scholarly journals Perceptions of educators regarding the implementation of the health promotion programme manuals for children in schools in Makapanstad, South Africa

Curationis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Doriccah Peu ◽  
Sanah Mataboge ◽  
Rendani Ladzani ◽  
Lene Wessels ◽  
Karien Mostert-Wentzel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Human Immune Deficiency Virus ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Health Promotion Programme ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Contextual Design ◽  
Promotion Programme ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Group Interviews

Background: Health promoting schools focus on, amongst other things, preventing leading causes of death such as Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s), Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a sedentary lifestyle and creating conditions that are conducive to health through health education.Aim: This study explored the perceptions of educators regarding implementation of the health promotion programme manuals in selected schools of the Makapanstad community.Method: A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual design was utilised in this study. Four schools were selected to participate in the study. Purposive sampling was used to select educators from these schools who were actively involved in the health promotion programme. Data collection was taken through focus group interviews. One focus group comprised of eight participants who were interviewed three times. The focus group interviews were conducted until data were saturated. Data were analysed using an adaptation of Tesch’s method. The eight steps of Tesch’s method enabled researchers to systematically analyse and organise data using colour coding to develop data into categories, sub-categories and themes.Results and conclusion: The themes that emerged during data analysis were: the perceptions of educators regarding health promotion programme manuals before implementation of manuals, and the perceptions of educators regarding health promotion programme manuals after the implementation of manuals. Introducing health promotion materials to the schools served as a point of departure for developing personal skills and creating a supportive environment for health in schools. The health promotion manual assisted the educators to attain appropriate health promotion information.

scholarly journals Value-sensitive clinical accompaniment in community nursing science

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonya Beukes ◽  
Anna G.W. Nolte ◽  
Ebin Arries
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Community Nursing ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Nursing Science ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Contextual Design ◽  
Group Interviews

Clinical community health facilities where undergraduate students are placed for their practical work in community nursing science are dynamic and have undergone major transformation over the past few years. In the clinical field, community nurses and undergraduate students are representative of the different races and language and ethnic groups in the South African population, with each group espousing different value systems. Both parties – students and community nurses – report that, due to these differences, value conflicts are experienced during clinical accompaniment and that this has negative effects on clinical learning in community nursing science.The goal of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of students with regard to value-sensitive clinical accompaniment in the community nursing environment. An exploratory, descriptive and contextual design was used. Interactions between community nurses and students during clinical accompaniment were explored for value sensitivity by means of video recordings,participant observation and focus group interviews. Data were collected by means of video recordings, participant observation and focus group interviews. The data were analysed and coded by the researcher and the external coder, using an inductive descriptive method to identify important segments of the regularity of behaviour. The focus group interviews were transcribed, analysed and coded by the researcher and the external coder, using Tesch’s steps of analysis (Creswell 1994:155–156).Lincoln and Guba’s criteria (1985:290) for trustworthiness were applied to the study.The general findings indicate that clinical accompaniment in community nursing is not value sensitive and, as a result, guidelines for value-sensitive clinical accompaniment need to be developed for undergraduate students in the community nursing environment. The following values (values for which guidelines need to be developed) were identified: respect during clinical accompaniment,value-sensitive communication and sensitivity to the quality of clinical accompaniment.OpsommingKliniese gemeenskapsgesondheidsfasiliteite waar voorgraadse studente geplaas word vir gemeenskapsverpleegkundepraktika is dinamies en het groot veranderinge oor die laaste paar jare ondergaan. In die kliniese veld verteenwoordig gemeenskapsverpleegkundiges en voorgraadse studente verskillende rasse en taal- en etniese groepe in die Suid-Afrikaanse bevolking, elkeen met verskillende waardes. Albei partye – studente en gemeenskapsverpleegkundiges – het gerapporteer dat waardekonflik weens verskillende kulture en waardes tydens kliniese begeleiding ervaar word,wat kliniese leer op sy beurt in gemeenskapsverpleegkunde negatief beïnvloed.Die doel van die studie was om die belewenis van studente met betrekking tot waardesensitiewe kliniese begeleiding in gemeenskapsverpleegkunde te verken en te beskryf. ’n Verkennende, beskrywende en kontekstuele ontwerp is gebruik. Die interaksie wat tussen die gemeenskapsverpleegkundiges en studente tydens kliniese begeleiding plaasgevind het, is vir waardesensitiwiteit deur middel van video opnames, deelnemerobservasie en fokusgroeponderhoude verken. Die data wat deur middel van video-opnames en deelnemerobservasie ingesamel is, is deur die navorser en ’n eksterne kodeerder ontleed en gekodeer.’n Induktiewe beskrywende metode is gebruik om belangrike segmente van die gereeldheid van gedrag te identifiseer en beskryf. Fokusgroeponderhoude is deur die navorsers en ’n eksterne kodeerder getranskribeer, ontleed en gekodeer deur gebruik te maak van Tesch se stappe van analise (Creswell 1994:155–156). Lincoln en Guba (1985:290) se kriteria vir geloofwaardigheid is in die studie gebruik.Die algemene bevindinge dui daarop dat kliniese begeleiding in gemeenskapsverpleegkunde nie waarde-sensitief is nie. Gevolglik moet riglyne vir waarde-sensitiewe kliniese begeleiding vir voorgraadse studente in gemeenskapsverpleegkunde ontwikkel word. Die volgende waardes(waardes waarvoor riglyne ontwikkel moet word) is geïdentifiseer, naamlik respek tydens kliniese begeleiding, waarde-sensitiewe kommunikasie en sensitiwiteit vir gehalte van kliniese begeleiding.

