scholarly journals Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ): Validity Evidence among HIV+ Patients in Northeast Brazil

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassiano Augusto Oliveira da Silva ◽  
Ana Paula Rodrigues Cavalcanti ◽  
Kaline da Silva Lima ◽  
Carlos André Macêdo Cavalcanti ◽  
Tânia Cristina de Oliveira Valente ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Construct Definition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Validity Criteria

The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) measures psychosocial, existential, and spiritual needs in clinical contexts. The objective was to confirm its factor structure in Brazil, comparing the results of its validation for Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, under similar sampling conditions, in João Pessoa (Paraíba-Brazil), among 157 HIV(Human Immunodeficiency Virus)+ patients, most of them men (49%) (women = 35%; other = 16%), aged between 30 and 49 years (53.5%). From exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency analysis a structure of five factors (or components) was obtained: Religious Needs (α = 0.73), Inner Peace and Family Support Needs, gathered (α = 0.64), Existential Needs (α = 0.49) and two new factors instead of “Giving/Generativity Needs”, being Social Recognition Needs (α = 0.54), referring explicitly to religious practices, with items formerly found in the Religious Needs factor, and Time Domain: Reflection and Clarification Needs (α = 0.57), which group only two items (item 4, “reflection on the past” (formerly in the Inner Peace component) and item 5, “resolution of outstanding problems”). The institutional religiosity perceived in the composition of the Social Recognition Needs component shows that these patients differentiate “religiosity” from “spirituality”. The Religious Needs component was formed with items from the “spirituality” construct definition. The most important component was Inner Peace and Family Support Needs, a relevant coping strategy in this disease. The results met proper validity criteria, and SpNQ proved to be sensitive and appropriate to situations of cultural and clinical diversity between samplings.

scholarly journals Item Response Theory Applied to the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) in Portuguese

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassiano Augusto Oliveira da Silva ◽  
Ana Paula Rodrigues Cavalcanti ◽  
Kaline da Silva Lima ◽  
Carlos André Macêdo Cavalcanti ◽  
Tânia Cristina de Oliveira Valente ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Item Response Theory ◽  
Item Response ◽  
Characteristic Curve ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Response Theory ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Psychometric Quality

The item response theory (IRT), or latent trace theory, is based on a set of mathematical models to complement the qualitative analysis of the items in a given questionnaire. This study analyzes the items of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) in the Portuguese version, applied to HIV+ patients, with R Studio 3.4.1, mirt statistical package, to find out if the items of the SpNQ possess appropriate psychometric qualities to discriminate between respondents as to the probability of marking one answer and not another, in the same item, showing whether or not the questionnaire is biased towards a pattern of response desired by the researcher. The parameters of discrimination, difficulty, information, and the characteristic curve of the items are evaluated. The reliable items to measure the constructs of each of the five dimensions of the SpNQ of this HIV+ sample (Religious Needs; Inner Peace and Family Support Needs; Existential Needs; Social Recognition Needs; and Time Domain Needs) are presented, as well as the most likely response categories, depending on the latent trace level of the individuals. The questionnaire items showed satisfactory discrimination and variability of difficulty, confirming the good psychometric quality of SpNQ.

Families affected by the imprisonment of a parent: Towards restorative practices

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Healy ◽  
Denise Foley ◽  
Karyn Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Restorative Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
Delivery Practices ◽  
Policy Agendas

Over the past decade imprisonment rates in Australia have substantially increased. As imprisonment rates rise, so too do the number of families affected by the imprisonment of a parent. Yet the needs of parents in prison and their families have received little attention in social policies and service delivery practices. As the specific issues faced by parents in prison and their families cross many areas of government and community services responsibility, they all too easily slip from policy agendas. This paper outlines the challenges to, and potential for, restorative practices with families affected by the imprisonment of a parent. It draws on recent research undertaken by the authors into the family support needs of parents in prison and their families.

