Lonzozou Kpanake
Biographic Data
| ID | 148222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lonzozou Kpanake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lonzozou |
| FAMILY NAME | Kpanake |
| SIGNATURE | KPANAKE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université TÉLUQ |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7002-365X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Predictors of social integration of new immigrants in France: Data-driven approach and machine learning analyses
Background Personal characteristics, income, social capital, and immigration policies influence immigrants’ social integration (SI) in European Union (EU) countries. However, few studies have used machine learning (ML) to examine simultaneously the predicting significance of large number of variables (93 in total). Objectives The present study aimed at, first, assessing the level of SI in a random sample of non-EU new immigrants legally living in…
Mapping Colombians’ positions on national policies to control tobacco and marijuana consumption: A pilot study
BACKGROUND: Public authorities use a variety of control policies, with varying degrees of severity, to reduce the prevalence of health-damaging habits. Since these policies can only succeed if people understand and approve of them, this study mapped Colombians' positions on policies to control tobacco and marijuana consumption. METHOD: A sample of 147 adults was presented with 32 vignettes illustrating a control policy. Each vignette contained fo…
Development of the forgiveness schema among young children and adolescents: A multinational comparison
Few studies on the development of forgiveness involved young children and adolescents, and very few involved samples from non-western countries. This study focused on the development of willingness to forgive a particular transgression in participants aged 4 to 12 years and from two different cultures: a South African culture (Mozambique) and a Western European culture (France). Overall, 153 pupils from Mozambique and 107 pupils from France were …
Why Patients in Uruguay Agree to Take or Refuse to Take Antibiotics? An Inventory of Motives
Objectives: We explored the motives for why patients in Uruguay take or refuse to take antibiotic drugs. Methods: We had 350 adults complete a 60-item questionnaire with statements referring to reasons for which the person had taken antibiotics in the past, and a 70-item questionnaire with reasons for which the person had sometimes refused to take antibiotics. Results: We found a 4-factor structure of motives for taking antibiotics: Appropriate P…
Patients’ Positions on the Degree of Trust to be Placed in Physicians
Patient-physician relationship is ideally based on mutual trust. Trust usually takes times to build but can quite instantaneously be destroyed as a result of a single action or a single misperception. This study examined the way patients conceptualize the relationship between trust in a physician and perceived competency, honesty and openness, and personal involvement in care. One hundred sixty-seven patients aged 18-85 years were presented with …
Citizens’ Views on Amnesties, Truth Commissions, and Intergroup Forgiveness
People's positions regarding social security's health insurance programs: The case of Romania
Mapping and comparing French people’s positions regarding restrictive control policies: A pilot study
BACKGROUND: Public authorities resort to various control policies in order to curb the prevalence of unhealthy behaviors. As these policies can only succeed to the extent that people agree with them, this study mapped French people's positions regarding restrictive control policies in general. METHOD: A sample of 344 adults (among them health professionals and lawyers) were presented with 54 vignettes depicting a control policy. Each vignette con…
French People’s positions on supervised injection facilities for drug users
BACKGROUND: Supervised injection facilities have been set-up in many countries to curb the health risks associated with unsafe injection practices. These facilities have, however, been met with vocal opposition, notably in France. As harm reduction policies can only succeed to the extent that people agree with them, this study mapped French people's opinions regarding the setting-up of these facilities. METHOD: A sample of 318 adults--among them …
Willingness to Use Mental Health Services for Depression Among African Immigrants and White Canadian-Born People in the Province of Quebec, Canada
What motivates individuals to volunteer in Ebola epidemic response? A structural approach in Guinea
BACKGROUND: The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa placed greater demands on the affected countries' already scarce health workforce. Consequently, governments in the most affected West African countries made appeals for volunteers to join Ebola response programs. Those volunteers played an important yet high-risk role in aiding the victims of the Ebola epidemic and in limiting its spread. However, little is known as to what motivated those …
