Sharing health risk behaviors on social media

2021 Fall.Includes bibliographical references.The popularity of social media platforms has provided an outlet for young adults to display risky health behaviors. Previous research has shown sites, such as Facebook provide the perfect platform to share drinking, drug use and sexual behaviors. With the creation of Snapchat and its unique disappearing content affordance, it is the perfect platform to examine how and why young adults display risk health behaviors on social media. A uses and gratifications theoretical framework was used to help understand how and why college students use Snapchat to display risky health behaviors, specifically alcohol and marijuana use. Particularly the researcher was interested gratifications from sharing risky health behaviors on Snapchat, affordances of the platform, if there was a relationship between content sent and received on Snapchat versus Instagram, and if there was a relationship between age and sharing risky health behaviors on Snapchat. Instagram was included as a comparison to Snapchat since the platforms share some affordances and Instagram, like Snapchat, is popular with the age group studied. For this study, 194 participants were recruited from undergraduate journalism classes at Colorado State University to complete an online survey. This population was chosen because it was reasonable to assume that participants were members of Gen-Z, who make up 82% of Snapchat users ("21 Snapchat Stats That Matter to Social Media Marketers," 2020). This sample also included participants who had not reached the legal age for consuming alcohol and marijuana in Colorado, as well as participants who had reached the legal age. The results showed that, when alcohol-related and marijuana-related content were analyzed together, social sharing was the most highly rated gratification from sharing risky health behaviors on Snapchat. When examining affordances, the researcher thought the disappearing content affordance would be the most highly rated reason for using Snapchat. However, it was found that selectivity when sharing content with a few friends was the most highly rated reason for using Snapchat. Results also indicated that participants sent and received alcohol-related and marijuana-related content more often on Snapchat than Instagram. Last, while no relationship was found between age and sending alcohol-related and marijuana-related content, there was a relationship between age and receiving alcohol-related and marijuana-related content. Limitations, practical applications, and recommendations for future research were also discussed

Operationalizing intersectionality in social work research: Approaches and limitations

Despite intersectionality’s relevance to social work, scholars have raised concerns that its misguided applications place it “in danger of being co-opted, depoliticized, and diluted.” This scoping review examined the use of intersectionality in empirical social work research, specific to the extent, contexts, and degree of responsibility with which it has been applied. Using the search term convention [“social work” OR “social services”] AND [“intersectional” OR “intersectionality”], 22 databases were searched for peer-reviewed research published between 2009 and 2019, yielding 153 articles. The 33 studies meeting inclusion criteria were examined according to two frameworks: (1) typologies for intersectional conceptual approach and (2) intersectionality responsible use guidelines (RUG). Most studies used an intracategorical approach (n ¼ 24), while fewer used an intercategorical (n ¼ 7) or a mixed intra- and intercategorical approach (n ¼ 2). On average, studies met approximately half of the RUG. Studies most frequently (n ¼ 29) aligned with the guideline “Recommend ways to promote positive social transformation and justice through research, teaching, and practice.” Studies least frequently (n ¼ 3) conformed to the guideline “Credits Black feminist activist roots of intersectionality.” Responsible stewardship is recommended to address power in knowledge production, researcher positionalities, and social justice action

Viable Vocabularies: An Introduction to Controlling, Cleaning, and Linking Your Data

These slides are from an interactive workshop held at Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh on March 23, 2018. Controlled vocabularies are lists of standardized words and phrases used to refer to ideas, physical characteristics, people, places, events, subject matter, and many other concepts. Using controlled vocabularies in projects and research allow for consistency and comparability, but getting started can seem like a bewildering process. In the first part of this workshop, we will cover finding, understanding, and using controlled vocabularies. Then, we will explore connecting terms to linked data vocabularies using OpenRefine

Art for Rollins: Volume I

Goodman, Abigail Ross. Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Volume I. Winter Park, FL: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2013. A loanable print copy of this text can be found at the Rollins College Olin Library. A purchasable print copy of this text can be bought at the Rollins Museum of Art giftshop.https://scholarship.rollins.edu/artforrollins/1000/thumbnail.jp

Art for Rollins: Volume III

Goodman, Abigail Ross. Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Volume III. Winter Park, FL: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2018. A loanable print copy of this text can be found at the Rollins College Olin Library. A purchasable print copy of this text can be bought at the Rollins Museum of Art giftshop.https://scholarship.rollins.edu/artforrollins/1002/thumbnail.jp

Art for Rollins: Volume II

Goodman, Abigail Ross. Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art Volume II. Winter Park, FL: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2015. A loanable print copy of this text can be found at the Rollins College Olin Library. A purchasable print copy of this text can be bought at the Rollins Museum of Art giftshop.https://scholarship.rollins.edu/artforrollins/1001/thumbnail.jp

