Effects of Physical Activity in Bachelorette Nursing Students with Stress

Objective: To determine if physical activity reduces stress Bachelorette nursing students. Design: Quasi-experimental, Descriptive study Setting: Rural, Western University Participants: Bachelorette nursing students during junior year Results/Conclusions: Pending results and data collectio

Development and validation of the e-Work Self-Efficacy Scale to assess digital competencies in remote working

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of remote working practices worldwide. This has focussed attention on the need to identify the competencies employers and employees should train and develop to build digital resilience, enabling the benefits of remote working to be realised while mitigating potential risks. This contribution presents a multifaceted e-Work Self-Efficacy Scale, which supports a recently developed Digital Resilience Competency Framework (DRCF), assessing e-skills, trust building, self-care, remote social skills, and remote emotional self-efficacy beliefs. Data from 670 non-managerial employees (54.0% males) from a telecommunications company based in the Czech Republic were analysed, providing support for a bi-factor model. Latent Profile Analysis identified three clusters, characterised by different profiles: the Well-adjusted (with a reasonably good balance in engagement, satisfaction, and productivity), the Unhealthily dedicated (suffering some difficulties in setting boundaries), and the Distrustful self-shielding (the most compromised) remote workers. The results reinforce the importance of focusing on digital resilience competencies to promote sustainable, productive, engaging and healthy remote working. The e-Work Self-Efficacy Scale is a practical and effective organisational tool for managers and employees to use to assess and build digital resilience and sits alongside the Digital Resilience Competency Framework

The poetry of Thomas Carew: A critical study

Purpose: This purpose of this paper is to provide a single ordered critical study of the poetry of Thomas Carew, bringing together, under one heading, and considering the various brief critical studies on Carew written over the past three centuries. Many of the thoughts explored in this paper have been briefly explored in other works, but never, to the belief of the author, have their significance been examined as thoroughly as this paper hopes to do, or in the total perspective of all of his work. I. His Life. This chapter provides a brief examination of the life and times of Thomas Carew in emphasis of his representative standing of the Caroline courtier poets. II. His Lyrics. This chapter examines those lyrics of Thomas Carew considered to be the most representative of his work. It considers those lyrics which are perhaps representative of the mean of his poetic achievement, several lyrics which provide an interesting deviation in style from the preceding ones, and those lyrics which represent the very best of Carew. III. His Occasional Verse. This chapter discusses the occasional verse of Thomas Carew, considering his wedding celebrations, obituary pieces, and his verse-epistles, in an attempt to isolate various characteristics of his style which can also be seen reflected in his lyrics, and to gain a greater insight into both the poet and his style. IV. His Sources. This chapter considers the various borrowings Carew made from other poets, most particularly Donne, Jonson, and Marino, and both the extent and nature of their influence upon his work. V. His Achievement: This chapter attempts to evaluate Carew's achievement, and analyze the method by which he wrote lyrics of a consistently high standard. It examines his verse structure, his imagery, and several of the motifs which recur frequently in his verse. Appendix: His Critical Reputation. This chapter is a study of Carew's critical reputation from his day until the present.<p

Mrs Gaskell's short stories and sketches in relation to the periodicals where they first appeared

This study sets out to consider what influence the periodicals which published Mrs Gaskell's shorter works may have exerted on her writing. From this a distinct pattern emerged; Mrs Gaskell only contributed to periodicals whose ideals and opinions largely coincided with her own, whose editors and/or proprietors she knew and liked, and usually only in response to a request for work. The short stories are considered particularly in the context of the periodicals in which they appeared, but since they have seldom been critically treated apart from the novels, some critical comment is also included. Chapter 1 introduces the main lines of approach in the thesis, explains its purpose, and discusses briefly past critical work on the short stories and sketches. Chapters 2-5 examine Mrs Gaskell's relationships with the periodicals and their editors in detail. Chapter 6 draws conclusions from the study, and suggests changes in Mrs Gaskell's attitude to periodical writing. The Appendix gives a chronological list of Mrs Gaskell's published works, which illustrates the distribution of her work between various periodicals at different times. <p

Support for parents of children with anorexia : what parents want

Parents\u27 encounters with health professionals can influence their ability to cope with having a daughter with anorexia nervosa. Using qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 24 parents, we examine the question &ldquo;What support do parents of teenage girls with anorexia want from clinicians?&rdquo; The analysis shows that parents wanted clinicians to include them in treatment, support and guide them in their daughters\u27 care, and demonstrate positive attitudes toward them. The implications for clinicians are discussed, including being sensitive to parents\u27 vulnerability, ensuring congruence between clinicians\u27 and parents\u27 expectations about treatment, and strengthening formal channels of communication.<br /

Cost-Effectiveness of Manual Therapy for the Management of Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Evidence From Randomized Controlled Trials

AbstractObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to systematically review trial-based economic evaluations of manual therapy relative to other alternative interventions used for the management of musculoskeletal conditions.MethodsA comprehensive literature search was undertaken in major medical, health-related, science and health economic electronic databases.ResultsTwenty-five publications were included (11 trial-based economic evaluations). The studies compared cost-effectiveness and/or cost-utility of manual therapy interventions to other treatment alternatives in reducing pain (spinal, shoulder, ankle). Manual therapy techniques (eg, osteopathic spinal manipulation, physiotherapy manipulation and mobilization techniques, and chiropractic manipulation with or without other treatments) were more cost-effective than usual general practitioner (GP) care alone or with exercise, spinal stabilization, GP advice, advice to remain active, or brief pain management for improving low back and shoulder pain/disability. Chiropractic manipulation was found to be less costly and more effective than alternative treatment compared with either physiotherapy or GP care in improving neck pain.ConclusionsPreliminary evidence from this review shows some economic advantage of manual therapy relative to other interventions used for the management of musculoskeletal conditions, indicating that some manual therapy techniques may be more cost-effective than usual GP care, spinal stabilization, GP advice, advice to remain active, or brief pain management for improving low back and shoulder pain/disability. However, at present, there is a paucity of evidence on the cost-effectiveness and/or cost-utility evaluations for manual therapy interventions. Further improvements in the methodological conduct and reporting quality of economic evaluations of manual therapy are warranted in order to facilitate adequate evidence-based decisions among policy makers, health care practitioners, and patients

The Massive and Distant Clusters of WISE Survey V: Extended Radio Sources in Massive Galaxy Clusters at z~1

We present the results from a pilot study with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) to determine the radio morphologies of extended radio sources and the properties of their host-galaxies in 10 massive galaxy clusters at z~1, an epoch in which clusters are assembling rapidly. These clusters are drawn from a parent sample of WISE-selected galaxy clusters that were cross-correlated with the VLA Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters survey (FIRST) to identify extended radio sources within 1$^{\prime}$ of the cluster centers. Out of the ten targeted sources, six are FR II sources, one is an FR I source, and three sources have undetermined morphologies. Eight radio sources have associated Spitzer data, 75% presenting infrared counterparts. A majority of these counterparts are consistent with being massive galaxies. The angular extent of the FR sources exhibits a strong correlation with the cluster-centric radius, which warrants further investigation with a larger sample.Comment: accepted to Ap