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Addressing Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, and Burnout in a Community Mental Health Organization: An Action Research Study
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Jemecia Natasha Calvin-Claxton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The turnover rate of clinicians working in community outpatient mental health centers is alarming. The significant turnover at a community mental health organization prompted a study of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. An action research (AR) study was conducted using Price and Mueller's (1981) causal model of turnover theory and…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Community Programs, Mental Health, Labor Turnover
Stakeholders' Perspectives of Enablers and Barriers to Successfully Implementing an Integrated Early Childhood Development Program in an Informal Urban Settlement in Kenya
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Derrick Ssewanyana; Marie-Claude Martin; Vibian Angwenyi; Margaret Kabue; Kerrie Proulx; Linlin Zhang; Tina Malti; Eunice Njoroge; Carophine Nasambu; Joyce Marangu; Rachel Odhiambo; Eunice Ombech; Mercy Moraa Mokaya; Emmanuel Kepha Obulemire; Greg Moran; Stephen Lye; Kofi Marfo; Amina Abubakar – SAGE Open, 2023
Integrated early childhood development (ECD) programs boost child health and developmental outcomes. However, the factors contributing to the successful implementation of such programs in informal urban settlements are not well researched. We conducted 14 focus group discussions and 13 key informant interviews with 125 caregivers of children under…
Descriptors: Child Health, Urban Areas, Housing, Sustainability
Impact of Education Campaign on Community-Based Vector Control in Hastening the Process of Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in Tamil Nadu, South India
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Nandha, B.; Krishnamoorthy, K. – Health Education Research, 2012
Globally mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis (LF) is targeted for elimination by 2020. Towards this goal, the scope of community-based vector control as a supplementary strategy to mass drug administration (MDA) was assessed through an intensive education campaign and evaluated using pre- and post-educational surveys in an intervention and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Health Education, Public Health
Community-Based Mental Health and Behavioral Programs for Low-Income Urban Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review
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Farahmand, Farahnaz K.; Duffy, Sophia N.; Tailor, Megha A.; Dubois, David L.; Lyon, Aaron L.; Grant, Kathryn E.; Zarlinski, Jennifer C.; Masini, Olivia; Zander, Keith J.; Nathanson, Alison M. – Grantee Submission, 2012
A meta-analytic review of 33 studies and 41 independent samples was conducted of the effectiveness of community-based mental health and behavioral programs for low-income urban youth. Findings indicated positive effects, with an overall mean effect of 0.25 at post-test. While this is comparable to previous meta-analytic intervention research with…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Community Health Services, Community Programs, Low Income Groups
Four-Year Follow-Up of the Community Intervention "10 000 Steps Ghent"
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De Cocker, Katrien A.; De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse M.; Brown, Wendy J.; Cardon, Greet M. – Health Education Research, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the 4-year follow-up effects of the "10 000 steps Ghent" project, which had shown increases in pedometer steps after the first year of implementation (2005-06). All adults who had participated in 2005-06 (n = 866) were recontacted in 2009 and invited to complete the International Physical Activity…
Descriptors: Intervention, Physical Activities, Economically Disadvantaged, Followup Studies
Issues in the Development of Community Health Education Programs for Rural Areas.
Baranowski, Tom; Carlton, Bill – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1982
Issues in the development of community health education programs for rural areas include: (1) knowledge of disease processes; (2) health care intervention; (3) systems intervention; (4) ethics for change; and (5) program implementation. (JN)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Health Services, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness
Planning a Program for a Community-Based Infant/Family Development Center.
Farrar, Elizabeth B. – 1986
In Belle Glade, Florida, a slum populated by Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, migrant farmworkers, and Haitians, where the incidence of most major health risks was far greater than anywhere else in the state, a program was planned and partially implemented which aimed to provide health services to at-risk, disadvantaged teenage mothers and their…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Community Action, Community Health Services, Community Problems