scholarly journals Cooperation between in-hospital psychological support and pastoral care providers: obstacles and opportunities for a modern approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tullio Proserpio ◽  
Andrea Ferrari ◽  
Laura Veneroni ◽  
Carmine Arice ◽  
Maura Massimino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hospital Wards

The meaning that patients with cancer attribute to life influences their expectations and their attitudes to the disease and its treatment. Over the centuries, religion has commonly been the answer encoded by the social setting when it came to matters of life and death. The present article analyzes the historical grounds for forms of cooperation between the scientific disciplines that focus on mental health and the approach of religion, centered on the Italian situation. Such cooperation was hard to imagine in the past, but the situation has changed considerably and cooperation is not only possible but extremely desirable. Acknowledgment of their spiritual needs helps patients to battle with their disease. The care of patients should include catering for their spiritual needs by ensuring the constant presence of a chaplain on hospital wards.

scholarly journals The Recognition of College Students in the Social Welfare Major in the Direction of Multicultural Family Support Policy in Korea

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S6) ◽  
pp. 255-258
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
Multicultural Family

The purpose of this study is to investigate the future development of multicultural family support center through the integrated research methodology of quantitative and qualitative analysis that integrates the data analysis of the statistics office of the multicultural family policy and the interview of the college student of the social welfare major. We will produce data that can contribute to the improvement of multicultural family policy and service delivery system And Focus Group Interview (FGI) was conducted in order to be a basis for policy direction based on the awareness of multicultural family support for students of social welfare major. The social welfare major students attending FGI were composed of 3 female students, 3 male students and 4th grade students, who completed courses related to multicultural family support program at Cheongju S University. The direction of the multicultural family support policy recognized by college students in social welfare is to include the concept of multiculturalism within the range of various families and define the meaning of multiculturalism as a multicultural family. In order to do so, social recognition needs to be changed in a way that recognizes diversity. The role of the delivery system for supporting multicultural families, including the Multicultural Family Support Center, should be divided into urban, rural, and urban and rural complexes based on the region. It is necessary to focus on supporting multicultural families in the early stages of multicultural family formation. And that it is necessary to support various services to a wide range of subjects. Within the first three years after marriage, intensive family integration education will help understanding cultural differences and marriage, and above all, Korean language one and two levels of intensive education are needed to prevent problems caused by language differences

scholarly journals MORE THAN MEETS THE EYES: THE LENS OF VISIBILITY IN INTERNET RESEARCH

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Myles ◽  
Daniel Trottier ◽  
Mélanie Millette ◽  
Claudine Bonneau ◽  
Viviane Sergi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital Materiality ◽  
The Social

The objective of this panel is to examine the analytical and empirical relevance of the “visibility lens” for Internet research. In the past decade, researchers have started to take a specific interest in the constitutive role of online visibility in the organization of social reality. Studies have underlined the fundamental role of visibility afforded by digital technologies in the social recognition or exclusion of individuals, groups, and communities. They have also identified visibility and its management as being constitutive of social identities, relations, and practices among actors in a variety of fields. So far, Internet researchers have provided various definitions and operationalizations of online visibility. For example, visibility can be apprehended as both a political lever for individuals and collectives or as a conceptual category for researchers to make sense of social reality. Visibility is also frequently associated with digital materiality. As such, it is sometimes used as a criterion to categorize digital technologies regarding the control they allow for users to manage and disclose personal contents or activities. Furthermore, visibility can also be conceptualized as an affordance that is enabled by the functionalities of digital technologies and enacted through their situated uses. In this panel, presenters will raise theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues linked to visibility by drawing from a series of case studies. They will then draw similarities and contrasts between cases, as well as discuss the implications and, indeed, the relevance of formalizing the lens of visibility in the field of Internet research.

scholarly journals Vaccines and global health

2011 ◽  
Vol 366 (1579) ◽  
pp. 2733-2742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Greenwood ◽  
David Salisbury ◽  
Adrian V. S. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
New Vaccines

