Early diagnosis and treatment are recognized strategies to reduce the long-term functional effects of chronic diseases, including psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Treatment may be delayed if youth, young adults and parents are not aware of the early signs and symptoms of psychosis, the need for early diagnosis and treatment and where and how to get help. This article describes the use...

Influenza vaccination of Health Care Workers (HCWs) is recommended by several health authorities worldwide aiming to prevent influenza, to reduce staff absenteeism due to illness and to protect vulnerable patient populations from the increased morbidity and mortality that influenza carries. However, despite recommendations and proven efficacy and cost effectiveness of influenza vaccine, vaccina...

BACKGROUND Community health services in China have developed over the last few decades. In order to use limited health resources more effectively, we conducted a community health needs assessment. This aimed to provide an understanding of the community's health problems and the range of potential factors affecting risk behaviours for the priority health problems. METHODS We used the precede-p...

OBJECTIVE This study intends to investigate interns and faculty members' insights into constructing relationship between physicians and patients at 3 more accredited Iranian universities of medical sciences. METHOD Applying PRECEDE PROCEED model, semi-structured interviews were completed with 7 interns and 14 faculty members and two themes were emerged from directed content analysis. The mean...

BACKGROUND In order to help rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients in carrying out and at-taining relevant self-care behaviors and adaptation to the physical limitations of this dis-ease and, conse-quently, promoting their level of health status, an education program based on the PRECEDE component of the PRECEDE-PROCEED model targeting patients with RA was developed. This paper describes the planni...

Precede-Proceed model is a flexible and appropriate to develop a smoking cessation/prevention program. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a preliminary hypothetical health promotion program that is focused on smoking cessation / prevention for older Canadian people who smoke and live in nursing homes to improve their quality of life. It is hoped that advanced-practice gerontology nurs...