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Low-intensity family therapy intervention is useful in a clinical setting to treat obese and extremely obese children
No full textAims. To study the influence of low-intensity solution-focused family therapy with obese and extremely obese pediatric subjects on body mass index (BMI) z-scores and self-esteem. Materials and Methods. Fifty-four obese children, aged 6-17 years, were referred to an outpatient obesity clinic. The families received solution-focused family therapy provided by a multidisciplinary team. Height and weight were recorded; BMI and BMI z-scores were derived. Self-esteem was assessed with a validated questionnaire, "I Think I Am." Parents completed "The Family Climate Scale" assessing family dynamics. Results. Eighty-one percent of the children (n=44, mean age 11.9 years, mean BMI z-score 3.67, range 2.46-5.48) and their parents participated in the follow-up. Eleven children were treated for 6-12 months, and 33 for more than 12 months. On average, the families received 3.8 family therapy sessions. Intervention resulted in a mean decrease in BMI z-score of 0.12 (p=0.0001). Self-esteem on the global scale improved after intervention (p=0.002), and also on sub-scales, depicting physical characteristics (p<0.001), psychological well-being (p=0.026), and relations with others (p=0.046). The Family Climate Scale showed improvement in the sub-scales for Expressiveness (p=0.002) and Chaos (p=0.002). Conclusions. Solution-focused family therapy provided by a multidisciplinary team to obese and extremely obese children may prove useful in the clinical setting, with a positive impact on obesity and self-esteem
WojcikOpenPracticesDisclosure.pdf – Supplemental material for Unconscious Detection of One’s Own Image
No full textSupplemental material, WójcikOpenPracticesDisclosure for Unconscious Detection of One’s
Own Image by Michał J. Wójcik, Maria M. Nowicka, Michał Bola and Anna Nowicka in
Psychological Science</p
Études égéennes et balkaniques : Studia Aegaea et Balcanica in honorem Lodovicae Press
No full textNowicka Maria. Études égéennes et balkaniques : Studia Aegaea et Balcanica in honorem Lodovicae Press. In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, vol. 18, n°2, 1992. p. 349
Wojcik_SupplementalMaterial – Supplemental material for Unconscious Detection of One’s Own Image
No full textSupplemental material, Wojcik_SupplementalMaterial for Unconscious Detection of One’s Own
Image by Michał J. Wójcik, Maria M. Nowicka, Michał Bola and Anna Nowicka in Psychological
Science</p
Identification of BRCA1 gene mutation variants in clinical samples without labeling step – comparison of functionality and sensitivity of SPR and SERS sensors
No full textSERS (surface-enhanced Raman scattering) and SPR (surface plasmon resonance) sensors for the identification of six the most popular in Poland variants of BRCA1 gene mutation without labelling have been constructed and tested with clinical samples. Both sensors were based on the selective hybridization of target DNA with the capture DNA immobilized on plasmonic substrates. Moreover, in both sensors the same thiolated capture DNA was used. The mutation identification process using SPR detector relied on the shape of the SPR sensorgrams, whereas for the SERS sensors, the intensity of the Raman band at about 715-735 cm-1 (this band is due to the superimposition of mainly the band due to the v(C-S) vibration of the alkanethiol chain in the trans conformation and the band due to the breathing vibration of adenine) was used as an analytical signal. The demonstrated biosensors are characterized by the low detection limit at the level of pg·uL–1, wide analytical range and high selectivity. It was found that for different DNA sequences, a SPR or SERS sensor achieves greater detection sensitivity, which means that the selection of the optimal sensor type depends on the sequence of the target DNA.</p
Memories of meals in the Grandparents Study : A work in progress
No full textThe Grandparent Study, an interview-based qualitative study in Eugene, Oregon, was launched in 2011 with the aim of exploring parents’ and grandparents’ roles in the food habits and physical activity of children in socioeconomically disadvantaged families. The data are collected through semi-structured interviews from 16 families which all centred around one child in the family (3-5 years of age). The sample consists of 49 participants: 22 parents (14 women) and 27 grandparents (21 women). Since the study’s initiation, several works have been published related to subjects such as perceptions about the children’s body weight (Eli, Howell, Fisher, & Nowicka, 2014a), the gendered and generational division of domestic food responsibilities (Neuman, Eli, & Nowicka, 2019) and the participants’ own