Schoolchildren’s play – A tool for health education

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margareta Sjöblom ◽  
Lars Jacobsson ◽  
Kerstin Öhrling ◽  
Catrine Kostenius
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Inner Child ◽  
Grade 3 ◽  
Health And Well Being

Objective: The purpose of this study was to gain more knowledge about the phenomenon of the inner child in relation to health and well-being as reflected in play experienced by schoolchildren. Design/method: Participants were 20 schoolchildren recruited from a primary school in a medium-size city in central Sweden. The children who agreed to participate were 14 girls and 6 boys aged between 9 and 10 years old in grade 3. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to analyse the data consisting of the schoolchildren’s drawings and transcribed interviews. Participants’ verbal reflections on their drawings enabled deeper insight into their lived experiences of play. Results: Findings from this study demonstrate how schoolchildren are influenced by the inner child in childhood to handle conflicts, to cope, to make choices, to build relationships to connect and to dream about the future. The schoolchildren in this study developed their coping skills in conflict situations as part of friendship making. Conclusion: The value play offers for health and well-being reveals how schoolchildren are influenced by the inner child in childhood. Gaining knowledge from schoolchildren’s own voices about play makes a worthwhile contribution to research. In addition, the value play provides to schoolchildren’s health and well-being suggest that play can be an important tool as part of health education.

scholarly journals The Frontline Nurse’s Experience of Nursing Outlier Patients

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 5232
Author(s):  
Jasmine Cheung ◽  
Sandra West ◽  
Maureen Boughton
Keyword(s):  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Renal Patient ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Improve Patient ◽  
Health And Well Being

The frontline nurses’ experience of nursing with overstretched resources in acute care setting can affect their health and well-being. Little is known about the experience of registered nurses faced with the care of a patient outside their area of expertise. The aim of this paper is to explore the phenomenon of nursing the outlier patient, when patients are nursed in a ward that is not specifically developed to deal with the major clinical diagnosis involved (e.g., renal patient in gynecology ward). Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, eleven individual face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with registered nurses in New South Wales, Australia. The study identified that each nurse had a specialty construct developed from nursing in a specialized environment. Each nurse had normalized the experience of specialty nursing and had developed a way of thinking and practicing theorized as a “care ladder”. By grouping and analyzing various “care ladders” together, the nursing capacities common to nurses formed the phenomenological orientation, namely “the composite care ladder”. Compared to nursing specialty-appropriate patients, nursing the outlier patient caused disruption of the care ladder, with some nurses becoming less capable as they were nursing the outlier patient. Nursing the outlier patient disrupted the nurses’ normalized constructs of nursing. This study suggests that nursing patients in specialty-appropriate wards will improve patient outcomes and reduce impacts on the nurses’ morale.

The experience of adolescents who have a parent with advanced cancer: A phenomenological inquiry

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1057-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farya Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Parental Cancer ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Phenomenological Inquiry ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Being There

AbstractObjective:Adolescents are considered the group most susceptible to negative psychosocial outcomes when faced with a parent's illness. However, there has been extremely limited research on the adolescent's adjustment to advanced parental cancer. The aim of our study was to gain understanding of the experiences of adolescents, in their own words, to gather pilot data about the needs of this population that will be valuable in developing interventions for adolescents facing parental cancer.Method:A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was applied using in-depth semistructured interviews to inquire about adolescents' experiences. Some 10 adolescents (7 males, 3 females) aged 14–17 were interviewed.Results:Four essential themes about adolescents living with a parent's advanced cancer emerged from the analysis: “life interrupted,” “being there,” “managing emotions,” and “positives prevail.” These findings underscore the significant impact an advanced cancer diagnosis can have on a family unit and suggest that the experience may also have the potential of creating opportunities for growth and well-being. Our findings reinforce previous results that advocate for the importance of family and peer support, positive attitude, and open communication when a family is coping with advanced parental cancer.Significance of results:Understanding how adolescents gain strength from their relationships with family and peers offers healthcare professionals an opportunity to have services and strategies in place to foster these relationships.

scholarly journals Experiences of music listening among rugby players at North-West University

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamaryn L. Aslett ◽  
Liesl Van Der Merwe ◽  
Jaco H. Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
North West ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Socially Situated ◽  
Rugby Players

This article documents a study that investigated the reasons why a group of student rugby players habitually listen to music as part of their pre-match routine. The investigation followed a hermeneutic phenomenological approach that allowed the players to verbalise their personal music listening experiences. The investigation links the music listening practices of the players with the concept of musical experience as an innate human capacity directed towards general well-being. For the players, well-being is a basic condition of happiness and optimism. Achieving and maintaining this condition draws on the emotive qualities of musical sound patterns, as well as the powerful, socially situated meanings of song lyrics. Consequent states of mind conceptualise a rewarding existence by integrating experiences in sport as well as in music. Directed towards rugby practice, the study found that music listening is an informal, individual activity that involves the use of earphones. The sense of personal isolation this induces is a prerequisite for generating focus as well as controlled energy, a state of mind regarded as essential for effective participation in rugby. The pervasive use yet informal application of this strategy by rugby players points to an officially undervalued psychological resource. This finding has implications for fuller exploitation and incorporation of music listening into rugby training programmes.

scholarly journals Reconciling Dichotomous Demands: Telemarketing Agents in Bangalore and Mumbai, India

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Noronha ◽  
Premilla D'Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Business Process Outsourcing ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Employment Potential ◽  
Conversational Interviews

