Using the Socio-Ecological Model as an Holistic Approach to Behavioural Change

Veer, Ekant; Golf-Papez, Maja; Zahrai, Kseniia

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“…Limited evidence exists on its impact on businesses in developing economies, including Sub-Saharan Africa. These impacts, therefore, call for a framework which enables us to understand and explore how the impacts of COVID-19 manifest across different levels (Bogardus et al, 2019;Veer et al, 2019). In that light, we adopted and utilised McLeroy et al's (1988) socioecological model (SEM), which provides a multi-level approach to health promotion research and practice, to guide the review of existing studies in this section (see Figure 1).…”

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Global pandemic and business performance

Omodara

Ikhile

Ogundana

et al. 2020

IJRBS

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The COVID-19 pandemic is anticipated to continue to the year 2022 and could lead to several business failures if entrepreneurs do not respond adequately. Thus, the purpose of this study is to introduce a framework that captures the impacts and potential responses to the ongoing pandemic. To do that, we conducted telephone interviews with ten entrepreneurs who operate enterprises within Nigeria. Data collected for analysis were transcribed, chronologically arranged, coded, and thematically analyzed using NVivo. Our findings revealed that, during the pandemic, businesses experienced limited opening hours, a decline in their clients' patronage, lower turnover, and employee demotivation. In response, business owners should consider re-strategizing their business activities, maintaining connections with clients, and exploiting available support measures. Our findings have profound theoretical and practical implications. For entrepreneurs and policymakers, they offer insights into the form of challenges confronting businesses during a pandemic. It also provides response activities that entrepreneurs could adopt to mitigate the impact of an epidemic on their enterprises’ performance. For the field of entrepreneurship, it advances the need to integrate public health (health-related issues) into entrepreneurship study and consider its multiple levels of influence on the performance of businesses.

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Global pandemic and business performance

Omodara

Ikhile

Ogundana

et al. 2020

IJRBS

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“…Because we assessed norms toward sexual and reproductive health, methods to change social influence, such as resistance to social pressure and mobilizing social support (Table 6, Kok et al, 2016 ); methods to change social norms, such as mass media role modeling and mobilizing social networks (Table 10, Kok et al, 2016 ), and methods to change communities, such as community development and social action (Table 13, Kok et al, 2016 ) are suggested. Intervening not only at the individual level, but also interpersonal, community, and policy levels would increase the chances of success, as individual behaviors are embedded within a wider context ( Veer et al, 2020 ). Goldmann et al (2019) provide examples of social norms programs on violence against women prevention and HIV at each level of the ecological model (see their Figure 1, p. 54).…”

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Sexual and Reproductive Health: How Can Situational Judgment Tests Help Assess the Norm and Identify Target Groups? A Field Study in Sierra Leone

Moussaoui

Law

Claxton³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Sexual and reproductive health is a challenge worldwide, and much progress is needed to reach the relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals. This paper presents cross-sectional data collected in Sierra Leone on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), family planning (FP), child, early and forced marriage (CEFM), and female genital mutilation (FGM) using an innovative method of measurement: situational judgment tests (SJTs), as a subset of questions within a larger survey tool. For the SJTs, respondents saw hypothetical scenarios on these themes and had to indicate how they would react. The objective is to give an impression of beliefs and norms on specific behaviors, which provide insights for social and behavior change interventions. Data was collected by enumerators traveling to villages randomly selected in six districts of the country. The sample is composed of 566 respondents. Results show that FGM in particular seem to be a priority topic, in comparison to the other topics for which the norms seem to be stronger against those practices. Age differences emerged and suggest priority groups to be targeted (e.g., on the topic of female genital mutilation, younger female respondents, and older male respondents gave the lowest coded responses which reflected to less appropriate behavior in our coding). In terms of validity of the measurement methods, situational judgment test answers correlated positively with other items in the survey, but the magnitude of the association is often small, and sometimes not significant. Thus, more studies are needed to further explore the validity of this measure by comparing against a reference value. Using SJTs could complement other data collection tools to perform community assessment, and orient the direction of the program in its planning phase.

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Reimaging Academics’ Participation in Quality Enhancement in the Era of Technological Change

Kwok

Chan

et al. 2023

Lecture Notes in Educational Technology

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Using the Socio-Ecological Model as an Holistic Approach to Behavioural Change

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Global pandemic and business performance

Global pandemic and business performance

Sexual and Reproductive Health: How Can Situational Judgment Tests Help Assess the Norm and Identify Target Groups? A Field Study in Sierra Leone

Reimaging Academics’ Participation in Quality Enhancement in the Era of Technological Change

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