Thesis (M.Sc.) (Honours) -- University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, 1999. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science (Honours), March, 1999. Bibliography : leaves 117-125.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-94).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-13T14:50:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-03-08Bitstream added on 2014-08-13T18:00:31Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000758528.pdf: 973679 bytes, checksum: 4c93a0c888b9c666542e89e169f70387 (MD5) / A implantação de estratégias que articulem universidade, serviços e comunidade são práticas de ensino-aprendizagem que, cada vez mais, ganham espaço na área da saúde, estimulando instituições de ensino superior na adequação de políticas de ensino voltadas para a formação de um profissional generalista, capacitado a entender o processo saúde-doença nos diferentes níveis de atenção. O presente estudo objetivou conhecer o perfil das famílias que receberam visitas domiciliares realizadas por estudantes dos 1º e 2º anos de graduação em Medicina e em Enfermagem na disciplina de Interação Universidade Serviços Comunidade da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - UNESP, durante o ano de 2011. Nesse estudo foram realizadas 124 entrevistas a usuários cadastrados nas Unidades Básicas de Saúde ou Unidades de Saúde da Família da Secretaria Municipal de Saúde do município de Botucatu – SP, que participaram das visitas domiciliares em 2011, e aplicado um questionário semi estruturado, identificando-se suas características socioeconômicas e demográficas. Para a análise estatística foi utilizado o software SPSS/WindowsÒ (versão 10.5), calculamos as porcentagens das variáveis estudadas e utilizamos o teste de qui-quadrado, com correção de Pearson quando necessário, considerando-se nível de significância de 5%. A análise dos resultados possibilitou conhecer as características dos moradores do domicílio, das condições de vida familiar, bem como o meio em que vivem e como vivem e identificamos que não há diferença significativa entre as famílias selecionadas em dois anos diferentes e consecutivos. Assim, entendemos que nossos resultados podem contribuir para o planejamento das atividades de visita domiciliar realizada pelos estudantes da Disciplina IUSC / The establishment of strategies that articulate the university, the services and the community are teaching-learning practices which have increasingly gained space in the health area, stimulating higher education institutions to adequate the teaching policies directed to the formation of a generalist professional, qualified to understand the health-disease process at the different care levels. The present study aimed to learn the profile of families that received home visits by 1st and 2nd-year undergraduate students of Medicine and Nursing during the discipline Interação Universidade Serviços Comunidade da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - UNESP, in 2011. In this study, 124 interviews were conducted to users registered at the Basic Health Units or Family Health Units of the Secretariat of Health of Botucatu Municipality – São Paulo State, which participated in the home visiting in 2011, and a semi-structured questionnaire was applied to identify socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. For statistical analysis, the software SPSS/WindowsÒ (version 10.5) was employed; we calculated the percentages of the studied variables and used the Chi-square test, with Pearson's correction when necessary, considering a significance level of 5%. Analysis of the results allowed us to learn the characteristics of the residents of the home, the living conditions of family, as well as the environment where they live, and we identified that there is no significant difference between the families selected in two different and consecutive years. Thus, we understand that our results may contribute to the planning of home visiting activities done by students of the Discipline IUSC

This paper explores the utility of Weingarten's (2003) witness positions in the understanding of compassion fatigue in people who care for their own family members with AIDS. The research is embedded in Weingarten's theory of witnessing and narrative theory and practice. The literature review explores the shift from hospital-based care to community/home-based care which has led to family members assuming the role of caring for their family members with AIDS, an overview of the effects of caring for AIDS patients on caregivers and an overview of Weingarten's (2003) theory of witnessing with special emphasis on the witnessing positions and their consequences. Interviews, based on narrative theory and practice in which Weingarten's theory is rooted, gave access to the participants' experiences, which were then analysed and interpreted through a framework developed from the witnessing theory. This article demonstrates the utility of Weingarten's (2003) theory of witnessing to people who are caregivers to their own family members with AIDS. I argue that witness positions occupied by caregivers during witnessing determine whether the caregivers will experience compassion fatigue. The negative consequences related to compassion fatigue that will be reviewed could probably be prevented through active, intentional, compassionate witnessing.

