scholarly journals Reasons that Lead Women to Weight Loss: A Study in Southern Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Cintia Stadtlober Rompkovski ◽  
Mariane Lemos Lourenço ◽  
María Eugenia Balbi ◽  
Mayra Bruna Fedalto ◽  
Denise Maria Woranovicz Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Essential Dimension ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Media ◽  
Standards Of Beauty ◽  
Use Of Models ◽  
The Ideal

The objective of this study was to understand why adult women in Brazil desire and attempt to lose weight. In a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews, participants were 25 adult women in southern Brazil aged 19-59 who have tried to lose weight or modify their bodies. Thematic categories emerged: motivations and influences to lose weight, external and internal pressure to lose weight, and influences from the media and the ideal of beauty which point to factors like the media, family, and society step in nutritional education of Brazilian women. These factors influence decisions related to weight loss and pursuit of a beautiful body; this cult of thinness influences women to lose weight and makes physical appearance an essential dimension of the female identity. Programs are also needed that regulate the media in its use of models involving standards of beauty which are followed and copied by the general population. 

scholarly journals PERCEPTION OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS ABOUT PATIENT CARE OF THE TERMINALLY ILL IN THE HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tânia Cristina Schäfer Vasques ◽  
Valéria Lerch Lunardi ◽  
Priscila Arruda da Silva ◽  
Karen Knopp de Carvalho ◽  
Wilson Danilo Lunardi Filho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Presence ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Nursing Professionals

ABSTRACT This study aimed to understand how nursing professionals perceive the care provided to patients with terminal illness in the hospital environment. This was an exploratory study with a qualitative approach, conducted with 23 professionals in the ambulatory service of a university hospital in southern Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection, in 2011. Using discursive textual analysis, dialogue was shown to be a fundamental instrument in caring for patients in terminal illness, enabling the facilitation of the difficulties experienced by these patients and their families. The importance of family presence for these patients was identified, making it indispensable for caring for their loved one. Continuous education of the staff is necessary, using problematization of the difficulties experienced in the workplace, humanizing and qualifying the nursing care, ensuring dignity and comfort to patients and their families.

scholarly journals Classificação de risco em emergência – um desafio para as/os enfermeiras/os

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lícia Mara Brito Shiroma ◽  
Denise Elvira Pires De Pires
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Room ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Care Health ◽  
The Voice

Estudo descritivo e exploratório de abordagem qualitativa com o objetivo de conhecer a visão das/os enfermeiras/os acerca da implantação do Acolhimento com Avaliação e Classificação de Risco (AACR) em serviços de emergência. Os dados foram coletados através de entrevistas semiestruturadas com enfermeiras/os de um hospital universitário do sul do Brasil. Na voz das/os enfermeiras/os, AACR significa reorganização do atendimento e possibilidade de proporcionar melhor humanização, acesso e resposta satisfatória ao usuário em estado grave. Conclui que o AACR contribui para a agilidade e segurança no atendimento aos usuários e para diminuir a sobrecarga de trabalho da equipe.Descritores: Humanização da Assistência, Sistemas de Saúde, Políticas Públicas, Acolhimento.Risk classification in emergency room – a challenge to nursesThat is a descriptive and exploratory study of qualitative approach in order to know the nurses’ point of view about the User Embracement with Evaluation and Risk Classification (AACR) in ER. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with nurses of a university hospital in southern Brazil. In the voice of nurses, AACR means reorganization of care and to provide a better humanization, access and satisfactory response to the user in serious condition. It concludes that the AACR contributes to the agility and safety in patient care and decrease the workload of the team.Descriptors: Humanization of Care, Health Systems, Public Policies, User Embracement.La clasificación del riesgo en el servicio de emergencia – un desafio para los enfermerosSe trata de estudio descriptivo y exploratorio con abordaje cualitativa con el objetivo de conocer la opinión de las enfermeras sobre la implantación de Acogimiento con la Evaluación y Classificación de Riesgos (AACR) en servicios de emergencia. Los datos fueron recolectados a través de entrevistas semi-estructuradas con enfermeras de un hospital universitario en el sur de Brasil. En la voz de las enfermeras, AACR significa la reorganización de la atención y la posibilidad de proporcionar mejor humanización, el acceso y la respuesta satisfactoria al usuario en estado grave. Se concluye que la AACR contribuye a la agilidad y la seguridad en el servicio al cliente y reducir la carga de trabajo del equipo.Descriptores: Humanización de la Atención, Sistemas de Salud, Políticas Públicas, Acogimiento.

