I Would Rather Just Go Through With It Than Be Called a Wussy

Worldwide suicide is a deeply gendered phenomenon. In South Africa, approximately 80% of suicide completers are male. This study aimed to investigate how a group of young South African men understand and think about suicidal behavior. In-depth semistructured interviews and thematic analysis using a grounded theory approach revealed that this group of young South African men had permissive attitudes to suicide and viewed suicide as a morally defensible alternative in specific situations. They spoke of suicide as a goal-directed behavior that provides a means of regaining control, asserting power, communicating, and rendering oneself visible. From this perspective, suicide was understood as a brave act requiring strength and determination. These data have congruence with the Theory of Gender and Health, which proposes that constructions of masculinity may be implicated in the attitudes and beliefs young men in South Africa hold toward suicide.

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Parents’ perception of their role in the prevention of inadequate consumption of fruit and vegetables among adolescents in South Africa

South African Dental Journal ◽

10.17159/2519-0105/2020/v75no5a1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 75 (5) ◽

pp. 235-240

Author(s):

Tuweyire E Okagbare ◽

Sudeshni Naidoo

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Research Strategy ◽

Dietary Guidelines ◽

Fruit And Vegetables ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Gradual Introduction ◽

Group Interviews ◽

Grounded Theory Approach ◽

Theoretical Saturation

South African adolescents consume relatively low fruit and vegetables in spite of the development of foodbased dietary guidelines for South Africa. The aims and objectives of the present study were to investigate parents’ perception of their role in the prevention of the health compromising behaviour of inadequate consumption of fruit and vegetables among adolescents in South Africa. The study design was qualitative and exploratory and the research strategy used was inductive, deductive and abductive. Using a guiding question schedule data were collected from five focus group interviews. A non-probability purposive theoretical sampling method was utilized and the sample size of 37 determined by theoretical saturation. Data analysis was performed using the grounded theory approach. The findings of the study suggest that children should be introduced to fruit and vegetables as early as possible. The study recommends that infants should be exposed to the taste of locally available fruit and vegetables followed by the gradual introduction of fruit and vegetables into their diet together with a variety of other nutrientdense foods when solid foods are being introduced.

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Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Doctoral Students' Mentoring Relationships with Faculty in Counseling Psychology:

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/0011000098265004 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 26 (5) ◽

pp. 754-776 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Julianne S. Lark ◽

James M. Croteau

Keyword(s):

Doctoral Students ◽

Counseling Psychology ◽

Mentoring Relationships ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Training Environment ◽

Semistructured Interviews ◽

And Bisexual ◽

Faculty Mentors ◽

Lgb Students ◽

Grounded Theory Approach

This qualitative study investigated lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) doctoral students' mentoring relationships with faculty in counseling psychology. Data from semistructured interviews with 14 LGB participants was analyzed using a grounded theory approach. After submitting a preliminary description to a peer audit, and a "member check," a final description of these LGB doctoral students' mentoring relationships with faculty was constructed. The description included two interactive LGB-specific contextual themes (safety in the training environment regarding LGB issues and students' level of outness/disclosure regarding sexual orientation) that helped shape three themes regarding LGB students' experience of mentoring relationships (formation, functions, and impact). Seven recommendations for faculty mentors are made based on the results, and implications for research are addressed.

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When Torture Mocks the Law: Understanding Police Brutality in South Africa

International Journal of Criminology and Sociology ◽

10.6000/1929-4409.2021.10.28 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 231-243

Author(s):

Philisiwe Hadebe ◽

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Nirmala Gopal

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Thematic Analysis ◽

Police Officers ◽

Water Deprivation ◽

Police Brutality ◽

Police Culture ◽

Research Approach ◽

Police Violence ◽

Degrading Treatment

South Africa promulgated the Prevention and Combating of Torture of Persons Act No. 13 of 2013, which criminalises the use of torture by law enforcers. The Act also criminalises cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment of citizens by law enforcers. However, the implementation of this law is derisory as the torture and physical abuse of civilians by the police reportedly continue unabated. This phenomenon seems part of police culture that is entrenched in South African policing practices. Prior to the study, the literature review underscored the unabated prevalence of police violence. Against this background, this article seeks to highlight specific incidences of police officers’ use of unconstitutional and abusive acts of torture involving civilians. Using a qualitative research approach, ten officers of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) were interviewed to generate the required data. Thematic analysis was used and the findings revealed that civilians suspected of criminal behaviour were often exposed to inhumane forms of torture, which ranged from food and water deprivation to being strangled, suffocated, and electrocuted. These forms of torture involving suspects were reportedly prompted by the urgency for eliciting information, ‘proving’ the presumption of guilt, proactively preventing crime in communities, and coercing suspect compliance. The findings thus urge the need for a blanket ban on the torture of suspects, the effective investigation by the IPID of cases of torture, and the successful trial and conviction of police perpetrators of this crime.

