scholarly journals Integrity triad as doubled edged sword for head-teachers’ integrity: a case from Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhanu Bhakta Khadka ◽  
Prakash C Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Head Teachers

AbstractHeadteachers in the community schools are responsible for academic and administrative activities. They are considered role models for integrity practices. However, the situation is different on some occasions. For instance, political interest plays more important roles than qualifications, training, work experience, etc., in school affairs. In this context, a qualitative study was carried out in the purposefully selected two schools – an urban and a rural – to explore the elements that influence school integrity practices. Data collected from the schools were analyzed and interpreted. The findings show that nepotism, unhealthy party politics, and impunity (integrity triad) influence the school integrity practices in Nepal.

Caregivers’ experiences and perspectives of factors associated with relapse in Iranian people living with schizophrenia: A qualitative study

2021 ◽  
pp. 002076402110689
Author(s):  
Maryam Zabihi Poursaadati ◽  
Masoomeh Maarefvand ◽  
Jafar Bolhari ◽  
Samaneh Hosseinzadeh ◽  
Nahid Songhori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
Informal Caregivers ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Access To Treatment ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Formal Caregivers ◽  
Age Range

Background: Relapse in People Living with Schizophrenia (PLS) has several reasons and recognizing these can increase the effectiveness of treatment interventions. Formal and informal caregivers are an informed source to reduce relapse in PLS. Aim: This study explores the caregivers’ perspective in Iran on the factors affecting relapse in PLS. Method: A total of 28 caregivers (16 formal caregivers and 12 informal caregivers) of PLS were enrolled in our qualitative study. A content analysis was conducted using individual and group, semi-structured in-depth interviews with informal and formal caregivers of PLS. This study was conducted in a hospital, three universities, and a non-governmental organization in Tehran, Iran. Results: The majority (69%) of the participants were females. About half of the informal caregivers were over 60 years old and about 40% of the formal caregivers were in the age range of 30 to 40 years. The average number of years of work for informal caregivers was 17.6 years and the average of work experience among the formal caregivers was 14.1 years. Seven key dual themes were identified from data: ‘awareness-stigma’, ‘social support-social exclusion’, ‘treatment adherence-treatment discontinuation’, ‘holistic approach – one-dimensional approach’, ‘supported employment-social dysfunction’, ‘emotional management in family – family with high emotional expression’, and ‘access to treatment-treatment gap’. Conclusion: The results of this research can help practitioners and policymakers to enable evidence-based practices to reduce relapse in PLS by emphasizing and acting on factors identified in our analyses.

Informed Democracy

2014 ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
Insa Haidn ◽  
Helen Partridge ◽  
Christine Yates
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Personal Politics ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry

This chapter presents the preliminary findings of a qualitative study exploring people’s information experiences during the 2012 Queensland State election in Australia. Six residents of South East Queensland who were eligible to vote in the state election participated in a semi-structured interview. The interviews revealed five themes that depict participants’ information experience during the election: information sources, information flow, personal politics, party politics, and sense making. Together these themes represent what is experienced as information, how information is experienced, as well as contextual aspects that were unique to voting in an election. The study outlined here is one in an emerging area of enquiry that has explored information experience as a research object. This study has revealed that people’s information experiences are rich, complex, and dynamic, and that information experience as a construct of scholarly inquiry provides deep insights into the ways in which people relate to their information worlds. More studies exploring information experience within different contexts are needed to help develop our theoretical understanding of this important and emerging construct.

Men who are Dietitians: Deconstructing Gender within the Profession to Inform Recruitment

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-212
Author(s):  
Phillip Joy ◽  
Brandon Gheller ◽  
Daphne Lordly
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Status ◽  
Division Ii ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Recruitment Barriers ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose: In Canada, few men are dietitians. Literature is sparse regarding why so few men are drawn to dietetics. This study, part of a larger qualitative study, explores the experiences of men who are dietitians throughout their training and careers using a phenomenology framework. The study examines the meanings participants make about dietetics in relation to recruitment.Methods: Semi-structured individual interviews with 6 men who are dietitians were completed, transcribed, and analyzed.Results: An overarching theme, “experiences and outcomes of a gendered profession”, was related to the participants’ perspectives concerning recruitment into the dietetic profession. Four sub-themes are reported: (i) societal gender division, (ii) gender division within the profession, (iii) isolation from men who are mentors and other men, and (iv) the need to deconstruct and change. The results provide insight into recruitment barriers and potential approaches for increasing the number of men within dietetics, including changing the perceptions of the profession, increasing role models for men, and dismantling gendered practices.Conclusion: Participants believed that increasing men within dietetics would be beneficial and would increase diversity. It is unlikely that recruitment of men will increase if the status quo and gender norms of the profession are not disrupted and challenged.

