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Kaikkonen, Darby A., and Christopher L. Quarles. "The Effect on Earnings of the Applied Baccalaureate Degree." Community College Review 46, no. 4 (June 22, 2018): 347–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091552118782619.
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Objective: This study evaluates the postgraduate earnings of students with an applied baccalaureate (AB) degree compared to the earnings of students with the same associate degree but no baccalaureate degree. The research questions include the following: For those students who earn an AB degree, does it result in higher earnings than the associate degree? Does the earnings difference vary by field of study? Which student characteristics account for variation in earnings beyond the effect of the AB degree? Method: This study used propensity score weighted regression to examine the difference in earnings of AB degree and associate degree graduates in three programs—health, technology, and social science—at three different community and technical colleges in Washington state. Results: We find that the AB degree graduates have higher earnings than associate degree graduates in each of the three programs, although for certain programs the earnings increase is small enough to be explained by characteristics intrinsic to the student. Higher earnings are also associated to other student characteristics such as age, gender, earnings prior to enrollment, and academic proficiency, indicating a difference in economic benefit for some students. Contributions: The findings from this study contribute to the overall understanding of the complex relationship between level of education and earnings, specifically the impact on earnings of an AB above and beyond the associate degree. The analyses revealed evidence of a gender gap in earnings by program, which is an area that requires further study.
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Macaluso, Suzie, and Michael Faber. "Standards and Guidelines for Associate's Degree Programs in Gerontology." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 555. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2133.
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Abstract Associate degree programs in gerontology occupy a unique space in higher education. They must prepare students for a wide variety of careers and opportunities from technical and vocational training to preparation for further gerontology education at a four-year college. It is widely known that there is great variability among the numerous associate degree programs in gerontology; this presentation gives an overview of the revised standards and guidelines for associate degree programs. Associate degree programs will vary based on the faculty, the leadership, the program, and institutional support, this presentation discusses best practices for a variety of program types paying particular attention to competency-based educational strategies.
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Zajacova, Anna, and Elizabeth Lawrence. "Postsecondary Educational Attainment and Health among Younger U.S. Adults in the “College-for-All” Era." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 7 (January 2021): 237802312110211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23780231211021197.
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Population-health research has neglected differentiation within postsecondary educational attainments. This gap is critical to understanding health inequality because college experience with no degree, vocational/technical certificates, and associate degrees may affect health differently. We examine health across detailed postsecondary attainment levels. We analyze data on 14,750 respondents in Waves I and IV of the nationally representative Add Health panel spanning adolescence to ages 26 to 34. Multivariate regression and counterfactual approaches to minimize the impact of confounders estimate multiple health outcomes across postsecondary attainment levels. Compared to high school diplomas, we find significant returns to bachelor’s degrees for most health outcomes and smaller but largely significant returns to associate degrees. In contrast, adults with some college but no degree or with vocational/technical certificates do not have better physical health than high school graduates. Our findings highlight the stark differentiation within higher education as reflected by the disparate health outcomes in early adulthood.
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Garrison, Edward R. "The Diné Educational Philosophy (DEP) and its incorporation into the Associate of Science Degree Program in Public Health at Diné College." Journal of Interprofessional Care 21, sup2 (January 2007): 64–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13561820701578044.
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GÖKÇAY, Gönül, and Duygu AKÇA. "ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS IN HEALTH-RELATED DEPARTMENTS TOWARDS FAMILY PLANNING." INTERNATIONAL REFEREED ACADEMIC JOURNAL OF SPORTS, no. 45 (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.17363/sstb.2022/abcd89/.45.2.
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The research was conducted to determine the attitudes of students studying in health departments towards family planning. Method: The study was planned in descriptive type. The study was planned in descriptive type. 470 students studying in undergraduate and associate degree departments of Health participated in the research. The data in the study were obtained by using the Socio-demographic Information Form and the Family Planning Attitude Scale (FPAS). The normality distribution of the data was determined by Kolmogorov Smirnov Test, number, percentage, mean and standard deviation values and independent sample t-test were evaluated using Bonferroni as one-way analysis of variance and Post-Hok test. Results: 67.4% of the students participating in the study are studying in associate degree departments, 57.7% are between the ages of 21-30, and 68.3%'s income is equal to their expenses. The students got 118.07 ± 26.91 points from FPAS. It has been determined that the mean FPAS scores of undergraduate students are higher than other students, girls are boys, married people are single, students whose parents are university graduates are illiterate, and those whose income is more than their expenses are higher than those whose income is equal to their expenses, and it is statistically significant. (p<0.05). Conclusion: It was found that the students had above-average positive attitudes when their FPAS and sub-dimension mean scores were evaluated. Suggestions were made in line with the results.
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Shelton, Nicola, Oliver Duke-Williams, Laura van der Erve, Jack Britton, and Wei Xun. "Is studying medicine good for your health? Long-term health outcomes of a cohort of clinical medicine graduates in England and Wales in the ONS Longitudinal Study." BMJ Open 11, no. 3 (March 2021): e041224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041224.
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ObjectiveTo quantify the potential protective effect on health associated with study of a clinical medicine degree.DesignProspective population-based cohort data collected at census and linked over time: cohort born before 1976 and survived to 2011. Subgroup analysis on those who reported having a degree at 1991 census.SettingEngland and Wales population-based, including institutions.Participants159 116 men and 174 062 women; 13 390 men with degrees and 8143 women with degrees.Main outcome measureSelf-reported general health in 2011 based on logistic regression analysis.ResultsMale graduates had 92% higher odds of having good or very good health than male non-graduates after adjustment for age and socioeconomic position (CI 1.82 to 2.03). Female graduates had 85% higher odds of having good or very good health than female non-graduates after adjustment for age and socioeconomic position (CI 1.73 to 1.98). Male clinical medicine graduates had 45% higher odds of having good or very good health than male humanities graduates after adjustment for age and socioeconomic position (CI 1.09 to 1.92). Male physical sciences graduates also had higher odds of having good or very good health than male humanities graduates after adjustment for age and socioeconomic position, but life sciences and social science graduates did not. There were no significant differences by degree subject for women.ConclusionsMale graduates in clinical medicine have higher odds of good self-reported health. Knowledge of medicine may confer a health advantage for men above that of other degrees.
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UZUNTARLA, Yasin, Nükhet BAYER, and İsmet ŞAHİN. "INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURIAL TENDENCY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY TRAITS OF STUDENTS IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH SCIENCES." EUROASIA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES 9, no. 1 (February 25, 2022): 61–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.38064/eurssh.308.
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This research was conducted to examine the entrepreneurial tendencies and entrepreneurial personality traits of undergraduate and associate degree students studying in the field of health sciences. The universe of the descriptive study consisted of all undergraduate and associate degree students studying in the field of health sciences at a private university in Ankara, Turkey. It was aimed to reach the whole universe without selecting a sample, while 57% of the students (n=1004) participated in the research. The data of the study were obtained by using the "Socio-demographic Characteristics Form", "Entrepreneurship Tendency Scale" and "Entrepreneurial Personality Characteristics Scale". T-test, ANOVA, Post Hoc Tukey Test, Pearson Correlation Analysis and simple linear regression analysis were employed in the analysis of the data. Students' Entrepreneurial Tendency scale score (3.11±0.32) and Entrepreneurial Personality Scale score (3.24±0.27) were found to be moderate. Significant differences were observed in the entrepreneurial tendency and entrepreneurial personality traits of the students according to age, gender, parental occupation, family economic status, geographical region and education level. It was found that there was a significant positive correlation between the entrepreneurial tendency of the students and their entrepreneurial personality traits, and that the entrepreneurial personality of the students affected the level of entrepreneurial tendency (p<0.05). This follows that an entrepreneurship course should be included in university education and students should be supported to make projects in order to increase entrepreneurship activities, which are important in social development.
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Brott, Shirley. "News of The Academy of Neonatal Nursing." Neonatal Network 26, no. 5 (September 2007): 313–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0730-0832.26.5.313.
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This year’s $1,000 Academic Scholarship Award goes to Carolyn Terry, RNC, BSN. Carolyn is attending State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she plans to complete her master of science degree and the neonatal nurse practitioner program in June of 2008. Lori A. Escallier, PhD, RN, CPNP, clinical associate professor at Stony Brook, wrote, “Ms. Terry’s academic ability has proven outstanding. She is a leader among her colleagues and is an example of the epitome of nursing. She is industriously conscientious of the ever-changing health care environment and leads through example.”