scholarly journals REPERCUSSIONS IN THE LIVING PROCESS OF PEOPLE WITH STOMAS

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Soares Mota ◽  
Giovana Calcagno Gomes ◽  
Vilma Madalosso Petuco
Keyword(s):  
Self Care ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Living Process

A descriptive study with a qualitative approach that aimed to identify the repercussions of ostomy construction on the living process of people with an ostomy. The study was performed at a Stomatherapy Service from a university hospital in southern Brazil, in the first semester of 2011, with eight patients. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, and they were analyzed by thematic analysis. We found that the surgery happened to prevent patient deaths. Patients presented themselves as disheartened, angry, sad, having doubts, and they sought to keep the ostomy a secret. They were concerned with the acquisition of resources for self-care. They may present complications and experience embarrassing situations because of the stoma. However, they perceived that they could live with a stoma and regain joy. We concluded that they were able to reframe their lives. We highlight the role of nurses, enabling them for self-care, constituting part of their social support network, helping them to become able to live independently.

Responses to Two Weight-loss Programs Based on Approximating the Diet to the Ideal: Differences Associated with Increased Cereal or Vegetable Consumption

2006 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 367-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ortega ◽  
Rodríguez-Rodríguez ◽  
Aparicio ◽  
Marín-Arias ◽  
López-Sobaler
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Dietary Intervention ◽  
Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Healthy Eating Index ◽  
Anthropometric Data ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Weight Loss Programs ◽  
Spanish Women ◽  
The Ideal

The fight against excess weight and obesity is a health priority. The aim of this study was to analyze the anthropometric changes induced by two weight control programs based on approximating the diet to the theoretical ideal (increasing the consumption of foods with the largest differences between the recommended and observed intakes: cereals and vegetables – for which a minimum of 6 and 3 servings/day are recommended, respectively). The study subjects were 57 Spanish women with a body-mass index (BMI) of 24–35 kg/m², all of whom were randomly assigned to one of two slightly hypocaloric diets for a six-week period: diet V, in which the consumption of greens and vegetables was increased, or diet C, in which the consumption of cereals was increased. Dietetic and anthropometric data were collected at the start of the study and again at two and six weeks. The dietary intervention approximated the subjects’ energy provision from proteins, fats, and carbohydrates to those recommended. The Healthy Eating Index (HEI) improved with both diets. Reductions in body weight, BMI, and the amount of body fat (kg) were also achieved with both diets. Weight loss was 1.56 ± 0.93 kg and 1.02 ± 0.55 kg at two weeks with diet C and V respectively, and 2.8 ± 1.4 kg and 2.0 ± 1.3 kg at six weeks (p < 0.05). Approximating the diet to the theoretical ideal by increasing the consumption of vegetables or cereals may therefore be of use in weight control. In terms of weight loss and the improvement of the diet quality (energy profile and HEI), diet C was significantly more effective than diet V.

Different Forms of Work Satisfaction

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Büssing ◽  
Thomas Bissels
Keyword(s):  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Work Situation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Global Satisfaction ◽  
Evaluative Processes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Level Of Aspiration

The extended model of different forms of work satisfaction ( Büssing, 1991 ), originally proposed by Bruggemann (1974) , is suggested as a distinctive qualitative approach to work satisfaction. Six forms of work satisfaction—progressive, stabilized, resigned satisfaction, constructive, fixated, resigned dissatisfaction—are derived from the constellation of four constituent variables: comparison of the actual work situation and personal aspirations, global satisfaction, changes in level of aspiration, controllability at work. Preliminary evidence from semi-structured interviews with 46 nurses shows that the dynamic model is headed in the right direction (qualitative differentiation of consistently high propertions of satisfied employees, uncovering processes of person-work situation interaction). Qualitative methods demonstrated their usefulness in accessing underlying cognitive and evaluative processes of the forms, which are often neglected by traditional attitude-based satisfaction research.