Brazilian immigrant fathers’ perspectives on child’s eating and feeding practices: a qualitative study conducted in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (17) ◽  
pp. 3211-3225
Author(s):  
Ana Cristina Lindsay ◽  
Gabriela Vasconcellos de Barros Vianna ◽  
Carlos André Moura Arruda ◽  
Amanda De Sá Melo Alves ◽  
Maria Helena Hasselmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eating Behaviours ◽  
Family Interventions ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
Preschool Aged Children

AbstractObjectives:Brazilians comprise a rapidly growing immigrant Latino group in the USA, yet little research has focused on health issues affecting Brazilian children in immigrant families. As increasing evidence is documenting fathers’ influential role in their children’s eating behaviours and ultimately weight status, the current study sought to explore the Brazilian immigrant fathers’ perspectives and practices related to child’s feeding practices and their preschool-aged children’s eating.Design:Qualitative study using in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Interviews were conducted in Portuguese by native Brazilian research staff using a semi-structured interview guide. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were analysed thematically using a hybrid approach that incorporated deductive and inductive analytical approaches.Setting:Massachusetts.Participants:Twenty-one Brazilian immigrant fathers who had at least one child aged 2–5 years.Results:Results revealed fathers’ awareness of the importance of healthy eating for their children, their influence as role models and their involvement in feeding routines of their preschool-aged children. Moreover, fathers were receptive to participating in family interventions to promote their children’s healthy eating. Nearly all fathers reported wanting to learn more and to do ‘what’s right’ for their children.Conclusions:The current study provides new information about Brazilian immigrant fathers’ views about factors influencing their children’s healthy eating behaviours and paternal feeding practices. Future research should quantify fathers’ feeding styles and practices and solicit fathers’ input in the design of culturally appropriate family interventions targeting the home environment of preschool-aged children of Brazilian immigrant families.

Rural Cross-Sector Collaboration

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 193S-215S ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Miller ◽  
Martin K. Scanlan ◽  
Kate Phillippo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Community Partnership ◽  
Service Community ◽  
Rural Context

Schools throughout the United States apply comprehensive community partnership strategies to address students’ in- and out-of-school needs. Drawing from models like the Harlem Children’s Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and full-service community schools, such strategies call for diverse professionals to reach beyond their own organizations to collaborate with complementary partners. Extant research on cross-sector collaboration focuses disproportionately on urban settings. This qualitative study examined three years of cross-sector collaboration in “Midvale,” a rural community in the western United States. Applying the conceptual framework of social frontiers, it illuminates how issues of difference, competition, and resource constraint impacted cross-sector collaboration in Midvale’s rural context.

scholarly journals Parent Perceptions on a Walking School Bus Program Among Low-Income Families: A Qualitative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 1047-1053
Author(s):  
Katie Teller ◽  
Mark Abbey-Lambertz ◽  
Nasira Sharma ◽  
Alan Waite ◽  
Scott Ickes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Parent Perceptions ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Bus ◽  
Recruitment Methods ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Walking School Bus

Background: The walking school bus (WSB) is a promising intervention to increase walking to school and physical activity in school-age children. The aim of this qualitative study was to assess parent perceptions of a WSB program that was part of a randomized controlled trial to inform future programs. Methods: The authors interviewed 45 parents whose children had participated in a WSB program in the Seattle area, in which third- and fifth-grade students walked to/from school with adult chaperones along a set route. The authors performed a qualitative analysis of the interview transcripts and coded interview segments into 4 broad categories as follows: facilitators, barriers, general positive sentiments, and proposals. Results: Most parents spoke of the benefits of the WSB program; in particular, parents frequently applauded exercise/physical health benefits. Of the barriers, the most frequently cited was time, with work schedule and commute changes leading some families to walk less frequently. Conclusions: Most parents voiced support for the WSB program as a means to improve child health, to learn pedestrian safety, and to interact with positive adult role models. Parents made several suggestions to improve the program, including better recruitment methods, logistical improvements, and a platform for communicating with other parents.

scholarly journals Barriers and Facilitators Implementation of Evidence-Based Nursing practice in Hospitals: A Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1504-1511
Author(s):  
Ikar Swito ◽  
Indahwaty Sidin
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Strategic Support ◽  
The Individual

The results of the literature review study clearly show: that attitudes and beliefs, knowledge about EBP, a capability to interpret faithful journals, nurses' demographic characteristics including the level of education, work experience, and age influenced the implementation of EBP. At the organizational level, the obstacles in implementing EBP consist of facilities and infrastructure, leadership, conflict, group dynamics, workplace, and organizational culture, lack of human resources, workload, lack of time, lack of internet access, the need for role models in the implementation of EBP. The results clearly showed that the implementation of evidence-based practice was a complex structure where the support of both individuals and organizations was very influential. It was necessary at the individual level to increase knowledge and skills in implementing EBP. However, workplace organizational management and strategic support integrated into the hospital's vision became the initial capital in implementing EBP

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