Barriers to healthy eating and the prevention of overweight and obesity: A qualitative study of sixth form student’s perceptions

This dissertation aimed to elicit the views of sixth form students on barriers to healthy eating and the prevention of overweight and obesity. It explores the kind of interventions that should be in place to support them to make healthier choices and also considers the type of services that should be available for those who are overweight or obese. This study used qualitative research through conducting 4 focus groups in sixth form college settings. A topic guide was developed for use in the focus groups. Focus groups were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic content analysis was used to identify key themes and sub themes. 4 focus groups were conducted in 3 college settings, with a total of 25 participants, 18 females and 7 males aged between 16 and 19. 11 participants were studying A levels, 3 were studying BTEC’s and 11 were studying vocational courses. Whilst participants could define a healthy diet, they did not appear to endeavour to meet these guidelines. There was recognition of the long term health consequences of a poor diet, but this did not have a strong influence food choice in the here and now. Cost appeared to be the biggest barrier to healthy eating and this related to both within and external to, the college environment. The role of parents and college seem to have the greatest influence on facilitating healthy eating. There were clear and consistent views about what support they would like in college; water, more information on foods served in the canteen and inputs in tutorials. In relation to treatment services, participants felt that these should be located outside of college and be young person friendly. Young people in general are aware of the components of a healthy diet; however knowledge does not appear to be enough to facilitate behaviour change. Whilst colleges are taking steps to become healthier settings, there is more that could be done, namely; provision of free drinking water, nutritional information on food available at college, better use of tutor time for healthy eating information and practical cookery skills. Any treatment services should be young person friendly, specific to this age group, delivered by individuals with experience of working with young people and offered outside the college setting

Safe Spaces on Campus: An Examination of Student and Faculty Perceptions

Creating and maintaining a positive school climate is paramount for student well-being. This climate is marked by a teaching and learning environment that can foster positive student outcomes, such as academic achievement, and decrease negative student outcomes, such as absenteeism (Thapa, Cohen, Guffey, & Higgins-D’Alessandro, 2013). One approach to creating a positive and inclusive school climate that welcomes diversity is the development of safe spaces or safe zones on campus. Given the lack of scholarly literature that addresses this topic, the current study explores safe spaces from the perspective of college students and faculty at a liberal arts institution

Microaggressions on Campus: An Examination of Student Perceptions

Creating and maintaining a positive school climate is paramount for student well-being. Microaggressions, or subtle forms of prejudice, in the classroom setting can present a barrier to cultivating such a climate and contribute to a host of negative consequences for impacted students. This study explores student perceptions of the prevalence and types of microaggressions at a private, liberal arts college in South-Central Pennsylvania. Data from student surveys will be examined to develop a better understanding of this topic and generate discussions about maintaining a positive and inclusive school climate that welcomes diversity

A Renewed Homiletic for the Twenty-First-Century Church

This dissertation proposes that a homiletic recapturing a methodology implicit in Jesus’ preaching (story/image/metaphor, questions, and supernatural encounter) enables preachers to more effectively communicate to a twenty-first-century audience. Section one identifies the problem: namely the recent devaluing of preaching and the continued reliance on a 2500-year-old propositional homiletic. Section two examines other proposed solutions, including inductive preaching, postmodern voices, and current popular preachers. Section three examines our thesis, both by investigating Jesus’ preaching methodology in the canonical gospels and seeking to discover if and how that methodology translates to an effective renewed homiletic. Sections four and five outline the dynamics of a non-fiction book written on a popular level that seeks to identify and apply Jesus’ preaching methodology to inspire and instruct both the current and next generation of preachers. Section six identifies areas of interest and potential further study that were uncovered as part of this research. The artifact itself is a popular, non-fiction book entitled: Interrobang Preaching: (re)Capturing the Enthusiastic Discovery of Preaching Like Jesus

Men At Work

This collection explores the tension between public and private arenas, with the figure of the laborer juxtaposed against that of the poet. Learning to “snap a line,” in Bill Witherup’s world, is as much about manual labor as it is about writing. Witherup has created a dynamic form of poetic memoir where the personal abuts the political and elegy intermingles with vivid stories about what kills us while we are alive. The poems in Men at Work concern themselves with the survival of the world as it should be, even when faced with how the world actually is: they are tough, filled with a beautiful, sorrowful hope. Displaying black humor in one line and lyrical natural beauty in the next, Men at Work is a triumph of theme, craft, and vision that surprises the reader with every move

6-Phenyl-5a,6,6a,7,12,13a-hexa­hydro-5H-benzo[6,7]indolizino[3,2-a]pyrrolizine

In the title compound, C23H22N2, the central pyrrolidine ring adopts an envelope conformation. The benzene ring of the hexa­hydro­pyrroloisoquinoline ring system makes dihedral angles of 83.43 (6) and 61.99 (10)°, respectively, with the phenyl and pyrrole rings. In the crystal structure, weak C—H⋯π inter­actions are observed

Methyl 3-[ferrocen­yl(hydr­oxy)meth­yl]-1-methyl-2′-oxospiro­[pyrrolidine-2,3′-indoline]-3-carboxyl­ate

In the title compound, [Fe(C5H5)(C20H21N2O4)], the pyrrolidine ring exhibits an envelope conformation with the spiro-C atom deviating from the plane of the remaining four atoms. The pyrrolidine ring is almost perpendicular to the indolinone ring [dihedral angle = 87.52 (7)°]. The structure is stabilized by an intra­molecular O—H⋯N hydrogen bond and by inter­molecular C—H⋯O and N—H⋯O inter­actions