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Filter by:The objective of this study is to assess the use of and satisfaction with the ECA intervention over a 12-month period, its ability to increase SARS-CoV-2 and influenza vaccination in the BMATP community, and the comparative effectiveness of proactive engagement strategies and cultural tailoring on these factors. The Investigators will assess app use and satisfaction among these participants, along with self-reported vaccination attitudes and behavior, at 6 months and 12 months. During this time the investigators will conduct a 2x2 factorial RCT (with the individual the unit of random assignment and measurement) to assess the impact of two app design features on engagement and outcomes: (1) the investigators will manipulate engagement mechanisms (ENGAGEMENT), including reminder notifications and trust-building dialogue by the ECA and, (2) independently manipulate cultural tailoring of vaccination promotion counseling language used by the agent (TAILORING) to either adaptive religiosity (tailored) or secular (non-tailored). The investigators' primary hypotheses are that participants with have significantly greater vaccination completion rates in the high engagement and tailored conditions at 6 months (H1) and 12 months (H2) compared to other conditions. The investigators' secondary hypotheses are that participants will use the app more, be more satisfied with the ECA, be more advanced in their stage of change, and have greater knowledge, self-efficacy, and decisional-balance from baseline to 6 and 12 months, in the high engagement and tailored conditions. In addition to the RCT participants, all members of the 12 participating BMATP churches will be invited to use the app (via snowball recruitment), to increase the utility of the social networking functions of the app by having as many users as possible.
This project is designed to determine the experiences of nurses working in healthcare organizations in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and their approaches to problems experienced in qualitative design and from these results, a web-based education model is prepared for the effective management of nursing services, to increase the knowledge and skills of manager nurses. It was carried out in a quasi-experimental design. In the qualitative phase of the study, 28 people nurses were included (14 manager nurses and 14 nurses), and 61 nurse managers, including 30 intervention and 31 control group, participated in the randomized controlled quasi-experimental quantitative phase. Qualitative data were analyzed using the "Interview Form" through an in-depth interview method; Experimental data were collected via a pre- and post-questionnaire from nine web-based training videos. Qualitative data were analyzed in the MAXQDA 2020 program, and experimental data were analyzed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 21.0 package program. Findings obtained from the qualitative stage; The problems regarding the institution's general management, the problems and approaches experienced by the nurses, and the problems and approaches experienced by the manager nurses were evaluated under three main themes. A pre-test / post-test questionnaire was applied to the intervention and control groups created due to the analysis of qualitative data.
Effective communication is a critical component of managing pandemic outbreaks like COVID-19. This study explores COVID-19 related public knowledge, perceptions, belief in public health recommendations, intent to comply with public health recommendations, trust in information sources and preferred information sources. Participants are invited to include detailed free-text answers to make sure their COVID-19 experiences are heard.