Developing digital mental health tools for youth with diabetes: an agenda for future research

Youth living with diabetes face a concurrent challenge: managing a chronic health condition and managing the psychosocial and developmental changes that are characteristic of adolescence and young adulthood. Despite these unique challenges, psychological support is often difficult for youth with diabetes to access due to a lack of trained mental health professionals and other resource constraints. Digital wellbeing tools offer the potential to improve access to psychological support for this population. However, very few digital wellbeing tools exist for youth with diabetes. Of those that do exist, very few are evidence-based therapies, undermining their contribution to the field. Given the increasing global prevalence of diabetes in young people, the support necessitated by the challenges experienced by this population is not always accessible in a face-to-face setting and cannot be effectively scaled to meet demand. To support the health and wellbeing of youth with diabetes, there is a clear need to develop digital interventions that are widely accessible to users, but, more saliently, grounded in empirical evidence that supports their efficacy. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to offer an agenda for future research, including insights into which psychological techniques and behavioral change theories may be a good conceptual fit for digital mental health interventions, and how these tools may be best developed and utilized by the individuals that need them. Scalable, evidence-based wellbeing tools for this population are urgently required to improve psychological outcomes, and potentially, improve the equity of service access

Are We Making Progress in Medical Education?

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Intervenir sobre la cultura organizacional: ¿qué aspectos se pueden considerar?

La cultura organizacional (co) es un macroconstructo que involucra una gran variedad de componentes y funciones organizacionales (Warner, 2014). Reyes y Moros (2018) señalan que tiene su origen en el estudio realizado en Hawthorne por Elton Mayo y otros investigadores de la Escuela de las Relaciones Humanas de la Administración, en el que buscaban identificar la influencia de las condiciones físicas y ambientales en el desempeño individual. Para Reyes y Moros (2018), la co se siguió desarrollando en los años setenta con Pettigrew, para ser entendida como un sistema de significados que tanto pública como colectivamente es aceptado para operar en un tiempo y por un grupo determinado. Los autores la definen como “… un sistema de significados compartidos por los miembros de la organización, los cuales son el resultado de una construcción social constituida a través de símbolos y como tal deben ser interpretados”1a edició

REGENERATION IN THE AFRICAN LUNGFISH, PROTOPTERUS. III. REGENERATION DURING FASTING AND ESTIVATION

Volume: 144Start Page: 248End Page: 26

Connections and Contradictions across Public Parks in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina is one of the least green cities in the world, with only 6m2 of green space per person. This statistic falls far below the World Health Organization’s recommended 15m2 and fails to capture the unequal distribution of green space across the city. Neoliberal policies and practices continue to fragment and privatize the green spaces that remain, posing a threat to the public health of human and nonhuman beings in the city. This thesis draws on ethnographic fieldwork collected over a ten-month period to investigate the institution of public green space in Buenos Aires, Argentina with the objective to better understand relationships across public parks and city inhabitants. The study centers the daily lives of park users in four popular public parks to ask questions about community, identity, place-making and resistance. Since the design and implementation of the study sites vary drastically, this paper first grounds each park in its historical and political context before analyzing the qualitative field research performed in the investigation. Drawing on questionnaires, interviews and participant observation, this thesis relies on storytelling, memory and poetry as equally legitimate data sources alongside political ecology and the scientific method. By weaving together a collection of shared moments with park users, it has become clear that the park-person relationship cannot be singularly traced or reconstructed, but rather contains inherent contradiction and multiplicity. This thesis illuminates one small facet of the mystery and dynamism contained in the Buenos Aires parks, holding at once profound connection, conflict, crisis and joy.</p