Special Issue "Research in Clinical and Health Contexts"
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022.
Special Issue Editor
Interests: psychology of sustainability; engagement work; occupational health; psychosocial; organizational environments; personality; aggressive behavior; emotional intelligence; burnout; alcohol; tobacco; multilevel analysis; emotions; public health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Health promotion allows people to have greater control of their own health. It covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions aimed at benefit and protect individual health and quality of life through the prevention and solution of the root causes of public health problems. In this line, the effective adaptation of the current models of health intervention is required, in order to adapt attention to health needs and optimize available psycho-socio-sanitary resources.
Because of the important impact of this research, we are delighted to invited you to submit papers to be presented at the Congress (http://www.ciccs.es/, www.ciise.es and www.congresocice.es), for publication in IJERPH (Impact Factor 2.849). This Special Issue will be guest edited by Dr. María del Carmen Pérez Fuentes. See the Special Issue website for further details and submission instructions.
This Special Issue aims to show the excellence of health research and scientific discoveries in related topics. The submission of complete manuscripts of original research on any of the topics of interest is strongly recommended. Papers submitted to this Special Issue of IJERPH will undergo the standard peer-review procedure. Published papers will be indexed by the SCIE (Web of Science) and PubMed.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education.
Dr. María del Carmen Pérez-Fuentes
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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Keywords
- health promotion
- quality of life
- health intervention
- prevalence
- psycho-socio-sanitary resources
- public health
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Video-based Intervention for Improving Maternal Retention and Adherence to HIV Treatment: Patient Perspectives and Experiences
Authors: Steven Masiano 1; Edwin Machine 1; Mtisunge Mphande 1; Christine Markham 2; Tapiwa Tembo 1; Mike Chitani 1; Angella Mkandawire 1; Saeed Ahmed 1,3; Maria Kim 1,3
Affiliation:
1 Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation Malawi
2 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
3 The University of Texas, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Abstract: VITAL Start is a video-based intervention aimed to improve maternal retention in HIV care and ART adherence in Malawi. We explored the experiences of pregnant women living with HIV (PWLHIV) not yet on ART who received VITAL Start before ART initiation to assess the intervention’s acceptability, feasibility, fidelity of delivery, and perceived impact. Between February and September 2019, we conducted semi-structured interviews with a convenience sample of 34 PWLHIV within one month of receiving VITAL Start. The participants reported that VITAL start was acceptable and feasible and had good fidelity of delivery. They also reported that the video had a positive impact on their lives, encouraging them to disclose their HIV status to their sexual partners who, in turn, supported them to adhere to ART. The participants suggested using a similar intervention to provide health-related education/counseling to people with long term conditions. Our findings suggest that video-based interventions may be an acceptable, feasible approach to optimizing ART retention and adherence amongst PWLHIV; and can be delivered with high fidelity. Further exploring the utility of low cost, scalable, video-based interventions to address health counseling gaps in sub-Saharan Africa is warranted.
Keywords: VITAL Start; HIV; adherence; retention; Malawi; Sub-Saharan Africa; acceptability