Knowledge Of Rights Research Articles

Healthcare Barriers and Policy Implications for Non-Syrian Refugees Under International Protection in Türkiye

Türkiye hosts the largest number of refugees in the world, but research has mainly focused on Syrian refugees. This study fills this gap by exploring the experiences of non-Syrian refugees in accessing health services in Türkiye challenges they face. Using a qualitative methodology, 32 participants were selected, and data was collected through in-depth interviews. The analysis revealed three main themes: "health conditions of refugees," "difficulties in accessing health services" and "Professionals’ recommendations". The findings indicate that non-Syrian refugees face significant obstacles, including legal restrictions, financial constraints, language barriers, lack of knowledge of rights and discriminatory attitudes on the part of some health professionals. Access to mental health treatment was particularly difficult for non-Syrian refugees. This study has significant implications for policy makers and healthcare providers and identifies critical areas for intervention to improve access to essential healthcare services.

From Constrain to Capability: Factors Driving Tribal Women Empowerment through SHGs

In the current scenario, the empowerment of tribal women holds significant importance in confronting enduring inequalities and propelling the attainment of sustainable development objectives. Indigenous communities frequently encounter socio-economic marginalisation, with tribal women disproportionately affected by this disparity. Empowering tribal women is fundamental in fostering gender parity, given their pivotal contributions to their families, communities, and customary livelihoods. Moreover, amidst escalating globalisation and environmental crises, the imperative to empower tribal women intensifies, ensuring their inclusion in decision-making concerning land rights, natural resource management, and adaptation to climate change. Self-help groups are instrumental in empowering tribal women as they provide a platform for collective action, economic self-reliance, and community support. By participating in SHGs, tribal women gain access to financial resources, skill development initiatives, and valuable networks, enabling them to improve their socio-economic standing and advocate for their rights within their communities. Moreover, SHGs nurture leadership abilities and decision-making skills among tribal women, empowering them to confront challenges such as gender inequality and social exclusion. The paper aims to explore the perceptions of SHG members from five scheduled areas in Himachal Pradesh regarding 49 statements related to various aspects of tribal women's empowerment. It seeks to consolidate these numerous statements into groups based on their intercorrelation using the PCA method of factor analysis, to gain meaningful insights into the role of SHGs in the lives of these tribal women. The results of the systematic factor analysis using Principal Component Analysis and Varimax Rotation with Kaiser Normalization identify ten key factors. The most significant factor in empowering tribal women works out to be the improvement in skills, awareness, and knowledge. Other major factors include enhanced family conditions through better access to facilities, financial independence, and greater involvement in financial decisions. Additionally, community engagement, economic advancement, self-awareness, political awareness, knowledge of rights, and education and training are crucial components for analysing the impact of Self-Help Groups on tribal women's empowerment. By further analysing the ten driving factors identified in this study, a more systematic approach can be developed to assess the capability of these social groups to impact the lives of tribal women. This will allow for a precise evaluation of their overall empowerment through participation in SHGs.

Caracterización psicosocial de personas con enfermedad de Parkinson con enfoque de derechos en salud

This psychosocial characterization study proposes the integration of the variable of knowledge of PD patients' rights with aspects related to physical health, physical activity, emotional state, and health care in a sample of 61 people with PD. The psychosocial approach addresses complementary variables to the clinical diagnosis of PD, such as socioeconomic, educational, cultural, and family variables. The rights-based approach is consistent about the effects on these different areas of life and seeks to ensure that health care is comprehensive and contributes to people's well-being, beyond the treatment of symptoms. The instrument used to obtain the data corresponds to a Likert scale designed, piloted, evaluated, and applied to the data analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results show low levels of knowledge of PD patients' rights. The analysis reports a significant correlation between physical health and emotional states (rho=0.421, p<.001 CI95% [0.60, -0.18]), and a significant correlation between physical activity and knowledge of rights (rho=0.347, p<.001, CI95% [0.55, - 0.10]). People with prepaid medicine have higher scores in physical health (M= 85.6, SD= 13.5) and emotional states (M= 16.1, SD= 5.1).