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Shovali, Tamar, Marilyn Gugliucci, and Nina Silverstein. "(Re)Introducing the Gerontology and Geriatrics Curricular Standards and Guidelines in Higher Education." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 555. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2131.
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Abstract The Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), the education member group of GSA, is the only national institutional membership organization devoted primarily to gerontology and geriatrics education. Its mission provides for development and sponsorship of initiatives to advance the field of aging through its focus on education in gerontology/geriatrics. AGHE first published the Gerontology and Geriatrics Curricular Standards over three decades ago – a document that has been an integral resource for implementing/revising programs in liberal arts, the sciences, and more recently, health professions. To meet the needs in the field for increased breadth and depth of content, the new 7th edition of the educational guidelines fully embraces competency-based education for gerontology, as the health professions programs have for years. Our first presenter will provide an overview of the new edition. The second presenter will focus on associate degree programs in gerontology and their unique contribution to higher education. The third will present on undergraduate programs in gerontology explaining how these programs give students an edge in today’s job market. The fourth presenter will address graduate programs in gerontology, describing master’s degree programs and doctoral degree programs in gerontology and aging studies. The fifth presenter will discuss health professions programs including geriatrics curricula for osteopathic medical education, gerontology/geriatrics curricula for health-related programs and the doctor of pharmacy degree programs. Presentations will provide expert recommendations for program development through mapping AGHE’s Gerontology Competencies for Undergraduate and Graduate Education to programs in higher education. Nina Silverstein will serve as discussant.
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Neubecker, Nina. "Two new datasets on south-north migration by occupational category." International Journal of Manpower 35, no. 6 (August 26, 2014): 834–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijm-10-2013-0231.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to break down south-north migration along both the skill and the occupational dimension and thus to distinguish and compare several types of south-north migration and brain drain. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents south-north migration rates by occupational category at two distinct levels of disaggregation according to International Standard Classification of Occupations 1988 (ISCO-88). The data sets combine information about the labor market outcomes of immigrants in Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) countries around the year 2000 provided by the Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries by the OECD with employment data for the developing migrant-sending countries from the International Labour Organization. Findings – The incidence of south-north migration was highest among Professionals, one of the two occupational categories generally requiring tertiary education, and among clerks and legislators, senior officials and managers. At the more disaggregated level, physical, mathematical and engineering science (associate) professionals, life science and health (associate) professionals, as well as other (associate) professionals exhibited significantly larger brain drain rates than teaching (associate) professionals. The data also suggest non-negligible occupation-education mismatches due to the imperfect transferability of skills acquired through formal education because south-north migrants with a university degree worked more often in occupational categories requiring less than tertiary education compared to OECD natives. The employment shares of most types of professionals and technicians and associate professionals, as well as of clerks and corporate managers were significantly smaller in the migrant-sending countries compared to the receiving countries. Originality/value – The constructed data sets constitute the first comprehensive data sets on south-north migration by ISCO-88 major and sub-major occupational category for cross-sections of, respectively, 91 and 17 developing countries of emigration.
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Arslan, Mustafa, and Ipek Melez. "Assessment of knowledge and anxiety level of forensic science experts and technicians on SARS–CoV2 Pandemic." Medicine Science | International Medical Journal 11, no. 3 (2022): 1130. http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medscience.2022.03.071.
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This prospective, descriptive and cross-sectional study was performed to assess the knowledge and anxiety levels of forensic science experts and technicians working at the Ministry of Justice Council of Forensic Medicine regarding the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – Corona Virus2 (SARS–CoV2) pandemic. Research data was obtained by a questionnaire, including personal information questions, a Coronavirus 19 Phobia (C19P–S) scale, and knowledge level questions, conducted on 295 participants between 01/10/2020–30/11/2020. Knowledge scores of the participants having bachelor's degrees (16.57±7.51) were found to be lower than those of the associate degree (23.74±6.52) and postgraduate degree (23.29±6.63) groups. The professional group with the lowest knowledge score was the engineer (12.00±4.95). The knowledge score of forensic medicine specialists (24.78±5.98), forensic medicine residents (24.78±5.53), and technicians (23.84±6.61) were higher than other professional groups. The psychological sub-dimension score was 18.69±5.73, while psychosomatic 8.93±3.72, social 14.65±4.47, economic 8.54±3.39, and the total C19P–S scale was 50.80±14.56. The psychological and total C19P – S scale scores of the female participants were higher than the scores of the men. Total C19P–S scores of the participants working in the specialized departments were higher than the participants working on the specialized boards. The highest C19P–S scale total score was determined in the technician's group. In general, the knowledge and anxiety levels were determined as "moderate". The findings of this study indicate that, in addition to the stress of working with a high risk of transmission, also postponed schedules, accumulated workload, etc. may affect the psychological state of forensic science experts and technicians. However, the coping rates are strong enough to keep the stress level at “moderate”. Moderate level knowledge scores may reveal the need to do more reading on health topics and perform more studies on SARS-CoV2 while it may also be seen due to the significant information pollution.
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Mohammed, Sarko Masood, Nasih Othman, Ali Hattem Hussein, and Kamal Jalal Rashid. "Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Health Care Workers in Sulaimani Health Facilities in Relation to Medical Waste Management." Kurdistan Journal of Applied Research 2, no. 2 (July 30, 2017): 143–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.24017/science.2017.2.21.
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Medical waste management is of crucial importance in health care facilities (HCF). In the present study, we assessed the knowledge, attitude and practices of medical waste management in an HCF of Sulaimani city, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Using a self-administered questionnaire, we collected information on waste management practices from health care professionals (HCP) in 14 public and private hospitals and 10 primary health care centers of the city. Based on answers, total knowledge score on a 10-point scale was established. A total of 406 HCPs (of those, 261 women), average age 37.3 (SD ± 9.4) years participated. Just 20.3% have been trained on medical waste management. The total knowledge score ranged from 0 to 9 with a mean of 4.7 (SD ± 1.8). Factors which were significantly associated with the better knowledge score was male gender, having a high educational degree, being trained in waste management and has been in service for more than 5 years. 68% of HCPs followed the color coding system, 91% always/frequently disposed used sharps/needles to safety boxes, 79% always or frequently recapped needles, 49% reported experiencing at least one needle prick injury during their work but only 37% of them had reported the injury to a supervisor and only 4% of those injured had filled an injury form. There is a low average level of knowledge and the unsafe risky practices are quite prevalent in HCFs. Provision of appropriate training on dealing with medical waste is essential to promote safe practices among HCFs.
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Wilder, Jocelyn, Diane Lauderdale, Laura Finch, and Louise Hawkley. "DOES RESILIENCE OR SES PREDICT OLDER ADULTS FINDING A SILVER LINING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?" Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2022): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.118.
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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched our limits physically, mentally, and economically; however, some older adults report that it led to a positive life change. We used data from the NSHAP COVID-19 supplement to understand whether resilience and SES (both measured in 2015-16) are predictors of older adults’ likelihood of endorsing a positive change during the pandemic. Additionally, we examined whether resilience and SES predict specific positive changes described in open-ended responses. Higher education significantly predicted reporting a positive change during the pandemic. Adjusting for resilience (OR 1.0, p= 0.185), the odds of endorsing any positive change were 1.9 times higher for those with an associate degree (p=0.027) and 3.3 times higher for those with a bachelor’s degree or higher (p<0.001) compared to those who did not complete high school. Specific positive change domains also differed by SES. Additional research is needed to understand how SES and benefit-finding contribute to well-being.
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Hagos, Esietu Gebregazabher, Gebrekidan Gebregzabher Asfeha, and Birhane Alem Berihu. "Prevalence of substance abuse among regular degree health science students in Sheba University College in Mekelle Town, Tigray - Ethiopia." Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice 07, no. 02 (April 2016): 200–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.178670.
