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Student of the Month January 2025
No full textAyah is the Faculty-Nominated Student of the Month for January 2025 for:
· Sustained excellence in research (worked with NSU faculty to publish a manuscript)
· Dedication to leadership
· “This manuscript never would have been written if not for the initiative pt forward by Ayah, who stayed with the manuscript at every step, including the last minute when the journal editor requested additional information, which Ayah was able to provide. She has been the pharmacy student most involved in making sure our manuscript completed the submission process, which proved to be far more challenging than anticipated.”https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_corx_hof_all/1080/thumbnail.jp
Strategies for Health Literacy Assessment and Patient Education in Athletic Training Practice: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Get PDFPurpose: Health literacy plays a vital role in patients’ health and dictates their ability to locate, process, and understand basic health information to make informed decisions. Athletic trainers in the secondary school (SSATs) setting work with patients with varying health literacy levels. The purpose of this study was to explore SSATs\u27 knowledge of health literacy and integration of best practice behaviors for patient education. Methods: A cross-sectional design, web-based survey including demographic, patient education practice behaviors, and health literacy knowledge assessment questions. Practice behavior questions identified techniques, strategies, and educational materials used during patient education. Health literacy knowledge assessment questions assessed health literacy knowledge of SSATs about patient education materials, reading levels, consequences and financial burden of low health literacy, and ways to enhance communication with patients with low health literacy. A Content Validity Index (CVI) assessed the demographic questions and practice behaviors questions (S-CVI/Ave = 0.94). A modified Delphi approach, including 3 athletic trainers with related expertise, was used to build consensus across 3 rounds of review on the knowledge assessment questions. Of the 13 original knowledge assessment questions proposed, only 10 had consensus for inclusion in the final instrument. Descriptive statistics were calculated using the measures of central tendency for demographics, practice behaviors, and the health literacy knowledge assessment. Results: Verbal communication, demonstration, and pictures were the most used patient education strategies. Just over half of the participants assessed the grade level of their own written patient education materials. Participants mostly learned about health literacy through continuing education or clinical/lived experience. The overall score for health literacy knowledge assessment was 1.5±1.1 out of 10 with a high score 4/10, indicating low knowledge on the assessment and impact of health literacy on patient care. The items correctly answered included understanding the average reading level of the U.S. population and best practices for reading level of patient education materials. Conclusion: SSATs scored particularly low on a consensus-validated health literacy knowledge assessment and reported few best practice patient education behaviors raising concerns for how well-prepared athletic trainers are for assessing health literacy and educating patients
Pull or Play? The interpretation of a novel, AI-powered on-field decision support tool.
Get PDFThe document titled Pull or Play? The interpretation of a novel, AI-powered on-field decision support tool explores the development and application of the Injury Impact Severity Score (IISS)™ for assessing traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), particularly in sports settings. It addresses the limitations of current assessment tools like the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and proposes a more objective approach using patient-reported data and machine learning algorithms.
Key points include: Background: TBIs are a significant health concern with under-reported cases and a lack of effective research. Current assessment tools like the GCS have limitations in accuracy and speed, especially in dynamic field settings. Objective: Develop the IISS™ as a rapid, reliable tool to aid on-field decisions about whether an athlete should continue playing or be evaluated further. Method: Utilized patient-reported data from the Sallie™ platform to create predictive models for critical TBI symptoms like loss of consciousness and coma. These models achieved high accuracy rates. Results: Identified distinct patient clusters based on severity scores, validating the IISS™ effectiveness in differentiating TBI severity. Discussion: Emphasizes the potential of IISS™ in enhancing TBI assessment, acknowledging the need for ongoing data refinement and user input to improve accuracy and applicability.
