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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Sexual Health History Screening Implementation for Providing Quality Clinical Services in Primary Care: A Quality Improvement Project

Unbehaun, Grace 14 April 2022 (has links)
Abstract Purpose: With the US reporting 20 million newly diagnosed STI/HIV cases annually, clinical guideline compliance and EBP recommendation implementation necessitate provider practice changes for high-quality routine sexual and reproductive health services. The project's purpose was to improve sexual health history-taking (SHH) and documentation in a private primary care practice (PPCP) serving high-risk populations. The DNP project aims to determine the effect of conducting a 30-minute educational session and implementing the CDC's 5Ps on a PCP's clinical guideline adherence to SHH recommendations and documentation with patients presenting for annual wellness exams, well-woman exams, family/contraceptive counseling, or acute urogenital complaints in an urban, southeastern PPCP. Methodology: The quality improvement (QI) project implemented a standardized clinical practice change using the Stetler model's practitioner-oriented knowledge translation design. PPCP-employed NPs (n = 3) completed anonymous pre-/post-implementation surveys using SurveyMonkey, received educational resources, and implemented the CDC's 5Ps SHH tool for clinically appropriate patient encounters identified by eligible ICD-10 codes. Athena's Report Builder compiled data on SHH completion/EMR documentation and providers' intervention compliance from 2-weeks before and 2-weeks after implementation. Results: Over the four-week project period, a total of n = 1,031 EMR charts [pre-implementation (n = 513)/post-implementation (n = 518)] were reviewed for SHH completion/EMR documentation. Analysis of eligible encounters’ charts showed significant improvement in post-implementation SHH completion/EMR documentation rates (37% in pre-intervention; 82% in post-intervention). The chi-square test findings [X2 (1, N = 1031) = 43.637, p < .01] displayed a significant relation between the variables, indicating an increased likelihood of sexual health history EMR documentation by implementing the CDC'S 5Ps SHH tool. Provider survey results indicated providers support implementation and routine clinical practice of the CDC's 5Ps. Limitations: Provider sample size (n =3), geographical location, demographics served, private ownership, and SUD treatment center association limit the study's generalizability. Implications for Practice: The PPCP’s SHH tool availability for clinically relevant encounters increased SHH EMR documentation completion and frequency rates––utilizing the brief, cost-effective intervention for evaluating sexual health risks and behaviors to decrease the likelihood of adverse outcomes. Through positive, nonjudgmental sexual health information acquisition, providers can better facilitate difficult conversations with patients, promote sexual health awareness, and improve STI/HIV screening/treatment rates in a private primary care practice setting. Keywords: sexual health history
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Les infections sexuellement transmissibles (maladies vénériennes) et la santé publique au Congo: contribution à l'histoire socio-épidémiologique des IST en milieux urbains (1885-1960) / Sexually transmitted infections (venereal diseases) and public health in Congo: contribution to the socio-epidemiological history of STI in urban areas

Munayeno, Muvova 09 July 2010 (has links)
La question des infections sexuellement transmissibles (IST) en Afrique a longtemps été<p>négligée par des chercheurs africains spécialistes en sciences sociales, en raison notamment du tabou<p>qui entoure la sexualité dans ce continent. Toutefois, les dernières décennies ont donné lieu à plusieurs<p>recherches menées principalement par les Européens africanistes sur ces pathologies grâce à<p>l’émergence de la pandémie actuelle du Sida. La plupart des travaux réalisés sont axés sur les facteurs<p>de risque, les mécanismes de diffusion, les croyances et les attitudes populaires face à ces maladies, les<p>politiques de lutte, etc. Mais les études historiques consacrées aux IST sont très rares. Celles qui<p>existent ont surtout mis en évidence la dimension démographique axée sur le problème de la dénatalité<p>en laissant dans l’ombre le contexte socio-historique et les conditions socio-épidémiologiques de<p>propagation de ces affections. Au moment où le Sida fait des ravages dans le monde et tout<p>particulièrement en Afrique subsaharienne, l’intérêt d’une réflexion historique sur les IST au Congo<p>n’est plus à démontrer.