Students’ Perspectives on Civic Education through Digital Citizenship in The Virtual Era

<p style="text-align:justify">This study aimed to determine Indonesian students’ perspectives on digital citizenship skills. Digital literacy is one of the most important needs in the community and the school environment. As educational institutions, universities are expected to integrate and develop an IT-based learning environment to help students develop digital skills. This study used social media and knowledge of rights and responsibilities in cyberspace to examine university students' digital-based skills. A descriptive method with a qualitative approach was also used to describe the perspectives of students about their rights and responsibilities. Participants included 12 students from state universities in Jakarta and Lampung. Data was collected through interviews and 90-minute focus group discussions (FGD). The results showed that the top three considerations that emphasized ethics in cyberspace were maintaining privacy, not spreading fake news, and respecting the Internet community. In this context, individuals must uphold their rights and responsibilities in the virtual world, and university students are expected to apply digital ethics appropriately.</p>

The role of social accountability in changing service users’ values, attitudes, and interactions with the health services: a pre-post study

This study evaluated the effects of community engagement through social accountability on service users’ values, attitudes and interactions. We conducted a pre–post study of the community and provider driven social accountability intervention (CaPSAI) over a 12-month period among 1,500 service users in 8 health facilites in Ghana and in Tanzania (n = 3,000).In both countries, there were significant improvements in women’s participation in household decision-making and in how service users’ perceive their treatment by health workers. In both settings, however, there was a decline in women’s knowledge of rights, perception of service quality, awareness of accountability mechanisms and collective efficacy in the community. Though CaPSAI intervention set out to change the values, attitudes, and interactions between community members and those providing contraceptive services, there were changes in different directions that require closer examination.

Trans(gender) journeys: rights and the (non-)recognition of "human".

A human right paradigm has been challenging the biomedical perspectives that tend to be normalized in the Western context concerning the lives of trans people. The aim of this study is to understand how trans people in Portugal and Brazil perceive the (non-)recognition of their socio-cultural, economic and political rights. Specifically, the study intends to know in what extent these perceptions influence the processes of identity (de)construction. For this purpose, 35 semi-structured interviews were conducted with people self-identified as trans, transsexuals and transvestites in Brazil and Portugal. The narratives of the participants were analyzed according to the thematic analysis method and the following six main themes emerged: (i) Who are the rights for; (ii) Types of rights; (iii) Paradigm of distribution of rights; (iv) Local or global rights; (v) Non-recognition of the "human"; and, (vi) Transphobias (and cissexism). The results allowed the knowledge of rights and the non-recognition of the "human" which is the central organizer of the analysis. Among the main conclusions of this study, we emphasize the circumscription of rights to certain international, regional and/or national contexts; the existence of local instead of global rights, since they are influenced by regional and international law, but they depend on the legislation in force in each country; and the way human rights can also be understood as a platform of invisibility and exclusion of other people. Based on a commitment to social transformation, this article also contributes to rethinking the violence that is exercised on trans people as a continuum, whether through 'normalizing devices' by medical contexts, family contexts, public space, or even through internalized transphobia. Social structures produce and sustain transphobias and, simultaneously, are responsible for fighting them by changing the paradigm about the conception of transsexualities.

The risks and benefits of technologised sexual practice scale: a quantitative measure of technology facilitated sex and intimacy.

Technologies such as the Internet, smartphones, and sex toys have demonstrated the capacity to facilitate and enhance sexual and intimate practice by offering new ways to meet sexual partners, maintain and establish intimate connections, and providing access to sexual education and exposure to new ways of engaging in sex. They have also afforded novel risks to safety, privacy, and sexual autonomy. Understanding how people perceive and experience both the risks and benefits of using technology to facilitate sex and intimacy is important to understanding contemporary sexual practice, health, and pleasure. However, research in this space is currently hampered by a lack of quantitative measures to accurately and holistically assess both the risks and benefits in the context of technologised sexual practices. To facilitate a nuanced quantitative exploration of these concepts, we present the psychometric properties of the newly developed Risks and Benefits of Technologised Sexual Practice Scale . Using an exploratory (Study 1, n =445) and confirmatory factor analysis (Study 2, n =500), this paper presents evidence for a 6-factor scale (Benefits (3): 'sexual gratification', 'connection', and 'access to information and culture'; Risks (3): 'concerns', 'worries', and 'knowledge of rights and ownership'). This scale may be used to contribute to research areas including sexual health, sexual behaviour, sexual education, online connection, online safety, and digital literacy with the aim to contribute to a sex- and technology-positive framework for understanding sexual health and pleasure.