memories of becoming aware of their bodies (Eli, Howell, Fisher, & Nowicka, 2014b). The latter publication connects to the present study, which is a work in progress about the participants’ meal memories. Drawing on research on commensality – the activity of sharing a meal – we explore how eating in the family is recounted in a variety of ways, positively and negatively, thus problematizing a priori assumptions about the family meal as a social knit. As argued by other scholars before us (e.g. Andersen, Holm, & Baarts, 2015; Grignon, 2001; Julier, 2013), commensality may facilitate social communion and is both desired and idealized among some, but it may also bring with it social exclusion, stigma or other undesirable social consequences. ReferencesAndersen, S. S., Holm, L., & Baarts, C. (2015). School meal sociality or lunch pack individualism? Using an intervention study to compare the social impacts of school meals and packed lunches from home. Social Science Information, 54(3), 394–416Eli, K., Howell, K., Fisher, P. A., & Nowicka, P. (2014a). “A little on the heavy side”: a qualitative analysis of parents' and grandparents' perceptions of preschoolers' body weights. BMJ Open, 4(12). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006609Eli, K., Howell, K., Fisher, P. A., & Nowicka, P. (2014b). “Those comments last forever”: Parents and grandparents of preschoolers recount how they became aware of their own body weights as children. PloS one, 9(11), e111974. Grignon, C. (2001). Commensality and social morphology : an essay of typology. In P. Scholliers (Ed.), Food, drink and identity : cooking, eating and drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages (pp. 23-33). Oxford: Berg.Julier, A. P. (2013). Eating together : food, friendship, and inequality. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.Neuman, N., Eli, K., & Nowicka, P. (2019). Feeding the extended family: Gender, generation, and socioeconomic disadvantage in food provision to children. Food, Culture & Society, 22(1), 45-62. </p
Self-esteem in a clinical sample of morbidly obese children and adolescents.
No full textAIM: To study self-esteem in clinical sample of obese children and adolescents.METHODS: Obese children and adolescents aged 8-19 years (n = 107, mean age 13.2 years, mean BMI 32.5 [range 22.3-50.6], mean BMI z-score 3.22 [range 2.19-4.79]; 50 boys and 57 girls) were referred for treatment of primary obesity. Self-esteem was measured with a validated psychological test with five subscales: physical characteristics, talents and skills, psychological well-being, relations with the family and relations with others. A linear mixed effect model used the factors gender and adolescence group, and the continuous covariates: BMI z-scores, and BMI for the parents as fixed effects and subjects as random effects.RESULTS: Age and gender, but neither the child's BMI z-score nor the BMI of the parents were significant covariates. Self-esteem decreased (p < 0.01) with age on the global scale as well as on the subscales, and was below the normal level in higher ages in both genders. Girls had significantly lower self-esteem on the global scale (p = 0.04) and on the two subscales physical characteristics (p < 0.01) and psychological well-being (p < 0.01).CONCLUSION: Self-esteem is lower in girls and decreases with age. In treatment settings special attention should be paid to adolescent girls
New insight into teratogenic effects of (S)-thalidomide in zebrafish embryos growing inside the chorion and subjected to electric pulses
No full textStudies of (S)-thalidomide were conducted on zebrafish embryos subjected to electroporation processes using a square wave pulse generator. The results showed that the electroporation increases the absorption of (S)-thalidomide through the chorion into the growing embryos, which was confirmed by increased thalidomide levels in the embryo bodies at different hours post-treatments using differential pulse voltammetry and controlled-growth mercury drop electrode techniques. (S)-thalidomide administered by electroporation produced structural body deformations in zebrafish embryos as showed by scanning electron microscopy studies. Detailed transmission electron microscopy analysis evidenced multiple deposits of the outer layer and translucencies in the chorion structure, which was also pronounced on the mitochondrial membranes. The results confirmed the spontaneous conversion of the (S)-thalidomide enantiomer to the (R)-enantiomer in embryos exposed to the (S)-thalidomide only and subjected to electroporation pulses. The electroporation was found as a promising method to increase the uptake of (S)-thalidomide in the developmental studies on early zebrafish embryos growing in the chorion.</p
Family Weight School treatment: 1-year results in obese adolescents.