scholarly journals What do general practitioners think about an online self-regulation programme for health promotion? Focus group interviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolien Plaete ◽  
Geert Crombez ◽  
Ann DeSmet ◽  
Myriam Deveugele ◽  
Maïté Verloigne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Promotion Focus ◽  
Group Interviews

scholarly journals Health Engagement Living Lab Project: A Pilot Mixed-Methods Study To Advance Self-Care Agency Among Migrant Workers In South Korea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youlim Kim ◽  
Hyeonkyeong Lee ◽  
Sookyung Kim ◽  
Junghee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Care Agency

Abstract Background: Migrant workers struggle to access health services and adapt to a new culture. Self-care agency can be important for health self-management. It is necessary to investigate in detail how migrant workers engage in health promotion behaviors. This study examines the effects of a health engagement program to improve self-care agency using a living lab approach among migrant workers living in South Korea. Methods: Participants included 42 migrant workers from 9 countries, recruited via flyers, posters, and internet bulletins posted by a migrant community organization. This pilot study used a mixed-methods design including a nonequivalent pre-post-test control group and three focus group interviews. During the 12-week period, only the intervention group participants received four workshops addressing healthy physical activity, healthy dietary habits, effective cultural adaptation, stress management, and two outdoor cultural activities. They also participated in focus group interviews after the second, third, and fourth group activities and discussed the benefits of health behaviors and specific ways to implement them in real life. The control group received no intervention. Results: After the 12-week intervention period, participants in the intervention group showed an increase in the levels of self-care agency (U = 82.5, p < .001), health literacy (U = 91.5, p < .001), and acculturation (U = 119.0, p = .010) compared to the control group. As results of qualitative content analysis, various themes were derived for three areas: healthy diet, acculturation, and stress management based on lessons learned from living lab activities, barriers to health behavior practices and methods to overcome barriers.Conclusions: This study demonstrated that interventions using a living lab were effective in increasing migrants’ participation in health promotion activities by strengthening their self-care agency. The qualitative approach was useful in obtaining more comprehensive results on strategies aimed at enhancing health behavior engagement.

scholarly journals Die beleweniswêreld van vrouens van vlieëniers wat buitelandse vlugte onderneem

