Virtual Lightning Talks / Ponencias virtuales breves
An Interdisciplinary Orientation for Health Science Graduate Students: Mindfulness in Class
Online Lightning Talk Annette Willgens, Jackie Murphy
Health science graduate students have high levels of perceived stress which can negatively influence them both personally and professionally. In fact, graduate students experience worry, burnout, and compassion fatigue, often causing stress during clinical coursework. Mindfulness has a strong evidence base but its use in graduate education is still relatively new. We propose a mindfulness orientation for all students in the college of nursing and health professions. The intent of the training is for all students to have regular opportunities to practice self-care throughout their education. In the Fall of 2018, all students had regular access to mindfulness tools and strategies. Faculty were trained by mindfulness "ambassadors" who have a mindfulness practice of their own. Short activities and tools were woven into the day-to-day curriculum across the College. An online course shell was made accessible to all students and faculty. Pre and post data was collected across disciplines with a focus on direct patient care courses. We hope to prevent the ill effects of student stress and build a model for other programs to foster student self-care before they embark on their professional careers. We owe this to the the next generation of healthcare professionals and the communities they serve.
21st Century Physical Education (PE): Doing and Accomplishing More with Less!
Online Lightning Talk Derek Mohr, Scott Townsend
Many health/physical education and wellness programs (HPEW), K-12 and higher education, are challenged to “do and accomplish more with less.” One way to do and accomplish more with less is to employ a flipped learning approach, where essential wellness and course-specific content is delivered online, freeing up valuable in-class time for the development of physical literacy and the integration and application of wellness content. Flipped learning is flexible and leverages common technology to maximize engagement both in and outside of class. The process begins by determining learning outcomes and identifying those best be achieved in and outside of class. Next, online and in-class activities are developed in accordance with those outcomes. Example online activities include: readings, videos, Q&A forums, quizzes, etc. These activities can be arranged in a prerequisite fashion, requiring completion in a prescribed order and at a predetermined level of success so that students arrive to class prepared to engage fully. Lastly, flipped learning calls for outside of class content to be applied and integrated during class, thus deliberate strategies are necessary to accomplish this critical instructional goal. The purpose of this presentation is to showcase how flipped learning can help HPEW programs accomplish their mission and bolster their legitimacy, particularly in the face of diminishing support and resources.
Recommendations for Housing First in Philadelphia
Online Lightning Talk Brie Radis
As the poorest urban city in the United States, Philadelphia has a growing number of chronic homelessness with individuals, couples, and families experiencing devastating challenges of an unjust criminal justice system, addiction, complex trauma, mental health challenges among other health disparities. Dr. Brie Radis, LCSW has worked and led the city's first housing first treatment teams as a case manager, mental health specialist, team leader, and as their clinical director for the last fourteen years. She will share her clinical best practice reflections during this talk.
Physical Conditioning for Australian Paramedics: A Six Month Workplace Exercise RCT
Online Lightning Talk Jayden R Hunter
Serious musculoskeletal injury rates for Australian paramedics are up to seven times higher than the national occupational average, resulting in significant associated costs and extended time off work. Work conditioning programs have been recommended to improve fitness but not evaluated in Australian paramedics. This study investigated the effectiveness of a 6-month workplace exercise program (MedicFit; MF) to improve paramedic fitness with or without health coach (HC) support. A group of regional Australian paramedics (n=76; 43 male; mean±SD 36.5±9.1 years; BMI 28.0±5.4 kg/m2) were randomised to either exercise with remote health coach support (MFHC; N=30), exercise without health coach support (MF; N=23), or no-exercise control (CON; N=23) groups. MFHC and MF participants received a 6-month, low-moderate intensity resistance and flexibility exercise program to be performed on station without direct supervision. Changes to upper-body (push-ups), lower-body (wall squat) and core (plank hold) strength and flexibility (back scratch and sit-reach tests) were analysed using repeated measures ANOVA. Results: Mean changes to upper-body (+20.6%; p<0.01; ηp2=0.34), lower-body (+40.8%; p<0.05; ηp2=0.08) and core (+1.4%; p=0.17; ηp2=0.03) strength were similar between groups, as were changes to upper-body (+19.5%; p=0.56) and lower-body (+3.3%; p=0.15) flexibility, with no interaction or group effects observed. Conclusion: Providing a 6-month workplace exercise program with or without HC support did not confer any greater strength or flexibility benefits than exercise testing alone (CON). Although exercise adherence was not measured, it is possible that participants require additional methods of support such as face-to-face exercise instruction and guidance, and individually-tailored exercise programs.
Socio-economic Status and Anxiety and Depression in Children
Online Lightning Talk Lee Hyeryung
This study seeks to assess whether socio-economic status (SES) affects the change of anxiety and depression level, using national longitudinal data from the panel study on Korean children (2012-2015). Anxiety and depression levels were measured using the Korean Child Behavior Checklist (K-CBCL), a standardized Korean version of the CBCL. SES was assessed with regard to household income, parent education, and employment status. Linear regression analysis and Hausman’s test were conducted in R (version 3.5.1) to investigate if socio-economic factors could predict the anxiety/depression levels. Findings reveal higher SES significantly decreased the odds of anxiety and depression, but the mother's education level did not. Additionally, for the children having an unemployed mother, the mother’s higher education level significantly increased the odds of anxiety/depression while the father’s higher education decreased them. This study suggests taking SES into account may be an important factor in tackling children’s mental health inequalities as well as developing of anxiety/depression prevention strategies.
Longitudinal Research Optimization: Adapting a Human Subjects Study to Account for Cultural, Environmental, and Logistical Factors in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Online Lightning Talk Brennan Delattre
Can partner and group movement sessions be used to supplement traditional clinical and counseling approaches to mental health, specifically focused on social and emotional rehabilitation, and specifically with an interest in populations with social and generalized anxiety? My Fulbright research in Rio de Janeiro seeks to evaluate and quantify the psychological benefits of capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian movement art, for the purpose of developing movement-based psychological interventions targeting individuals' empathy, self-efficacy, and state and social anxiety. Might participants show changes in these dimensions over the course of a semester of a cooperative movement intervention, and might those changes persevere even after participants are no longer participating in the activity? My lightning talk explores the purpose and implications of this research, as well as the adapting of a study when its environmental, cultural, and logistical context necessitates circumnavigating unanticipated hurdles.
