Pressure ulcers (PrUs) are the most common medical complication following spinal cord injury (SCI), as well as costly and potentially life-threatening. Every individual with SCI is at life-long risk for developing PrUs, yet many lack access to readily available, understandable, and effective PrU prevention strategies and practices. To address barriers to adequate PrU prevention ...

This study had two objectives. The first was to assess the frequency and content of school-based anti-smoking education received by Romanian adolescents aged 14-15. Secondly, the study aimed to evaluate to what extent the implementation of a specific 5 lessons smoking prevention program influences the quality of anti-smoking school education among Romanian adolescents. The investigation was per...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the long-term effect of an early prevention program on mothers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices with regard to their children's development. The prevention program focused on increasing the mothers' sensitivity to their children's needs and their awareness of the importance of their role in their children's early development. METHOD Fifty-five mothers and the...

[Purpose] This study investigated the effects of a multifactorial fall prevention program on balance, gait, and fear of falling in stroke patients. [Subjects] Twenty-five stroke patients were divided randomly into multifactorial fall prevention program group (n=15) and control treadmill group (n=10). [Methods] All interventions were applied for 30 min, five times per week, for five weeks. The f...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the organizational designs and task environments of community oncology networks with high accrual rates to cancer prevention clinical trials. DESIGN Replicated case study design; structural contingency theory. SETTING Local Community Clinical Oncology Programs (CCOPs) funded by the National Cancer Institute to test preventive and therapeutic interventions in c...

BACKGROUND β Thalassemia major is characterized by hemolytic anemia, ineffective erythropoiesis and hemosiderosis. About 4% of the world population carries a Thalassemia gene. Management includes blood transfusions and iron chelation. However, this treatment is costly, and population screening may be significantly more cost beneficial. PURPOSE The purpose of the current study is to analyze th...

background: suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of iranian ministry of health and medical education (mhme). the suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by primary health care (phc) network. the main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into phc network...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to identify resources and barriers to implementing a church-based diabetes prevention program (DPP) in a rural African American church community in Georgia. METHODS In collaboration with community leaders, researchers conducted 4 focus groups with 22 key informants to discuss their understand...

In Part One of this paper an overview was provided of men’s role in prevention along with effective strategies for ending men’s violence against women, and the importance of creating culturally relevant programs that address all of men’s identities was presented. The discussion is continued in this document by providing an overview of best practices in prevention, the content and format of men’...