Effectiveness Of Self-help Groups Research Articles

Effect of Self Help Group (SHG) to Stop Smoking Attitudes Among Students

The smoking prevalence among youth aged more than 15 years old and so, raising 34,8 % of male and 2,7 % among those female one. Thus, health education program is needed in order to improve youth knowledge on the negative impacts of smoking. This study has been conducted among students of Mexhanical Engineering school in Uni- versitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. This study was a quasy-experimen- tal study. The sample were 52 students who smoked and were divided into two groups, intervention and control gruop. The sampling tech- nique used was random sampling method. Test analysis used Wilcoxon test and Mann-Whitney for attitude. Results : The analysis test showed there was a significant effect of Self Help Group (SHG) on attitude with p=0,000 (0,05). There was a differences on knowledge between inter- vention and control groups with p=0,000 (p<0,05). This new inven- tion on health education method using social media, is important to be developed. Facebook as one of the easy platform of social media to access, will giving more benefit to the community in achieving distance health education.

Can self-help group programs improve women’s empowerment? A systematic review

ABSTRACT This mixed-methods systematic review focuses on the impact of women’s self-help groups (SHGs) on women’s economic, social, psychological, and political empowerment. Both governmental and non-governmental institutions spend formidable resources facilitating SHGs in low-and middle-income countries in South Asia and other developing countries, under the premise that access to microfinance, training, and group support can enhance women’s empowerment. We found that women’s economic SHGs have positive effects on economic and political empowerment, women’s mobility, and women’s control over family planning. The estimated effect sizes range from 0.06–0.41 standardised mean differences. We did not find evidence for positive effects of SHGs on psychological empowerment. The qualitative research further suggests that the positive effects of SHGs on empowerment run through mechanisms that are associated with familiarity in handling money, independence in financial decision-making, solidarity, social networks, and respect from the household and other community members. However, the included evaluations often did not include sufficient information about the specifics of the activities that were implemented by the SHGs. As a result, it remains unclear which of the various SHG models are most effective. Finally, our triangulation of the quantitative and qualitative findings indicates that SHGs do not have adverse consequences for domestic violence.

Effect of Self Help Group (SHG) to Stop Smoking Attitudes Among Students

The smoking prevalence among youth aged more than 15 years old and so, raising 34,8 % of male and 2,7 % among those female one. Thus, health education program is needed in order to improve youth knowledge on the negative impacts of smoking. This study has been conducted among students of Mexhanical Engineering school in Uni- versitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. This study was a quasy-experimen- tal study. The sample were 52 students who smoked and were divided into two groups, intervention and control gruop. The sampling tech- nique used was random sampling method. Test analysis used Wilcoxon test and Mann-Whitney for attitude. Results : The analysis test showed there was a significant effect of Self Help Group (SHG) on attitude with p=0,000 (0,05). There was a differences on knowledge between inter- vention and control groups with p=0,000 (p&lt;0,05). This new inven- tion on health education method using social media, is important to be developed. Facebook as one of the easy platform of social media to access, will giving more benefit to the community in achieving distance health education.

The Effect of Self Help Group on Knowledge and Attitude in Decision Making Among Household Head of Patients with Depression in Yogyakarta

Background: Treatment of patients with mental health problem at home and hospital has been so variable and unsatisfactory. An often assumed causal factor of this problem is lack of knowledge among household heads of patients with mental health problem. This study aimed to determine the effect of self help group on knowledge and attitude in decision making among household heads of patients with depression in Yogyakarta.Subjects and Method: This was an analytic experimental study with RCT (Randomized Control Trial). This study was conducted at Jetis, Sleman, Yogyakarta. Study subjects included household heads and 60 patients with depression. The dependent variables were knowldege and attitude in decision making. The independent variable was self health group. The data were collected by use of a set of questionnaire. The data were analyzed by logistic regression.Results: There was positive relationship between engaged in self help group and knowledge (OR= 1.46, 95% CI= 1.33-14.02, p= 0.015) among household heads of patients with depression. There was positive relationship between being engaged in self help group and attitude, but it was statistically non-significant (OR= 1.46, 95% CI= 0.74-25.41, p= 0.105).Conclusion: Self help group has positive significant effect on household head's knowledge, as well as attitude in decision making among household heads.Keywords: self help group, knowledge, attitudeCorrespondence: Endang Tri Sulistyowati. Health Academy of Karya Husada, Yogyakarta. Email: endangts80@gmail.com.Journal of Health Promotion and Behaviour (2016), 1(4): 223-227https://doi.org/10.26911/thejhpb.2016.01.04.01

Discovering the Impact of Self Help Groups on Urban Women Economic Empowerment in Chennai-using SEM Approach