Orientador: Joelcio Francisco Abbade / Banca: Eliana Goldfarb Cyrino / Banca: Vera Lúcia Garcia / Resumo: A implantação de estratégias que articulem universidade, serviços e comunidade são práticas de ensino-aprendizagem que, cada vez mais, ganham espaço na área da saúde, estimulando instituições de ensino superior na adequação de políticas de ensino voltadas para a formação de um profissional generalista, capacitado a entender o processo saúde-doença nos diferentes níveis de atenção. O presente estudo objetivou conhecer o perfil das famílias que receberam visitas domiciliares realizadas por estudantes dos 1º e 2º anos de graduação em Medicina e em Enfermagem na disciplina de Interação Universidade Serviços Comunidade da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - UNESP, durante o ano de 2011. Nesse estudo foram realizadas 124 entrevistas a usuários cadastrados nas Unidades Básicas de Saúde ou Unidades de Saúde da Família da Secretaria Municipal de Saúde do município de Botucatu - SP, que participaram das visitas domiciliares em 2011, e aplicado um questionário semi estruturado, identificando-se suas características socioeconômicas e demográficas. Para a análise estatística foi utilizado o software SPSS/WindowsÒ (versão 10.5), calculamos as porcentagens das variáveis estudadas e utilizamos o teste de qui-quadrado, com correção de Pearson quando necessário, considerando-se nível de significância de 5%. A análise dos resultados possibilitou conhecer as características dos moradores do domicílio, das condições de vida familiar, bem como o meio em que vivem e como vivem e identificamos que não há diferença significativa entre as famílias selecionadas em dois anos diferentes e consecutivos. Assim, entendemos que nossos resultados podem contribuir para o planejamento das atividades de visita domiciliar realizada pelos estudantes da Disciplina IUSC / Abstract: The establishment of strategies that articulate the university, the services and the community are teaching-learning practices which have increasingly gained space in the health area, stimulating higher education institutions to adequate the teaching policies directed to the formation of a generalist professional, qualified to understand the health-disease process at the different care levels. The present study aimed to learn the profile of families that received home visits by 1st and 2nd-year undergraduate students of Medicine and Nursing during the discipline Interação Universidade Serviços Comunidade da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - UNESP, in 2011. In this study, 124 interviews were conducted to users registered at the Basic Health Units or Family Health Units of the Secretariat of Health of Botucatu Municipality - São Paulo State, which participated in the home visiting in 2011, and a semi-structured questionnaire was applied to identify socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. For statistical analysis, the software SPSS/WindowsÒ (version 10.5) was employed; we calculated the percentages of the studied variables and used the Chi-square test, with Pearson's correction when necessary, considering a significance level of 5%. Analysis of the results allowed us to learn the characteristics of the residents of the home, the living conditions of family, as well as the environment where they live, and we identified that there is no significant difference between the families selected in two different and consecutive years. Thus, we understand that our results may contribute to the planning of home visiting activities done by students of the Discipline IUSC / Mestre

Standard economic models often emphasize inputs, outputs and an examination of the structures in order to conduct an economic performance evaluation. This study applies the Institutional and Development Framework (IAD) in the broader context of New Institutional Economics (NIE) in order to examine the transaction costs of delivering Community and Home Based Care and Support (CHBC) to HIV/AIDS sufferers. For purposes of unveiling the empirical reality guiding decision making processes in the CHBC service delivery, comparative qualitative research techniques of normative variable and concept formation have been adopted to draw out the relative institutional influences from the HIV/AIDS national response partnerships. The study identifies the conflict between the predominantly standardized and more rigid formal management techniques adopted by key members of the national response and the informal cultural techniques familiar to the rural communities, and a lack of motivational incentives in the CHBC structures as the key factors against CHBC capacities to draw external funding for service delivery. CHBCs are also weakened by incoherent governance structures at the district level for facilitation of funding and information flow exacerbating the community vulnerability. Rationalization of the institutional arrangements and a clarification of roles from district to community levels, a shift of focus to facilitation of informal techniques and an integration of performance enhancing incentives are the critical policy insights envisaged to spur CHBCs to work better.

