scholarly journals Keep Calm and Carry on: Parental Opinions on Improving Clinical Dietary Trials for Young Children

Nutrients ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1166
Author(s):  
Analise Nicholl ◽  
Therese O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Iron Status ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Clinical Assessments ◽  
Time Commitment ◽  
Parental Concerns ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Child Assessments ◽  
Clear Information ◽  
Paediatric Health

Recruitment can be an issue for paediatric research. We aimed to investigate parental opinions of paediatric clinical assessments, and to combine findings with recent literature to inform the design of a clinical dietary trial. We used convenience sampling to recruit 17 parents of children aged 2–6 years from two community playgroups in Perth, Western Australia. Three focus groups considered proposed child assessments, study design, and potential study enrolment. Qualitative thematic analysis of focus group transcripts used NVivo 11 (QSR, Melbourne, VIC, Australia). Four main parental concerns emerged, presented here with solutions combining parent responses and relevant literature. (1) Parent and child needle fear: a good experience and a good phlebotomist help keep participants calm, and offering additional analysis (e.g., iron status) makes blood tests more worthwhile. (2) Concerns about children’s age, stage, understanding and ability to cope: create a themed adventure to help explain concepts and make procedures fun. (3) Persistent misunderstandings involving study purpose, design, randomization and equipoise: provide clear information via multiple platforms, and check understanding before enrolment. (4) Parental decisions to enrol children focused on time commitment, respectful treatment of their child, confronting tests and altruism: child-centred methodologies can help address concerns and keep participants engaged throughout procedures. Addressing the concerns identified could improve participation in a range of paediatric health interventions.

scholarly journals The Role of English Language Skills in Career Growth: A Study of Perceptions and Strategies Used to Improve English Language Skills by Graduate and Undergraduate Students of Karachi, Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 346-355
Author(s):  
Stephn John ◽  
Subhash Gurario ◽  
Jamshed Adil Halepota
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Career Growth ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
English Language Skills

The English language has a major impact on our companies and workplaces. Regardless of geographical, social, political, or religious divisions, English has become the lingua franca of the international corporate world. The purpose of this research study was to explore the role of English language skills in the career growth of a person and understand the perceptions of graduate and undergraduate students about learning and improving this language. For this purpose, relevant literature was scouted, and based on scholars points of view; a questionnaire was developed to get the opinions of the students. The data was collected using Google Form, employing a stratified convenience sampling procedure. The analysis shows a positive relationship between English language skills and career growth.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Students Attraction Towards Jordanian University

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Dima Musa Al-Dajani ◽  
Mahmood Jasim Alsamydai
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Selection Of

The aim of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the attraction of students’ selection of Jordanian universities. For this purpose a model has been designed to test these factors. The model is divided into seven dimensions including: university’s attributes, economic factors, Geographic factors, reference groups and marketing communication, Attraction and Selection University.Seven hypotheses were developed based on the dimensions of the study as well as the relevant literature to achieve this aim, the researchers used a convenience sampling technique. A total of (321) respondents completed the research questionnaire, which distributed in (6) private universities which located in Amman. The distributed questionnaire consists of (35) questions that measured using a 5 points liker scale.The collected data were analyzed by using spas for descriptive statistic and amours analysis to assess the structural and measurement model for the proposed study model.The findings indicated that is an impact of all factors on the attraction of students for selection universities.Also, the findings showed the complementary partial role of attraction between the study factors and students' selection for universities.

scholarly journals Do the strategic innovative organizations reduce social loafing behaviors?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2005
Author(s):  
Derya Ozilhan Ozbey ◽  
Ayşe Gökçen Kapusuz
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Social Loafing ◽  
Strategic Innovation ◽  
Convenience Sampling

This research aims to determine the effects of strategic innovation on employees’ social loafing behaviors. This mentioned relationship has been analyzed with 138 out of 170 employees working at the same hotel chosen by the convenience sampling method from Antalya/Turkey. The results showed that there is a statistically significant and negative relationship between social loafing and strategic innovativeness. Furthermore, strategic innovativeness is a descriptor of social loafing behaviors. Satisfactory results were obtained as predicted before and some suggestions for the managers and future researchers were given. The topic has a unique value in relevant literature in terms of combining both management and marketing areas.

