attitude of adverse event, encouraging to organize activities between department to exchange experiences on prevention of adverse event Key words: knowledge, attitudes, adverse event, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital
Introduction: Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted virus. HPV causes many diseases and the risk for many types of cancer which has been reported in both sexes, not just cervical cancer in females. However, the prevention of HPV infection is quite limited among males in Vietnam. The study is to evaluate knowledge, attitude on prevention of HPV infection among parents of male students at some junior high schools in Hue city and explore some related factors. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 785 parents of male students at four junior high schools in Hue city. Data were collected by direct interviews with structured questionnaire. Multivariate logistic regression model was used to identify the related factors. Results: Participants who got good knowledge and positive attitude of HPV infection prevention accounted for 18.9% and 15.2%, respectively. Occupation, educational level of parents, number of sons and family history of HPV related diseases influenced on knowledge about HPV infection prevention. Relations with son, educational level of parents, defect/chronic disease of son and knowledge of parents were significantly associated with their attitude toward HPV infection prevention (p < 0.05). Conclusions: This study highlighted that knowledge, attitude on HPV infection prevention of the parents of male students in Hue city was still low. The health sector needs to implement comprehensive health education and communication programs to improve knowledge, attitude about prevention of HPV infection for people, especially males. Key words: knowledge, attitude, human papilloma virus, HPV, parents, male students
Objectives: To assess the health literacy and identify the relationship between the health literacy and health care seeking behavior among the older persons in Hue city. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Hue city. 400 older persons were interviewed directly using a structured questionnaire. Health literacy was assessed by HLS- Asian- Q. Multivariate logistic regression model was used to identify the relationship between health literacy and health care seeking behavior. Results: 20.0% of the respondents got inadequate health literacy. The proportion of the elderly who achieved health literacy in health care, health prevention and health promotion were 25.7%, 10.0% and 28.0%, respectively. The percentage of the elderly who have sought health care services and health promotion services were 76.7% and 68,0%, respectively. There was a relationship between health literacy and treatment seeking behaviour (OR= 3.71; 95% CI: 1.25-11.01) and health prevention service seeking behaviour among participants (OR=3.30; 95% CI:1.16-9.40). Conclusions: Health literacy of the elderly was still low in Hue city. There is influence of health literacy on health care seeking behavior among them. Enhancing health literacy for the older persons should be a necessary solution to improve their health status. Keywords: Health literacy, health seeking behavior, older persons, Hue city.
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