Freizeitaktivitäten jugendlicher Hauptschüler/-innen und ihr Einfluss auf berufliche Zielorientierungen und den Übergang in Ausbildung und Beruf

"Die Übergänge in Ausbildung (1. Schwelle) und Beruf (2. Schwelle) werden als wichtige Weichenstellungen im Lebensverlauf verstanden. Im Zuge gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen müssen sich junge Menschen neuen Herausforderungen stellen, die dazu führen, dass diese Übergänge in der Lebensphase Jugend immer unsicherer werden. Um die gestiegenen Anforderungen dieser Übergänge zu bewältigen, gewinnen Bildungsprozesse, die in non-formalen Freizeitsettings stattfinden, an Bedeutung: Sie können nicht nur die Persönlichkeitsentwicklung der Heranwachsenden fördern, sondern auch Qualifikationen für den Einstieg in den Arbeitsmarkt vermitteln. Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, inwieweit Vereinsaktivitäten und kulturelle Aktivitäten von Hauptschüler/-innen am Ende ihrer Schulzeit ihre berufliche Zielorientierung und Übergänge in Ausbildung und Beruf positiv beeinflussen. Dazu wird das Ressourcenmodell der Lebensbewältigung als theoretische Grundlage herangezogen und eine Sekundäranalyse mit dem Übergangspanel des Deutschen Jugendinstituts durchgeführt. Drei Messzeitpunkte gehen in logistische Regressionsmodelle ein: 1) Baselineerhebung im letzten Pflichtschuljahr (N=3922), 2) Erhebung ein halbes Jahr nach letztem Pflichtschuljahr (1. Schwelle; N=1701), und 3) Erhebung fünf Jahre nach letztem Pflichtschuljahr (1. und 2. Schwelle; N=873). Erwartungsgemäß lassen sich geringe Zusammenhänge zwischen Freizeitaktivitäten und beruflicher Zielorientierung nachweisen. Für den Übergang an 1. Schwelle finden sich keine Effekte der Freizeitaktivitäten. Allerdings wird der Übergang in Ausbildung und Beruf an 1. und 2. Schwelle fünf Jahre später in geringem Maß positiv durch Vereinsaktivitäten beeinflusst. Dabei zeigen sich die Zusammenhänge auch unter Kontrolle von sozioökonomischem Status, Migrationshintergrund und Geschlecht." (Autorenreferat)"Transitions from school to vocational training or studies and work seem to be major junctions in lifespan. In the course of societal changes these transitions are getting increasingly unsecure and challenge adolescents. For coping with those high demands educational processes taking place in non-formal leisure activities become more important: They are able to promote personal development and moreover impart qualifications useful for the labor market. The current paper aims to answer the question whether organized leisure activities and cultural activity at the end of compulsory schooling affect vocational goal orientation and transitions from school to vocational training and work positively. Therefore the Resource Model of Coping with Life was applied as theoretical framework. A secondary data analysis wasconducted using the Transition Panel of the German Youth Institute. Three measuring points were integrated in logistic regression modeling: 1) Baseline-survey at the end of compulsory school (N=3922), 2) survey half a year after compulsory school (N=1701), 3) survey five years after school (N=873). As expected small relationships between leisure activities and vocational goal orientation were found. No effects of leisure activities could be found for the transition half a year after school. Hence for the transition five years after compulsory schooling little positive effects could be found for organized leisure activities. The effects persist while controlling for socio economic status, migration background and sex." (author's abstract

Structural framework conditions and individual motivations for youth-mobility: A macro-micro level approach for different European country-types

European youth mobility seems to be fostering Europe's unequal pace of integration, which sees certain countries benefit at the expense of others (Ohmacht et al., 2009; van Mol & Timmerman, 2014). Using a comparative approach, the paper aims to relate a macro-level country-typology focussing on human capital with individual mobility-motivations on the micro-level. Our methodological approach is based on a secondary macro-data analysis and analyses of mobility-motivations of young people (micro-data) deriving from qualitative (N=152) and quantitative data (N=5,499) collected in six European countries. In order to examine correspondence between macro-conditions and micro-aspects, we relate information on mobility-motivations to the country-typology by allocating mobile youth to the respective types of their home country. The results show that the country-types compose different opportunity structures, which are reflected in individual motivations. Accordingly, different country-types can be seen as an example of the heterogeneity and inequality of European social and territorial mobility frames

