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The pleasure, joy and positive emotional experiences of abortion accompaniment after 17 weeks' gestation
Cult Health Sex. 2023 Dec 6:1-16. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2023.2287720. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTResearch documents how abortion can be emotionally difficult and stigmatising, but generally has not considered whether and how involvement in abortion may be a source of positive emotions, including pleasure, belonging and even joy. The absence of explorations that start from the possibility of abortion pleasure and joy represents an epistemic foreclosure. Moreover, it highlights how social science literature has tended to emphasise the negative aspects of abortion care in ways that produce or amplify normative negative ass...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - December 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Katrina Kimport Julia McReynolds-P érez Chiara Bercu Carolina Cisternas Emily Wilkinson Salamea Ruth Zurbriggen Heidi Moseson Source Type: research

Self-Efficacy of the Community Health Agent, Importance of Motivation and Empowerment
CONCLUSION: This study suggests that to improve the self-efficacy of the work of community health agents, it is necessary to intervene through strategies that keep them motivated in the exercise of their mediation work between the community and health institutions. Likewise, empowering them would contribute to self-efficacy and thus help in the fulfillment of the functions of health agents.PMID:38041396 | DOI:10.1177/21501319231213771 (Source: Primary Care)
Source: Primary Care - December 2, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Evelym N úñez Cabrera Mayela Cajachagua Castro Salom ón Huancahuire-Vega Source Type: research

Self-Efficacy of the Community Health Agent, Importance of Motivation and Empowerment
CONCLUSION: This study suggests that to improve the self-efficacy of the work of community health agents, it is necessary to intervene through strategies that keep them motivated in the exercise of their mediation work between the community and health institutions. Likewise, empowering them would contribute to self-efficacy and thus help in the fulfillment of the functions of health agents.PMID:38041396 | PMC:PMC10693804 | DOI:10.1177/21501319231213771 (Source: Primary Care)
Source: Primary Care - December 2, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Evelym N úñez Cabrera Mayela Cajachagua Castro Salom ón Huancahuire-Vega Source Type: research