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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Handwashing with Soap -- Two Paths to National-Scale Programs Lessons from the Field: Vietnam and Indonesia [PDF]

, 2011
This paper describes two Southeast Asian programs that are making handwashing a feature of everyday lives on a national scale. The program in Vietnam has concentrated on first gaining an understanding on how people actually behave and then determing how ...

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A gamified formative question bank to enhance student learning and engagement in a foundational medical science course

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract While gamified learning platforms show promise for engaging digital learners and promoting active learning, evidence of their effectiveness in predicting academic outcomes remains limited. This study examined how engagement patterns and incentives impact academic outcomes in a gamified environment to determine whether a formative question bank
Mohammad Aldalou, Angel Laboy, Laura E. Fraser, Jeremey Walker, William S. Brooks, Brook Hubner   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in handwashing knowledge, attitudes, and practices among primary schoolchildren in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of handwashing as a preventive measure against the spread of SARS- CoV-2.
Munguntuul Enkhbat, Ganchimeg Togoobaatar, Ganchimeg Togoobaatar, Oyunchimeg Erdenee, Katsumata Asako Takekuma   +4 more
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Hand hygiene compliance and accuracy in a university dental teaching hospital

Journal of International Medical Research, 2019
Objective This study aimed to evaluate compliance with guidelines on hand hygiene by examining five handwashing categories in postgraduate year (PGY) dentists at a university teaching hospital and to evaluate the accuracy rates of handwashing.
Hsin-Chung Cheng, Bou-Yue Peng, Meei-Liang Lin, Sam Li-Sheng Chen   +3 more
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Compliance to handwashing during the early phase of COVID-19 epidemic in Uganda: A nationwide cross-sectional survey

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health, 2022
Introduction: Handwashing is a low-cost, high-impact strategy for limiting the transmission of COVID-19. We assessed the level of compliance to handwashing and associated factors, among Ugandan residents, in the first two months of the outbreak in Uganda,
Richard Migisha, Bob Omoda Amodan, Lilian Bulage, Elizabeth Katana, Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo, Robert Colebunders, Alex Riolexus Ario, Rhoda Kitti Wanyenze   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Promoting Handwashing and Sanitation Behaviour Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Mixed-Method Systematic Review [PDF]

, 2017
This systematic review shows which promotional approaches are effective in changing handwashing and sanitation behaviour and which implementation factors affect the success or failure of such interventions.
Alfred Musekiwa, Axel Vande Veegaete, Bert Avau, Emmy De Buck, Hans Van Remoortel, Hans-Joachim Mosler, Karin Hannes, Margaret Cargo, Philippe Vandekerckhove, Selvan Naidoo, Taryn Young, Thashlin Govender, Vittoria Lutje   +12 more
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Relational Approach to Knowledge Engineering for POMDP-based Assistance Systems as a Translation of a Psychological Model [PDF]

, 2012
Assistive systems for persons with cognitive disabilities (e.g. dementia) are difficult to build due to the wide range of different approaches people can take to accomplishing the same task, and the significant uncertainties that arise from both the ...
Czarnuch, Stephen, Grzes, Marek, Hoey, Jesse, Jackson, Dan, Khan, Shehroz, Mihailidis, Alex, Monk, Andrew   +6 more
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When Corporations Nudge for Good: Examining the Effectiveness of Corporate Social Marketing Initiatives in Influencing Intention to Change

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms invest heavily in corporate social initiatives (CSIs), yet evidence of behaviour change remains limited. This study examines whether corporate social marketing (CSM) elicits stronger behavioural intentions to change than other CSI formats, such as philanthropy and cause‐related marketing (CRM), and identifies the psychological mechanisms
Paul Blaise Issock Issock
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Behavioral Determinants of Handwashing with Soap Among Mothers and Caretakers: Emergent Learning from Senegal and Peru [PDF]

, 2012
This project tested whether innovative promotional approaches to behavior change can generate widespread and sustained improvements in household hygiene practices.

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