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Publication Open Access Preventive behavior of sexually transmitted diseases among high school students in Vientiane, Lao P.D.R.(2014) Viengsavanh Khitthiphong; Nate Hongkailert; Jutatip Sillabutra; Mahidol University. ASEAN Institute for Health Developmentin the model. Regarding the findings, it is necessary to provide appropriate STDs and safe sex education among high school students and arrange a proper environment in which students are able to discuss sexual and related problems with their teachersPublication Open Access Helping teachers conduct sex education in secondary schools in Thailand: overcoming culturally sensitive barriers to sex education(2014-06) Pimrat Thammaraksa; Arpaporn Powwattana; Sunee Lagampan; Weena Thaingtham; อาภาพร เผ่าวัฒนา; สุนีย์ ละกำปั่น; วีณา เที่ยงธรรม; Arpaporn Powwattana; Mahidol University. Faculty of Public Health. Department of Public Health Nursing.PURPOSE: The purpose of this quasi experimental study was to evaluate the effects of Culturally Sensitive Sex Education Skill Development, a teacher-led sex education program in secondary schools in Thailand. METHODS: Two public secondary schools... in the suburban areas of Bangkok were randomly selected. One was designated as the experimental school and the other as the comparison school. Ninety grade seven and eight teachers, 45 from each school, were selected to participate in the study. Self efficacyPublication Open Access To be or not to be a facilitator of reflective learning for medical students? a case study of medical teachers’ perceptions of introducing a reflective writing exercise to an undergraduate curriculum(2016) Kanokporn Sukhato; Sutida Sumrithe; Chathaya Wongrathanandha; Saipin Hathirat; Wajana Leelapattana; Dellow, Alan; Mahidol University. Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital. Medical Education UnitBackground: Introducing reflective writing to a medical curriculum requires the acceptance and participation of teachers. The purpose of this study was to explore medical teachers’ views on the benefits of introducing a reflective writing exercise... into an undergraduate medical curriculum, including their levels of satisfaction and their concerns. We also investigated effects on the teachers’ personal and professional development arising from their roles as novice facilitators. Methods: A qualitative approachPublication Open Access การศึกษารูปแบบการใช้มือในการอ่านอักษรเบรลล์ไทยของนักเรียน พิการทางการเห็นในระดับมัธยมศึกษา(2553) สุปราณี ศรีสวัสดิ์; มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล. วิทยาลัยราชสุดา. There were 60 blind students who participated in the research, including 41 male participants and 19 female participants. In this study, the researcher allowed blind students to read a Braille article with their preferred pattern of hand activity... interviewing teachers of blind students showed that many teachers support the use of the two-handed reading pattern because the students can read faster and show good posture during reading. Thus, two-handed reading should be promoted in teaching blind studentsPublication Open Access Long‑term impact of childhood malaria infection on school performance among school children in a malaria endemic area along the Thai–Myanmar border(2015) Nutchavadee Vorasan; Wirichada Pan‑Ngum; Podjanee Jittamala; Wanchai Maneeboonyang; Prasert Rukmanee; Saranath Lawpoolsri; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Department of Tropical HygieneBackground: Children represent a high-risk group for malaria worldwide. Among people in Thailand who have malaria during childhood, some may have multiple malaria attacks during their lifetime. Malaria may affect neurological cognition in children, resulting in short-term impairment of memory and language functions. However, little is known regarding the long-term effects of malaria infection on cognitive function. This study examines the long-term impact of malaria infection on school performance among school children living in a malaria-endemic area along the Thai–Myanmar border. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted among school children aged 6–17 years in a primary-secondary school of a sub-district of Ratchaburi Province, Thailand. History of childhood malaria infection was obtained from the medical records of the sole malaria clinic in the area. School performance was assessed by using scores for the subjects Thai Language and Mathematics in 2014. Other variables, such as demographic characteristics, perinatal history, nutritional status, and emotional intelligence, were also documented. Results: A total of 457 students were included, 135 (30 %) of whom had a history of uncomplicated malaria infection. About half of the malaria-infected children had suffered infection before the age of four years. The mean scores for both Mathematics and Thai Language decreased in relation to the increasing number of malaria attacks. Most students had their last malaria episode more than two years previously. The mean scores were not associated with duration since the last malaria attack. The association between malaria infection and school performance was not significant after adjusting for potential confounders, including gender, school absenteeism over a semester term, and emotional intelligence. Conclusions: This study characterizes the long-term consequences of uncomplicated malaria disease during childhood. School performance was not associated with a history of malaria infection, considering that most students had their last malaria infection more than two years previously. These findings indicate that the impact of uncomplicated malaria infection on school performance may not be prolonged.Publication Open Access Motivations and perceptions of community advisory boards in the ethics of medical research: the case of the Thai-Myanmar border.