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Conceptualisation of community-based basic nursing education in South Africa: a grounded theory analysis

Curationis ◽

10.4102/curationis.v28i2.939 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gloria Mtshali

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Grounded Theory ◽

Nursing Education ◽

South African ◽

Learning Experiences ◽

Theory Approach ◽

The South ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Education ◽

Community Based Learning

Community-based education is about a decade old in basic nursing education in South Africa, An extensive review of literature revealed that although CBE was a familiar concept in South Africa, there was however, limited understanding of what this phenomenon means. The purpose of the study was to analyse the concept ‘community-based education’ with the aim of discovering shared understanding of this phenomenon in basic nursing education within the South African context. Strauss and Corbin’s (1990) grounded theory approach was used to guide the research process. The South African Nursing Council’s (SANC) education committee, the National Department of Health, human resources division representatives as well as seven nursing education institutions with well-established CBE programmes participated in the study. The data was collected by means o f observations, interviews and document analysis. Purposive sampling and later theoretical sampling was used for selecting interviewees. This resulted in a total o f 45 interviewees. The data collection and initial data analysis took place concurrently. Descriptive analysis followed by conceptual analysis was performed using Strauss and Corbin’s model. The findings in this study revealed that community-based education is education that uses the community extensively, especially the under-developed and under-resourced settings, for learning purposes in order to enhance relevance of nursing education to the needs of the South African population. The core discriminatory characteristics o f CBE were found to include; primacy of the community as a learning environment; the early exposure of students to community-based learning experiences; community-based learning experiences dominating the curriculum, exposure to community-based learning experiences throughout the curriculum, vertical sequencing of community-based learning experiences in a curriculum, starting from primary settings to secondary and later tertiary health care settings to facilitate the development of competencies required when serving in all these settings, and lastly, learning through providing service to the underresourced communities. Community involvement and partnership, problem-centred learning, valid assessment of learning emanated as important characteristics of CBE but which were identified as gaps in the existing programmes. Recommendations focused on these gaps as well as to the problem of community-based learning experiences which were mainly concentrated in first and/or second year levels in most o f the programmes.

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Peerformance: Bystanders Enacting and Challenging Gender Norms in Community-Based Theater to Prevent Domestic Violence

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/10778012211014556 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122110145

Author(s):

Mieko Yoshihama ◽

Amy C. Hammock ◽

Fatmeh Baidoun

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

Visual Analysis ◽

Gender Norms ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Attitudes And Beliefs ◽

Community Members ◽

Community Based ◽

Controlling Behavior ◽

The Rich ◽

Grounded Theory Approach

This study examined the gender beliefs and norms expressed by South Asian community members when intervening as bystanders in Peerformance, a publicly performed scene depicting a husband’s controlling behavior toward his wife enacted by a peer-led theater group. Using a grounded theory approach, inductive coding and reiterative visual analysis of videotaped bystander interactions revealed that, while most community members confronted the husband, beliefs about gender roles and relations impacted how these confrontations occurred. The complexity of gender norms in bystanders’ interventions calls for sociocultural tailoring; bystander programs must attend to the rich, within-group variations in community members’ attitudes and beliefs.

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A Cyclic Model Describing the Process of Sustaining Meaningfulness in Practice: How Nurses Continue Working at One Home Care Agency

Global Qualitative Nursing Research ◽

10.1177/2333393618788265 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 233339361878826

Author(s):

Maiko Noguchi-Watanabe ◽

Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani ◽

Yukari Takai

Keyword(s):

Home Care ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Semistructured Interviews ◽

Japanese Nurses ◽

Qualitative Exploration ◽

Grounded Theory Approach ◽

Insight Into ◽

Care Agency ◽

Home Care Agency

This study aimed to elucidate the experiences of home care nurses who had continued working a single agency, to gain insight into the prevention of premature turnover. We adopted a grounded theory approach to qualitative exploration of the experiences of 26 Japanese nurses working in a home care agency, using semistructured interviews and participant observation. Nurses’ experience progressed through three phases: “encountering difficulty,” “enjoying the fruitfulness,” and “becoming dissatisfied.” Nurses’ cognitive rounding involving these phases was conceptualized as “cycle of sustaining meaningfulness.” To move from encountering difficulty to enjoying the fruitfulness, nurses needed to discover the meaningfulness of practice, and to move from becoming dissatisfied to encountering difficulty, they needed to requestion their practice. During their time at the agency, nurses progressed through the phases of the cycle of sustaining meaningfulness repeatedly. Knowing the point at which nurses are in the cycle and assisting their further progress could aid in their retention.

