Group Of Community Leaders Research Articles

Prevention Behavior of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Community Leaders in the Work Area of the Hajimena Health Center, South Lampung Regency

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever is a disease that causes the hajimena health center to be included in the top 9 health centers with dengue endemic areas. In 2021, the Incidence rate (IR) is 45.29 per 100,000 residents. One of the causes of this disease is due to the lack of role of community leaders in preventing DHF. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between knowledge, attitudes, motivation and information sources of community leaders on DHF prevention behavior. This type of research is quantitative research with an analytic research design and a cross sectional approach. The sample is 67 community leaders with 7 hamlet heads and 60 RTs taken using total sampling technique. With analysis using the Chi – square test. This research was conducted in October–March 2023. The results of the univariate analysis showed good knowledge of 61.19%, positive attitude of 58.21%, high motivation of 53.73%. Verbal information sources at 56.72% and non-verbal information sources at 43.28%. The results of the bivariate analysis showed that there was a relationship between knowledge, attitudes, and motivation with DHF prevention behavior with p-values ​​(0.00), (0.00), and (0.00). There is no relationship between information sources and DHF prevention behavior (0.90). The need for the role of health workers to form a community or group of community leaders who are named or term "Tomato DHF" (community leaders prevent DHF) and activate counseling activities regarding DHF prevention with 3M Plus

Community Action Targeting Children who Are Homeless (CATCH): Addressing the Mental Health and Developmental Needs of Children Experiencing Homelessness

The purpose of this article is to describe a collaborative community project designed to enhance the mental health and development of children experiencing family homelessness. In spite of the many risk factors faced by children without homes, there has been limited attention to understanding and addressing their needs. Community Action Targeting Children who are Homeless (CATCH) was developed by a group of community leaders in family homelessness and experts in young children's mental health; the goal of CATCH is to promote the social–emotional adjustment and developmental status of children who are homeless. In this article we provide a rationale for the project, discuss the goals and strategies implemented to meet those goals, and describe the lessons learned.

Benefits of community-based education to the community in South African health science facilities

BackgroundCommunity-based education (CBE) is utilised by health science faculties worldwide to provide a relevant primary care experience for students and a service to underserved communities and, hopefully, to affect student career choices. The benefits to training institutions and students are well documented, but it may well be that communities, too, will be able to benefit from a more balanced partnership, where they are consulted in the planning of such training programmes.MethodAn exploratory qualitative study was undertaken by three South African universities in the provinces of Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape. Focus group interviews were conducted in their local languages with groups of community leaders, patients and supervisors at community sites involved in CBE training. A thematic analysis of their views was undertaken with the aid of NVivo (version 9). Ethics approval was obtained from the respective universities and health care training sites.ResultsBenefits to the community could be categorised into short-term and long-term benefits. Short-term benefits included improved service delivery, reduction in hospital referrals, home visits and community orientated primary health care, improved communication with patients and enhanced professionalism of the health care practitioner. Long-term benefits included improved teaching through a relationship with an academic institution and student familiarity with the health care system. Students also became involved in community upliftment projects, thereby acting as agents of change in these communities.ConclusionCommunities can certainly benefit from well-planned CBE programmes involving a training site - community site partnership.

Nationalists who feared the nation: Adriatic multi-nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice

We can often learn as much from political movements that failed as from those that achieved their goals. Nationalists Who Feared the Nation looks at one such frustrated movement: a group of community leaders and writers in Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia during the 1830s, 40s, and 50s who proposed the creation of a multinational zone surrounding the Adriatic Sea. At the time, the lands of the Adriatic formed a maritime community whose people spoke different languages and practiced different faiths but identified themselves as belonging to a single region of the Hapsburg Empire. While these activists hoped that nationhood could be used to strengthen cultural bonds, they also feared nationalism's homogenizing effects and its potential for violence. This book demonstrates that not all nationalisms attempted to create homogeneous, single-language, -religion, or -ethnicity nations. Moreover, in treating the Adriatic lands as one unit, this book serves as a correction to national histories that impose our modern view of nationhood on what was a multinational region.

Community Learning Projects: Transforming Post-Compulsory Education Provision in Rural Communities

Rural communities such as Stanthorpe on Queensland’s Southern Downs, in Australia, are familiar with turbulent environmental, social, technological and economic change and the adversity that frequently accompanies such changes. The capacity of individuals and communities to bounce back from adversity is referred to as resilience. Participation in lifelong and life-wide learning is promoted as a strategy for rural community development, resilience and renewal. Stanthorpe, which declared itself as a ‘learning community’ in 2005, has been described as resilient, not only by the people who live there, but also by outsiders who view the community as a friendly, vibrant lifestyle choice. This paper reports a reflexive analysis of three learning community projects undertaken by a group of community leaders in partnership with their regional universities that used Participatory Action Research (PAR) and evaluation to draw on and mobilise ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ resources and expertise to promote purposive action to address their particular issues. Using processes of introspection and collaborative, critical reflection, the authors review each of these projects and propose these as a form of non-accredited post-compulsory education that succeeds in serving the lifelong learning aspirations of the community.

