scholarly journals Teaching to Get Nurses an Midwives Empowering Women: Nursing Students’ Perceptions on Professional´s Roles during Perinatal Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-257
Author(s):  
Carmen Martin-Bellido ◽  
Francisco J. Martin-Fiscal ◽  
Francisco J. Morano-Gomez ◽  
Juan Diego González-Sanz
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Professional Attitude ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Nurses And Midwives

Female empowerment is a key concept in the current healthcare environment, especially in perinatal care. The educational process offered by universities to train future nurses and midwives has a great influence on their professional attitude and performance. To be able to educate in a way that encourages empowerment, it is essential for higher education institutions to know the starting point relating to students’ opinions on the subject. It was conducted a cross-sectional descriptive observational study, at the University of Huelva. It used a self-developed, semi-structured questionnaire, previously validated, to gather quantitative and qualitative data. A total of 117 nursing student were surveyed. Participants consider that general nurses supplement the work of the midwife and acts as a facilitator for the process of women’s empowerment in the perinatal period. They believe that the midwife is the professional figure of reference and the one in which they place greater trust. Improvement proposals for both types of professionals are based on improving training and resources. To encourage the development of the profession and improve the quality of care, it is essential to introduce features related to women’s empowerment in the undergraduate training of future nurses and midwives.

scholarly journals A Multisite Study on Knowledge, Perceived Motivators, and Perceived Inhibitors to Precepting Nursing Students within the Clinical Environment in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Nancy Innocentia Ebu Enyan ◽  
Sarah Ama Amoo ◽  
Christian Makafui Boso ◽  
Patience Fakornam Doe ◽  
Dianne Slager
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Nurses And Midwives

Background. Preceptorship constitutes an important component of the educational process of training nursing students. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, perceived motivators, and perceived inhibitors to precepting nursing students at the clinical placement sites in the Cape Coast Metropolis of the Central Region of Ghana. Methods. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 442 nurses and midwives aged 27–56 years with at least three years of work experience. Data were collected with a questionnaire and analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, exploratory factor analysis, and point biserial correlation. Results. The results indicate that the participants had a high knowledge of preceptorship of up to 91.2% (n = 404). A significant proportion of up to 88.2% (n = 390) had an intention to precept nursing students in the near future. The three important perceived motivational factors to precepting nursing students were the learning and professional needs of students, helping students to develop skills, and experience and formal recognition of the role of preceptorship. The main perceived inhibitors to engage in a preceptorship role were lack of preparation for the role, lack of support from faculty and nurse managers, and additional work burden. The results further indicate a significant strong positive correlation between experience and professional recognition of preceptorship and the intention to precept nursing students in the near future (r = 0.99, p = 0.037 ). Conclusions. The nurses and midwives who participated in the study are knowledgeable about preceptorship and have the intention to precept nursing students. Having enough experience on the job and being formally recognized as a preceptor may motivate these professionals to precept nursing students. However, there are critical perceived barriers that need to be addressed, to enable more nurses and midwives with the desire to precept students to engage in the preceptorship role.

Positive Correlation Between Women’s Status and Intimate Partner Violence Suggests Violence Backlash in Mwanza, Tanzania

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110500
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Kilgallen ◽  
Susan B. Schaffnit ◽  
Yusufu Kumogola ◽  
Anthony Galura ◽  
Mark Urassa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Increased Risk

Urbanization in low and middle-income nations is characterized by economic and demographic shifts largely understood to be beneficial to women’s empowerment. These changes include increased education and wage-labor opportunities, a disruption of traditional patrilocal residence systems, and reductions in spousal age gap and fertility. However, such changes may drive a “violence backlash,” with men increasing intimate partner violence (IPV) in efforts to challenge women’s shifting status. To date, tests of this idea primarily relate to women’s changing economic status, with less known about the demographic correlates of IPV in urbanizing settings. Addressing this, we conducted a cross-sectional study of IPV behavior and attitudes in an urbanizing community in Mwanza, northern Tanzania ( n = 317). Consistent with a violence backlash, IPV was reported more often among women educated at higher levels than their husband, and women earning similar, rather than lower, wages to their husband were more likely to report that he condones IPV. These findings were independent of women’s absolute education and income. Furthermore, less frequent paternal kin contact, and relatively small spousal age gaps, generally understood to boost women’s empowerment, were associated with an increased risk of experiencing IPV. Less frequent paternal kin contact was also associated with an increased likelihood that a husband condones IPV. Contrary to our predictions, relatively lower fertility, generally linked to higher women’s empowerment, did not predict IPV behavior and women with high, rather than low, fertility were more likely to report that their husband condones IPV. Overall, our results support the notion of a violence backlash corresponding to economic changes for women that accompany urbanization. In contrast, demographic changes associated with urbanization have more variable relationships. Drawing on these results, we suggest future research avenues for better understanding the vulnerability of women to IPV in urbanizing settings.