The Role of The Students Association in The Promotion of Students' Speech Skills at The Khalid Bin Al Walid Institute at University of Muhammadiyah Mataram (ar)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Erwin Erwin ◽  
Nasarudin Nasarudin ◽  
Husnan Husnan
Keyword(s):  
Student Organizations ◽  
Language Game ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Media ◽  
Role Based ◽  
The University ◽  
Good Deeds ◽  
Speaking Skills

The purpose of this research is to explain the importance of the student organizations and describe their efforts to improve the speaking skills of students at the Mahad Khalid Bin Al Waleed at the University of Muhammadiyah Mataram. This research uses the qualitative approach with the descriptive type. The result shows the student organizations play an important role based on their objectives and functions. The objectives are to help the foundation and all parties in the Ma'had develop the students’ potential and qualification, and to be the place for the students to share their problems and complaints, while the functions are as one of the media to develop students’ quality, both the members of the non-member, and as the good examples and pioneers of any good deeds. The efforts done by student organizations in improving speaking skills are such as by making activities that lead to improving students' speaking skills like sticking vocabularies in each class and Friday activities such as language game, Arabic debate and short lecture.

Coming out of the closet? Audience reactions to the heteronormative disruptive advertising

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-102
Author(s):  
Ramasela Semang L. Mathobela ◽  
Shepherd Mpofu ◽  
Samukezi Mrubula-Ngwenya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media

An emerging global trend of brands advertising their products through LGBTIQ+ individuals and couples indicates growth of gender awareness across the globe. The media, through advertising, deconstructs homophobia and associated cultures through the use of LGBTIQ+s in commercials. This qualitative research paper centres the advancement of debates on human rights and social media as critical in the interaction between corporates and consumers. The Gillette, Chicken Licken‘s Soul Sisters and We the Brave advertisements were used to critically analyse how audiences react to the use of LGBTIQ+ characters and casts through comments posted on the brands‘ social media platforms. Further, the paper explored the role of social media in the mediation of significant gender issues such as homosexuality that are considered taboo to engage in. The paper used a qualitative approach. Using the digital ethnography method to observe comments and interactions from the chosen advertisement‘s online platforms, the paper employed queer and constructionist theories to deconstruct discourses around same-sex relations as used in commercials, especially in quasiconservative. The data used in the paper included thirty comments of the brands customers and audiences obtained from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The paper concludes there are positive development in human rights awareness as seen through advertisements and campaigns that use LGBTIQ+ communities in a positive light across the world.

SEMINAL BREAKTHROUGH IN TACTILE PICTOGRAM DESIGN FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN TRAIN STATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Fariz Fadhlillah
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Train Station ◽  
Impaired Ability ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Media ◽  
Impaired Person ◽  
Pictorial Form ◽  
The Ideal

One of the ideal public transportation facilities for the visually impaired in daily activities is trains. To be used at maximum, there is a need for communicative media to support the independence of orientation and mobility for the visually impaired in the train station. The media plays a role in supporting visually impaired individuals to know where they are, where to go, and how to reach the destination. The previous result regarding visually impaired ability to identify pictorial form which is designed with Primadi Tabrani’s ancient visual language semiotic approach shows a great opportunity for a pictogram to be the solution. However, the challenge is how to make the visually impaired person understand the meaning description that has been designed into tactile pictogram by touch. Basic consideration in designing process is the clarity of visual form when being touched, which is influenced by the way the shape is drawn and the tactile height

Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hem Borker
Keyword(s):  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Marriage Education ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Media ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
A Site ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Educational Journeys ◽  
The Ideal

This ethnography provides a theoretically informed account of the educational journeys of students in girls’ madrasas in India. It focuses on the unfolding of young women’s lives as they journey from home to madrasa and beyond. Using a series of ethnographic portraits and bringing together the analytical concepts of community, piety, and aspiration, it highlights the fluidity of the essences of the ideal pious Muslim woman. It illustrates how the madrasa becomes a site where the ideals of Islamic womanhood are negotiated in everyday life. At one level, girls value and adopt practices taught in the madrasa as essential to the practice of piety (amal). At another level, there is a more tactical aspect to cultivating one’s identity as a madrasa-educated Muslim girl. The girls invoke the virtues of safety, modesty, and piety learnt in the madrasa to reconfigure conventional social expectations around marriage, education, and employment. This becomes more apparent in the choices exercised by the girls after leaving the madrasa, highlighted in this book through narratives of madrasa alumni pursuing higher education at a central university in Delhi. The focus on journeys of girls over a period of time, in different contexts, complicates the idealized and coherent notions of piety presented by anthropological literature on women’s participation in Islamic piety projects. Further, the educational stories of girls challenge the media and public representations of madrasas in India, which tend to caricature them as outmoded religious institutions with little relevance to the educational needs of modernizing India. Mapping madrasa students’ personal journeys of becoming educated while leading pious lives allows us to see how these young women are reconfiguring notions of Islamic womanhood.

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