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Evaluation of the referral management systems (RMS) used by GP practices in Northumberland: a qualitative study

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028436 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. e028436

Author(s):

Rosie Dew ◽

Scott Wilkes

Keyword(s):

Thematic Analysis ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Management Systems ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Perceived Effectiveness ◽

Hospital Managers ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Referral Management ◽

Grounded Theory Approach

ObjectiveExploring the views of stakeholders to the referral management systems (RMS) used by GP practices in Northumberland, UK to evaluate its perceived effectiveness.DesignThis was an in-depth qualitative semi-structured interview study.Participants and setting32 participants (GPs, hospital consultants, referral support, hospital managers, Clinical Commissioning Group manager) in the North East of England, UK.MethodInterviews using a grounded theory approach and thematic analysis.ResultsThe main benefit of RMS mentioned by participants was that it allowed for unnecessary referrals to be vetted by consultants, and helps ensure patients are sent to the correct clinic. Generally, the consultants in our study felt that RMS did not significantly help them reject referrals. Some GPs experienced that RMS undermined GP autonomy and did not help when they had exhausted their abilities to manage a patient in primary care, and it was suggested that in some cases RMS may delay rather than prevent a referral. The main perceived disadvantage of RMS was the additional workload for GPs and consultants, and RMS was felt to be a barrier to commutation between GPs and consultants. Frustration with the system design and lack of knowledge of its cost-effectiveness were articulated.ConclusionAlthough RMS was reported to reduce some unnecessary referrals, the effect of referral delay and rejection is unknown. Although there were some positive attributes described, RMS was mostly received negatively by the stakeholders.

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The Interface Between Knowledge Management And Human Resources: A Qualitative Study

SA Journal of Human Resource Management ◽

10.4102/sajhrm.v3i1.58 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Helena Smith ◽

Willem Schurink

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Human Resources ◽

South African ◽

Qualitative Methodology ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Organisational Knowledge ◽

African Context ◽

Access To Knowledge ◽

Grounded Theory Approach

The aim of the study is to obtain new insight into the phenomenon of knowledge management (KM) in modern day organisations and the role Human Resources (HR) may play in facilitating access to knowledge via knowledge holders with the intention of contributing to theoretical and practical use within the South African context. A qualitative methodology, specifically the grounded theory approach was followed in developing the theory. The importance of organisational knowledge, management of knowledge and linking people to share knowledge were found particularly prominent in influencing the role HR plays in relation to and in support of KM in organisations. This triad formed the foundation for the theory revealing the changed role of HR to create opportunities for and linking people with one another to share knowledge.

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Exploring the Perspectives of South African Parents and Primary Caregivers Living in Low-Income Communities on What Children Need to Thrive within the First 1000 Days of Life

Children ◽

10.3390/children8060483 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 483

Author(s):

Babatope O. Adebiyi ◽

Tessa Goldschmidt ◽

Fatiema Benjamin ◽

Inge K. Sonn ◽

Nicolette V. Roman

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Thematic Analysis ◽

Low Income ◽

Critical Period ◽

Service Providers ◽

Primary Caregivers ◽

Parental Roles ◽

Care And Support ◽

Sampling Approach

The first 1000 days is recognised as a critical period for the development of children. What children need to thrive in this particular phase of development may be different from any other phase. In South Africa, parents’ perception of children’s needs within the first 1000 days of life could be considered as emerging. Therefore, this study aims to explore the perspectives of South African parents and primary caregivers on what children need to thrive within the first 1000 days. An exploratory qualitative study design was used to explore the parents’ understanding of what children need to thrive in the first 1000 days. A purposive sampling approach was employed to select parents and primary caregivers in low-income communities. In all, thirty respondents participated in the study. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. During the analysis, four themes emerged. The themes included (1) the importance of parenting, care and support; (2) children’s need for holistic development; (3) parental roles; and (4) sharing responsibilities. Parents and primary caregivers living in low-income communities understand what children need to thrive within the first thousand days of life. The study could assist policymakers and service providers to design appropriate interventions for parents within these communities.

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Women’s Participation in the Jordanian Military and Police: An Exploration of Perceptions and Aspirations

Armed Forces & Society ◽

10.1177/0095327x18806520 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 46-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Katherine R. Maffey ◽

David G. Smith

Keyword(s):

Cultural Norms ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Political Factors ◽

Civilian Workforce ◽

Women's Participation ◽

Semistructured Interviews ◽

Positive Experiences ◽

The Military ◽

Grounded Theory Approach ◽

Cross National

Cross-national research contends that women’s military participation has been associated with military function and organization, social structure, culture, and political factors. This exploratory study of Jordanian women suggests that these factors and their subcategories simultaneously help and hinder them. Using Segal’s updated model for women’s participation in the military, we explore how the meaning of Jordanian military women’s experiences compare in a cross-national theoretical framework. We review Segal’s updated model variables and compare it to interview data based on a grounded theory approach. Using semistructured interviews with a nonrandom sample of women who served in the Jordanian military or police, we place their experiences in a cross-national context and provide exploratory qualitative analysis of how these women navigated social and cultural norms. Our results showed that participants perceived their positive experiences and ability to achieve aspirations as enablers to their success, which they considered unlikely in the civilian workforce.

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