Family planning policy and gender in Nigeria: A thematic analysis of the government's health policy perspective.

Family Planning (FP) lets people control the number and timing of child-births through using contraceptives and/or restoring fertility. Nigeria has several FP policies for managing its population, yet contraceptives usage remains suboptimal despite high FP awareness, suggesting that several factors might be inhibiting FP uptake. The literature spotlights gender as factoring into FP use due to Nigeria's patriarchal society, with men positioned as gatekeepers to women's sexual/reproductive health/expression.

Designing Well-Being: A Qualitative Investigation of Young Patients' Perspectives on the Material Hospital Environment.

Background: Physical surroundings of healthcare facilities are suggested to influence young patients' well-being and hospitalization experiences.

Purpose: The current research seeks to understand young patients' views and perspectives of the hospital lobby and inpatient rooms. Thus, a qualitative study was carried out in a social pediatric clinic for young patients with disabilities, developmental delays, behavioral problems, and chronic health conditions, that is undergoing reconstruction.

A press(ing) issue: analysing local news coverage of abortion in the US South during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, some US state governments banned abortion due to its allegedly 'elective' nature. While these actions were successfully challenged in courts, discussion about the topic may have shaped personal and public opinion. This study aimed to explore the framing of abortion in local newspapers during the onset of the pandemic.

"I Don't Want to Have Sex as a Woman": A Qualitative Study Exploring Sexuality and Sexual Practices of Drag Queens in Germany.

Drag queens are typically gay men who perform as caricature-like women. They thereby publicly challenge "naturally" binary gender role categories, though it remains unclear how that interplays with their private (e.g.

Ethical and practical challenges of conducting art-based research with children/young people in the public space of a children's outpatient department.

This article examines the ethical and practical challenges of undertaking a study using art-based methods with children/young people. It is argued that an important component of qualitative research and research with children/young people is researcher reflexivity and flexibility, particularly when the anticipated and actual implemented methods of a study differ. We draw on a study with 175 children/young people aged 5-16 years in a children's outpatients department where 'draw-and-tell' and 'letter writing' were used to elicit children/young people's perceptions of the outpatient environment.

Participatory art-based research with children to gain their perspectives on designing healthcare environments.

Background: A study was designed to understand the experiences and needs of children within the public spaces of the Outpatients Department of New Zealand's national children's hospital, Starship Childrens' Directorate.

Aim: To find out from children what they thought about the outpatient environment.

Design: A participatory art based methodology was used.