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How Safe and Effective are Glucagon-like peptide-1 Receptor Agonists for Weight Reduction in Obese Patients 12 years and older with and without Type 2 Diabetes?
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Advanced Practice Providers in Managing and Treating Spinal Cord Injury in the Veterans Health Administration
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Potential Risks and Benefits of Adding Hippotherapy to the Cerebral Palsy Treatment Regimen
No full textStrategies for Combating Vaccine Hesitancy in Primary Care
Get PDFThis article will summarize methods for providers to effectively combat vaccine hesitancy in their patient populations. Vaccine hesitancy is a growing concern in the medical field, as new cases of vaccine preventable diseases arise. However, vaccine hesitancy is more common than vaccine resistance and can be converted into vaccine acceptance with effective communication strategies.
There is no easy solution to the complex problem of vaccine hesitancy. Most studies demonstrate that effective conversion to vaccine acceptance requires tailoring vaccine information to the patient and listening to their concerns. Other methods include exposing patients to survivors of vaccine preventable diseases, or using coercive techniques such as financial incentives to increase vaccination rates. While some of these methods may take more time, they are things that can be incorporated into primary care visits.
As medicine encourages increased shared decision making with patients, understanding their concerns and needs are important to address. This is also true with vaccine hesitant patients. Learning to incorporate active listening strategies and using accurate, succinct information is the key to improve vaccine acceptance and prevent new outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses
Relationship Between Outdoor Activity Participation and Physical and Mental Health
No full textMental and physical health are immeasurably important aspects of our lives. Maintaining both of these is crucial for increasing both one’s quality and quantity of life [15]. Research shows that these are areas of health that Americans struggle to maintain [9,15], so any research on ways to improve them is important. This project examines the relationship between outdoor recreational activities and measures of physical and mental health. Information will be sent out to students, faculty, and staff, recruiting 75-100 individuals for testing along with a survey. One section will assess outdoor recreation activity of the subjects, which was created in part using the Oregon Outdoor Recreation Survey [7] along with researcher-created questions. This will include the types of activities, the duration and frequency at which they are performed, reason for participation, location, and more. They will also complete the Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale-21 [8] and the Generalized Self Efficacy Scale [12]. They will then schedule a time to report to Turner Gymnasium, where they will undergo physical health assessments to determine resting heart rate using a heart rate monitor, resting blood pressure using a sphygmomanometer, resting respiratory rate, BMI, and body composition via total body BAA. Based on existing research, we hypothesize that the amount of outdoor recreational activity will have a positive correlation with more favorable mental and physical health measures in students, faculty, and staff at the University of Lynchburg. This project is significant because Americans struggle to maintain physical and mental health [9,15], and understanding methods of improving these aspects of health opens up countless opportunities for informing people of ways to help themselves as well as guide future research in this field