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Successful digital transformation of healthcare requires sound education
No full textDigital transformation is reshaping healthcare delivery, demanding a workforce equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge. Recognising the critical need for informatics expertise, the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) has established recommendations for biomedical and health informatics education. This study examines the perceived importance of integrating digital transformation principles within the healthcare education, particularly among professionals in health and care settings. This research originates from the launch of a new MSc programme in Digital transformation for the Health and Care Professions, designed to address the identified educational gaps. The findings will contribute to understanding the value of digital transformation competencies and inform ongoing curriculum development, preparing future healthcare leaders for a digitally driven healthcare system
Spiritual Beekeeping: An Ethnographic Exploration of Sacred Apiculture in Present-day United States
Full text linkWhile many have acknowledged the existence of sacred apiculture traditions, very little research has been undertaken to understand the practices, experiences, and cosmologies of beekeepers who cultivate spiritual relationships with bees. Historians and researchers have observed sacred apiculture traditions throughout Euro-American culture, with origins of practice and belief reaching back to antiquity.1 Similarly, sacred apiculture is currently prevalent amongst beekeepers throughout the United States.2 However, to date, virtually no ethnographic research has been conducted to better understand the nature of the spiritual relationships between beekeepers and their bees.3 In order to contribute to this underserved area of academic inquiry, this qualitative study leverages one-on-one interviews with sacred apiculture practitioners throughout the United States to explore the myriad rites, beliefs, and experiences associated with these practices. This research finds that sacred apiculture enables practitioners to gain a capacity for interspecies communication, direct access to spiritual wisdom, experiences of miraculous healing, the dissolution of individual identity, and a heightened sense of ecological consciousness. As the first dedicated study of sacred apiculture among active practitioners throughout the present-day United States, this research contributes new and unprecedented insight into the nature of sacred apiculture as it is currently understood, enacted, and experienced by contemporary practitioners
Influence Of Using Mobile Health Monitoring Applications among Elderly Patients for Obesity in the UK
Full text linkBackground: The incidence of obesity in the elderly in the UK is increasing raising a major public health concern associated with comorbidities and costs of healthcare. However, given the increasing role of mobile health (mHealth) applications in weight management, little research has been conducted to date to evaluate their effectiveness for this purpose within an elderly population. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using mHealth monitoring applications in the UK on both the related health outcomes and the directly related behaviour changes, usability, and ethical concerns among elderly patients with obesity.
Methods: Systematic literature review design was used, where quantitative peer-reviewed studies done from 2013 – 2023 were analysed. Databases such as PubMed, Scopus and CINAHL were searched using predefined keywords. Inclusion criteria included studies of elderly users aged 60 and above using mobile application for weight management which showed measurable outcome like BMI, behavioural change, and user engagement. The data of 10 studies were critically appraised and thematically synthesised into four major themes.
Results: mHealth interventions resulted in moderate, however, statistically substantial, BMI and body weight decreases particularly for more than 12 weeks. Self-monitoring and dietary habits improved, but overall engagement has to be maintained, and usability barriers found. Areas for further research will be highlighted in the chapter, and the implications of the insights for policy and practice discussed. There are obvious privacy concerns, with people not familiar with data sharing policies, for the need of ethical transparency. Results from this study can be applied to inform the design of future mHealth interventions, and the results from better, more engaging and easier to use apps for elderly users.
Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that mHealth applications can assist with obese management of the elderly in the UK, provided their usability and privacy issues are resolved. This leads to the need for age-appropriate app design and a better understanding of the data and more longitudinal research
How Organizational Structure Facilitate Pedagogy Knowledge Sharing in Online and Distance Higher Education
Full text linkPedagogy knowledge sharing represents a significant area of interest within the field of online and distance higher education. It represents a crucial strategy for online and distance education higher institutions aiming to retain a competitive advantage in digital transformation. The research adopts a constructivism paradigm and uses the research strategy of grounded theory to explore the boundaryless organizational structure that facilitates pedagogy knowledge sharing among academics of online and distance higher education. This research fills a gap in the research of knowledge sharing processes from an organizational structure perspective. Based on knowledge creation theory, this qualitative study aims to explore what and how organizational structure forms and dimensions facilitate the process of knowledge sharing from individuals to teams and from teams to organizations. The data is collected using semi-structured interviews, observations, and documents. This research analyzes the data, and findings show that boundaryless organizational structure, cross-functional team, community of practice, organizational integration, organizational formalization, and organizational incentives facilitate sharing pedagogy knowledge in online and distance higher education. This research examines the impact of organizational structure on knowledge sharing practices and enriches the theory of organizational knowledge creation, thereby expanding the application of the SECI model and Ba theory and reflecting the integration of research from both management and education disciplines
Enquiry into Classroom Discourse: A Case Study of Pre-service Middle School English Teachers in China
No full textChinese English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ classroom discourse in junior middle school contexts has not been investigated in-depth, especially pre-service EFL teachers’ classroom discourse. This study sought to explore their classroom discourse features, identify how their questions facilitate and hinder learners’ English development, and explore the relationship between their subject matter knowledge (SMK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and error correction. This study targeted a cohort of 15 university students from a BA EFL teacher education
programme who completed school teaching practice in junior middle schools in Southeastern China. A mixed-methods approach was used and data were collected that included participants’ classroom discourse through non-participant classroom observation supplemented with field notes to triangulate participants’ PCK levels. Their SMK levels were measured through questionnaires and their PCK levels through semi-structured interviews. The results revealed an unbalanced coverage of the four modes, with predominantly managerial and materials modes versus comparatively little usage of skills and systems and
classroom context modes. However, new interactional features were identified that participants used to suit their local contexts. Moreover, participants’ questions that were delivered to allow adequate waiting time， match students’ English level and personal
experience and integrate appropriate question strategies were beneficial for students’ English learning; a failure to accommodate these issues was the opposite. Furthermore, no correlation was identified between the participants’ SMK levels and their error corrections in practice. The relationship between participants’ PCK levels and their error corrections
was more complicated, because different correlational tests returned contradictory results. This suggested that additional contextual factors, such as teachers’ workload and examination orientation, deeply influence their correction practice
Parents, teachers and the pandemic: lessons from the Covid experience in Wales for home-school partnerships
No full textThe home-schooling of children during the Covid-19 pandemic shifted the familiar interactions of
schools and parents into a new, online reality and forced a reconsideration of accepted and sometimes
entrenched attitudes. This paper investigates the perspectives on the lived experiences of parents and
teachers as they negotiated the home-learning period, drawing out themes that emphasise the factors
necessary for effective home-school relationships and for stakeholder interactions. These messages
provide valuable learning that is relevant for home-school relations in the post-Covid era. The necessity
of clear knowledge and understanding, relational partnerships and effective communication are central
to the outcomes and conclusions
Interpreting Anxiety: Where it Comes From and How it Varies Across Interpreters of Different Proficiency.
Full text linkAs a complex process of real-time language transformation, interpreting imposes significant cognitive demands due to its features such as time pressure, immediacy, lack of opportunities for revision, and uncertainty, making it highly anxiety-provoking. Despite its significant impact on interpreting performance, research on interpreting anxiety (IA), particularly its source reasons and levels across different proficiencies, remains limited. To address these issues, this thesis aims to explore the source factors and categorisations of IA in consecutive interpreting and how it is produced by developing an Interpreting Anxiety Source Model (IASM), and also investigate how IA varies in terms of different source categories in the preparation stage of interpreting across interpreters of different proficiency levels.
It focuses on Chinese-English interpreters including novice, proficient and professional levels, and employs an exploratory mixed-methods design incorporating both interviews and questionnaires. With 15 interviews, the thesis identifies four categories of IA sources: language knowledge, extralinguistic knowledge, interpreting skills, and stakeholder factors. Integrating this IA source categorisation with cognitive psychology theories, the thesis proposes the IASM, which emphasises the importance of interpreting self-efficacy (ISE) and coping resources in producing and moderating IA. The IASM is also validated via quantitative data.
Key findings from 268 questionnaires reveal significant negative correlations between IA and ISE across all four dimensions. Across three interpreter groups – novice, proficient, and professionals, IA tends to decrease with growing proficiency, with stakeholder factors most likely to induce anxiety among novices, deficiencies in interpreting skills among proficient interpreters, and concerns on extralinguistic knowledge among professionals. These insights highlight the need for tailored strategies targeting managing IA at different proficiency stages.
The outcomes of the research contribute to this interdisciplinary field as it explores IA sources, enhances the theoretical understanding of IA producing mechanisms, and offers practical implications for interpreting education and professional development
Reliability and validity of the Brief Emotional Experience Scale (BEES) as a measure of emotional well-being
Full text linkThis study presents initial reliability and validity evidence for the Brief Emotional Experience Scale (BEES) as a measure of emotional well-being. Using ordinal confirmatory factor analysis across three cross-sectional samples, Australian university students (n = 1239), the general public (n = 5631), and school students from Australia and the UK (n = 767). A correlated two-factor structure was supported. In the university sample, the BEES demonstrated strong convergent validity with other well-being measures and was linked to the lowest levels of reported distress when completing the survey. Preliminary cut-offs for high emotional distress were developed via comparison with the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10), identifying around 20% of females and 10% of males as highly distressed. The findings of this research indicate the BEES can be utilised as a simple, flexible, and low-burden measure of emotional well-being
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