Abstract 77: Health Care Providers and Traditional Healers Perspectives on Late Diagnosis of Breast CanceriIn Tanzania: A Qualitative Study

The current investigation seeks to examine the attitudes and beliefs of health care providers in Canada about people living with HIV. The line of research consists of three studies. Study 1 was a qualitative study conducted with a critical lens. The critical lens was used in a series of four focus groups when qualitatively soliciting opinions about the range of attitudes, behaviours and cognitions health care providers may have towards people living with HIV. Study 2 used the information gathered from Study 1 to develop a scale to assess HIV stigma in health care providers. Items were created from examples and themes found in the qualitative study, and were tested via exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, test-retest reliability analysis, and assessed for convergent and divergent validity. Study 3 examined the newly developed scale’s relationship to proposed overlapping stigmas and attitudes, and tested the adapted intersectional model of HIV-related stigma with health care trainees using the newly developed HIV stigma scale as an outcome measure. The line of research found that HIV stigma continues to be a significant problem in the health care system. The scale developed in Study 2 demonstrates that HIV stigma can be conceptualized and assessed as a tripartite model of discrimination, stereotyping and prejudice, and that this conceptualization of HIV stigma supports an intersectional model of overlapping stigmas with homophobia, racism, stigma against injection drug use and stigma against sex work.

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FRONTLINE HEALTH PROVIDER'S PERSPECTIVE IN REDUCING CHILD DEATHS DUE TO MALNUTRITION IN A TRIBAL DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

10.36106/paripex/8214880 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 246-249

Author(s):

Lalit Sankhe ◽

Chhaya Rajguru ◽

Monali Kadam

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Service Providers ◽

Health Workers ◽

Health Care Service ◽

Care Providers ◽

Child Deaths ◽

Primary Health ◽

Refresher Training

Background: Malnutrition is a complex problem with double burden of undernutrition and overweight. India is no exception to it but there is a higher level of malnutrition in tribal blocks and to curb this situation,various activities have been undertaken but the slow pace of decline in malnutrition is a concern.The role of frontline health workers is crucial in strengthening primary health care.They serve as the bridge between the formal government health-care system and the community.The present study helps to seek the perception of primary health care service providers and challenges faced by them in reducing child deaths due to malnutrition. Method: A descriptive cross sectional qualitative study was conducted during August 2019 - February 2020 in three talukas of a tribal district. Focus group discussions (FGD) for each service providers Auxiliary Nurse midwife (ANM), Anganwadi worker (AWW) and Accredited Social Health activist (ASHA) were conducted. All the FGDs were audio recorded and transcripts were prepared,a thematic analysis framework was used for doing the analysis. Results: Most of the service providers were aware regarding their roles and responsibilities in implementation of schemes/ services related to malnutrition. The important factors influencing their performance were superstitions, more reliance on health seeking from unqualified health care providers and faith healers, poor road connectivity, network issues,lack of refresher training,overburdening with work,poor incentives. Conclusion: Specific training programs to tackle malnutrition along with frequent refresher training of the service providers,better infrastructure and human resources will help in achieving the desired results in future in dealing with child malnutrition.

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Modern Desires, Knowledge Control, and Physician Resistance: Regulating Ayurvedic Medicine in Nepal

Asian Medicine ◽

10.1163/157342108x381232 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 86-112 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Mary Cameron

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Health Knowledge ◽

Traditional Healers ◽

Care Providers ◽

Medical Practitioners ◽

Medical Certification ◽

Traditional Practitioners ◽

The Government

AbstractForms of medical regulation in Nepal are shown to limit health knowledge transmission in the name of protecting the people from health care providers both familiar and trusted. Within the last four years Nepal's Ministry of Health implemented controversial legislation requiring Ayurvedic medical practitioners to register with the government in order to practise medicine and to prepare plant-based medications. Traditional practitioners find the age and lineage requirements for those not holding medical certification in Ayurveda potentially devastating to their profession, and they have launched an active campaign resisting the new professionalisation requirements. These actions can be seen to result from the convergence of a rising modern Nepali state bureaucracy, the people's desire for a country free of high rates of morbidity and mortality, and the powerful ideology of Western-based health care modernisation guiding health development. I draw on recent research in Kathmandu and in two rural communities to summarise the role of Ayurveda in Nepal's health care, to analyse the politics behind the legislation and the traditional healers' response, and finally to suggest the legislation's impact on health care.

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6.2-O8“I simply haven’t given it a thought before!” - health care providers’ experiences regarding cervical cancer screening among immigrant women in Norway- a qualitative study

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/cky047.207 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (suppl_1) ◽

Author(s):

K Møen ◽

L Terragni ◽

B Kumar ◽

E Diaz

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Cervical Cancer ◽

Cancer Screening ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Cervical Cancer Screening ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Immigrant Women ◽

Care Providers

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Health care providers’ and mothers’ perceptions about the medicalization of female genital mutilation or cutting in Egypt: a cross-sectional qualitative study

BMC International Health and Human Rights ◽

10.1186/s12914-019-0202-x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Omaima El-Gibaly ◽

Mirette Aziz ◽

Salma Abou Hussein

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Female Genital Mutilation ◽

Care Providers ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Genital Mutilation ◽

Female Genital

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Forgotten Fathers: Postpartum Depression in Men

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x19833111 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (8) ◽

pp. 1001-1017 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Brandon Eddy ◽

Von Poll ◽

Jason Whiting ◽

Marcia Clevesy

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Postpartum Depression ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Care Providers ◽

Chat Rooms ◽

Gender Expectations ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Analysis Methods

Although postpartum depression is common and well-studied in mothers, many fathers also experience symptoms. This qualitative study investigated fathers’ experiences of postpartum depression. Data from secondary sources such as blogs, websites, forums, and chat rooms were analyzed using a combination of phenomenological and content analysis methods to understand father’s experiences of paternal postpartum depression. Six themes emerged from the data including fathers’ needing education, adhering to gender expectations, repressing feelings, being overwhelmed, resentment of baby, and the experience of neglect. These data provide useful information that can aid health care providers, researchers, clinicians, and families in understanding the experience of paternal postpartum depression and in better coping with the challenges these families face.

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