Browsing by Author "Alemayehu, Natnael"

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    Integrating Religion and Spirituality into Clinical Practice: The Beliefs and Practices of Health Professionals’ in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-02) Alemayehu, Natnael; Jebessa, Firehiwot PhD
    This study has explored the beliefs and practices of health professionals on integrating religion and spirituality into clinical practice. It has aimed to analyze health professionals’ definitions of religion and spirituality, the ways in which they address religious and spiritual needs of their clients, their beliefs on whether religion and spirituality should be integrated and the challenges that they encounter in integrating religion and spirituality into clinical practice. To meet this objective, the study has utilized the qualitative description design which has helped generate a summarized description of participants’ experience on the matter. The health professionals who participated came from the fields of nursing, social work, psychology, psychiatry, and medicine with various specializations. The data was collected using a semi-structured in-depth interview and then using thematic analysis. Accordingly, the study has found that the health professionals define religion as an organized system of beliefs which involve specific doctrines, institutions, practices, and rituals. On the other hand, spirituality was defined in terms of personal adherence to one’s religion or aspects of life which relates to a person’s development in life, passions of pursuit, and ways in which people build relationships. The participants believe that religion and spirituality play an integral role in the individual’s well-being. Accordingly, it was found that they encourage their clients to use their religious beliefs and practices along with modern medical remedies. Fanaticism, sensitivity of the topic, and inclusivity were identified as factors which hinder the integration of religion and spirituality into clinical practices. The health professionals also reflected different opinions on issues such as provision of spiritual care, religion and spirituality in health education, and professional’s refusal of service based on religious reasons. The paper concludes by discussing the findings with existing literature and presenting their implications for social work practice, policy, research, and education. Keywords: Clinical Practice, Integrated Practice, Health care, Religion and Spirituality
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    Mobile Based Crowd sourcing for Agricultural Market Information
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-02) Alemayehu, Natnael; Libsie, Mulugeta (PhD)
    The availability of market information is vital for individuals and countries’ economic growth. By its nature market information is dynamic and its source is distributed among the public and must be communicated so that all stakeholders get access to it. In Ethiopia’s case, agricultural information, especially agro-market information, is important due to the fact that Ethiopia depends on agriculture. Sadly, there is an information gap between the various stakeholders, namely the farmer and the business man regarding market information. In order to overcome such problem, we have proposed and implemented a mobile based crowdsourcing system for agro market information. The aim of our proposed system is to process and provide aggregated and updated agricultural market price information which is provided by the crowd using SMS messaging that is available in Java based mobile phone devices. Our proposed system has five basic components which are: SMS Manager Component, Information Extraction component, Data analysis component, Crowd Management and Request Management component. As a means of evaluating the proposed architecture, we developed a prototype that implements the components of the proposed architecture. We also evaluated the implementation by testing sample SMS messages. Results from the evaluation showed that the proposed architecture can provide a mobile based crowdsourcing system for agro market information for low end mobile phone users with price aggregation performance of 72%. Key words: Crowdsourcing, Agricultural Market Information, Ontology, Information Extraction, Mobile Based Crowdsourcing
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    Mobile Based Crowd sourcing for Agricultural Market Information
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-02) Alemayehu, Natnael; Libsie, Mulugeta (PhD)
    The availability of market information is vital for individuals and countries’ economic growth. By its nature market information is dynamic and its source is distributed among the public and must be communicated so that all stakeholders get access to it. In Ethiopia’s case, agricultural information, especially agro-market information, is important due to the fact that Ethiopia depends on agriculture. Sadly, there is an information gap between the various stakeholders, namely the farmer and the business man regarding market information. In order to overcome such problem, we have proposed and implemented a mobile based crowdsourcing system for agro market information. The aim of our proposed system is to process and provide aggregated and updated agricultural market price information which is provided by the crowd using SMS messaging that is available in Java based mobile phone devices. Our proposed system has five basic components which are: SMS Manager Component, Information Extraction component, Data analysis component, Crowd Management and Request Management component. As a means of evaluating the proposed architecture, we developed a prototype that implements the components of the proposed architecture. We also evaluated the implementation by testing sample SMS messages. Results from the evaluation showed that the proposed architecture can provide a mobile based crowdsourcing system for agro market information for low end mobile phone users with price aggregation performance of 72%. Key words: Crowdsourcing, Agricultural Market Information, Ontology, Information Extraction, Mobile Based Crowdsourcing