<p>Contrairement à une affirmation classiquement admise dans la littérature, selon laquelle la<p>lutte contre les IST au sein de la population congolaise fut un franc succès pour les autorités coloniales<p>surtout après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, cette thèse montre plutôt l’augmentation de la prévalence<p>des IST dans le temps. Les archives inédites et l’analyse des données révèlent que cette progression<p>continue est la conséquence de l'urbanisation accélerée et de la monétarisation de la société et de la sexualité entraînant des modes de vie propres à la société coloniale urbaine. Les villes issues de ce processus deviendront non seulement des espaces<p>d’acculturation et de modernité, mais aussi des lieux d’expansion de ces maladies. Le développement<p>de la prostitution et la multiplicité des partenaires sexuels, à travers les unions plus libres et<p>momentanées, sont les principaux facteurs explicatifs de cette observation.<p>On présente généralement de manière panégyrique l’oeuvre sanitaire coloniale de la Belgique<p>au Congo comme ‘‘modèle’’. Pourtant, aucune étude n’a déjà été menée pour examiner, de manière<p>chiffrée, les aspets liés aux différences de santé entre les Congolais et les Blancs. Cette<p>dissertation vient combler les lacunes existantes dans ce domaine. De ce point de vue, il en résulte de<p>fortes inégalités et des déséquilibres persistants de santé entre ces deux types de populations. Les Congolais beaucoup plus<p>nombreux, socialement défavorisés, ne bénéficient que d’une situation peu ou moins favorable ;tandis<p>que les Blancs, socialement plus favorisés, bénéficient en général d’une meilleure situation sanitaire.<p>Plusieurs indicateurs élaborés dans ce travail sont révélateurs de cette réalité coloniale, en termes<p>d’équipements sanitaires, d’accès et d’utilisation de soins et d’état de santé différencié./<p><p><p><p>The issue of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in Africa has long been neglected by<p>researchers African social scientists, particularly because of the taboo surrounding sexuality in Africa.<p>However, recent decades have resulted in several research conducted mainly by the European<p>Africanists on these diseases through the emergence of the current pandemic of AIDS. Most of studies<p>are focused on risk factors, distribution mechanisms, the popular attitudes about these infections,<p>control policies. But historical studies on STI are seldom examined. Those that exist are mainly<p>concerning the demographic dimension focuses on the problem of declining birth, leaving the socio-historical<p>and socio-epidemiological spread of such diseases. While AIDS is ravaging the world and<p>especially in sub-Saharan Africa, one thing to mention is that the interest of historical reflection on<p>STI in the Congo is obvious.<p>Contrary to an assertion conventionally accepted in the literature, that the fight against<p>gonorrhea and syphilis among the Congolese population was a success for the colonial authorities,<p>especially after the Second World War, our thesis shows rather the increasing prevalence of STI. The<p>archives and analysis of data indicates this continued progress is the result of special conditions of<p>industrialization and urbanization colonial that make people vulnerable. Cities from this historical<p>process will not only areas of acculturation and modernity, but also places for expansion of these<p>diseases. The development of prostitution and multiple sexual partners through free and temporary<p>unions are the main factors explaining this observation.<p>It has generally praises how the actions of Belgian colonial health in the Congo as 'model'.<p>However, no study has been conducted to establish or to compare quantitatively the health status<p>between Blacks (Congolese) and Withes (Europeans in majority). This essay shows the social health<p>inequalities among these two populations. The Congolese many in number, but more socially<p>disadvantaged have only less favorable conditions to health. While the white people, socially<p>privileged, generally have better health status. Several indicators developed in this study are revealing<p>of the colonial reality in terms of sanitation, access and use of care and health status differential. / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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