Evidence-based training of frontline health workers for door-to-door health promotion: A pilot randomized controlled cluster trial with lady health workers in Sindh Province, Pakistan

Omer, Khalid; Mhatre, Sharmila; Ansari, Noor M; Laucirica, Jorge; Andersson, Neil

doi:10.1016/j.pec.2008.02.018

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“…Providing patients having lupus with information alleviates anxiety, enables the individual to cope, facilitates awareness, increases adherence and leads to improved self-management adherence. 150,153,227 Peer mentoring may be an effective way to reinforce self-management techniques by having content shared and modeled in a reciprocal relationship. Mentoring goes beyond providing information.…”

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Effective Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Lupus: Potential Impact of Peer Mentoring

Williams

Egede

Faith

et al. 2017

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with significant mortality, morbidity and cost for the individual patient and society. In the United States, African Americans (AAs) have 3–4 times greater prevalence of lupus, risk of developing lupus at an earlier age and lupus-related disease activity, organ damage and mortality compared with whites. Evidence-based self-management interventions that incorporate both social support and health education have reduced pain, improved function and delayed disability among patients with lupus. However, AAs and women are still disproportionately affected by lupus. This article presents the argument that peer mentoring may be an especially effective intervention approach for AA women with SLE. SLE peers with a track record of success in lupus management and have a personal perspective that clinicians often lack. This commonality and credibility can establish trust, increase communication and, in turn, decrease disparities in healthcare outcomes.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Effective Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Lupus: Potential Impact of Peer Mentoring

Williams

Egede

Faith

et al. 2017

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences

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“…Community-based interventions that include prenatal counseling, training, and health services for pregnant mothers, combined with postnatal home visits demonstrated a positive impact on long-term exclusive breastfeeding (Akhter et al, 2012; Baker et al, 2006; Omer et al, 2008; Spiby et al, 2009). Inclusion of fathers and other community members in breastfeeding promotion may significantly increase colostrum feeding and exclusive breastfeeding (Saowakontha et al, 2000; Susin & Giugliani, 2008).…”

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Development and Evaluation of the Korean Health Literacy Instrument

Kang

Lee

Kim

et al. 2014

Journal of Health Communication

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In June of 2012, representatives from more than 80 countries promulgated a Child Survival Call to Action, which called for reducing child mortality to 20 or fewer child deaths per 1,000 live births in every country by 2035. To address the problem of ending preventable child deaths, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the United Nations Children's Fund convened, on June 3–4, 2013, an Evidence Summit on Enhancing Child Survival and Development in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries by Achieving Population-Level Behavior Change. Six evidence review teams were established on different topics related to child survival and healthy development to identify the relevant evidence-based interventions and to prepare reports. This article was developed by the evidence review team responsible for identifying the research literature on caregiver change for child survival and development. This article is organized into childhood developmental periods and cross-cutting issues that affect child survival and healthy early development across all these periods. On the basis of this review, the authors present evidence-based recommendations for programs focused on caregivers to increase child survival and promote healthy development. Last, promising directions for future research to change caregivers' behaviors are given.

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“…8 LHWs have been shown to provide a superior level of care compared to settings in which they are not utilized. 9,10 They have also been shown to do so in a costeffective way. 11 LHWs in sub-Saharan Africa are a potential resource for addressing the health care worker shortage: perhaps the greatest barrier to the roll-out of HIV care in this region.…”

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Lay Health Workers and HIV Care in Rural Lesotho: A Report from the Field

Joseph

Rigodon

Cancedda

et al. 2012

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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Lay health workers (LHWs) are individuals who participate in a variety of health services, even though they have no formal professional training. They have been used in a variety of settings, especially where health care needs outstrip available human resources. Lesotho faces a severe human resource shortage as it attempts to manage its HIV pandemic, with more than 25% of the population infected with HIV. This article reports on a program that provided HIV services in seven rural clinics in Lesotho. LHWs played an important role in the provision of HIV services that ranged from translation, adherence counseling, voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV and patient triage, to medication distribution and laboratory specimen processing. Training the LHWs was part of the clinic physicians' responsibilities and thus required no additional funding beyond regular clinic operations. This lent sustainability to the training of the LHWs. This paper describes the recruitment, training, activities, and perceptions of the LHW work between June 2006 and December 2008. LHWs participated successfully in the care of thousands of people with HIV in Lesotho and their experience can serve as a model for other countries facing the disease.

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Evidence-based training of frontline health workers for door-to-door health promotion: A pilot randomized controlled cluster trial with lady health workers in Sindh Province, Pakistan

Cited by 51 publications

References 32 publications

Effective Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Lupus: Potential Impact of Peer Mentoring

Effective Self-Management Interventions for Patients With Lupus: Potential Impact of Peer Mentoring

Development and Evaluation of the Korean Health Literacy Instrument

Lay Health Workers and HIV Care in Rural Lesotho: A Report from the Field

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