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Location and Unlocation: Examining Gender and Telephony through Autoethnographic Textual and Visual Methods

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2013
Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use ...
Lia Bryant BSW, PhD in Sociology   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Harnessing Technology for Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Diary Study Protocol

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
Project Title: Psychosocial Reactions to a Global Pandemic: A Diary Study During COVID-19. Design: The study uses a mixed methods design that includes both a cross-sectional quantitative survey and qualitative diary entries submitted online eight times ...
L. Y. Saltzman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Engagement intervention versus treatment as usual for young adults with serious mental illness: a randomized pilot trial

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies, 2020
Background Young adults have elevated rates of mental health disorders, yet they often do not receive consistent care. The challenge of continuing to engage young adults has been pervasive worldwide.
Michelle R. Munson   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Work or Relief Work? A Crisis in Professional Social Work [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Change Review, 2015
Abstract Social work is a sharing and caring profession based on scientific methods. This problem solving profession makes people self-reliant and self-dependent when he/she is in any sorts of crises. Thus, it differs from relief work, social services or social welfare delivered during emergence crises.
openaire   +2 more sources

Trends in Deep Poverty from 1968 to 2011: The Influence of Family Structure, Employment Patterns, and the Safety Net

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2015
This paper examines the changing face of deep poverty in the United States over the past fifty years and the role of family structure, employment patterns, and governmental taxes and transfers in explaining these trends.
Liana Fox   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of immersive learning framework (ILF) in achieving the goals of higher education: measuring the impact using a pre–post design

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Emerging technological tools like Artificial Intelligence-based Chatbots, digital educational alternatives and market-driven educational systems pose a challenge to the fundamental aim of the higher education system; comprehensive education for well ...
Saju Madavanakadu Devassy   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The burdens and management of casual street gangsterism from the police experience in Ethiopia

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2022
There is no consensus and common ground among scholars toward defining the concept of gangsterism. The type and nature of the so-called gang groups are also stated differently in the existing literature.
Wubshet Hailu Fufa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intermediary/purveyor organizations for evidence-based interventions in the US child mental health: characteristics and implementation strategies

open access: yesImplementation Science, 2019
Background Many psychosocial interventions are disseminated and supported by organizations, termed “Intermediary/Purveyor Organizations” (IPOs). Because IPOs remain largely unstudied, we lack understanding of their scale and the strategies they utilize ...
Enola Proctor   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Revisit to COVID-19 Challenges and Responses: A Case Study of Kerala

open access: yesSpace and Culture, India, 2020
Kerala, a state with high development indices distinguished with its Kerala Model of Development (UN, 1975), is also affected by recent Pandemic COVID'19 as other states and nations worldwide.
Norvy Paul   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health‐Related Social Needs in Children With Sickle Cell Disease Are Associated With Worse Health‐Related Quality of Life

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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