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Health and fitness professionals : practical career guide
\"If you are interested in a career in the health and fitness field (the allied health field, as it is often called), you've come to the right book. So what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in these fields? How much can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various fields? ... [Including] interviews with professionals in the field, [the book] covers six main areas of health and fitness: ... physical therapy, occupational therapy, recreational therapy, exercise physiology, massage therapy, [and] athletic training\"--Publisher marketing.
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation on mental health and resilience of paramedicine students – a randomised controlled pilot study
Paramedics worldwide have a higher prevalence of PTSD, anxiety, and depression than the general population. Paramedicine students predominately enter the profession without preventative techniques to manage stress, depression and fatigue. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on the well-being and resilience of paramedicine students. A pilot randomised control trial (RCT) spanning 4 weeks assessed the efficacy of TM on paramedicine students (
n
= 5) compared to a control group (
n
= 5). A set of questionnaires were distributed pre- and post-intervention to determine the effect of TM. Post-intervention, TM participants had significantly higher results in mental clarity (t = 3.347,
p
= 0.010), trait resilience (t = 2.630,
p
= 0.030), lower stress (t=-3.667,
p
= 0.008), and less depression, (t=-2.617,
p
= 0.035) with large effect sizes, as well as less fatigue (
Z
=-2.060,
p
= 0.039) than the control group. A significant negative relationship between stress and trait resilience was found. This is the first international study to examine the effect of TM on the well-being and resilience of paramedicine students. The findings suggest that students who undertook TM had reduced levels of stress, depression, fatigue, and increased mental clarity and trait resilience post TM intervention compared to the control group.
This trial was retrospectively registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR), ACTRN12625000240448 on 03/04/2025. Available at https//www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx? id=389,147&isReview=true.
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Comparison of Vie Scope® and Macintosh laryngoscopes for intubation during resuscitation by paramedics wearing personal protective equipment
Endotracheal intubation (ETI) is still the gold standard of airway management, but in cases of sudden cardiac arrest in patients with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection, ETI is associated with risks for both the patient and the medical personnel. We hypothesized that the Vie Scope® is more useful for endotracheal intubation of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cardiac arrest patients than the conventional laryngoscope with Macintosh blade when operators are wearing personal protective equipment (PPE).
Study was designed as a prospective, multicenter, randomized clinical trial performed by Emergency Medical Services in Poland. Patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis who needed cardiopulmonary resuscitation in prehospital setting were included. Patients under 18 years old or with criteria predictive of impossible intubation under direct laryngoscopy, were excluded.
Patients were randomly allocated 1:1 to Vie Scope® versus direct laryngoscopy with a Macintosh blade. Study groups were compared on success of intubation attempts, time to intubation, glottis visualization and number of optimization maneuvers.
We enrolled 90 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, aged 43–92 years. Compared to the VieScope® laryngoscope, use of the Macintosh laryngoscope required longer times for tracheal intubation with an estimated mean difference of −48 s (95%CI confidence interval [CI], −60.23, −35.77; p < 0.001). Moreover VieScope® improved first attempt success rate, 93.3% vs. 51.1% respectively (odds ratio [OR] = 13.39; 95%CI: 3.62, 49.58; p < 0.001).
The use of the Vie Scope® laryngoscope in OHCA patients improved the first attempt success rate, and reduced intubation time compared to Macintosh laryngoscope in paramedics wearing PPE for against aerosol generating procedures.
Trial registration: ClinicalTrials registration number NCT04365608
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Video strategies improved health professional knowledge across different contexts: a helix counterbalanced randomized controlled study
This study aimed to apply a novel helix counterbalanced randomized controlled trial design to evaluate the effectiveness of video vs. written knowledge translation strategies for improving health professional knowledge of evidence provided in scientific journal articles.
A Helix counterbalanced randomized controlled trial was used to compare the impact of delivering research information via video or written modalities compared to a no-information control across three health contexts. Interventions were delivered and data collected via an online survey to nursing and allied health professionals across five hospitals within a public health service in Melbourne, Australia. A knowledge test measuring alignment between respondent perceived benefit of the intervention and conclusions listed in the journal article was the primary outcome.
There were 119 participants recruited with n = 13 incomplete responses. Exposure to the video increased the likelihood of a knowledge test response that was aligned with the research evidence compared to the no-information control (OR 2.61; 95% CI 1.40, 4.89; P = 0.003), but this was not the case for exposure to the written modality (OR 1.39; 95% CI 0.75, 2.57; P = 0.294).
Providing video knowledge translation strategies to nursing and allied health professionals increases the likelihood they will understand the main findings from scientific journal articles.
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