Intervention strategies to promote health-seeking behaviour among men in rural villages of selected Districts in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
type: CreativeWork
description: Background: In many societies, few men utilise the available health care service and those who seek care are likely to discontinue care before completing treatment. Men’s utilisation of health services remains low and tests for Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have even lower number, compared to women. They spend a long duration infected by untreated diseases such as STIs and have an increased chance of HIV infection, become severely ill, and die from the diseases. South Africa is among the countries where men utilise health care services at a lower number compared to women. Aim: This study sought to develop intervention strategies to promote health-seeking behaviour among men in rural villages of selected Districts in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The objectives were to: Describe Behavioural, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental factors that contribute to men’s poor health-seeking behaviour; Explore health system factors that contribute to low utilisation of health services and poor health-seeking behaviour; Describe the views of men on their health; Explore strategies that may encourage men to utilise health services; Assess knowledge of men on their health and determine their attitude towards public health care services; Validate the developed strategies. Methods: This study was conducted in multiphase. In the first phase, A systematic review was conducted. The second phase focused on convergent parallel mixed methods design comprising both qualitative and quantitative methods. The findings from both qualitative and quantitative were then merged side by side. Purposively selected participants for the qualitative strand were interviewed using both individual interviews and focus group discussions based on their categories. Randomly selected participants for the quantitative strand were given a self-administered questionnaire to complete to collect data from them. The qualitative data was analysed using Tesch’s eight steps, while the Statistical Package …
abstract: Background: In many societies, few men utilise the available health care service and those who seek care are likely to discontinue care before completing treatment. Men’s utilisation of health services remains low and tests for Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have even lower number, compared to women. They spend a long duration infected by untreated diseases such as STIs and have an increased chance of HIV infection, become severely ill, and die from the diseases. South Africa is among the countries where men utilise health care services at a lower number compared to women. Aim: This study sought to develop intervention strategies to promote health-seeking behaviour among men in rural villages of selected Districts in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The objectives were to: Describe Behavioural, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental factors that contribute to men’s poor health-seeking behaviour; Explore health system factors that contribute to low utilisation of health services and poor health-seeking behaviour; Describe the views of men on their health; Explore strategies that may encourage men to utilise health services; Assess knowledge of men on their health and determine their attitude towards public health care services; Validate the developed strategies. Methods: This study was conducted in multiphase. In the first phase, A systematic review was conducted. The second phase focused on convergent parallel mixed methods design comprising both qualitative and quantitative methods. The findings from both qualitative and quantitative were then merged side by side. Purposively selected participants for the qualitative strand were interviewed using both individual interviews and focus group discussions based on their categories. Randomly selected participants for the quantitative strand were given a self-administered questionnaire to complete to collect data from them. The qualitative data was analysed using Tesch’s eight steps, while the Statistical Package …
author: Chavalala, Lazarros
language: en
keywords: Health care, Health-seeking behaviour, Intervention, Limpopo, SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Psychology::Environmental psychology, Strategies, UCTD
date published: 2025-09-05
date modified: 2026-07-27T21:57:28Z
provider: University of Venda
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Venda