Neodymium Isotope Geochemistry of a Subterranean Estuary

Rare earth elements (REE) and Nd isotope compositions of surface and groundwaters from the Indian River Lagoon in Florida were measured to investigate the influence of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) on these parameters in coastal waters. The Nd flux of the terrestrial component of SGD is around 0.7 ± 0.03 μmol Nd/day per m of shoreline across the nearshore seepage face of the subterranean estuary. This translates to a terrestrial SGD Nd flux of 4 ± 0.2 mmol/day for the entire 5,880 m long shoreline of the studied portion of the lagoon. The Nd flux from bioirrigation across the nearshore seepage face is 1 ± 0.05 μmol Nd/day per m of shoreline, or 6 ± 0.3 mmol/day for the entire shoreline. The combination of these two SGD fluxes is the same as the local, effective river water flux of Nd to the lagoon of 12.7 ± 5.3 mmol/day. Using a similar approach, the marine-sourced SGD flux of Nd is 31.4 ± 1.6 μmol Nd/day per m of shoreline, or 184 ± 9.2 mmol/day for the investigated portion of the lagoon, which is 45 times higher than the terrestrial SGD Nd flux. Terrestrial-sourced SGD has an εNd(0) value of -5 ± 0.42, which is similar to carbonate rocks (i.e., Ocala Limestone) from the Upper Floridan Aquifer (-5.6), but more radiogenic than the recirculated marine SGD, for which εNd(0) is -7 ± 0.24. Marine SGD has a Nd isotope composition that is identical to the εNd(0) of Fe(III) oxide/oxyhydroxide coated sands of the surficial aquifer (-7.15 ± 0.24 and -6.98 ± 0.36). These secondary Fe(III) oxides/oxyhydroxides formed during subaerial weathering when sea level was substantially lower during the last glacial maximum. Subsequent flooding of these surficial sands by rising sea level followed by reductive dissolution of the Fe(III) oxide/oxyhydroxide coatings can explain the Nd isotope composition of the marine SGD component. Surficial waters of the Indian River Lagoon have an εNd(0) of -6.47 ± 0.32, and are a mixture of terrestrial and marine SGD components, as well as the local rivers (-8.63 and -8.14). Nonetheless, the chief Nd source is marine SGD that has reacted with Fe(III) oxide/oxyhydroxide coatings on the surficial aquifer sands of the subterranean estuary

Wie? Warum? Oder warum nicht? Mobilitätsfelder sowie Motivationen und Barrieren für Jugendmobilität in Europa

