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Exploring the measures to improve parent-teen sexual health communication in rural Mpumalanga province, South Africa
Get PDFTeenagers\u27 ignorance and reckless decision-making lead to poor consequences for their sexual and reproductive health. This could be exacerbated by teenagers looking for information from unreliable sources such as the internet and social media. This emphasizes the importance of communication between parents and teenagers about sexual health practices. There is an increasing number of sexually transmitted infections such as HIV among teenagers in South Africa. This study aimed to explore the measures to improve parent-teen sexual health communication in rural Mpumalanga province, South Africa. This qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research was conducted using individual in-depth interviews. Purposive sampling was used to select parents who had teenagers aged 12 to 19 years. Content analysis by Tesch’s approach was used for data analysis. The research process was guided by ethical principles which were applied throughout the study. The study findings revealed four themes such as setting up a forum for parent-teen engagement at health centres, open family communication, community sexual health support structures and sexual and reproductive health education. There is a need to improve sexual reproductive health communication between parents to teenagers. The study findings revealed suggestions to improve communication for the future and this will encourage parents to communicate with their teenagers in future such as concerning sexual health. Ensuring that teenagers have access to sexual and reproductive health services contributes to fulfilling their sexual and reproductive rights, providing them with more choices to best suit their needs and empowering them
Learner pregnancies: views of parents in Madibeng Municipality, North West Province, South Africa.
No full textBackground: The learner pregnancy phenomenon is one of a variety of social phenomena faced by schools globally. In South Africa, the phenomenon has been increasing in intensity over the years, as shown in the increasing number of learner pregnancies reported by the Department of Basic Education. Due to its social consequences, learner pregnancy involves different stakeholders, such as teachers, parents and the community.
Aims: The study aimed to explore the views of parents regarding learner pregnancy in schools of Madibeng Municipality, North West Province, South Africa.
Methods: A qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study was conducted using a purposive sampling method. Four focus group interviews were held with a total of 25 participants, and data were analysed using Tesch’s approach to content analysis.
Findings: Parents reflected that parents have a responsibility to communicate and share sexual and reproductive information with their children so that the children can make informed decisions about their sexual practices. They further agreed that the responsibility for learner pregnancy management should extend to teachers, parents, nurses, school governing bodies, churches, the community and the government.
Conclusion: Stakeholders such as parents, teachers and the community, as internal or external partners, should play a pivotal role in preventing and managing learner pregnancy in schools
Views of learners on prevention and management of pregnancies in schools of Madibeng municipality, North West province of South Africa
Get PDFLearner pregnancies have increased in recent years, despite improved access to reproductive health services, contraceptives and sexual and reproductive education. In this article, a pregnant learner refers to any person who gets pregnant while being admitted as a learner in primary or secondary schools of the South African basic education system. Currently in South Africa there is no formal collaboration between the Departments of Health and Education concerning learner pregnancy prevention and management in schools. This study, conducted in Madibeng Municipality schools, aimed to develop implementation guidelines of the policy on prevention and management of learner pregnancy in schools. This qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study used a purposive sampling method. Data collection yielded 17 individual interviews and data was analysed using content analysis by Tesch’s approach. Learners reflected that they lacked support from schools regarding learner pregnancy prevention and management, with the majority agreeing that nurses should visit schools to assist with reproductive health matters such as learner pregnancy. Theeducation system of South Africa has invested in sexual and reproductive education, but learner pregnancies have doubled despite more than a decade of extensive sexual and reproductive education in schools. Stakeholders outside the classroom should be engaged to improve learner pregnancy prevention and management as part of support to teachers and schools. Such stakeholders include parents, peer educators, youth and community organisations, non-governmental organisations, community healthcare nurses and other relevant stakeholders.
Keywords: Learner pregnancy, prevention and management, views of learners, pregnancy policy
Les grossesses d'élèves ont augmenté ces dernières années, malgré un meilleur accès aux services de santé reproductive, aux contraceptifs et à l'éducation sexuelle et reproductive. Dans cet article, une apprenant enceinte désigne toute personne qui tombe enceinte alors qu'elle est admise en tant qu'apprenant dans les écoles primaires ou secondaires du système d'éducation de base sudafricain. Actuellement, en Afrique du Sud, il n'y a pas de collaboration formelle entre les départements de la santé et de l'éducation concernant la prévention et la gestion de la grossesse chez les apprenants dans les écoles. Cette étude, menée dans les écoles de la municipalité de Madibeng, visait à élaborer des lignes directrices de mise en œuvre de la politique de prévention et de gestion de la grossesse des apprenants dans les écoles. Cette étude qualitative, exploratoire et descriptive a utilisé une méthode d'échantillonnage raisonné. La collecte de données a donné lieu à 17 entretiens individuels et les données ont été analysées à l’aide d’une analyse de contenu selon l’approche de Tesch. Les apprenants ont indiqué qu'ils manquaient de soutien de la part des écoles en ce qui concerne la prévention et la gestion de la grossesse chez les apprenants, la majorité convenant que les infirmières devraient se rendre dans les écoles pour aider avec les questions de santé reproductive telles que la grossesse des apprenants. Le système éducatif sud-africain a investi dans l'éducation sexuelle et reproductive, mais les grossesses des apprenantes ont doublé malgré plus d'une décennie d'éducation sexuelle et reproductive approfondie dans les écoles. Les parties prenantes en dehors de la salle de classe devraient être engagées pour améliorer la prévention et la gestion des grossesses chez les apprenants dans le cadre du soutien aux enseignants et aux écoles. Ces parties prenantes comprennent les parents, les éducateurs pairs, les organisations de jeunesse et communautaires, les organisations non gouvernementales, les infirmières en soins de santé communautaires et d'autres parties prenantes concernées.
Mots-clés: Grossesse des apprenants, prévention et prise en charge, points de vue des apprenants, politique de grossess
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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