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. G. Liebenberg ◽  
M. Poggenpoel ◽  
M. G. Van Reenen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Health Promotion Programme ◽  
Contextual Design ◽  
Promotion Programme ◽  
Marital Couples ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The experiences of wives of pilots undertaking overseas flights. The experiences of wives of pilots undertaking overseas flights are explored to generate guidelines for mental health promotion of such couples. An exploratory/ descriptive, qualitative and contextual design was used. Phenomenological semi-structured interviews were con-ducted with a purposively selected sample of seven wives of pilots undertaking overseas flights. A literature control was conducted as a measure of reliability. Results indicated that the wives needed communication with and support from their husbands. Guidelines for mental health promotion of the marital couples were formulated. These guidelines can be operationalised in a mental health promotion programme for airways communities. Opsomming Die belewenis van vrouens van vlieeniers wat oorsese vlugte onderneem word verken en beskryf ten einde 'n basis te voorsien waaruit riglyne gegenereer kan word vir geestesgesondheidsbevordering van sodanig betrokke huwelikspare. 'n Verkennende, beskrywende, kwalitatiewe en kontekstuele ontwerp is gebruik. Fenomenologiese semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude is gevoer met 'n doelgerigte geselekteerde steekproef van sewe vrouens van vlieeniers wat oorsese vlugte onderneem. 'n Literatuurkontrole is uitgevoer as betroubaarheidsmaatreel. Resultate van hierdie studie dui daarop dat die vrouens 'n behoefte aan kommunikasie met en ondersteuning van hulle mans het. Riglyne vir geestesgesondheidsbevordering vir huwelikspare/ waar die mans buitelandse vlugte onderneem, is geformuleer. Hierdie riglyne kan geoperasionaliseer word in 'n geestesgesondheidsbevorderingsprogram vir 'n lugdiensgemeenskap.

Eat Smart! Ontario’s Healthy Restaurant Program: Focus Groups With Non-participating Restaurant Operators

2004 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J.M. Dwyer ◽  
Lesley A. Macaskill ◽  
Connie L. Uetrecht ◽  
Carol Dombrow
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Health Promotion Program ◽  
Food Handler ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Program Staff ◽  
Group Interviews

Eat Smart! Ontario’s Healthy Restaurant Program is a standard provincial health promotion program. Public health units give an award of excellence to restaurants that meet nutrition, food safety, and non-smoking seating standards. The purpose of this study was to determine why some restaurant operators have not applied to participate in the program, and how to get them to apply. Four focus group interviews were conducted with 35 operators who didn’t apply to participate. The analysis of responses yielded various themes. The participants’ perceived barriers to participation were misunderstandings about how to qualify for the program, lack of time, concern about different non-smoking bylaw requirements, and potential loss of revenue. Their perceived facilitators to participation were convenience of applying to participate, franchise executives’ approval to participate, a 100% non-smoking bylaw, flexibility in the assessment of restaurants, the opportunity for positive advertising, alternative payment for food handler training, and customer demand. Program staff can use the findings to develop and use strategies to encourage participation.

scholarly journals Experiences of registered nurses caring for patients with an open abdomen in an intensive care unit in Gauteng

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mpho G. Chipu ◽  
Irene Kearns ◽  
Wanda E. Nel
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Open Abdomen ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Contextual Design ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Taking Care

The researcher observed that nurses prefer not to nurse patients with an open abdomen as they fear that the abdominal contents will protrude. The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the experiences of registered nurses taking care of patients with an open abdomen in intensive care in an academic hospital in Gauteng, and to provide recommendations for registered nurses when taking care of patients with an open abdomen. The research design used was a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual design. Focus group interviews were conducted with each group comprising six participants. The research question was: What are the experiences of registered nurses caring for patients with an open abdomen in an intensive care unit? What recommendations can be made to assist registered nurses in taking care of patients with an open abdomen in an intensive care unit? The data was analysed using Tesch's method. Three themes emerged: Difficulty in nursing care, complications such as fistula and infections, and poor hospital administration. Recommendations for assisting registered nurses in taking care of patients with an open abdomen were then made based on the findings of the four focus group interviews. Ethical principles and measures of trustworthiness were adhered to throughout the research study.

Management Strategy for Distributing Questionnaires and Interview Guidelines in the Research Data Collection Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
Po. Abas Sunarya ◽  
George Iwan Marantika ◽  
Adam Faturahman
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Good Management ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Group Interviews

Writing can mean lowering or describing graphic symbols that describe a languageunderstood by someone. For a researcher, management of research preparation is a veryimportant step because this step greatly determines the success or failure of all researchactivities. Before a person starts with research activities, he must make a written plan commonlyreferred to as the management of research data collection. In the process of collecting researchdata, of course we can do the management of questionnaires as well as the preparation ofinterview guidelines to disseminate and obtain accurate information. With the arrangement ofplanning and conducting interviews: the ethics of conducting interviews, the advantages anddisadvantages of interviews, the formulation of interview questions, the schedule of interviews,group and focus group interviews, interviews using recording devices, and interview bias.making a questionnaire must be designed with very good management by giving to theinformation needed, in accordance with the problem and all that does not cause problems at thestage of analysis and interpretation.

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