Abstinence versus harm reduction approaches to sexual health education: views of key stakeholders in Saudi Arabia

Impact of health education on lifestyles in central Saudi Arabia.

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of health education on diet, smoking, and physical activity among patients visiting the primary health care centers (PHCCs) in Al-Qassim province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS We conducted an uncontrolled experimental study from January to October 2009 to evaluate the impact of health education on smoking, diet, and physical activity among attendees of...

Evaluating Stakeholders Performance of ERP Systems in Saudi Arabia Higher Education

Moderate Drinking, Harm Reduction, and Abstinence Outcomes

Starting in the 1970s and leading up to the present day, William Miller and his colleagues have been collecting experimental data about a moderate drinking intervention called Behavioral Self Control Training (BSCT) which has given us a lot of interesting data about who succeeds with a moderate drinking goal, who succeeds with an abstinence goal, who achieves a harm reduction goal, and who fail...

Attitudes toward harm reduction and abstinence-only approaches to alcohol misuse among Alaskan college students

BACKGROUND Harm reduction is a public health approach that aims to guide hazardous drinkers to change unsafe drinking and minimize alcohol-related consequences without requiring abstinence. In contrast, abstinence-based interventions are designed for people with more severe alcohol problems and they aim to eliminate consequences via complete abstinence from alcohol. Current best practices for t...

Handwritten to Electronic Prescriptions: Emerging Views and Practices, Saudi Arabia

Background: There has been little research on electronic prescribing (EP) in Middle Eastern countries. This is in part due to the slow implementation of electronic health records [EHR] integrated with EP. Electronic prescribing is associated with a considerable reduction in medication errors compared to handwritten prescriptions. Objective: This paper reviews the relevant literature on handwrit...