Comparative Analysis: The State of Colorado Study, Part II

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Brigham ◽  
Kathryn Mueller ◽  
Douglas Van Zet ◽  
Debra J. Northrup ◽  
Edward B. Whitney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Daily Living ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Pain Syndrome ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Clinical Assessments ◽  
Physician Judgment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Causation Analysis ◽  
Work Interference

Abstract [Continued from the January/February 2004 issue of The Guides Newsletter.] To understand discrepancies in reviewers’ ratings of impairments based on different editions of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), users can usefully study the history of the revisions as successive editions attempted to provide a comprehensive, valid, reliable, unbiased, and evidence-based system. Some shortcomings of earlier editions have been addressed in the AMA Guides, Fifth Edition, but problems remain with each edition, largely because of the limited scientific evidence available. In the context of the history of the different editions of the AMA Guides and their development, the authors discuss and contextualize a number of key terms and principles including the following: definitions of impairment and normal; activities of daily living; maximum medical improvement; impairment percentages; conversion of regional impairments; combining impairments; pain and other subjective complaints; physician judgment; and causation analysis; finally, the authors note that impairment is not synonymous with disability or work interference. The AMA Guides, Fifth Edition, contrasts impairment evaluations and independent medical evaluations (this was not done in previous editions) and discusses impairment evaluations, rules for evaluations, and report standards. Upper extremity and lower extremity impairment evaluations are discussed in terms of clinical assessments and rating processes, analyzing important changes between editions and problematic areas (eg, complex regional pain syndrome).

First clinical experience with the Multi-LOC multiple stent delivery system for focal stenting in long femoro-popliteal lesions

VASA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 452-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Amendt ◽  
Ulrich Beschorner ◽  
Matthias Waliszewski ◽  
Martin Sigl ◽  
Ralf Langhoff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Observational Study ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Target Lesion ◽  
Lesion Length ◽  
Elastic Recoil ◽  
Delivery Device ◽  
Clinical Assessments ◽  
Balloon Catheters ◽  
Considerable Length

Abstract. Background: The purpose of this observational study is to report the six-month clinical outcomes with a new multiple stent delivery system in patients with femoro-popliteal lesions. Patients and methods: The LOCOMOTIVE study is an observational multicentre study with a primary endpoint target lesion revascularization (TLR) rate at six months. Femoro-popliteal lesions were prepared with uncoated and/or paclitaxel-coated peripheral balloon catheters. When flow limiting dissections, elastic recoil or recoil due to calcification required stenting, up to six short stents per delivery device, each 13 mm in length, were implanted. Sonographic follow-ups and clinical assessments were scheduled at six months. Results: For this first analysis, a total of 75 patients 72.9 ± 9.2 years of age were enrolled. The majority of the 176 individually treated lesions were in the superficial femoral artery (76.2 %, 134/176) whereas the rate of TASC C/D amounted to 51.1 % (90/176). The total lesion length was 14.5 ± 9.0 cm with reference vessel diameters of 5.6 ± 0.7 mm. Overall 47 ± 18 % of lesion lengths could be saved from stenting. At six months, the patency was 90.7 % (68/75) and all-cause TLR rates were 5.3 % (4/75) in the overall cohort. Conclusions: The first clinical experience at six months suggests that the MSDS strategy was safe and effective to treat femoro-popliteal lesions of considerable length (14.5 ± 9.0 cm). Almost half of the lesion length could be saved from stenting while patency was high and TLR rates were acceptably low.

Psychological Characteristics and Parental Concerns of Girls With Precocious Puberty

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soohyun Shin ◽  
Hye Yeon Shin ◽  
Kyong-Mee Chung ◽  
Mi Jung Park ◽  
Shin Hye Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Precocious Puberty ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Parental Concerns

Sharing of Worldwide Spread Knowledge Using Hypermedia Facilities & Fast Communication Protocols (Mosaic and World Wide Web): The Example of ExPASy

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (01/02) ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Appel ◽  
O. Golaz ◽  
Ch. Pasquali ◽  
J.-C. Sanchez ◽  
A. Bairoch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Central Element ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
New Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Link Information

Abstract:The sharing of knowledge worldwide using hypermedia facilities and fast communication protocols (i.e., Mosaic and World Wide Web) provides a growth capacity with tremendous versatility and efficacy. The example of ExPASy, a molecular biology server developed at the University Hospital of Geneva, is striking. ExPASy provides hypermedia facilities to browse through several up-to-date biological and medical databases around the world and to link information from protein maps to genome information and diseases. Its extensive access is open through World Wide Web. Its concept could be extended to patient data including texts, laboratory data, relevant literature findings, sounds, images and movies. A new hypermedia culture is spreading very rapidly where the international fast transmission of documents is the central element. It is part of the emerging new “information society”.

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