Home, But Not Alone: Socio-Cultural and Economic Aspects of Canadian Young Adults Sharing Parental Households

This paper explores several socio-cultural and economic dimensions of intergenerational living arrangements. Data are drawn from a random sample of 1,907 Canadian young adults (aged 19-35) from four ethnocultural groups: British- , Chinese- , Southern European-, and Indo-Canadian. Issues germane to the prolongation of parental roles, midlife mothering, and unpaid work are also highlighted.Cet article explore plusieurs dimensions socio -culturelles et économiques des arrangements de co-habitation entre générations. Les données sont tirées à partir d'un échantillon aléatoire de 1907 jeunes adultes canadiens ( âgés entre 19 et 35 ans) venant de quatre groupes ethnoculturels : Britanniques, Chinois, Européens méridionaux, Indo –Canadiens. Les questions se rapportent à la prolongation des rôles de parents, être mère dans la quarantaine, et le travail non rémunéré est aussi souligné

Valid and Reliable Measure of Adherence to Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding

Objective: To examine the validity and psychometrics of sDOR.2-6y, a 12-item measure of adherence to the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding (sDOR). Design: Cross-sectional survey. Setting: Online respondents in central Pennsylvania. articipants: 117 parents (94% female, 77% White, 62% in ≥1 income-based assistance program) of preschoolers aged 2−6 years (28% moderate/high nutrition risk). Main Outcome Measures: The sDOR.2-6y and Nutrition Screening Tool for Every Preschooler (NutriSTEP), a measure of child nutrition risk and other validated measures of eating behavior and parent feeding practices. Analysis: Relationships were evaluated with Pearson r, t tests, ANOVA, or chi-square. Factor structure was investigated using principal components analysis with varimax rotation. Binary logistic regression and general linear model controlling for low-income status compared with sDOR.2-6y and NutriSTEP scores. Linear regression predicted NutriSTEP and Satter Eating Competence Inventory 2.0 scores from sDOR.2-6y. Results: The sDOR.2-6y ranged from 16−32 (mean, 25.9 § 3.3; n = 114). Parents of youth at nutrition risk had lower sDOR.2−6y scores (P = 0.004). Each 1 point sDOR.2-6y increase decreased nutrition risk odds by 21% (95% confidence interval, 0.675−0.918; P = 0.002). The sDOR.2-6y scores were higher with less restriction and pressure to eat (both P \u3c 0.001) and were associated with feeding style. Specificity was 87% with sDOR.2-6y cutoff ≥24; sensitivity was 66% with cutoff ≥26. Conclusions and Implications: The sDOR.2-6y accurately and reliably indicated adherence of lowincome mothers to sDOR. Larger, diverse samples for future studies are recommended

Toward Sex Equity in the Philadelphia School System

The following is a revised and edited version of a talk delivered on the Capitol Campus of Pennsylvania State University in the fall of 1980. One of the best kept secrets in American education is that Philadelphia is providing national leadership in the area of sex equity. Another well-kept secret , I suppose , is what sex equity is. Many of my colleagues in public education, hearing that I work in a sex equity project, assume that I am in sex education and feel called upon to make risque remarks. In this essay, I\u27ll attempt to take the lid off both secrets: to explain sex equity, and how it comes to be flourishing in the city of brotherly love

A Definition of “Regular Meals” Driven by Dietary Quality Supports a Pragmatic Schedule

Public health guidelines advise eating regular meals without defining “regular.” This study constructed a meaning for “regular” meals congruent with dietary quality. Parents of 4th grade youth in a school-based intervention (Clinicaltrials.gov NCT02491294) completed three, ASA24 online 24-h dietary recalls. Differences in time of intake across days for breakfasts, lunches, dinners were categorized with consistency denoted as always, often/sometimes or rarely/never and assigned values of 3, 2 or 1, respectively. Meal-specific values were summed to form mealtime regularity scores (mReg) ranging from 3 (low) to 9. Healthy eating index (HEI) scores were compared to mReg controlling for weekday/weekend recall pattern. Linear regression predicted HEI scores from mReg. Parents (n = 142) were non-Hispanic white (92%), female (88%) and educated (73%). One mReg version, mReg1 was significantly associated with total HEI, total fruit, whole fruit, tended to correlate with total protein, seafood/plant protein subcomponents. mReg1 predicted total HEI (p = 0.001) and was inversely related to BMI (p = 0.04). A score of three (always) was awarded to breakfasts, lunches or dinners with day-to-day differences of 0–60 min; also, lunches/dinners with one interval of 60–120 min when two meals were ≤60 min apart. More rigid mReg versions were not associated with dietary quality

Early surgery versus initial conservative treatment in patients with traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage [STITCH(Trauma)] : the first randomized trial

Acknowledgements This project was funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme (project number 07/37/16). The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the HTA programme, NIHR, NHS or the Department of Health.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Inter-Coder Agreement for Computational Linguistics

This article is a survey of methods for measuring agreement among corpus annotators. It exposes the mathematics and underlying assumptions of agreement coefficients, covering Krippendorff's alpha as well as Scott's pi and Cohen's kappa; discusses the use of coefficients in several annotation tasks; and argues that weighted, alpha-like coefficients, traditionally less used than kappa-like measures in computational linguistics, may be more appropriate for many corpus annotation tasks—but that their use makes the interpretation of the value of the coefficient even harder. </jats:p

The Unintended Consequences of the Restructuring of the Division of AIDS Services in New York City

The purpose of this study was to assess perceptions of the quality of services of consumers of the New York City Division of AIDS Services in restructured and pre-restructured agency settings A total of 447 consumers participated in the study. Data were collected through interviews conducted at DAS field sites around New York City between July and November of 1996, using a 77 item evaluation instrument developed by the researcher and staff from the Mayor\u27s Office on AIDS Policy Coordination On the three quality indicators, satisfaction with services, perception of the effectiveness of the caseworker, and perception of the helpfulness of the caseworker, there were no significant differences between restructured and pre-restructured sites when background factors were controlled. The failure of the restructuring effort was attributed to lack of inclusion of all stakeholders in the planning proces