The Recognition Preferences of Ontario County 4-H Volunteers

The 4-H program relies on volunteers to deliver quality youth programing to the local community. Therefore, volunteer management is an important job of a 4-H educator. The Ontario County 4-H program utilizes 94 volunteers who serve a variety of roles within the program, and the retention of these volunteers is important to the program’s continued success. Older volunteer studies have found that volunteer recognition is an important aspect of volunteer satisfaction and retention. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the characteristics of current Ontario county 4-H volunteers, understand the underlying motivations and recognition preferences of these volunteers, determine if correlations exist between volunteer characteristics and certain motivation and recognition preferences. The instrument consisted of the Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI), a Likert-style recognition preference matrix, and volunteer role and demographic questions. The study received a 67% response rate with the majority of the respondents being female with a child currently in the program. The study found that Values, which is genuine concern for human need, was the highest scoring motivation category followed by Understanding, which is the desire to gain new skills and knowledge. The most preferred recognition methods were seeing youth succeed, verbal thanks, and thank you notes. Only negligible to moderate correlations were found between volunteer characteristics and motivation and recognition preferences. Based on these findings, it is recommended that Ontario County 4-H implement an intrinsic and personal-based recognition strategy and provide more established volunteer training opportunities

Agreement between self-report and urine drug test results in a sample patients treated with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder

BACKGROUND: Urine drug testing (UDT) is recommended to monitor primary care patients treated for opioid use disorder with buprenorphine. Whether UDT data contributes clinically useful information beyond patient self-report of drug use has received minimal attention. It is unclear whether differences between patient self-report and UDT results varies with time in treatment. OBJECTIVES: To estimate concordance between self-report and UDT results and evaluate if discordant results are associated with time in treatment. METHODS: Retrospective review of electronic medical records of patients enrolled in the Office Based Opioid Treatment program at Boston Medical Center between January 2011–April 2013. Typically, patients submit a urine sample for UDT at the beginning of a clinical visit and are subsequently asked about recent cocaine and opioid use which is documented in the electronic medical record. We compared UDT results to patient self-report of cocaine and opioid use. RESULTS: Of 1,755 UDT from 130 patients, 4% (78/1755) were positive for cocaine and 10% (157/1563) for opioids other than buprenorphine. At visits with a cocaine positive UDT, 76% of patients (59/78) did not disclose cocaine use. At visits with an opioid positive UDT, 57% of patients (89/157) did not disclose opioid use. The odds of having a positive UDT for either cocaine or opioids with no disclosure of use decreased over a year of treatment. CONCLUSION: In a sample of primary care patients with opioid use disorder treated with buprenorphine, fewer than 10% of UDTs were positive for cocaine or opioids, and in these instances patient self-reported use of cocaine or opioids less than half the time. As duration of treatment increased, patients were more likely to disclose use. Urine drug testing contributes new and useful information for clinical consideration of the optimal care of patients with drug use disorders; how best to collect and utilize this information merits further study

Where do children usually play? A qualitative study of parents\u27 perceptions of influences on children\u27s active free-play

This study explored the perceptions of 78 parents from low, mid and high socio-economic areas in Melbourne, Australia to increase understanding of where children play and why. Using an ecological model interviews with parents revealed that safety and social factors emerged as key social themes, facilities at parks and playgrounds, and urban design factors emerged as important physical environment themes. The children\u27s level of independence and attitudes to active free-play were considered to be important individual level influences on active free-play. The study findings have important implications for future urban planning and children\u27s opportunities for active free-play.<br /

Early Child Development in Social Context: A Chartbook

Reviews more than 30 key indicators of health and development for children up to age 6, as well as social factors in families and communities that affect these outcomes. Offers practical suggestions for health practitioners and parents

Writing from Finitude: Love, Desire, and the Nostalgias of Modernism

In this dissertation I show that nostalgia, conceived as an emotional, ethical, and ontological structure, is the operative link between finitude, desire, and love as they develop in the aesthetic trajectory of High Modernist literature. Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time shows how the pain of loving in the face of finitude can lead to desire, which rejects love in favor of a delusional investment in solipsistic comfort. Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre, by contrast, shows that love manifests in a temporal and interpersonal immediacy that cannot be achieved or represented in literature. R.M. Rilke’s Duino Elegies provide images that help to frame my analysis of Beckett and Proust. Nostalgia is a painful sense of not being “at home” that results from the consciousness of finitude. Desire is the attempt to deny nostalgic pain; it searches for complete certainty and safety, and pursues fulfillment by appropriating its object. Love manifests as the joyous ability to trust and touch that depends on human finitude. Desire dominates the aesthetic conclusions of Proust’s text, which proposes that displacing time and consciousness to representative art can achieve the fulfillment of desire. Although Marcel loves his grandmother early in the text, her death is so devastating that in his relationship with Albertine he rejects love’s risks in favor of desire’s promised fulfillment. In my analysis, Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory and Minima Moralia help to distinguish between desiring and loving forms of representation, and Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project shows the ethical pitfalls of proposing that representation can redeem the historical fact of death. Beckett’s novels and plays portray the bleakness of representation itself, and demonstrate that narrative fails to achieve love or fulfillment. His attention to “the old style” in Happy Days shows that words themselves have a desiring and nostalgic structure, and the lost possibilities for love in Krapp’s Last Tape and Molloy show how representation fails to capture the past. Finally, Ben Lerner’s Didactic Elegy shows the continued relevance of concerns about nostalgia, love, desire, and representation, by applying these terms to 9/11 and its aftermath

Enhancing the learner experience in textile design HE through drawing and making, collaboration and socially engaged practice [Abstract]

Enhancing the learner experience in textile design HE through drawing and making, collaboration and socially engaged practice [Abstract

Does weight status influence associations between children\u27s fundamental movement skills and physical activity?