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ABSTRACT Background: Substance abuse (SA) refers to the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, including alcohol and illicit drugs. The most common substances which are usually abused are alcohol and tobacco. Herein, we assessed the prevalence of SA among regular degree health science students of the Sheba University College (SUC). Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 1076 SUC students using self-administered structured questionnaire. The simple sampling technique was used to select students. Descriptive statistics, bivariate, and multivariate analysis were done. Results: The overall prevalence of “ever used substance” for at least one was 45.5%. The most commonly used drugs in descending order were alcohol (25.1%), cigarette (11.4%), and khat (9.2%). Male participants, urban setting, peer pressure, personal pleasure, and academic dissatisfaction and pocket money were highly associated with SA. Conclusion: This study showed a lower magnitude (45.6% ever use and 21% still using) of SA among students’ compared to other studies. Even if a considerable decrease in SA among study subjects, the creation of awareness and health education should be continued to fully combat the problem of abuse.
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Volk, Hannah, and Johanna Muckenhuber. "The Health Effects of Combining Work and Family Demands: An International Comparison of 31 Countries." Comparative Sociology 17, no. 6 (November 12, 2018): 782–805. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341479.
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Abstract This article aims to analyze the relationship between work-family conflict (wfc) and self-rated health in 31 countries. It argues that wfc, in line with the Sociological Stress Model (Pearlin 1987), is a major role stressor, associated with health problems of workers. The results show that wfc influences the level of self-rated health in the expected direction, when controlling for sociodemographic, family and working characteristics. Country differences exist regarding the moderating role of a country’s degree of individualism. In countries which show higher degrees of individualism, the negative health effects of wfc are stronger. The analysis uses data from the ISSP in 2012 (N=29.857) and multilevel regression models are calculated in order to analyze country differences.
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Junior, Mario Maciel de Lima, Stefane Souto Semenoff, Sebastiao Salazar Jensem Filho, Suelley Macedo Marques Reis, and Vinicius Gibson Alves Braz. "Correlation between nutritional status and perineal muscular strength in women with urinary uncontinence in the brazilian state of Roraima / Correlação entre o estado nutricional e a força muscular perineal nas mulheres com incontinência urinária no estado brasileiro de Roraima." Brazilian Journal of Development 8, no. 5 (May 2, 2022): 32906–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.34117/bjdv8n5-018.
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Introduction: To evaluate the muscular strength of pelvic floor in women with complaints of voiding dysfunction and to associate it with their nutritional state. Specifically, the current work focuses on evaluating the force of contraction of the perineal muscles in women with voiding dysfunction and correlates the degree of muscular contraction of the pelvic floor through biofeedback and manual palpation. Material and Methods: This case-control study presents comparative laboratory tests of nutritional analyses and the degree of muscle contraction of the pelvic floor between the cases and the control groups. Urination disorders were evaluated through urodynamic study and King’s health questionnaires. Results: The force of contraction between normal and urinary incontinent females as measured by Ortiz’s scale was statistically insignificant. Perineal muscle function was negatively correlated with age and positively with perineal contraction while biofeedback was negatively correlated with knee height and globulin level and this difference was statistically significant. The biochemical tests for nutritional analysis were comparable between cases and control indicating no effect on urinary incontinence. Conclusions: The force of urinary contraction is independent of the state of urinary incontinent. With age, the strength of perineal muscle function goes down.
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ÖRMECİ KART, Murside Çağla, Sait ENGİNDENİZ, Filiz KINIKLI, and Dilek Yücel ENGİNDENİZ. "ANALYSIS OF THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC EFFECTS ON THE YOUTH FOOD CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOURS: A CASE STUDY IZMIR PROVINCE." Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken / Journal of World of Turks 14, no. 2 (August 15, 2022): 313–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.46291/zfwt/140217.
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Many sectors in Turkey have been affected by the epidemic, with precautions such as quarantine, mask requirement, curfew, social distance, and online education. The pandemic period has begun to change many things, from economy to politics, from education to consumption. Changes in human attitudes and behaviors have also begun to affect consumption habits. The main purpose of the study is to determine how the food purchasing and consumption behaviors of university students studying in different fields have changed with the pandemic. In addition, the general characteristics of the students were revealed in the study and the willingness to pay for a healthy food was tried to be measured. The results of 308 online surveys in April and May 2020 were evaluated. 60.7% of the interviewed students have undergraduate education and have the highest share. Undergraduate students are followed by 22.1% associate degree students and 17.2% postgraduate students. Students receiving education in the field of health found the measures taken in Turkey insufficient compared to other students. The shopping rate of mothers decreased by 21.75% and fathers by 7.14%. It was determined that the students studying in the field of agriculture had the highest willingness to pay with 20.5%, and the students in the field of health had the lowest willingness to pay with 14.12%. Keywords: Nutrition, student, pandemic, consumer behaviour
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Yasui, Kiyotaka, Yuko Kimura, Kenji Kamiya, Rie Miyatani, Naohiro Tsuyama, Akira Sakai, Koji Yoshida, et al. "Academic Responses to Fukushima Disaster." Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 29, no. 2_suppl (March 2017): 99S—109S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1010539516685400.
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Since radiation accidents, particularly nuclear disasters, are rarer than other types of disasters, a comprehensive radiation disaster medical curriculum for them is currently unavailable. The Fukushima compound disaster has urged the establishment of a new medical curriculum in preparation for any future complex disaster. The medical education will aim to aid decision making on various health risks for workers, vulnerable people, and residents addressing each phase in the disaster. Herein, we introduce 3 novel educational programs that have been initiated to provide students, professionals, and leaders with the knowledge of and skills to elude the social consequences of complex nuclear disasters. The first program concentrates on radiation disaster medicine for medical students at the Fukushima Medical University, together with a science, technology, and society module comprising various topics, such as public risk communication, psychosocial consequences of radiation anxiety, and decision making for radiation disaster. The second program is a Phoenix Leader PhD degree at the Hiroshima University, which aims to develop future leaders who can address the associated scientific, environmental, and social issues. The third program is a Joint Graduate School of Master’s degree in the Division of Disaster and Radiation Medical Sciences at the Nagasaki University and Fukushima Medical University.
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Horwitz, Pierre, and Margot Parkes. "Intertwined Strands for Ecology in Planetary Health." Challenges 10, no. 1 (March 14, 2019): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/challe10010020.
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Ecology is both blessed and burdened by romanticism, with a legacy that is multi-edged for health. The prefix ‘eco-’ can carry a cultural and political (subversive) baggage, associated with motivating environmental activism. Ecology is also practiced as a technical ‘science’, with quantitative and deterministic leanings and a biophysical emphasis. A challenge for planetary health is to avoid lapsing into, or rejecting, either position. A related opportunity is to adopt ecological thought that offers a rich entrance to understanding living systems: a relationality of connectedness, interdependence, and reciprocity to understand health in a complex and uncertain world. Planetary health offers a global scale framing; we regard its potential as equivalent to the degree to which it can embrace, at its core, ecological thought, and develop its own political narrative.
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Blaney, Sonia, Lylia Menasria, Barbara Main, Chhea Chhorvann, Lenin Vong, Lucie Chiasson, Vannary Hun, and David Raminashvili. "Determinants of Undernutrition among Young Children Living in Soth Nikum District, Siem Reap, Cambodia." Nutrients 11, no. 3 (March 22, 2019): 685. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11030685.
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Background: Child undernutrition is of public concern in Cambodia. An understanding of factors influencing child nutritional status is essential to design programs that will reduce undernutrition. Using the UNICEF conceptual framework of causes of malnutrition, our research investigates the relationship between nutritional status of children aged 6–23 months and its immediate and underlying determinants. Methods: Baseline data from a cluster-randomized controlled trial aiming to assess the impact of the promotion of optimal feeding practices combined or not with the provision of local foods among 360 children 6–23 months of age were used. Anthropometry and biochemical measurements were performed at baseline. Data on each determinant of undernutrition were collected through interviews and direct observations. Results: Our results show that the degree of satisfaction of proteins and zinc requirements as well as the access to improved water sources and sanitation were positively associated with length-for-age, while having a better health status and a higher degree of satisfaction of energy, protein, zinc, and iron requirements were associated to an improved weight-for-length. Only child health status was associated to ferritin. Conclusion: Our results reiterate the importance of improving child diet and health status, but also the access to a healthy environment to ensure an optimal nutritional status.
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Putri Kornia, Rania Ayu Permata, I. Putu Rustama Putra, Ni Wayan Sedani, and Cynthia Dewi M. "Prevalence of dry eye syndrome associated to face mask among Tabanan General Hospital Health workers in 2021." Intisari Sains Medis 12, no. 3 (December 30, 2021): 1054–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15562/ism.v12i3.1135.
