Multimedia materials for education, training, and advocacy in international health: experiences with the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative CD-ROM

Beanland, TJ; Lacey, SD; Melkman, DD; Palmer, Stuart; Stothard, J. Russell; Fleming, Fiona; Fenwick, Alan

doi:10.1590/s0074-02762006000900013

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“…During the 1990s, its use remained very limited. It was not incorporated within the Tanzanian primary school health curriculum and it languished until it was taken up by the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative as an appropriate health education tool for use in primary schools, alongside other health education initiatives to create and sustain a demand for treatment (Beanland et al, 2006). While there had been no formal qualitative or quantitative evaluation of this booklet, nor of any others developed in this series for other diseases (see http://www.chepe.fr/), it has been further revised and adapted by Merck-KGa into a more modern cartoon format and entitled Bambo has Bilharzia: What Children Should Know about Bilharzia (see http://apps.who.…”

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HEALTH EDUCATION AND THE CONTROL OF UROGENITAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE JUMA NA KICHOCHO COMIC-STRIP MEDICAL BOOKLET IN ZANZIBAR

Stothard

Khamis

et al. 2016

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Summary. Endeavours to control urogenital schistosomiasis on Unguja Island (Zanzibar) have focused on school-aged children. To assess the impact of an associated health education campaign, the supervised use of the comic-strip medical booklet Juma na Kichocho by Class V pupils attending eighteen primary schools was investigated. A validated knowledge and attitudes questionnaire was completed at baseline and repeated one year later following the regular use of the booklet during the calendar year. A scoring system (ranging from 0.0 to 5.0) measured children's understandings of schistosomiasis and malaria, with the latter being a neutral comparator against specific changes for schistosomiasis. In 2006, the average score from 751 children (328 boys and 423 girls) was 2.39 for schistosomiasis and 3.03 for malaria. One year later, the score was 2.43 for schistosomiasis and 2.70 for malaria from 779 children (351 boys and 428 girls). As might be expected, knowledge and attitudes scores for schistosomiasis increased (+0.05), but not as much as originally hoped, while the score for malaria decreased (−0.33). According to a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, neither change was statistically significant. Analysis also revealed that 75% of school children misunderstood the importance of reinfection after treatment with praziquantel. These results are disappointing. They demonstrate that it is mistaken to assume that knowledge conveyed in child-friendly booklets will necessarily be interpreted, and acted upon, in the way intended. If long-term 1 Corresponding author.

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HEALTH EDUCATION AND THE CONTROL OF UROGENITAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE JUMA NA KICHOCHO COMIC-STRIP MEDICAL BOOKLET IN ZANZIBAR

Stothard

Khamis

et al. 2016

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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“…Beanland et al indicated that the use of novel communication technologies such as the internet is an effective training method in the health system. 26 However, in our study, the low satisfaction with on-line training could be because of a weak on-line learning infrastructure and health system information technology, as well as the low skills of health managers in using these technologies.…”

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Evaluation of the district health management fellowship training programme: a case study in Iran

et al. 2018

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ObjectiveTo evaluate the district health management fellowship training programme in the north-west of Iran.Data sources/study settingThe programme was introduced to build the managerial capacity of district health managers in Iran. Eighty-nine heads of units in the province’s health centre, district health managers and the health deputies of the district health centres in the north-west provinces of Iran had registered for the district health management fellowship training programme in Tabriz in 2015–2016.Study designThis was an educational evaluation study to evaluate training courses to measure participants' reactions and learning and, to a lesser extent, application of training to their job and the organisational impact.Data collection/extraction methodsValid and reliable questionnaires were used to assess learning techniques and views towards the fellowship, and self-assessment of health managers’ knowledge and skills. Also, pretest and post-test examinations were conducted in each course and a portfolio was provided to the trainees to be completed in their work settings.Principal findingsAbout 63% of the participants were medical doctors and 42.3% of them had over 20 years of experience. Learning by practice (scored 18.37 out of 20) and access to publications (17.27) were the most useful methods of training in health planning and management from the participants’ perspective. Moreover, meeting peers from other districts and the academic credibility of teachers were the most important features of the current programme. Based on the managers’ self-assessment, they were most skilful in quality improvement, managing, planning and evaluation of the district. The results of the post-test analysis on data collected from district health managers showed the highest scores in managing the district (77 out of 100) and planning and evaluation (69) of the courses.ConclusionThe results of this study indicated that training courses, methods and improvement in managers' knowledge about the health system and the skills necessary to manage their organisation were acceptable.

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“…There, it became apparent that especially poor sanitation and water-hygiene conditions abounded in several SCI-supported countries, as exemplified by images and video footage within the “ SCI Advocacy for Control in Uganda ” video and health CD (Beanland et al 2006). The film typified the remote and rural conditions of high-transmission environments along shoreline villages of lakes Albert and Victoria, Uganda.…”

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“…The realisation that infection and disease were occurring in children younger than school age started to take form during discussions in London in May 2003, during the first annual Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) review meeting. There, it became apparent that especially poor sanitation and water-hygiene conditions abounded in several SCI-supported countries, as exemplified by images and video footage within the “ SCI Advocacy for Control in Uganda ” video and health CD (Beanland et al 2006). The film typified the remote and rural conditions of high-transmission environments along shoreline villages of lakes Albert and Victoria, Uganda.…”

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Closing the praziquantel treatment gap: new steps in epidemiological monitoring and control of schistosomiasis in African infants and preschool-aged children

et al. 2011

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SUMMARYWhere very young children come into contact with water containing schistosome cercariae, infections occur and schistosomiasis can be found. In high transmission environments, where mothers daily bathe their children with environmentally drawn water, many infants and preschool-aged children have schistosomiasis. This ‘new’ burden, inclusive of co-infections with Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni, is being formally explored as infected children are not presently targeted to receive praziquantel (PZQ) within current preventive chemotherapy campaigns. Thus an important PZQ treatment gap exists whereby infected children might wait up to 4–5 years before receiving first treatment in school. International treatment guidelines, set within national treatment platforms, are presently being modified to provide earlier access to medication(s). Although detailed pharmacokinetic studies are needed, to facilitate pragmatic dosing in the field, an extended ‘dose pole’ has been devised and epidemiological monitoring has shown that administration of PZQ (40 mg/kg), in either crushed tablet or liquid suspension, is both safe and effective in this younger age-class; drug efficacy, however, against S. mansoni appears to diminish after repeated rounds of treatment. Thus use of PZQ should be combined with appropriate health education/water hygiene improvements for both child and mother to bring forth a more enduring solution.

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Multimedia materials for education, training, and advocacy in international health: experiences with the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative CD-ROM

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

HEALTH EDUCATION AND THE CONTROL OF UROGENITAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE JUMA NA KICHOCHO COMIC-STRIP MEDICAL BOOKLET IN ZANZIBAR

HEALTH EDUCATION AND THE CONTROL OF UROGENITAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE JUMA NA KICHOCHO COMIC-STRIP MEDICAL BOOKLET IN ZANZIBAR

Evaluation of the district health management fellowship training programme: a case study in Iran

Closing the praziquantel treatment gap: new steps in epidemiological monitoring and control of schistosomiasis in African infants and preschool-aged children

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