Evaluating Traditionalism in the Atlantic Provinces: Voting, Public Opinion and the Electoral Project

Using electoral and survey data, this article explores the degree to which "traditionalism" accurately describes the political agenda in the Atlantic region. The authors find that the region is less traditional than often assumed, although electoral politics continues to be dominated by the Liberal and Conservative parties and religious beliefs remain stronger than in other regions in the country. On questions of women's equality and moral traditionalism, however, the region appears decidedly average in its attitudes.En se servant des donnees du recensement electoral, cet article explore a quel point le « traditionalisme » decrit de facon exacte l'ordre du jour politique dans la region de l'Atlantique. Les auteures trouvent que cette region est moins traditionnelle que Ton ne le pense, quoique les politiques electorates continuent d'etre dominees par le parti Liberal et Conservateur et que les croyances religieuses demeurent plus fortes que dans toute autre region au pays. Sur les questions de l'egalite des femmes, le traditionalisme, la region parait resolument moyenne dans ses attitudes

The Media’s Role in Shaping Canadian Civic and Political Engagement

This article represents a modest attempt at establishing the role that the media plays in shaping political and civic engagement in Canada. The findings suggest that more focused attention to the media’s role would likely reap significant benefits in furthering our understanding of participation behaviour at the individual level. One of the questions framing this investigation is whether the media play a role in shaping the political and civic engagement of Canadians. The evidence suggests that they do. The media types employed by Canadians to follow politics and the frequency with which they follow such coverage each reveal an association to the number of activities in which respondents participate. Use of more traditional media – most notably television alone and in combination with newspapers – is associated with lower levels of engagement. Use of the Internet – most often employed in combination with more traditional media types – reveals an association with higher levels of engagement. Future research – more qualitative perhaps – ought to focus on addressing what it is about that these particular media type combinations that best addresses the needs and desires of those with more limited and more heightened engagement levels

A prospective cohort study measuring cost-benefit analysis of the Otago Exercise Programme in Community Dwelling Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Det er en sammenheng mellom bachelorstudentenes karakterpoeng fra videregående skole og resultater til eksamen i anatomi, fysiologi, biokjemi (AFB). Enkelte studenter med lavere opptakskarakterer enn landsgjennomsnittet oppnådde bedre eksamensresultat enn det nasjonale gjennomsnittsresultatet i AFB for 2016. Hensikten med studien var å undersøke hvordan bachelorstudenter i sykepleie med lave opptakspoeng og gode eksamensresultater i AFB lærte og tilegnet seg emnet. Studien har et kvalitativ forskningsdesign og det ble gjennomført semistrukturerte intervju av 12 bachelorstudenter i sykepleie, som ble analysert ved hjelp av innholdsanalyse. Funnene er beskrevet ut fra tre hovedkategorier: A) Relevansen til sykepleieryrket styrker læring, B) tilhørighet har betydning for læring, og C) læring skjer i samarbeid med andre. Vi fant at studentene lærte AFB mer inngående i samhandling med andre studenter. Samlinger på campus er viktig for studenters læring, til tross for at det er stort fokus på fleksible utdanninger og digitale pedagogiske metoder. Selvstendig arbeid kombinert med læring i et sosialt studentfellesskap, oppgis som motivasjonsfaktorer til målrettet arbeid med studiene. Studentene erfarer mestringsforventning, i et miljø som preges av anerkjennelse og samtidig gir opplevelse av tilhørighet. Studentene vektlegger studienes relevans sett i lys av det profesjonsyrket som de utdanner seg til, som en betydningsfull motivasjonsfaktor for læring.publishedVersio

Promoting healthier communities through adult education: Learning Connections in action

This presentation will highlight an Adult Education initiative delivered in Cork City through collaboration between members of the Cork Learning Neighbourhoods Project. It will outline the outreach provision of the Certificate in the Mental Health in the Community and how this is delivered in non-traditional settings to achieve successful collaboration, support accessible participation in lifelong learning and build capacity in communities. The process of creating a learning space to achieve transformative learning will be outlined as well as how this programme serves to enable students to address mental health issues on a personal level, community level and beyond

The Political Integration of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women

This article examines how immigrant and visible minority status, and the intersection of the two, affect women’s ability and willingness to participate in conventional and unconventional political activities. Using a telephone survey undertaken with English-speaking women in nine of Canada’s ten provinces, we find that women’s political integration varies by the type of political activity in question but that it is particularly weak for immigrant women from an ethnic minority. We also find that resource and socio-demographic profiles are limited in their ability to explain participation deficits, especially for unconventional political activity, and that mobilizing networks offer some possible insight into women’s propensity to participate politically

Exercise rehabilitation following intensive care unit discharge for recovery from critical illness:executive summary of a Cochrane Collaboration systematic review

Skeletal muscle wasting and weakness are major complications of critical illness and underlie the profound physical and func-\ud tional impairments experienced by survivors after discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU). Exercise-based rehabilitation\ud has been shown to be bene\ud fi\ud cial when delivered during ICU admission. This review aimed to determine the effectiveness of\ud exercise rehabilitation initiated after ICU discharge on primary outcomes of functional exercise capacity and health-related\ud quality of life. We sought randomized controlled trials, quasi-randomized controlled trials, and controlled clinical trials compar-\ud ing an exercise intervention commenced after ICU discharge vs. any other intervention or a control or\ud ‘\ud usual care\ud ’\ud programme\ud in adult survivors of critical illness. Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval Sys-\ud tem Online (MEDLINE), Excerpta Medica Database, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature databases\ud were searched up to February 2015. Dual, independent screening of results, data extraction, and quality appraisal were per-\ud formed. We included six trials involving 483 patients. Overall quality of evidence for both outcomes was very low. All studies\ud evaluated functional exercise capacity, with three reporting positive effects in favour of the intervention. Only two studies\ud evaluated health-related quality of life and neither reported differences between intervention and control groups. Meta-\ud analyses of data were precluded due to variation in study design, types of interventions, and selection and reporting of out-\ud come measurements. We were unable to determine an overall effect on functional exercise capacity or health-related quality\ud of life of interventions initiated after ICU discharge for survivors of critical illness. Findings from ongoing studies are awaited.\ud Future studies need to address methodological aspects of study design and conduct to enhance rigour, quality, and synthesis