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Background: The continuous development of COVID-19 has made face masks became a mandatory part of our daily routine, but there has been an increase in dry eye syndrome (DES) from the regular used of face masks. Health workers who are obliged to use face masks are the one that has risk factors for experiencing DES, including health workers at Tabanan General Hospital, as one of the COVID-19 referral hospitals in Bali. The purpose of this study was to calculate the prevalence of DES associated to face masks and characteristics of DES among Tabanan General Hospital health workers in 2021. Methods: This research was a descriptive cross sectional study that conducted at Tabanan General Hospital from March to April 202. The sample was 64 health workers at Tabanan General Hospital with consecutive sampling techniques using the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) questionnaire. Data were collected by using questionnaire. Data were annalyse descriptively by using SPSS 25 and the result were provide in table. Results: The prevalence of DES associated to face masks among Tabanan General Hospital health workers in 2021 was 70.3%, with a prevalence of mild degrees 15.6%, moderate 12.5%, and severe 42.2%. The prevalence of surgical mask users was greater than Filtering Face Piece (FFP) 2 mask users in mild and severe degrees of DES. Characteristics of DES among Tabanan General Hospital health workers in 2021 were found mostly in age 30-39 years old, more in females, without DM history, non-smokers, and without eye surgery history. Conclusion: Most of the health workers at Tabanan General Hospital experiencing DES associated to face masks, and mostly with a severe degree. Among those with DES, there were more surgical mask users than FFP2 mask users. Future studies are needed to analyze the association between DES and face masks.
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Graves, Joseph L. "The Myth of the Genetically Sick African." Genealogy 6, no. 1 (February 11, 2022): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6010015.
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Western medicine has an unfortunate history where it has been applied to address the health of African Americans. At its origins, it was aligned with the objectives of colonialism and chattel slavery. The degree to which medical “science” concerned itself with persons of African descent was to keep them alive for sale on the auction block, or to keep them healthy as they toiled to generate wealth for their European owners. Medicine in early America relied upon both dead and live African bodies to test its ideas to benefit Europeans. As medicine moved from quackery to a discipline based in science, its understanding of human biological variation was flawed. This was not a problem confined to medicine alone, but to the biological sciences in general. Biology had no solid theoretical basis until after 1859. As medicine further developed in the 20th century, it never doubted the difference between Europeans and Africans, and also asserted the innate inferiority of the latter. The genomic revolution in the latter 20th century produced tools that were deployed in a biomedical culture still mired in “racial” medicine. This lack of theoretical perspective still misdirects research associated with health disparity. In contrast to this is evolutionary medicine, which relies on a sound unification of evolutionary (ultimate) and physiological, cellular, and molecular (proximate) mechanisms. Utilizing the perspectives of evolutionary medicine is a prerequisite for an effective intervention in health disparity and finally dispelling the myth of the genetically sick African.
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Choy, Patrick C. "The making of a lipid biochemist." Clinical and Investigative Medicine 41 (November 3, 2018): 26–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v41i2.31431.
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Patrick obtained his undergraduate degree at McGill University, and received his graduate training in Medicine and Biochemistry at the University of North Dakota. His postdoctoral work was conducted at the University of British Columbia. He joined the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in 1979. He was the recipient of a New Investigator Award (1979–85) from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, followed by a Scientist Award (1985–90) from the MRC/CIHR. These career awards allowed him to devote the majority of his time to research. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1983 and Full Professor in 1986. He was cross-appointed as Professor of Pathology and participated in the teaching of General Pathology to residents. He was the founding Director of the Centre for Re-search and Treatment of Atherosclerosis at the University of Manitoba and the Winni-peg Health Sciences Centre. Administratively, he was appointed as the Professor and Head of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics (1992–1999), and an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Medicine in 1999 until his retirement in 2010.Professionally, Patrick served as President of the Canadian Biochemical Society, Chair of the Medical Research Council/Canadian Institute of Health Research New Investigator Awards Committee, Chair of the Alberta Heritage Foundation Senior Investigator Awards Committee, Vice-President of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba, and Secretary/Treasurer of the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation. He continues to serve on Editorial Boards of scientific journals, including the Journal of Clinical and Investigative Medicine. He was invested into the Order of Manitoba in 2011.
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Spankulova, Lazat, Marat Karatayev, and Michèle L. Clarke. "Trends in Socioeconomic Health Inequalities in Kazakhstan." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 53, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 177–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2020.53.2.177.
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According to the relative income hypothesis, the health status of a population is determined by its horizontal social and financial conditions, both mutually interrelated factors. As a former republic of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan is a particularly interesting case in which to explore the impact of health-related inequalities due to economic, sociodemographic, and institutional changes experienced as the country transitioned to independent status. The goal of this article is to examine the degree to which commonly-used socioeconomic determinants (education, income, living conditions, marital status, occupation) are associated with health inequalities in Kazakhstan. We found significant differences in the health status characteristics among the population. Poor health was found to be significantly associated with living conditions and income level. This article will assist policy makers in developing and improving existing social and health policies to address the apparent lack of health-related equity in Kazakhstan.
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Lee, Hee Yun, Junseon Hwang, Jennifer G. Ball, Jongwook Lee, Youngmi Yu, and David L. Albright. "Mental Health Literacy Affects Mental Health Attitude: Is There a Gender Difference?" American Journal of Health Behavior 44, no. 3 (May 1, 2020): 282–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5993/ajhb.44.3.1.
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Objectives: In the current study, we aimed to compare the levels of and factors associated with mental health attitude between males and females. Of particular interest was ascertaining the degree to which mental health literacy was related to mental health attitude and whether this relationship would vary by gender. Methods: A total of 732 participants aged 18 years or more were recruited from attendees at the 2016 Minnesota State Fair. We used the Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS) to measure attitude toward and literacy of mental health. Results: Our multivariate analysis reported that males' mental health attitude was significantly lower than females. Some factors associated with mental health attitude differed by gender as well. Among men, receiving more social support, experiencing higher levels of depression, and being married predicted greater mental health attitude. Among women, older age was associated with lower mental health attitude levels. However, mental health literacy was the strongest factor regardless of gender. Men and women with greater mental health literacy had a more positive mental health attitude. Conclusions: Provision of tailored mental health literacy education both for males and females could potentially improve the public's mental health attitude toward mental illness.
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Vermeulen, Euodia, and Sara Grobbelaar. "The structure and information spread capability of the network formed by integrated fitness apps." Information Technology & People 35, no. 8 (August 22, 2022): 311–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-12-2021-0948.
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PurposeIn this article we aim to understand how the network formed by fitness tracking devices and associated apps as a subset of the broader health-related Internet of things is capable of spreading information.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a combination of a content analysis, network analysis, community detection and simulation. A sample of 922 health-related apps (including manufacturers' apps and developers) were collected through snowball sampling after an initial content analysis from a Google search for fitness tracking devices.FindingsThe network of fitness apps is disassortative with high-degree nodes connecting to low-degree nodes, follow a power-law degree distribution and present with low community structure. Information spreads faster through the network than an artificial small-world network and fastest when nodes with high degree centrality are the seeds.Practical implicationsThis capability to spread information holds implications for both intended and unintended data sharing.Originality/valueThe analysis confirms and supports evidence of widespread mobility of data between fitness and health apps that were initially reported in earlier work and in addition provides evidence for the dynamic diffusion capability of the network based on its structure. The structure of the network enables the duality of the purpose of data sharing.
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Kress, Amii M., Michael C. Hartzell, Michael R. Peterson, Thomas V. Williams, and Nancy K. Fagan. "Status of U.S. Military Retirees and Their Spouses toward Achieving Healthy People 2010 Objectives." American Journal of Health Promotion 20, no. 5 (May 2006): 334–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/0890-1171-20.5.334.
