Method Of Inquiry Research Articles

Barriers and motivational factors for engaging in novel opioid and medication disposal-related services in community pharmacies

ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore and identify motivational factors and barriers for pharmacy personnel participation in specific opioid mitigation programs, using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as an investigational framework. MethodsA naturalistic inquiry method was employed involving semi-structured interviews with pharmacy personnel to assess their intentions, attitudes, normative beliefs, and behaviors towards participating in naloxone dispensing and provision of at-home drug disposal solutions. Purposive sampling was utilized to recruit participants, with saturation achieved after 12 interviews. Interviews were transcribed and coded to identify recurring themes. ResultsFour primary themes emerged: 1) the value and benefits of helping others, emphasizing societal, patient, and environmental benefits; 2) limits and barriers to participation, including financial concerns, management support, and time constraints; 3) pharmacists’ intrinsic motivators, highlighting personal motivations and differentiation between programs for specific patient types; and 4) program implementation challenges and strategies. ConclusionThe findings underscore the applicability of the TPB in understanding pharmacy engagement in opioid abatement programs. Despite facing barriers such as financial considerations and time constraints, the overall positive attitudes towards the programs indicate a strong motivation to contribute to public health efforts. Addressing identified barriers and leveraging motivators could enhance participation, potentially mitigating the opioid crisis. Future research should incorporate patient perspectives to fully understand the impact and effectiveness of pharmacy-led interventions, such as naloxone dispensing and disposal solutions, in opioid misuse prevention.

It's not a lie … If you believe it: Narrative analysis of autobiographical memories reveals over-confidence disposition in patients who confabulate

Humans perceive their personal memories as fundamentally true, and although memory is prone to inaccuracies, flagrant memory errors are rare. Some patients with damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) recall and act upon patently erroneous memories (spontaneous confabulations). Clinical observations suggest these memories carry a strong sense of confidence, a function ascribed to vmPFC in studies of memory and decision making. However, most studies of the underlying mechanisms of memory overconfidence do not directly probe personal recollections and resort instead to laboratory-based tasks and contrived rating scales. We analyzed naturalistic word use of patients with focal vmPFC damage (N = 18) and matched healthy controls (N = 23) while they recalled autobiographical memories using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) method. We found that patients with spontaneous confabulation (N = 7) tended to over-use words related to the categories of ‘certainty’ and of ‘swearwords’ compared to both non-confabulating vmPFC patients (N = 11) and control participants. Certainty related expressions among confabulating patients were at normal levels during erroneous memories and were over-expressed during accurate memories, contrary to our predictions. We found no elevation in expressions of affect (positive or negative), temporality or drive as would be predicted by some models of confabulation. Thus, erroneous memories may be associated with subjectively lower certainty, but still exceed patients' report criterion because of a global proclivity for overconfidence. This may be compounded by disinhibition reflected by elevated use of swearwords. These findings demonstrate that analysis of naturalistic expressions of memory content can illuminate global meta-mnemonic contributions to memory accuracy complementing indirect laboratory-based correlates of behavior. Memory accuracy is the result of complex interactions among multiple meta-mnemonic processes such as monitoring, report criteria, and control processes which may be shared across decision-making domains.

Effect of Procurement Contract Management Practices on Performance of Public Institutions. A Case of Integrated Polytechnic Regional College (IPRC) Musanze, Rwanda