This study sought to determine whether weight status influences the association among children\u27s fundamental movement skills (FMS) and physical activity (PA). Two hundred forty-eight children ages 9-12 years participated. Proficiency in three object-control skills and two locomotor skills was examined. Accelerometers objectively assessed physical activity. Body mass index was calculated to determine weight status. Correlations between physical activity and FMS proficiency were evident among boys and girls. No significant interaction was apparent when examining FMS proficiency scores, PA variables, and weight status. Future studies should examine a broader range of skills and types of activities to better characterize this relationship and to inform the promotion of movement skill proficiency and PA. <br /

Ensuring young voices are heard in core outcome set development: international workshops with 70 children and young people.

Plain english summaryResearchers test treatments to ensure these work and are safe. They do this by studying the effects that treatments have on patients by measuring outcomes, such as pain and quality of life. Often research teams measure different outcomes even though each team is studying the same condition. This makes it hard to compare the findings from different studies and it can reduce the accuracy of the treatment advice available to patients. Increasingly, researchers are tackling this problem by developing 'core outcome sets'. These are lists of outcomes that all researchers working on a given condition should measure in their studies. It is important that patients have a voice in the development of core outcome sets and children and young people are no exception. But their voices have rarely been heard when core outcome sets are developed. Researchers are trying to address this problem and make sure that core outcome sets are developed in ways that are suitable for children and young people. As a first step, we held two international workshops with children and young people to listen to their views. They emphasised the importance of motivating young people to participate in developing core outcome sets, making them feel valued, and making the development process more interactive, enjoyable and convenient. We hope this commentary will encourage researchers to include children and young people when developing core outcome sets and to adapt their methods so these are suitable for young participants. Future research is important to examine whether these adaptations are effective.AbstractBackground Different research teams looking at treatments for the same condition often select and measure inconsistent treatment outcomes. This makes it difficult to synthesise the results of different studies, leads to selective outcome reporting and impairs the quality of evidence about treatments. 'Core outcome sets' (COS) can help to address these problems. A COS is an agreed, minimum list of outcomes that researchers are encouraged to consistently measure and report in their studies. Including children and young people (CYP) as participants in the development of COS for paediatric conditions ensures that clinically meaningful outcomes are measured and reported. However, few published COS have included CYP as participants. COS developers have described difficulties in recruiting and retaining CYP and there is a lack of guidance on optimising COS methods for them. We aimed to explore CYP's views on the methods used to develop COS and identify ways to optimise these methods.Main body This commentary summarises discussions during two workshops with approximately 70 CYP (aged 10-18 years old) at the International Children's Advisory Network Research and Advocacy Summit, 2018. Delegates described what might motivate them to participate in a COS study, including feeling valued, understanding the need for COS and the importance of input from CYP in their development, and financial and other incentives (e.g. certificates of participation). For Delphi surveys, delegates suggested that lists of outcomes should be as brief as possible, and that scoring and feedback methods should be simplified. For consensus meetings, delegates advised preparing CYP in advance, supporting them during meetings (e.g. via mentors) and favoured arrangements whereby CYP could meet separately from parents and other stakeholders. Overall, they wanted COS methods that were convenient, enjoyable and engaging.Conclusion This commentary points to the limitations of the methods currently used to develop COS with CYP. It also points to ways to motivate CYP to participate in COS studies and to enhancements of methods to make participation more engaging for CYP. Pending much needed research on COS methods for CYP, the perspectives offered in the workshops should help teams developing COS in paediatrics and child health

Research students exhibition catalogue 2011

The catalogue demonstrates the scope and vibrancy of current inquiries and pays tribute to the creative capacity and investment of UCA research students. It brings together contributions from students who are at different stages in their research ad/venture. Their explorations are connected by the centrality of contemporary material practices as focal point for the reconsideration of societal values, cultural symbols and rituals and their meaning, and the trans/formation of individual, collective and national identities The media and formats employed range from cloth, jewellery and ceramics to analogue film, the human voice and the representation of dress and fashionin virtual environments. Thematic interests span from explorations at the interface of art and medical science to an investigation of the role of art in contested spaces, or the role of metonymy in ‘how the arts think’ And whilst the projects are motivated by personal curiosity and passion, their outcomes transcend the boundaries of individual practice and offer new insights, under-standing and applications for the benefit of wider society. Prof. Kerstin Me

Core Outcome Set-STAndardised Protocol items: the COS-STAP statement

Background: Several hundred core outcome set (COS) projects have been systematically identified to date which, if adopted, ensure that researchers measure and report those outcomes that are most likely to be relevant to users of their research. The uptake of a COS by COS users will depend in part on the transparency and robustness of the methods used in the COS development study, which would be increased by the use of a standardised protocol. This article describes the development of the COS-STAP (Core Outcome Set-STAndardised Protocol Items) Statement for the content of a COS development study protocol. Methods: The COS-STAP Statement was developed following the Enhancing the Quality and Transparency Of Health Research (EQUATOR) Network’s methodological framework for guideline development. This included an initial item generation stage, a two-round Delphi survey involving more than 150 participants representing three stakeholder groups (COS developers, journal editors and patient and public involvement researchers interested in COS development), followed by a consensus meeting with eight voting participants. Results: The COS-STAP Statement consists of a checklist of 13 items considered essential documentation in a protocol, outlining the scope of the COS, stakeholder involvement, COS development plans and consensus processes. Conclusions: Journal editors and peer reviewers can use the guidance to assess the completeness of a COS development study protocol submitted for publication. By providing guidance for key content, the COS-STAP Statement will enhance the drafting of high-quality protocols and determine how the COS development study will be carried out