Health education interventions to raise awareness of rheumatic fever: a systematic review protocol

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dc.contributor.authorRamsey, Lauraen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorWatkins, Laurenen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorEngel, Mark Een_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-30T09:34:27Z
dc.date.available2015-10-30T09:34:27Z
dc.date.issued2013en_ZA
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND:There is a significant global health burden associated with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), especially in developing countries. ARF and RHD most often strike children and young adults living in impoverished settings, where unhygienic conditions and lack of awareness and knowledge of streptococcal infection progression are common. Secondary prophylactic measures have been recommended in the past, but primary prevention measures have been gaining more attention from researchers frustrated by the perpetual prevalence of ARF and RHD in developing countries. Health education aims to empower people to take responsibility for their own well-being by gaining control over the underlying factors that influence health. We therefore conducted a review of the current best evidence for the use of health education interventions to increase awareness and knowledge of streptococcal pharyngitis and ARF.METHODS AND DESIGN:This article describes the protocol for a systematic review of the effectiveness of health education interventions aimed at increasing awareness and knowledge of the symptoms, causes and consequences of streptococcal pharyngitis, rheumatic fever and/or rheumatic heart disease. Studies will be selected in which the effect of an intervention is compared with either a pre-intervention or a control, targeting all possible audience types. Primary and secondary outcomes of interest are pre-specified. Randomized controlled trials, quasi-randomized trials, controlled before-after studies and controlled clinical trials will be considered. We will search several bibliographic databases (for example, PubMed, EMBASE, World Health Organization Library databases, Google Scholar) and search sources for gray literature. We will meta-analyze included studies. We will conduct subgroup analyses according to intervention subtypes: printed versus audiovisual and mass media versus training workshops.DISCUSSION:This review will provide evidence for the effectiveness of educational components in health promotion interventions in raising public awareness in regard to the symptoms, causes and consequences of streptococcal pharyngitis, ARF and/or RHD. Our results may provide guidance in the development of future intervention studies and programs.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationRamsey, L., Watkins, L., & Engel, M. E. (2013). Health education interventions to raise awareness of rheumatic fever: a systematic review protocol. <i>Systematic Reviews</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14528en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationRamsey, Laura, Lauren Watkins, and Mark E Engel "Health education interventions to raise awareness of rheumatic fever: a systematic review protocol." <i>Systematic Reviews</i> (2013) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14528en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRamsey, L. S., Watkins, L., & Engel, M. E. (2013). Health education interventions to raise awareness of rheumatic fever: a systematic review protocol. Systematic reviews, 2(1), 58.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Ramsey, Laura AU - Watkins, Lauren AU - Engel, Mark E AB - BACKGROUND:There is a significant global health burden associated with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), especially in developing countries. ARF and RHD most often strike children and young adults living in impoverished settings, where unhygienic conditions and lack of awareness and knowledge of streptococcal infection progression are common. Secondary prophylactic measures have been recommended in the past, but primary prevention measures have been gaining more attention from researchers frustrated by the perpetual prevalence of ARF and RHD in developing countries. Health education aims to empower people to take responsibility for their own well-being by gaining control over the underlying factors that influence health. We therefore conducted a review of the current best evidence for the use of health education interventions to increase awareness and knowledge of streptococcal pharyngitis and ARF.METHODS AND DESIGN:This article describes the protocol for a systematic review of the effectiveness of health education interventions aimed at increasing awareness and knowledge of the symptoms, causes and consequences of streptococcal pharyngitis, rheumatic fever and/or rheumatic heart disease. Studies will be selected in which the effect of an intervention is compared with either a pre-intervention or a control, targeting all possible audience types. Primary and secondary outcomes of interest are pre-specified. Randomized controlled trials, quasi-randomized trials, controlled before-after studies and controlled clinical trials will be considered. We will search several bibliographic databases (for example, PubMed, EMBASE, World Health Organization Library databases, Google Scholar) and search sources for gray literature. We will meta-analyze included studies. We will conduct subgroup analyses according to intervention subtypes: printed versus audiovisual and mass media versus training workshops.DISCUSSION:This review will provide evidence for the effectiveness of educational components in health promotion interventions in raising public awareness in regard to the symptoms, causes and consequences of streptococcal pharyngitis, ARF and/or RHD. Our results may provide guidance in the development of future intervention studies and programs. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DO - 10.1186/2046-4053-2-58 DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Systematic Reviews LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - Health education interventions to raise awareness of rheumatic fever: a systematic review protocol TI - Health education interventions to raise awareness of rheumatic fever: a systematic review protocol UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14528 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/14528
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-2-58
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationRamsey L, Watkins L, Engel ME. Health education interventions to raise awareness of rheumatic fever: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews. 2013; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14528.en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisherBioMed Central Ltden_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Medicineen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Health Sciencesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rightsThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licenseen_ZA
dc.rights.holder2013 Ramsey et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.en_ZA
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0en_ZA
dc.sourceSystematic Reviewsen_ZA
dc.source.urihttp://www.systematicreviewsjournal.com/en_ZA
dc.subject.otherAcute rheumatic feveren_ZA
dc.subject.otherHealth educationen_ZA
dc.subject.otherPharyngitisen_ZA
dc.subject.otherRheumatic heart diseaseen_ZA
dc.titleHealth education interventions to raise awareness of rheumatic fever: a systematic review protocolen_ZA
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