Relevant teachings from Buddhism have been compiled in a Faith for Communication booklet which more than 3,000 monasteries from 880 villages/wards have started to disseminate to promote key family and community practices.
Apart from receiving a generic self-help smoking cessation booklet, subjects in the experimental group will receive a specifically designed risk communication leaflet from oncologists/ oncology nurses during the medical consultation.
However, professionals with two specific skill/experience profiles are often underrepresented or unrepresented in the process: (i) people with strong experience-based knowledge regarding the type of materials that community health workers would find helpful to promote behaviors; and, (ii) professionals with expertise in the design of community-level communication materials such as the booklet.
It included a previously evaluated evidence based booklet on communication of risk, employing numbers, percentages, and graphical representations of risk, which was highly standardised (fig 1) and participants were followed-up by telephone to ensure understanding.
We conducted a process evaluation of a community-based intervention that used interpersonal peer communication, supported by a pictorial booklet and flipchart, to promote behaviors intended to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes.
Thousands of copies of food safety communication materials ranging from leaflets, booklet, cartoons, posters, calendars, flip chart, festoon, banners, fact sheets and newsletters have been distributed through the Directorate General of Health Services and the Directorate General of Family Planning.
Most of antenatal care booklets provide one-way communication, used as a method for dissemination of information, not designed in consultation with local women, and assume high level of literacy among pregnant women.
The behavior change strategy of the intervention presumes that FCHVs are effective at promoting care-seeking and desired household practices and that the booklet will facilitate the communication of messages, reinforce the FCHVs' counseling and stimulate intra-household discussion.
Volunteers organize home visits and group meetings, promoting these behaviours through posters, leaflets, booklets, songs, films and other communication materials.
The purpose of this research was to test the effectiveness of a training booklet designed to enhance patients' communication skills in information exchange.
