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Living the Full Catastrophe: A Mindfulness-Based Program to Support Recovery from Stroke View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Lori Gray
Decades of research suggest that Mindfulness‐Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training supports a greater capacity to live with chronic medical conditions and contributes to lowering stress levels. This paper introduces a model for a Mindfulness‐Based Recovery from Stroke (MBRfS) for promoting stroke recovery, informed by the lived experience of the author (a stroke survivor and certified MBSR instructor), the research literature regarding MBSR training, and the specific challenges of stroke recovery. Four themes emerged from the autoethnographic analysis that informed the proposed model: Readiness to accept the stroke event and the acquired brain injury; Navigating uncertainties of stroke recovery with awareness and self‐responsibility for outcomes; Trusting the inherent wisdom of the body as a stroke recovery “teacher”; and Increased capacity to integrate complex emotions with self‐compassion, and a sense of wholeness. A four component MBRfS model is offered, which consists of an integration amongst a modified MBSR framework, emergent attitudinal themes, and insights from the autoethnographic vignettes. The MBRfS model offers a path for providing participants with a supportive experience within stroke recovery. Recommendations and suggestions for future studies are offered to support the development of MBRfS for stroke survivors and their caregivers, as well as contributing to health care providers.
Educational Workers' Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and a Way Forward: Research Study on Emotional Labour in Educational Workers View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Astrid Kendrick
This two-year funded study is investigating the extent and experiences of Alberta educational workers, including teachers, administrators, support staff, and leaders, with compassion fatigue and burnout. The findings of the first survey and qualitative interviews indicate that without intervention, burnout, and compassion fatigue may have a devastating impact on educational workers. This session discusses the findings and implications of this important study, as well as providing suggestions for preventing compassion fatigue and burnout in educational workers.
A Qualitative Investigation of Support Provided by Community Managed Organisations to Address Chronic Disease Risk Behaviours in Consumers with Mental Illness : Preventive Care for Smoking, Nutrition, Alcohol Consumption, Inadequate Physical Activity, and Poor Sleep View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Julia Dray, Lauren Gibson
People with mental illness experience significantly higher morbidity and mortality compared to people without. This is consistently reported as linked to increased chronic disease health risk behaviours. Community Managed Organisations (CMOs) have ongoing contact with consumers, deliver a diverse range of services, and are a potentially important setting to address health risk behaviours (smoking, nutrition, alcohol, physical activity, sleep; SNAPS) for people with mental illness. A qualitative study was conducted to: 1) explore type of support provided by CMOs to address the health risk behaviours of consumers living with a mental illness; and, 2) assess organisational and staff level barriers and facilitators to providing such support. One-on-one, semi-structured telephone interviews with standardised open-ended questions were conducted with a purposive sample of 12 senior management CMO staff, NSW, Australia. Three independent coders analysed transcribed interviews. Inductive thematic analysis was used to guide theme generation. Qualitative analysis generated three major themes, the first being types of SNAPS supports that CMOs provided. The second and third theme related to barriers (lack of funding; lack of consistency in SNAPS support provided) and facilitators (workplace culture; collaboration with available supports; staff education and training) experienced when providing SNAPS supports. Discussion: This study found that support strategies offered by CMOs differed by physical health risk behaviours, models of care and funding at service and consumer levels. Much care provided in this context is patient led, dependent on funding and inclusion of the health risk behaviours in the consumers care plans.
Generation of Health and Its Effect on the Female Labour Market and Economic Development: A Theoretical and Empirical Review View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Shonal Rath
This paper focuses on health as a factor determining the effective labour force of an economy. Health promotes the growth of the economy under full employment conditions in the long run. Long-term health issues stagnate the development of a country by undermining economic growth as well as the wellbeing of individuals. However, access to health is often gendered biased. Therefore, this paper provides a theoretical framework where the theory of endogenous growth has been used to discuss how the growth rate of an economy is influenced by health factors in the short-run and long-run through female labour employment with the increased access to health resources, thus leading to women empowerment. Finally, a panel data regression analysis has been performed to study the correlation among these variables. This shows that health improvement can serve the two-fold purpose of women economic empowerment and overall development of the economy.
Inequality as a Factor in Influencing Happiness View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Jinman Kyonne
In the 21st century, the issue of inequality has been treated as one of the major problems both in international and in domestic level. In domestic level, it has been studied that the trend of increasing income inequality negatively impacts on happiness. However, in international level, there is little research to test inequality as a factor to influence happiness. This study used the 2020 World Happiness Report for directly measuring the people’s happiness in OECD countries. Moreover, this study adopted both the inequality-adjusted income and Gini-coefficient index, reported by United Nations(2020), for measuring the nations’ income inequality. The purpose of this study is to find whether the income inequality impacts on the happiness among OECD countries when controlling other variables.
Promoting Peak Performance Through the TB12 Method: The Power of Pliability and Prehab
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Murali Venugopalan
This paper focuses on the essential components about the TB12 Method, created and explained by 7-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and his coach, Alex Guerrero. Based on data supported by reliable research, thousands of athletes and individuals from all walks of life have incorporated the TB12 Method into their daily lifestyles. The study includes specific information pertaining to pliability and prehab as well as general guidelines related to health, wellbeing, nutrition, fitness, rest, and mental wellbeing.
