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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53911#.VNsLbCzQrzE Author(s)   Ludmila Alves do Nascimento * , Andressa Peripolli Rodrigues , Emanuella Silva Joventino , Neiva Francenely Cunha Vieira , Patrícia Neyva da Costa Pinheiro , Lorena Barbosa Ximenes Affiliation(s) Department of Nursing, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil . ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate and to validate an educational video to promote maternal self-efficacy in preventing childhood diarrhea with women assisted in a health unit. Validation study, developed with 17 mothers whose children were under five years old, was analyzed on scenes of an educational video according to the validity of appearance (clarity/comprehension) and of content (relevance). The scenes were considered clear and comprehensive with a perceptual above 70% and with an average of 96.9% of agreement. Regarding the relevance, the a...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53318#.VLyl68nQrzE Author(s)    Nga Yee Irene Cheng 1 , Man Yee Emmy Wong 2*   Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China . 2 Department of Early Childhood Education, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China . ABSTRACT Teachers play an important role in delivering health education to empower students with skills for healthy living to prevent non-communicable diseases. One of the common non-communicable diseases is hypertension that its development is highly associated with unhealthy lifestyle. A survey was administered to assess 130 pre-service teachers and 54 in-service teachers who were taking the health education course to prepare them for teaching the content of healthy living in Hong Kong. The assessment included their knowledge level of hypertension, a...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52503#.VJolxcCAM4 Author(s)   Emanuella Silva Joventino 1 , Ádria Marcela Vieira Ferreira 1 , Maria de Fátima Pereira de Sousa 1 , Jardeliny Corrêa da Penha 1 , Mônica Oliveira Batista Oriá 1 , Paulo César de Almeida 2 , Lorena Barbosa Ximenes 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Nursing, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil . 2 University of the State of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil . ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to compare the scores of maternal self-efficacy for child diarrhoea prevention, between intervention and control groups, according to sanitary, social and demographic characteristics. A randomised clinical...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51837#.VHfUAmfHRK0 Author(s)   Érico Faustini 1 , Claus D. Stobäus 2 , Juan J. M. Mosquera 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Postgraduate Program in Medicine, Pontifical Chatolic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil . 2 Postgraduate Programs in Education and in Biomedical Gerontology, Pontifical Chatolic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil . 3 Postgraduate Program in Education, Pontifical Chatolic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil . ABSTRACT In the field of Health Education, understanding human development is essential, taking into account a set of actions that can promote the protection...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=47166#.VGBRbWfHRK0 Author(s) Alva Helena De Almeida Affiliation(s) Helena De Almeida Unified Health System, S?o Paulo, Brazil . ABSTRACT This paper has the purpose of discussing the performance as health educators in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and also emphasizing the importance of the educational process for health workforce qualification as well as management device of health systems. This performance has been a strong strategy for SUS implementation process in Brazil. KEYWORDS Health Education , Health Policy , Educational Process ...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48781#.VDdNDVfHRK0 Author(s)    Andreia Araujo Lima Torres , Gardênia da Silva Abbad , Kelb Bousquet-Santos Affiliation(s) University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil . University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil . University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil . ABSTRACT This paper describes the experience of a PhD candidate during during her teaching training period within the Human nutrition course in a Brazilian public university. The experience provided the doctoral candidate the opportunity to study and deepen knowledge in the field of educational psychology, including learning theories, instructional theories and instructional design. As a result, the Human Nutr...