Auslandserfahrungen sind nicht nur eine Möglichkeit, auf kulturelle Entdeckungsreise zu gehen. Sie gelten auch als Chance für junge Menschen, zu lernen und sich persönlich und beruflich weiterzuentwickeln. Entsprechend wird Jugendmobilität in der Jugendarbeit große Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Auch die Länder, die die Jugendlichen entsenden oder aufnehmen, können dabei profitieren – aber auf unterschiedliche Weise. Zu welchem Zweck gehen junge Menschen ins Ausland? Was motiviert sie dabei? Welche Barrieren müssen sie dafür überwinden? Welche Rolle spielt der familiäre Bildungshintergrund der Jugendlichen? Diese Fragen werden mit Fokus auf länderspezifische Unterschiede auf der Datenbasis des europäischen Forschungsprojekts MOVE untersucht, in das Wissenschaftler(innen) aus sechs europäischen Ländern involviert waren. Die Grundlage bildet zunächst eine Ländertypologie, die Humankapitalbewegungen durch Auslandsaufenthalte abbildet, welche je nach Mobilitätsfeld eher dem Sende- oder Empfängerland zugutekommen. Sie weist europäische Länder vier Typen zu: Mobilitätsförderern, Mobilitätsverlierern, Mobilitätsgewinnern und Mobilitätsverwertern. Besonders erstere und letztere sind gut für eine kontrastierende, ländervergleichende Betrachtung geeignet. Mobilitätsförderer sind Länder, deren junge Menschen im europäischen Ausland arbeiten, die aber selbst kein wichtiges Zielland für europäische Jugendliche sind (z.B. Ungarn und Rumänien). Mobilitätsverwerter sind attraktive Zielländer sowohl für kurz- als auch langfristige Mobilitäten und weisen damit bezüglich der Generierung und Verwertung von Humankapital ein ausgeglichenes Konto auf (z.B. Norwegen, Luxemburg und Deutschland). In einem kontrastierenden Vergleich werden Motivationen und Barrieren für Auslandsaufenthalte im Zusammenhang mit dem Bildungshintergrund junger Menschen aus Mobilitätsförder- und Mobilitätsverwerterländern analysiert. Hierfür werden die Individualdaten eines Onlinesurveys mit 18-29-Jährigen (N=4.719) aus Deutschland, Luxemburg, Norwegen, Ungarn und Rumänien den beiden Ländertypen zugeordnet und verglichen

High-resolution observations in the Western Mediterranean Sea: The REP14-MED experiment

The observational part of the REP14-MED experiment was conducted in June 2014 in the Sardo-Balearic Sea west of Sardinia Island (Western Mediterranean Sea). Two research vessels collected high-resolution oceanographic data by means of hydrographic casts, towed systems, and underway measurements. In addition, a vast amount of data was provided by a fleet of 11 gliders, time series were available from moored instruments, and information on Lagrangian flow patterns were obtained from surface drifters and one profiling float. The spatial resolution of the observations encompasses a spectrum over four orders of magnitude from O(101 m) to O(105 m), and the time series from the moored instruments cover a spectral range of five orders from O(101 s) to O(106 s). The objective of this article is to provide an overview of the huge data set which is utilized by various ongoing studies, focusing on (i) sub-mesoscale and mesoscale pattern analyses, (ii) operational forecasting in terms of the development and assessment of sampling strategies, assimilation methods, and model validation, (iii) modeling the variability of the ocean, and (iv) testing of new payloads for gliders

THISTLE:trial of hands-on Interprofessional simulation training for local emergencies: a research protocol for a stepped-wedge clustered randomised controlled trial

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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of vaginal pessary self-management compared to clinic-based care for pelvic organ prolapse: protocol for the TOPSY randomised controlled trial

Background Pelvic organ prolapse (or prolapse) is a common condition in women where the pelvic organs (bladder, bowel or womb) descend into the vagina and cause distressing symptoms that adversely affect quality of life. Many women will use a vaginal pessary to treat their prolapse symptoms. Clinic based care usually consists of having a pessary fitted in a primary or secondary care setting, and returning approximately every six months for healthcare professional review and pessary change. However, it is possible that women could remove, clean and re‐insert their pessary themselves; this is called self‐management. This trial aims to assess if self‐management of a vaginal pessary is associated with better quality of life for women with prolapse when compared to clinic based care. Methods This is a multicentre randomised controlled trial in at least 17 UK centres. The intervention group will receive pessary self-management teaching, a self-management information leaflet, a follow up phone call and access to a local telephone number for clinical support. The control group will receive the clinic based pessary care which is standard at their centre. Demographic and medical history data will be collected from both groups at baseline. The primary outcome is condition‐specific quality of life at 18 months’ post-randomisation. Several secondary outcomes will also be assessed using participant-completed questionnaires. Questionnaires will be administered at baseline, 6, 12 and 18 months’ post-randomisation. An economic evaluation will be carried out alongside the trial to evaluate cost-effectiveness. A process evaluation will run parallel to the trial, the protocol for which is reported in a companion paper. Discussion The results of the trial will provide robust evidence of the effectiveness of pessary self-management compared to clinic based care in terms of improving women's quality of life, and of its cost-effectiveness.Additional co-authors: Christine Hemming, Aethele Khunda, Helen Mason, Doreen McClurg, John Norrie, Anastasia Karachalia-Sandri, Ranee Thaka

