119 research outputs found
Collaboration between home care staff, leaders and care partners of older people with mental health problems: A focus on personhood
Aim: To explore home care staff and leaders’ experiences of collaborating with care partners of older people with mental health problems through a personhood perspective.Background: Collaboration with care partners is a political aim in recent white papers in Norway and internationally. Home care services regularly work closely with care partners, but there are many indications that the collaboration does not work satisfactorily.Methods: The study had a qualitative design and comprised eight health professionals in two focus groups and in-depth interviews with three leaders in one home care district. The data were analysed using a thematic framework analysis building on previous research on personhood. COREQ reporting guidelines were used to ensure comprehensive reporting.Results: Four themes were identified in the analysis: ‘Non-negotiated relationships’, Contradictory agendas’, ‘Weak paternalism’ and ‘Moral compromise’.Conclusion: There seems to be a lack of facilitation of collaborative relationships through all levels of the home care organisation. The interactions between care partners and home care staff sometimes appear to produce low or negative levels of emotional energy, and situations where the personhood of neither of them is respected occurs. Paying attention to the four modes of being as a framework for understanding personhood, creates the foundation for a person-centred approach that enhances the potential of creating stronger partnership in care relationships.https://doi.org/10.1111/scs.1271434pubpub
Modeling Kelvin wave cascades in superfluid helium
We study two different types of simplified models for Kelvin wave turbulence on quantized vortex lines in superfluids near zero temperature. Our first model is obtained from a truncated expansion of the Local Induction Approximation (Truncated-LIA) and it is shown to possess the same scalings and the essential behaviour as the full Biot-Savart model, being much simpler than the later and, therefore, more amenable to theoretical and numerical investigations. The Truncated-LIA model supports six-wave interactions and dual cascades, which are clearly demonstrated via the direct numerical simulation of this model in the present paper. In particular, our simulations confirm presence of the weak turbulence regime and the theoretically predicted spectra for the direct energy cascade and the inverse wave action cascade. The second type of model we study, the Differential Approximation Model (DAM), takes a further drastic simplification by assuming locality of interactions in k-space via using a differential closure that preserves the main scalings of the Kelvin wave dynamics. DAMs are even more amenable to study and they form a useful tool by providing simple analytical solutions in the cases when extra physical effects are present, e.g. forcing by reconnections, friction dissipation and phonon radiation. We study these models numerically and test their theoretical predictions, in particular the formation of the stationary spectra, and closeness of numerics for the higher-order DAM to the analytical predictions for the lower-order DAM
General stability criterion of inviscid parallel flow
A more restrictively general stability criterion of two-dimensional inviscid
parallel flow is obtained analytically. First, a sufficient criterion for
stability is found as either or
in the flow, where is the velocity at inflection
point, is the eigenvalue of Poincar\'{e}'s problem. Second, this
criterion is generalized to barotropic geophysical flows in plane.
Based on the criteria, the flows are are divided into different categories of
stable flows, which may simplify the further investigations. And the
connections between present criteria and Arnol'd's nonlinear criteria are
discussed. These results extend the former criteria obtained by Rayleigh,
Tollmien and Fj{\o}rtoft and would intrigue future research on the mechanism of
hydrodynamic instability.Comment: Revtex4, 4 pages, 2 figures, extends the first part of
physics/0512208, Accepted, to be continue
Designing an outdoor learning environment for and with a primary school community:A case study in Bangladesh
How does the built environment affect teenagers (aged 13–14) physical activity and fitness? A cross-sectional analysis of the ACTIVE Project
Built environments have been cited as important facilitators of activity and research using geographic information systems (GIS) has emerged as a novel approach in exploring environmental determinants. The Active Children Through Individual Vouchers Evaluation Project used GIS to conduct a cross-sectional analysis of how teenager's (aged 13-14) environments impacted on their amount of activity and influences fitness. The ACTIVE Project recruited 270 participants aged 13-14 (year 9) from 7 secondary schools in south Wales, UK. Demographic data and objective measures of accelerometery and fitness were collected from each participant between September and December 2016. Objective data was mapped in a GIS alongside datasets relating to activity provision, active travel routes, public transport stops, main roads and natural resources. This study shows that fitness and physical activity are not correlated. Teenagers who had higher levels of activity also had higher levels of sedentary time/inactivity. Teenagers showed higher amounts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity if their homes were closer to public transport. However, they were also more active if their schools were further away from public transport and natural resources. Teenagers were fitter if schools were closer to natural resources. Sedentary behaviour, fitness and activity do not cluster in the same teenagers. Policymakers/planning committees need to consider this when designing teenage friendly environments. Access to public transport, active travel, green space and activities that teenagers want, and need could make a significant difference to teenage health
Learning with nature and learning from others: nature as setting and resource for early childhood education
A repeated measurement study investigating the impact of school outdoor environment upon physical activity across ages and seasons in Swedish second, fifth and eighth graders
Laying the foundations for physical literacy in Wales: the contribution of the Foundation Phase to the development of physical literacy
ABSTRACT
Background: The Foundation Phase in Wales is a play-based curriculum
for pupils aged 3–7 years old. Children learn through more holistic areas
of learning in place of traditional subjects. As such, the subject of
physical education in its traditional form no longer exists for pupils
under the age of 7 in Wales. In light of the role of physical education in
developing physical literacy and in particular the importance of this age
group for laying the foundations of movement for lifelong engagement
in physical activity, the disappearance of physical education from the
curriculum could be deemed to be a concern.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the Foundation Phase
as a naturalistic intervention and examine its contribution to the
development of physical literacy.
Participants and setting: Participants included year 1 pupils (N = 49) aged
5 and 6 from two schools in contrasting locations. A smaller group within
each class was selected through purposive sampling for the repeated
measures assessments (N = 18).
Research design and methods: A complementarity mixed-method
design combined quantitative and qualitative methods to study the
Foundation Phase as a naturalistic intervention. Quantitative data were
generated with the Test of Gross Motor Development-2 administered to
the sample group of children from both schools as a quasi-repeated
measure, the physical competence subscale of the Pictorial Scale of
Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance and the Leuven
Involvement Scale for Young Children. Qualitative data were generated
throughout the study from the analysis of video and field notes through
participant observation. Data from the mixed methods were analysed
through complementarity to give a rich insight into pupils’ progress and
experiences in relation to physical literacy.
Results: Overall analysis of the data from TGMD-2 showed significant
improvements in the Gross Motor Quotient and Locomotor skills from
T1 to T3, but no significant improvement in object control. Data from
qualitative methods were analysed to explore processes that may
account for these findings. Video and field notes complement the
quantitative data highlighting that children were developing their
locomotor skills in many aspects of their learning. Observations using the Leuven Involvement Scale indicated that children had high levels of
involvement in their learning and apparent in video and field notes was
pupils’ motivation for movement. Paired sample t-tests (N = 18)
conducted on the Harter and Pike perceived physical competence sixitem score subscales (T1 and T3) indicated a significant difference in the
mean perceived physical competence scores on the six-item scale
between T1and T3. Qualitative data explored pupils’ confidence for
movement in many areas of learning.
Conclusion: The combination of quantitative and qualitative data
indicates that the Foundation Phase is an early childhood curriculum
that lays the foundations of physical literacy with the exception of
aspects of the physical competence, specifically object control skills.
Although these skills only contribute to psychomotor aspects of physical
literacy they are strongly associated with later engagement in physical
activity. The development of specific physical skills such as object
control skills may need more specialist input with early childhood
pedagogy teachers trained in motor development to see significant
improvement
Combining GPS, GIS, and accelerometry to explore the physical activity and environment relationship in children and young people - a review
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