Family and peer support

Online peer support groups are an increasingly common venue for caregivers supporting disabled family members to exchange informational, emotional, and instrumental support. We know very little, however, about who uses these groups and whether they are reaching those with the greatest needs.

7p visteverogers 24-06-2023 5 2   Download

This thesis aimed to explore a range of social-ecological factors in the understanding of adolescent suicide ideation. Comprising two studies, the first study examined adolescents’ differential perceptions of mother involvement and father involvement, and their association with adolescent suicide ideation and psychological well-being.

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This study examined pathways through which family or peer views on tobacco use, family or peer smoking status, and rules against smoking in the home influenced quitting in adults with mental health problems who smoke.

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Visually- spatially intelligent persons are recognized as “picture smart”. Such people are good at remembering images, faces, and fine details. They are able to visualize objects from different angles and also have good spatial judgment and reasoning. The present study was conducted with the aim of assessing type and existing level of Multiple Intelligences among young urban adolescent girls and to delineate the human ecological factors affecting Multiple Intelligences.

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In the body of research investigating students’ attitudes towards interacting with other students in online and distance education courses, there are some studies that report overwhelmingly positive attitudes. For example, O’Reilly and Newton (2002) found the majority of their 90 survey respondents highly valued interaction with peers and reported a wide range of benefits including mutual support, friendships, a reduced sense of isolation and new insights into the concepts being studied. Yildiz and Chang (2003) similarly reported that most...

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The Social Return to Education Since model (1) excludes school resources, the term x jγ potentially captures both conventional peer group effects and other indirect effects associated with the family background characteristics of students at school j . For example, wealthy parents may be more likely to volunteer in their children’s schools, or to vote for increased tax rates to support education

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Pathfinder’s HIV/AIDS response in Kenya has been so successful that our community home-based care training curriculum has been adopted by the government to train all CHWs in the country since 2001. Pathfinder’s university-based peer education project has been running continuously in Kenya since 1988 and has successfully integrated HIV/AIDS prevention information into its educational program.

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A large majority of adolescents (both married and unmarried) do not have information on sexuality, contraception, or STIs and HIV/AIDS (Barkat et al. 2000; Nahar et al. 1999; Haider et al. 1997). Nevertheless, RH education has not been a part of the education curriculum, and the existing service delivery system is not catering to the needs of unmarried adolescents. The family structure in Bangladesh is still very strong and plays a major role in the lives of adolescents providing support, love and care, but fails to respond to the need for reproductive health of adolescents.

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We would like to express appreciation to our project partners, the Urban Family Health Partnership, Kanchan Samity, Ananya Samaj Kallyan Sangostha and Unnata Paribar Gathan Mohila Sangostha. Their support and cooperation have been crucial in carrying out the research project. The twenty-four schoolteachers along with facilitators and peer educators as well as adolescents, parents and community leaders from the project areas deserve our sincere thanks.

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