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of pessary self-management versus clinic-based care for pelvic organ prolapse in women:the TOPSY RCT with process evaluation

BACKGROUND: Pelvic organ prolapse is common, causes unpleasant symptoms and negatively affects women's quality of life. In the UK, most women with pelvic organ prolapse attend clinics for pessary care.OBJECTIVES: To determine the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of vaginal pessary self-management on prolapse-specific quality of life for women with prolapse compared with clinic-based care; and to assess intervention acceptability and contextual influences on effectiveness, adherence and fidelity.DESIGN: A multicentre, parallel-group, superiority randomised controlled trial with a mixed-methods process evaluation.PARTICIPANTS: Women attending UK NHS outpatient pessary services, aged ≥ 18 years, using a pessary of any type/material (except shelf, Gellhorn or Cube) for at least 2 weeks. Exclusions: women with limited manual dexterity, with cognitive deficit (prohibiting consent or self-management), pregnant or non-English-speaking.INTERVENTION: The self-management intervention involved a 30-minute teaching appointment, an information leaflet, a 2-week follow-up telephone call and a local clinic telephone helpline number. Clinic-based care involved routine appointments determined by centres' usual practice.ALLOCATION: Remote web-based application; minimisation was by age, pessary user type and centre.BLINDING: Participants, those delivering the intervention and researchers were not blinded to group allocation.OUTCOMES: The patient-reported primary outcome (measured using the Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire-7) was prolapse-specific quality of life, and the cost-effectiveness outcome was incremental cost per quality-adjusted life-year (a specifically developed health Resource Use Questionnaire was used) at 18 months post randomisation. Secondary outcome measures included self-efficacy and complications. Process evaluation data were collected by interview, audio-recording and checklist. Analysis was by intention to treat.RESULTS: Three hundred and forty women were randomised (self-management, n = 169; clinic-based care, n = 171). At 18 months post randomisation, 291 questionnaires with valid primary outcome data were available (self-management, n = 139; clinic-based care, n = 152). Baseline economic analysis was based on 264 participants (self-management, n = 125; clinic-based care, n = 139) with valid quality of life and resource use data. Self-management was an acceptable intervention. There was no group difference in prolapse-specific quality of life at 18 months (adjusted mean difference -0.03, 95% confidence interval -9.32 to 9.25). There was fidelity to intervention delivery. Self-management was cost-effective at a willingness-to-pay threshold of £20,000 per quality-adjusted life-year gained, with an estimated incremental net benefit of £564.32 and an 80.81% probability of cost-effectiveness. At 18 months, more pessary complications were reported in the clinic-based care group (adjusted mean difference 3.83, 95% confidence interval 0.81 to 6.86). There was no group difference in general self-efficacy, but self-managing women were more confident in pessary self-management activities. In both groups, contextual factors impacted on adherence and effectiveness. There were no reported serious unexpected serious adverse reactions. There were 32 serious adverse events (self-management, n = 17; clinic-based care, n = 14), all unrelated to the intervention. Skew in the baseline data for the Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire-7, the influence of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the potential effects of crossover and the lack of ethnic diversity in the recruited sample were possible limitations.CONCLUSIONS: Self-management was acceptable and cost-effective, led to fewer complications and did not improve or worsen quality of life for women with prolapse compared with clinic-based care. Future research is needed to develop a quality-of-life measure that is sensitive to the changes women desire from treatment.STUDY REGISTRATION: This study is registered as ISRCTN62510577.FUNDING: This award was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment programme (NIHR award ref: 16/82/01) and is published in full in Health Technology Assessment; Vol. 28, No. 23. See the NIHR Funding and Awards website for further award information.</p

Clinical effectiveness of vaginal pessary self-management vs clinic-based care for pelvic organ prolapse (TOPSY): a randomised controlled superiority trial