“Mutual Respect Would be a Good Starting Point:” Students’ Perspectives on Incivility in Nursing Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra P. Small ◽  
Denise English ◽  
Glenys Moran ◽  
Patricia Grainger ◽  
Geraldine Cashin
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Baccalaureate Nursing ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Academic Incivility ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
Teaching Learning

Background Studies indicate that incivility is common in nursing education and perpetuated by both students and faculty. Academic incivility negatively affects the well-being of those involved, interferes with the teaching–learning process, and is antithetical to nursing as a caring profession. An understanding of academic incivility is essential to establish best practices to address this problem. Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine incivility in nursing academia from the perspective of baccalaureate nursing students. Methods The study was conducted using a cross-sectional design, with a mixed method questionnaire administered to 380 students. The quantitative data were analyzed descriptively and qualitative data through content analysis. Results The majority of students thought incivility is a mild to moderate problem in nursing education. They thought that students contribute to incivility by not taking responsibility (being unprepared and being disinterested) for their education and by not being professional (being disrespectful and being uncaring) and faculty contribute by not being good teachers (being authoritarian, treating students unfairly, having ineffective teaching methods) and not being professional (being disrespectful, lacking compassion). Conclusion Until evidence is available for effective measures to address incivility, nursing schools should consider adopting strategies for solutions as suggested by the students in this study.

scholarly journals Impact of women's empowerment on use of modern contraceptives in Nigeria: a cross sectional study

2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 376
Author(s):  
Ibitola O. Asaolu ◽  
Heather M. Dreifuss ◽  
John E. Ehiri
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Modern Contraceptives

scholarly journals SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT: A CASE OF FARM HOUSEHOLDS IN ABEOKUTA, OGUN STATE

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Chioma Patricia Adekunle ◽  
◽  
Augustine Adebayo Kutu ◽  
David Alaba Alori ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gender Disparity ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Socioeconomic Determinants

This study examines the socioeconomic determinants of women’s empowerment or bargaining power among married couples living in farm households in Nigeria. A multistage random sampling technique is employed to collect cross-sectional data from 320 farm households aged between 15 to 50 years. Women’s empowerment or bargaining power is measured using 18 questions, and a Tobit regression model is used to analyze all the variables employed. According to the findings, husbands have five more years of formal education than wives and literacy rates are higher for men (62%) than for women (30%). This differenceleads to more decision-making power for men. The result shows that there is a visible gender disparity in the worth and value of assets brought into the marriage, with the men bringing around 34% while that of the women is around 3% making men the main decision-makers and women less empowered. As a policy recommendation, women’s status in society should be enhanced through investment in education and well-being. Additionally, policies and programs aimed at leveraging the bargaining power of the woman in her attempts to make decisions in the household and increasing her empowerment should be formulated and implemented by policymakers.

scholarly journals Association of Women’s Empowerment With Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (Wash) Services in Ethiopia: A Cross-sectional Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bogale
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Water Source ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Sanitation Facility ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene ◽  
Index Approach ◽  
Significance Levels ◽  
Improved Sanitation

Abstract Background: Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services is vital for human health and well-being. In Ethiopia, lack of improved WASH services has existed as a health problem for many years. Empowering women is among the most important factors for improving WASH services, but research-based evidence is lacking in this regard. The present study was designed to analyse the association between women’s empowerment and WASH services in Ethiopia.Methods: This analysis is based on the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS). The survey-based Women’s emPowERment (SWPER) index approach is used to develop women’s empowerment indices. The three empowerment domains used by the SWPER authors include attitude to violence, social independence, and decision-making. Multilevel logistic regression was used to assess the association between these domains of women’s empowerment and WASH services. Estimates were presented as odds ratio (OR) and expressed per one standard deviation (SD) with significance levels set at the 5% level. Results: Overall, 90.9%, 78.4%, and 50.3% of the households included in this analysis had no basic handwashing facility, improved sanitation facility, and improved water source, respectively. A one SD increase in the social independence domain was associated with 16% higher odds of having basic handwashing facility (AOR: 1.16; 95%CI: 1.02, 1.33). As women’s attitude to violence increased by one SD, the odds of having improved sanitation facility is increased by 22% (AOR: 1.22; 95%CI: 1.05, 1.42). Also, a SD increase in social independence domain was associated with 18% higher odds of having improved sanitation facility (AOR: 1.18; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.34). There was no statistically significant association between domains of women’s empowerment and source of water.Conclusions: This study has shown that most of the households in Ethiopia had no access to improved WASH services. Multiple regression analyses revealed that empowering women had association with having basic handwashing and improved sanitation facility. The findings of this study have suggestive evidence that empowering women could improve WASH cervices.

