The Development and Pilot Testing of the Body Knowledge Questionnaire (BKQ)

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. S27
Author(s):  
David A. Hernandez ◽  
CHERI Ann Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Pilot Testing ◽  
Knowledge Questionnaire ◽  
Body Knowledge

scholarly journals Development and Validation of the Body Knowledge Questionnaire (Phase 2)

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Hernandez ◽  
Cheri Ann Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Weight Management ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
The Body ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Knowledge Questionnaire ◽  
Body Knowledge

This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Body Knowledge Questionnaire (BKQ), an instrument that measures weight management integration: an individual’s attitudes, preferences, and behaviors associated with weight self-management. The BKQ was revised following a pilot study demonstrating its validity and reliability, and new items were added based on data gathered through four focus groups of obese and normal-weight survey completers. Additional items were derived from the extant literature on weight management and integration. A panel of 30 health professionals who work in the area of weight management, bariatrics, and nutrition science reviewed the revised BKQ for content validity. Two hundred sixty-seven participants, recruited through Walden University’s online participant pool, completed the revised 66-item BKQ through SurveyMonkey. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a five-factor solution (Emotional Eating, Health-Conscious Lifestyle, Conscientious Eating Habits, Food Centricity, and Psychosomatic Awareness), with factor loadings >.40. Discriminant function analysis determined that the BKQ full scale and subscales could predict the classification of participants into normal-weight and obese groups for the total sample with 71% and 79% accuracy, respectively. Test–retest reliability was .86, and internal consistency of the overall BKQ was .92. The BKQ instrument has potential for use in individual or group weight management programs and program evaluation; for use in weight management practice areas such as dietetics, diabetes education, nursing, and psychology; or in the development of new weight management interventions.

Weighing in on the Body Knowledge Questionnaire

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-376
Author(s):  
David A. Hernandez ◽  
Cheri Ann Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Knowledge Questionnaire ◽  
Body Knowledge

Situating embodied instruction – proxemics and body knowledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (s4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren James Reed
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Public Display ◽  
Intimate Contact ◽  
Dance Class ◽  
Performance Training ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Spoken Interaction ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Body Knowledge

Abstract In various ways the movement and experience of the body is instructed by others. This may be in the dance class or on the playing field. In these interactions, one person claims knowledge of the other’s body and rights to instruct how that body functions, moves, and feels. By undertaking a close analysis of embodied and spoken interaction within performance training sessions from a multimodal conversation analytic perspective, this paper will identify one kind of broad sequential trajectory – from intimate contact to public display - that shows how an instructor claims rights over the internal workings of another’s body by traversing different levels of proximity and sensorial modalities.

scholarly journals Knowledge, authority, and positionality in Asian immigrant female faculty teaching diversity classes

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jung-ah Choi ◽  
Jae Hoon Lim
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Faculty Of Color ◽  
The Body ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Safe Environment ◽  
Faculty Teaching ◽  
The One ◽  
Body Knowledge

AbstractThis paper is a self-reflective narrative of our teaching experience as two immigrant Asian female professors who teach Multicultural Education. Employing collaborative autoethnography (CAE), the study addresses the issues of authority, positionality, and legitimacy of knowledge claims in critical feminist pedagogy. Two research questions guided our inquiry: 1. How does a teacher’s racial positionality play out in exercising professional knowledge, and conversely, 2. How does seemingly neutral professional knowledge become racialized in the discussions of race? Major findings demonstrate the double-edged contradictions in the body/knowledge nexus manifested in our everyday teaching contexts. On the one hand, the bodily dimension of teacher knowledge is de-racialized because of institutional norms and cultures. On the other hand, there are times professional knowledge becomes racialized through the teacher’s body. Understanding the body/knowledge nexus that invites precarious power dynamics in racial discussions and even blatantly dismisses our professional knowledge, we, as an immigrant faculty of color, find it impossible to create a safe environment for participatory, critical discourse. Acknowledging our triple marginality, we put forth the concept of “pedagogy of fear” (Leonardo, Z., & Porter, R. K. (2010). Pedagogy of fear: Toward a Fanonian theory of ‘safety’ in race dialogue. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 13(2), 139–157) which squarely disrupts the idea of a safe environment in race dialog and urges teachers to confront their own/their students’ fear and create a space of teaching vulnerably.

Results with Formal Concept Analysis

2011 ◽  
pp. 204-230
Author(s):  
Peter Busch
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Formal Concept Analysis ◽  
Concept Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Formal Concept ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Questionnaire ◽  
Technical University

Chapter V provided some introduction to formal concept analysis through the visualization of biographical results from the tacit knowledge questionnaire. The attention now turns to the strength of using FCA by examining the tacit knowledge inventory results which are one of the two major underpinnings of this work. To remind the reader, FCA had its beginnings at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, and was the work of Professor Rudolf Wille. Formal Concept Analysis is a means of illustrating via a lattice like structure all sorts of information in virtually any discipline. The lattice-like structure illustrates relationships between objects (typically any type of noun), and their corresponding attributes (typically any kind of adjective). Through connecting these “concepts” together, sense is gained for the body of knowledge dealt with. The application of FCA to questionnaire results is rare but not unheard of, but its application to better understanding tacit knowledge is.

