121 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-inq-10.1177_00469580241237112 – Supplemental material for Group Psychological Treatment Preferences of Individuals Living With Chronic Disease: Brief Report of a Saskatchewan-Based Cross-Sectional Survey
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-inq-10.1177_00469580241237112 for Group Psychological Treatment Preferences of Individuals Living With Chronic Disease: Brief Report of a Saskatchewan-Based Cross-Sectional Survey by Kelsey M. Haczkewicz, Taylor Hill, Courtney D. Cameron, Zona Iftikhar and Natasha L. Gallant in INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing</p
Poverty deconcentration, housing mobility, and the construction of recent US housing policy: a discourse analysis of the policy-making process
No full textThis study seeks to answer how and why poverty deconcentration and housing mobility have dominated recent housing policy discourse and produced the Moving to Opportunity demonstration program as HUD’s primary housing initiative in the 1990-2000 period. Through the examination of the policy discourse imbuing MTO I attempt to elucidate power relations and the role of elites in cultivating the housing mobility discourse. In addition, I demonstrate the hegemonic processes through which the dominant discourse proliferates. Employing a postpositivist approach to policy analysis, I examine the process of policy deliberation to expose the deliberative and discursive mechanisms through which MTO was engendered. Towards this end, the study explores the process, nature, and dynamics of policy deliberations at HUD to understand how federal policies are formed particularly with regard to embedded power dynamics and democratic processes. By illustrating the discursive practices that produced MTO, I uncover the politics, assumptions and frames through which HUD views poverty concentration, housing mobility, and voucher recipients. By depicting the evolutionary (genealogical) stages of MTO through a frame-critical discourse analysis, this study delimits the empirical findings produced through the demonstration. To that end I employ Fischer’s logic of policy evaluation and elucidate four interrelated discourses, which “extend from concrete empirical questions pertinent to a particular situation up to the abstract normative issues concerning a way of life” (1995:18). Accordingly, I produce an overall analysis of MTO, and offer suggestions on how the demonstration could have been structured or delineated differently, and what alternative assumptions or frames might have led to different analytical results.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Natasha Ona Turs
“The production of a rational Being": Tristram Shandy and eighteenth-century women satirists
No full textThe eighteenth century saw the emergence of two primary literary forms aimed at influencing public life: the satire and the sentimental novel. While these two forms pursued similar goals, they were produced separately until Laurence Sterne’s mingling of the two genres in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. This text combines two previously gendered genres while also undermining male authority with its narrative false starts and symbolically impotent narrator. It also displays satirical and sentimental impulses with the character parson Yorick, who embodies both the Quixote figure and the philosopher-physician who “heals” him. Sterne’s collapsing of these gender and generic boundaries, I argue, would open a discursive space for women to enter the literary world as satirists, as this study will demonstrate using works by Charlotte Lennox and Frances Burney. Lennox’s The Female Quixote, which came before Sterne’s novel, will be considered for its satire of female readers of romances, while Burney’s play The Witlings will show how women engaged in satiric regulation of the public sphere post-Tristram Shandy. Sterne’s radical challenge to the male institutions of satire and the realistic novel, I argue, allowed women to engage in the unprecedented production of satirical texts that tackle public as well as domestic concerns.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Natasha L Gatia
The Private Cost of Long-Term Care in Canada: Where You Live Matters
No full textCanadians expect the same access to health care whether they are rich or poor, and wherever they live, often without direct charge at the point of service. However, we find that the private cost of long-term care differs greatly across the country, and within provinces, we find substantial variation, depending on income level, marital status, and, in Quebec alone, on assets owned. A non-married person with average income would pay more than twice as much in the Atlantic provinces as in Quebec, while a couple with one in care would pay almost four times as much in Newfoundland as in Alberta.long-term care, private cost
Experiencing Pain in the Presence of Others: A Structured Experimental Investigation of Older Adults
No full textAge and psychosocial contributors to well-being among older adults living with chronic pain
No full textObjectives This study examined the influence of age variables along with psychosocial variables on well-being among older adults living with chronic pain.Methods Using a cross-sectional survey design, older adults living with chronic pain in Canada (N = 220) completed an online survey assessing age variables (ie age at onset of chronic pain, current age), psychosocial variables (ie pain catastrophizing, pain disability, physical functioning, psychological inflexibility), and well-being variables (ie autonomy, environmental mastery, self-acceptance, overall eudaimonic well-being).Results Current age, but not age of onset of chronic pain, significantly predicted eudaimonic well-being and self-acceptance. Physical functioning, pain catastrophizing, and pain disability significantly predicted eudaimonic well-being, autonomy, and environmental mastery. Pain catastrophizing also significantly predicted self-acceptance. With regards to the relative importance of effect sizes, physical functioning followed by pain catastrophizing were the most important factors contributing to autonomy, environmental mastery, and self-acceptance. These psychosocial factors were more important for self-acceptance than they were for autonomy or environmental mastery.Conclusion When living with chronic pain, the psychosocial variables of most importance to older adults’ well-being may be physical functioning and pain catastrophizing, and the development of psychological interventions for older chronic pain populations should account for these psychosocial factors
Workplace risks and stressors as predictors of burnout: The moderating impact of job control and team efficacy
No full textAir medical healthcare (AMH) professionals care for critically-ill individuals while conveying them to healthcare centres from distant, and frequently dangerous, locations. AMH professionals experience additional health and safety issues beyond the “typical” stressors faced by other healthcare professionals. Therefore, we integrated the safety and psychosocial health literatures to examine the relationship between workplace stressors (risk perception, worries, and patient-care barriers) and two components of burnout (emotional exhaustion; depersonalization), and the moderating impact of job control and team efficacy for 106 Canadian AMH professionals. Worries over medical hassles and barriers to patient care uniquely predicted emotional exhaustion. Lack of perceived control over one's job was related to exhaustion and depersonalization after controlling for stressors. Job control and team efficacy buffered some of the stressor-burnout relationships.Foundation for Air Medical Researc
The Private Cost of Long-Term Care in Canada: Where You Live Matters
No full textCanadians expect the same access to health care whether they are rich or poor, and wherever they live, often without direct charge at the point of service. However, we find that the private cost of long-term care differs greatly across the country, and within provinces, we find substantial variation, depending on income level, marital status, and, in Quebec alone, on assets owned. A non-married person with average income would pay more than twice as much in the Atlantic provinces as in Quebec, while a couple with one in care would pay almost four times as much in Newfoundland as in Alberta.long-term care , private cost
Long-term outcome and complications following prophylactic laparoscopic-assisted gastropexy in dogs
No full textEmpowering English-Language Learners through Acting, Translanguaging, and Collaborative Devising
No full textThe author explores the transformative potential of using acting, translanguaging, and collaborative devising as tools for linguistic and personal development among English Language Learners (ELLs). Through a reflective narrative of teaching Acting I to ELL students, the paper delves into the challenges and successes encountered in integrating acting, translanguaging, and devising into the curriculum. Emphasizing the symbiotic relationship between acting and language learning, the author discusses how expressive language development, vocabulary acquisition, and enhanced pronunciation skills were cultivated. Additionally, the paper considers the role of translanguaging in creating a supportive and inclusive learning environment, where students\u27 linguistic diversity is celebrated and leveraged as a resource for learning. Through a combination of practical strategies, and personal reflections, the paper underscores the potential of creative pedagogies in empowering ELL students and fostering a sense of belonging in the classroom
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