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An Intentional Wholeness Focus and the Association With Burnout in Graduate Students
Get PDFRates of stress, anxiety, depression, and burnout for university students are concerning. As in other competitive professional fields, graduate students in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech language pathology face many performance pressures. Creating supportive learning and wholeness climates along with individual grit, resilience, and healthy spirituality have the potential to positively impact these pressures. The study’s purpose was to examine factors related to burnout within an institution committed to creating supportive learning and wholeness environments. Three hundred and fifty-three graduate students from occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech language pathology graduate programs were recruited to participate in a cross-sectional survey exploring student functioning using primarily validated measures. Hierarchical multiple regressions were utilized to test the unique contributions of perceived learning and wholeness climates, demographics, mental health factors, and potential coping factors to better understand burnout/disengagement and burnout/exhaustion. All models accounted for a significant amount of the variance in both burnout/disengagement (38.2%) and burnout/exhaustion (46.9%). Higher student perceptions of positive wholeness and learning climates, grit, and personal spirituality/peace suggested lower burnout/disengagement, but spirituality/meaning had an unexpected negative outcome. Burnout/exhaustion was negatively associated with anxiety, depression, and spirituality/faith while positively with spirituality/peace. Overall, students’ views of the university providing a supportive wholeness and learning climate as well as their personal grit was associated with lower burnout. Depression and anxiety were negatively associated with burnout/exhaustion. Spirituality was more complicated with variation in risk versus supportive factors. Results may help guide future studies, provide suggestions for specific programming, and promote supportive university environments
Promoting Student Success in the Flipped Online Classroom: Learning and Accountability Through Homework Strategies
Get PDFAs online and hybrid classes have become increasingly more prevalent in higher education, the flipped classroom structure has emerged as a viable, evidence-based, option for healthcare programs. In a flipped classroom, students view pre-recorded video lectures and complete reading assignments before class, and synchronous class time can then be used for active learning activities. Class sessions offer opportunities for group work, review of complex content, and access to instructor assistance with assignments. To effectively implement a flipped classroom approach, students must prepare prior to class time. One method for encouraging student accountability is to assign preparatory homework. This experimental study compared two types of accountability homework on measures of achievement, satisfaction, ease of use, and perceived learning from two types of assignments: concept maps or question-and-answer homework. Study participants included 46 first year occupational therapy students attending an online foundational occupational therapy course. Treatment included weekly completion of either a concept map or a set of three question-and-answer homework assignments over a period of three weeks. Findings suggested that accountability homework assignments of either type were helpful in promoting achievement. Results further revealed that satisfaction and perceived learning were greater in the concept map group as compared to the question-and-answer group. It is recommended that occupational therapy and other allied health instructors use accountability homework to reinforce student learning in the flipped classroom. The use of concept map assignments in particular has the potential to improve schema acquisition, critical thinking, and deep learning, which in turn can support educational success
The Complexities of Communicating with Children about Mental Health Issues
Get PDFCommunicating with children about any difficult topic is complex, but especially when the topic is about mental health. Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development sets the stage for understanding how age appropriate conversations can aid in children’s understanding of mental health issues. Then, by conducting a thorough literature review, three common areas where these conversations take place were identified; at home, at school, and at a medical setting. All of these settings have strengths and weaknesses in their ability to facilitate quality mental health conversations with children. After examining these settings, this paper explores some of the current themes and suggestions for communicating to children about mental health issues. These suggestions include using simple language, using activities to engage the child, and relating the child to the information. This paper then discussed multiple resources for adults aiding these conversations such as scripts written by psychologists. In the interest of exploring accessibility to support these conversations for the adult facilitators, this paper turns to Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically ChatGPT. Overall, the use of ChatGPT to provide adult facilitators with scripts appears promising with a few limitations
The Death and Life of Major League Baseball
