Clinical Experience’s Role in Professional Socialization as Perceived by Entry-Level Athletic Trainers

"Clinical experiences are integral to the education process in many professions. Professional socialization is one area of students' development enhanced by clinical experience. Professional socialization includes learning in the affective domain by experiencing moral, ethical and legal practice as well as developing confidence in students' clinical practice. This study examined the role of clinical experience for professional socialization in Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) accredited athletic training education programs. This was done by examining entry-level athletic trainers' perceptions of the importance of four common clinical experiences in the development of selected affective domain educational competencies. These experiences were peer practice, approved clinical instructor (ACI) instruction, practice coverage and game coverage. The affective domain competencies were chosen because they included aspects of professional socialization such as role identity and moral ethical and legal practice of athletic training. A quantitative, researcher developed, web based survey was designed and used to collect perception data from newly certified athletic trainers who had graduated from a CAAHEP accredited athletic training education program. While all four common clinical experiences were reported as important to subject mastery of the competencies, ACI instruction and practice coverage were reported to be more important than both peer practice and game coverage. These results are important to athletic training educators as they try to develop the best possible combination of classroom, laboratory and clinical experience to better prepare future generations of confident and successful practicing athletic trainers. "--Abstract from author supplied metadata

Conjugal roles : relationship to employment of domestic help and marital satisfaction

The major purpose of this study was to investigate factors that may relate to method of conjugal role allocation—segregated or joint —in the areas of marital decision making, household task performance, and use of leisure time. Data were taken from anonymous mailed questionnaires received from 150 Americans living in Saudi Arabia. This number represented 69 couples, five individual husbands, and seven individual wives. Data were analyzed separately for men and women. More than half of the subjects reported employing domestic help in the home. It was hypothesized that having domestic help would be negatively related to jointness of conjugal role allocation, particularly in the area of household task performance. No such relationship was found. It was further hypothesized that jointness in one area of conjugal roles would be related to jointness in the other areas. Husbands reported no relationship among any of the areas. Wives reported that jointness of decision making was significantly related to both jointness of task performance and jointness of use of leisure time

Negative Parenting in Childhood Differentially Affects the Adjustment of College Students With and Without ADHD

Parenting a child who has Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) brings extraordinary challenges due to the disruptive behaviors which commonly occur with this disorder. A parent’s competence and perceived self-efficacy in rearing a child with ADHD may have long-term repercussions on the child’s functioning, such as the severity and chronicity of ADHD symptoms beyond adolescence. Online surveys were sent to undergraduate participants and collateral informants (i.e., parents) to collect information on ADHD status, impairment, and parenting style. The purpose was to determine if there was a relationship between emerging adults’ ADHD status and how they were reared. Students did not differ in their report of negative parenting styles across ADHD status and parents of students in the ADHD group reported higher satisfaction and efficacy. Across the entire sample, negative parenting styles were associated with ADHD traits (e.g., existing diagnosis, symptoms that meet diagnostic standards) and impaired functioning. Negative parenting style had a larger detrimental impact on ADHD-related symptoms, impairment, and comorbid symptoms for those in the ADHD group compared to those in the control group

Using Vulnerability Curves To Determine Whether Tissue Water Relations Differ Among Fraser Fir Christmas Trees Growing At Different Elevations

The capacity for Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) to adjust to the effects of climate change could have a profound effect on the economy of North Carolina, since this species brings in approximately $100 million each year in revenue. This project uses elevation as a surrogate for warming to determine differences in the functioning of the xylem of trees from farms at low and high elevation in the North Carolina mountains. I hypothesized that Fraser firs growing at low elevation would increase their hydraulic conductivity (Kh) and have a greater vulnerability to cavitation. A higher Kh (the ease with which water moves through the xylem per unit pressure) would enhance the ability to move water to the needles during times of water stress and a lower vulnerability would allow water transport during times of drought. Initial Kh measurements were taken, followed by air-seeding induction of embolisms. The pressure at which Kh is reduced by 50% (Kh50) was determined for all twigs measured. Analyses of the vulnerability curves and baseline Kh did not find any statistical differences in Kh among trees from low and high elevations or in their vulnerability to cavitation. Low elevation twigs did show a significantly greater wood density

"The prettiest little actress" : performance theory and Frances Burney's Evelina

Due to the limited mobility of the young middle-class woman in the eighteenth century, her identity was mainly the construction of the male who wielded control over her body. That control within Evelina takes the form of financial support, social standing, and matrimonial appropriateness and availability. This thesis is a close examination of the varying ways in which the male figures of the novel exercise the power of this control over Evelina. This study thus concludes due to Evelina’s compulsory performances to the expectation of the male power figure that female identity within the eighteenth-century novel is the construction of the male

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Applied To Childhood Traumatic Grief In The Aftermath Of A Motor-Vehicle Accident: A School-Based Case Study