Before two decades, even the banks were not ready for the rescue of people working in unorganized sector. Later, to address the issue the concept of microfinance (SHG) came into existence. A Self-Help Group (SHG) is a formal or informal group of people with social or economic background. A group consists of 10 to 20 members especially women. The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of self-help groups on urban women empowerment in Chennai and to provide suggestions to self-help group and women entrepreneurs for better overall empowerment and to improve the effectiveness of SHG. The data has been collected from urban self-help group women in Chennai. The 388 samples are collected from Chennai-North, Chennai-Central and Chennai-South proportionately. The total urban women population of SHG in Chennai is 405744. The study concludes that over the years, number of SHGs has been increased and SHGs has contributed towards enhancing urban women economic empowerment. Economic empowerment of women and Effectiveness of SHGs may be further improved through pre-assessment of the applicants, periodical monitoring of the members, by offering training to improve the awareness about financial products and business management.

Economic Self‐Help group Programs for Improving Women's Empowerment: A Systematic Review

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Income Inequalities of SHG Households: An Empirical Analysis

The prevalence of disparities in the living standard across households is the outcome of income inequality. Inequality can be defined as a deviation from equality where any individual unit is receiving less than his proportionate share of aggregate income. This state is referred to as relative deprivation, whereas absolute deprivation is equated with poverty, wherein one is not getting sufficient enough to survive. Households are not only poor; they also suffer from vast inequality in incomes, in assets and in access to essential services as well as pervasive insecurity. Theoretically and empirically, the effectiveness of self-help groups has mentioned in earlier literature, access to economic opportunities is proxies by SHG membership. Self-help groups play today a major role in poverty alleviation in rural areas. The impact of SHGs on individual members, family, community life, changes in skills, knowledge, attitudes, successful outcomes, and the development of human and social capital. With this background this research paper examines the effectiveness of women SHGs in the promotion of the development of social and human capital through micro enterprise development to work towards reducing income variations of SHG households. The results indicate that the OSHG households make significant improvement in their incomes and less inequality in income distribution compared to NSHG households and concludes that self-help groups have impact on income distribution.

The Effect of Self Help Groups on Access to Maternal Health Services: Evidence from Rural India

Background: The main challenge for achieving universal health coverage in India is ensuring effective coverage for poor and vulnerable communities, with high levels of income and gender inequity in access to health care. Self help groups (SHGs), a small economically homogeneous affinity group of the rural poor voluntarily coming together to save small amount and provide collateral free loans, is considered the cornerstone of much of the microfinance activity. SHGs are perceived to influence health outcome, particularly maternal and child health knowledge and service utilization. Evidence about the impact of SHGs on health has, however, have been derived from pilot level interventions and is thus limited in scope. Widening this scope by using data from the national District Level Household Survey (DLHS-3), this paper analyzes the influence of the presence of SHGs on maternal health service uptake in rural India. Methods: DLHS-3 collected information on 643,944 ever married women from 22,825 villages in India. The primary predictor variable was presence of SHG in village. The outcome variables were: institutional delivery; feeding newborns colostrums; knowledge about female sterilization, IUD, oral pills, emergency contraception, and female condom; and ever used oral pills, IUD, and female sterilization. Stepwise logistic regression was applied to estimate the influence controlling for respondent education, occupation, heard or seen health messages, availability of educational facilities, and the existence of a village health and sanitation committee. Results: Respondents from villages with SHG were more likely to have delivered in an institution, feed newborn colostrums, know and utilize family planning products and services. These results are positive and significant after controlling for individual and village level heterogeneities, and are consistent with existing literature that the social capital generated through women’s participation in SHG, influence health outcome. Conclusion: The study concludes that the presence of SHGs in a village is associated with higher knowledge of family planning and maternal health service uptake in rural India. Also our results indicates the need for complementary health programmes to build up on the solidarity and social capital generated as a result of the association, to have maximum impact on community health. To achieve the goal of improving public health, there is a need to better understand the benefit of systematic collaboration between public health community and these grassroots organizations.