Get PDFMajor League Baseball has long been considered America’s pastime, but recently, it has faced significant challenges to its popularity. This thesis examines the complex trajectory of Major League Baseball over the last few years, tracking the factors contributing to its decline and the new bold strategies that have fueled and can fuel its comeback. The decline in popularity can be attributed to several factors, including but not limited to the perceived slow pace of the game, different entertainment preferences, and a new focus on analytics and statistics. These factors have all played roles in diminishing its appeal, especially among the older generations. This thesis looks into these factors, highlighting the impact of waning cultural relevance and finding counter factors that could bring back fans and place baseball back into the American limelight. In fact, these factors have already begun to appear. As recently as these last few months, Major League Baseball has embarked on a journey to regain its footing in the American sports landscape using new techniques and promotions. New rules that implement pace-of-play changes like the pitch clock, new fan engagement efforts through promoting a certain style of play, a new international influx of talented players, and one of the best years for rookie debuts have all contributed to breathing new life into the sport
An Examination of the Vaginal and Endometrial Microbiota of Heifers and the Effects of Selenium Supplementation on Microbiome Composition
Get PDFSelenium, an essential trace element, is involved in many biological processes serving catalytic, structural, and regulatory roles through mechanisms that are not entirely understood. Due to its health effects from either deficiency or toxicity, selenium has been well-studied, with an emphasis towards selenium deficiency which has been shown to cause immune and reproductive issues in animals. To address deficiency, different forms of supplementation have been used, yet few studies have examined selenium’s effects on the reproductive microbiome based on the type of supplementation (i.e., inorganic or organic forms). By examining bovine vaginal and endometrial mucosal samples via 16S gene sequencing, selenium’s effects on overall bacterial abundance and alpha diversity, as well as identification of core vaginal and endometrial microbiomes, were able to be determined. As such, analysis indicate that a mixture of inorganic and organic selenium supplementation results in an increased bacterial diversity in vaginal mucosa, yet a decreased bacterial diversity in endometrial mucosa. Furthermore, treatment with the mixture compared to inorganic selenium alone resulted in the removal of four bacterial groups from the vaginal microbiome, which has potential implications on agricultural, economic, and human and animal health, overall. However, future studies are warranted in order to identify unknown groups and elucidate potential mechanisms of action
Caldwell 23
No full textThis is a real color image of NGC 891 AKA Caldwell 23, that is, part of the Caldwell Catalogue compiled by Sir Patrick Moore, who famously said the galaxy looks like “two fried eggs clapped back-to-back”. With that in mind, NGC 891 is very similar to our own Milky Way (if we were able to look at it from say 25-30 million light years away). Just to show how BIG the universe is, look toward the bottom right of the image. You should see no less than three tiny galaxies.https://encompass.eku.edu/eku-observatory-images/1007/thumbnail.jp
Messier 13
No full textThis is M13 (AKA NGC 6205), the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (145 light years in diameter and 22500 light years away). This is a region of densely packed stars (the cluster contains over a hundred thousand of them) orbiting around our own galaxy. The majority of the stars in it are rather old (hence their yellowish color) but they are so densely packed that sometime they collide against each other. This forms new young stars, which are hotter and glow bluish. Can you see them?https://encompass.eku.edu/eku-observatory-images/1006/thumbnail.jp
Studying Abroad In Granada Spain
No full textThis poster highlights the overall aspects and benefits of studying abroad through Eastern Kentucky University. Focusing on the education of studying abroad, the final poster will showcase the variety of classes offered in just one city in Spain, and the opportunities that come with studying abroad upon returning to the home university, as well as the opportunities in life that arise from participating in a study abroad program
The Role of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in Healthcare
No full textDirect-to-consumer advertising is the marketing of prescription drugs directly to a consumer population by means of advertisements in media. The research shows that direct-to-consumer advertising plays a major role in the delivery of healthcare in the United States, and healthcare spending. At this time, direct-to-consumer advertising is not well regulated, leading to issues with communicating risk and benefit information to consumers. Knowledge about healthcare (also known as “health literacy) and personal consumer choices are skills that healthcare providers are concerned about. Health literacy is a major aspect of Occupational Therapy, and formatting advertisements based on health literacy principles has been shown to increase understanding, retention, and comprehension of information. As a future occupational therapist, the profession has a role in increasing health literacy in terms of medication management, and a role in lobbying for increased regulation of direct-to-consumer advertising to protect clients and consumers. The connections in being an occupational therapy advocate and understanding the impact of direct- to- consumer advertising and health literacy will be discussed in this poster
Humanizing Learning: Concepts and Strategies to Design and Implement Now
Get PDFHumanizing teaching supports the affective and cognitive dimensions of learning. The concept often is used in online education, but it is necessary for any modality to build a learning environment that is relationship-rich. This article discusses the principles and elements of humanized learning, helpful theoretical frameworks, and strategies that can be implemented and practiced in any instructional setting