Exploring the Influence of Gender on Registered Nurses’ Intentions to Leave the Profession

An aim of this study was to uncover the visible and invisible influences of gender as a social structure in respect to the decision to leave the nursing profession. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eleven female registered nurses who had serious intentions of leaving the nursing profession. Based on the findings of this study, strategies to influence recruitment, practice, and retention in nursing can be developed

The Use of Arts Based Projects in Clinical Education

The purpose of this research roundtable is to explore the use of arts-based pedagogies in the clinical post-conference setting

Influence of mental health literacy on help-seeking behaviour for mental health problems in the Swiss young adult community: a cohort and longitudinal case–control study

Poor knowledge about mental health disorders and their treatment likely contributes to the large treatment gap reported for mental health problems. Therefore, we studied the association between mental health literacy (MHL) and active help-seeking in a community sample. Participants were recruited from an add-on questionnaire study to the 'Bern Epidemiological At-Risk' (BEAR) study on 16-40-year-old community subjects of the Swiss canton Bern. At baseline, data of N = 1504, and at 3-year follow-up, data of N = 535 were available. Based on an unlabelled case vignette (on depression or schizophrenia), MHL was assessed by the questionnaire of Angermeyer and colleagues. Cross-sectional and longitudinal baseline predictors of help-seeking were analysed using path analyses. Additionally, sensitivity analyses of the prospective model were computed for sex, vignette, and baseline mental health problems/disorders. Cross-sectionally, help-seeking was associated with non-endorsement of biogenetic causal explanations, presence of mental health problems/disorders, help-seeking before baseline, poorer functioning, and lower health satisfaction. The prospective model was similar; yet, help-seeking at follow-up was associated with endorsements of the causal explanation 'biogenetics' and, additionally, 'childhood trauma' but not the presence of baseline mental health problems/disorders. Sensitivity analyses revealed a significant impact on sex, vignette, and mental health problems/disorders. For example, actual functional problems were predictive in males, while health satisfaction was predictive in females. Our findings indicate that future studies on drivers of help-seeking should assess very large community samples with case vignettes on different mental disorders to examine appropriate subgroups and their likely interaction to address group-specific factors in awareness campaigns

A Unique LnIII{[3.3.1]GaIII Metallacryptate} Series That Possesses Properties of Slow Magnetic Relaxation and Visible/Near‐Infrared Luminescence

A new family of [3.3.1] metallacryptates with the general composition [LnGa6(H2shi)(Hshi)(shi)7(C5H5N)] (Ln‐1; shi3−=salicylhydroximate; Ln = Pr, Nd, Sm–Yb) has been synthesized and characterized. Ln‐1 display both interesting magnetic and luminescent properties. Sm‐1 has sharp emission bands in the visible and the near‐infrared (NIR) regions with quantum yield values (QSmL) of 1.64(9) and 5.5(2).10−2 %, respectively. Tb‐1 exhibits a weak green emission (QTbL=1.89(3).10−1 %) while Pr‐1, Nd‐1, Ho‐1, Er‐1, and Yb‐1 possess emission bands in the NIR range with QPrL=3.7(2).10−3 %, QNdL=1.71(5).10−1 %, QHoL=1.1(2).10−3 %, QErL=7.1(2).10−3 % and QYbL=0.65(3) %. Nd‐1, Dy‐1, and Yb‐1 display slow magnetization relaxation in an applied field, where only Dy‐1 has been observed to follow an Orbach process (Ueff=12.7 K). The combination of NIR emission with magnetic properties makes Nd‐1 and Yb‐1 attractive candidates as smart materials addressable in two manners.A two‐for‐one scaffold: A new LnIII‐encapsulating metallamacrocyclic scaffold was synthesized and structurally determined to resemble cryptands. This metallacryptand can bind a wide variety of LnIII ions of different natures and demonstrates the ability to sensitize their characteristic emissions in the visible and/or near‐infrared. Slow magnetic relaxation was also observed for selected LnIII.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145255/1/chem201801355.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145255/2/chem201801355_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145255/3/chem201801355-sup-0001-misc_information.pd

Marriage and Materialism: Actor and Partner Effects Between Materialism, Importance of Marriage, and Marital Satisfaction

Drawing upon both the incompatibility of materialism and children model and marital paradigms theory, the purpose of the current study was to examine husband-wife actor and partner effects between materialism and marital satisfaction and to explore perception of the importance of marriage as a mediator of these relationships. Using a sample of 706 couples from the RELATE dataset, wives’ materialism negatively predicted both their own marital satisfaction as well as their husbands’ marital satisfaction. However, when controlling for financial problems in marriage, these effects became non-significant. Additionally, upon adding both wives’ and husbands’ importance of marriage (as well as combined couples’ “common fate” importance of marriage) to the model as mediators, indirect effects (actor and partner) between materialism and marital satisfaction were noted. Thus, when one partner (regardless of gender) places a high value on money and possessions, both spouses are less likely to place a high value on marriage, and are subsequently less likely to be satisfied in their marriage. Implications for financial therapists are discussed