Students’ Awareness of Human Rights Education at Higher Secondary School level

Human rights education is an integral part of the right to education. The concept of human rights is about knowledge of rights and freedom with respect for the right of all. Education is also a right of every single individual and it is a necessary tool to empower, and develop skills and attitudes, to promote equality, dignity, and respect for all. Human rights education provides a fair understanding of the structure of injustice on the basis of cultural, economical, and social discrimination at various levels of caste, gender, etc. Possibly the knowledge of own rights enhances the sense of self and respect for all. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the levels of awareness of these rights amongst students of higher secondary school levels. The study followed the descriptive survey design method and stratified random sampling techniques were adopted to select the sample. A self-developed awareness scale and focus group discussion were used to collect data. The data were analyzed by using simple percentile and content analysis. The findings of the study indicated that many of the students are aware of fundamental human rights while limited awareness about the right to education as a human right and its provisions. The study recommended that programs should be organized to create awareness of human rights education and the role of various organizations in the protection of the right of a human. Because human rights education could create opportunities to raise critical questions on the violation of rights related to a child, education, injustice, etc.

Current and future living arrangements: The perspective of young adults with intellectual disabilities

AbstractBackgroundThe transition from adolescence to adulthood typically involves exploring living options. However, there is very little research focusing specifically on the views of young adults with intellectual disabilities on this topic. This article contributes to this topic by exploring the views of Irish young adults with intellectual disabilities regarding their current and future living arrangements.MethodsTen participants (18–23 years; four males), living in their family home, were recruited through a disability services provider in Dublin. Semistructured interviews were conducted, and data analysed using thematic analysis.FindingsParticipants were positive about their current living situation, especially in terms of the people they live with, and the personalised nature of their home. In terms of future living, participants displayed a general openness to move out, although half of the participants would prefer to remain in their current living situation. Participants indicated a preference for living with familiar and compatible company. Participants highlighted their knowledge of rights and responsibilities, as well as their understanding of the value of daily living skills, and the costs involved with living. Participants unanimously expressed a desire to be the primary decision maker regarding their future living situation. Supports in both daily living and significant decision‐making were discussed.ConclusionsThis study provides an important insight into the views of these young adults and can assist in filling the gap in current literature regarding this population's views of their current and future living arrangements.

Human Rights Group Intervention in Primary School

Abstract Human rights education at school has a positive social and educational impact on children. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a 12-week pilot human rights education programme. Participants were Greek primary school students (n = 152) divided into intervention (n = 91) and control (n = 61) groups. One week before the implementation of the programme and one week after its termination all study participants completed a written questionnaire regarding their knowledge of rights, school engagement, perceptions of the school environment characteristics, interpersonal relationships, empathy, school liking, school avoidance and loneliness. Members of the intervention group repeated the completion process two months later. The results showed that the intervention significantly improved the participants’ knowledge of rights, attentiveness, sense of school belonging, perceptions of student-centered learning process, emotional support, and school liking, while school avoidance and loneliness were significantly reduced. The study’s implications are discussed.

Can we increase children’s rights endorsement and knowledge?: A pilot study based on the reference framework of competences for democratic culture

ABSTRACT This pilot study is the first to examine whether a novel curriculum based on the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC) could increase children’s endorsement and knowledge of children’s rights. We conducted a pre-test-post-test design with an intervention and a comparison school. Pupils (n = 172) from Bulgaria, Italy, Norway, Romania, and Spain attended schools in which the curriculum was taught, whereas pupils in the comparison group (n = 120) attended schools in the same city where the curriculum was not taught. Both groups were tested on their endorsement and knowledge of rights before and at the end of the intervention. Children in the intervention group increased in endorsing children’s rights at post-test more than did children in the intervention group. Most children believed that children had rights. Children in the intervention group showed modest increases in their knowledge of rights. Future ways of implementing the RFCDC are suggested.

THE ROLE OF COURSES IN INFLUENCING SMART CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RURAL AND URBAN AREAS

Consumer education interventions through formal education can increase knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour to become smart consumers who can enforce their rights, carry out their obligations, and protect themselves from harmful goods or services. This study aims to analyze differences in awareness of consumer education materials, sources of information, attitudes, and behaviour as savvy consumers in high school students in rural and urban Bogor and the factors that influence smart consumer behaviour. This study used a cross-sectional study design and involved two senior high schools located in the rural and urban areas of Bogor. The location selection was performed purposively, considering that the school implemented the Education Unit Level Curriculum (KTSP) and used the Electronic School Book (BSE). The sampling technique used random cluster sampling with a sample size of 129 high school students, 68 students in rural areas and 61 students in urban areas. The results showed significant differences in the material awareness of consumer rights variables and the three attitude dimensions. On the contrary, there was no difference in material awareness of consumer obligations, objective knowledge of rights and obligations and significant smart consumer behaviour on smart consumer behaviour in both regions. Students' age, objective knowledge about consumer obligations, and attitudes (affective and conative dimensions) significantly positively affect smart consumer behaviour in high school students.