scholarly journals Women’s empowerment and experiences of mistreatment during childbirth in facilities in Lucknow, India: results from a cross-sectional study

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (S2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Diamond-Smith ◽  
Emily Treleaven ◽  
Nirmala Murthy ◽  
May Sudhinaraset
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

scholarly journals The Influence of Women’s Empowerment on Poverty Reduction in the Rural Areas of Bangladesh: Focus on Health, Education and Living Standard

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6909
Author(s):  
Wei Wei ◽  
Tanwne Sarker ◽  
Wioletta Żukiewicz-Sobczak ◽  
Rana Roy ◽  
G. M. Monirul Alam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Income Poverty

Women’s empowerment has a great influence on health, nutrition, education, and the overall well-being of societies as well as of the children and households. This study investigates the effect of women’s empowerment on poverty reduction and focuses on household deprivation, in terms of education, health, and standard of living. Primary data was collected from 914 married women from rural areas of Bangladesh using a well-structured questionnaire and a random sampling technique. Descriptive statistics, logistic regression, and ordinary least squares models were used in this study. The results indicate that increased women’s access to education, asset ownership, decision-making power on children’s health and education, and access to medical facilities, have caused a significant decline in income poverty and multidimensional poverty. However, gender violence, taking resources against women’s will, and preventing women from working outside, have caused a considerable decline in per capita income and an increase in income poverty and multidimensional poverty. Overall, it is found that women’s empowerment has a great impact on the reduction of income poverty and multidimensional poverty in society. The findings of the study can assist and guide policymakers to initiate appropriate strategies for women’s empowerment to reducing poverty in Bangladesh while making progress towards other social and developmental goals.

scholarly journals Tools for measuring gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) indicators in humanitarian settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Céline M. Goulart ◽  
Amber Purewal ◽  
Humaira Nakhuda ◽  
Anita Ampadu ◽  
Amanda Giancola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Humanitarian Settings ◽  
Measurement Tools

Abstract Background Effective measurement of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) is challenging in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), and even more so in humanitarian settings. Conflict, natural disasters, and epidemics may increase gender inequities, but also present an opportunity to address them. This scoping review describes and identifies gaps in the measurement tools, methods, and indicators used to measure GEWE in humanitarian settings, and presents a dashboard that can be used by researchers, organizations and governments to identify GEWE measurement tools. Methods Scientific articles published between January 2004 and November 2019 were identified using Embase, Medline, PsycInfo, CINAHL, Scopus, and PAIS index. Relevant non peer-reviewed literature was downloaded from the websites of humanitarian organizations. Publications on women and/or girls impacted by a humanitarian crisis in a LMIC, within 5 years of data collection, were included. Publications were double-screened in the title/abstract and full-text stages. We used a machine learning software during the title/abstract screening to increase the efficiency of the process. Measurement tools, sampling and data collection methods, gap areas (geographical, topical and contextual), and indicators were catalogued for easy access in an interactive Tableau dashboard. Results Our search yielded 27,197 publications and 2396 non peer-reviewed literature reports. One hundred and seventy publications were included in the final review. Extracted indicators were categorized into seven domains: economic, health, human development, leadership, psychological, security and justice, and sociocultural. The vast majority of studies were observational, and over 70% utilized a cross-sectional study design. Thirty-eight toolkits and questionnaires were identified in this review, of which 19 (50%) were designed specifically for humanitarian settings. Sociocultural was the largest domain in number of studies and indicators in this review, with gender-based violence indicators reported in 66% of studies. Indicators of economic, human development and leadership were uncommon in the peer-reviewed literature. Discussion While there has been some effort to measure GEWE in conflict-affected and other humanitarian settings, measurement has largely focused on violence and security issues. A more comprehensive framework for measuring GEWE in these settings is needed; objective measurement of women’s empowerment and gender equality should be prioritized by organizations providing humanitarian aid.

scholarly journals MYTHS AND REALITIES OF MICROFINANCE AS A PANACEA FOR EMPOWERMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-81
Author(s):  
Kausar Yasmeen
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
English Language ◽  
Sampling Methods ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Loan Size

The main aim of this study is to examine the influence of microfinance involvement on women’s empowerment. By using the questionnaire, 744 respondents were selected through simple random sampling methods to collect the data from non-borrowers and borrower’s women of National Rural Support Program (NRSP) and Khushhali Bank (KB) in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. This study applied the cross-sectional data and applied multinomial Logit to achieve its objectives. The findings reveal that the women who have microfinance are more empower relative to those who do not avail the microfinance so the coefficient of the loan size hike up women’s empowerment of movement. It is also revealed that there is no significant role of the English language on women's empowerment of movement. Educated women are more empowered. This paper contributes socially and economically.

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