Laboratorio de Parasitología Clínica, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, e Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud Pública, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
J Health Commun. 2013;18(1):92-104. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2012.688242. Epub 2012 Oct 15.
This is an exploratory study of the application of a support tool for the detection of asymptomatic subjects carrying enteric parasites in two vulnerable populations in Argentina: a shantytown in the city of Buenos Aires and a rural Wichí indigenous community in the province of Chaco. The ethnic and cultural diversity, high illiteracy rate, and language barriers called for the development of an auxiliary resource to explain stool sample collection procedures. In individual interviews with each family, the authors used two instructional guidance leaflets in comic strip format depicting the procedures. They evaluated the acceptance of the graphical communication tool on the basis of the number of retrieved samples. Percentages of respondent families were 72.2% and 66.7%, respectively. Definitive validation of these instruments would allow their use in community studies, community service learning experiences, and research on aboriginal communities that would otherwise be excluded from studies on health status.
这是一项探索性研究，旨在评估一种支持工具在阿根廷两个弱势群体中无症状肠道寄生虫感染者检测中的应用：布宜诺斯艾利斯市的一个棚户区和查科省的一个农村威奇原住民社区。由于种族和文化多样性、高文盲率以及语言障碍，需要开发一种辅助资源来解释粪便样本采集程序。在对每个家庭的个别访谈中，作者使用了两页以漫画形式呈现程序的教学指导传单。他们根据取回的样本数量评估了图形沟通工具的接受程度。分别有 72.2%和 66.7%的家庭做出了回应。这些工具的明确验证将允许它们在社区研究、社区服务学习经验以及对原住民社区的研究中使用，否则这些社区将被排除在健康状况研究之外。
