Empowering the migrant and refugee family's parenting skills: a literature review

Bachground: Worldwide, more than 79.5 million people are forcibly displaced, including a significant number of migrant and refugee families with children. Migration and refugeedom affect these families in different dimensions, such as mental, physical and spiritual health. Identifying family needs and enhancing parenting skills can improve family cohesion and health, as well as smooth integration into the host country. This review is part of the Erasmus+ funded project- IENE 8 (Intercultural Education for Nurses in Europe) aiming at empowering migrant and refugee families regarding parenting skills. Methods: This was a scoping review of literature. The IENE 8 partner countries (Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, and United Kingdom) searched for peer reviewed papers, grey literature and mass media reports at international, European and national level. The time period for the search of scientific and grey literature was between2013-2018, and for mass media, it was between 2016 and 2018. Results: 124 relevant sources were identified. They included 33 Peer reviewed papers, 47 Grey literature documents and 44 mass media reports. This revealed the importance of understanding the needs of migrant families with children. Conclusion: It is evident from the literature that there is a need to support refugee parents to adjust their existing skill and to empower them to develop new ones. Healthcare and social services professionals have an essential role in improving the refugees' parenting skills. This can be done by developing and implementing family-centered and culturally-sensitive intervention programs

Implementation of geriatric care models in Greek Hospitals

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Nurses' knowledge, attitudes and behavior toward Deaf patients

Background Deaf sign language users experience severe health disparities which could be decreased with the modification of some factors associated with health professionals' attitudes, knowledge and behaviors. Relevant research referring to nurses is almost inexistent. Objective This study aimed to examine Greek nurses' knowledge, attitudes and practices toward Deaf people and determine the factors that influence these parameters. Methods The sample consisted of 200 randomly selected nurses working in 2 public hospitals and 2 public health centers in Attica, Greece. Data was collected from November 2010 to May 2011, using a questionnaire inquiring for demographics, previous contact with Deaf people or other people with disabilities, relevant education, practices, feelings and self-efficacy for caring for Deaf patients, knowledge and attitudes toward them and interest in being educated in such issues. Results A lack of relevant knowledge and education was observed. Relevant education was found to be positively correlated with knowledge (rho = 0.225, p = 0.003). Self-efficacy was found to be positively correlated with the contact with Deaf people score (rho = 0.358, p < 0.001). The participants who have avoided caring for Deaf patients had a statistically significantly lower mean score of self-efficacy (p < 0.001). No correlation was found between the contact and knowledge scores and between relevant education or contact and attitudes. The majority (64.8%) were interested in attending a relevant educational program. Conclusions Our findings support that appropriate educational programs, including contact with Deaf people, could contribute to the improvement of nurses' knowledge and behavior toward Deaf people and would be welcomed by the majority. © 2015 Elsevier Inc. © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

Does Law Impose a Certain Code of Morality? Examples from Medical and Nursing Practice and Health Policy

The fact that dictates of law and those of morality will often coincide is widely acceptable. However, the question whether law exists or should exist to impose one particular code of morality or not may receive many different responses. Following these two concepts over different cases and scenes in the health care sector leads to the conclusion that this question could not receive a curt answer. Law should be parallel to human morality to an extent. But, morality has a subjective dimension. The common content of morality within a community is the basis for the communityrsquos legal framework. Even when law does not impose morality directly, it may refer to morality indirectly, referring for example to morals or to morality, to good faith, to bona fide and the like. Arguments and examples in this article establish the opinion that law is asked to apply morality to an extent, but this should not be used to supplant communal norms, cultural or religious beliefs, mainly when these sides of morality are not contrary to the universally common morality

