Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:27:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Henri Karam Amorim.pdf: 1200951 bytes, checksum: 365f1b1e3b1e6e2242eb83e9143f137a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-12 / For the humanist Viktor Frankl, the quest of meaning is something inherent to all human being, and the condition for such is the self transcendence; faith, while religious act, is one of the possibilities of self transcendence and it constitutes itself as one overmeaning or last meaning. Based on this theoretical reference, the Catholic communitarian living is understood here as one experience of Christian faith experienced in one Catholic Parish. In this perspective, the present research had as objective to understand the senses of the experience of faith lived in one Catholic community as personal growth of those who participate in it. In view of it, it has been proposed in one parish of the Metropolitan Area of Campinas the achievement of a group, seen as one more space within the community itself, in order to help people to enlarge their perspectives of personal growth departing from the consideration of their experiences of life. There were five meetings, with the average length of two hours each, in a fortnightly periodicity. All the nine participants, chosen among adult people commited with voluntary work, were designated for community leaderships and invited to participate in the group by the researcher. After each group meeting, accounts were redacted to register the more meaningful moments of the group as well as its movement as a whole; there were also versions of the meaning, that is, brief writings that register the meaning lived in each meeting for each one of the participants. From this whole of registers it has been elaborated a qualitativephenomenological analysis, gathering by axes of meanings everything that was lived and said by the participants. The gathering that was organized and its analysis allowed an enlightenment about the relations between things the community of faith lives and the mobilization regarding the personal growth of its participants; they also made possible to realize that the living of the Christian religious faith in a communitarian Catholic context is promoter of personal growth, in spite of such growth not always being guaranteed by the simple fact of participating in the community, since it is also felt and perceived as a space of contradictions. / Para o humanista Victor Frankl, a busca de sentido ? algo inerente a todo ser humano e a condi??o para tal ? a autotranscend?ncia; a f?, enquanto ato religioso, ? uma das possibilidades da autotranscend?ncia e se constitui como um suprassentido ou sentido ?ltimo. Com base neste referencial te?rico, a viv?ncia comunit?ria cat?lica ? entendida aqui como uma experi?ncia de f? crist? experienciada numa par?quia cat?lica. Nesta perspectiva, a presente pesquisa teve como objetivo compreender os sentidos da experi?ncia de f? vivida em uma comunidade cat?lica como crescimento pessoal daqueles que dela participam. Em vista disso, foi proposto em uma par?quia da regi?o metropolitana de Campinas a realiza??o de um grupo, visto como um espa?o a mais dentro da pr?pria comunidade, a fim de ajudar as pessoas a ampliar suas perspectivas de crescimento pessoal a partir da considera??o de suas experi?ncias de vida. Foram cinco encontros, com dura??o m?dia de duas horas cada, numa periodicidade quinzenal. Os nove participantes, escolhidos dentre pessoas adultas comprometidas com o trabalho volunt?rio, foram indicados por lideran?as comunit?rias e convidados a participar do grupo pelo pesquisador. Ap?s cada encontro grupal, foram redigidas narrativas registrando os momentos mais significativos do grupo bem como seu movimento como um todo; foram feitas tamb?m vers?es de sentido , isto ?, escritos breves que registram o sentido vivido em cada reuni?o por cada um dos participantes. Deste conjunto de registros foi elaborada uma an?lise qualitativo-fenomenol?gica, reunindo por eixos de significados tudo o que foi vivido e falado pelos participantes. O grupo realizado e sua an?lise permitiram um esclarecimento acerca das rela??es entre viv?ncias de comunidade de f? e mobiliza??o em vista de crescimento pessoal de seus participantes; possibilitaram tamb?m perceber que a viv?ncia da f? religiosa crist? num contexto comunit?rio cat?lico ? promotora de crescimento pessoal, embora tal crescimento nem sempre esteja garantido pelo simples fato de participar da comunidade, uma vez que ela ? tamb?m sentida e percebida como um espa?o de contradi??es.