No full textOBJECTIVE: The aim was to evaluate the efficacy of a Family Weight School treatment based on family therapy in group meetings with adolescents with a high degree of obesity.
METHODS: Seventy-two obese adolescents aged 12-19 years old were referred to a childhood obesity center by pediatricians and school nurses and offered a Family Weight School therapy program in group meetings given by a multidisciplinary team. Intervention was compared with an untreated waiting list control group. Body mass index (BMI) and BMI z-scores were calculated before and after intervention.
RESULTS: Ninety percent of the intervention group completed the program (34 boys, 31 girls; baseline age = 14.8 +/- 1.8 years [mean +/- standard deviation, SD], BMI = 34 +/- 4.0, BMI z-score = 3.3 +/- 0.4). In the control group 10 boys and 13 girls (baseline age = 14.3 +/- 1.6, BMI = 34.1 +/- 4.8, BMI z-score = 3.2 +/- 0.4) participated in the 1-year follow-up. Adolescents in the intervention group with initial BMI z-score 3.5.
CONCLUSIONS: Family Weight School treatment model might be suitable for adolescents with BMI z-score < 3.5 treated with a few sessions in a multidisciplinary program
Komunikacyjne aspekty społecznego sporu o ocenę polskiej transformacji ustrojowej i demokracji. Badania wstępne nad świadomością dyskursową elit symbolicznych
No full textZbiór danych składa się z transkrypcji 21 wywiadów pogłębionych przeprowadzonych od czerwca do października 2021 r. z dziennikarzami i dziennikarkami, publicyst(k)ami i publicznymi intelektualist(k)ami, związanymi z ogólnopolskimi mediami opiniotwórczymi. Grupę dobierano celowo. Objęła osoby reprezentujące różne opcje światopoglądowe. Podział płciowy nie był zbalansowany (7 kobiet i 14 mężczyzn), ponieważ polskie media opiniotwórcze pozostają zmaskulinizowane. Wywiady trwały najczęściej 85–90 min. Transkrypcje poddano pseudonimizacji. Badani byli w momencie wywiadu w wieku 32–64 lat, reprezentowali trzy pokolenia autorów i autorek medialnych. Należą oni do elit symbolicznych, które kształtują społeczny porządek znaczeń. Celem badań była analiza świadomości dyskursowej elit symbolicznych, tj. ich przekonań o tym, jak dyskurs publiczny oddziałuje na rzeczywistość społeczną, kompetencji odróżniania konstruktów dyskursowych od empirycznej rzeczywistości i gotowości do krytyki własnego dyskursu. Badani byli proszeni m.in. o wskazywanie własnej pozycji w polu debaty publicznej, ocenę własnego dyskursu, preferowanych strategii zabierania głosu oraz recepcji własnych wypowiedzi publicznych, diagnozowanie strukturalnych i komunikacyjnych problemów debaty publicznej, ocenę roli elit w kształtowaniu dyskursu publicznego (w tym w kontekście debaty o ocenie transformacji ustrojowej), refleksję nad publicznością mediów i oczekiwaniami swoich odbiorców oraz refleksję nad relacją dyskursu publicznego i rzeczywistości społecznej. Badani najczęściej formułowali sceptyczne oceny indywidualnego wpływu na praktyki społeczne i wyrażali krytykę elit symbolicznych, ale rzadko i w wybranych aspektach byli gotowi do krytycznej analizy własnego wkładu w kształtowanie dyskursu publicznego.</p
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