scholarly journals Breastfeeding experiences of women with gestational diabetes

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-286
Author(s):  
Seungmi Park ◽  
Soo-Young Yu
Keyword(s):  
Gestational Diabetes ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Breastfeeding Support ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Core Theme ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Breastfeeding Intention ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Sugar Levels ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Purpose: This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of breastfeeding women with gestational diabetes and to understand the meaning of breastfeeding for them and its encompassing context. Methods: Qualitative data were collected by interviewing 15 mothers with gestational diabetes. The transcript data from 5 focus group interviews and 2 individual interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: A core theme and 10 sub-themes emerged. The core theme that emerged was "the maternal commitment enabled for a limited time a way to compensate for guilt." Because mothers had to control their blood sugar levels before childbirth, they were worried about whether it would harm the newborn baby and thus searched for dietary information. After the babies were born and separated from their mothers, they were free from gestational diabetes. Mothers then felt guilty about their unhealthy bodies when they were pregnant. This regret provides a motivational context for breastfeeding. However, the mothers realized that breastfeeding requires commitment and dedication and that they need breastfeeding support, such as being provided practical help. Conclusion: The results showed that the breastfeeding intention of women with gestational diabetes might originate from their feelings of guilt. Therefore, an integrated breastfeeding program that combines the empathetic support of women with similar experiences and that shares practical information from experts should be implemented in a structured and systematic way.

scholarly journals Capturing Stories of How Young Adults Experience Entry Into the Workforce: A Qualitative Research Protocol on Data Collection During the Ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110043
Author(s):  
Erika Wall ◽  
Anna Berg Jansson ◽  
Sven Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Research Protocol ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Retail Setting

Background: In present research protocol, the project entitled “A sustainable working life for young adults—leadership, learning, and insecurity” is presented and discussed. The study which aims to describe and analyze the expectations of young adults in the retail workforce in terms of leadership, learning and development and how these aspects can be understood from a health promotion perspective. The project is limited to young adults (18–28 years) employed in a retail setting. Methods: The project is based on qualitative data collected through focus group interviews and individual interviews made during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in year 2020 what here will be reflected upon. Discussion: It is concluded data collection carried out during the ongoing spread of the coronavirus, may be significant to what interviewees highlighted in the interviews, but also to what was not discussed in the interviews. It may be the case that the increased focus on the coronavirus meant that other issues that are important to young adults as they establish themselves in the labor market were overshadowed.

scholarly journals A process for the development of a psychosocial educational programme to facilitate the reintegration of incarcerated women who had dumped babies and / or committed infanticide in Namibia

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Ndempavali Sumpi ◽  
Hans Justus Amukugo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Situational Analysis ◽  
Phase 3 ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Analysis Phase ◽  
Experiences Of Women

The aim of this paper is to describe the steps/process used to develop a psychosocial educational programme to facilitate the reintegration of incarcerated women who had dumped babies and / or committed infanticide in Namibia. This process was done in four phases namely Phase 1, was carried out to explore and describe the lived experiences of women who had dumped and / or committed infanticide. The researcher used in-depth unstructured individual interviews for data collection and data was analysed by using Tech’s method of qualitative data analysis. Phase 2, focuses on the conceptualisation framework guided the development of a psychosocial educational programme that facilitated the reintegration process of women who had dumped and / or committed infanticide. The educational programme included the activities suggested in the survey list of Dickoff et al. (1968); namely, agent, recipient, context, dynamics, procedures, and terminus. Phase 3, focused on the development of a psychosocial educational programme to facilitate the reintegration process of women who had dumped their babies and / or committed infanticide. The survey list of Dickoff et al. (1968) was adopted as a reasoning map in the construction of the development of a psychosocial educational programme, as well as the findings of the situational analysis of this study. And Phase 4, focused on the implementation and evaluation of the psychosocial educational programme that was developed to facilitate the reintegration of incarcerated women who had dumped babies and / or committed infanticide. A three-day training workshop was held at the Oluno Correctional Facility to conduct the educational programme. The educational programme was evaluated in order to validate whether the programme interventions were likely to bring about the desired change among the participants.A process for the development of a psychosocial educational programme to facilitate the reintegration of incarcerated women who had dumped babies and / or committed infanticide in Namibia

Nursing Students’ Experiences With Death and Terminal Patients During Clinical Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 003022282095051
Author(s):  
Şenay Gül ◽  
Seyhan Demir Karabulut ◽  
Handan Eren ◽  
Mahinur Durmuş İskender ◽  
Zehra Göçmen Baykara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Clinical Education ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
First Time

The aim of this study is to explore nursing students’ experiences with death and terminal patients during clinical education. A secondary analysis of qualitative data that were collected through 11 focus group interviews with nursing students was performed. Data obtained from the interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. There were a total of 9 themes across 3 contexts. Data were grouped under the following themes: feelings experienced when encountering death for the first time, reactions to the first encounter with death, factors affecting the reactions to death, involvement in terminal patient care, being informed about the physical process that terminal patients are going through, students’ approach toward terminal patients and their relatives, health professionals’ approach toward terminal/dying patients/their relatives, changes in the ideas about death, and changes in the ideas about terminal/dying patients. The study shows a lack of guidance on the part of teachers who also avoid patients and families who are considered terminally ill.