The effect of Self-Help Groups on access to maternal health services: evidence from rural India

IntroductionThe main challenge for achieving universal health coverage in India is ensuring effective coverage of poor and vulnerable communities in the face of high levels of income and gender inequity in access to health care. Drawing on the social capital generated through women’s participation in community organizations like SHGs can influence health outcomes. To date, evidence about the impact of SHGs on health outcomes has been derived from pilot-level interventions, some using randomised controlled trials and other rigorous methods. While the evidence from these studies is convincing, our study is the first to analyse the impact of SHGs at national level.MethodsWe analyzed the entire dataset from the third national District Level Household Survey from 601 districts in India to assess the impact of the presence of SHGs on maternal health service uptake. The primary predictor variable was presence of a SHG in the village. The outcome variables were: institutional delivery; feeding new-borns colostrum; knowledge about family planning methods; and ever used family planning. We controlled for respondent education, wealth, heard or seen health messages, availability of health facilities and the existence of a village health and sanitation committee.ResultsStepwise logistic regression shows respondents from villages with a SHG were 19 per cent (OR: 1.19, CI: 1.13-1.24) more likely to have delivered in an institution, 8 per cent (OR: 1.08, CI: 1.05-1.14) more likely to have fed newborns colostrum, have knowledge (OR: 1.48, CI 1.39 – 1.57) and utilized (OR: 1.19, CI 1.11 – 1.27) family planning products and services. These results are significant after controlling for individual and village-level heterogeneities and are consistent with existing literature that the social capital generated through women’s participation in SHGs influences health outcome.ConclusionThe study concludes that the presence of SHGs in a village is associated with higher knowledge of family planning and maternal health service uptake in rural India. To achieve the goal of improving public health nationally, there is a need to understand more fully the benefits of systematic collaboration between the public health community and these grassroots organizations.

Effectiveness of Self-Help Groups and Psychotherapy: Self-Assessment of Patients With Substance Use Disorders

The basis of substance use disorders (SUD) is formed with regard to biopsychosocial aspects. By following the SUD biological model exclusively, the effectiveness of treatment is limited since all the formation aspects of SUD are not taken into account. By using the psychosocial model, however, the understanding and treatment of a substance use illness becomes enhanced and is more effective. A key role in this model is played by self-help groups and psychotherapy. The aim of this study was to determine the viewpoint of patients with substance use disorders in terms of the number of visits, duration of treatment, efficacy of self-help groups, and individual and group psychotherapy in different treatment methods. The participants were approached by researchers at two drug and alcohol services in Latvia. In total, 587 patients received questionnaires developed by the authors of the study. All the 587 questionnaires of both outpatient respondents (n=200, 34.1%) and inpatient respondents (n=387, 65.9%) were analyzed. Of all the outpatient department respondents, 41.5% (n=83) attended self-help groups, 28.5% (n=57) individual psychotherapy, and 14.5% (n=29) group psychotherapy; the inpatient department respondents were 2 to 4 times less often involved in the measures. The outpatient respondents were more frequently employed. They attended self-help groups and psychotherapy and obtained longer remission comparing with inpatient respondents. This study has shown that patients had a greater success rate in staying in remission, maintaining outpatient care and shedding the need of inpatient care.

Investigation of Self-help Groups (SHGs) Effect on Rural Women Empowerment (Hamedan County, Iran)

Self-help groups (SHGs) have a special role for empowering rural women that provide a critical outlet for building the way for faster, fairer, and more sustainable socioeconomic status for them. On this basis, study investigates the effect of SHGs on rural women empowerment that 260 rural women from Hamedan county (Iran) were selected as sample. Two groups of women were included in the study; Group 1 (in three subgroups of A, B and C; on based of membership years) included women who have participated in a local SHG, group 2 included women who had never participated in a similar group. The study attempts to understand empowerment process as articulated by the rural women themselves, based upon which their characters in respect of comparison two groups and also women in SHGs. Results indicated that women who in SHGs have high mobility, legal knowledge and decision making autonomy, access and control of household budget, but it’s not significant difference between groups 1 and 2 in domestic violence indicator, because of widespread domestic violence and suppression by male family members. Also, Comparison of key socio-economic variables indicated there are significant differences among subgroups (A, B and C), on based of membership years in SHGs.

Was unterscheidet Selbsthilfegruppen? Ein Beschreibungs- und Forschungsraster

There is limited evidence on the effectiveness of self-help groups. One research barrier is their heterogeneity. For this reason, characteristics of self-help groups were extracted by means of a conceptual review from three relevant fields of knowledge (outcome studies, health care supply research, practical experiences in implementing self-help groups). As a structure for the characteristics, QIP ("Quality in Prevention", an evidence-based quality assurance system for the assessment of health promotion and education) was used. The resulting taxonomy of 91 characteristics includes all distinguishing marks of self-help groups which, according to the evidence, may contribute to the groups' effectiveness. The methodological quality of evidence, however, was low (mostly expert-based opinion). The taxonomy may assist in systematic analyses of structural, procedural and outcome-quality, for example in evaluations or in health care supply studies.

