PMID- 31910906
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210125
LR  - 20240327
IS  - 2046-4053 (Electronic)
IS  - 2046-4053 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 1
DP  - 2020 Jan 7
TI  - Health education programs for improving men's engagement with health services in 
      low- to middle-income countries: a scoping review protocol.
PG  - 5
LID - 10.1186/s13643-019-1266-3 [doi]
LID - 5
AB  - BACKGROUND: Health education programs (HEPs) have been documented to increase 
      individuals' awareness toward their health and improve health outcomes. Given the 
      reported poor health seeking behavior among men in low- to middle-income 
      countries (LMICs), it is crucial for HEPs to be targeted toward men in order to 
      improve health outcomes. Here, we outline a protocol for a scoping review aimed 
      at mapping literature on HEPs for men in LMICs in order to reveal gaps to guide 
      future research and practice. METHODS: We will conduct a scoping review with 
      guidance from the Arksey and O'Malley framework (Journal of Social Research 
      Methodology 8(1):19-32, 2005), further enhanced by Levac et al. (Implementation 
      Science 5(1):69, 2010). We will conduct a comprehensive keyword search for 
      relevant studies presenting evidence on HEP for men in LMICs from PubMed, Google 
      Scholar, EBSCOhost, and WEB of Science databases. In addition, we will search for 
      relevant gray literature, dissertations, and theses from university repositories 
      as well as international organizations such as the World Health Organization 
      (WHO). We will include articles reporting evidence on health education programs 
      for men in LMICs and published between January 2000 and March 2019. We will 
      employ NVIVO version 12 software package to extract the relevant outcomes from 
      the included articles using content thematic analysis. We will conduct quality 
      appraisal of the included articles using the mixed methods appraisal tool (MMAT) 
      2018 version. DISCUSSION: We anticipate to find relevant studies reporting on 
      health education programs for men in LMICs. The findings of this review will 
      guide further implementation research on health education programs for men in 
      LMICs. The results of the proposed scoping review will be disseminated 
      electronically, in print, and through conference presentation as well as key 
      stakeholder meetings.
FAU - Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa
AU  - Dzinamarira T
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9929-5739
AD  - Department of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, 
      University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4001, South Africa. anthonydzina@gmail.com.
FAU - Kuupiel, Desmond
AU  - Kuupiel D
AD  - Department of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, 
      University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4001, South Africa.
FAU - Mashamba-Thompson, Tivani Phosa
AU  - Mashamba-Thompson TP
AD  - Department of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, 
      University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4001, South Africa.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20200107
PL  - England
TA  - Syst Rev
JT  - Systematic reviews
JID - 101580575
SB  - IM
MH  - Delivery of Health Care
MH  - *Developing Countries
MH  - *Health Education
MH  - *Health Promotion
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
PMC - PMC6945727
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Health education programs
OT  - Low- to middle-income countries
OT  - Men
COIS- The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
EDAT- 2020/01/09 06:00
MHDA- 2021/01/26 06:00
PMCR- 2020/01/07
CRDT- 2020/01/09 06:00
PHST- 2019/03/26 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/12/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/01/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/01/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/01/26 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/01/07 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s13643-019-1266-3 [pii]
AID - 1266 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s13643-019-1266-3 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Syst Rev. 2020 Jan 7;9(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s13643-019-1266-3.