The general objective of this research was to examine the effectiveness of procurement contract management practices on performance of public institutions in Rwanda. The specific objectives of the study were to assess the effect of contract cycle on performance of Integrated Polytechnic Regional College (IPRC) Musanze, analyze the effect of contract execution on performance of Integrated Polytechnic Regional College (IPRC) Musanze, examine the effect of contract relationship management on performance of Integrated Polytechnic Regional College (IPRC) Musanze and assess the effect of contract monitoring on performance of Integrated Polytechnic Regional College (IPRC) Musanze. This study utilized descriptive and correlation analysis as its primary research methods. A descriptive study also was used to describe the participants’ demographic information. A correlational analysis also was performed. The researcher was able to identify the relationship among contract management and performance of public institutions through a correlation study. The study population for this study was 72 Staffs of IPRC Musanze including Principal, Deputy Principal in Charge of Academics and Training, Corporate services Division Manager, Legal officer, Internal auditor, Logistics officer, Store keeper, Procurement Officer, Administration & Finance department, Workshop Assistants (End users), Instructors (End users), Receiving committee, Contract management team and public tender committee. Given the limited number of individuals or units in the population under study, the researcher has chosen to use a census inquiry method rather than sampling. Documentary, interview and questionnaire sources used as tools of data collection for the study. Questionnaires were distributed to 72 employees of IPRC Musanze. Using SPSS, the researcher determined descriptive statistics such as frequency distributions, percentages, means, and correlations. The correlation results show that a strong contract cycle exhibits highly significant positive correlation with the Performance of public institution (r=0.668, p=0.000<0.05). Effective Contract execution is significantly correlated with Performance of public institution (r=0.627, p=0.000<0.05). Contract relationship significantly correlates with Performance of public institution (r=0.699, p=0.000<0.05). Contract monitoring demonstrates a significant positive relationship with the Performance of public institution (r=0.699, p=0.000<0.05). The findings show that contract execution shows the highest effect (β1 = 0.264, t=2.760), followed by contract monitoring (β2= 0.239, t=2.069), contract cycle (β3= 0.232, t=1.884), and relationship (β4=0.212, t=1.592). IPRC Musanze should strengthen performance through enhanced contract cycles, execution, relationships, and monitoring, while focusing on sustainability and technology integration.

사립 특수학교 교사로서의 삶에 대한 내러티브 탐구

This study set out to understand the meaning of the lives and experiences of special educators working in private special school spaces. To this end, three special educators with close relationships to the researcher in the private special school space were selected as study participants. These three special educators had lived through different experiences with personal lived knowledge within the changes and culture of private special school employment. In order to explore the experiences and life stories of the participants in this study, the research was conducted as a narrative inquiry method that explored the three-dimensional space of the changes in teacher recruitment (temporality), the private special school, Hannam School (spatiality), and the sociocultural roles and perceptions of private special schools and the unique organizational culture of private special schools (sociality). The research process consisted of organizing field texts as life stories, and the researcher reconstructed them through retelling to understand how special education teachers who have lived in private special schools experience changes in self-esteem and self-perception. This exploratory process revealed that the experience of being a private special school teacher was shaped by multiple dimensions of time and space. This meant that the participants’ experiences as private special school teachers were shaped by the temporality of their past, resent, and future, as well as by their internal and external perceptions and cultural differences. The research participants used the metaphor of a “well” to represent these experiences, and they drew their own experiences from the “well” space. The construction of these experiences provides an understanding of the lives and experiences of teachers in private special schools and allows us to rethink the changes and developments in private special schools in the field of special education. In addition, it was an opportunity for special education teachers working in private special schools to consolidate their role of ownership in the field and gain momentum for new challenges.

Sustainable Development: Memorizing the Quran Using the Takrir Method

This research is based on several symptoms that point to the need to improve the ability to read and memorize short surahs in elementary schools. There are still many students who are not yet able to read the Quran properly and correctly, there are still students who are not yet able to read the Alquran. The aim of this research is to find out about planning, implementation and improving the results of the ability to memorize short verses using the tahrir method in elementary schools in Indonesia. This type of research is Classroom Action Research, research carried out in elementary schools. The data source in this research is elementary school students, totaling 14 students. Data collection techniques are observation, documentation and test techniques. The data analysis technique consists of four steps, namely the first planning stage, implementation stage, observation and reflection stage. The results of the research show that learning planning uses the assessment method, namely by preparing learning implementation plans, teaching materials about length measuring instruments, preparing observation sheets, and supporting tools needed in the learning process. The second learning implementation using the inquiry method was carried out in two cycles with four meetings. The three research results showed an increase in the average score of students in cycle I, namely 63.93, increasing to 83.17 in cycle II using the assessment method with a percentage of completeness in the ability to memorize short verses for students from cycle I of 5 people (35.71 %) increased to 13 people (92.86%) in cycle II.

