Interprofessional Service Learning: Engaging Older Adults at the Champion Intergenerational Center

IMPACT. 1: Through interactions at the Center, the pharmacy and physical therapy doctoral students were able to learn more about each other's health disciplines including differences and similarities between their professional programs. -- 2. Both groups of students were able to interact with older adults some of whom have cognitive impairments to practice what they have learned through their curricula about communication techniques. -- 3. Students were able to learn to adapt games and other activities to accommodate visual or auditory limitations of the older adults.OSU PARTNERS: Office of Geriatrics and Interprofessional Aging Studies; College of Medicine - Elizabeth Speidel; School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences- College of Medicine - Erin Thomas and Carmen Bizzarri; College of Pharmacy - Ruth EmptageCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: Champion Intergenerational Enrichment and Educational Center; National Church ResidencesPRIMARY CONTACT: Elizabeth Speidel ([email protected])Champion is a community-university collaboration providing adult-day services and early childhood care and education. Doctor of Physical Therapy and Doctor of Pharmacy students engaged in communication building activities with each other, center staff and older adults in the adult day program at the Center. Activities included students completing biographical sketches of older adults, planning activities, and assisting with Bingo. The experience facilitated students interacting with each other as well as the older adults and staff

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Language achievements of mentally retarded children

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University.The general purpose of the study was to discover the variations in language abilities and the specific nature of strengths and weaknesses among these abilities as found among children in classes for the mentally retarded. Listening comprehension, various reading abilities, and abilities in speech and writing were to be studied in order to discover leads for current education and for the building of remedial programs

Food For a Long Life: A Local Case Study of Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR)

The Food For a Long Life (FFLL) project is a five-year, USDA-CYFAR (Children, Youth and Families At-Risk) Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) project that aims to reduce food insecurity among young children and their families living in one Columbus, Ohio neighborhood and one Virginia community. Specifically, the FFLL project seeks to use intergenerational strategies to improve access to, consumption of and knowledge of healthful food in the target communities. The FFLL project team just completed its planning year, year one of the five-year project, during which stakeholders were identified and engaged in the CBPAR process. The following principles of CBPAR (Israel et al., 2000) were applied to guide the project planning efforts: Acknowledge the community as a unit of identity. Build on strengths and resources within the community. Facilitate a collaborative, equitable partnership in all phases of research. Involve an empowering and power sharing process that attends to social inequalities. Foster co-learning and capacity building among partners. Integrate a balance between knowledge generation and intervention for the mutual benefit of all partners. Focus on the local relevance of public health problems and ecological perspectives that attend to the multiple determinants of health. Involve systems development using a cyclical and iterative process. Disseminate results to all partners and involve them in the wider dissemination of results. Use a long-term process and commit to sustainability. The Ohio FFLL project team began the planning year by hosting a project kick-off meeting for research team members and pre-identified stakeholders. During the first quarter of the year, existing community data was gathered and listening sessions were held with stakeholders. In the second quarter, the research team analyzed and themed the data. Themes were then communicated to interested stakeholders via a community conversation (i.e. search conference meeting) and three monthly Discover Council meetings. Currently, the Discovery Council is meeting quarterly to inform the project's intervention strategies. The Discovery Council research team members include a dietitian, a gerontologist, experts in intergenerational programming, a food security expert, a technology expert and evaluation specialists. These team members come as students, staff and faculty working for OSU Extension and the Ohio State College of Social Work. Also represented on the Discovery Council are community members, caregivers and parents; early childcare education providers, adult care providers, employees from the public health department, employees from the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, and representatives from various other nonprofit organizations. The make-up of the Discovery Council allows for planning that draws on both subject-area expertise and community knowledge, resulting in plans that are feasible, sustainable, desired and relevant.AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Jenny Lobb, Educator, The Ohio State University Extension, [email protected] (Corresponding Author); Shannon Jarrott, Professor, Ohio State College of Social Work; Holly Dabelko-Schoeny, Associate Professor, Ohio State College of Social Work; Elizabeth Speidel, Intergenerational Program Manager, Champion Intergenerational Center.The Food For a Long Life (FFLL) project is a five-year, USDA-CYFAR (Children, Youth and Families At-Risk) project that aims to reduce food insecurity among young children and their families living in one Columbus, Ohio neighborhood and one Virginia community. Specifically, the FFLL project seeks to use intergenerational strategies to improve access to, consumption of and knowledge of healthful food in the target communities. The project uses the Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) process to engage various stakeholders in the target communities to plan for and achieve feasible, sustainable and desired outcomes. The Ohio research team will share how CBPAR principles were applied in the planning year of the research project to inform intervention strategies for the current project year

