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Who is ready? A peer support screening measure for parents of children with disabilities
Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop a measure of readiness to be trained as a supporting parent volunteer for the Parent to Parent USA Network. Background: Parents of children with disabilities may suffer from isolation, stress, and depression due to increased burden of caregiving, lack of knowledge about disability, stigmatization by community and family and/or reduced family income. Peer support can serve as a buffer to stress. Methods: Measure items arc based on qualitative findings and a review of relevant literature. Exploratory factor analysis was employed to determine the factor structure, and predictive validity was assessed using two-sample t tests. Results: The 17-item measure comprised three factors- Into Action, Wellbeing, and Skills and Navigation-and demonstrated good internal consistency. Additionally, significant differences in readiness score were found between parents who had and those who had not been trained to be peer supports and parents who had and had not received support from P2P. Implications: This measure may facilitate further study and evaluation of P2P and may be useful to other programs serving families of children with special educational or health care needs.
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Practice variation in venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in adolescent trauma patients: A comparative analysis of pediatric, adult, and mixed trauma centers
Adolescent trauma patients are at increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). It is unclear whether VTE prophylaxis practice patterns differ across trauma center types.
The ACS-TQP database was queried for patients aged 12-17 admitted to a pediatric, adult, or mixed level I/II trauma center. VTE prophylaxis was compared between center types. Preplanned subgroup analyses were performed to evaluate guideline adherence.
Of 101,010 patients included, 35 % were treated at a pediatric trauma center (PTC), 43 % at a mixed trauma center (MTC), and 22 % at an adult trauma center (ATC). VTE prophylaxis was more common at ATCs and MTCs compared to PTCs (51.0 % vs 24.9 % vs 5.0 %,p < 0.001). This trend persisted in subgroup analyses of patients aged 16–17 (63.8 % vs 40.5 % vs 6.4 %,p < 0.001) and with injury severity score greater than 25 (83.8 % vs 74.0 % vs 35.1 %,p < 0.001).
VTE prophylaxis is administered more frequently to adolescent trauma patients treated at ATCs and MTCs compared to PTCs despite published guidelines. Prospective studies are needed to assess the clinical utility of VTE prophylaxis in the adolescent trauma population.
•Adolescents managed at adult trauma centers are more likely to receive VTE prophylaxis.•Pediatric centers have disproportionately low adherence to VTE prophylaxis guidelines.•Overall VTE incidence is low and not clinically different between center types.
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علم الأحياء
كتاب (علم الأحياء- بيتر هـ. ريفن وآخرون) : هو المرجع الأول لهذا الاختصاص باللغة العربية، الجدير بالذكر : إن هذا الكتاب يتميز بالشرح الوافي بالصور الواضحة ويصل عدد صفحاته إلى ما يزيد عن 1500 صفحه والتي تتحدث عن ثمانية أبواب : الأول عن الأساس الجزيئي للحياة والثاني علم حياة الخلية، بينما يفصل الباب الثالث الوراثة وعلم الحياة الجزيئي والجزء الرابع التطور ويأتي تنوع الحياة على الأرض في الباب الخامس، بينما ينفرد السادس بأشكال النباتات ووظائفها، أما الباب السابع فيتناول أشكال الحيوانات ووظائفها ويختتم الكتاب أبوابه مع علم البيئة والسلوك.
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Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities
Family members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Recognition is growing that family caregiving deserves and may require societal support, and evidence-based practices have been established for reducing stress associated with caregiving. Despite the substantial research literature on family support that has developed, researchers, advocates and professionals have often worked in separate categorical domains such as family support for caregiving for the frail elderly, for individuals with mental illness, or for people with development disabilities.
Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities addresses this significant limitation through cross-categorical and lifespan analyses of family support and family caregiving from the perspectives of theory and conceptual frameworks, empirical research, and frameworks and recommendations for improvements in public policy. The book also examines children with disabilities, children with autism, adults with schizophrenia, and individuals with cancer across the life cycle.
This book was published as a two-part special issue in the Journal of Family Social Work.
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Just Good Different Things
Fifteen parents and two grandparents of children with developmental disabilities (DD) were interviewed to discover common themes regarding specific ways in which they devised positive adaptations to their everyday routines to accommodate the needs of their children with DD, how they decided upon the accommodations, and how much help they felt they received from professionals in making the accommodations. Interviews were audiorecorded and transcribed. Using grounded theory methods, the authors analyzed the transcriptions to determine common themes, which were found to be (a) lost opportunities replaced by new opportunities, (b) the family as a team, (c) time adaptations, (d) the idiosyncratic nature of family accommodations, and (e) an insistence on normalcy, accompanied by a resistance to stigma. Participants most commonly described their decision-making process as “trial and error,” and the majority felt professionals had given them good help in making accommodations.
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Tax and You Shall Receive
The Federal Tax Lien Act of 1966 (FTLA), like the Uniform Commercial Code, adopts a \"first-in-time\" rule such that a purchaser, holder of a security interest, mechanic's lien or judgment lien creditor is protected against a federal tax lien where notice of the tax lien has not been filed, notwithstanding actual knowledge of the tax lien.\" A federal tax lien will take priority over most other valid liens in property that has not yet come into existence - after-acquired property, for example - unless such property represents proceeds of the asset subject to an earlier, perfected lien.\" In view of the statutory scheme created by the FTLA, the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Estate of Romani held that the FTLA was the governing statute when the government claimed a preference in the insolvent estate of a delinquent taxpayer based on a tax lien; therefore, an unrecorded federal tax lien did not have priority over a judgment lien that had been perfected under state law.\" [...]a lien that is not choate or is unperfected under state law does not have priority over a filed federal tax lien.
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Just Like Family: How a Community Parent Resource Center Serves Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families and Promotes Inclusive Practices
This study employed interview and observation methods to describe the culture and operation of a parent-to-parent support program serving predominantly African American families of children with disabilities. Using grounded theory methods to analyze transcripts and videos, the authors identified ways the organization supports families and promotes inclusive practices that fit with the cultural and economic context of the community. Themes from the data included the importance of lived commonality, accepting help seekers as they are, and a family-like organizational culture. The ways this mutual support program contrasts with many formal social service programs are described. The supports provided by the organization assist parents through challenging circumstances, such as poverty and unresponsive services, and affect different types of inclusion.
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Effects of Language of Implementation on Functional Analysis Outcomes
This study evaluated the influence of language of implementation on functional analysis outcomes for a child with a severe intellectual disability from a Spanish-speaking home. Challenging behavior was assessed during 5-min sessions under 4 conditions; attention, play-verbal, play-nonverbal, and demand and across 2 phases; implementation in English versus Spanish. The highest levels of challenging behavior occurred during the attention and demand conditions of the English phases. These results suggest that the language of implementation may influence the overall levels of challenging behavior within functional analysis conditions.
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