Feasibility of Assessing Falls Risk and Promoting Falls Prevention in Beauty Salons

The role of a cosmetologist in the area of health promotion and health education: A systematic review

Background: Contemporary cosmetology, apart from beautifying and caring for the human body, deals also with prevention aimed at maintaining health and physical fitness as long as possible. The profession of a cosmetologist so understood is closely related to the modern concept of health promotion, the part of which is health education. The objective of this review was to evaluate whether a cosmetologist may be a health promoter, and whether a beauty salon mayserve as a place for conducting educational programs.

Methods: A systematic review was done using several electronic databases such as PubMed(including MEDLINE), Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, Embase, and Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) and related keywords. The studies published in English between 2008 and 2018 which had specifically mentioned the role of a cosmetologist in the area of health promotion and health education were included.

Results: In total, 7 articles met the study criteria. It was found that cosmetologists have the potential to promote pro-health activities. The results of this review also suggest that beauty salons are suitable places for increasing pro-health awareness and can be successfully used to conduct educational programs about healthy lifestyle, as well as skin, breast and cervical cancer prevention.

Conclusion: A well-educated and aware of health risks cosmetologist seems to be the right person to transmit and spread knowledge about the proper lifestyle in her workplace and the local environment. A beauty salon, as a place of social interaction, may constitute an area of implementation of pro-health educational programs.

Evaluating audio-visual falls prevention messages with community-dwelling older people using a World Café forum approach

Background

Falls risk increases sharply with older age but many older people are unaware or underestimate their risk of falling. Increased population-based efforts to influence older people’s falls prevention behavior are urgently needed. The aim of this study was to obtain a group of older people’s collective perspectives on newly developed prototypes of audio-visual (AV) falls prevention messages, and evaluate changes in their falls prevention behaviour after watching and discussing these.

Methods

A mixed-method study using a community World Café forum approach.

Results

Although the forum participants (n = 38) mostly responded positively to the three AV messages and showed a significant increase in their falls prevention capability and motivation after the forum, the participants collectively felt the AV messages needed a more inspirational call to action. The forum suggested this could be achieved by means of targeting the message and increasing the personal connection. Participants further suggested several alternatives to online falls prevention information, such as printed information in places in the community, as a means to increase opportunity to seek out falls prevention information.

Conclusions

Falls prevention promotion messages need to be carefully tailored if they are to be more motivating to older people to take action to do something about their falls risk. A wider variety of revised and tailored AV messages, as one component of a community-wide falls prevention campaign, could be considered in an effort to persuade older people to take decisive action to do something about their falls risk.

Trial registration

This study was registered prospectively: NCT03154788. Registered 11 May 2017.

Fatores de risco associados à queda em pacientes internados na clínica médica-cirúrgica

Resumo Objetivo Identificar os fatores de risco associados à quedas em pacientes internados na clínica médica-cirúrgica. Métodos Estudo analítico e descritivo com abordagem quantitativa realizado de junho a setembro de 2017 em hospital público de grande porte da região norte do estado do Ceará-Brasil. A amostra foi de 155 pacientes e a coleta ocorreu por meio de instrumento estruturado dividido em cinco partes: a) Dados Clínico-Epidemiológicos; b) Aplicação do Mini-mental; c) Aplicação da Escala de queda de Morse; d) Aplicação do índice de Katz; e) Diagnóstico de Enfermagem “Risco de Quedas”. Para análise estatística, foi considerado erro amostral de 5%. Resultados Dos 155 pacientes, 41,2% (64) possuíam diagnóstico clínico e 58,8% (91) eram pacientes traumatológicos. Foi identificado correlação estatisticamente para ocorrência de quedas entre dias de internamento (p=0,07), Mini exame mental (p=0,048) e Katz (p=0,017) para os pacientes clínicos enquanto que os pacientes traumatológicos apresentam associação positiva para ocorrência de quedas nas variáveis idade (p=0,028) e Katz (p=0,037). Conclusão Os principais fatores de risco identificados foram: uso de dispositivos auxiliares, história de quedas, estar em pós-operatório, dificuldade na marcha, força diminuída nas extremidades, equilíbrio prejudicado, mobilidade física prejudicada, cenário pouco conhecido e material antiderrapante insuficiente no banheiro.