Though outsourcing has created enormous employment potential in India’s information technology enabled services/business process outsourcing (ITES/BPO) sector, the implications for employees remain to be understood. The present paper describes employee experiences in telemarketing outbound call centers in Bangalore and Mumbai, India. Following van Manen’s (1998) hermeneutic phenomenological approach, data were collected through unstructured conversational interviews with 18 telemarketing agents identified vi a snowball sampling and were subject to holistic and sententious thematic analyses. Reconciling dichotomous experiences at work was the label used to capture participants’ core experiences and indicated that while participants’ simultaneous positive and negative experiences contributed to a sense of concomitant stress and well-being, they employed various strategies to maintain a balance between positive experiences/well-being and negative experiences/stress.

scholarly journals Pathways to urban health and well-being: measuring and modelling of community services’ in a medium size city

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clémence Vannier ◽  
Malcolm Campbell ◽  
Simon Kingham
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Allocation Model ◽  
Location Allocation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Health And Well Being

Social and natural capital are fundamental to people’s wellbeing, often within the context of local community. Developing communities and linking people together provide benefits in terms of mental well-being, physical activity and other associated health outcomes. The research presented here was carried out in Christchurch - Ōtautahi, New Zealand, a city currently re-building, after a series of devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. Poor mental health has been shown to be a significant post-earthquake problem, and social connection has been postulated as part of a solution. By curating a disparate set of community services, activities and facilities, organised into a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) database, we created i) an accessibility analysis of 11 health and well-being services, ii) a mobility scenario analysis focusing on 4 general well-being services and iii) a location-allocation model focusing on 3 primary health care and welfare location optimisation. Our results demonstrate that overall, the majority of neighbourhoods in Christchurch benefit from a high level of accessibility to almost all the services; but with an urban-rural gradient (the further away from the centre, the less services are available, as is expected). The noticeable exception to this trend, is that the more deprived eastern suburbs have poorer accessibility, suggesting social inequity in accessibility. The findings presented here show the potential of optimisation modelling and database curation for urban and community facility planning purposes.

Games in Health Education

2010 ◽  
pp. 106-118
Author(s):  
Margot Kaszap
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
Learning At Home ◽  
Health And Well Being

Studies indicate that teachers are not effectively encouraging appropriate health and well-being strategies among their students (Turcotte, Gaudreau, & Otis, 2007). Because educational games offer many advantages in promoting health, motivation, and active participation in learning, (Sauvé, Power, IsaBelle, Samson, & St-Pierre, 2002), it is important to determine which types of games health education teachers can use best. Building on health education needs and social representation theory, this chapter presents a study of pre-service (student) teachers to identify social representations that pre-service teachers have about games, including whether they perceived games as supporting learning at home and in school, and which types and aspects of games they preferred. The answers to these questions helped the research team to create games to meet the needs of future teachers in enhancing their students’ health education.

The power of appreciation: promoting schoolchildren’s health literacy

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 (6) ◽  
pp. 611-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrine Kostenius ◽  
Ulrika Bergmark
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Know How ◽  
Action Awareness ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore Swedish children’s positive experiences of health and well-being, and their thoughts on how health literacy can be promoted. Design/methodology/approach Totally, 121 schoolchildren between the ages of 10 and 14 from three schools in two municipalities in the northern part of Sweden shared their lived experiences through individual written reflections. Findings The phenomenological analysis resulted in one theme, appreciation as fuel for health and well-being, and four sub-themes: feeling a sense of belonging; being cared for by others; being respected and listened to; and feeling valued and confirmed. The understanding of the schoolchildren’s experiences of health and well-being and their thoughts on how health literacy can be promoted revealed that appreciation in different forms is the key dimension of their experiences of health and well-being. Practical implications The findings of this study point to the necessity of promoting health education that includes reflection and action-awareness of one’s own and others’ health as well as the competence to know how and when to improve their health. Such health education can contribute to the development of health literacy in young people, an essential skill for the twenty-first century. Originality/value This study’s originality is that the authors added the concepts of appreciative inquiry and student voice to the study of health literacy with children.

Caring in nursing homes to promote autonomy and participation

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 280-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Hedman ◽  
Elisabeth Häggström ◽  
Anna-Greta Mamhidir ◽  
Ulrika Pöder
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Older People ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Trusting Relationships ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health And Well Being

Background: Autonomy and participation are threatened within the group of older people living in nursing homes. Evidence suggests that healthcare personnel act on behalf of older people but are still excluding them from decision-making in everyday care. Objective: The purpose was to describe registered nurses’ experience of caring for older people in nursing homes to promote autonomy and participation. Research design: A descriptive design with a phenomenological approach was used. Data were collected by semi-structured individual interviews. Analysis was inspired by Giorgi’s method. Participants and research context: A total of 13 registered nurses from 10 nursing homes participated. Ethical considerations: Ethical approval was obtained from the Regional Research Ethics Committee. Informed consent was achieved and confidentiality guaranteed. Findings: The essence of caring for older people in nursing homes to promote autonomy and participation consisted of registered nurses’ awareness of older people’s frailty and the impact of illness to support health and well-being, and awareness of acknowledgement in everyday life and trusting relationships. Paying attention to older people by being open to the persons’ wishes were aspects that relied on registered nurses’ trusting relationships with older people, their relatives and surrounding healthcare personnel. The awareness reflected challenges in caring to promote older people’s right to autonomy and participation in nursing homes. Registered nurses’ strategies, hopes for and/or concerns about development of everyday life in nursing homes were revealed and mirrored their engagement in caring for older people. Discussion and conclusion: Awareness of older people’s frailty in nursing homes and the importance of maintained health and well-being were described as the main source for promoting autonomy and participation. Everyday life and care in nursing homes needs to be addressed from both older people’s and healthcare personnel’s perspectives, to promote autonomy and participation for residents in nursing homes.

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