BACKGROUND Pressure ulcer remains a significant problem in the healthcare system. In addition to the suffering it causes patients, it bears a growing financial burden. Although pressure ulcer prevention and care have improved in recent years, pressure ulcer still exists and occurs in both hospital and community settings. In Jordan, there are a handful of studies on pressure ulcer. This study ai...

Our objective was to assess accidental injury prevention activity within Primary Care Groups/Trusts (PCG/Ts), and current knowledge and attitudes towards accidental injuries and their prevention amongst PCG/T board members. We used a cross-sectional postal questionnaire survey design. Participants were board members of 51 PCG/Ts in Trent. The main outcome measures were prioritization of acciden...

This study aims to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes towards Covid-19 prevention behavior at Pancasila Islamic Boarding School in Bengkulu City. research method is a quantitative with cross sectional method. The results of univariate analysis showed that 55.9% students had good knowledge, 50.00% an attitude supporting prevention, behaved well preventing Covid-19. chi-sq...

results 89.9 % of dentists managed to support their patients in their efforts to stop smoking, though only 39% believed in their own capacity to assist with tobacco use cessation. dentists reported that 35.4% of their patients aged 40+ had undergone screening for oral cancer during their first visit, whereas 11.6% received regular check-up on a periodic basis. those prone to cancer constituted ...

introduction: ventilator-associated pneumonia (vap) is one of the most popular nosocomial infections in the intensive care units and the nurse’s role in preventing it is very important. the aim of this study was to compare the effect of two methods of face to face training and work- shop clinical guidelines in prevention of vap. methods: in this experimental randomized clinical trial, the knowl...

Taiwan is located at the high-risk region of natural disasters with the frequently occurred earthquakes. The importance of the disaster prevention education on campus is made even more obvious by the fact that natural disasters often occur during the school days. Given the leading roles the school administrators and teachers playing in the disaster prevention education of their pupils, this stu...

this study aims to evaluation of knowledge management processes including knowledge generation & acquisition, saving & organizing, dissemination & sharing and application in the public sector especially in police through a case study based investigation and identifies factors affecting for improvement them. the evaluation was examined through 423 questionnaires provided by in different police u...

OBJECTIVES Opioid overdose is still the first cause of preventable death among young men in Barcelona. Sound knowledge of opioid overdose prevention is important to avoid complications and deaths. This study aimed to identify the factors associated with limited knowledge of overdose prevention and to assess the possible effect of treatment and overdose prevention training programs on this varia...

Aim: To assess factors affecting the knowledge on prevention of oral diseases among school teachers of Dharwad city and to assess the relationship of knowledge about prevention of common oral diseases with the sociodemographic variables. Materials and methods: A cross sect ional questionnaire based study was carried out among the school teachers of Dharwad city. The questionnaire was close ende...