(2014-02-17) Maung, Lwin K.; Cheah, Phaik Yeong; Cheah, Phaik Kin; White, Nicholas J.; Day, Nicholas P.; Nosten, Francois; Parker, Michael; Parker, Michael; Mahidol University. Faculty of Tropical Medicine. Mahidol Oxford Research Unit.BACKGROUND: Community engagement is increasingly promoted as a marker of good, ethical practice in the context of international collaborative research in low-income countries. There is, however, no widely agreed definition of community engagement or of approaches adopted. Justifications given for its use also vary. Community engagement is, for example, variously seen to be of value in: the development of more effective and appropriate consent processes; improved understanding of the aims and forms of research; higher recruitment rates; the identification of important ethical issues; the building of better relationships between the community and researchers; the obtaining of community permission to approach potential research participants; and, the provision of better health care. Despite these diverse and potentially competing claims made for the importance of community engagement, there is very little published evidence on effective models of engagement or their evaluation. METHODS: In this paper, drawing upon interviews with the members of a Community Advisory Board on the Thai-Myanmar border, we describe and critically reflect upon an approach to community engagement which was developed in the context of international collaborative research in the border region. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Drawing on our analysis, we identify a number of considerations relevant to the development of an approach to evaluating community engagement in this complex research setting. The paper also identifies a range of important ways in which the Community Advisory Board is in practice understood by its members (and perhaps by community members beyond this) to have morally significant roles and responsibilities beyond those usually associated with the successful and appropriate conduct of research.Publication Open Access Food Education for Whom?: Perceptions of Food Education and Literacy among Dietitians and Laypeople in Urban Japan(2017) Takeda, Wakako; Melby, Melissa K.; Ishikawa, Yuta; Mahidol University. Institute for Population and Social Researchdietitians in two urban areas in Japan. Participants were asked to freelist responses to the question, “What do you associate with the word ‘Shokuiku’ (food education)?” Responses were analyzed by principal component analysis. Dietitians and lay femalesPublication Open Access Life skills development program to reduce bullying and to promote good practices among primary school students, Samut-Sakorn Province, Thailand(2010) Jarueyporn Suparp; Waraporn Boonyathan; Wirin Kittipichai; Kanitta Chamroonsawasdi; จรวยพร สุภาพ; วิริณธิ์ กิตติพิชัย; กนิษฐา จำรูญสวัสดิ์; Jarueyporn Suparp; Mahidol university. Faculty of Public Health. Department of Family Healthparticipatory action research (PAR) was applied among teachers and students of primary extending to secondary schools in Samut-Sakorn Province. Forty one students of grade six in the 1st School and twenty one students of grade one in 2nd school participated... were statistical significantly increased. The students and teachers in both schools agreed on the appropriateness and benefits of the program and it’s necessity to be continued. Both students and parents reported that students reduced bully behaviorsPublication Open Access Proper hand washing practices among elementary school students in Selat sub-district, Indonesia(2012) Tri Setyautami; Santhat Sermsri; Jiraporn Chompikul; Mahidol University. ASEAN Institute for Health DevelopmentEven though proper hand washing is the most effective and easiest way to prevent many diseases, unfortunately many people do not practice hand washing correctly. The worldwide Global Hand Washing Day campaign which targets school children as the most effective agents for behavior change is both evidence of this problem and an attempt to address it. This study considers the implications of this practical policy for local government, health professionals and other stakeholders concerned with improving school-based hygiene intervention programs. This paper describes a cross-sectional descriptive study about hand washing practice, the prevalence of proper hand washing, and related factors among sixth grade of elementary students in Selat sub-district, Indonesia. A self administered questionnaire was administered to 274 students at seven schools randomly selected by proportion to size from five villages. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi square tests, and multiple logistic regression to explore associations between the various study factors (i.e. socio-demographic characteristics, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived control, and availability of facilities). Nine combinations of hand washing emerged from this study which combined washing hands by using water and soap with two critical events: before eating and after visiting the toilet. Only 40.5% of the respondents washed their hands properly. Availability of clean water (Adj OR = 4.24, 95% CI = 1.92-9.35) and soap (Adj OR = 5.55, 95% CI = 2.36-13.08) at hand washing stands were found to be significant predictors of proper hand washing, when adjusted with other factors. This study demonstrates that the prevalence of proper hand washing was very low among the school students. Hand washing promotion should be more effective in schools and better facilities need to be more widely available to improve the prevalence of proper hand washing by students.Publication Open Access Nutritional status and related factors among elementary school students in Banda Aceh Municipality,Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province, Indonesia(2008) Badrialaily; บาเดียไลลี; Jutatip Silabutra; Pantyp Ramosoota; Mahidol University. ASEAN Institute for Health DevelopmentA descriptive cross sectional study was conduct to study nutritional status and related factors among elementary school children Banda Aceh Municipality, NAD Province, Indonesia. Basic statistics and Chi-square were used to analyze the data. 80.99% of respondent live with parents, and two third of them had healthy weight. All of them took snack at least 1 time per day, and they mostly spent between 1,743- 3,785 rupiah daily for buying snack. The association between nutritional status and some independent variables was found at the significant level (p<0.05). This independent variable were accommodation type, caregiver, father occupation, mother education, and food supplementary support from the school. The finding suggested that periodical monitoring and evaluation of nutritional status of the student should concern for underweight students. Supplementary supports from school are still needed, to assist daily intake of student which still underweight especially. The health and nutrition education should be done by using teaching materials, television with interesting educational contents, mass media, leaflet and other descriptive pictures that could help the students to easily understand the contents.