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Perceptions of former foster youth regarding their experiences with mentorship programs/relationships while in foster care
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of former foster youth regarding the experiences with mentor programs/relationships while in foster care
Web-Based Workshop & Webinar Series: Obesity Education and Resources for Medical Students
Lack of formal nutrition education in the medical school curriculum has been a key component of barriers in presenting weight loss recommendations to overweight/obese patients, as reported by practicing physicians. Web-based learning tools are becoming more common in medical schools due to their information-laden, time-constrained curriculum as a means to supplement in-class lectures. A web-based workshop and webinar series (WBWWS) was developed as a continuation project including the creation of a three-part online webinar lecture series with corresponding pre and post-tests, as well as updating and revising the previous web-based workshop website content.
The WBWWS was pilot tested on first to fourth year medical students and included information regarding nutrition education and the overweight/obese patient. A Pre-Test Evaluation Survey (PrES) included general participant information questions, as well as specific nutrition attitudes and perceived self-efficacy ranking statements, which was accessed as the first component of the workshop. A Post-Test Evaluation Survey (PoES) was completed after the participants viewed all webinars and workshop content. Similarly, pre-tests were completed for each of the three-webinar lectures, followed by viewing the lecture, and finished with a post-test to measure improvement. Paired Samples T-tests were performed to evaluate changes for each pre to post-test, and frequency and descriptive analyses were obtained for portions of the PrES/PoES.
Each of the three online webinar lectures: Nutrition Assessment (n=14), Obesity and Its Role in Disease (n=13), and Nutritional Recommendations (n=14) showed significance (p<0.0001) for improvement from pre-test to post-test after viewing the webinars. The Nutrition Attitudes questionnaire, as a part of the PrES and PoES, did not change significantly after the intervention, but Nutrition Attitudes4 suggested the medical school participants still feel as though they need more nutrition training in addition to the WBWWS. The Self-Efficacy questionnaire, also part of the PrES and PoES, showed significance for improvement (p<0.0001) after intervention. The self-efficacy questions were divided into three subscales regarding their own self-efficacy of medical knowledge as it relates to nutrition, their likeliness to refer to dietitians and find reliable online nutrition resources, and their abilities to provide nutrition/physical activity advice to overweight/obese patients. All three subscales showed significant improvement (p<0.01) from the PrES to the PoES
Knight's Tour: Digital Materialism in the Work of Michael Shroads
Knight's Tour: Digital Materialism in the Work of Michael Shroads consists of an in-depth analysis of the concept of materialism in visual art, ranging from seventeenth century Dutch still life to the present day as exemplified in the works of Michael Shroads. The twin concepts of convention and description are critically examined in the twilight of the analog era with the possibilities and modalities of digital materialism for the future outlined in detail
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Finding your (child's) voice: Caregiver identification of familiar child voices
Previous research has shown that voices of unfamiliar young children are more difficult to differentiate and identify than the voices of adults. In the present study, we examine whether difficulty identifying child voices extends to cases in which those voices are highly familiar. Caregivers (n = 132) of 3.5- to 10-year-old children were presented with voice recordings of their own child amongst gender- and age-matched peers and asked to identify which voice belonged to their child. Although overall accuracy was high, voices of younger children were misidentified more often than voices of older children. In contrast with existing models of familiar voice identification, results suggest that listeners are sensitive to variability in low-level acoustic cues to speaker identity in familiar as well as unfamiliar voice processing
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Predictors of intermediate-term survival with destination locoregional therapy of hepatocellular cancer in patients either ineligible or unwilling for liver transplantation
Intra-arterial or percutaneous locoregional therapies (LRT) are often employed to maintain potential liver transplant (LT) recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) within T2/Milan criteria. Predictors of survival when LRT is used as destination therapy in those who are either ineligible or unwilling for LT remain poorly defined. We evaluated predictors of 3-year survival with destination LRT in a population of cirrhotic patients diagnosed with HCC, presenting within T2 criteria, and either ineligible or unwilling for LT. The cohort surviving 3 years had a significantly lower model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score at HCC diagnosis (9.7 vs. 11.4, P= 0.037) and MELD following initial locoregional therapy (10.7 vs. 13.3, P= 0.008) compared to those not surviving three years despite similar demographic, tumor, and treatment variables. LRT as destination therapy results in modest intermediate term survival, with liver function at presentation and immediately following initiation of LRT predicting intermediate survival with this approach.Open Access JournalThis item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected]