Somatic awareness (SA) refers to heightened sensitivity to a variety of physical sensations and symptoms. Few attempts have been made to dissociate the relationship of SA and affective symptoms with pain outcomes. We used a validated measure of mood and anxiety symptoms that includes questions related to SA to predict the number of tender points found on physical examination in a large cross-se...

328 With access to multimedia through social networks at global level, one wonders why some of the preventive healthcare services such as children and adult immunizations, annual screening for men and women, prenatal and dental care for childbearing women and adolescents are not provided at a 100% rate. Community awareness is a crucial aspect of preventative healthcare and perhaps those respons...

Social media allows the public to engage in the disaster response and recovery process in new and exciting ways. Many emergency management agencies in the United States are embracing social media as a new channel for alerts, warnings, and public outreach, but very few are mining the massive amounts of data available for use in disaster response. The research reflected in this paper strives to h...

The current "Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) community awareness campaign" explicitly links the difficulties facing the PBS to patient behaviour and "waste". The campaign suggests that patients are taking advantage of affordable access to prescription medicines, and emphasises that patient responsibility is "the prescription for a healthy PBS". By neglecting to inform the public that the p...

This paper presents some of the early design work of the 'Care in the Digital Community' research project-begun under the EPSRC IRC Network project EQUATOR. We outline some initial findings and designs from this interdisciplinary research project focusing on developing enabling technologies to assist care in the community for user groups with different support needs. While location-awareness ma...

The implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the healthcare industry has witnessed a tremendous growth in the recent past. These ICTs are often viewed as vehicles that can bridge the digital divide between rural and urban healthcare centres. They hold the promise of bringing resolution to the shortages facing the rural healthcare sector by introducing e-health solu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a community oral health awareness program given to mothers through trained community level workers (Junior Public Health Nurses (JPHNs) and Anganwadi workers (AWWs). METHODS Oral health education materials were prepared based on the findings of a knowledge survey among community workers and mothers of children (0-6 years) in a selected block panchaya...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study examined the effectiveness of a slide/audio community education program aimed at increasing knowledge of stroke risk factors, stroke warning signs, and action needed when stroke warning signs occur. The program targets audiences at higher risk for stroke, especially individuals who are black or >50 years of age. METHODS Subjects were 657 adults living in the ...