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Purpose. To assess the status of U.S. military retirees and their spouses 38 to 64 years of age relative to select Healthy People 2010 objectives and to identify sociodemographic characteristics associated with select health behaviors. Design. Cross-sectional analyses with self-reported standardized measures from the U.S. Department of Defense Population Health Survey, 2003. Setting. The continental United States. Subjects. U.S. military retirees and their spouses 38 to 64 years of age. Measures. Data for this study were self-reported responses to the Population Health Survey. Dichotomous variables were created to indicate whether each Healthy People 2010 objective had been met. Each objective was measurable with the survey by using the definitions set forth in Healthy People 2010. These objectives included healthy weight and obesity based on body mass index (height and weight); daily fruit, vegetable, and grain-product consumption; physical inactivity, moderate physical activity, and vigorous physical activity; binge drinking; cigarette use; and smoking-cessation attempts. Results. The study population did not meet any of the Healthy People 2010 objectives included in this study. Sociodemographic characteristics that were associated with this result included being male, not having a college degree, and a less-than-excellent self-reported general health status. Conclusion. Health-promotion interventions are needed to improve the health status of this population and to achieve the goals set forth in Healthy People 2010.
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Martin-Conty, José Luis, Francisco Martin-Rodríguez, Juan José Criado-Álvarez, Carlos Alberto Castillo-Sarmiento, Clara Maestre-Miquel, Alicia Mohedano-Moriano, Begoña Polonio-López, Carlos Durantez-Fernández, Miguel Ángel Castro-Villamor, and Antonio Viñuela. "How Health Habits Influence the Physiological Response During a Physical Activity in Extreme Temperatures?" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 17 (September 1, 2020): 6374. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176374.
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Background: The purpose of the study was to determine to what degree the health habits of university students influence their physiological response during a 10-min high-intensity exercise. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional cohort study with 59 health science students, in which we analyzed their adherence to a Mediterranean and low-fat diet, as well as their activity levels. We correlated these factors with the physiological response (lactic acid and heart rate) and a series of anthropometric parameters in intense physical activity (cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for 10 min) in three scenarios: extreme cold, extreme heat and a control situation at room temperature. Results: The results of this study demonstrate that in university students, a greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with a better response to physical exercise, in this case, 10-min CPR, in hostile environments. Conclusions: Following healthy eating guidelines improves physical performance and delays the appearance of fatigue; both are important aspects for a better performance of CPR.
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Fauzi, Muhammad Faris, Tengku Shahrul Anuar, Lay Kek Teh, Wai Feng Lim, Richard Johari James, Rohana Ahmad, Mawarni Mohamed, Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar, Farida Zuraina Mohd Yusof, and Mohd Zaki Salleh. "Stress, Anxiety and Depression among a Cohort of Health Sciences Undergraduate Students: The Prevalence and Risk Factors." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 6 (March 22, 2021): 3269. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063269.
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Stress, anxiety, and depression (SAD) have a negative impact on the learning and academic performance of university students. Hence, this study aimed to determine the prevalence, as well as the risk factors associated with SAD among a cohort of students pursuing undergraduate degree courses in health sciences. This is part of the strategy in building a healthy nation. A questionnaire containing socio-demographic factors and the short version of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) was used to assess the likelihood of psychological distress. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine the risk factors of SAD. In total, 449 students completed the questionnaire (93.9% response rate). Of these, 65% had stress, 85.1% had anxiety and 51.4% had depression. Most cases of stress (74.6%) and depression (66.2%) were of normal-to-mild level, while 74.6% of them showed moderate-to-extremely severe anxiety. There was a statistically significant association between stress score and the year of study. In the regression analysis, poor sleep quality and fatigue were risk factors of anxiety and depression, whereas low-grade fever and frequent headaches were risk factors for stress and anxiety. Stress, anxiety, and depression scores were significantly higher among students studying medical imaging. A substantial proportion of health science students are suffering from SAD. This study recommends screening and close monitoring of the above-mentioned predictors and the formulation of comprehensive intervention strategies for students with SAD.
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Guesnet, Philippe, Corinne Marmonier, Constance Boyer, and Bernadette Delplanque. "Impact of maternal dietary lipids on human health." OCL 25, no. 3 (April 20, 2018): D302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2018026.
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During the perinatal period, maternal dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) ensure optimal infant development. Observational studies on cognitive and visual development reported that a specific deficit intake in n-3 PUFA in pregnant women was associated with a reduction in visual acuity in 2-months-old infants. Moreover, a low docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) content associated with a high level of n-6 PUFA in breast milk was negatively associated with the degree of cognitive development in 6-years-old children. As regards to adipose tissue development, only observational human data agree with the hypothesis that excessive dietary intakes of n-6 PUFA compared with n-3 PUFA could promote the development of adipose tissue and obesity. With regard to immune system development, observational and clinical studies suggest that long-chain n-3 PUFA consumption during pregnancy may prevent the incidence of allergic diseases in children. Lastly, specific association between the maternal ingestion of food groups and the infant health has been studied mainly on allergic outcomes (fish, dairy products). Nutritional recommendations for PUFA intake in pregnant and lactating women were mainly based on brain development data, corresponding to breast milk levels of 10% of total fatty acids for linoleic acid, 1.5% for α-linolenic acid and 0.4% for DHA.
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MOFFATT, SUZANNE, and BEN HEAVEN. "‘Planning for uncertainty’: narratives on retirement transition experiences." Ageing and Society 37, no. 5 (January 28, 2016): 879–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x15001476.
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ABSTRACTRetirement is a major life transition which is associated in public discourses with reduced economic productivity and a raft of personal vulnerabilities. Consequently, governmental, health and employment sectors have promoted ‘active’ planning of affordable and ‘healthy’ retirements. This study presents a qualitative exploration of retirement transition and preparation experiences among 52 men and women from rural and urban areas of North East England, United Kingdom. The sample was diverse in terms of social class, income level, health status and type of work exit. Health, finance, social relationships and third-age opportunities were required resources for a good transition into retirement, and a degree of planning was required to mobilise these resources. However, the degree of choice and control around the transition to retirement was highly variable and socially structured. The notion of planning was embedded as a normative practice, particularly in relation to finances, but the practice of planning was highly contingent primarily due to personal circumstances (ill-health, bereavement, relationships) and work exit (redundancy, work stress, changes to shift patterns or hours). The findings offer insights into the reasons why many people do not plan and indicate that many of the assumptions associated with retirement planning warrant further consideration both theoretically and practically.
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McBurney, Michael I., Cindy Davis, Claire M. Fraser, Barbara O. Schneeman, Curtis Huttenhower, Kristin Verbeke, Jens Walter, and Marie E. Latulippe. "Establishing What Constitutes a Healthy Human Gut Microbiome: State of the Science, Regulatory Considerations, and Future Directions." Journal of Nutrition 149, no. 11 (August 2, 2019): 1882–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxz154.
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ABSTRACTOn December 17, 2018, the North American branch of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI North America) convened a workshop “Can We Begin to Define a Healthy Gut Microbiome Through Quantifiable Characteristics?” with >40 invited academic, government, and industry experts in Washington, DC. The workshop objectives were to 1) develop a collective expert assessment of the state of the evidence on the human gut microbiome and associated human health benefits, 2) see if there was sufficient evidence to establish measurable gut microbiome characteristics that could serve as indicators of “health,” 3) identify short- and long-term research needs to fully characterize healthy gut microbiome–host relationships, and 4) publish the findings. Conclusions were as follows: 1) mechanistic links of specific changes in gut microbiome structure with function or markers of human health are not yet established; 2) it is not established if dysbiosis is a cause, consequence, or both of changes in human gut epithelial function and disease; 3) microbiome communities are highly individualized, show a high degree of interindividual variation to perturbation, and tend to be stable over years; 4) the complexity of microbiome-host interactions requires a comprehensive, multidisciplinary research agenda to elucidate relationships between gut microbiome and host health; 5) biomarkers and/or surrogate indicators of host function and pathogenic processes based on the microbiome need to be determined and validated, along with normal ranges, using approaches similar to those used to establish biomarkers and/or surrogate indicators based on host metabolic phenotypes; 6) future studies measuring responses to an exposure or intervention need to combine validated microbiome-related biomarkers and/or surrogate indicators with multiomics characterization of the microbiome; and 7) because static genetic sampling misses important short- and long-term microbiome-related dynamic changes to host health, future studies must be powered to account for inter- and intraindividual variation and should use repeated measures within individuals.
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Hawthorne, Elizabeth K. "Associate-degree IT2014." ACM Inroads 5, no. 2 (June 2014): 37–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2614512.2614524.