This study examines the role of Community Based-Organisations (CBOs) in the response to HIV/AIDS as a development challenge drawing examples from the Gabane Community Home-Based Care CBO in Botswana. The study adopted qualitative methods of research and used group discussions, relative unstructured interviews, direct observation and literature review as methods of data collection. The study found out that HIV/AIDS is indeed a development problem and that it can be dealt with using some existing development approaches such as the sustainable livelihoods approaches. The study further identified specific roles that CBOs play in the response to HIV/AIDS. It also revealed the potential that CBOs have in achieving development. In addition, the study identified and outlined challenges that CBOs face in responding to HIV/AIDS. Key recommendations are that CBOs must integrate poverty reduction interventions in their activities. They must also form coalitions and strengthen their capacity to sustain their activities and manage partnerships. / Development Studies

HIV/AIDS is a pandemic infecting and affecting millions of people worldwide. South Africa is also severely affected by this disease. Because hospitals cannot cope with patients admitted daily especially with the influx caused by HIV/AIDS patients, the government has introduced home-based care of people living with HIV/AIDS. Amongst those who practice home-based care are the volunteers. This study is aimed at exploring and describing the experiences of volunteers involved in home-based care of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Lusikisiki Magisterial district in the former Transkei area of the Province of the Eastern Cape. The researcher used a qualitative methodology with the aim of finding out what it is like to be a volunteer involved in home-based care in a rural area. The data was collected by means of semi-structured one-to-one interviews or guided interviews. A total sample of thirteen research participants was acquired through purposive as well as snowball sampling. The interviews were guided by a number of broad question themes. Data was analyzed using Tesch’s framework of data analysis as described in Creswell (1994). The researcher used Guba’s model as outlined in Krefting (1991) to ensure trustworthiness of the research findings. A literature control was undertaken to find out what other researchers and authors say about the issues raised by the study. There were five themes that came out of the data analysis process and these themes are: o The experiences of volunteers with home-based care. o Factors facilitating the work of volunteers. o Problems encountered by volunteers. o Possible solutions to problems encountered. o Views of volunteers regarding home-based care. These broad themes were further reduced into sub-themes and categories. Based on the discussion of themes, sub-themes, and categories, some research findings were presented. The discussion of the themes, sub-themes and categories was supported by verbatim quotations from the participants. On the basis of research findings, conclusions and recommendations were made.

This study examines the role of Community Based-Organisations (CBOs) in the response to HIV/AIDS as a development challenge drawing examples from the Gabane Community Home-Based Care CBO in Botswana. The study adopted qualitative methods of research and used group discussions, relative unstructured interviews, direct observation and literature review as methods of data collection. The study found out that HIV/AIDS is indeed a development problem and that it can be dealt with using some existing development approaches such as the sustainable livelihoods approaches. The study further identified specific roles that CBOs play in the response to HIV/AIDS. It also revealed the potential that CBOs have in achieving development. In addition, the study identified and outlined challenges that CBOs face in responding to HIV/AIDS. Key recommendations are that CBOs must integrate poverty reduction interventions in their activities. They must also form coalitions and strengthen their capacity to sustain their activities and manage partnerships. / Development Studies

The purpose of this study was to examine participants' perceptions on the effectiveness of the "Parents in Partnership" program (PIP) of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. Parents in Partnership (PIP) is a collaborative effort between the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and parent partner paraprofessionals toward facilitation of safe reunification and permanency through education, support and mentoring of birth parents. The program's sole goal is the timely and safe reunification of children and their families. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with fourteen participants in the PIP program. Both mentors and mentees were interviewed.