Audit into the effectiveness of self-help groups

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Selbstbestimmt aber professionell geleitet? Zur Effektivität und Definition von Selbsthilfegruppen

Because the effectiveness of self-help groups (SHGs) has not been proven yet and also since multi-focus reviews on SHGs are rare, the present article offers an overview of the current state of research. Possible reasons for the conflicting results in the literature are also investigated. An extensive literature search was done to review studies which used longitudinal design and control groups to measure the effectiveness of SHGs and so-called "support groups". Positive effects in comparison to the control groups were proven in four out of seven of the studies. In the remaining three studies the outcomes between the groups were the same. Considering the naturalistic designs of the studies, these results clearly indicate that SHGs are indeed effective. An insufficient consideration of the heterogeneity of the groups is held responsible for the difficulties associated with previous research on the topic, especially as far as the differentiation between SHGs and professionally led groups is concerned. The definition excludes professional leadership but, in fact, professional involvement in SHGs up to their leadership is the rule. The following suggestions have been derived from this literature analysis: uniform classifications for SHGs and professionally-led support groups should be established in order to make it possible to provide a clear distinction between these types of groups as well as to indicate the extent of professional involvement in them. A plea is made for a generally stronger consideration of organisational differences in the research of SHGs.

Pflege und Selbsthilfe im Kontext von chronischer Krankheit und Behinderung

The promotion and maintenance of independence of chronically ill or handicapped people are particular objectives of professional nursing as well as coping in self-help groups. Accordingly, nursing and self-help may complement each other in the care for chronically ill or handicapped people. Evidence suggests that self-help groups contribute to health related knowledge, mutual aid and social support as well as modifications of attitudes of the group members and their social environment. They disburden the primary social networks and families of the afflicted persons and reinforce the "intelligent" utilisation of the professional services of the health care system. Nevertheless, the integration of self-help initiatives in the health care system is precarious. The co-operation between self-help groups and the professional health care system is characterised by an imbalance between medical laymen and experts. Nursing staff in hospitals are important co-operation partners and contact persons for self-help groups. To understand better the effects of self-help groups, longitudinal studies with non-randomised comparison groups are needed. Further research should address the questions, how larger proportions of the population can be involved in self-help activities and how the relevance of self-help differs in various diagnosis groups. Research in the area of self-help is fragmented; research promotion and co-ordination in this area appear to be necessary.

Why is self-help neglected in the treatment of emotional disorders? A meta-analysis

Although the burden of emotional disorders is very high, mental health care is only available to a minority of patients. The literature suggests that self-help strategies, both bibliotherapy and self-help groups alike, are effective for various, less serious complaints but it is unclear whether available data support a role for self-help in treatment protocols for patients with clinically significant emotional disorders. We searched the literature with a focus on 'anxiety' and/or 'depressive disorder'. Standardized assessment of diagnosis or symptoms and randomized controlled trials were inclusion criteria for a meta-analysis. The mean effect size of self-help (mainly bibliotherapy) v. control conditions is 0.84, and 0.76 for follow-up; the effect sizes of self-help v. treatment are -0.03 and -0.07 respectively. A longer treatment period is more effective. Bibliotherapy for clinically significant emotional disorders is more effective than waiting list or no treatment conditions. The dearth of studies on self-help groups for emotional disorders does not permit an evidence-based conclusion concerning the effects of self-help groups. No difference was found between bibliotherapy and psychiatric treatment of relatively short duration.

A Trial to Support Family Caregivers in Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan: Self-Help Groups in Small Communities

In this article, the authors discuss issues regarding the families of impaired elders in the long-term care insurance program for the elderly in Japan and the activities of self-help groups (SHGs) in the support of family caregivers in small communities. Using data from a qualitative and quantitative research study, the effects of SHGs on family caregivers were clarified. A process in which family caregivers found meaning through their participation in SHGs emerged. Through this process, SHGs alleviated the care-givers' mental distress related to caregiving, and caregivers had the potential to promote a change from traditional and cultural norms regarding family caregiving to new norms that support the use of home care services. There was also a discussion about the support that health and welfare professionals provide to caregivers both in the empowerment process and as they explain activities and issues related to caregiving to community members.

The Effectiveness of Self-Help Groups in a Chinese Context

ABSTRACT The findings from empirical studies have shown that self-help groups are effective, although few studies have been conducted in a Chinese context. Therefore, this study reports on a comprehensive study on the effectiveness of self-help groups in Hong Kong from members' own perceptions. Although the findings indicate that participation in self-help groups could result in negative as well as positive experiences, it was significant that such participation leads to very positive psychological changes for individuals. The benefits from involvement in self-help groups are evident across the variety of groups surveyed, as well as across cultural boundaries. In contrast, members of these groups felt powerless about their perceived inabilities to influence social policies. The findings from this research have significant implications for policy and practice concerning self-help groups.