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Sharko, Elena. "Promotion of a healthy lifestyle in Russia and China The first results of COVID-19 and trends in the post-COVID economy." BRICS Journal of Economics 2, no. 3 (September 30, 2021): 27–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.38050/2712-7508-2021-3-2.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has not only become a test for all mankind, but also gave reason to rethink the attitude to their health not only for people from the high-risk category, but also for everyone. Before the pandemic, the concept of a healthy lifestyle was gaining a powerful economic momentum (popularization of communities associated with fitness products, advertising, healthy products, etc.). But has the trend changed after the restrictions were eased? The purpose of this paper is to find out whether the healthy lifestyle concept affected the preservation of the health of the nation during the pandemic (is there a link between the level of national health and the degree of resistance to pandemics?). The study focuses on two countries — Russia and China. The difference in the population’s perception of the healthy lifestyle concept, promotion of a healthy lifestyle at the governmental level, and the assessment of its effectiveness are determined based on the analysis of secondary statistical data, a survey of 1,230 respondents from Russia and China in late 2020 — early 2021, as well as using econometric factor analysis. The results obtained can be scaled to the rest of the BRICS countries in order to adapt existing state programs to preserving the health of nations in the future.
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Schrodt, Paul. "Disagreement in perceptions of stepfamily communication and functioning: Implications for mental health." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 38, no. 1 (October 8, 2020): 393–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407520964862.
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This study tested the degree to which disagreement in perceptions of stepfamily communication and functioning is associated with the mental health of family members. Participants included 119 stepfamily triads from two different regions of the United States. Results indicate that stepfamily dissension and avoidance are inversely associated with the mental health of family members, whereas stepfamily involvement, flexibility, and expressiveness are positively associated with mental health. Disagreement in family members’ perceptions of stepfamily dissension is negatively associated with the mental health of both adults, whereas disagreement in perceptions of stepfamily involvement is inversely associated with the mental health of stepchildren. The results extend efforts to identify communication behaviors that differentiate strong stepfamilies from those struggling with the developmental process.
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Surachman, Agus, Elissa Hamlat, Anthony Zannas, Barbara Laraia, and Elissa Epel. "GRANDPARENTS’ EDUCATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH GRANDCHILDREN’S EPIGENETIC AGE IN THE NGHS STUDY." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2022): 219–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.875.
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Abstract We leveraged information solicited from three generations (grandparents, mothers, and grandchildren) to examine the association between mothers’ childhood SES (based on grandparents’ educational attainment) and their children’s epigenetic age and whether the association was mediated by mothers’ life course socioeconomic and health-related factors. Mothers were recruited to the NHLBI Growth and Health Study when they were 9 or 10 and followed for ten consecutive years (1987-1998). Grandparents reported their highest education during the baseline interviews. Mothers were then re-contacted three decades later (ages 37-42) to participate in the National Growth and Health Study (NGHS), and health information of their youngest children (i.e., grandchildren; N = 241, ages 2-17) were collected, including their saliva samples to calculate epigenetic age. Two epigenetic ages were estimated (Horvath and Hannum), and DNA methylation age accelerations (DNAmAAs) were calculated using residuals from regressing chronologic age on each epigenetic age metrics. Mothers’ life course socioeconomic and health-related mediators included childhood BMI trajectories (from age 9 to 19), highest education level, adult health behavior, and adult c-reactive protein (CRP). Adjusted for age and sex, grandchildren with college degree grandparents showed significantly slower Horvath’s DNAmAA than those with no college degree. The association between grandparent’s education level and grandchildren’s DNAmAA was partially mediated by mothers’ life course socioeconomic and health-related factors, especially mothers’ education, health behavior, and CRP. Grandparents’ educational attainment is a critical socioeconomic context of mothers’ early rearing, and it might have a long-lasting impact on their grandchildren’s epigenetic marker.
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Morris, Alan. "A McMaster retrospective: how publishing in a student journal shaped my career." NEXUS: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology 22 (November 11, 2014): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.15173/nexus.v22i1.898.
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Alan G. Morris is Professor in the Department of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town. A Canadian by birth and upbringing, Professor Morris is also a naturalised South African. He has an undergraduate degree in Biology from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo Ontario, and a PhD in Anatomy from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Professor Morris has published extensively on the origin of anatomically modern humans, and the Later Stone Age, Iron Age and Historic populations of Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and South Africa. In more recent years he has extended his skeletal biology knowledge to the field of forensic anthropology. Professor Morris’ book ‘Missing and Murdered’ was the winner of the WW Howells Prize for 2013 from the American Anthropological Association. He has an additional interest in South African history and has published on the history of race classification, the history of physical anthropology in South Africa and on the Canadian involvement in the Anglo-Boer War. Professor Morris was selected as a visiting Fulbright Scholar in 2012-2013 and spent 9 months at The Ohio State University where he worked with American scholars on the ‘Global History of Health’ project. He is a council member of the Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, an associate editor of the South African Journal of Science and an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
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Padrini-Andrade, Lucio, Rita de Cássia Xavier Balda, Kelsy Catherina Nema Areco, Paulo Bandiera-Paiva, Marynéa do Vale Nunes, Sérgio Tadeu Martins Marba, Werther Brunow de Carvalho, et al. "EVALUATION OF USABILITY OF A NEONATAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM ACCORDING TO THE USER’S PERCEPTION." Revista Paulista de Pediatria 37, no. 1 (January 2019): 90–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-0462/;2019;37;1;00019.
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ABSTRACT Objective: To measure the level of satisfaction regarding the usability of a neonatal health information system and identify if demographic factors can influence the usability of a health information system. Methods: A cross-sectional, exploratory study was carried out with a convenience sample of 50 users of the Brazilian Neonatal Research Network. The instrument chosen for the usability evaluation was the System Usability Scale between February and March 2017. The statistical analysis of the collected variables was carried out in order to describe the sample, to quantify the level of satisfaction of the users and to identify the variables associated with the level of satisfaction. Results: The female gender represented 75% of the sample. The mean age was 52.8 years; 58% had a doctoral degree, average time of graduation was 17 years, with area of practice in medicine (neonatology), with intermediate knowledge in computer science (74%) and mean system use time of 52 months. Regarding usability, 94% rated the system as “good”, “excellent” or “better than imaginable”. The usability of the system was not associated with age, gender, education, profession, area of practice, knowledge in computer science and time of system use. Conclusion: The level of satisfaction of the computerized health system user was considered good. No demographic factors were associated with the satisfaction of the users.
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Hill, Patricia Wonch, Judy Diamond, Amy N. Spiegel, Elizabeth VanWormer, Meghan Leadabrand, and Julia McQuillan. "Accuracy of COVID-19 relevant knowledge among youth: Number of information sources matters." PLOS ONE 17, no. 12 (December 27, 2022): e0267871. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267871.
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Can comics effectively convey scientific knowledge about COVID-19 to youth? What types and how many sources of information did youth have about COVID-19 during the pandemic? How are sources of information associated with accurate COVID-19 knowledge? To answer these questions, we surveyed youth in grades 5–9 in a Midwestern United States school district in the winter of 2020–2021. The online survey used measures of COVID-19 knowledge and sources, with an embedded experiment on COVID-19 relevant comics. Guided by an integrated science capital and just-in-time health and science information acquisition model, we also measured level of science capital, science identity, and utility of science for health and society. The school district protocol required parental consent for participation; 264 of ~15,000 youth participated. Youth were randomly assigned one of four comic conditions before receiving an online survey. Results indicate that, similar to knowledge gains in comic studies on other science topics, reading the comics was associated with 7 to 29% higher accuracy about COVID-19. We found that youth reported getting information about COVID-19 from between 0–6 sources including media, family, friends, school, and experts. The bivariate positive association of news versus other sources with accuracy of knowledge did not persist in the full model, yet the positive association of a higher number of sources and accuracy did persist in the multivariate models. The degree of valuing the utility of science for their health moderated the number of sources to accuracy association. Those with less value on science for health had a stronger positive association of number of sources and accuracy in COVID-19 knowledge. We conclude that during a pandemic, even with health and science information ubiquitous in the news media, increasing youth access to a variety of accurate sources of information about science and health can increase youth knowledge.
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Perkins, Kenneth A., and Joshua L. Karelitz. "Acute perceptions of preferred cigarettes when blinded to brand." Tobacco Control 28, no. 3 (July 10, 2018): 311–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054388.
