Health Teaching

Temperance has been a household term among the Seventh-day Adventists in the nineteenth century. This term carries with it a significant history and impact to the society. This paper argues that the rich nineteenth-century temperance context helps understand and appreciate the message and teaching of Ellen White on temperance. Moreover, the church needs to keep this legacy from this period alive and to pass on to our generation today. This paper will surely contribute to advance the health and wholeness of the people in Africa.

Background: Postpartum stage emerges as a very critical period in mothers' life. It is linked with profound changes "postpartum discomfort" perineal discomfort emerge to be the most one mothers are concerned about. Interactive digital health media such as Power Point has become a valuable tool in education. It enhances presentation information in well structure and precise manner. Its effect in health field; not been yet evaluated over the printed ones. For this objective the current study aimed to evaluate the effect of interactive digital versus printed health media on postpartum perineal discomfort. A quasi experimental design was utilized. Sixty pregnant women in their ninth month and meeting the inclusion criteria, attending antenatal clinic of Elshatby Maternity University hospital and followed by telephone to the 2 nd and 7 th days post partum, were allocated randomly for two groups. Group A where interactive digital health media (Power Point) was applied and group B were printed health media (booklet) was used. Finding revealed that Digital media group showed a statistical significant difference in acquisition of knowledge, practice as compared to printed media group. In relation to perineal pain scores interfering with daily activities; scores of pain decreased among digital group during sitting and walking while no statistical difference was found between both groups in relation to urination or defecation. All subjects in both groups showed a high level of satisfaction with both types of media. It can be concluded that interactive digital health medium is more effective than printed one for mother's teaching. Researchers recommended embed using interactive digital health media in mother's health teaching with Ensuring provision of policies, equipment, resources, time, proper setting and environment in every maternity hospital to integrate advanced methods of health teaching.

Background: Health education has been viewed as a fundamental part of nursing practice and the crucial means to avoid disease and to improve the health. Nursing students facing many challenges and constraints before, during and after providing patient health teaching session, which require investigation and management from administrators and high authorities in nursing schools. Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate barriers facing bachelor nursing students in Alexandria as compared to Damanhour before, during and after conduction of patient health teaching session. Material and method: Descriptive design was used. The study was conducted in the Faculty of Nursing at Alexandria and Damanhour University, Patient teaching barriers questionnaires was used for data collection. The sample consisted of 200 nursing students just after graduation and during conduction of internship training program who were willing to participate in the study. Results: The study showed that there was a high significant statistical difference between opinions of nursing students in both faculties; Alexandria and Damanhour as regarding presence of barriers in the overall health education process; where (x 2 = 4.279, P=0.029) with more agreement on presence of barriers for Damanhour students, The study revealed statistical significant difference between opinions of nursing students in both faculties in relation to barriers in designing and preparing audiovisual health media (x 2 = 4.075, P= 0.044), and its use (x 2 = 6.435, P=0.011),as well as the role of clinical instructor during conduction of the session (x 2 = 3.884, P= 0.049). Moreover, the study showed a high statistical significant difference in barriers related to the environment in which the teaching session was conducted. Additionally, barriers related to patients themselves were very high significant difference (x 2 = 15.653, P= 0.000) with all results for the favor of Alexandria whose students mentioned lower percentages of barriers. Conclusion: Nursing students faced several barriers before, during and after patient health teaching namely: regarding students themselves, audiovisual designing; preparing and use of health media, patients' barriers and environmental barriers. Recommendation: nursing students have intense needs more in-depth learning about patient health teaching process especially in Damanhour Faculty of Nursing and for clinical training as regards such skills. Furthermore, responsible authorities have to think critically about how to overcome these barriers. One of the recommended solutions is to conduct a workshop to discuss reasons and solutions for such a problem in which open discussion can be held among nursing students, school administrators, clinical instructors and community members.