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Evidence for Sensory Integration and Sensory-Based Interventions for Mental Health in Pediatric Populations
Get PDFThere is an increasing prevalence of mental health concerns within the pediatric population (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2022). To equip practitioners to address this need, researchers examined the literature to consolidate the evidence for the following question: For children with mental health conditions, do Ayres\u27 Sensory Integration and/or sensory-based interventions reduce mental health symptoms? . This project was undertaken in collaboration with Dr. Jackie Brown, DrOT, OTR/L, owner of Apple Tree Therapy, a private pediatric occupational therapy (OT) clinic in Kitsap County, WA. In sum, there is a moderate evidence base to support the use of Ayres\u27 Sensory Integration (ASI), ASI-informed, and specific sensory-based interventions for children with anxiety, emotional, behavioral, and self-regulatory challenges, executive functioning challenges, hyperactivity, and tics. We recommend that practitioners and families consider incorporating evidence-based interventions, and that researchers continue investigating this topic to provide greater depth of evidence and to incorporate other pediatric mental health conditions. To translate this knowledge, researchers created an eight minute in-service recording to support practitioners in employing evidence-based approaches in treating children within five main areas of mental health concern: emotional, behavioral, and self-regulation challenges; executive functioning challenges; anxiety; hyperactivity; and tics. The recording was shared with Dr. Brown\u27s team along with a pre-in-service and post-in-service survey. Of the four team therapists, two responded to the pre-in-service survey and three responded to the post-in-service survey. Researchers also created a one-page handout for parents to raise awareness about the evidence-based approaches. Survey results indicated that the in-service recording was well-received by clinicians, who reported that findings were likely to influence future practice decisions. Future student groups can investigate a broader array of OT interventions for a wider variety of diagnoses
The Role of MMP-2 on Collagen Degradation in Skeletal Muscle after Functional Overload in Adult Mice
Get PDFExploring Racism in Health Pedagogy
Get PDFUtilizing a classroom incident that prompted formal public and informal private conversations about race across the campus of a New England regional comprehensive university, we suggest that the discussion of race in public health and health promotion is often compartmentalized. The pedagogy of public health and health promotion often examines race in terms of health disparities, access to health care, cultural sensitivity and competence among public health providers. While this examination is applauded, it does not adequately confront racism and the experience of race by students in actual public health classrooms. Race, we argue, appears theoretical and does not acknowledge the lived experiences of students in the classrooms and is without a discussion of whiteness or white supremacy. This piece explores a classroom approach to engage the topic of race through an examination of whiteness in order to inform future pedagogy and professional practice. We suggest that public health in both professional practice and as an academic discipline requires confronting white supremacy and racism not only in pedagogy but in course content, faculty development, and administration. We conclude that it is ineffective to merely embrace racial diversity without being anti-racist
Who Sent the Devil Down to Georgia? An Analysis of the Causes of the Russo-Georgian War of 2008 and its Effects on Georgian Democracy
Get PDFRetrofitting Washington\u27s Past: An Ethnographic Analysis on Modernist Parcels through Urban Spatial. Discourse
Get PDFFor my 2022 summer research project, I collaborated with Professor Gardner of the Sociology and Anthropology department to study, investigate, and analyze Modernist-era units of development in Washington state. Dominating the urban construction of the twentieth century, Modernist architects and planners often relied on large parcels of land for a designated, niche, purpose, yet as society both politically and socially evolved and shifted away from this type of planning, these parcels fit awkwardly into contemporary urban landscape – today, some are bordering on useless, others simply abandoned. My research focused on three Modernist-era parcels found here in Washington state: the former Satsop Nuclear Plant, the now-defunct Northern State Hospital campus, and the grounds of Expo ‘74 in downtown Spokane. Through studying these parcels’ original histories and engaging in ethnographic fieldwork and observation of their current states and uses, I sought to understand how these spaces of the past have been incorporated into the contemporary urban landscapes of our state, what factors led to the most successful retrofittings, and how these parcels have persevered in the postmodernist era
The Impact of Operation Pedro Pan in the Pacific Northwest: Issues of Community, Identity and Memory
Get PDFThis research aims to compare the experience of children who ended up in Portland, OR through Operation Pedro Pan versus children that ended up in different places. Operation Pedro Pan was an exodus of unaccompanied minors from Cuba to the United States from 1960 to 1962 because of Fidel Castro who was a Communist coming into power. The research involved oral histories with Portland Pedro Pans, and adding a bit more information to Cuban history
COVID Restrictions Did Not Decrease Physical Activity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Get PDFBackground
Understanding the long-term impacts of COVID-19-related stay-at-home orders on physical activity can help clinicians prepare for consequences that may impact their patient populations.
Purpose
This study examined effects of the 2020 COVID-19 stay-at-home orders on physical activity levels in community-dwelling older adults including the number of hours they spent walking outside of the home and working/volunteering in the community.
Methods
Eighty-nine participants completed a monthly Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) for 10 months. One-way repeated measures ANOVAs with post hoc analyses were calculated to determine differences among PASE scores, PASE item 2 scores, and work/volunteer hours at baseline and for seven months following the implementation of COVID restrictions. Paired t-tests were calculated to determine differences in outcomes in the months prior to and after COVID restrictions.
Results
The mean baseline PASE score and PASE item 2 score were 131.96+56.49 and 23.39+21.10, respectively. Participants worked or volunteered 3.10+5.76 hours per week. There were no differences among monthly PASE scores (F=2.98, p=.018) except scores at baseline score and in August (107.26+60.19, p=.034). There were no differences in PASE item 2 scores or work/volunteer hours (F=1.03, p=.424; F=1.35, p=.246, respectively). No differences were found between pre- and post-restriction PASE scores, PASE item 2 scores, or work/volunteer hours (p=.732, .391, and .711, respectively).
Conclusion
Pre-COVID PASE scores did not differ from scores during seven months of COVID-19 restrictions. Participants maintained a similar amount of time walking in their communities during the pandemic. The number of work/volunteer hours did not change during the COVID-19 restrictions