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BackgroundMarketing claims often have promoted specific perceptions that users should expect from acutely smoking that cigarette brand. Yet, little controlled study has determined the degree to which actual perceptions are based on the cigarette’s tobacco constituents in the absence of knowledge about the brand’s identity.Methods194 adult dependent smokers rated their perceptions on ‘liking’, ‘satisfying’, ‘strong’ and perceived amount of ‘nicotine’ after smoking ad lib one of their preferred brands of cigarettes. All did so either when blinded (n=118) or unblinded (n=76) to the brand they were given, with the blinding conditions from separate studies. These between-groups secondary analyses determined differences in perceptions based on blinding to brand, controlling for age and cigarettes/day.ResultsAll perceptions were lower for those smoking own brand under blinded versus unblinded conditions, as hypothesised. Consistent with lowered perceptions for smoking one’s own brand obtained from the 118 blinded to brand, their ‘somewhat’ ratings for a ‘how similar to own brand’ item indicated uncertainty, just mid-way between ‘not at all’ and ‘very much’ on the 0–100 visual analogue scale. (The 76 unblinded were already informed it was their own brand.)ConclusionsAcute perceptions of one’s own cigarette are substantially lower when smokers are simply unaware of brand, relative to those aware it is their preferred brand. Results support the notion that perceptions of smoking own brand are enhanced by marketing efforts to associate brands with expectations of pleasurable subjective effects, beyond the impact due solely to the cigarette’s manufactured product constituents.
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Picton-Barnes, D’arcy, Manikam Pillay, and David Lyall. "A Systematic Review of Healthcare-Associated Infectious Organisms in Medical Radiation Science Departments." Healthcare 8, no. 2 (March 30, 2020): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8020080.
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Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) pose a significant occupational risk to medical radiation science (MRS) professionals, who have a high degree of patient contact. Current research largely focusses on HAIs in patients, with limited attention given to infectious organisms that MRS professionals are exposed to. This is a significant gap that this systematic review seeks to address by summarizing current literature to determine the infectious organisms within MRS departments, their reservoirs, and transmission modes. Reporting of this systematic review follows the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses guidelines. Five databases were searched (Scopus, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL)) for relevant studies published between 1983 and 2018. Quality assessment was performed using checklists from the Johanna Briggs Institute. Nineteen studies were included in the review; twelve of which were set in diagnostic radiography departments, two in radiotherapy departments, and five in non-MRS departments. No studies were set in nuclear medicine departments, indicating a gap in the available literature. A total of 19 genera of infectious organisms were identified in the literature, with Staphylococcus, Escherichia, Bacillus, and Corynebacterium reported in all MRS departments. Infectious organisms were identified in all observational studies, indicating a need for better infection control methods and/or compliance training within MRS to minimize the risk of infections.
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Bolhuis, Dieuwerke, Ana Carolina Mosca, and Nicoletta Pellegrini. "Consumer Awareness of the Degree of Industrial Food Processing and the Association with Healthiness—A Pilot Study." Nutrients 14, no. 20 (October 21, 2022): 4438. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14204438.
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Consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) has been associated with lower diet quality, obesity, and adverse health effects. Not much is known about how consumers evaluate the degree of processing of a food product and how they relate this to healthiness. An online questionnaire was completed by a total of 277 Dutch, 204 Italian, and 181 Brazilian consumers. Consumers were aged 18–65 year, mean 38 ± 13 year, 31% were males, and 71% were highly educated. Pictures of several common food products were evaluated on the degree of industrial processing and healthiness. Thirteen food categories were included, each including one minimally processed food (MPF), one High NS_UPF (Nutri-Score A or B), and one Low NS_UPF (Nutri-Score D or E). Lastly, knowledge and attitude about UPFs were assessed. Ultraprocessing was perceived as unhealthy by the majority of consumers (Dutch, Italian: 55%; Brazilian: 75%) and contributed to weight gain according to: 38% Dutch, 51% Italian, and 70% Brazilian consumers. Low NS_UPFs were correctly rated toward “processed” and “not healthy” in all countries. High NS_UPF were rated as processed but showed large variations in healthiness scores. In conclusion, consumers rated UPFs relatively low in healthiness compared with MPFs with similar Nutri-Scores within the same food category. These preliminary findings suggest that consumers incorporate, to some extent, the degree of industrial processing while assessing the healthiness of food products.
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Perin, Gessica, Matheus D. Baldissera, Matheus Fernandes, Mauricio Barreta, Renata A. Casagrande, Luiz Gustavo Griss, Bruno F. Fortuoso, et al. "Effects of tannin-containing diets on performance, gut disease control and health in broiler chicks." Animal Production Science 59, no. 10 (2019): 1847. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/an18393.
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The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the intestinal microbiota of broiler chickens, and the possibility of antibiotic residues in meat and meat products are seen as a threat to animal and human health. The search for alternatives to conventional drugs, including natural compounds, is an interesting approach to prevent the adverse effects of antibiotics. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to evaluate whether the addition of tannin (as a quebracho extract) in the diet of broiler chickens could be used to replace in-feed antimicrobials and coccidiostatic drugs, to exert positive effects on animal health and performance. The use of tannin in the diet of broiler chicks as an additive (at 0.5% for 1–10-day-old birds; and 1.0% for 11–42-day-old broiler chickens) enhanced their bodyweight, weight gain and daily weight gain on Day 42 of life, compared with the untreated control group (P < 0.05). However, these findings were not observed when tannin was added at 0.5%. Moreover, broiler chickens fed with an extract containing tannins showed higher erythrocyte counts, as well as haemoglobin and haematocrit concentrations than did those in the control group, whereas counts of total leukocytes and lymphocytes were lower (P < 0.05). The use of a diet with tannins did not influence meat quality compared with a diet containing zinc bacitracin and salinomycin, which altered some parameters associated with meat colour. Moreover, the diet with tannins reduced (P < 0.05) the number of oocysts of Eimeria sp. (36-day-old broilers) and the total faecal bacterial counts (42-day-old broilers) compared with the control group. Finally, intestinal histopathology showed that the addition of tannins minimised the degree of lesions (Degree 1) compared with the control group (Degree 3). On the basis of these results, we concluded that the use of quebracho extract containing tannins can be a suitable approach to improve the performance of broiler chickens, replacing in-feed antibiotics and coccidiostatic drugs. The use of tannins did not change meat quality; however, it caused positive effects on the immune system, and exerted potent bactericidal and coccidiostatic properties, reinforcing its use as a replacement for conventional drugs.
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Gängler, Stephanie, Hanna Steiner, Michael Gagesch, Sophie Guyonnet, E. John Orav, Arnold von Eckardstein, Walter C. Willett, and Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari. "Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Incidence of Pre-Frailty and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Adults 70+: The 3-Year DO-HEALTH Study." Nutrients 14, no. 19 (October 6, 2022): 4145. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14194145.
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The Mediterranean diet has been associated with many health benefits. Therefore, we investigated whether the degree of adherence to the Mediterranean diet at baseline, or changes in adherence over time, were associated with the incidence of pre-frailty or frailty in generally healthy older adults. This study used the DO-HEALTH trial data. We evaluated Mediterranean diet adherence with Panagiotakos’ MedDietScore at baseline and at 3-year follow-up; frailty was assessed annually with the Fried frailty phenotype. We used minimally and fully adjusted mixed logistic regression models to estimate the exposure–disease relationship. We included 1811 participants without frailty at baseline (mean age 74.7 years; 59.4% women). Baseline adherence, as reflected by the MedDietScore, was not associated with becoming pre-frail [OR(95%CI) = 0.93 (0.83–1.03) for five-point greater adherence] or frail [OR(95%CI) = 0.90 (0.73–1.12) for five points]. However, a five-point increase in the MedDietScore over three years was associated with lower odds of becoming pre-frail [OR(95%CI) = 0.77 (0.68–0.88)] and frail [OR(95%CI) = 0.77 (0.64–0.92)]. In generally healthy and active older adults, baseline adherence to the Mediterranean diet was not associated with the incidence of pre-frailty or frailty over a 3-year follow-up. However, improved adherence to the Mediterranean diet over time was associated with significantly lower odds of becoming pre-frail or frail.
