The role of the Chilhowee Baptist faith community in healthcare : an association-wide study of member perspectives

The United States has documented a strong 30-year history in regards to health promotion and health education. National health leaders recognize that individuals must accept greater responsibility for their own health before improvements in community health can be achieved. The focus on collaboration and partnering between healthcare providers and community organizations is essential for health promotion. Religion has played a role in health promotion by advocating for personal health and accepting responsibility for improving the health of others. Thus, faith-based health organizations provide an excellent venue for offering health programs. As a result of this new awareness, community leaders have initiated grassroots projects to identify local health needs. Blount County, Tennessee provides a strong faith-based organization and a public health infrastructure for community diagnosis. The Blount County Community Diagnosis Status Report of 1999 claims faith-based organizations are a valid option for addressing local health needs. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of the Chilhowee Baptist faith community in healthcare by analyzing the member\u27s perceptions of health issues such as: promoting better personal health, managing medical health problems, coping with family/life changes, and addressing mental health. The study was designed to examine if the size of the congregation or the member\u27s demographic characteristics impact their perceptions regarding the level of involvement or the focus of responsibility in the four health issues. A closed-form questionnaire was designed to elicit anonymous responses regarding the level of involvement and focus of responsibility for health issues within the Chilhowee Baptist Association. The survey instrument used for this study categorized focus areas from Healthy People 20 IO into four sections: personal health, medical health problems to include acute and chronic illnesses, coping and emotional health, and finally, mental health. The survey was field-tested by members of the Knoxville and Sweetwater Baptist Associations prior to distribution to the Chilhowee Baptist Association. The participants completed a survey designed to elicit perceptions on two healthrelated questions: 1) to what extent should the Baptist faith community be involved in promoting better personal health, managing medical health problems, coping with family/life changes, and addressing mental health, and 2) who should be responsible for addressing these health issues. Participants were selected by a convenience sample as pastors of the Chilhowee Baptist Association volunteered to participate in the study. A total of 500 surveys were distributed among small (\u3c250 members) and large (=\u3e 251 members) churches. Either the pastor or an alternate member of the congregation administered surveys. Only adult members participated in the research and anonymity was maintained throughout the study. The overall response rate was 61. 6% with small churches providing 53. 9% of the returned surveys and 46.1 % of the responses represent large churches. The majority (57.8%) of responses came from regular church members as opposed to pastors, teachers, deacons, or other church staff. Most (73. 7%) respondents have been involved in church for over 20 years. More females (5 8. 8%) participated than did men (38.6% ). All age categories from 18 to over 65 years of age were represented in the study; however, only 33.2% were aged 18 - 44 years while 66.2% of participants were aged 45 years and greater. Survey responses indicated how the participants perceived the role of the Baptist faith community in healthcare based on church size, participant\u27s age, and the number of years participant has been involved in church. There was no difference in reported level of involvement for promoting better personal health, managing medical health problems, coping with family/life changes, and addressing mental health based on church size and number of years member has been involved in church. Members of small churches indicated a significantly greater interest in shared responsibility between the individual church and the Baptist Association for managing medical health problems and addressing mental health than members of large churches. Members involved in church 21 or more t years indicated a greater interest in shared responsibility for addressing mental health issues. Participants aged 18 - 44 years perceived a higher level of involvement for coping with family/life changes; yet age did not factor into the focus of responsibility. Further statistical analysis indicated a commonality among all the health issues. Most participants indicated a need to be involved in promoting better personal health, managing medical health problems, coping with family/life changes, and addressing mental health and the majority favored a shared responsibility between the individual church and Baptist association. Results enable the Chilhowee Baptist Association to address the health issues identified through this study, particularly addressing mental health and coping with family/life changes

Incidental Learning From Classroom Visuals Among Fourth Grade Students

This study investigated whether fourth grade students can recall information to which they have been visually exposed in their classrooms without the teacher ever having directly taught the information. Two hundred and eighty-one students in fifteen classrooms were given a pretest on the names of the countries of South America and the names of twelve western state capitals. The month long treatment consisted of a map and a chart mounted prominently on the walls. At the end of the treatment, the pretest was readministered as a post test. A t test indicated that the students exhibited a significant growth in the amount of information they knew. They recalled information that they had been exposed to only in an incidental manner

Generating Plane Quadrangulations and Symmetry-preserving Operations on Maps

Lopsp-operations are operations on maps that are applied locally and are guaranteed to preserve all the orientation-preserving symmetries of maps. Well-known examples of such operations are dual, ambo, truncation, and leapfrog. They are described by plane 3-coloured triangulations with specific properties. We developed and implemented a program that can generate all lopsp-operations of a given size by reducing the problem of generating lopsp-operations to generating all plane quadrangulations that are not necessarily simple. We extended the program plantri to generate these quadrangulations