Competition for seats in Canadian medical schools has driven many Canadians to seek medical education abroad. Systematic barriers make it necessary for internationally educated physicians (IEPs) hoping to practice in Canada to complete postgraduate residencies. To do so, they must transition into new medical education systems. The transitional experiences of internationally educated physicians are not well understood. This phenomenological qualitative study reveals the perspectives of twenty recent graduates from the University of Manitoba Family Medicine residency program. Canadians Studying Abroad constituted the majority of participants. Participant interviews revealed the presence of clinical practice gaps, created by curricular differences in the timing of graduated clinical responsibility between the Canadian and international medical education systems. Participants also shared their experiences of being singled out (visibility and invisibility), rejected and mistreated. They perceived that IEP residents were assigned low status in resident hierarchies. Their experiences are conceptualized as stigmatization.

The term ‘epidemic’ is often used to describe the obesity phenomenon and indicate that overweight or obesity is a worldwide phenomenon. While the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been increasing, reviews on overweight and obesity studies indicate a clear need for further effectiveness studies of innovative and cost-effective strategies to improve the long-term outcomes of weight loss and weight maintenance programmes in large populations. Current weight loss interventions, while successful in the short term, are often not cost effective enough to deliver on a large scale because they are labour and time intensive. Most importantly, they do not cover large populations. Despite some individual successful weight loss in these interventions programmes, individuals still need to self- manage their weight following intervention. It is unrealistic to expect health professionals and clinicians to provide timely and long-term ongoing support for 2.1 billions overweight and obesity populations around the world (OECD Health Statics, 2014).Therefore, the solutions for weight control may be more effective if grounded within the online community, that is, design long-term solutions that build and draw on social capital to support weight maintenance and are scaled to cope with large populations. Understanding the individual weight loss experiences through informal online social support and utilising the advantages of computer-mediated communication (CMC) can be a timely and cost-effective way to help people self-manage their weight. A three-month online longitudinal phenomenological interview of 17 informants recruited from an online community forum was applied to explore the weight loss experiences with assistance of informal online social support. Four weight loss threads selected by the informants during their weight loss process were also interpreted to map out the key roles of informal online social support and the interaction process that takes place in an online community forum. This research describes the lived experiences of individuals’ self-help weight loss process and maps out the critical moments and differential experiences involved in the Stages of Change (SoC) to explain the individual differences during different weight loss stages. This research also identifies the interrelationships of Processes of Change (PoC) for facilitating behaviour change. The findings of this research contribute to demonstrate the interaction process between community members and the process of providing and receiving social support at different individual members’ weight loss stages, which helped them to continue to lose weight or maintain their weight. The informal online social support could meet different self-help weight loss individual’s needs during different weight loss stages, which is difficult to be provided by the healthcare providers. The findings also contribute to social marketing as a way of offering a cost-effective and efficient way to assist the self-help individual to self- manage their weight in the long term. It may also be a viable way of addressing the issues of costs and labour intensity found in the current weight loss interventions that want to serve large populations.

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Thesis (MPH.) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / Background: Disclosure of Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV) is still a challenge to people living with the disease because of the discrimination, stigma and judgemental attitudes. Women prefer to keep their illness to themselves and make it a secret. The revealing of HIV status relies on an individual who is living with the illness. The concept of non-disclosure is a vital issue that threatens immediate families in which there are people, especially women battling the non-disclosure of their HIV status. Objectives: The objectives of the study were to explore and describe the experiences of concealing HIV positive status to the immediate family by women living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus at the selected villages in Limpopo Province. Methods: The qualitative and descriptive phenomenological method was followed. Due to saturation, ten women participated after being selected through purposive sampling from the database with the consideration of the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews in Sepedi. The data was transcribed, translated and analysed through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results: WLW-HIV continue to manage to live with a secret about their HIV status due to the unpleasant feelings they hold about the illness continue, still pointing fingers and sceptical about disclosing, particularly to their children. They further tell lies about their illness and hide their medications away from the members of their family. The reasons about concealing their status include among others fear of prejudice, lack of trust, fear of abandonment and rejection, fear of blame and humiliation, denial, misconceptions that people still hold about HIV and the view of it as a predicament. Others conceal because of the lack of support and the target of the disclosure. xii Conclusion: The outcomes of the study have uncovered that there is still less awareness by members of the society about HIV/AIDS, which puts pressure on the WLW-HIV to effectively deal with an HIV positive status and disclose to their family members. These factors contribute to concealment and compromise the level of support that WLW-HIV would get from their family members, further impacting negatively on adherence. Keywords: Concealment, HIV/AIDS, Phenomenological study, Stigma and Immediate family.

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