Awareness of Responsible Citizenship Components among Primary Schoolgirls in Jeddah

The research examines the awareness of the components of responsible citizenship among primary schoolgirls in Jeddah using a descriptive approach. A test was then prepared, which consists of loyalty, affiliation to homeland, conscious citizenship based on the knowledge of rights, the fulfillment of duties, family roles in education and society revival, homeland and preservation of the components and gains, participation in achievements, and of national heritage. To maintain the validity and reliability of the study, 28-item test of multiple-choice and short essays type was applied to a random sample of (303) female students in the (fourth-fifth-sixth) primary school class in Jeddah. Results have shown that the level of awareness of school-grade students (fourth-fifth-sixth) of the components of responsible citizenship as a whole was high, where the means of the components ranged between (0.71-0.86). Moreover, the highest mean for the component (family and strengthening its vital tools in education and community development) was (0.86). Results have further shown that there are statistically significant differences between the averages. The mean of the responsible citizenship test according to the grade variable has a test value that is equal to (123.16). That is, there is a statistically significant value at the level of (0.05 α≤). Besides, there are statistically significant differences between the means for the fourth and fifth grades in favor of the fifth grade, and between the means of the fourth and sixth grades in favor of the sixth grade. Finally, there are no statistically significant differences between the means of the fifth and sixth grades.

I'm Trying to Make Myself Happy: Black Students With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Families on Promoting Self-Determination During Transition

Abstract Promoting self-determination for students with disabilities has proven to be a critical component of effective transition planning. However, researchers seldom consider race when promoting self-determination for people with disabilities. The purpose of the current phenomenological research investigation was to explore how Black youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families explain transition planning experiences that promote and hinder self-determination. We found that participants in the current study experienced some hurdles during their transition experiences that they perceive are rooted in systemic and structural racism and ableism that prompted advocacy, family engagement, inclusion, building knowledge of rights, and other emergent strategies to promote self-determination. Findings from the current preliminary investigation have implications for transition and self-determination research, as well as improving the quality of services and support for Black youth with IDD and their families.

Grassroots sexual and reproductive rights interventions on sexual risk behavior among female sex workers in Nigeria

Introduction: Sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) involve access to accurate information, rights-based quality, safe, effective, affordable, and acceptable health-care services at all levels that cover the sexual and reproductive needs of the individual and community irrespective of social, sex, gender, and other differences. Objective: This study aims at assessing the grassroots interventions on the knowledge of rights, access, and uptake of sexual reproductive health (SRH) services among female sex workers (FSWs) in Benue State, Nigeria. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional survey is a randomized cluster sampling among FSWs in Benue State, Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents, and the data collected were analyzed using IBM-SPSS Corp., Armonk, NY, version 25.0. The statistical significance level was set at P < 0.05. Results: Respondents were 446 FSWs aged 15–45 years, comprising 223 FSWs at baseline and post-intervention. Significantly higher intervention respondents (84.4%) use condoms while drunk compared with 56.1% at the baseline (P < 0.0001). Overall, 70.0% used lubricants in the past 12 months in the post-intervention study, whereas only 47.5% used them in the baseline study (P < 0.0001). Generally, 21.1% indulged in anal sex, and there was no significant difference between the baseline and intervention (P > 0.05). Virtually all respondents (96.0%) used any contraceptive methods in the intervention period compared with 68.6% at the baseline (P < 0.001). The intervention respondents were 11.84 (95% CI: 4.98–28.16; P < 0.0001) times more likely to use any contraceptive method than their baseline counterparts. The intervention respondents were 2.22 (95% CI: 1.51–3.27; P < 0.0001) times more likely to use emergency contraceptives than their baseline counterparts. Conclusion: This study showed the positive outcomes of grassroots interventions involving FSWs in Benue State, Nigeria. Such interventions should be extended to other key populations in Nigeria.

Positive Thinking: Social Science, Sociology and the Intellectual Legacy of Auguste Comte

How can you know something that cannot be seen, heard, tasted, touched or smelled? The question applies most obviously to things like rights, justice or freedom because they do not seem be as easy to locate or describe as things that can be known by the senses. Part of the point of positivism was that under certain conditions they can. To Auguste Comte (1798–1857), the movement's founder, it was possible to have as positive a knowledge of rights, justice or freedom as whatever was needed to know a cat or a mat. Positivism could, therefore, have as much to do with morality as with epistemology and as strong a concern with values and beliefs as with facts and certainty. The resulting capacity to move seamlessly between the external and the internal and from the physical to the moral was one reason why, together with the word “sociology,” the other word that came to be associated most widely and durably with positivism was another of Comte's coinages, “altruism.” Positivism, in short, was the science—or knowledge—of altruism.

