OBJECTIVE To assess the skills of community health volunteers in diagnosing active trachoma and distributing azithromycin in the Northern Region of Ghana. METHODS Six community health volunteers from Daboya were trained to diagnose trachoma and to treat the disease using azithromycin. They were also informed of the drug's possible side-effects. Under supervision, each volunteer then examined,...

Abstract The aim of the paper is to present specificity voluntary work Erasmus+ Spanish students (voluntary migrants) in aid children Polish primary schools attended by foreigners (often forced migrants). first – theoretical part text presents outline migration issues, including and educational as well work. second shows methodological assumptions qualitative research, which was conducted using...

Retention of volunteers and participants is a critical concern for programs that rely on their manpower, but limited empirical research exists, especially youth volunteers. This descriptive, cross-sectional quantitative study examined the influence volunteer motivation, participation, science project type retention 4-H ages 12 to 19 years participating in projects 3 states. An instrument was cr...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a major public health problem in developing countries and exclusive breastfeeding is an efficient strategy that can be used to prevent malnutrition and reduce child mortality. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of community volunteers in promoting exclusive breastfeeding from birth in an area of endemic malnutrition. METHODS This evaluation...

With the rapid development and advancement of virtual communities and collaboration, it raises both opportunities and challenges for the online community members. Professional online communities have formed and flourished rapidly with the proliferation of network access in the past two decades. This study aims to explore the activeness of professional online community members by proposing a fra...

Changes in motivational levels occurring during various stages of treatment (institutional and community) were measured among 101 federally sentenced sexual offenders in the Ontario region. Motivation was conceptualized as a dynamic process that can be construed from behavioral referents and more global evaluations of internal featureslreadinesslpsychological stance. Five motivational indices w...

BACKGROUND Buruli ulcer (BU) is a neglected tropical disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. Usually BU begins as a painless nodule, plaque or edema, ultimately developing into an ulcer. The high number of patients presenting with ulcers in an advanced stage is striking. Such late presentation will complicate treatment and have long-term disabilities as a consequence. The disease is mainly en...

Background: With regard to research evidence, moral incivility has expanded in the educational environment one of these incivilities can be called academic incivility. The aim of present research was to investigation the mediating role of academic engagement in the relationship between academic motivation and academic incivility. Method: The present study is descriptive-correlational, that fro...