Fine coal flotation in a centrifugal field with an air sparged hydrocyclone

Journal ArticlePreliminary results are reported regarding the design and development of a pilot scale air sparged hydrocyclone for cleaning fine coal 590 \xm ("28 mesh) containing 24% ash and 1.6% sulfur. The principle of separation is the flotation of hydrophobic coal particles in the centrifugal field generated by the fluid flow in the air sparged hydrocyclone as discussed in another publication. This 152-mm (6-in.) hydrocyclone has a nominal capacity of 0.9 t/h (1 tph) and experimental results suggest that separations vastly superior to a watet-only cyclone are possible. In addition the separation efficiency is as good, if not better, than that achieved with conventional flotation cells. For example, typical results indicate that 75% clean coal can be recovered at 15% ash leaving a tailing product of almost 50% ash. These experimental results coupled with the high capacity of the air sparged hydrocyclone (imagine a retention time for flotation of only two seconds compared to two minutes for conventional flotation) may represent a significant breakthrough, not only in coal preparation technology, but in the flotation of fine particles in general

Optomechanical Cavity Cooling of an Atomic Ensemble

We demonstrate cavity sideband cooling of a single collective motional mode of an atomic ensemble down to a mean phonon occupation number of 2.0(-0.3/+0.9). Both this minimum occupation number and the observed cooling rate are in good agreement with an optomechanical model. The cooling rate constant is proportional to the total photon scattering rate by the ensemble, demonstrating the cooperative character of the light-emission-induced cooling process. We deduce fundamental limits to cavity-cooling either the collective mode or, sympathetically, the single-atom degrees of freedom.Comment: Paper with supplemental material: 4+6 pages, 4 figures. Minor revisions of text. Supplemental material shortened by removal of supplementary figur

Study of arc-jet propulsion devices Final report, 20 Nov. 1964 - 19 Dec. 1965

Energy transfer mechanisms in radiation, water, and regeneratively cooled, and MPD arc jet propulsion device

Maximumfactuur en kleine risico’s: verdeling van de eigen bijdragen voor gezondheidszorg in België

Overal in Europa komt de financiering van publieke systemen van ziekteverzekering of gezondheidszorg onder druk door de sterke stijging van de uitgaven. België ontsnapt niet aan deze evolutie. De stijging van de uitgaven voor gezondheidszorg lag bij ons zeker gedurende de laatste jaren zelfs duidelijk boven het Europese gemiddelde. Ondanks de grote maatschappelijke populariteit van ons systeem van verplichte ziekteverzekering, vormt het probleem van de kostenbeheersing toch steeds één van de belangrijkste discussiepunten tijdens de regeringsonderhandelingen. Wanneer de stijging van de uitgaven niet kan worden afgeremd, zullen in de toekomst ongetwijfeld fundamentele vragen over de organisatie van het systeem naar voor worden geschoven (Schokkaert en Van de Voorde, 2003)

Antitumour and antiangiogenic effects of Aplidin® in the 5TMM syngeneic models of multiple myeloma

Aplidin® is an antitumour drug, currently undergoing phase II evaluation in different haematological and solid tumours. In this study, we analysed the antimyeloma effects of Aplidin in the syngeneic 5T33MM model, which is representable for the human disease. In vitro, Aplidin inhibited 5T33MMvv DNA synthesis with an IC50 of 3.87 nM. On cell-cycle progression, the drug induced an arrest in transition from G0/G1 to S phase, while Western blot showed a decreased cyclin D1 and CDK4 expression. Furthermore, Aplidin induced apoptosis by lowering the mitochondrial membrane potential, by inducing cytochrome c release and by activating caspase-9 and caspase-3. For the in vivo experiment, 5T33MM-injected C57Bl/KaLwRij mice were intraperitoneally treated with vehicle or Aplidin (90 μg kg−1 daily). Chronic treatment with Aplidin was well tolerated and reduced serum paraprotein concentration by 42% (P<0.001), while BM invasion with myeloma cells was decreased by 35% (P<0.001). Aplidin also reduced the myeloma-associated angiogenesis to basal values. This antiangiogenic effect was confirmed in vitro and explained by inhibition of endothelial cell proliferation and vessel formation. These data indicate that Aplidin is well tolerated in vivo and its antitumour and antiangiogenic effects support the use of the drug in multiple myeloma

Methods for removal of unwanted signals from gravity time-series : comparison using linear techniques complemented with analysis of system dynamics

We thanks the participants of the 35th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission for comments on preliminary results. The authors are grateful to all IGETS contributors, particularly to the station operators and to ISDC/GFZ-Potsdam for providing the original gravity data used in this study. We also thank the developers of ATLANTIDA3.1 and UTide. Part of this work was performed using the ICSMB High Performance Computing Cluster, University of Aberdeen. We also thanks M. Thiel and A. Moura for reviewing a preliminary version and making comments on the methods section and M.A. Ara´ujo for comments on Lyapunov exponents. Funding: A. Valencio is supported by CNPq, Brazil [206246/2014-5]; and received a travel grant from the School of Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen [PO2073498], for a presentation including preliminary results.Peer reviewedPostprintPublisher PD