Preschool growth and nutrition service - addressing common nutritional problems: a community based primary care led intervention

Childhood obesity has been prioritised by the World Health Organization in a recent report, which calls for a holistic multiagency approach to tackling and reducing future risks of obesity and its associated co-morbidities. This article examines a health service approach to improving recognition and management of pre-school nutritional problems as part of training health care professionals. It explores the practicalities of setting up a local pathway for managing cases in the community with appropriate specialist support. This model, developed for the management of weight faltering, has now been adapted to tackle childhood obesity

Age and Paleontology of the Turin Pit locality, Monona County, Iowa

The Turin Pit locality (Monona county, Iowa) has been known to paleontologists since 1908, yet the age of the fauna has been unclear. Early paleontologists considered Turin Pit to date to a pre-Illinoian interglacial (the “Aftonian).” Subsequent researchers suggested it dated to the last glaciation. This study provides a partial list of mammals in the Turin Pit fauna, and together with stratigraphic information, uses the known age ranges of taxa to estimate an age for the assemblage. The presence of Mammuthus, Aenocyon, and Castoroides combined with a magnetically-reversed till located stratigraphically above fossil-bearing deposits, suggest the Turin Pit assemblage dates between ~1.3 and 0.773 Ma. The fauna can be assigned to the Irvingtonian North American Land Mammal Age based on Mammuthus, Aenocyon, Castoroides, and Ondatra zibethicus annectens. This fossil assemblage provides a rare window into the Quaternary paleontology of Iowa that pre-dates the Illinoian glaciation

Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Drug Overdose in Adulthood

Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) encompass a variety of traumatic events that occur during one’s youth. ACEs may be physical, mental, emotional, or sexual in nature, and they are often associated with long-term negative consequences such as alcoholism, substance abuse, and criminal justice involvement. The global rise of the opioid epidemic has intensified the need to better understand and address factors associated with illicit substance use. The current study will investigate the relationship between exposure to ACEs, onset of drug use, and history of drug overdose. Methods This study will utilize an observational design in which participants will be asked to complete a self-report questionnaire. The sample will comprise of male and female individuals housed in a local suburban jail. The study aims to recruit 350 participants. The survey will collect data regarding childhood experiences, age at first drug use, history of drug use, and drug overdose. Gender, race, and age differences will be examined. Results The current study is part of an ongoing research project. Using descriptive and explanatory statistics, preliminary results will be presented. Conclusions While prior literature has explored the relationship between ACEs, morbidity, and mortality, the current study aims to explore whether ACEs are associated with onset of drug use and drug overdose. ACEs and substance abuse issues are prevalent amongst incarcerated people, and risk of overdose is particularly high in this population. Findings may lend insight into the need for trauma-informed interventions within the community and the criminal justice system.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/gradposters/1176/thumbnail.jp

Don’t Keep a Good Man Down: Intervention Strategies for Common Causes of Anger and Aggression

Seclusion and Restraint have been often used as intervention strategies in public schools for many years, and were not limited by law in Kentucky until 2012. 704 KAR 7:160 was the first legislation to respond to dangerous interventions being used in Kentucky’s public schools. This presentation summarizes common causes of anger and aggression in our students, and provides research-based strategies for intervention in all three phases of a behavior: antecedent (prior to the behavior, the escalation of a situation), behavior (during the aggressive behavior itself), and consequences (subsequent actions that occur as a response.) The concept is to provide strategies for educators and paraprofessionals to aid in the de-escalation of their student’s aggressive behaviors. The importance of this cannot be overstated especially in the area of special education where communication is the key to conquering setbacks. Literature reviewed has offered insight into the prevention of escalation of angry and aggressive behavior by giving students choices between positive action and consequence, maintaining eye level with the student rather than standing in a dominating position, and keeping level and calm tone of voice. Further, literature has suggested that one contemplate the motive behind the behavior and proactively act to prevent further behavior of the aggressor. These and many more verbal and nonverbal actions can aid in the de-escalation or further aggression. However, the art of de-escalation and intervention strategies reach far beyond the field of education. The information presented may also prove beneficial to parents and caregivers, in law enforcement and for other emergency responders as well as in social work

Concept mapping: Is it a useful method when there is no \u27correct\u27 knowledge on the topic?

Concept mapping is a research method often used to assess participants\u27 knowledge of a topic. Our project studied how preservice teachers\u27 knowledge of challenging behaviour changes (or not) during their final professional teaching experience. We asked the participants to make a concept map before and after their final professional teaching experience because we anticipated it would (1) provide reflective space for the preservice teachers to think about \u27what\u27 they knew about challenging behaviour, without feeling like they were being \u27tested\u27 in an interview, and (2) illustrate knowledge change during their final professional teaching experience. However, our use of concept maps was not without trepidation because of the type of knowledge under investigation. Concept mapping to assess an individual\u27s knowledge can be epistemologically rigid because (regardless of the quantitative or qualitative analytic approach used) maps are typically assessed against a \u27correct\u27, \u27factual\u27 knowledge-base. We, on the contrary, were interested in participants\u27 knowledge of a contentious issue and our theoretical framework supported the existence of multiple knowledges. This case describes how we negotiated the boundaries of existing concept mapping methods to facilitate analysis of participants\u27 understandings of \u27messy\u27 knowledge and how this changed over time

2023 Final Report for Databases in the 2022 Traffic Records Improvement Plan: Facilitating the Development of Projects to Attain the Goals in the Implementation Plan for the 2022-26 Traffic Records Strategic Plan

During fiscal year 2023, with financial support (Grant #M3Da-2022-04) from the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety, the Kentucky Transportation Center (KTC)-continued its work with traffic database officials to facilitate successful attainment of the remaining goals from the 2017-21 Traffic Records Strategic Plan (TRSP), which goals are in the 2022-26 TRSP Transportation Records Improvement Plan (TRIP). For most databases, some new goals were developed; this required further refinement of some projects or strategies to improve database performance. Projects to complete the goals in the TRIP were continued and some completed for the following databases: CRASH, Citation/Adjudication, Injury Surveillance (KIPRC and EMS), Vehicle Registration, Roadway, and Driver Licensing