Overall, the IISS™ represents a significant advancement in TBI management, aiming to improve decision-making and patient outcomes in sports and potentially other high-pressure environments
“Me Dancing”: An Intrinsic Case Study of Primary School Girls’ Understandings of Movement and Dance Through Their Drawings
Get PDFChildren’s drawings powerfully illuminate their views and opinions about movement experiences in a range of environments. For younger children it is more pertinent to seek their ideas via their drawings. Using the voices and images of primary school age girls, we examine their understandings of movement and dance. Using an intrinsic case study method, two classes of eight-to-ten-year-old girls in a suburban primary school in Melbourne Australia were asked to produce a drawing of “me dancing.” Each child was invited to expand on their drawing in a short open-ended interview. The drawings were analysed in different ways and compared with the children’s explanations. We probed the oral and visual viewpoints of child-dancers. The findings reveal many different interpretations of the meaning of movement and dance in young girls’ lives. There are implications for future dance education which may improve dance teaching and learning within this age group
Decolonizing Peace Education in Africa: The Role of Culture for Conflict Management in Multicultural Societies
No full textAfrican countries, created as juridical entities by colonists, have failed to satisfy the objective dimensions for their existence as sociological entities, given the lumping together of disparate ethnic groups in the same country without regard to their ethnic identity. This has created incompatibility among ethnic nationalities despite efforts to create new national identities through education, new lingua franca, and new religion, thus fueling cross-cultural conflicts across the continent, a reflection of the divergent positions, interests, and needs of the various ethnic nationalities making up the country. Africa is seen as a theatre of fragility, conflict, and violence.
As a process of knowledge production and acquisition, colonial education in Africa promoted identity problems, alienating students and teachers from their cultural backgrounds while abhorring community-based systems. With various conflict resolution efforts yielding little or no results as most of the conflicts are rooted in ethnic culture and cultural boundaries, there is the need to rethink conflict management in Africa through peace education to educate for peace. Decolonization of Education presupposes the explication of the diverse nature of Africa\u27s lived cultural and historical experiences.
But then, African folklore, tales, and various forms of cultural and religious activities such as weddings, and initiation rites among others, have always promoted human coexistence based on the African social and cultural systems which develop the relevant skills and knowledge to willingly engage for peace and strengthen the resilience to the influences of violence in the community for the promotion of peace. Contextualizing the role of folklore in conflict management in multicultural societies, we show how the Yoruba, like most traditional African societies whose culture and tradition drive their existence, have, over time, used proverbs and folktales to depict every aspect of their living. Be it during celebrations, when mourning, or in grave conflict situations, the Yoruba have used proverbs and folktales to explain the situation at hand and give bits of advice or admonitions for living peacefully together. Yoruba proverbs and folktales as metaphors are symbols of acceptable, tolerable, adequate, and appropriate behavior among members of the society as they willingly strengthen the resilience to the influences of violence in the community for the promotion of peace
Resonating for Peace in Colombia Through Nonviolent Communication
No full textPeace is not only signed at negotiating tables, but is more broadly an ongoing process that is built by all of us day by day. After years of violence in Colombia, daily interactions are often affected by judgement and mistrust. Nonviolent communication (NVC), as developed by Marshall Rosenberg, is a tool for fostering empathy and building connection across difference. Resuena is an organization that has been offering trainings across Colombia to build connections in ways that generate confidence to foster collaborations around needs that unite people. They offer nonviolent communication schools in 15 municipios (counties) with people from areas impacted by the conflict, and have created a national network of NVC facilitators from these regions. As well as this in-person work they send a daily WhatsApp lesson received by over 5,000, and hold weekly online practice sessions. This work and its impact was evaluated through both quantitative and qualitative measures and will be presented here
Finding and Fostering Hope in Violent Times
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The research proposal “Finding and Fostering Hope in Violent Times” is basically an attempt to study the linkages between various aspects of global peace which in turn would reduce violent conflict thereby finding and fostering hope in violent times in this global era. The study focuses and dwelves into the aspect of studying the role of peace in resolving conflicts, the key aspects/parameters/indicators that would result in attaining peace thereby reducing violent conflicts. The issues on non-violent resistance, peace education, human rights, education, role of information and communication technologies, trade facilitation, peace, human security and human rights, UN SDGs in recognizing important role of security for development such as linkages between SDG-16 and human rights, role of UN Human Rights Council in achieving global peace, role of young people in attaining a culture of peace, networks for peace, rescuing the liberal international order and EU security policy to attain peace and reduce conflicts, new agenda for peace advocated by the United Nations, and action to be undertaken in this regard have been studied at length. There has been a study of review of literature on the topic, research questions posited and answered in the light of attainment of global peace and in reducing violent conflicts and the factors accounting for attainment of global peace have also been delineated in the study. Finally, the conclusion of the study and the proposed action to be undertaken have also been brought out in the research study. It is concluded that world peace could be attained through proper and adequate education systems in place, trade and ICT would go a long-way in promoting economic interdependence amongst nations thereby fostering hope in violent times and in attainment of global peace.