Lessons learned from bednet distribution in Central Mozambique

Malaria is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Use of insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) is an important preventive intervention. Selection of the best mechanisms for distribution and promotion of ITNs to vulnerable populations is an important strategic issue. Commercial shopkeepers and groups of community leaders were trained to promote and sell ITNs in 19 sites in central Mozambique between 2000 and 2004. Pregnant women and children under 5 years of age comprised the target population. Sales records, household survey results and project experiences were examined to derive 'lessons learned'. An end-of-project household survey revealed that 40.8% of households owned one or more bednets, but only 19.6% of households owned a net that had been re-treated with insecticide within the preceding 6 months. Higher levels of bednet (treated or untreated) coverage (over 50%) were achieved in urban or peri-urban sites than in rural sites (as low as 15%). Bednet ownership was significantly associated with higher socio-economic status (odds ratios for association with bednet ownership: 5.6 for highest educational level compared with no education, 0.4 for dirt floor compared with cement or other finished flooring, 2.1 for automobile ownership compared with transportation on foot), but was negatively associated with the presence of young children in the household (odds ratio 0.5). Primary output: 23 000 ITNs were sold during the course of the project. Process lessons: Nearly all of the community leader sites failed and were replaced by shopkeepers or Ministry of Health personnel. Sales were most brisk in more prosperous urban and peri-urban sites (up to 147 nets/month) but were significantly slower in poorer, rural sites (as low as three nets/month). Remote rural sites with slow sales were more expensive to serve. Logistical difficulties were related to tariffs, transport, management of cash, warehousing and organization of re-treatment campaigns. This project failed to achieve adequate or equitable levels of ITN coverage in a timely manner in the programme sites. However, its findings helped support a subsequent Mozambican decision to conduct targeted distribution of long-lasting nets to the neediest populations in the provinces where the project was conducted.

Metadecision

This article describes an experience in community leadership training, aiming to improve the efficiency of community leaders in their decision-making through metadecision. The concept of metadecision is explained and a training workshop designed and carried out with a group of 42 Venezuelan community leaders in four Venezuelan cities, during the first semester of 2002, is described. The objectives were: (a) to describe the cognition processes behind the decision-making (metadecision) of four groups of community leaders participating in a Community Leaders Training Programme; (b) evaluate the changes produced by that specific training in the decision-making of these community leaders. To measure those changes a questionnaire was used as pretest and posttest. The posttest was applied two months after each workshop in each city. Also, each participant kept a field diary where they would register their observations, impressions and personal findings. Although a quasi-experimental design was used, the data analysis was qualitative: content answers and field notes were analysed. Results show that the trained leaders had a cognitive reorganisation that enriched their decision-making process. This was expressed in six points: (1) They changed both the tendency to simplify the concept, and their relationship with the decision-making; (2) They valued more the reflection and consultation at the time of decision, assuming a protagonist role in relation to the decision made; (3) They enriched the procedure following the decision-making; changing from a process centred in the decision, to a self-reflective process that facilitated the internal dialogue; (4) They incorporated new information into their decision-making; (5) They became aware of the necessity to handle the complexity in the decisions, and the balance between the dimensions of the process; (6) They were aware of their own self-efficacy and improvement in the efficiency at the moment of decision-making. The participants attributed these changes to the experience lived and acquired during the metadecision training workshop.

Attitudes of Community Leaders in New Casino Jurisdictions Regarding Casino Gambling's Effects on Crime and Quality of Life

Interviews were conducted with 128 key individuals in seven communities that are new casino jurisdictions. The individuals interviewed are community leaders (mayors, members of the city council, leading members of the business community) or work in areas (banking, law enforcement, social services) which would provide insight into the positive and negative effects that casinos have on communities. A series of core questions were asked of all 128 respondents followed by additional questions designed to elicit specific information based on the individual's position. A content analysis was conducted comparing responses both within and between communities by leadership position. Findings indicate that a clear majority (59%) of those interviewed are in favor of the casino in the community, believe the casino enhances the quality of life in the community (65%), and believe that the casino has a positive effect on the economy (77%). Although a majority of the community leaders interviewed view the impact of casinos favorably, responses vary both by community and by position within the community. Finally, since ths group of community leaders was not selected randomly, it is possible that unintended interview bias shifted these results in a positive direction.

Training rural citizens: An evaluation of a leadership training program

Abstract Whether facing growth or decline, rural communities must develop mechanisms for managing the forces of social change which affect them. One such mechanism or resource is an informed, skilled and active group of community leaders. This paper reports the evaluation results of a leadership development program for rural citizens. Using the recurrent institutional cycle design (Campbell & Stanley, 1966), four different variations of the training program were evaluated: one week classroom seminar (N = 227), one week classroom seminar for each of two years (N = 208), study‐travel seminar of three weeks duration for each of two years (N = 50), and study‐travel seminar of four weeks duration for each of three years (N = 69). Respondents in all four program groups reported positive changes in their leadership self‐images, greater involvement in roles requiring leadership skills, and greater effectiveness in their leadership activities as a result of their training. In most cases, participants in the longer...