Using data as poetry and text in case study research – poetic representations of adult learner experiences in neighbourhood houses

PurposeWe argue this method of inquiry better represents the participants' learning, lives and experiences in the formal neoliberal education system prioritising performativity, categorising and ranking students.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explores using poetry as a research method to reveal the learning experiences of adult learners, who have often had disruptive experiences of the formal schooling system and return to study in community-based education spaces. Inspired by Laurel Richardson’s transgressive technique of presenting sociological data through poetry as method, we use poetic representations of these learners' lives alongside case study research methodology. The research was conducted in conjunction with Neighbourhood Houses in Victoria, Australia. Qualitative data were generated through conducting multiple case studies of learners across various adult community education (ACE) sites. In this research, some case studies were presented in the traditional method of writing biography, others were written in the form of found poetry, which we refer to as data as poetry and text. The paper uses found poetry through participant-voiced poems written from interview transcripts. We argue this method of inquiry better represents the participants' learning, lives and experiences in the formal neoliberal education system prioritising performativity, categorising and ranking students. Our findings highlight the benefits of using poetry to communicate data in case study research as it effectively represents the experiences of adult learners' lives in a creative and concise form, transgressing normative practices of writing education research. These poetic representations of data reveal learner experiences in an embodied and agentic way while providing readers with a deep and rich understanding of these crucial adult learning spaces.FindingsOur findings highlight the benefits of using poetry to communicate data in case study research as it effectively represents the experiences of adult learners' lives in a creative and concise form, transgressing normative practices of writing education research.Originality/valueThis research paper is empirical research and has not been submitted elsewhere for publication.

Analyzing the Role of Social Workers in Supporting People Living With HIV in New York City During the 1990s

Social workers play a crucial role in empowering people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their family members. This qualitative study aimed to reflect social workers’ experiences working with PLHIV in New York City in the 1990s. Using a qualitative narrative inquiry method and convenience sampling technique, two social workers who experienced working with PLHIV in New York City in the 1990s were interviewed for this study. Findings revealed that since the beginning of the epidemic, social workers have played crucial roles in providing a range of psychosocial services for PLHIV, including individual therapy and support groups. Furthermore, social workers acted as advocates who demanded social rights and social justice for the HIV population. Finally, social workers, in the early discovery of HIV, collaborated with the community of PLHIV to establish some of the early nonprofit organizations to overcome the structural barriers, including gender inequity and stigma, for PLHIV to live well.

Motivation and Economic Behavior Behind the Success of Trader Widows in Indonesia

Purpose: This article analyzes work motivation, forms of economic behavior, and success stories of widowed traders in Indonesia, especially in Sidrap, South Sulawesi. Methods: The research was conducted with a qualitative approach using naturalistic inquiry methods. The data used consists of primary and secondary data, which were collected through observation, interviews and document study. Results and Conclusion: The results of the study show that the motivation for widows in South Sulawesi to choose trading as their profession is the influence of the environment, where the majority of the population are traders, and the fast circulation of money. The economic behavior of trader widows includes distributing goods and utilizing profits for daily consumption needs, non-consumption needs, and saving for future needs, as well as for social activities and increasing capital. Research implications: The results of this research provide an overview of widows who have long been considered weak women and are often underestimated, who actually have high work motivation and have proven to be successful in trading. Originality/value: Widows should not be labeled as women who are weak and need mercy, but many of them are successful in developing businesses, including in the field of trade.

Semiotic Analysis of Gender in Advertisements Displayed in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK)

Gender portrayal in advertising is a critical aspect of understanding how societal norms and expectations surrounding gender roles and identity are constructed and reinforced. Many studies have examined the representation of gender in advertising, but little research has been done on outdoor billboard advertising, especially from a Pakistani perspective. This study aims to fill this gap by investigating how gender is portrayed in international, national, and local ads in both the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) provinces, using semiotic analysis as the method of inquiry. A sample of 360 billboards was selected using purposive sampling, and the study was grounded in Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of social semiotics and Charles Sanders Peirce's philosophy of signs. The findings revealed significant differences in the portrayal of gender across different product categories in outdoor advertising, as well as differences between the two provinces. Women were often objectified, and gender stereotypes such as the idea that women should be responsible for household duties, nurturing roles, and male dominance were commonly depicted in both provinces. The study highlights the need for policymakers and industry professionals to establish codes of ethics for gender representation in outdoor billboard advertising in Punjab and KPK.

Experiences of clinicians and managers in the implementation of a family focused model in child and adult psychiatry.