Keywords: education, human security, ICT, new peace agenda, trade, UN SDGS, UN Security Counci
The Nature and Causative Factors of the Second World War: The Changing Pattern of World Order and International Conflict
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The world has been divided into more new multi-polar actors for a while after the Second World War. Basically, the Second World War transformed the political and geographical map of the world. The world community and people had witnessed some positive and negative consequences due to this international conflict. The whole world was divided into two blocks by ideological differences in the name of the Cold War (1944–1991). However, the purpose of this study is to highlight the historical, causal, and consequential factors of the Second World War. This study followed a qualitative methodology with an analysis of secondary materials through content analysis. However, the researcher highlighted the theoretical background of international relations, especially liberalism and realists’ proponents and their arguments on war and world order. This article reveals that power politics and ideological differences have resumed among major allied forces after the war, as well as a paradigm shift in the balance of power and dominance of realism in world politics. Hence, the world order and power politics have transferred Europe to America and other parts of the world. On the other hand, this study has found that the present war and skirmishes have some legacy and retrospective factors from the Second World War as a result of the persistence of the culture of war. Still, the present military, interstate, and intrastate conflicts carry the legacy of the Second World War. However, the war was crucial in bringing about independence in different parts of the world. On the other hand, decolonization, the emergence of new financial and western world orders, the supremacy of capitalism and communism, arms races, nuclear proliferation, environmental challenges, and exploration of information and communication technology (ICT) are key impacts of World War II
Coral Physiological Response to Deoxygenated Seawater
No full textDeoxygenation is an emerging threat to coral reefs, with potentially devastating consequences for coral survival, recruitment, and overall reef health. However, the tolerance of different coral species to low dissolved oxygen (DO) conditions varies and depends on factors such as life stage, exposure duration, and species-specific physiological traits. This talk synthesizes findings from two studies investigating the impacts of deoxygenation on corals during different life stages.
The first study examined the effects of severe and moderate deoxygenation on larval settlement and early recruit survival in three Caribbean coral species. While larval settlement was largely unaffected, recruit survival varied among species, revealing important differences in vulnerability during early life stages. The second study explored the physiological responses of adult corals to prolonged low-oxygen conditions, identifying shifts in photosynthesis and respiration that indicate metabolic plasticity as a key mechanism for hypoxia tolerance in some species.
Together, these studies highlight the complexity of coral responses to deoxygenation and emphasize the species-specific nature of these impacts. Understanding how corals tolerate or succumb to low-oxygen conditions is critical as deoxygenation prevalence becomes more frequent and severe in the Anthropocene. These findings provide valuable insights for conservation and restoration efforts, particularly for strategies aimed at enhancing coral recruitment and resilience in the face of global environmental change
Experiencing the First Year of COVID-19 Pandemic: Feelings and Thoughts of Emerging Adults
Get PDFCOVID-19 brought many changes in the daily functioning of many individuals, including emerging adults, due to social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and the closure of public institutions, thus representing a threat to physical and mental health. We investigated how emerging adults felt regarding their experience during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were also interested in what they had been thinking about in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic one year after its declaration. To answer these questions, we conducted a qualitative study. The participants included 51 students aged 19 to 28 years old. Conducting thematic analysis six themes related to the students’ feelings towards COVID-19 emerged: collection of fears, signs of depressed state, social discomfort, loneliness and nostalgia, mood swings and adaptation, and resistance through emotions. Four additional themes emerged related to students’ thoughts on COVID-19: reviewing all information related to the virus, how to protect yourself, orientation to a positive future, and reflection on human strength. These findings give an important insight into the challenges experienced by emerging adults from their perspective, which is valuable for further informing public policy and communities, to create preventive programs that could be applied in similar critical situations