Browsing by Subject "Experience"

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    The Best Laid Plans… Helping Teachers Foster Intrinsic Motivation in Their Students
    (2015) Walters, Nicholas; Ganci, Aaron
    High school students suffer from a lack of intrinsic motivation to participate in class. In an attempt to combat this lack of motivation, educators often provide students with rewards for participation. However, self-determination theory—a theory of motivation— states that these external incentives contribute to students’ lack of intrinsic motivation.
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    Contradiction: Permanent Temporal
    (2016) Li, Shuyu; Hudnall, Katie
    Each individual utilizes memory and experience as the path to explore unknown, and memory functions even more significantly when one physically or mentally dislocated from the environment where the memory was created in. People always try to make memory more accessible by using or manipulating tangible objects, for example: photography, videotapes, and sound tracks. Not only to record life, but also to seek permanence since each human being only has limited time of consciousness. As memory, it’s permanent, as experience, it’s relatively temporary.
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    Enduring Uncertainty Through the Lens of Osteoporosis: A Mixed Methods Study
    (2024-06) Vlaeminck, Caitlin Mae; Miller, Wendy Trueblood; Carter, Gregory; Crowder, Sharron J.; Otte, Julie; Longtin, Krista
    Osteoporosis is a chronic illness that is underdiagnosed and often poorly managed. Uncertainty is a phenomenon experienced by individuals diagnosed with chronic illness. There are no published American studies describing whether women diagnosed with osteoporosis experience uncertainty. Experiencing uncertainty can lead to decreased quality of life (QOL), delays in decision-making, and negative impacts on relationships. A mixed methods approach was used using descriptive statistics and two scales, The Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale-Community Form (MUIS-C) and the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Global Health scale, and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Significant negative correlations were found between levels of uncertainty and physical health status and between physical and mental health. The qualitative study focused on describing the experience individuals had with the diagnosis of osteoporosis. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with fourteen Caucasian women who all had a diagnosis of osteopenia or osteoporosis. Thematic analysis revealed five themes that could be chronologically processed: The Sentinel Event, Adapting to Chronic Disease, Navigating Uncertainty, Being Less Than, and What the Future Holds. The findings of this study have implications for how healthcare providers share knowledge and education about the disease of osteoporosis with individuals. Future research should include women and men from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. This inclusive approach is crucial for ensuring that preventive measures and management strategies are tailored to the diverse needs of all individuals, fostering equity and efficacy in osteoporosis care.
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    Finding your lane: experiences and beyond for adults learning to swim
    (Springer Nature, 2023) Wilson, Shawn; Miller, Alison Moira; Casson, Destiny; Ramos, William D.; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    The purpose of this study was to examine experiences and impacts from participating in an adult swim instruction program. We conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with adults aged 18 + who had participated in an adult learn to swim program. Participants were interviewed through a virtual platform using a semi-structured protocol. Data were coded individually by each member of the research team for emerging thematic outcomes with final consensus among all those involved in the analysis. Participants expressed adult learn to swim programs had an effect in three areas: (a) life affordance, (b) emotional affect, and (c) interpersonal relationships. Public health experts and aquatics leaders should consider targeting programs aimed at teaching adults to learn how to swim, especially to marginalized individuals and those who did not grow up in the United States. The authors highlight how these programs can create life affordances well beyond lap swimming and even water safety.
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    The Influence of Health Care Professional Characteristics on Pain Management Decisions
    (Oxford Academic, 2015-01) Bartley, Emily J.; Boissoneault, Jeff; Vargovich, Alison M.; Wandner PhD, Laura D.; Hirsh, Adam T.; Lok, Benjamin C.; Heft, Marc W.; Robinson, Michael E.; Psychology, School of Science
    Objective Evidence suggests that patient characteristics such as sex, race, and age influence the pain management decisions of health care providers. Although this signifies that patient demographics may be important determinants of health care decisions, pain-related care also may be impacted by the personal characteristics of the health care practitioner. However, the extent to which health care provider characteristics affect pain management decisions is unclear, underscoring the need for further research in this area. Methods A total of 154 health care providers (77 physicians, 77 dentists) viewed video vignettes of virtual human (VH) patients varying in sex, race, and age. Practitioners provided computerized ratings of VH patients’ pain intensity and unpleasantness, and also reported their willingness to prescribe non-opioid and opioid analgesics for each patient. Practitioner sex, race, age, and duration of professional experience were included as predictors to determine their impact on pain management decisions. Results When assessing and treating pain, practitioner sex, race, age, and duration of experience were all significantly associated with pain management decisions. Further, the role of these characteristics differed across VH patient sex, race, and age. Conclusions These findings suggest that pain assessment and treatment decisions may be impacted by the health care providers’ demographic characteristics, effects which may contribute to pain management disparities. Future research is warranted to determine whether findings replicate in other health care disciplines and medical conditions, and identify other practitioner characteristics (e.g., culture) that may affect pain management decisions.
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    A Peircean Critique of and Alternative to Intentionalism about Perceptual Experience
    (2007-02-05T15:50:40Z) Kruidenier, Daniel E.; Houser, Nathan
    My thesis is broadly construed this way: intentionalism, as a theory about perceptual experience, says that the intentional character of perceptual experience determines the phenomenological character of that experience. In some way, to be explained, phenomenology is determined by intentional content. I will show that intentionalism fails on two accounts. It fails to replace the sense-data theory as an explanation of the content of perceptual experience. It also fails to deal satisfactorily with the problem of perceptual illusion. I will then offer an alternative rooted in the perceptual theory of Charles Peirce. I believe his critical but common sense approach preserves the intuition of sense-data theory, that perception is primarily a relation between perceivers and objects. Peirce’s theory also provides a better solution to the problem of illusion.
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    The Successes and Challenges of Implementing Telehealth for Diverse Patient Populations Requiring Prenatal Care During COVID-19: Qualitative Study
    (JMIR, 2022-03-30) Farrell, Ruth; Collart, Christina; Craighead, Caitlin; Pierce, Madelyn; Chien, Edward; Frankel, Richard; Tucker Edmonds, Brownsyne; Perni, Uma; Coleridge, Marissa; Ranzini, Angela C.; Rose, Susannah; Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine
    Background: Although telehealth appears to have been accepted among some obstetric populations before the COVID-19 pandemic, patients' receptivity and experience with the rapid conversion of this mode of health care delivery are unknown. Objective: In this study, we examine patients' prenatal care needs, preferences, and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of supporting the development of successful models to serve the needs of pregnant patients, obstetric providers, and health care systems during this time. Methods: This study involved qualitative methods to explore pregnant patients' experiences with prenatal health care delivery at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted in-depth interviews with pregnant patients in the first and second trimester of pregnancy who received prenatal care in Cleveland, Ohio, from May to July 2020. An interview guide was used to probe experiences with health care delivery as it rapidly evolved at the onset of the pandemic. Results: Although advantages of telehealth were noted, there were several concerns noted with the broad implementation of telehealth for prenatal care during the pandemic. This included concerns about monitoring the pregnancy at home; the need for additional reassurance for the pregnancy, given the uncertainties presented by the pandemic; and the ability to have effective patient-provider discussions via a telehealth visit. The need to tailor telehealth to prenatal health care delivery was noted. Conclusions: Although previous studies have demonstrated that telehealth is a flexible and convenient alternative for some prenatal appointments, our study suggests that there may be specific needs and concerns among the diverse patient groups using this modality during the pandemic. More research is needed to understand patients' experiences with telehealth during the pandemic and develop approaches that are responsive to the needs and preferences of patients.