Introduction While cancer treatments clearly improve cancer outcomes, they inadvertently damage healthy tissues and organs, including causing oral and dental complications. Oral health complications can lead to cognitive, psychological, and social impairments which can have a profound impact on children’s well-being. Current knowledge of these consequences comes from clinical studies focusing on caregivers' vie...
This paper examines the costs, benefits, accountability, and human rights implications of private against public prisons in South Africa. The rationale is to determine which investment model between the two (public and private) is most economically viable as expressed in quantitative and financial terms. As such, the positive gains of the cost-benefit analysis should provide guidance in maintaining any prison m...
Housing was crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic, as “staying at home” was the first line of defense against the virus. To reduce the economic downturn’s impact on housing security, preventive and supportive measures were developed, such as moratoria on rents and mortgages. This paper aims to analyze the opinions of tenants and indebted homeowners about the housing support policies implemented during the pandem...
Many youths from disadvantaged backgrounds globally lack positive role models and meaningful relationships with supportive adults within their families and communities. Youths’ involvement in relationships with caring adults, such as mentors, promotes their well-being. However, little is known about youth mentoring relationships in some parts of the world, particularly Zambia. This constructivist grounded theor...
Teachers have a lot on their plate. Research with teachers, particularly interviews, may be time-consuming. Combining the ‘go-along’ method with ‘visual aids for interviews post go-along’, this article offers a novel approach to doing research with busy individuals, specifically within the context of urban school greening. How can we understand the phenomenon of school greening through go-alongs with teachers? ...
Recent COVID contexts have changed the patterns of phenomena occurring within healthcare settings. While there has been increased attention to the need for qualitative research across all areas of healthcare, a pandemic-era systematic research review of phenomenological studies specific to nurse educators can help this field to decide where/how to focus subsequent research. While qualitative research has been i...
Social inequalities, recognized as vital material and existential differences between individuals and groups, constitute a dynamic and multidimensional phenomenon. Reducing the impact of inequalities is one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, necessitating initiatives to achieve this, including professional training. Thus, an extension course grounded in experiential learning was dev...
The COVID-19 pandemic, as a disruptive and unique event, put much more than the health systems of countries at a global level in check. It differentially affected those groups defined as high risk of disease and death [including people with diabetes mellitus (DM)]. The aim of this research is to investigate the ailments of people with DM, gathering perceptions about their health-disease-care-care process in the...
The paper describes the inclusivity of two methodological approaches, applied in PhD study, completed in 2021. The study combined Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and elements of Interpretive Poetics (IP). The focus of the study was understanding the live experiences of educated professionals from selected. African countries, living in Finland. The data were collected through semi-structured inter...
New and novice qualitative researchers can be overwhelmed, and they may face uncertainty with the variety of available approaches when choosing their research methods. Feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis is a qualitative analysis method that has not been described extensively in the literature, despite variations in its application by different researchers. In this paper, the author will describe her ...