A wellness programme for mothers living in a high-risk community in the Western Cape to promote their personal and parental competencies
| dc.contributor.advisor | Naidoo, Anthony V. | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Van Schalkwyk, Izanette | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.other | Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Psychology. | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-23T14:25:06Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-31T19:39:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-23T14:25:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-01-31T19:39:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-12 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch, 2020. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research aimed to design, implement and evaluate a wellness programme for mothers living in a high-risk community in the Western Cape to promote their personal and parental strengths via participatory action research. Parenting programmes have gained more general interest in the 21stcentury due to an increasing trend to look at parenting and childrearing practices as the solution for extant social problems. In planning to develop a parenting programme for mothers in a particular community, called Delft, a contextual understanding of structural conditions was evident. Recent statistics have shown that most South African children are living and growing up in single-parent households with mainly mothers/grandmothers/aunts as heads of households. Hence the mental health and functioning of mothers (female caregivers), in particular, are important objectives for parenting programmes in the South African context. The need for the development and evaluation of a wellness programme for mothers in Delft was based onexisting SA research. While parenting programmes are implemented widely in high income countries, there is scant evidence of the application of such programmes in developing countries in Africa. The World Health Organisation has recommended parenting interventions among the key strategies for violence reduction within the family in low-and-middle income countries. South African researchers proposedthat contextual information should be used progressively to enhance structural, personal and programmatic facilitators and to mitigate possible barriers to the intervention programme. Community Psychology endorses the praxis of methods/techniques associated with participatory action research. A case-study design was used and contextual data were collected via a multi-methods participatory approach, which involved: a photo-voice technique where mother participants provided information about the external assets/resources and the needs of the various areas of the high-risk community; a retrospective timeline exercise; and, a wilderness experience to offer mothers the opportunity to reflecton their personal journey. Contextual information was also collected by means of a focus group discussion where social worker participants took part to provide local knowledge to compile the wellness programme. The development and implementation of the Power Moms Wellness Programme (PMWP) took place in Delft, a high-risk community east of Cape Town International Airport. Evaluating the impact of the PMWP included both process evaluation and outcomes evaluation utilising quantitative measures and qualitative processes, based on the written feedback of the mother participants’ experiences of the PMWP.Findings showed the significance to combine local knowledge with academically derived data, in compiling the content of the PMWP to construct an emic, context-specific programme. Process evaluation expanded the success of participatory action research practices and offered keys for programme feasibility, implementation, and participant engagement. Quantitative outcomes indicated participant satisfaction in terms of high attendance and involvement which were supported by qualitative findings revealing those “active ingredients” contributing to positive programme outcomes. Recursive interaction processes with the participants revealed those best practices categorised as structural, personal and programmatic factors. A key finding is the necessity of including specific content about personal wellness for mothers in Delft showing that improved mothering in this context is built upon “mattering” and its mechanisms of personal dignity. Overall, the integration of the findings also demonstrated the continual contribution toward the transformation of a community; and, the value of each step for the participants. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsing het ten doel gehad om ‘n welstandsprogram te ontwerp, implimenteer en te evalueer vir moeders wat in ‘n hoë-risiko gemeenskap in die Wes-Kaap woon om hul persoonlike en ouerlike sterkpunte te bevorder deur middel van deelnemende aksienavorsing. Belangstelling in ouerskapsprogramme het in die 21ste eeu toegeneem weens die groeiende neiging om ouerskap en ouerskapspraktyke as die oplossing vir bestaande sosiale probleme te beskou. Die beplanning van ‘n ouerskapsprogram vir moeders in ‘n spesifieke gemeenskap genaamd Delft, het ‘n kontekstuele verstaan van strukturele toestande vereis. Onlangse statistiek het getoon dat meeste Suid-Afrikaanse kinders leef met en grootword in enkel-ouer huishoudings met hoofsaaklik moeders/grootmoeders/tantes as hoof van die huishoudings. Gevolglik isdie geestesgesondheid en funksionering van veral moeders (vroulike versorgers) belangrike doelwitte vir ouerskapsprogramme in die Suid-Afrikaase konteks. Die behoefte vir die ontwikkeling en evaluering van ‘n welstandsprogram vir moeders in Delft is gebaseer op bestaande Suid-Afrikaanse navorsing. Terwyl ouerskapsprogramme algemeen gebruik word in hoë-inkomste lande is daar min navorsingstudies van die gebruik van sulke programme in ontwikkelende Afrika-lande. Die Wêreld Gesondheidsorganisasie het intervensies vir ouers in lae-en middel-inkomste lande aanbeveel as een van die belangrike strategieë om gesinsgeweld te verminder. Suid-Afrikaanse navorsers beveel aan datkontekstuele inligting progressief gebruik moet word om strukturele-, persoonlike-en program-fasiliteerders uit te bou en om moontlike struikelblokke vir intervensie-programme te verminder. Gemeenskapsielkunde akkommodeer die gebruik van metodes en tegnieke van Deelnemende Aksienavorsing. ‘n Gevalle-studie ontwerp is gebruik en kontekstuele data in ingesamel deur middel van ‘n multi-metode deelnemende benadering: ‘n foto-stem (“photo-voice”) tegniek waar moeder deelnemers inligting gegee het van eksterne hulpbronne en die behoeftes van die verskeie areas van die hoë-risiko gemeenskap; ‘n retro-spektiewe tydslyn oefening; en, ‘n wildernis-ervaring om moeders die geleentheid te gee om te reflekteer oor hul persoonlike reis. Kontekstuele inligting is ook ingesamel deur ‘n fokusgroep-bespreking waaraan maatskaplike werkers deelgeneem het om plaaslike kennis te verkry vir die samestelling van die welstandsprogram.Die ontwikkeling en implementeringvan die “Power Moms Wellness Programme” (PMWP) het plaasgevind in Delft -‘n hoe-risiko gemeenskap oos van die Kaapstad Internasionale lughawe. Die evaluering van die impak van die program (PMWP) het beide proses-en uitkomste evaluering ingesluit, naamlik kwantitatiewe meet-instrumente en kwalitatiewe prosesse -gebaseer op die geskrewe terugvoering van moeder deelnemers se belewings van die program (PMWP). Bevindings het die belangrikheid getoon om lokale kennis te kombineer met akademiese afgeleide gegewens in die samestelling van die inhoud van die PMWP om ‘n emiese, konteks-spesifieke program op te stel. Prosesevaluering het die sukses van deelnemende aksienavorsingspraktyke uitgebrei en sleutels gebied vir die uitvoerbaarheid van die program; implementering en deelname-betrokkenheid. Kwantitatiewe uitkomste het die deelnemers se tevredenheid ten opsigte van hoë bywoning en betrokkenheid aangedui en dit is ondersteun is deur kwalitatiewe bevindings wat die “aktiewe bestanddele” getoon het wat tot die positiewe programuitkomste bygedra het. Rekursiewe interaksieprosesse met die deelnemers het die beste praktyke onthul wat as strukturele, persoonlike en programmatiese faktore gekategoriseer is. ‘n Belangrike bevinding is die noodsaaklikheid om spesifieke inhoud oor persoonlike welstand vir moeders in Delft in te sluit, wat toon dat verbeterde moederskap in hierdie konteks gebou is op “saakmaak” en die meganismes van persoonlike waardigheid. Oor die algemeen het die integrasie van die bevindings ook die voortdurende proses tot transformasie van ‘n gemeenskap gedemonstreer; en, die waarde van elke stap vir die deelnemers. | af_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Doctoral | en_ZA |
| dc.format.extent | 387 pages | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/109210 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Stellenbosch University | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Wellness Programs | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Parenthood | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Mothers and children | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | High Risk Community | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Western Cape, Cape Town | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | UCTD | en_ZA |
| dc.title | A wellness programme for mothers living in a high-risk community in the Western Cape to promote their personal and parental competencies | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |