scholarly journals Collecting family planning intentions and providing reproductive health information using a tablet-based video game in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Elena Bertozzi ◽  
Amelia Bertozzi-Villa ◽  
Praveen Kulkarni ◽  
Aparna Sridhar
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Accurate Data ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Game Environment

Background: In response to a Grand Challenges in Global Health call for action to collect data about family planning intentions and increase the uptake of family planning methods in India, our team designed, developed, and piloted the My Future Family video game in Karnataka Province. The game educates adolescents about human sexuality and reproduction while asking players when they would like to achieve five important family planning milestones.  Participants were also asked to report who influences them the most when making family planning decisions. Methods: Focus groups were conducted and the resulting data used to design the game which was iteratively tested and then piloted in 11 schools in rural and urban areas of southern India. Data was collected throughout gameplay and cross-checked with paper questionnaires.  Results: In August 2018, we successfully piloted the game with 382 adolescents and validated its efficacy both as an educational tool and as an innovative means of accurate data collection.  Conclusion: It has historically been problematic to gather accurate data about adolescents in India on this culturally sensitive topic for a variety of reasons. These include difficulties obtaining consent, developing appropriate survey methods, and framing questions in language that young people can understand. Our game met these challenges by working within a single school system with approval from senior administration, delivering information via a game environment, which freed players from societal constraints, and communicating information via images and audio in addition to text in both English and Kannada (the local language).

scholarly journals Collecting family planning intentions and providing reproductive health information using a tablet-based video game in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Bertozzi ◽  
Amelia Bertozzi-Villa ◽  
Praveen Kulkarni ◽  
Aparna Sridhar
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Accurate Data ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Game Environment

Background: In response to a Grand Challenges in Global Health call for action to collect data about family planning intentions and increase the uptake of family planning methods in India, our team designed, developed, and piloted the My Future Family video game in Karnataka Province. The game educates adolescents about human sexuality and reproduction while asking players when they would like to achieve five important family planning milestones.  Participants were also asked to report who influences them the most when making family planning decisions. Methods: Focus groups were conducted and the resulting data used to design the game which was iteratively tested and then piloted in 11 schools in rural and urban areas of southern India. Data was collected throughout gameplay and cross-checked with paper questionnaires.  Results: In August 2017, we successfully piloted the game with 382 adolescents and validated its efficacy both as an educational tool and as an innovative means of accurate data collection.  Conclusion: It has historically been problematic to gather accurate data about adolescents in India on this culturally sensitive topic for a variety of reasons. These include difficulties obtaining consent, developing appropriate survey methods, and framing questions in language that young people can understand. Our game met these challenges by working within a single school system with approval from senior administration, delivering information via a game environment which freed players from societal constraints, and communicating information via images and audio in addition to text in both English and Kannada (the local language).

scholarly journals SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF EDUCATION AND REDUCTION IN FAMILY SIZE IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA-PAKISTAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-172
Author(s):  
Muhammad Jawad ◽  
Aman Ullah ◽  
Saima Sarir ◽  
Seema Zubair ◽  
Alamgeer Khan
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Chi Square Test

Purpose of the study: The present study examines the association between education and reduction in family size in district Peshawar. Methodology: The results are based on the data gathered from 384 sampled respondents belonging to 6 communities that included 3 each from rural and urban areas of District Peshawar. The chi-square test was applied for statistical analysis. Main Findings: The study found a positive trend among the sampled families towards the decrease in family size which found the norm in the selected area where many respondents were still considering a large number of children as the blessing of Almighty Allah. The major role this regard was played by the education of the sampled respondents through generating more awareness about small family size along with increased exposure to norms favoring a decrease in family size. It was also influenced by more communication among the sampled couples. The education further enabled the sampled respondents to get more information about family planning and the institutions designed to promote family planning in Pakistan. It ultimately motivated the respondents to use contraceptives to decrease family size. Applications of this study: The study recommends promoting and enhancing the trend through a campaign for bringing a change in the attitude and action of the people towards making a family size required for the country. The originality of this study: This study will be helpful for policy Implications.  

scholarly journals Tingkat Keterdedahan Media Massa dan Perilaku Ber-Kb pada Keluarga Pra-Sejahtera di Pedesaan dan Perkotaan

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-257
Author(s):  
Asri Sulistiawati ◽  
Anna Fatchiya ◽  
Aditya Rahmadhony ◽  
Diah Puspita Sari
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Mass Media Exposure

The service and provision of free family planning (FP) for people belonging to the Pra-Prosperous and Prosperous I is an effort to increase community participation in family planning in order to reduce the TFR figure. In general, this study aims to analyze the behavior of family planning in pre-prosperous and prosperous families, which are divided into two regional characteristics; rural and urban areas. Furthermore, this study seeks to reveal the effect of mass media exposure on behavior change. The research was carried out with a quantitative approach through a survey method which was carried out on 120 households in two different locations: West Bogor District, Bogor City and Gunung Sindur District, Bogor Regency. The results showed that most of the couples of childbearing ages (Pasangan Usia Subur/PUS) had not been exposed to the mass media, especially information regarding family planning. The level of exposure to the mass media did not have a significant effect on changes in the behavior of PUS because respondents still relied on information sourced from extension workers and cadres.

Fertility and family planning in Papua New Guinea

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
William K. A. Agyei
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Large Families ◽  
High Level ◽  
Urban Male

SummaryData collected on fertility and family planning between November 1979 and March 1980 in eight provinces of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are presented in this report. Interviews with 2923 rural and 3360 urban male and female respondents found attitudes favouring large families. There was a relatively high level of contraceptive awareness, but the overall practice of modern contraception in both rural and urban areas is low. Despite the rural–urban differences in socioeconomic levels, awareness of family planning is only slightly higher among the urban respondents. The level of usage for the urban respondents is slightly higher than for the rural respondents.

Management of minor ailments in primary schoolchildren in rural and urban areas

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-174
Author(s):  
J A Cantrill ◽  
B Johannesson ◽  
M Nicholson ◽  
P R Noyce
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Primary Schoolchildren ◽  
Minor Ailments

Classroom Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Elida Kurti
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
General Education ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Intellectual Level

This paper aims to reflect an effort to identify the problems associated with the educational learning process, as well as its function to express some inherent considerations to the most effective forms of the classroom management. Mentioned in this discussion are ways of management for various categories of students, not only from an intellectual level, but also by their behavior. Also, in the elaboration of this theme I was considering that in addition to other development directions of the country, an important place is occupied by the education of the younger generation in our school environments and especially in adopting the methods of teaching and learning management with a view to enable this generation to be competitive in the European labor market. This, of course, can be achieved by giving this generation the best values of behavior, cultural level, professional level and ethics one of an European family which we belong to, not just geographically. On such foundations, we have tried to develop this study, always improving the reality of the prolonged transition in the field of children’s education. Likewise, we have considered the factors that have left their mark on the structure, cultural level and general education level of children, such as high demographic turnover associated with migration from rural and urban areas, in the capacity of our educational institutions to cope with new situations etc. In the conclusions of this study is shown that there is required a substantial reform even in the pro-university educational system to ensure a significant improvement in the behavior of children, relations between them and the sound quality of their preparation. Used literature for this purpose has not been lacking, due to the fact that such problems are usually treated by different scholars. Likewise, we found it appropriate to use the ideas and issues discussed by the foreign literature that deals directly with classroom management problems. All the following treatise is intended to reflect the way of an effective classroom management.

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