Catch The Tiger

But this is no ordinary game. Designed to test how we react to changes in our environment, and to our own fluctuating anxiety levels, it is a multi-sensory physical game that you will experience with four other players.Played in the visually striking “Tiger Room”, the game is inspired by a traditional Chinese puzzle, combined with geometry informed by George Hart’s mathematical study of orderly tangles.Hosted within the National Facility for Human-Robot Interaction Research, Catch the Tiger is a collaboration between acclaimed architects Supermanoeuvre and researchers from the UNSW Creative Robotics Lab, the University of Sydney, Waseda University and the Black Dog Institute.Total time required is approximately 40 minutes. The game requires 5 people to play. Register individually and play with others or sign up with 4 friends.The TeamOriginal concept: Iain (Max) Maxwell (Supermanoeuvre) and Mari Velonaki (Creative Robotics Lab, UNSW).Puzzle design and manufacture: Iain (Max) Maxwell and Oliver Bennett (Supermanoeuvre).Game and interface design: Mari Velonaki (Creative Robotics Lab, UNSW).Sound design and composition: Alex Davies (Creative Robotics Lab, UNSW).Hardware and software design and implementation: David Rye (Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney), Michael Gratton (Creative Robotics Lab and Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW) and Andrew Haig.Experiment design/psychology: Katsumi Watanabe (Waseda University).Mental health design advisory: Katherine Boydell (Black Dog Institute) and Jill Bennett (National Institute of Experimental Art, UNSW).Commissioned by: Jill Bennett (National Institute of Experimental Art, UNSW).Hosted by: The National Facility for Human-Robot Interaction Research.Festival CommissionThis project has been assisted by the Australian government through the Department of Communication and the Arts’ Catalyst—Australian Arts and Culture Fund

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Canwe influence howa robot is perceived by designing the sound of its movement? Drawing from practices in film sound, we overlaid a video depicting a robot's movement routine with three types of artificial movement sound. In a between-subject study design, participants saw either one of the three designs or a quiet control condition and rated the robot's movement quality, safety, capability, and attractiveness. We found that, compared to our control, the sound designs both increased and decreased perceived movement quality. Coupling the same robotic movement with different sounds lead to the motions being rated as more or less precise, elegant, jerky, or uncontrolled, among others. We further found that the sound conditions decreased perceived safety, and did not affect perceived capability and attractiveness. More unrealistic sound conditions led to larger differences in ratings, while the subtle addition of harmonic material was not rated differently to the control condition in any of the measures. Based on these findings, we discuss the challenges and opportunities regarding the use of artificial movement sound as an implicit channel of communication that may eventually be able to selectively target specific characteristics, helping designers in creating more refined and nuanced human-robot interactions

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

As robots find their way into homes, workplaces, and public spaces, rich and effective human-robot interaction will play an essential role in their success. While most sound-related research in the field of HRI focuses on speech and semantic-free utterances, the potential of sound as an implicit non-verbal channel of communication has only recently received attention and remains largely unexplored. This research will bring design approaches from the fields of sound design and spatial audio into the context of human-robot interaction to influence human perception of robot characteristics and refine non-verbal auditory communication. It will implement sound design systems into various physical robots and evaluate their effect through user studies. By developing design principles for the sonic augmentation of robots, we aim to provide the HRI community with new tools to enrich the way robots communicate with humans

Women Electing Oocyte Cryopreservation: Characteristics, Information Sources, and Oocyte Disposition: A Systematic Review

Introduction: Recently, there is a growing interest in cryopreservation for nonmedical reasons, widely known as planned oocyte cryopreservation. This review aims to summarize and understand the characteristics of women who undergo or consider planned oocyte cryopreservation, identify their initial sources of information, and describe the oocyte disposition. This information should assist health professionals with shared decision-making. Methods: A systematic review was performed and reported following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) recommendations. PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched from inception to January 2021 without any limitation on publication date. Studies were included if they were in English and examined the characteristics of users or potential users of planned oocyte cryopreservation, initial information sources, and the oocyte disposition. Extracted data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The methodological quality of the recruited studies was assessed with the QualSyst criteria. Results: Of 1074 initially retrieved records, 29 met the inclusion criteria, including 12 qualitative and 17 quantitative studies. Response rates of surveys ranged between 38% and 85%. Most of the users or potential users of planned oocyte cryopreservation were single, highly educated, and employed and had a mean age of 37 years. Media and friends were the most common sources of initial knowledge about planned oocyte cryopreservation, and health professionals were a less common source. The majority of planned oocyte cryopreservation users did not attempt pregnancy with their frozen oocytes, yet they did not regret having undergone the procedure. The results regarding the disposition intentions of unused frozen oocytes are inconsistent. Discussion: Most of the users or potential users of planned oocyte cryopreservation have specific demographic characteristics and do not ultimately use their cryopreserved oocytes. Unused oocytes can be discarded or donated to other women or to research. By understanding the main characteristics of potential users of planned oocyte cryopreservation, health professionals can provide proper counseling and support effective decision-making. © 2022 by the American College of Nurse-Midwive