Why patients want to take or refuse to take antibiotics: An inventory of motives
Although people are generally willing to follow their physician's prescription of antibiotics, a notable proportion of them report adopting behaviors that are beneficial to micro-organisms and, as a result, potentially detrimental to humans
Haitian people's expectations regarding post‐disaster humanitarian aid teams’ actions
The way people at the receiving end of humanitarian assistance perceive this intervention may provide invaluable bottom‐up feedback to improve the quality of the intervention. We analyzed and mapped Haitians’ views regarding international humanitarian aid in cases of natural disaster. Two hundred fifty participants–137 women and 113 men aged 18‐67–who had suffered from the consequences of the earthquake in 2010 were presented with a series of vig…
Acceptability of vaccination against HIV: A mapping of Togolese people's positions
In anticipation of a future HIV vaccine, we mapped the different personal positions regarding HIV vaccination of people in Togo. In early 2014, 363 adults indicated their willingness to receive a future HIV vaccine under different conditions varying as a function of five factors: perceived susceptibility to HIV, vaccine effectiveness, perceived severity of AIDS, vaccine cost, and family's influence. We found five qualitatively different positions…
Cultural concepts of the person and mental health in Africa
People in different cultures have different concepts of the person that underlie self-understanding and self-representation. These concepts influence many aspects of individuals' life experience, including illness and expectations toward recovery. Psychotherapies aim to promote adaptive change in experience and behavior. This goal is embedded in a social and cultural context that promotes or sanctions a particular notion of personhood. If every s…
Allocation of antiretroviral drugs to HIV-infected patients in Togo: Perspectives of people living with HIV and healthcare providers
AIM: To explore the way people living with HIV and healthcare providers in Togo judge the priority of HIV-infected patients regarding the allocation of antiretroviral drugs. METHOD: From June to September 2015, 200 adults living with HIV and 121 healthcare providers living in Togo were recruited for the study. They were presented with stories of a few lines depicting the situation of an HIV-infected patient and were instructed to judge the extent…
Misconceptions about Ebola virus disease among lay people in Guinea: Lessons for community education
Togolese lay people's and health professionals’ views about the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide
AIM: To study the views on the acceptability of physician-assisted-suicide (PAS) of lay people and health professionals in an African country, Togo. METHOD: In February-June 2012, 312 lay people and 198 health professionals (75 physicians, 60 nurses and 63 health counsellors) in Togo judged the acceptability of PAS in 36 concrete scenarios composed of all combinations of four factors: (a) the patient's age, (b) the level of incurability of the il…
Lay People's Views About Truth Commissions
Skin Bleaching Among Togolese: A Preliminary Inventory of Motives
The motives underlying the practice of regular skin bleaching among Togolese people were examined, using Apter's metamotivational theory as the framework. Factor analysis using scree test and a varimax rotation showed eight independent types of basic motives that are characteristic of this theory. Four motives appeared as clearly dominant. Participants practiced skin bleaching on a regular basis mainly (a) to appear important, (b) to look attract…
Societal Risk Perception Among African Villagers Without Access to the Media
The impact of the media on people's risk perception was assessed by comparing risk ratings obtained from African villagers without access to the media with risk ratings obtained from African city-dwellers with access to the media and risk ratings obtained from French participants. The overall mean risk judgment observed among the Togolese villagers was lower than the mean rating observed among the Togolese city-dwellers, and lower than the mean r…
Cultural concepts of the person and mental health in Africa
People in different cultures have different concepts of the person that underlie self-understanding and self-representation. These concepts influence many aspects of individuals' life experience, including illness and expectations toward recovery. Psychotherapies aim to promote adaptive change in experience and behavior. This goal is embedded in a social and cultural context that promotes or sanctions a particular notion of personhood. If every s…
Skin Bleaching Among Togolese: A Preliminary Inventory of Motives