Connecting Land–Atmosphere Interactions to Surface Heterogeneity in CHEESEHEAD19

The Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-Balance Study Enabled by a High-Density Extensive Array of Detectors 2019 (CHEESEHEAD19) is an ongoing National Science Foundation project based on an intensive field campaign that occurred from June to October 2019. The purpose of the study is to examine how the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) responds to spatial heterogeneity in surface energy fluxes. One of the main objectives is to test whether lack of energy balance closure measured by eddy covariance (EC) towers is related to mesoscale atmospheric processes. Finally, the project evaluates data-driven methods for scaling surface energy fluxes, with the aim to improve model–data comparison and integration. To address these questions, an extensive suite of ground, tower, profiling, and airborne instrumentation was deployed over a 10 km × 10 km domain of a heterogeneous forest ecosystem in the Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin, United States, centered on an existing 447-m tower that anchors an AmeriFlux/NOAA supersite (US-PFa/WLEF). The project deployed one of the world’s highest-density networks of above-canopy EC measurements of surface energy fluxes. This tower EC network was coupled with spatial measurements of EC fluxes from aircraft; maps of leaf and canopy properties derived from airborne spectroscopy, ground-based measurements of plant productivity, phenology, and physiology; and atmospheric profiles of wind, water vapor, and temperature using radar, sodar, lidar, microwave radiometers, infrared interferometers, and radiosondes. These observations are being used with large-eddy simulation and scaling experiments to better understand submesoscale processes and improve formulations of subgrid-scale processes in numerical weather and climate models

Contraception after medication abortion in the United States: results from a cluster randomized trial

BackgroundUnderstanding how contraceptive choices and access differ for women having medication abortions compared to aspiration procedures can help to identify priorities for improved patient-centered postabortion contraceptive care.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to investigate the differences in contraceptive counseling, method choices, and use between medication and aspiration abortion patients.Study designThis subanalysis examines data from 643 abortion patients from 17 reproductive health centers in a cluster, randomized trial across the United States. We recruited participants aged 18-25 years who did not desire pregnancy and followed them for 1 year. We measured the effect of a full-staff contraceptive training and abortion type on contraceptive counseling, choice, and use with multivariable regression models, using generalized estimating equations for clustering. We used survival analysis with shared frailty to model actual intrauterine device and subdermal implant initiation over 1 year.ResultsOverall, 26% of participants (n = 166) had a medication abortion and 74% (n = 477) had an aspiration abortion at the enrollment visit. Women obtaining medication abortions were as likely as those having aspiration abortions to receive counseling on intrauterine devices or the implant (55%) and on a short-acting hormonal method (79%). The proportions of women choosing to use these methods (29% intrauterine device or implant, 58% short-acting hormonal) were also similar by abortion type. The proportions of women who actually used short-acting hormonal methods (71% medication vs 57% aspiration) and condoms or no method (20% vs 22%) within 3 months were not significantly different by abortion type. However, intrauterine device initiation over a year was significantly lower after the medication than the aspiration abortion (11 per 100 person-years vs 20 per 100 person-years, adjusted hazard ratio, 0.50; 95% confidence interval, 0.28-0.89). Implant initiation rates were low and similar by abortion type (5 per 100 person-years vs 4 per 100 person-years, adjusted hazard ratio, 2.41; 95% confidence interval, 0.88-6.59). In contrast to women choosing short-acting methods, relatively few of those choosing a long-acting method at enrollment, 34% of medication abortion patients and 53% of aspiration abortion patients, had one placed within 3 months. Neither differences in health insurance nor pelvic examination preferences by abortion type accounted for lower intrauterine device use among medication abortion patients.ConclusionDespite similar contraceptive choices, fewer patients receiving medication abortion than aspiration abortion initiated intrauterine devices over 1 year of follow-up. Interventions to help patients receiving medication abortion to successfully return for intrauterine device placement are warranted. New protocols for same-day implant placement may also help patients receiving medication abortion and desiring a long-acting method to receive one