Symptoms of posttraumatic stress, depression, and unresolved grief can appear in children and adolescents following the witnessing or experiencing of a traumatic event and respond with intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Those who lose a loved one in a traumatic manner can develop childhood traumatic grief (CTG), where typical grieving is hindered by trauma symptoms, causing significant impairment in daily functioning, relationships, and academic pursuits. The following is a case study describing a trauma-focused cognitive behavioral approach to treat post-traumatic stress disorder and CTG in a 16-year-old driver of a motor vehicle accident in which his peer was killed. A graduate student clinician provided treatment under supervision within the context of a school mental health program. The results of the intervention were associated with significant reductions in symptoms and impairments in daily living. The implications of these data and recommendations for clinicians treating CTG are provided

Multi-modal hydrogel-based platform to deliver and monitor cardiac progenitor/stem cell engraftment

Retention and survival of transplanted cells are major limitations to the efficacy of regenerative medicine, with short-term paracrine signals being the principal mechanism underlying current cell therapies for heart repair. Consequently, even improvements in short-term durability may have a potential impact on cardiac cell grafting. We have developed a multimodal hydrogel-based platform comprised of a poly(ethylene glycol) network cross-linked with bioactive peptides functionalized with Gd(III) in order to monitor the localization and retention of the hydrogel in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging. In this study, we have tailored the material for cardiac applications through the inclusion of a heparin-binding peptide (HBP) sequence in the cross-linker design and formulated the gel to display mechanical properties resembling those of cardiac tissue. Luciferase-expressing cardiac stem cells (CSC-Luc2) encapsulated within these gels maintained their metabolic activity for up to 14 days in vitro. Encapsulation in the HBP hydrogels improved CSC-Luc2 retention in the mouse myocardium and hind limbs at 3 days by 6.5- and 12- fold, respectively. Thus, this novel heparin-binding based, Gd(III)-tagged hydrogel and CSC-Luc2 platform system demonstrates a tailored, in vivo detectable theranostic cell delivery system that can be implemented to monitor and assess the transplanted material and cell retention

A picture is worth a thousand words: A content analysis of women's body representations on The North Face and Patagonia's Instagram pages

This thesis studies ways women’s bodies are represented via The North Face and Patagonia’s Instagram pages. As the outdoor world is becoming more diverse, the way it is shown (through advertising and marketing) has yet to diversify itself. Women, specifically, are used in image-based marketing as a way to sell objects or clothes rather than stories or experiences. These projections of women lead to an implication that the outdoors is only for women who look, dress or take pictures a certain way. This “certain way” is reinforced by major brands who (knowingly or not) use images that project gender normative habits. This thesis preforms a media content analysis of The North Face and Patagonia’s Instagram pages, exploring themes that evolve from within the results. These themes, including physical representations and poses embody the ideas from French philosopher Michel Foucault (1975) about discipline, power and self-surveillance. This thesis aims to bring body representation awareness to the content The North Face and Patagonia are sharing online. This content analysis is used to analyze the images from The North Face and Patagonia and create space for dialogue around the ways women’s bodies are used to represent the outdoors

The Fall of Eden

A science fiction story regarding the relationship between the natural world and the technological world of "Eden." Explores the city and its inhabitants which are on the brink of an apocalypse

Spatial heterogeneity of habitat suitability for Rift Valley fever occurrence in Tanzania: an ecological niche modelling approach

Despite the long history of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in Tanzania, extent of its suitable habitat in the country remains unclear. In this study we investigated potential effects of temperature, precipitation, elevation, soil type, livestock density, rainfall pattern, proximity to wild animals, protected areas and forest on the habitat suitability for RVF occurrence in Tanzania. Presence-only records of 193 RVF outbreak locations from 1930 to 2007 together with potential predictor variables were used to model and map the suitable habitats for RVF occurrence using ecological niche modelling. Ground-truthing of the model outputs was conducted by comparing the levels of RVF virus specific antibodies in cattle, sheep and goats sampled from locations in Tanzania that presented different predicted habitat suitability values. Habitat suitability values for RVF occurrence were higher in the northern and central-eastern regions of Tanzania than the rest of the regions in the country. Soil type and precipitation of the wettest quarter contributed equally to habitat suitability (32.4% each), followed by livestock density (25.9%) and rainfall pattern (9.3%). Ground-truthing of model outputs revealed that the odds of an animal being seropositive for RVFV when sampled from areas predicted to be most suitable for RVF occurrence were twice the odds of an animal sampled from areas least suitable for RVF occurrence (95% CI: 1.43, 2.76, p < 0.001). The regions in the northern and central-eastern Tanzania were more suitable for RVF occurrence than the rest of the regions in the country. The modelled suitable habitat is characterised by impermeable soils, moderate precipitation in the wettest quarter, high livestock density and a bimodal rainfall pattern. The findings of this study should provide guidance for the design of appropriate RVF surveillance, prevention and control strategies which target areas with these characteristics