PSYDEKICK: REDUCING THE STIGMA OF MENTAL HEALTH ON ECU’S CAMPUS THROUGH THE CREATION OF A PEER EDUCATION PROGRAM

Mental health issues have become a growing concern among all colleges and universities within the nation. There is a lack of education and resources on these topics, which fuels the growing issue of mental health illnesses among college students. According to a survey administered by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 75% of their students were unaware of the university’s counseling services and 92% claimed to be uneducated on mental health prevention (Catanzarite & Robinson, 2013). Psydekick was created on ECU’s campus to provide students with valuable information on ways to cope with the six mental illnesses seen primarily among ECU students: anxiety, depression, stress management, suicide prevention, eating disorders, and substance abuse. As an acting partner with the Counseling Center, the focus of this organization was on the advocacy and peer education of mental health on campus. Through extensive research on the topic of peer education, it was found that the “social learning theory� supported that peers learn best from one another within a specific social context and results in more behavior change (Catanzarite & Robinson, 2013). Psydekick would function as a source of outreach to educate students on different ways to cope with these prevalent mental health issues while attending ECU. When individuals are given accurate information, they can successfully empower and encourage positive behavior change among their peers (Catanzarite & Robinson, 2013). Members in the organization planned to complete national peer education training through a program called BACCHUS to become certified as peer educators, as well as complete training provided by the Counseling Center on the six special topics of mental health. Throughout this process, Psydekick was successful in providing information and research on the importance peer education holds in the area of mental health, which has further led to a professionalized peer education program being formed in direct connection to the Counseling Center

Lifetime Prevalence Of Male-Male Ipv Perpetration In A Community Health Clinic-Based Sample: Implications For Self-Reported Sti And Condom Use

Men who engage in sexual behaviors with other men are at high risk for developing a sexually transmitted infection (STI). They also have reduced access to health care services and poorer health outcomes after developing an STI than their white or higher-income counterparts. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an established risk factor for STI contraction and non-condom use in male-female dyads. Such research on IPV in male-male couples is lacking. The objectives of this study are to document the lifetime prevalence of male-male IPV among an urban, minority community health center-based sample, examine associations between male-male perpetrated IPV and self-reported STI symptomology in the past year, and examine the association of male-male IPV perpetration and lifetime perpetration of forced unprotected sex against another man. We conducted a secondary analysis of data collected through a cross sectional survey of low-income, minority men. We found a lifetime prevalence of IPV perpetration of 58.8%. Nearly 20% of the sample reported ever forcing another man into unprotected sex. One third of the sample (34.1%) reported STI symptoms in the past year. IPV perpetration was highly predictive of perpetration of forced unprotected sex with another man (aOR = 32.3; 95% CI 3.19-328.0). Men reporting perpetration of IPV against another man were more likely to report STI symptoms in the past year (aOR = 4.52; 1.48-13.77). The results of this study provide evidence that male-male IPV is prevalent in low-income, minority populations, and highlights an important physical and mental health burden that is currently under-addressed

Letter from Sarah Clopper to James B. Finley

Mrs. Clopper is very thankful for the letter from Finley explaining the details of her daughter Ellen\u27s death. She tells Finley that Ellen was one of five out of her seven children who have died. She requests that her daughter be left in the vault so that she may see her when she visits Cincinnati. She inquires about the possibility of boarding in a private family when she comes to Cincinnati. Abstract Number - 107https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1105/thumbnail.jp

Letter from Sarah Clopper to James B. Finley

Mrs. Clopper is anxious to know if her son-in-law, Mr. Lilly, has done anything about the grave of her daughter Ellen. She planned to have a monument erected, was told Mr. Lilly was planning to take care of it, and she wants to know if he has done so. Abstract Number - 152https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1150/thumbnail.jp

Coverage-adjusted confidence intervals for a binomial proportion

We consider the classic problem of interval estimation of a proportion $p$ based on binomial sampling. The "exact" Clopper-Pearson confidence interval for $p$ is known to be unnecessarily conservative. We propose coverage-adjustments of the Clopper-Pearson interval using prior and posterior distributions of $p$. The adjusted intervals have improved coverage and are often shorter than competing intervals found in the literature. Using new heatmap-type plots for comparing confidence intervals, we find that the coverage-adjusted intervals are particularly suitable for $p$ close to 0 or 1.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figures, 2 table

Psychological Impact of Significantly Short Stature

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A Brief Guide to C and C++ for Fortran or Basic Programmers

This paper introduces C and C++ programming for learners who already have some experience in another language such as Fortran or Basic. It explains basic syntax, dynamic space allocation, structures, classes, constructors and destructors, and overloading of operators. All concepts are illustrated with working programs

Inforum Models: Origin, Evolution, and By-ways Avoided

Inforum models combine input-output tables with econometric analysis in dynamic models in which the investment in each industry depends upon the growth of output in that industry. They have been built and used in a number of countries including the USA, Russia, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Austria, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Mexico, Colombia, China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam and perhaps others. They make extensive use of econometrics and input-output analysis to describe the functioning of an economy not only at a macroeconomic level but also at the level of individual products and industries. This paper records – somewhat autobiographically on the part of the author -- the beginnings of these models, outlines their evolution, defends them and other econometric models against the sweeping Lucas critique, and mentions some of the fads in economics and modeling which have been avoided for good reason

Regress to Reveal

Assumptions for the validity of standard regression tests are often not met. The information contained in the test statistics, however, can often be transformed to give easily grasped, intuitively clear descriptive statistics whose usefulness is in no way dependent on those assumptions. Thus, valid marginal explanatory values (mexvals)can replace invalid t-statistics; valid loss limits can replace invalid standard errors. Regression can be usefully and honestly used to reveal relations in data instead of deceptively claiming to test hypotheses. Regress to reveal, not to test