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Perceived Racism and Help Seeking Behaviors on College Campuses
No full textThis goal of this study is to measure if and how perceived racism on college campus affects mental health help seeking behaviors of students. The goal is to examine racism in asynchronous courses as well as synchronous online and face-to-face courses across primarily white and historically black colleges and universities. The proposed study will include assessment of perceived racism, help seeking attitudes, and intent to seek help among students at six universities in the state of Mississippi. Implications would be to open disclosure on micro- affirmation/ micro- inclusions in college courses regardless of course delivery method to improve the well being of all college students regardless of race or ethnicity
Misinformation
No full textThe goal of this study is to research, to watch how misinformation plays a role in our community and world today. We put out misinformation in the public about a hero or savior type story and a suspect and victim story. What we did was put the misinformation out into the world via twitter and when we did it, we made screenshots and waited for reactions. When we posted it, we made updates and acted as if it was being reported live and in the moment. Thought in the end we made changes to the original tweets about how the original suspect was actually not the color or maybe even the gender that was told to the public and they actually had the story wrong the suspect was now the victim and victim the suspect. We did this to get the publics first reaction to the crime, the race or the person, and recorded the publics original perspective of it
Closing Remarks and Award Announcements
No full textClosing remarks from Hillary Richardson and award announcements by Dr. Scott Tollison, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs
Hidden in Plain Sight, Assessing Healthcare Provider Confidence in Identifying Human Trafficking in Their Patient Populations
Full text linkHealthcare providers unknowingly interact with patients involved in human trafficking. A literature review supports the presence of trafficked persons in the United States, the prevalence of their use of the healthcare system, and the lack of human trafficking knowledge among healthcare providers. A combination of high-risk behaviors, physical injuries, and mental offenses associated with human trafficking causes injuries, as well as mental and physical healthcare needs. Healthcare professionals are in a unique position to identify, intervene, and support the complex mental and physical healthcare needs of trafficked persons. However, this population of patients remains unrecognized by healthcare professionals. This practice improvement project investigated healthcare provider confidence in identifying human trafficking among their patients and their knowledge of resources available to them. The researcher used a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design. Fourteen (n=14) research participants in northeast Mississippi were given a pretest, a web-based educational session, and a posttest one month after the education. A paired samples t-test was used to statistically analyze the paired pretest and posttest results. The data analysis revealed a statistically significant increase in confidence in identifying common risk factors ( p \u3c. 001), physical exam findings 5 consistently found in human trafficking survivors (p \u3c .001), and an increase in available resources to them (p \u3c .001). Given the significant results from the data analysis, the research project answered the clinical question and supported the use of a short, web-based educational intervention to increase knowledge and confidence of healthcare providers in identifying trafficked persons
The History of Women at the Columbus Air Force Base: Is it a Blessing or a Curse to be the First?
Full text linkVideo Submission - Sheila Morgan
No full textSheila Morgan reads from The Color Purple by Alice Walke
Video Submission - Allisa Howze
No full textAllisa Howze, MSU Student, reads from A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maa
Video Submission- Izzy Pounders
No full textIzzy Pounders, MUW Student, reads from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Children Through Provider and Staff Education
Full text linkChildren younger than five are more likely to develop severe medical complications from the influenza virus. As of June 4th, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 199 pediatric flu-related deaths for the 2019-2020 influenza season; seventy-eight percent of these deaths occurred in children who had not received a flu vaccination. The CDC annually recommends influenza (Flu) vaccination for all children ages 6 months through 18 years. Any child 6 months to 8 years old who had not received a previous dose of the flu vaccine or whose influenza vaccination history is unknown was recommended to receive a total of two doses of the vaccine four weeks apart. A quality improvement project was performed at three primary care clinics in Northeast Mississippi to improve flu vaccination rates among children 6 months to 18 years old
Primary Care Provider Adherence to Quality Measures: Advance Directives
Full text linkThe need for advance directives is increasingly relevant to the current healthcare system. Advancing technology has transformed chronic, terminal illnesses to conditions that cause slow debilitation. Individuals now enter into care alone more often than in the past. With no advance directive in place, families and/or healthcare providers are forced to make difficult healthcare decisions alone. Advance-care-planning affords the opportunity for disease detection and improving patient outcomes while lowering overall costs; however, such conversations are not easy to approach. Therefore, the purpose of this project was to deliver education to primary care providers in rural Mississippi to improve provider attitudes, knowledge, and behavior regarding the advance directive in order to improve current return rates of the advance directive. An educational session was conducted with pre- and post-surveys. Descriptive and inferential statistics were utilized to analyze the responses to the two surveys as independent samples. Standard statistical analysis was performed on these results, and it was determined that the project goals were met. Primary care provider knowledge rates increased significantly from pre-survey to post-survey (χ2 (1, N = 14) = 4.667, p = 0.031). Self-reported competency skills increased significantly from pre-survey to post-survey (χ2 (1, N = 14) = 7.143, p = 0.008). The percentage of respondents who reported lacking competency or skills decreased from 85.7% to 14.3%, and provider compliance increased significantly from pre-survey to post-survey (χ2 (1, N = 14) = 7.778, p = 0.005). It was concluded improving knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of 5 primary providers with respect to advance directives could improve the quality of care provided for residents in Mississippi