Objective. The rural Central Gippsland Health Service (CGHS) assists patients with diabetes through the provision of diabetes education. The purpose of this study was to compare and evaluate the CGHS 5-week didactic program and a modified group-participatory Conversation Maps diabetes education program. Method. A pre- and post-program survey was conducted of clients who attended the two differe...

BACKGROUND Patient empowerment is viewed by policy makers and health care practitioners as a mechanism to help patients with long-term conditions better manage their health and achieve better outcomes. However, assessing the role of empowerment is dependent on effective measures of empowerment. Although many measures of empowerment exist, no measure has been developed specifically for patients ...

Although the use of ICT in education has been strongly advocated with a vision to bring a paradigm shift to education, observational studies and surveys in general indicate that the actual impact of ICT on classroom teaching and learning has been limited. This paper attempts to provide a discussion of the underlying problems, and reports an experience which seems to indicate how the situation m...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to determine the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Diabetes Empowerment Scale (Swe-DES-23). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A convenience sample of 195 patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes completed the Swe-DES-23 questionnaire. To establish discriminant validity, Swe-DES subscales were compared with the Semantic Differential in Diabetes ...

The relationship between development and gender empowerment remains unclear, especially in low-income societies where economic growth has not brought about any noticeable change in gender relations. We argue that this is largely due to the multidimensional nature of both concepts so that different aspects of development may have quite different relationships with different aspects of empowermen...

OBJECTIVES To explore the association of maternal education and empowerment with childhood polio vaccination using nationally representative data of Pakistani mothers in a reproductive age group. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Secondary analysis of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS), 2012-2013 data was performed. PARTICIPANTS Of the 13 558 mothers included in the survey sample...