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R Ramsingh

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PubMed1997

Evaluation of a workshop on Public Education Messages for Reducing Health Risks from Ultraviolet Radiation.

The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of the 1994 Workshop on Public Education Messages for Reducing Health Risks from Ultraviolet Radiation (UVR). The target audience was any organization in Canada doing education on the health risks of UVR. A mailed survey with telephone follow-up was distributed to 130 addresses, including workshop participants, recipients of the workshop report and 40 local public health units. The response rate was 62%. Public health messages from the workshop served as an added impetus or helped to initiate activities around UVR in approximately 40% of organizations over the two years since the workshop. The public health messages were used directly in programming by approximately 38% of all organizations responding. However, looking at those who had previously seen the messages, 61% used them directly in programming. Forty percent of those sampled had never seen a copy of the messages. The results suggest the need for improved dissemination of consensus statements.

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Promoting first trimester prenatal classes: a survey.

In June 1990, 436 women and their spouses attending prenatal classes in the Ottawa-Carleton region completed a self-administered questionnaire to identify use of and interest in first trimester prenatal classes, and possible contact points with women to encourage early prenatal class attendance. Only 23% of the women had attended classes during the first trimester, but another 39% said they would have been interested. Two major categories of deterrents to early prenatal class attendance were found: 1) low level of public knowledge about availability and usefulness and 2) low physician patient referral. Most (89.4%) women went to their physician early in pregnancy, and many (45.7%) found out they were pregnant through the drug store. Suggested approaches to promoting first trimester attendance at prenatal classes include public awareness campaigns through pharmacies, the workplace and in the general community, and education programs for physicians about the importance of referral to early classes.

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