Gender Differences in Leadership Style: A Literature Analysis

This analysis of literature explores gender differences in leadership style. As greater numbers of women enter the ranks of leadership and more research is conducted, contradictory findings emerged. Using the qualitative software program NVivo version 1.2, 36 pieces of qualitative, quantitative, and popular culture literature were summarized, coded, and the coded information analyzed. The analysis revealed that (a) the characteristics of the rater have significant impact on the findings, (b) the research instrument and methodology used effect the findings, and (c) there are many varying and often contradictory explanations for gender differences in leadership

Gender Differences in Leadership Style: A Literature Analysis

This analysis of literature explores gender differences in leadership style. As greater numbers of women enter the ranks of leadership and more research is conducted, contradictory findings emerged. Using the qualitative software program NVivo version 1.2, 36 pieces of qualitative, quantitative, and popular culture literature were summarized, coded, and the coded information analyzed. The analysis revealed that (a) the characteristics of the rater have significant impact on the findings, (b) the research instrument and methodology used effect the findings, and (c) there are many varying and often contradictory explanations for gender differences in leadership

Self-Determination: A Case Study of the Needs, Preferences, Goals, and Feelings of Secondary Students with Significant Disabilities in their Transition to Adulthood

This applied dissertation was designed to give a voice to students with severe disabilities so that their needs, preferences, goals, and feelings could be expressed. There are fewer opportunities to practice self-determination for students with more serious disabilities and studies about these students rarely include the perspectives of the students, themselves. This qualitative case study explored how these students view transition to adulthood. This presentation will discuss the methodological issues that were encountered and provide a reflection of the many challenges related to interviewing students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities

Symbolic Violence in the Classroom: How a Eurocentric Curriculum Excludes and Marginalizes Minority Students

Objectives: To raise public awareness of symbolic violence/Eurocentrism as an existing phenomenon in the classroom that contributes to exclude, disengage, and marginalize minority students. To stress the importance of creating a diverse and a more equitable curriculum that takes into consideration all students’ affinities. To provide educators as well as policy makers with an understanding of the negative impacts of symbolic violence in the classroom, so they can be better informed to initiate changes that could mitigate its effects on minority students. Target audience: Educators and policymakers

Online Professor, Prepare Yourself! Students, Are You Out There?

This session will appeal to those interested in teaching qualitative research methods using an online learning platform. How can we engage our students without ever actually meeting them? How do we make sense of our role as professor while staring at words on a computer screen? Alas! We are qualitative researchers, we love personal interaction! Teaching online creates a peculiar contradiction for us. We are adverse to flat, text based exchanges. We yearn for interaction, dialogue, and connection! Is our positionality different in an online classroom? Is it still our quest to impart our students with our expert knowledge and form meaningful academic relationships, or are we mere guides through a fabricated textual maze? We will share tales of woe and success while on our journeys to become effective online qualitative research professors. We will reflect on instructional strategies, online tools, and feedback loops that we have used in our quest to meet our students’ learning needs while simultaneously addressing course objectives. We will help you envision the myriad possibilities available to you to create a rich, deep, meaningful online classroom within which your students will become qualitative researchers

Online Professor, Prepare Yourself! Students, are you out there?

This session will appeal to those interested in teaching qualitative research methods using an online learning platform. How can we engage our students without ever actually meeting them? How do we make sense of our role as professor while staring at words on a computer screen? Alas! We are qualitative researchers, we love personal interaction! Teaching online creates a peculiar contradiction for us. We are adverse to flat, text based exchanges. We yearn for interaction, dialogue, and connection! Is our positionality different in an online classroom? Is it still our quest to impart our students with our expert knowledge and form meaningful academic relationships, or are we mere guides through a fabricated textual maze? We will share tales of woe and success while on our journeys to become effective online qualitative research professors. We will reflect on instructional strategies, online tools, and feedback loops that we have used in our quest to meet our students’ learning needs while simultaneously addressing course objectives. We will help you envision the myriad possibilities available to you to create a rich, deep, meaningful online classroom within which your students will become qualitative researchers

Adapting Lot Quality Assurance Sampling to accommodate imperfect diagnostic tests: application to COVID-19 serosurveillance in Haiti

Abstract Background Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS), a tool used for monitoring health indicators in low resource settings resulting in “high” or “low” classifications, assumes that determination of the trait of interest is perfect. This is often not true for diagnostic tests, with imperfect sensitivity and specificity. Here, we develop Lot Quality Assurance Sampling for Imperfect Tests (LQAS-IMP) to address this issue and apply it to a COVID-19 serosurveillance study design in Haiti. Methods We first derive a modified procedure, LQAS-IMP, that accounts for the sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test to yield correct classification errors. We then apply the novel LQAS-IMP to design an LQAS system to classify prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among healthcare workers at eleven Zanmia Lasante health facilities in Haiti. Finally, we show the performance of the LQAS-IMP procedure in a simulation study. Results We found that when an imperfect diagnostic test is used, the classification errors in the standard LQAS procedure are larger than specified. In the modified LQAS-IMP procedure, classification errors are consistent with the specified maximum classification error. We then utilized the LQAS-IMP procedure to define valid systems for sampling at eleven hospitals in Haiti. Conclusion The LQAS-IMP procedure accounts for imperfect sensitivity and specificity in system design; if the accuracy of a test is known, the use of LQAS-IMP extends LQAS to applications for indicators that are based on laboratory tests, such as SARS-CoV-2 antibodies

Bayo Lapawol (Let Their Voices Be Heard): Haitian Women’s Barriers to and Facilitators of Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control

This study aimed to increase understanding of barriers to cervical cancer prevention and control in Haitian women using photovoice methodology. Consented participants were (1) trained to use a digital camera and encouraged to capture their screening barriers, (2) interviewed to unpack and analyze their images, and (3) invited to participate in follow-up focus groups for refined discussion and data triangulation for content analysis using NVivo software. The sample included women ( n = 25) who were on average 42 years ( SD = 9.8, range: 26–57) and born and raised in Haiti. Results highlighted multiple barriers, including gendered family responsibilities, concerns about quality of care, financial and time constraints, worries about discomfort and exam efficacy, and emotional deterrents such as frustration. Framed by the PEN-3 model’s dimensions of cultural identity, relationships and expectations, and cultural empowerment, women’s recommendations to overcome barriers spanned education, evaluation, and empowerment, respectively, across individual, interpersonal, and institutional systems. Study results call for more extensive examination of the diversity present in the groups of African origin to unearth transnational, multifaceted determinants of health by biology, beliefs, and behaviors including sociocultural and socioenvironmental access. Future interventions must include development of proactive policies, which deliberately pressure the government and global community to prioritize health infrastructure while simultaneously educating women about and dispelling fear of cervical cancer, thus empowering Haitian women to live their healthiest lives. Accordingly, this study may contribute to understanding global health equity advances and improving public health infrastructure in underresourced settings in low- and middle-income countries in the Caribbean

Supplemental Material - “I Am Half of a Person”: Lived Experiences of Individuals Living With Ostomy After Surgery in Rural Haiti

Supplemental Material for “I Am Half of a Person”: Lived Experiences of Individuals Living With Ostomy After Surgery in Rural Haiti by Maurice J. Chery, Rebecca Henderson, Kobel Dubique, Adler Camilus, Henry Claude Eliacin, Jacquemine Pinard, Eric Toussaint, and Mary Clisbee in Qualitative Health Research</p