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e-Health Literacy among medical students
No full textBackground: The struggle against fake medical news, nowadays widely spread by web sources, is a main issue in public health especially in a pandemic period. Even among medical students, there is a lack of eHealth literacy (eHL) skills to solve medical problems. The Italian Medical Doctors Federation (FNOMCeO) promoted a Web source as a first-aid communication kit for basic notions in health hot-topics named ‘‘dottoremaeveroche’’ (DMVEC). This study aims to evaluate its effectiveness in improving eHL.
Methods: Between April and November 2019, medical students from the University of Firenze (Italy) joined a cross-sectional web-based survey before and after accessing the DMVEC Web source. The 8-item self-assessment tool (IT-eHEALS) was used to examine subject’s eHL, in addition to questions on source’s features and its quality. All responses were rated on a 5-points Likert scale. Changing of abilities’ perception was assessed using Wilcoxon
test.
Results: A total of 329 joined the survey, 42% male, mean age of 20.6±2.1. Participants felt moderately confident in eHL, in fact the initial eHEALS overall mean score was 3.6±0.7. Students had a good perception on how to find helpful health resources (mean score 3.9±0.8) and how to use the Internet to answer health questions (mean score 3.8±0.9), but their ability in using this information to make health decisions was low (mean
score 2.9±1.1). All items improved after the use of DMVEC, with overall mean score of IT-eHEALS increasing to 4.3±0.6 (p < 0.0001). Regarding source’s quality, mean score related to transparency of sources, an aspect underestimated at first, increased from 3.5±1.2 to 4.7±0.7 (p < 0.0001).
Conclusions: Low levels of eHL can damage public health efforts, as seen during COVID19 pandemic. DMVEC effectiveness in medical students demonstrated that the scaling up to the general population of online educational interventions, with further implementation, could help in tackling infodemic and fake news spreading.
Key messages: Moderate levels of eHL among medical students could reflect lower levels in general population, highlighting this as critical issue in public health. Educational programs addressed to Health professionals could be adapted and empowered considering general population as target
Digital Health Literacy and Infodemic: the impact on Italian medical students between 2019-2020: Valentina Moretti
No full textBACKGROUND: The COVID-19 infodemic is putting pressure on public health systems to control the pandemic. With the internet and social media playing a key role in emergency communication, digital health literacy (DHL) can be considered a determinant of health. This study aims to assess the impact of infodemic on the skills of medical students, for whom low levels of DHL may affect the ability to identify the best available medical evidence. METHODS: A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted at the University of Florence (Italy) in Apr-May 2019 (pre-pandemic period) and in Nov-Dec 2020 (pandemic period) to investigate DHL skills. Two different cohorts of students, both in their first year of medical school, participated in the survey. The 8-item self-assessment tool (IT-eHEALS) with a 5-point Likert scale was used to examine DHL. The change in perception of ability between the two cohorts was examined using the Wilcoxon test. RESULTS: A total of 329 students participated in the survey in 2019 (F: 58.1%; mean age 20.6±2.1) and 341 in 2020 (F:61.9%; mean age 19.8±2.0). In 2019, participants’ DHL level was moderate with a IT-eHEALS overall mean score (MS) of 28.4±5.8. Students had a good idea of how to find helpful health information (MS 3.9±0.8) and how to use the web for this purpose (MS 3.8±0.9), but they were less confident about the usefulness of the information they received (MS 2.9±1.1). In 2020, the medical students’ DHL level deteriorated as the overall MS of IT-eHEALS decreased to 23.4±7.2 (p < 0.01). The scores of the IT-eHEALS items were significantly lower and students indicated that they found it difficult to assess the information they found (MS 2.4±1.1; p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: DHL can contrast infodemic, but the latter in turn may have a negative impact on perceived DHL skills if personal knowledge base is not well structured. Training programmes for medical students as future health care providers should be reinforces to guide their practise. KEY MESSAGES: Assessing digital health literacy is the first step in directing public efforts towards empowering educational programmes to improve health literacy. Medical students, as future health professionals, should be able to use the best evidence to help their patients identify healthy beliefs and behaviours to manage in health emergencies
Bibliographie Hilarion G. Petzold 1958 – 2009 mit Anhang als Einführung
No full textDieses Archiv enthält die Gesamtbibliographie der Werke des Autors nebst einiger Texte „Über H. G. Petzold“ im Schlussteil der Bibliographie sowie einen Anhang mit einer Einführung in die Architektur des Werkes in seinem wissenslogischen Aufbau als Ausarbeitung seines „Tree of Science Modells“ (2007).This archive contains the complete bibliography of the author and some texts about H. G. Petzold, moreover an epilogue with an introduction to the architecture of the works in its epistemological structure and composition and as an elaborations of Petzold’s „Tree of Science Modell (2007).https://www.fpi-publikation.de/polyloge/01-2009-petzold-h-g-gesamtbibliographie-h-g-petzold-1958-2009-updating-november2009/peerReviewedpublishedVersio
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
2020 healthcare workers flu vaccination during covid-19: the experience of Udine University Hospital
No full textBackground: To prevent flu spread, Italian healthcare workers (HCWs) are annually recommended and given free flu vaccination. This measure of healthcare system protection resulted to be fundamental during COVID-19 pandemic to prevent staff shortage issue. Being the minimum coverage target set at 75%, we decided to evaluate vaccination adherence among HCWs at Udine University hospital.
Methods: The 2020 vaccination campaign started 4 weeks earlier than usual and was based on a multiple offer strategy including a daily-dedicated clinic, in-ward administrations along with wide vaccination agenda promotion within hospital. The prevalence and the characteristics of vaccinated HCWs were compared with the same 2019 data.
Results: During 2020, 1868 out of 3839 (48.7%) of HCWs were vaccinated, compared to 29.1% in 2019 (p < 0.0001). Doctors and residents were the most vaccinated categories in both years, being respectively 64.7% and 67.2% in 2020 vs 45.0% and 52.4% in 2019 (p < 0.0001). Midwives showed the best improvement in coverage passing from 44.4% to 20.4% (p = 0.0096). HCWs working in emergency areas and intensive care unit reached the highest adherence in 2020 (61.3%) and the best improvement compared to 2019 as well (37.9%; p < 0.0001).
Conclusions: Even if the target was not reached, strategies adopted for 2020 vaccination campaign significantly increased HCWs adherence. COVID-19 contribution in this achievement cannot be ruled out, possibly representing a strong reinforcing element for HCWs awareness towards infectious disease prevention.
Key messages: Despite the improvement in vaccination adherence, HCWs flu vaccination coverage still remains a concerning issue to be addressed. Increased flu shot adherence reached during COVID-19 pandemic should be not only a target to be maintained but even improved next year getting closer to herd immunity
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No full textPhotograph of author Samuel G. Freedman, at NT Daily Slash meeting in the Mayborn School of Journalism at UNT
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