This paper describes the process of implementing a family focused model, The Family Model, in child and adolescent and adult mental health services in Sweden. Additionally, it describes a service development project carried out in both services within a defined geographical area of Region Stockholm. The Family Model is a communication tool designed to assist clinicians in both services to have family focused conversations with their patients and relatives. Internationally, the needs of individuals experiencing mental health challenges (parents, children and young people) and their close relatives are now well recognized, but barriers to family focused practice nevertheless persist. The aim of this study was to better understand clinicians` experiences in implementing The Family Model in both services. Three preplanned focus group interviews were carried out with 14 clinicians and managers across both services and the data were analyzed in accordance with methods of Naturalistic inquiry. Findings suggest that The Family Model has utility in both services. The Naturalistic inquiry analyses revealed three main themes: individual, relational and organizational aspects with a total of 10 sub-themes of how the models influence the participants. Furthermore, analyses on a meta understanding level explored that participants underwent a developmental journey in learning about and using The Family Model in practice which was expressed through three themes: "Useful for burdened families", "Influencing prevention", and "To integrate this would be fantastic". The Family Model, when adapted for the Swedish context, is a useful tool for assisting experienced clinicians to engage in family focused practice in both child and adolescent and adult mental health services. The Family Model highlights different aspects in everyday clinical services that were of special interest for clinicians, families, and the system. Future research could explore families' perspectives of the utility of the model.

Leadership practices and support structures enabling teachers’ informal learning for educational technology use: an appreciative inquiry approach

ABSTRACT Teachers increasingly turn to informal learning but often encounter challenges in their agency to improve technology integration practices. Through a qualitative paradigm and partly adopting the strength-based Appreciative Inquiry (AI) method, this study explored best leadership practices and considered how teachers’ self-directed learning might be enabled to better support technology use in pedagogy. Applying the discovery and dream phases of AI, the study engaged Ghana’s teachers, headteachers and education officials in constructive phone dialogues to identify practices that foster teachers’ informal learning. Different shared themes emerged through thematic analysis, revealing enabling leadership and support mechanisms contributing to teachers’ self-directed learning. Leadership support from key individuals at home, the district, and the school ecosystem surfaced as enablers for engagement in informal learning during the discovery phase. At the dream stage, teacher motivation, access to computers, headteachers’ leadership for collaborative learning, and dedicated time for independent and informal collaboration were envisioned to nurture teachers’ cointinuing self-directed learning. Findings have implications for education researchers and leaders to transition from deficits towards a strength-based inquiry as a promising tool to uncover inspiring leadership practices, actors, and support structures that cultivate and reinforce teachers’ self-directed learning to supplement formal professional development for technology integration.

Wider institutional research cultures and their influence on patient and public involvement and engagement in health research – An institutional ethnography

Focus on patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is increasing in health policy and research governance. PPIE is considered by some to be a democratic right, and by others to be a way to improve health care and research outcomes and implementation. Most recently, policy makers, funders and (clinical) research institutions are making PPIE a strategic requirement for health research urging researchers to invite patients and relatives into their research activities.Our study is based in a Danish university hospital where PPIE has been introduced as one of five strategic research goals. We investigated how researchers experienced this new practice and how their research practices connect to the wider context of the Danish health care system. Ten cases were studied during a year using observations, interviews, and document analysis. As our method of inquiry, we used institutional ethnography to look at researchers’ work from their perspective and to understand how PPIE practices are part of a larger institutional research culture reaching far beyond the individual. We found that current research culture has implications for the selection of patients and relatives and for what they are asked to do. Researchers who experienced that PPIE outcomes aided their existing research practices felt motivated. Researchers who engaged patients and relatives before it was a strategy, were ideologically driven and their approaches resulted in an increased diversity of inclusion and researcher assimilation.These findings add to the current knowledge on PPIE practices and help us understand that further development towards collaborative research practices require a change in key performance indicators and training and perhaps call for attention to our shared acceptance of knowledge generation in research.

The difference in the world perception between a hysteric and a neurotic

The research significance is determined by the necessity to gain a more profound comprehension of the influence of mental disorders on an individual's perspective of the world. The research intends to conduct an empirical study to identify and compare the levels of personal indicators of world perception in individuals with hysterical and neurotic disorders. The methodology employed in investigating this issue involved surveying participants, which gathered data on the psychological condition and perception of the environment among the individuals involved in the study (n=62). The study employed various methods of scientific inquiry, including system analysis, comparison method, logical analysis, classification, synthesis, and deduction, in addition to conducting interviews with the respondents. It defines the terms “neurotic” and “hysteria”, describes the causes and consequences of an unstable emotional state, determines the connection between an unstable emotional state and neurotic and hysterical personality disorders, uncovers potential physiological causes for the development of these disorders, lists and describes physiological and sociocultural factors that shape a person's worldview, and explores personal factors that influence. The research materials possess practical significance as they provide empirical evidence of the impact of hysterical and neurotic personality disorders on an individual's perspective of the world.