The Epidemiology of Injury in English Women's Domestic Club Football: A Single Site Prospective Cohort Study

Background The epidemiology of injury at club level in the English Women’s Domestic Club Football League is unknown. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence, prevalence, and nature of injury in a single women’s football squad over the course of one season. Study Design Prospective single site cohort study Methods Twenty-five female footballers competing in the English Women’s Championship were observed. Data collection procedures followed the UEFA consensus guidelines (2006). Individual player exposure was recorded for all football related activity and incidence of injury per 1000h was estimated for total, match, and training activity. Prevalence, site, and type of injury was recorded. Epidemiologic incidence proportions, clinical incidence and severity was calculated to provide measures of injury burden and resource management statistics. Results A total of 18 injuries including re-injuries were sustained in 11 players providing a clinical incidence of 0.72 injuries per player. Epidemiological incidence proportion was 0.44 (95% CI: 0.24 – 0.74), thus the average probability that any player would sustain at least one injury was 44% (95% CI: 25% to 63%). The total incidence of injury was 8.0/1000h, 30.6/1000h during match play and 2.2/1000h during training. The most common sites of injury were the knee (5/18, 28%) and thigh (4/18, 22%). There was two (11%) non-time loss and 16 (89%) time-loss injuries recorded. Of the 16 time loss injuries, there were three (19%) severe, five (31%) moderate and six (37%) minor severity injuries. Of the five knee injuries, two (13%) were major severity ruptures of the anterior cruciate ligament. Injury burden was estimated to be 468 days lost/1000h. Conclusions This is the first prospective investigation capturing women’s injury incidence data from a cohort of English domestic club players. Total, match, and training incidence rate estimates are comparable to rates of single site cohort studies in Europe. The days lost from knee injuries imposes an increased burden on a squad of this size. Multi-site prospective investigations of injury are required

Adapting the Communication and Teamwork Skills Assessment to Assess Pre-licensure Health Care Student Team Performance in Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education

Introduction: Literature demonstrates a lack of structured reporting of interprofessional (IPE) education activities and challenges objectively measuring team performance. The purposes of this article are: to provide a structured description of a simulation-enhanced IPE project focusing on pre-licensure health care student team performance; and, to describe how the Communication and Teamwork Skills (CATS) assessment was adapted to assess teamwork and communication skills during student team simulations. Methods: Simulated case scenarios were conducted with teams consisting of nursing, respiratory therapy, and medical students. The CATS tool was adapted for use in IPE simulations by adding two statements that globally assessed frequency and quality of teamwork. Individual items from the CATS tool guided assessment of overall team performance. Faculty assessors piloted the tool by discussing tool components and assessing several sample cases together. Faculty assessors then scored each simulation individually and the adapted CATS tool was assessed for inter-rater reliability. Results: The team assessed sixty-eight cases (n=68). Thirty-four (n=34) cases were rated by three of the faculty and thirty-four (n=34) were rated by two faculty. Inter-rater reliability for frequency of communication was .808 and .789 for quality of communication. Conclusion: This project suggests that an adapted version of the CATS assessment tool can be used to reliably assess communication performance of health care student teams during a simulated acute care case. In addition, the planning team hopes that the project can be replicated to develop a model of IPE that is sustainable and feasible within other academic or health care settings

Effective Field Theory and Integrability in Two-Dimensional Mott Transition

We study the Mott transition in a two-dimensional lattice spinless fermion model with nearest neighbors density-density interactions. By means of a two-dimensional Jordan-Wigner transformation, the model is mapped onto the lattice XXZ spin model, which is shown to possess a Quantum Group symmetry as a consequence of a recently found solution of the Zamolodchikov Tetrahedron Equation. A projection (from three to two space-time dimensions) property of the solution is used to identify the symmetry of the model at the Mott critical point as U_q(sl(2))xU_q(sl(2)), with deformation parameter q=-1. Based on this result, the low-energy Effective Field theory for the model is obtained and shown to be a lattice double Chern-Simons theory with coupling constant k=1 (with the standard normalization). By further employing the Effective Filed Theory methods, we show that the Mott transition that arises is of topological nature, with vortices in an antiferromagnetic array and matter currents characterized by a d-density wave order parameter. We also analyze the behavior of the system upon weak coupling, and conclude that it undergoes a quantum gas-liquid transition which belongs to the Ising universality class.Comment: 36 page