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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Peer Education"”.
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A theory evaluation of a peer education programme.
Peer education is a popular strategy to promote positive behaviour among youths. Peer education programmes are usually influenced by either the cognitive behaviour or the structural approach. The cognitive behaviour approach views behaviour change as an individualistic decision that is influenced …
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An implementation evaluation of a peer education programme
… evaluation was to assess the implementation of peer education programme, in order to recommend areas of improvement for future implementation. As a response to problems associated with high-risk behaviours and HIV prevalence amongst young people in Sub Saharan Africa, the Generation of Leaders …
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Peer Education: Building Community Through Playback Theatre Action Methods
The primary purpose of this study was to use some of the action methods of playback theatre to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge through the experience of building community. The impact of action methods on group dynamics and the relationship among methods, individual perceptions, and the …
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Evaluation of an HIV peer education programme in the workplace
… South African retail company, implemented an HIV peer education programme for its employees. The broad aim of the programme is to reduce the HIV infection rate among staff by providing educational material on safe sexual practices, discussing various issues connected to HIV such as sexuality and …
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Peer education and its effects on the beliefs of rape myths
… rape victims, and rapists, perpetuate rape. Peer education may play a beneficial part in teaching students about rape, and is the primary focus of this study. The hypothesis of this study was that the rape myth prevention intervention would reduce the beliefs in myths about rape. The …
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Development of peer education with deaf sign language teachers in Jordan
In this thesis will explore the notion of peer education and sign language teachers in Jordan, to see if the prospective peer platform can be easily formed or there are challenges facing the Jordanian sign language teachers. Teaching sign language has been of an important concept in expanding pools …
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Getting into Character: Cultivating Identities in a Teen-theatre Peer-education Program
… program, known as The SOURCE, focuses on sex-education through a peer-education model. The experiences of young adults, who are now aged 18-34, were examined through interviews (N=20), identity maps (N=9), and a survey (N=64) in order to understand how participation in this group influenced …
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The effect of peer education on learning and performing athletic training psychomotor skills
… the effectiveness of an intentional, formal peer education program on the performance of psychomotor skills of 22 undergraduate students enrolled in an upper extremity assessment course. Using a randomized pretest-posttest control group design, student performance on a practical exam of …
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Culinary skills: Immediate and intermediate impacts of a peer-education intervention for adolescents
… meals and indirectly youth culinary skills education. While youth culinary skills education has been emphasized as an important component of nutrition education, the intermediate- and long-term follow-up to support such claims is lacking. The aim of the culinary skills lessons was to …
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A description of peer education programs in public institutions of higher education in Virginia
… of this research was to determine the status of peer education programs in state-supported institutions in Virginia. The result of this research was to provide base-line data relative to peer education programs in colleges in Virginia. Survey research methodology, specifically interview by …
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Community-Based Education through a Paraprofessional Model: An Experiential Learning Perspective of Peer Education
In community-based peer education models, it is necessary to understand the relationship between learning, context and paraprofessional identity construction. Social relations are important in community education program implementation (Merriam, Caffarella, & Baumgartner, 2007); impacting power …
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Promoting psychosocial health and empowerment among female sex workers in Nepal: a pilot peer education intervention
… The present study involved the pilot test of a peer education intervention in collaboration with a non-governmental organization (NGO) to empower and promote the psychosocial and occupational health of WES in Kathmandu, Nepal. Ten WES were trained as peer educators (PEs) and, through formal and …
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Critical theory, adult learning and‘xenophobia’: a critical perspective on Umoja wa Afrika’s human rights peer education programme
… and the subsequent development of popular educational responses to this. As part of popular educational responses, adult education programmes have assumed an important role in changing people’s attitudes. This long research paper presents a critical analysis of how a human rights and …
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An evaluation of the Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust's Birds and Bees peer education programme in Khayalitsha
… and Bees programme. The Birds and Bees is a peer education programme that aims to create safer schools by decreasing incidents of sexual violence in schools and increasing the reporting of sexual violence. The programme in its current form has been implemented in high schools in Khayelitsha …
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“You are making a difference” : effects of peer-to-peer education on self-esteem of peer-to-peer educators
Aim of this study was to examine effect of peer-to-peer education on self-esteem and on other characteristics of the young people that got a summer job as peer-to-peer educators. The study was both qualitative and quantitative. Participants in both the quantitative (N=16) and qualitative (N=7) were …
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The Role of Peer Education Programme in Creating Youth Awareness on Sexual Matters: The Case of Buguruni Ward, Ilala Municipality
… was carried out to examine and asses the role of peer education among youths in managing and shaping their sexual behavior. The study further looks into the weaknesses and strengths in the peer education framework in Tanzania. The study employed case study design, which provided the opportunity …
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Sex educator or change agent? Experiences of a sex(uality) peer education programme in an era of HIV and AIDS
Despite the popularity of sex(uality) peer education as an HIV prevention strategy within diverse contexts, an understanding of the experiences of those intimately placed within these programmes is limited. Instead, the majority of research in this field relies on hegemonic notions of rational …
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Development and Formative Implementation of a Nutrition Assessment and Peer Education Program Based on Dietary Analysis at a California State University
… Dietary interventions that provide credible education based on readiness to change behaviors and goal setting have been successful in increasing awareness of what healthy eating behaviors are and changing existing behaviors over time (Ammerman et al., 2002; Evans & Sawyer-Morse, 2002; Gambera …
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The role of peer education in the prevention of HIV and AIDS amongst the youths with disabilities in selected schools/units of Mansa, Zambia.
… endeavoured to establish the importance of peer education in the prevention of HIV and AIDS among the physically impaired learners. It was conducted in four special schools in Mansa of Luapula Province of Zambia. The study used simple random sampling and purposive (typical case) sampling …
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