I-Poems: A Window Into the Personal Experiences of Family Caregivers of People Living With Advanced Cancer.

To date, there is little understanding of how caring during advanced cancer can be a transformational experience for personal becoming for family caregivers (FCGs). FCGs experience personal becoming as they create their own meaning of health and illness and choose patterns relating to the self-identity of the past while reaching forward into the unknowns. Gaining greater insight into a potentially positive aspect of cancer caregiving can contribute to FCG well-being and quality of life. This article identifies I-Poems within cancer caregiver narratives and explores them for themes of personal becoming. The narrative environment created space for FCGs to construct and share their voices; at the same time, the analytic method of poetic inquiry provided the voice of the FCGs to be seen, heard, and contextually explored. As a secondary analysis, we used five cancer caregiver narrative texts obtained from the primary study to create individual I-Poems. Each of the I-statements within the cancer caregiver narrative texts was lifted and repositioned into a poem format while retaining the chronological order and voice of the participant. We then explored the I-Poems for converging themes of personal becoming as emerged from the primary narrative-thematic analysis. I-Poems were created from each of the five participant caregivers' narratives and then explored for themes of personal becoming. Each of the participant stories is briefly introduced, followed by their I-Poem. We found that the I-Poems converged with emergent themes and provided a first-person representation of their caring journey and transformation of being. I-Poems are a postmodern form of poetic inquiry that can be used alongside thematic analysis to explore personal meaning of caring for someone with advanced cancer and how FCGs experience personal transformation of self. Although we found I-Poems to be a meaningful and useful form of analysis for some narrative data, we propose an evolved genre of poetic inquiry-We-Poems-to be used in dyadic nursing research and with FCGs who are in partnered relationships.

The influence of the guided inquiry method and critical thinking on the learning outcomes of culinary arts in class X high school students

The influence of the guided inquiry method and critical thinking on the learning outcomes of culinary arts in class X high school students

Observing inclusivity in a crowded London underground station using service design methods

Accessibility is a considerable and growing issue in the design of many public buildings and vital infrastructure. This research study uses video diaries to explore how service design methods were used to observe user experiences of inclusivity within a crowded island platform station at Canary Wharf station during a November evening rush hour. Auto-ethnography is discussed as part of a broader methodological debate about how to explore and consider inclusive design issues from a user's perspective, and in the context of empathetic design. The study concludes that this method of enquiry is appropriate to investigate the movement of people within crowded underground stations and, identifies actionable insights into how spatial factors and congestion impact the mobility requirements of station users.

Ontological relativity and conceptual analysis as theoretical frameworks for epistemic injustice: Exploring applications

AbstractThis article introduces a novel theoretical framework for addressing epistemic injustice—a phenomenon where certain groups or individuals are systematically excluded from knowledge creation and dissemination processes—by employing ontological relativity and conceptual analysis. “Ontological relativity” refers to a philosophical perspective that posits our understanding of reality as being shaped by our toolbox of concepts, categories, language, and social practices; “conceptual analysis” is a method of inquiry that involves the rigorous examination and deconstruction of a particular concept or set of concepts in order to uncover their constituent elements, relationships, and underlying assumptions. To exemplify the effectiveness of the ontology‐based approach, two paradigmatic applications are explored: (a) educational practices and (b) clinical practice and access to health care. Through the presentation of these applications and the step‐by‐step illustration of the applied methodology, the aim of the article is to showcase the efficacy of ontology in tackling epistemic injustices, suggesting innovative paths for future research in this domain.

Educational model to strengthen research skills in primary level students

Scientific research skills are essential for all professions, yet they are not usually directly linked to school curricula. In this work, we have developed an educational model focused on the development of skills for scientific research to promote the culture of research in primary school children. For this, two work groups were formed: experimental and control. The classic teaching methods in Science and Technology were evaluated and contrasted with an innovative model based on scientific inquiry, observing that both are efficient. However, only the inquiry method offers meaningful and lasting learning, in addition to providing a socio-emotional impact on students.