scholarly journals A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SELF INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE ON SWINE FLU VACCINE AMONG THE PARENTS OF UNDER 3 YEAR CHILDREN IN PEDIATRIC WARD OF SELECTED HOSPITAL DEHRADUN

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 100-120
Author(s):  
Ekta Pal ◽  
◽  
Praveen Kumar Sharma ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Rate ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Infected Individual ◽  
The Body ◽  
Swine Flu ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Knowledge Questionnaire ◽  
Instructional Module ◽  
Post Test

Back ground:-The new human H1N1 flu strain of avian origin kept transmitting among human populations. Then, a small outbreak of swine H1N1 occurred in humans. Swine flu spread very rapidly world wide due to itshigh human to human transmission rate and due to the frequency of air travel. Swine flu is a communicable disease that is caused due to H1N1 virus. This virus enters the body through the mouth and nose and if a healthy person comes in contact with an infected individual. It attacks the immune system and causes a my riad of diseases, mainly respiratory disorders. The people who are easily susceptible to this disease are pregnant women, young children, Individuals who have a history of respiratory or lung diseases, etc. During influenza outbreak, it is critical for monitoring the spread of disease, for knowing the potential of the virus to cause a pandemic and for creating the life saving vaccines.The global approach ensures WHO system to monitor and develop critical benefits such as vaccines, antiviral drugs and scientific information. The best treatment for swine influenza infections in humans is prevention by vaccination. Methodology:-A pre experimental one group pre test post test was adopted in the present study to accomplish the objectives. Purposive sampling technique was used to select samples. The sample consisted of 60 Parents of under 3 year children. The pre test assessment of knowledge of the parents was carried out using a knowledge questionnaire followed by self instructional module session regarding vaccination for swine flu. After 7 days the post test was conducted using the same knowledge questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Conclusion:-The study revealed that there was deficient knowledge regarding vaccination of swine flu. The teaching was found to be effective in improving the knowledge of the parents. It was concluded that there was a need to plan and implement educational programmes by the nurses for all parents particularly parents of under 3 year children regarding vaccination of swine flu.

scholarly journals Pilot Testing for Feasibility in a Study of Student Retention and Attrition in Online Undergraduate Programs

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Fraser ◽  
Dorothy (Willy) Fahlman ◽  
Jane Arscott ◽  
Isabelle Guillot
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Retention Model ◽  
Participant Recruitment ◽  
Pilot Testing ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Undergraduate Programs ◽  
Human Service Programs

<p class="4">Prior to undertaking a descriptive study on attrition and retention of students in two online undergraduate health administration and human service programs, a pilot test was conducted to assess the procedures for participant recruitment, usability of the survey questionnaire, and data collection processes.  A retention model provided the conceptual framework for this investigation to identify and organize various factors that influenced students’ decisions to either discontinue or continue their educational programs.  In an attempt to contribute to the body of research in this area and to enrich pedagogical practices, the authors describe the pilot testing processes and feasibility issues explored, and the improvements made to the instrument and methodology before commencing the main research study on attrition and retention.</p>

scholarly journals Development of body knowledge as measured by arm differentiation in infants: from global to local?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Jacquey ◽  
Sergiu T. Popescu ◽  
Judith Vergne ◽  
Jacqueline Fagard ◽  
Rana Esseily ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Detection Task ◽  
The Body ◽  
Developmental Trend ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Body Movements ◽  
Contingency Detection ◽  
Audiovisual Stimulus ◽  
Body Knowledge

The ability to perceive and use the body parts in an organised and differentiated manner is a precursor of body knowledge in infancy. To acquire this ability, the infant’s brain might explore the perceptual consequences of its bodily actions. Undifferentiated body movements would gradually be replaced by more precise actions. Only a very few papers have tested this “global-to-local” hypothesis and none of them have so far been replicated. In this study, we assessed arm differentiation in 4-, 6- and 8-month-old infants using a new contingency detection task in which infants have to detect a contingency between one of their arms’ activity and an audiovisual stimulus on a screen. We found that 4- to 8-month-old infants seem able to differentiate their arms. However, surprisingly, we were not able to show a developmental trend in arm differentiation between 4 and 8 months of age.

scholarly journals Participatory health education on school (re)inclusion of the adolescent cancer survivor

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tátilla Rangel Lobo Braga ◽  
Camille Xavier de Mattos ◽  
Ivone Evangelista Cabral
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Cancer Survivor ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Reference Case ◽  
Adolescent Cancer ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Knowledge Dynamics ◽  
Body Knowledge

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze school (re)inclusion of an adolescent cancer survivor before/after participatory health education with adolescents. Methods: qualitative and participatory research that included data from the medical record of an adolescent rhabdomyosarcoma survivor and Talking Map dynamics (to diagnose the demand for learning and assess changes). The body-knowledge dynamics were applied in the educational intervention. In a public school in Rio de Janeiro, the adolescent (reference case) and nine people (four teachers and five teenagers) generated empirical materials, which became the content analysis objects. Results: strangeness to changes in an adolescent cancer survivor’s body image, bullying, and acceptance were problematized in educational body-knowledge dynamics through relationships between changes and barriers to welcoming. The participatory educational process was essential in raising awareness by promoting re-inclusive actions. Conclusions: participatory-problematizing education contributed to constructing a new collective identity and improvement in school interaction among peers.

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