Importance Understanding Rights and Obligations Citizens in Election Head of Medan City District 2020

Participation of citizens in using voting rights as a key element to success of Election. However, voter participation in Medan regional elections since reforms until now, tends experience a low participation rate. Thus, political socialization education is important, in order to maintain quantity and quality in the 2020 Medan City Head Election. The objectives of this activity include: First, disseminating information about the stages, schedule and objectives of the election. Second, increase citizens' knowledge and awareness of rights and obligations in elections. Third, increase voter participation in elections. Method of socialization through lectures and discussions from speakers to activity participants by applying strict health protocols.. The results of socialization activities show the enthusiastic attitude of the Community of the Sovereign People's Movement of North Sumatra in participating in this activity. Socialization participants argue that this activity can increase their knowledge of the rights and obligations of citizens ahead of the Election. Evidently, socialization participants are committed to participate in inviting the people of Medan to participate and follow the entire process of the simultaneous election stage 2020.

Original Research Article_Knowledge of rights of persons with disability (RPwD) act and caregiver burden in depressed parents of children with intellectual disability

Original Research Article_Knowledge of rights of persons with disability (RPwD) act and caregiver burden in depressed parents of children with intellectual disability

Women Trading Sex in a U.S.-Mexico Border City: A Qualitative Study of the Barriers and Facilitators to Finding Community and Voice.

Poverty and income inequality can increase a woman’s decision to engage in risky transactional sex, and may lead to unimaginable harms, such as violence, substance use, and human trafficking. This study examines the facilitators and barriers to finding community and voice among women trading sex in Tijuana, Mexico, and what factors, such as socio-structural support, violence, and substance use, may impact their potential to engage with others, including human service providers. Sixty qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with women trading sex in Tijuana, Mexico. Researchers met with participants for in-depth-face-to-face structured interviews. Data were coded using ATLAS.ti. Participants were aged 19–73 (mean: 37), 98% were of Mexican nationality, 90% reported trading sex independent of the control of others, with 58% identified as independent and street-based. Thirty percent of women trading sex reported substance use (excluding marijuana) and 20% reported injection drug use within 30 days. The majority reported no involvement in mobilization activities, but 85% expressed interest. However, barriers included stigma, cultural gender norms, partner violence, and privacy in regards to disclosure of sex trade involvement, moral conflict (revealing one’s involvement in sex trade), involvement in substance use, human trafficking, and feeling powerless. Facilitators were having a safe space to meet, peer support, self-esteem, feeling heard, knowledge of rights, economic need to support families, and staying healthy. Findings imply the potential to go beyond mobilizing limited groups of women in the sex trade and instead involve whole community mobilization; that is, to reach and include the more vulnerable women (substance use, trafficked) in supportive services (social services, exit strategies, better healthcare opportunities, and/or education for healthcare providers to help break societal stigmas regarding women in the sex trade) and to change the status of women in society in general.

Delivering bad news in the perspective of patient rights

Abstract Introduction: The necessity to deliver bad news to patients is one of the classic challenges of medical communication. The applicable patient rights oblige doctors to communicate full information concerning adverse condition tactfully and cautiously. The purpose of the study was to determine the level of knowledge of the rights and responsibilities of the patient in people who had received bad news, to identify the fields in which knowledge is lacking and to check if the level of knowledge affected the patient’s behaviour. Materials and methods: The study was conducted with 314 people who had been given bad news. An original Computer-Assisted Web Interview (CAWI) online survey questionnaire was used. Reaching the respondents was possible thanks to our cooperation with national patient organisations and electronic media. Results: One in 5 respondents (21%) was characterised by little knowledge concerning patient rights and responsibilities; 67% had a moderate level of knowledge or were almost fully aware of their rights. A vast majority of the respondents knew that they were entitled to full information about their condition, prognosis and treatment, as well as an inspection of their medical documentation. Conclusions: The knowledge of patient rights seems to be at an unsatisfactory level. Respondents with a higher education and those suffering from cancer had more knowledge. Patients with little or a moderate level of knowledge of patient rights and responsibilities were more likely to change their attending physicians or discontinue their treatments.