Background: Prolapse affects 30–40% of women. Those using a pessary for prolapse usually receive care as an outpatient. This trial determined effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of pessary self-management (SM) vs clinic-based care (CBC) in relation to condition-specific quality of life (QoL). Methods: Parallel-group, superiority randomised controlled trial, recruiting from 16 May 2018 to 7 February 2020, with follow-up to 17 September 2021. Women attending pessary clinics, ≥18 years, using a pessary (except Shelf, Gellhorn or Cube), with pessary retained ≥2 weeks were eligible. Limited manual dexterity; cognitive deficit; pregnancy; or requirement for non-English teaching were exclusions. SM group received a 30-min teaching session; information leaflet; 2-week follow-up call; and telephone support. CBC group received usual routine appointments. The primary clinical outcome was pelvic floor-specific QoL (PFIQ-7), and incremental net monetary benefit for cost-effectiveness, 18 months post-randomisation. Group allocation was by remote web-based application, minimised on age, user type (new/existing) and centre. Participants, intervention deliverers, researchers and the statistician were not blinded. The primary analysis was intention-to-treat based. Trial registration: https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN62510577. Findings: The requisite 340 women were randomised (169 SM, 171 CBC) across 21 centres. There was not a statistically significant difference between groups in PFIQ-7 at 18 months (mean SM 32.3 vs CBC 32.5, adjusted mean difference SM-CBC −0.03, 95% CI −9.32 to 9.25). SM was less costly than CBC. The incremental net benefit of SM was £564 (SE £581, 95% CI −£576 to £1704). A lower percentage of pessary complications was reported in the SM group (mean SM 16.7% vs CBC 22.0%, adjusted mean difference −3.83%, 95% CI –6.86% to −0.81%). There was no meaningful difference in general self-efficacy. Self-managing women were more confident in self-management activities. There were no reported suspected unexpected serious adverse reactions, and 31 unrelated serious adverse events (17 SM, 14 CBC). Interpretation: Pessary self-management is cost-effective, does not improve or worsen QoL compared to CBC, and has a lower complication rate.</p

Net community production in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea from glider and buoy measurements

The Mediterranean Sea comprises just 0.8 % of the global oceanic surface, yet considering its size, it is regarded as a disproportionately large sink for anthropogenic carbon due to its physical and biogeochemical characteristics. An underwater glider mission was carried out in March–April 2016 close to the BOUSSOLE and DyFAMed time series moorings in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. The glider deployment served as a test of a prototype ion-sensitive field-effect transistor pH sensor. Dissolved oxygen (O2) concentrations and optical backscatter were also observed by the glider and increased between 19 March and 1 April, along with pH. These changes indicated the start of a phytoplankton spring bloom, following a period of intense mixing. Concurrent measurements of CO2 fugacity and O2 concentrations at the BOUSSOLE mooring buoy showed fluctuations, in qualitative agreement with the pattern of glider measurements. Mean net community production rates (N) were estimated from glider and buoy measurements of dissolved O2 and inorganic carbon (DIC) concentrations, based on their mass budgets. Glider and buoy DIC concentrations were derived from a salinity-based total alkalinity parameterisation, glider pH and buoy CO2 fugacity. The spatial coverage of glider data allowed the calculation of advective O2 and DIC fluxes. Mean N estimates for the euphotic zone between 10 March and 3 April were (-17±36) for glider O2, (44±94) for glider DIC, (17±37) for buoy O2 and (49±86)  mmolm-2d-1 for buoy DIC, all indicating net metabolic balance over these 25 d. However, these 25 d were actually split into a period of net DIC increase and O2 decrease between 10 and 19 March and a period of net DIC decrease and O2 increase between 19 March and 3 April. The latter period is interpreted as the onset of the spring bloom. The regression coefficients between O2 and DIC-based N estimates were 0.25 ± 0.08 for the glider data and 0.54 ± 0.06 for the buoy, significantly lower than the canonical metabolic quotient of 1.45±0.15. This study shows the added value of co-locating a profiling glider with moored time series buoys, but also demonstrates the difficulty in estimating N, and the limitations in achievable precision