Identifying problems in community health promotion: An illustration of the Nominal Group Technique in AIDS education

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 143-148

  Maclachlan, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BELIEFS; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EDUCATION; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIV INFECTIONS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; MALAWI; MARKETING; MISINFORMATION; PROMOTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SUMMARY REPORT; VIRAL DISEASES;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE;

EID: 0029941497     PISSN: 14664240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146642409611600303     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Aids Secretariat, Ministry Of Health (1991 ). AIDS: A Christian Response. Balaka, Malawi: Montfort Missionaries
2. Albee G. W (1989). Primary prevention in public health: problems and challenges of behaviour change as prevention. In: Primary Prevention of AIDS: Psychological Approaches (V M Mays, G W Albee and S F Schneider, eds) Newbury Park: Sage Publications
3. Chimombo M. and MacLachlan M. (1992). AIDS and Sex Related Education Through Active Learning. Malawi: University of Malawi
4. Delbeca A. and Van De Ven A. (1971). A group-processing model for problem-identification and programme-planning. Journal of Applied Behavioural Science; 7, 466-491
5. Folch-Lyon E. and Trost J.F. (1981). Conducting focus group sessions. Studies in Family Planning; 12, 443-449
6. Hovland C., Lumsdaine A. and Sheffield F. (1949). Experiments on Mass Communication. Princeton, New Jersey: Priceton University Press
7. Irwin K., Bertrand J., Mimbandumba N. et al. (1991). Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about HIV and AIDS among healthy factory workers and their wives, Kinshasa, Zaire. Social Science and Medicine; 32, 917-930
8. Kiesler C.A. (1971). The Psychology of Commitment. New York; Academic Press
9. McGuire W. J (1964). Inducing resistance to persuasion: Some contemporary approaches. In: Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vo1ume I) (L Berkowitz, ed) New York: Academic Press
10. McGuire W. J (1985). Attitudes and attitude change. In: Handbook of Social Psychology (Vo1ume II) (G Lindzey and E Aronson, eds) New York: Random House
11. Nyirenda D.M.C. and JERE D R (1991). An Evaluation Report for AIDS Education Materials: Malawi AIDS Education for Schools. Domasi, Malawi: Malawi Institute of Education,
12. Regan D.T. and Fazio R. (1977). On the consistency between attitudes and behaviour: Look to the method of attitude formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; 13, 28-45
13. Scott D. and Deadrick D. (1982). The Nominal Group Technique: Applications for training needs assessment. Training and Development Journal; 36 (6), 26 -33
14. Southern African Economist (1992). The high cost of AIDS. Southern African Economist; 5(2), 14-17
15. Taffinder P.A. and Viedge C. (1987). The Nominal Group Technique in management training. Industrial and Commercial Training; July/August, 16-20
16. Taylor D.W., Berry P.C. and Block C.H. (1985). Does group participation when using brainstorming facilitate or inhibit creative thinking? Administrative Science Quarterly; 3, 23-47
17. Walton R.E. (1985). From control to commitment in the workplace. Harvard Business Review; March -April, 77-84
18. World Health ORGANISATION (1992). The economics of AIDS. The Newsletter of the World Health Organisation Global Programme on AIDS; 2, 13
19. World Vision (1991). Update on AIDS. World Vision Interoffice Memo, 9 November