Biomedical subjects

C P Myburgh

Publications and source records attributed to C P Myburgh.

7 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2000

Support for nurses directly involved with women who chose to terminate a pregnancy.

Research conducted by Poggenpoel, Myburgh and Gmeiner (1998:2-8) on "One voice regarding the legalization of abortion: Nurses who experience discomfort" indicated that the nurses were in favour of the fact that nurses should volunteer to participate in terminating a pregnancy of a woman. From our observations in clinics where nurses voluntarily participate in providing reproductive health services, including termination of pregnancy, it became clear that supporting these nurses may be essential. To be able to provide support, it is necessary to identify, explore and describe nurses' experience of being directly involved with women who terminate their pregnancy. To enable us to address the identified problems, a qualitative research strategy was implemented in which respondents were included in the sample through purposive sampling. Phenomenological interviews were conducted individually. Data was analyzed by means of Tesch's descriptive approach. Thereafter, guidelines for operationalization were inferred from the results and a literature control completed to verify and enrich guidelines. Measures to ensure trustworthiness have been applied in the research and ethical measures have been strictly adhered to regarding this sensitive issue.

Abortion, Induced↗

PubMed1999

The experience of education students in the TechnoLab. Do engineers and educationalists have to co-operate?

The purpose of this study was firstly to explore and describe post graduate students' experiences of Technology Education in the TechnoLab and secondly to deduct recommendations to assist and facilitate the learning process of students in the TechnoLab. The research design can be described as qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual. Twenty-eight post graduate students in Technology Education participated in a workshop at the TechnoLab for one morning session. The aim of this workshop was to expose them to the so-called technological process, which they had already studied theoretically. After participating in this workshop students were requested to write down their experience of Technology Education in the TechnoLab. They were then divided into three focus groups for interviews conducted by three moderators. The same question was posed to each group: "How did you experience Technology Education in the TechnoLab?" These interviews were audiotaped and later transcribed. Tesch's method of analysis was applied to the data by three researchers independently followed by a consensus discussion. Three major themes were identified from the data, namely the TechnoLab and Technology Education were conducive to learning; fear and anxiety were experienced in the unknown situation, that is the TechnoLab and Technology Education; and empowerment through exposure to the TechnoLab and Technology Education. Further categories were identified within each of these three themes. Recommendations are made to assist and facilitate the learning process of these students in the TechnoLab.

Attitude↗

PubMed1999

Adolescent interpersonal communication patterns.

Adolescents are admitted to psychiatric wards presenting with psychiatric problems which are essentially secondary to problematic interpersonal relationships. Successful interpersonal relationships however depend on effective interpersonal communication. Therefore the aim of research on adolescent interpersonal communication was to explore and describe the interpersonal communication patterns of adolescents and to develop an interpersonal communication skills approach to facilitate adolescent interpersonal communication skills within a training programme for adolescents. In this article however attention will be given to the description of the interpersonal communication patterns of adolescents. The target population of the research was 17 year old adolescents. The research consisted of a pre-phase where two contextual scenarios were formulated within group discussions with adolescents. During phase one of the research these scenarios were used to obtain video taped role plays from pairs of adolescents of the target population which were transcribed for data gathering purposes. Written dialogues were also obtained from each pair of adolescents on the same scenarios used for triangulation purposes. During phase two of the research the data was analysed according to Tesch's method and a literature control was done to verify the results. Guba's model for the trustworthiness of qualitative research was used. Four recurrent interpersonal communication patterns were identified, namely: Recurrent patterns of defocusing and externalizing the topic under discussion; Recurrent patterns of struggling for power; Recurrent patterns of not listening; and Recurrent patterns of focusing only on cognitive contents of messages and not on feelings. The research showed that adolescents have ineffective interpersonal communication patterns. Recommendations were made to facilitate adolescent interpersonal communication within an interpersonal communication skills approach.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1999

School and nursing service managers' ability to hold their own amidst daily demands.

Improving quality of life itself subsumes the experience, maintenance, and continuous enhancement of physical and psychological health. It is therefore important for the physical and psychological health of school and nursing service managers that they are able to hold their own successfully, both personally and professionally. Bearing this in mind, the question of the extent to which school and nursing service managers succeed in holding their own (coping) successfully remains. Does their profession (field of work) influence school and nursing service managers' personal beliefs, perceptions of their coping ability amidst daily demands and their use of different types of coping strategies. The purpose of this research project was to address these issues. An empirical investigation was undertaken with reference to a theoretical framework to assess school and nursing service managers' personal beliefs, perceptions of their coping ability amidst daily demands and the coping strategies they use. Consecutive factor analytical procedures, item analyses, Hotelling T2-tests and Student t-tests were conducted on the data. The results of the analyses indicated, inter alia, that nursing service managers and, especially school managers, do not quite perceive themselves capable enough to cope with interpersonal demands. School managers find it significantly more difficult than nursing service managers to cope with demands arising from professional and personal relationships.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

PubMed1998

One voice regarding the legalisation of abortion. Nurses who experience discomfort.

The legalisation of abortion has been implemented since February, 1997. No research has been conducted on the effects of abortion on nurses. The objectives of this project were: 1. to explore and describe nurses' experience of abortion, and 2. to describe guidelines to support nurses. A qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual research design was used. The research was conducted in two phases, i.e., the exploration of nurses' experience, and description of guidelines. Trustworthiness measures as well as ethical measures were applied. Five themes were identified from the result of the interviews with nurses: freedom of choice of nurses to provide support; negative perceptions regarding the women who requested the abortion and staff providing the abortion; need for information; turmoil regarding life versus death, and recommendations from nurses regarding the management of abortion. Guidelines to support nurses were deducted from the identified themes.

Abortion, Legal↗

PubMed1998

[The world of Hillbrow street children].

The street child that is driven by circumstances to live outside the supportive structure of the family, is on his own. He doesn't have the educational developmental opportunities that children who grow up in families and societies do. He finds himself in a unique educational and living environment. From an educational psychologist's point of view, this environment is abnormal. It is therefore a great challenge for the educational psychologist to try and avoid or resolve negative effects of the child's living environment. An exploratory-, descriptive-, contextual- and qualitative study was done, with the aim of gaining insight and understanding into the life of the street child in Hillbrow as well as his experiences of his situation. The results obtained from the interviews were placed in four categories. These categories are: The street child's continuous struggle to survive his need for a "normal child life", his inability to accept responsibility and the presence of a normative awareness within the street child. In conclusion it is clear that the experiential world of the street child is multi-facetted. In general it appears that the street child has many limitations and difficulties which he experiences, and that input by an educational psychologist can have meaningful influence in his life.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

PubMed1992

A differential analysis of time-use attitudes of high school students.

Time-use attitudes (TUA) of students contributes to our understanding of classroom behavior, but has received limited attention from investigators. This study empirically examined the major constructs or dimensions identified by other researchers (Baruch, Bruno, & Horn, 1987) of students' attitudes toward time use. Attention also was given to another dimension of TUA which has not previously been empirically explored, and to an analysis of differential developmental patterns of high school students. Three constructs of TUA were identified: passive fatalistic, egoistic, and conscientious. Several significant developmental patterns of TUA were found for males and females in Grades 8, 10, and 12.

Adolescent↗