What's the Story?: Exploring Parent–Teacher Communication through ePortfolios

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Higgins ◽  
Sue Cherrington
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Electronic Portfolios ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Teacher Communication ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Reported Data

ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS (ePORTFOLIOS) ARE a relatively new phenomenon in early childhood education (ECE) with minimal existing research available on their use and effectiveness as a learning and communication tool in ECE. This article reports on a study examining the influence of ePortfolios on parent–teacher communication in one early childhood (EC) service. Reported data has been drawn from online surveys, document analysis of ePortfolios, individual interviews and focus group interviews with parents and teachers. Thematic analysis identified two main themes: the benefits and drawbacks of communicating via the ePortfolio, and the types of communication that were evident.

The existential cancer journey: Travelling through the intersubjective structure of homeworld/alienworld

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Assing Hvidt
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Transformative Experiences ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Patient Narratives ◽  
Illness Experiences ◽  
Group Interviews

In the past couple of decades, there has been significant interest in the research literature and patient narratives that focus on describing the cancer journey as involving existential and spiritual transformative experiences. The purpose of this article is to contribute with a new and deepened understanding of the existing literature by offering a philosophical informed analytic conceptualization that highlights the ‘liminal’, transformative and ‘generative’ dimension of the cancer journey. For that purpose, qualitative data drawn from a qualitative study investigating existential experiences of a group of Danish patients in rehabilitation were analysed employing the American phenomenologist Anthony J. Steinbock’s interpretation of the Husserlian concepts homeworld/alienworld ( Heimwelt/Fremdwelt). Data used in this article derived from qualitative interviews (11 individual interviews and 9 focus group interviews) with cancer patients participating in rehabilitation week courses at a Danish rehabilitation centre. The analysis led to the development of three themes: ‘The heavy break with the homeworld’, ‘Realizing a new homefellowship’ and ‘Transformation of the homeworld’. Findings suggest that journeying with cancer involves a ‘liminal’ experiencing of having to navigate in a borderless and unfamiliar territory between a homeworld and an alienworld before ultimately arriving at a sense of transformation in which meaning is derived from both lifeworlds. It is argued that such an understanding of the intersubjectivity between lifeworlds highlights the need for health care professionals communicating with patients throughout their cancer journey about whether and how the illness experiences have been integrated into their lifeworld and whether help is needed in order to achieve existential rehabilitation.

Suicide: Qualitative data from focus group interviews with youth

1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (10) ◽  
pp. 1563-1570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Coggan ◽  
Pam Patterson ◽  
Jacqui Fill
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews

Gender, Work and Economic Restructuring in a Transcarpathia (Ukraine) Village

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Generational Differences ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Field Site ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Administrative Positions ◽  
Gender And Work ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
Group Interviews

This paper combines two sources of qualitative data, focus group interviews and ethnographic research, to discuss gender as a factor in changes to work and identity in a rural Ukrainian village. Analyzing data from focus groups I conducted in the winter and fall of 1997 at my dissertation field site in Transcarpathia, I argue that in this community gender differences are as important as generational differences in shaping participants' evaluation of work opportunities before, during and in particular after the Soviet period. The important relationship between gender and work opportunities in this village stems both from traditional divisions of labor and the loss of professional jobs, such as teaching and administrative positions, available to women during the Soviet period.

scholarly journals Investigation of Teacher Roles in Educational Practices in The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-332
Author(s):  
Dinçer Temelli ◽  
Osman Yılmaz Kartal ◽  
Çavuş Şahin ◽  
Akan Deniz Yazgan
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Instructional Activities ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Inequality In Education ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Phenomenological Design

In the research, it is aimed to analyze the roles of teachers teaching in distance education in the Covid-19 pandemic period and to investigate the obstacles encountered in the realization of these roles. The aim of the research is examined with the post-positivist paradigm and analyzed with the phenomenological design which is one of the qualitative research methods. In the research, participants were chosen from the teachers of Mathematics, Foreign Language, Science, Turkish and Social Studies who teach at least 15 hours or more per week in distance education. The data collection process in which data triangulation was performed included diaries kept by teachers for five days, individual interviews and focus group interviews. Transcripted data were analyzed by content analysis technique. According to the findings of the research, it was observed that the roles of the teachers who participated in the study were “communicator”, “collaborator”, “facilitator” and “learner” teacher during the distance education in Covid-19 pandemic. It has been observed that there are obstacles in the realization of roles in issues such as injustice / inequality in education, subject-centered program, structure of the education program, professional development, student and parent unwillingness. Teachers stated the features that teachers should have in the process of distance education as technopedagogical content knowledge, planning instructional activities, being able to measure distance assessment and provide student motivation.

Children's Knowledge and Beliefs about AIDS: Qualitative Data from Focus Group Interviews

1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn J. Hoppe ◽  
Elizabeth A. Wells ◽  
Anthony Wilsdon ◽  
Mary R. Gillmore ◽  
Diane M. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
Group Interviews

Exploring youth citizenship during COVID-19 lockdowns in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Mutch ◽  
Marta Estellés
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Youth Citizenship ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The City

The research presented in this article explores how young people in New Zealand exercised their citizenship during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Building upon the theoretical concepts of ‘actions’ and ‘acts of citizenship’, this qualitative study draws on data from the experiences of 30 young people aged over 16 in the city of Auckland. Data included classroom observations, focus group interviews, individual interviews and the sharing of student artefacts (e.g. posters and videos). The experiences of the participants covered a wide range of engagement in citizenship rights, sites, scales and acts. Our findings offered an alternative to prevailing portrayals of young people as either passive victims or self-centred troublemakers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lessons for citizenship education are discussed at the end of the article.

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