Nuclear structure studies of 70 Zn from g -factor and lifetime measurements

The g factors and mean lifetimes of several short-lived low-lying states in 3070Zn40 have been measured using the techniques of projectile Coulomb excitation in inverse kinematics combined with transient magnetic fields and the Doppler-shift attenuation method. The present results have been interpreted within the framework of large-scale shell-model calculations that include the g9/2 orbital. � 2009 The American Physical Society

Structure of the Sr-Zr isotopes near and at the magic N = 50 shell from g -factor and lifetime measurements in 88 40 Zr and 84,86,88 38 Sr

Background: The evolution of and interplay between single-particle and collective excitations in the 40 ?N? 50 range for 38Sr and 40Zr isotopes have been studied. Purpose: Measurement of the g factor of the 21+ and 41+ states in radioactive 88Zr while simultaneously remeasuring the g(21+) factors in the Sr isotopes and extention of the measurements to higher energy states in the Sr isotopes. Lifetimes of states in these nuclei are determined. Methods: The transient field technique in inverse kinematics and line-shape analysis using the Doppler-shift attenuation method are applied. The 88Zr nuclei were produced by the transfer of an ? particle from the 12C nuclei of the target to 84Sr nuclei in the beam. The excited states in the stable 84Sr isotopes were simultaneously populated via Coulomb excitation by 12C in the same target. Coulomb excitation measurements on 86 ,88Sr were carried out with the same apparatus. Results: The resulting g factors and B(E2) values of these nuclei reveal similarities between the two chains of Zr and Sr isotopes. Large-scale shell-model calculations were performed within the p 3/2,f 5/2,p 1/2,g 9/2 orbital space for both protons and neutrons and yielded results in agreement with the experimental data. Conclusions: In this paper the magnetic moments and lifetimes of several low-lying states in 88Zr and 84.86 ,88Sr have been measured and compared to large-scale shell-model calculations. � 2012 American Physical Society

Longitudinal advocacy training for medical students: a virtual workshop series

Implication StatementAdvocacy curricula in Canadian medical schools vary significantly. Expert-led, interactive workshops can effectively teach students how to address social determinants of health and advocate for patients. The Longitudinal Advocacy Training Series (LATS) is a free-of-charge, virtual program providing advocacy training created for Canadian medical students by students. The program was straightforward to implement and had high participation rates with 1140 participants representing 9.7% of enrolled Canadian medical students. As well, the program had high satisfaction reported by 87.6% of participants. The LATS toolkit enables health professional programs to develop similar programs for empowering effective health advocates.Énoncé des implications de la rechercheAu Canada, les programmes de formation en matière de promotion et de défense des droits varient considérablement d'une faculté de médecine à l'autre. Les ateliers interactifs dirigés par des experts constituent un outil efficace pour enseigner aux étudiants la façon aborder les déterminants sociaux de la santé afin de défendre les droits des patients. La Longitudinal Advocacy Training Series (LATS) est un programme virtuel gratuit de formation à la défense des droits, créé par des étudiants pour les étudiants. Le programme, facile à mettre en œuvre, a connu un taux de participation élevé, à savoir 1140 participants représentant 9,7 % des étudiants en médecine au Canada. En outre, 87,6 % des participants se sont dits très satisfaits du programme. La trousse à outils LATS permet aux programmes de formation des professions de la santé de mettre sur pied des modules similaires pour donner aux étudiants les moyens de devenir des défenseurs de la santé efficaces