The motives underlying the practice of regular skin bleaching among Togolese people were examined, using Apter's metamotivational theory as the framework. Factor analysis using scree test and a varimax rotation showed eight independent types of basic motives that are characteristic of this theory. Four motives appeared as clearly dominant. Participants practiced skin bleaching on a regular basis mainly (a) to appear important, (b) to look attract…
Acceptability of vaccination against HIV: A mapping of Togolese people's positions
In anticipation of a future HIV vaccine, we mapped the different personal positions regarding HIV vaccination of people in Togo. In early 2014, 363 adults indicated their willingness to receive a future HIV vaccine under different conditions varying as a function of five factors: perceived susceptibility to HIV, vaccine effectiveness, perceived severity of AIDS, vaccine cost, and family's influence. We found five qualitatively different positions…
Societal Risk Perception Among African Villagers Without Access to the Media
The impact of the media on people's risk perception was assessed by comparing risk ratings obtained from African villagers without access to the media with risk ratings obtained from African city-dwellers with access to the media and risk ratings obtained from French participants. The overall mean risk judgment observed among the Togolese villagers was lower than the mean rating observed among the Togolese city-dwellers, and lower than the mean r…
Skin Bleaching Among Togolese: A Preliminary Inventory of Motives
The motives underlying the practice of regular skin bleaching among Togolese people were examined, using Apter's metamotivational theory as the framework. Factor analysis using scree test and a varimax rotation showed eight independent types of basic motives that are characteristic of this theory. Four motives appeared as clearly dominant. Participants practiced skin bleaching on a regular basis mainly (a) to appear important, (b) to look attract…
Lay People's Views About Truth Commissions
Togolese lay people's and health professionals’ views about the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide
AIM: To study the views on the acceptability of physician-assisted-suicide (PAS) of lay people and health professionals in an African country, Togo. METHOD: In February-June 2012, 312 lay people and 198 health professionals (75 physicians, 60 nurses and 63 health counsellors) in Togo judged the acceptability of PAS in 36 concrete scenarios composed of all combinations of four factors: (a) the patient's age, (b) the level of incurability of the il…
Misconceptions about Ebola virus disease among lay people in Guinea: Lessons for community education
Allocation of antiretroviral drugs to HIV-infected patients in Togo: Perspectives of people living with HIV and healthcare providers
AIM: To explore the way people living with HIV and healthcare providers in Togo judge the priority of HIV-infected patients regarding the allocation of antiretroviral drugs. METHOD: From June to September 2015, 200 adults living with HIV and 121 healthcare providers living in Togo were recruited for the study. They were presented with stories of a few lines depicting the situation of an HIV-infected patient and were instructed to judge the extent…
Haitian people's expectations regarding post‐disaster humanitarian aid teams’ actions
The way people at the receiving end of humanitarian assistance perceive this intervention may provide invaluable bottom‐up feedback to improve the quality of the intervention. We analyzed and mapped Haitians’ views regarding international humanitarian aid in cases of natural disaster. Two hundred fifty participants–137 women and 113 men aged 18‐67–who had suffered from the consequences of the earthquake in 2010 were presented with a series of vig…
Acceptability of vaccination against HIV: A mapping of Togolese people's positions
In anticipation of a future HIV vaccine, we mapped the different personal positions regarding HIV vaccination of people in Togo. In early 2014, 363 adults indicated their willingness to receive a future HIV vaccine under different conditions varying as a function of five factors: perceived susceptibility to HIV, vaccine effectiveness, perceived severity of AIDS, vaccine cost, and family's influence. We found five qualitatively different positions…
Cultural concepts of the person and mental health in Africa
People in different cultures have different concepts of the person that underlie self-understanding and self-representation. These concepts influence many aspects of individuals' life experience, including illness and expectations toward recovery. Psychotherapies aim to promote adaptive change in experience and behavior. This goal is embedded in a social and cultural context that promotes or sanctions a particular notion of personhood. If every s…
What motivates individuals to volunteer in Ebola epidemic response? A structural approach in Guinea
BACKGROUND: The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa placed greater demands on the affected countries' already scarce health workforce. Consequently, governments in the most affected West African countries made appeals for volunteers to join Ebola response programs. Those volunteers played an important yet high-risk role in aiding the victims of the Ebola epidemic and in limiting its spread. However, little is known as to what motivated those …
Why patients want to take or refuse to take antibiotics: An inventory of motives
Although people are generally willing to follow their physician's prescription of antibiotics, a notable proportion of them report adopting behaviors that are beneficial to micro-organisms and, as a result, potentially detrimental to humans
Mapping and comparing French people’s positions regarding restrictive control policies: A pilot study
BACKGROUND: Public authorities resort to various control policies in order to curb the prevalence of unhealthy behaviors. As these policies can only succeed to the extent that people agree with them, this study mapped French people's positions regarding restrictive control policies in general. METHOD: A sample of 344 adults (among them health professionals and lawyers) were presented with 54 vignettes depicting a control policy. Each vignette con…
French People’s positions on supervised injection facilities for drug users
BACKGROUND: Supervised injection facilities have been set-up in many countries to curb the health risks associated with unsafe injection practices. These facilities have, however, been met with vocal opposition, notably in France. As harm reduction policies can only succeed to the extent that people agree with them, this study mapped French people's opinions regarding the setting-up of these facilities. METHOD: A sample of 318 adults--among them …
Willingness to Use Mental Health Services for Depression Among African Immigrants and White Canadian-Born People in the Province of Quebec, Canada
Citizens’ Views on Amnesties, Truth Commissions, and Intergroup Forgiveness
People's positions regarding social security's health insurance programs: The case of Romania
Why Patients in Uruguay Agree to Take or Refuse to Take Antibiotics? An Inventory of Motives
Objectives: We explored the motives for why patients in Uruguay take or refuse to take antibiotic drugs. Methods: We had 350 adults complete a 60-item questionnaire with statements referring to reasons for which the person had taken antibiotics in the past, and a 70-item questionnaire with reasons for which the person had sometimes refused to take antibiotics. Results: We found a 4-factor structure of motives for taking antibiotics: Appropriate P…
Patients’ Positions on the Degree of Trust to be Placed in Physicians
Patient-physician relationship is ideally based on mutual trust. Trust usually takes times to build but can quite instantaneously be destroyed as a result of a single action or a single misperception. This study examined the way patients conceptualize the relationship between trust in a physician and perceived competency, honesty and openness, and personal involvement in care. One hundred sixty-seven patients aged 18-85 years were presented with …
Development of the forgiveness schema among young children and adolescents: A multinational comparison
Few studies on the development of forgiveness involved young children and adolescents, and very few involved samples from non-western countries. This study focused on the development of willingness to forgive a particular transgression in participants aged 4 to 12 years and from two different cultures: a South African culture (Mozambique) and a Western European culture (France). Overall, 153 pupils from Mozambique and 107 pupils from France were …
Mapping Colombians’ positions on national policies to control tobacco and marijuana consumption: A pilot study
BACKGROUND: Public authorities use a variety of control policies, with varying degrees of severity, to reduce the prevalence of health-damaging habits. Since these policies can only succeed if people understand and approve of them, this study mapped Colombians' positions on policies to control tobacco and marijuana consumption. METHOD: A sample of 147 adults was presented with 32 vignettes illustrating a control policy. Each vignette contained fo…
Predictors of social integration of new immigrants in France: Data-driven approach and machine learning analyses
Background Personal characteristics, income, social capital, and immigration policies influence immigrants’ social integration (SI) in European Union (EU) countries. However, few studies have used machine learning (ML) to examine simultaneously the predicting significance of large number of variables (93 in total). Objectives The present study aimed at, first, assessing the level of SI in a random sample of non-EU new immigrants legally living in…
Medicine (13 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · Business (4 works)