Mixed method evaluation of a clinic waiting room-based health education program in the Dominican Republic.

ABSTRACT: Waiting rooms provide an ideal location to disseminate health information. In this mixed-methods study, we evaluated waiting room-based health education talks at two clinics in the Dominican Republic and explored recommendations for implementing this intervention in similar settings. The talks addressed noncommunicable diseases, sexually transmitted infections, family planning and gender-based violence. We conducted pre- and posttests to assess attendees' change in knowledge and conducted semi-structured interviews with a subset of them. We conducted a semi-structured focus group with educators. Analyses included Wilcox Signed Rank Tests and McNemar tests for pre- and posttests, conventional content analysis for individual interviews and transcript coding for the focus group. Patient parti

SUBMITTER: Cohen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10226269 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature