A Review of Health Beliefs and Their Influence on Asylum Seekers and Refugees’ Health-Seeking Behavior

Ahmadinia, Hamed

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-14832-3_11

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“…The relationship between beliefs, knowledge, and behavior of individuals in the face of a health-related situation has been increasingly studied [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. In this sense, the health belief model (HBM) points out that individuals develop their own ideas and theories about health and disease processes from the intersection of three main components: Personal factors, such as motivation, confidence, hope, fear, and ability to follow recommendations, previous experiences that strengthen beliefs on how to act when facing situations, and exposure to sources of social and cultural nature, such as learning, social influences, the media, among others.…”

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Newborn Feeding Knowledge and Attitudes among Medical Students

Pereira

Campos

Silva

et al. 2023

EJIHPE

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This study sought to assess newborn feeding knowledge and attitudes among medical students. A sample of 649 Portuguese medical students completed an online survey containing a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Newborn Feeding Ability Questionnaire (NFA), and the Iowa Infant Feeding Attitudes Scale (IIFAS). The overall sample showed moderate scores for all variables. Gender analysis identified significant differences only for the dimension related to the benefits of skin-to-skin contact between mother and newborn where women scored higher. Analysis by year of training found that students with more years of training scored higher on all variables of newborn feeding knowledge that were positively correlated and were positive predictors of newborn feeding attitudes. Students with fewer years of training scored higher on work practices interfering with newborn feeding ability, which were negatively correlated and were negative predictors of newborn feeding attitudes. These results demonstrate that medical students with more years of training are the most prepared, however, the moderate results of the sample raise concerns. Our results point to the importance of providing medical students with adequate knowledge in order to influence their attitudes toward newborn feeding and contribute to better working practices for future health professionals.

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