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- ItemRelationship Between WhatsApp Use and WhatsApp Use Anxiety Among Students in Mixed Day Secondary Schools – Kamenu Ward Thika, Kenya(IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science, 2024-09-24) Jacinta Mary OndengWhatsApp is a platform where interactions take place among people, information is conveyed and socialization occurs with the help of the WhatsApp application. This study investigated the relationship between WhatsApp use and WhatsApp use anxiety among student in Mixed Day Secondary Schools in Kamenu ward Thika, Kenya. The study utilized three objectives which were; to examine what extent are WhatsApp use levels among students, to measure the levels of WhatsApp use anxiety among students, and to establish the relationship between WhatsApp use and WhatsApp use anxiety among students in Mixed Day Secondary Schools in Kamenu ward Thika, Kenya. The study was informed by Cognitive Behavior Theory and Use and Gratification Theory. A correlation survey design was employed. The sample size was 328 calculated using the Krejcie and Morgan formula. The students were ages between 14-20 years. Data was collected using WhatsApp Use Scale and WhatsApp Use Anxiety Scale. The Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences version 26 was used to conduct the analysis. Data was analysed using descriptive (frequency and percentages) and inferential statistics (the Pearson’s product moment). Findings revealed that 83.2% of the students scored high level of WhatsApp use, while 0.3 % in Mixed Day Secondary Schools in Kamenu ward Thika Kenya, had low level of WhatsApp Usage. It was also found that 80.8% of students reported severe WhatsApp Use anxiety and 2.1% had moderate level of WhatsApp Use anxiety. The study established that there was a significant relationship between WhatsApp Use and WhatsApp Use Anxiety among students in mixed day secondary schools in Kamenu ward Thika, Kenya (r = .369**; P = .000, ≤ 0.05). The study recommended that the school administration in mixed day secondary schools to place stringent strategies to stop use of phones in schools and educate students on positive use of WhatsApp. There is need to engage psychological counselling to help curb the excessive use of WhatsApp on phones. This will facilitate more effective strategy in helping the students on the use of WhatsApp that may not be pathological.
- ItemWomen Offenders in Kenya: Addressing the Psychological Needs Towards Effective Rehabilitation(International Journal of Social and Development Concerns, 2025-02-01) Jacinta Mary OndengWomen offenders unique psychological needs explaining their offending behaviors. Understanding their needs ensures effective rehabilitation. This study sought to find out the psychological needs of women prisoners in Kenya. Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) Model for Offender Rehabilitation and Relational Theory of Women’s Psychological Development informed the study. The study adopted cross-sectional and descriptive research designs, employing mixed concurrent triangulation method of data collection. The target population included all convicted women within the 17 prisons in Kenya. A sample of 350 women participated in the study. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics method while textual thematic analysis was used for qualitative data. The study revealed that majority of women offenders’ criminal behaviors was influenced by: histories of physical abuse- 46.8% in childhood and 51.3% in adulthood; post-traumatic stress disorder indicated 78.95%. Parental distress due to financial constraint was 62.6% and 87% were constantly worried about their children’s future. Understanding these needs influence effective rehabilitation.
- ItemGender Responsive Programming Towards the Promotion of Women’s Mental Well-being(Archives of Women Health and Care, 2023-10-10) Jacinta Mary OndengThe world of health policy and public health considers the health of women an important topic of focus, and in most cases links the well-being of women to that of children and the family, and, legitimately, to the health of society overall. Moreover over the emphasis is more given to maternal and child health. This perspective is true and well-founded given that women's health is well documented to promotion of the general health of family and everyone in society. The researcher, however notes the otherwise limitation in promoting the general wellbeing of women across the divides in the society. Women offenders fall among the special population groups in our society with dire need for attention towards their overall well-being. Unfortunately, very few studies have focused on who they are and reasons for their incarceration. In fact, the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model of offender rehabilitation [1] that has dominated rehabilitation programs globally in the last two decades provides the impression that reasons for criminality in women offenders are similar to those of their male counterparts, but the limited studies on incarceration of women has noted the assumption as erroneous. Thus, globally, the focus of rehabilitation programs for women offenders has often mirrored that of male offenders [2,3].
- ItemGender-Responsive Programing in Kenya: Time is Ripe(Women & Criminal Justice, 2020-09-29) Jacinta Mary OndengGlobally, gender responsive programming has become a concern for researchers and practitioners alike. Such programs address issues that may hinder offenders’ reentry. This study sought to determine the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs that address the psychological needs of women prisoners in Kenya. The relational theory of women’s psychological development and the Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) model were used to analyze inmate programs in Kenya’s 17 women’s prisons. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 350 participants within the prisons to ask about the programs offered. We found that there is a lack of gender responsive programming in Kenya’s women’s prison, and the rehabilitation programs that are offered within the Kenyan prison system are not effectively addressing women offenders’ unique psychological needs, which contributed to their criminal behaviors.
- ItemOwnership of Health Data as the new Frontier for the Future of VODAN-Africa(Journal of HyoJeong Academia, 2024) Reginald Nalugala; Mirjam Van ReisenThe Covid19 situation created a state of unequal use of data to produce vaccines. Africa was not in control over sovereign decision-making relating to the health of its citi-zens and to access of the data pertaining to it. The available digital architecture in Africa health facilities allowed data to be siphoned to Europe and the US at will. The purpose of the research is to argue why medical data once created should be held in ownership of the facility where the data is produced under the regulatory framework of the county and national state jurisdiction. This is referred as data that is Findable, Accessible (under well-defined conditions) Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). The study inventories the addi-tional benefits of FAIR data for health purposes as means to assist Africa generate (self-)employment benefits to many unemployed youths based on the value that data holds in the digital economy. The study was carried out using a case study approach with four health facilities in Kenya, to help identify the contribution of the FAIR data concept to producing a sustainable outcome for health data management in Kenya. The paper dis-cussed the potential challenges which should be overcome to realize the full potential of FAIR data for a sovereign management of the health data in Kenya. Health data remained as an asset for the health facility for providing improved health at point of care. The find-ings show digital health data has an economic value and health benefit if well managed at point of production.