Vaccines have made a major contribution to global health in recent decades but they could do much more. In November 2011, a Royal Society discussion meeting, ‘New vaccines for global health’, was held in London to discuss the past contribution of vaccines to global health and to consider what more could be expected in the future. Papers presented at the meeting reviewed recent successes in the deployment of vaccines against major infections of childhood and the challenges faced in developing vaccines against some of the world's remaining major infectious diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), malaria and tuberculosis. The important contribution that development of more effective veterinary vaccines could make to global health was also addressed. Some of the social and financial challenges to the development and deployment of new vaccines were reviewed. The latter issues were also discussed at a subsequent satellite meeting, ‘Accelerating vaccine development’, held at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre. Delegates at this meeting considered challenges to the more rapid development and deployment of both human and veterinary vaccines and how these might be addressed. Papers based on presentations at the discussion meeting and a summary of the main conclusions of the satellite meeting are included in this issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Matching Treatment to the Social Support Needs of Alcoholics

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Longabaugh ◽  
P. W. Wirtz ◽  
M. C. Beattie ◽  
N. Noel ◽  
R. Stout
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
The Social

Dowagers, Debs, Nuns and Babies: The Politics of Nostalgia and the Older Woman in the British Sunday Night Television Serial

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estella Tincknell
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Mature Female ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Popular Television

The extensive commercial success of two well-made popular television drama serials screened in the UK at prime time on Sunday evenings during the winter of 2011–12, Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010–) and Call the Midwife (BBC, 2012–), has appeared to consolidate the recent resurgence of the period drama during the 1990s and 2000s, as well as reassembling something like a mass audience for woman-centred realist narratives at a time when the fracturing and disassembling of such audiences seemed axiomatic. While ostensibly different in content, style and focus, the two programmes share a number of distinctive features, including a range of mature female characters who are sufficiently well drawn and socially diverse as to offer a profoundly pleasurable experience for the female viewer seeking representations of aging femininity that go beyond the sexualised body of the ‘successful ager’. Equally importantly, these two programmes present compelling examples of the ‘conjunctural text’, which appears at a moment of intense political polarisation, marking struggles over consent to a contemporary political position by re-presenting the past. Because both programmes foreground older women as crucial figures in their respective communities, but offer very different versions of the social role and ideological positioning that this entails, the underlying politics of such nostalgia becomes apparent. A critical analysis of these two versions of Britain's past thus highlights the ideological investments involved in period drama and the extent to which this ‘cosy’ genre may legitimate or challenge contemporary political claims.

MENELUSURI JEJAK DAN KIPRAH KIAI MOHAMMAD HASAN GENGGONG; DALAM MEMBANGUN KEPEMIMPINAN SPRITUAL-TRANSFORMATIF

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Ahmad Fauzi ◽  
Chusnul Muali
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Transformative Leadership ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
School Students ◽  
Value System ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Islamic Science

Pesantren and social value system is the result of constructing kiai's thoughts and social actions as an inseparable entity. This study aims to interpret the role and social action of kiai Moh Hasan, both as a fighter (al-haiah al-jihaadi li'izzi al-Islaami wal muslimin) in the community as well as guidance and guidance for the community (al-haiah al ta 'awuny wa al takafuly wal al ittijaahi) and teaching in educational institutions (al-haiah al ta'lim wa al-tarbiyah), significantly contributes greatly to the social realities of society in Indonesia. Portrait of central figure kiai Moh Hasan can not be separated from the depth of his field of Islamic science, simplicity, kezuhudan, struggle, sincerity and generosity. This view, not only recognized among the people around the boarding school, students and colleagues, but also spread in some areas in Indonesia. The fame of kiai Moh Hasan among scholars, habaib and society has many karamah and some other privileges, not even a few from the social recognition of kiai Moh Hasan Genggong, because the kiai are believed to have closeness with God, thus perceived as auliya'Allah. Thus the role and social actions of the kiai above, gave birth to the value system, so as to influence and move the social action of other individuals. The internalization of the aforementioned values becomes social capital in building a spiritual-based transformative leadership, as a strong leadership model and conducts various changes in the social field, by transforming the value of the ethical values.

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