Information Educational Environment of Higher Educational Institution in Training of Professionally-Oriented Foreign Language: Essence, Content, Functions

The relevance of the study is determined by the clear interest in contemporary educational practice to implement the requirements of training specialists able to compete in the labour market. The need for learning information-educational environment of a university in the modern context of teaching professionally-oriented foreign language is covered. A brief review of research on the subject is made, which confirms the possibility of exploring the pedagogical potential of this phenomenon. The research novelty lies in the formulation of the problem involving the identification of essence, structure and functional characteristics of the educational environment of the university in teaching professionally-oriented foreign language. Based on the presented approaches to the key concept the essence of “information-educational environment of the university” is clarified in the framework of professional training of future specialists. Attention is paid to the description of the fundamental principles of information-educational environment functioning: structuredness, hierarchy, openness, adaptability, variability, integration, interactivity. Structural components of information educational environment of the university within the framework of teaching professionally-oriented foreign language - organizational, task, resource and content, technological-procedural, socio-subject, - are distinguished, their content is revealed in detail. The functions of the information-educational environment of the university are described (educational, developmental, informational, reflective, functions of socialization). Their interrelation with the structural components is shown

Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a specialized health coaching intervention to prevent excessive gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention in women: the HIPP study

BackgroundPregnancy is a time of significant physiological and physical change for women. In particular, it is a time at which many women are at risk of gaining excessive weight. We describe the rationale and methods of the Health in Pregnancy and Post-birth (HIPP) Study, a study which aims primarily to determine the effectiveness of a specialized health coaching (HC) intervention during pregnancy, compared to education alone, in preventing excessive gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention 12 months post birth. A secondary aim of this study is to evaluate the mechanisms by which our HC intervention impacts on weight management both during pregnancy and post birth.Methods/DesignThe randomized controlled trial will be conducted with 220 women who have a BMI &gt; 18.5 (American IOM cut-off for normal weight), are 18 years of age or older, English speaking, no history of disordered eating or diabetes and are less than 18 weeks gestation at recruitment. Women will be randomly allocated to either a specialized HC intervention group or an Education Alone group. Our specialized HC intervention has two components: (1) one-on-one sessions with a Health Coach, and (2) two by two hour educational group sessions led by a Health Coach. Women in the Education Alone group will receive two by two hour educational group sessions with no HC components. Body Mass Index, waist circumference, and psychological factors including motivation, readiness to change, symptoms of depression and anxiety, and body dissatisfaction will be assessed at baseline (14-16 weeks gestation), and again at follow-up: 32 weeks gestation, 6 weeks, 6 months and 12 months postpartum.DiscussionOur study responds to the urgent need to design effective interventions in pregnancy to prevent excessive gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention. Our pregnancy HC intervention is novel and innovative and has been designed to be easily adopted by health professionals who work with pregnant women, such as obstetricians, midwives, allied health professionals and health psychologists. <br /

Insatisfação corporal em gestantes: uma revisão integrativa da literatura

Resumo A imagem corporal de gestantes deve ser alvo de atenção por parte dos profissionais, tendo em vista a promoção da saúde materna infantil. O objetivo da presente revisão integrativa foi analisar a literatura sobre imagem e insatisfação corporal em gestantes. Foram buscados artigos nas bases de dados Scopus, PubMed, BVS e PsycINFO utilizando o cruzamento de “pregnancy” com as palavras-chave: “body image” e “body dissatisfaction”. Após a adoção dos critérios de inclusão e exclusão foram analisados 40 estudos. Estes apontam dados inconclusivos quanto à insatisfação corporal durante a gestação. Presença de sintomas depressivos, baixa autoestima, atitude alimentar inadequada e ganho de peso fora dos limites recomendados têm sido associados a uma imagem corporal negativa. Contradições nos achados podem estar relacionados às diferenças nos instrumentos utilizados para mensurar a imagem corporal. Pelo possível impacto de uma imagem corporal negativa durante a gestação na saúde materna e infantil, são recomendadas novas investigações, em especial o desenvolvimento de um instrumento avaliativo de imagem corporal específico para gestantes

The relationship between mood and sleep in different female reproductive states

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The essence of the notion pedagogical image of a future teacher

Дается теоретический анализ имеющихся в профессиональной научной литературе определений понятия имидж, что позволяет определить сущность данного понятия и прийти к выводу о том, что понятие педагогический имидж учителя как научная проблема является актуальным в современной педагогической науке.The article presents a theoretical analysis of the existing in the professional scientific sources definitions of image. This allows defining the essence of this notion and coming to the conclusion that the pedagogical image of a future teacher as a scientific problem is an actual one in the contemporary pedagogic