BACKGROUND Despite the potential of prenatal care for addressing many pregnancy complications and concurrent health problems, non-western women in industrialized western countries more often make inadequate use of prenatal care than women from the majority population do. This study aimed to give a systematic review of factors affecting non-western women's use of prenatal care (both medical care...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines research as “searching again or repeatedly.” In practice, the repeat component of research has become a fundamental part of highquality experimental science. Despite this standard, the published scientific record has recently come under fire for significant numbers of reports that, in whole or in part, are not reproducible. The scientific community must act...

BACKGROUND The organized sports sector has received increased attention as a setting to promote health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA) to the general population. For significant public health impact, it is important that successful HEPA programs are widely adopted, implemented and continued as ongoing practice. The importance of evaluating the context in which programs are implemented has be...

OBJECTIVE To determine barriers and facilitating factors to skin cancer screening practices among US primary care physicians and dermatologists. DESIGN Survey. SETTING Physicians randomly selected from the American Medical Association's Medical Marketing Services database from April 1 through November 30, 2005. PARTICIPANTS A total of 2999 US dermatologists, family practitioners, and inte...

UNLABELLED The aim is to explore factors that motivate and obstacles that impede nurses from pursuing baccalaureate education when employed by a Magnet® organization. BACKGROUND In the Future of Nursing (2011), the Institute of Medicine concluded that the baccalaureate should be the minimum education for nurses. Magnet organizations are encouraged to meet the Institute of Medicine goal of 80%...

This study explored the barriers and facilitating factors among lay health workers (LHWs) and primary care providers (PCPs) in implementing a multi-level program to promote children's oral health care in a rural Thai community. Twelve focus groups and 11 in-depth interviews were conducted with LHWs and PCPs who implemented the program from January 2008 to January 2009. The findings showed that ...

Background: Nurses have a major role in continued care and health promotion. Thus, their productivity is very important. Although many factors affect productivity, but evaluating the personnel's perception about it has a pivotal role in productivity improvement. Moreover, evaluation is a factor that can facilitate or impede productivity. Materials and Methods: This study was done in qualitati...

In order to improve the quality and performance of healthcare services, healthcare information technology is among the most important technology in healthcare supply chain management. This study sets out to apply and test the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), to examine the factors influencing healthcare Information Technology (IT) services. A structured questionnaire ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Quality indicators are increasingly used in healthcare but there are various barriers hindering their routine use. To promote the use of quality indicators, an exploration of the barriers to and facilitating factors for their implementation among healthcare professionals and managers of intensive care units (ICUs) is advocated. METHODS All intensivists, ICU nurses, an...