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Tadrous, Ragy, Deirdre O’Rourke, Julie Broderick, and David Mockler. "509 Health-Related Quality of Life in Narcolepsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Sleep 44, Supplement_2 (May 1, 2021): A200—A201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab072.508.
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Abstract Introduction Narcolepsy is a neurological condition that has been associated with considerable detriment to daily life including impaired quality of life, occupational and academic difficulties and adversely affected social and personal relationships. To date, there has been no systematic analysis of the literature regarding health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Narcolepsy. This systematic review aimed to examine the impact of narcolepsy on HRQoL, measured through standardised HRQoL questionnaires such as the Short Form 36 (SF36). Methods Medline, Embase, Cinahl and Web of Science were searched for studies which investigated HRQoL in adults with narcolepsy. Studies were reviewed independently by two reviewers, and a random-effects meta-analysis was performed. The methodological quality of the included studies was assessed using a modified version of the Joanna Briggs Institute Checklist for Analytical Cross Sectional Studies tool. The impact of study variables and characteristics on HRQoL was assessed using Spearman’s Correlation analyses with adjusted r2 values. Results A total of 30 studies were eligible for inclusion in the review. Additionally, meta-analyses were conducted for the SF36 and the EQ5D. The SF36 meta-analysis identified that the pooled mean scores for the Physical Component Summary (45.91) were less affected than the Mental Component Summary (42.98). The HRQoL of people with narcolepsy was compared to general population norms (US, UK, France and Norway) and to people with chronic diseases including multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and epilepsy. Conclusion People with narcolepsy report significant impairments in HRQoL when compared to the general population and other chronic health conditions including epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, diabetes and hypertension, especially concerning their mental wellbeing. Further research is warranted to identify the longitudinal effects of narcolepsy on HRQoL and to develop a narcolepsy-specific HRQoL tool. Support (if any) This review was completed as part of Mr Ragy Tadrous’ Master of Science (MSc) degree in Trinity College Dublin. This degree was co-sponsored by the Physiotherapy Department in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin.
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Becerra-Tomás, Nerea, Christopher Papandreou, and Jordi Salas-Salvadó. "Legume Consumption and Cardiometabolic Health." Advances in Nutrition 10, Supplement_4 (November 1, 2019): S437—S450. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmz003.
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ABSTRACT Legumes are key components of several plant-based diets and are recognized as having a wide range of potential health benefits. Previous systematic reviews and meta-analyses have summarized the evidence regarding different cardiometabolic outcomes, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), and legume consumption. However, those studies did not differentiate between nonsoy and soy legumes, which have different nutritional profiles. The aim of the present updated review, therefore, was to summarize and meta-analyze the published evidence regarding legume consumption (making a distinction between nonsoy and soy legumes) and cardiometabolic diseases. In addition, we reviewed randomized clinical trials assessing the effect of legume consumption on CVD risk factors in order to understand their associations. The results revealed a prospective, significant inverse association between total legume consumption and CVD and coronary heart disease risk, whereas a nonsignificant association was observed with T2D and stroke. In the stratified analysis by legume subtypes, only nonsoy legumes were associated with lower risk of T2D. Unfortunately, owing to the paucity of studies analyzing legumes and CVD, it was not possible to stratify the analysis for these outcomes. Because of the high degree of heterogeneity observed for most of the outcomes and the few studies included in some analyses, further prospective studies are warranted to determine the potential role of legume consumption on CVD and T2D.
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Nordoff, Jan, and Iolo Madoc-Jones. "Aiming higher: more than “on the job” training for residential child care workers." Journal of Children's Services 9, no. 1 (March 12, 2014): 42–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcs-12-2013-0037.
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Purpose – Children who enter the care system in England and Wales are among some of the most vulnerable children in society, often presenting with high levels of need. Ensuring that the children's workforce has the skills and knowledge to meet the challenges of caring for this group of children has been at the forefront of policy agendas over the past two decades. This paper aims to report on an educational initiative to develop the capacity of residential childcare staff to work therapeutically with children. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the origins and nature of the Foundation Degree in Therapeutic Childcare and documents the reflections of tutors responsible for delivering the programme on their experiences. Comments from a small student sample are included to highlight the student perspective in studying for the Foundation Degree. Findings – The paper concludes that while some barriers exist in delivering the Foundation Degree to residential child care workers, programmes designed to develop knowledge and understanding of working therapeutically with children should be promoted. Originality/value – The paper highlights some of the issues and challenges associated with educating the children's workforce and reports back on one of the first Foundation Degrees in the UK focusing on residential and foster care workers.
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Song, Mi-Kyung, Sudeshna Paul, and Mary Beth Happ. "INFORMAL CAREGIVING NETWORKS FOR PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA SUPERIMPOSED ON COMPLEX MULTIMORBIDITY." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2022): 554–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2098.
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Abstract Informal caregiving research has focused on the primary caregiver and caregiver-patient dyad. Thus, we know little about caregiving beyond the dyadic relationship. This study was to gain a comprehensive understanding of informal caregiving networks for individuals with dementia superimposed on complex multimorbidity. We used egocentric social network analysis to obtain caregiving information of 46 patients with moderate to severe cognitive impairment, 5 chronic conditions on average, and undergoing hemodialysis (4.3 mean years). Most patients (n=35, 77.8%) were Black, 22 (47.8%) male, and mean age of 73.9 years. Starting with the primary family caregiver (FCG), up to 2 additional FCGs were recruited for each patient, totaling 76 FCGs (46 primary, 30 non-primary). Most were a child of the patient (n=39, 51.3%), female (n=57, 75%), and 54.2 years of age. Of the 46 networks, 16 (35%) included only one FCG (singletons). Multimember networks (n=30, 65%) provided longer caregiving than singletons (7.7 vs 3.8 years, p=0.008). Average network size was 2.8, and 26 (54.5%) networks had at least one male caregiver. Among the 30 multimember networks, average size was 3.8, density (proportion of possible ties) was 0.9, and mean degree and maximum degree (number of ties per member to other network members) were 2.5 and 2.8, respectively. Higher mean and maximum degrees were associated with fewer 12-month patient hospitalizations (r=-0.47, p=0.01; r=-0.43, p=0.02, respectively). Including additional caregiver informants significantly increased network size, ties and maximum degree centrality compared to those based on primary caregiver only, allowing for fuller network description.
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Karan, Orv C., Sara Brandenburg, Margaret Sauer, David E. Yoder, Pamela Mathy-Laikko, Francisco Villarruel, and Terrence R. Dolan. "Maximizing Independence for Persons Who are Developmentally Disabled: Community-Based Programs at the Waisman Center University Affiliated Facility." Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps 11, no. 4 (December 1986): 286–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154079698601100409.
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All University Affiliated Facilities conduct interdisciplinary programs of training, education/service, research, and outreach in the area of developmental disabilities. In this article four representative programs of the Waisman Center University Affiliated Facility in Madison, Wisconsin are described. They all share the following common features: each has been designed to augment and support the independence of persons who are developmentally disabled, each is either conducted in a community-based setting or designed to train persons who will work in such settings, and each is used as a resource for the conduct of interdisciplinary training for educators and clinicians. Included in this article are descriptions of (a) a paraprofessional training program that leads to an associate degree in community services, (b) an innovative supported employment program specifically designed for adults still living in public institutions, (c) a service/research program that provides persons who do not have speech capability with the technology and training for communicating, and (d) an evaluation/research program for promoting communication skills in persons who are mentally retarded, deaf, and blind.
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Eltahir, Mohd Elmagzoub, Najeh Rajeh Alsalhi, and Sami Sulieman Al-Qatawneh. "Implementation of E-exams during the COVID-19 pandemic: A quantitative study in higher education." PLOS ONE 17, no. 5 (May 20, 2022): e0266940. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266940.
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The primary aim of this study was to identify the degree of acceptance of e-exams by undergraduate students at Ajman University during the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study used the descriptive approach. A questionnaire consisting of 27 items was distributed to 1986 undergraduate students. The results of the study showed that undergraduate students demonstrated a moderate degree of acceptance of the implementation of e-exams during the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, with females students finding them more acceptable than male students. Discipline and academic year also showed an impact on such acceptance, with Pharmacy & Health Science College students, and those in their third academic year demonstrating the highest levels of acceptance. Implications of the study raise awareness of the importance of addressing challenges associated with e-exams such as strict computer technology settings.