Assessing antiracism as a learning outcome in social work education

The current political climate and reversals of gains made during the Civil Rights Movement underscore the urgent need for preparing emerging social workers to effectively address white supremacy in social work practice. Antiracism education in social work aims to ensure competent antiracist social work practice towards the goal of eradicating white supremacy in all its forms. Given the widening racial disparities evident in income, health and educational outcomes, it is essential to examine the degree to which social work education adequately prepares emerging social work practitioners to engage in antiracist social work practice. This paper presents findings of a systematic review of social work research assessing antiracism as a learning outcome. After reviewing more than 150 studies published between 2008 and 2018, none of them focused on assessing antiracism as a learning outcome. Our review demonstrates that despite the importance of antiracist social work practice, published research on assessment of antiracism as a learning outcome is sparse and is not antiracism-focused as much as it is antiracism-inclusive. More attention to identifying and disseminating best practices for assessing student competence in antiracism practice is required to defeat white supremacy.  Published versio

Social Cognitive Factors Associated with Sharing Overt and Relational Cyberaggression Digitally

Cyberaggression is a substantial problem for college-aged students. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine associations between social cognitive factors and digitally sharing one’s own and others’ overt and relational cyberaggressive material among college students. Social cognitive factors included cyber moral disengagement and facets of cognitive autonomy, including comparative validation, voicing opinions, and evaluative thinking. A convenience sample of 437 college students from a medium-sized US university completed an online survey about cyber aggression and related social cognitive factors. Results from a structural equation model, controlling for gender, showed that cyber moral disengagement was positively associated with sharing own and others’ overt and relational cyberaggressive material. Sharing one’s own and others’ relational cyberaggression was positively associated with comparative validation but was negatively associated with evaluative thinking. The present research reinforces prior links between moral disengagement and cyberaggression while examining other social cognitive factors associated with cyberaggression and assisting cyberaggression perpetrators

Infrastructure Fieldnotes: Engaging the City through Reading, Research, and Representations

As part of a recent undergraduate seminar on infrastructure, students completed weekly exercises dubbed “infrastructure fieldnotes.” Going beyond conventional discussion board posts or reading responses, exercise prompts incorporated reading analysis, methods practice, writing prompts, and experiments in multimodal representation as students engaged with urban planning and quotidian experiences of infrastructure and made sense of the infrastructures that enable and structure city life. In this research article, the instructor for the course offers a preliminary presentation of the assignment’s structure and pedagogical objectives, followed by an analysis of how some prompts influenced classroom discussions by creating common points of reference and revealing different experiences of the campus and city. This discussion is followed by five student contributions on different aspects of the assignment. Some take up specific prompts to demonstrate how they created openings for engagement with course material, some reflect on how exercises enabled students to cultivate new kinds of awareness or attention to infrastructure, and others extend the fieldnotes project beyond the class to show what kinds of analysis endured after the course ended. Altogether, these student analyses demonstrate and reflect on the utility of sustained, open-ended prompts for student engagement with course material and concepts in an urban campus.&nbsp

How do we evaluate the cost of nosocomial infection? The ECONI protocol: an incidence study with nested case-control evaluating cost and quality of life

Introduction Healthcare-associated or nosocomial infection (HAI) is distressing to patients and costly for the National Health Service (NHS). With increasing pressure to demonstrate cost-effectiveness of interventions to control HAI and notwithstanding the risk from antimicrobial-resistant infections, there is a need to understand the incidence rates of HAI and costs incurred by the health system and for patients themselves. Methods and analysis The Evaluation of Cost of Nosocomial Infection study (ECONI) is an observational incidence survey with record linkage and a nested case-control study that will include postdischarge longitudinal follow-up and qualitative interviews. ECONI will be conducted in one large teaching hospital and one district general hospital in NHS Scotland. The case mix of these hospitals reflects the majority of overnight admissions within Scotland. An incidence survey will record all HAI cases using standard case definitions. Subsequent linkage to routine data sets will provide information on an admission cohort which will be grouped into HAI and non-HAI cases. The case-control study will recruit eligible patients who develop HAI and twice that number without HAI as controls. Patients will be asked to complete five questionnaires: the first during their stay, and four others during the year following discharge from their recruitment admission (1, 3, 6 and 12 months). Multiple data collection methods will include clinical case note review; patient-reported outcome; linkage to electronic health records and qualitative interviews. Outcomes collected encompass infection types; morbidity and mortality; length of stay; quality of life; healthcare utilisation; repeat admissions and postdischarge prescribing. Ethics and dissemination The study has received a favourable ethical opinion from the Scotland A Research Ethics Committee (reference 16/SS/0199). All publications arising from this study will be published in open-access peer-reviewed journal. Lay-person summaries will be published on the ECONI website. Trial registration number NCT03253640; Pre-results