High-sensitivity dual U-shaped PCF-SPR refractive index sensor for the detection of gas and liquid analytes.

A dual U-shaped photonic crystal fiber (PCF) biochemical sensor based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is designed for the simultaneous detection of gas and liquid analytes, and the properties are analyzed by the full vector finite element method (FEM). SPR is excited by placing gold nanowires on the inner surface of the U-shaped device. In this technique, the traditional metal deposition process can be replaced, subsequently reducing the difficulty and complexity of actual production and improving the phase matching between the basic mode and plasmonic modes. To improve the detection properties, the structural parameters of the sensor including the air hole diameter, spacing, gold nanowire diameter, and polishing depth are optimized, and to better evaluate and analyze the sensing properties, the wavelength and amplitude modulation inquiry method is adopted. The results show that the maximum wavelength sensitivity (WS), amplitude sensitivity (AS), minimum resolution (R), and optimal FOM are 35,000nm/RIU, 438.08R I U -1, 2.86×10-6 R I U, and 165.16R I U -1, respectively. In addition, the sensor can detect analyte RIs between 1.00 and 1.36 for gas and liquid analytes simultaneously. Owing to the simple structure, low cost, and ambient-condition monitoring, the sensor has large potential in a myriad of applications including sewage treatment, food safety, humoral regulation, environmental and biological monitoring, and medical diagnosis.

(145) Health Practitioner Attitudes and Values Towards Problematic Sexual Behaviours

Abstract Introduction Sexuality is expressed through an individual’s sexual behaviours. Distinguishing “problematic” or atypical sexual behaviours from “typical” sexual behaviours depends on sociocultural conceptions of the norm. Perceptions of problematic sexual behaviour evolve in response to societal change. These perceptions influence and reflect the attitudes and vales of health practitioners. The attitudes and values of health practitioners directly affects clients with problematic sexual behaviours. Therapy approaches are not value-free. Practitioners are influenced by sociocultural norms which create and reinforce stereotypes. These social forces are especially pronounced in the context of problematic sexual behaviours. The nosological classification of sexual “disorders” risks pathologizing normal variants of sexual behaviours. Despite this, research examining health practitioner attitudes and values toward problematic sexual behaviours is scant. Existing measures of attitudes either focus on a broad range of sexual behaviours or on sexual health overall. We therefore sought to understand the themes underlying health practitioner attitudes and values toward problematic sexual behaviours. Objective To assess the themes influencing health practitioner attitudes and values towards problematic sexual behaviours. Methods An inductive qualitative approach provided the framework using in-depth, semi-structured interviews. An interview schedule was based on deductive domains gleaned from a review research exploring health practitioner attitudes and values toward problematic sexual behaviour, and the research team’s experience of the field. A case vignette of a distressed person reporting a problematic sexual behaviour was created to trigger discussion. A diverse range of health practitioners working with people reporting problematic sexual behaviours was recruited. This included five medical doctors (general practice, psychiatry, sexual health) and two sexual health nurses. A coding matrix was generated based on a priori review of the literature and a posteriori review of the interviews. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts was performed using the software program NVivo. Results Five themes emerged from the interviews. Two deductive themes were identified: methods of inquiry about sexual behaviours; discrepancies in defining problematic sexual behaviours. Myriad frameworks underpin a practitioner’s exploration of sexual behaviour issues. Interviewees also could not operationalise a consistent definition of the “problem”. Three inductive themes emerged: managing judgement in consultations; reflections on practitioner knowledge; the tension between fantasies and problematic sexual behaviours. Interviewees referred to “non-judgemental care” as essential in addressing sexual behaviour problems. There was consistent reference to a “limited understanding” of problematic sexual behaviours. A need to differentiate thoughts (fantasies) from actions (behaviours) for risk stratification was apparent. Conclusions The attitudes and values of health practitioners are influenced by sociocultural conceptions of normative sexual expression. These attitudes and values affect practitioner responses to people with problematic sexual behaviours. To better understand this, we propose three recommendations: the development of tailored supports to assist practitioners in managing judgements; an educational module to build understanding of problematic sexual behaviours; the development of a survey instrument to investigate the attitudes and values of health practitioners more broadly in responding to problematic sexual behaviours. Disclosure No.