Abstract 1122‐000221: High School Student Stroke Awareness in Rio De Janeiro

Author(s):  
Avani Gireesha

Introduction : The ultimate purpose of this study was to assess the extent of stroke awareness within high school students in several countries in Latin America. Stroke awareness and prevention is the best way to minimize the risks of a stroke. Strokes resulted in 195,661 deaths in 2016 in high‐income regions within North America. In Brazil alone, there were 107,258 deaths by stroke in 2016 that could have been caused by improper treatment and lack of awareness. Methods : The focus of the study quickly shifted to within Brazil, due to its concerning status. Quantitative data provided by secondary and primary research through an anonymous survey shows a critical need for more awareness in high school students. A Google Form survey was conducted in 2020 with various multiple choice, checkbox, and multiple‐choice grid questions on 124 high school students in Brazil was passed out through several students in the area. Of these students, 83% were from a private high school with excellent academics, student life, and club activities, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The impact of Covid‐19 has resulted in fewer responses from schools and officials as many were not taking any messages, making it difficult to attain survey responses. Results : Regardless, 26.61% of all survey participants were unaware of what a stroke is, and a majority thought it had to do with the heart. Less than half of the participants knew what FAST stood for, a well‐known acronym for identifying symptoms of a stroke. Even if a student identified a stroke, 25% did not know that the first step is calling an emergency hotline, crucial knowledge that could lead to a decrease in the high rate of stroke deaths. When asked where their knowledge of strokes came from, further concerns arose with more than half learning from social media, 12.39% not knowing anything, and 6.45% even citing Grey’s Anatomy, a popular television series. Only 37.1% of participants got any of their knowledge on stroke from the news and less than half learned from a credible source, such as their school. Conclusions : Lack of education about stroke among a significant number of students in Rio de Janeiro may lead to an increase in the number of stroke deaths that could have been prevented had communities been educated. The research marks the beginning of an ongoing assessment that will expand to all of Latin America. The assessment will reveal the extent of stroke awareness among the youth in the entire region and may provide a blueprint for educating them, ultimately improving the treatment rates for stroke in the region.

2021 ◽  
Vol 07 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Le Minh Thao ◽  

The stressful relationship between children and parents is the pain with which both go through when they find themselves unable to cope as a parent or a child. In order to find out the impact COVID-19 pandemic and suggest some solutions to reduce stress between parents and children, we conducted a survey on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stressful relationships between parents and children at high school age in Da Nang city. In a survey of randomly-selected high school students, the findings reveal a high rate of tension between them and their parents, particularly up to 38.5% (212/550). In reality, there are many factors affecting the stressful relationship between children and their parents at this age, in which psychological fear about health; social distancing policy; closed schools; students staying at home 24 hours a day and learning online; the disruption in children's daily routine; excessive use of electronic devices, are major causes of stress in the relationship between children and their parents. From this practice, our research team have proposed such solutions as creating outdoor activities and consulting the handbook; designing extra-curricular activities and more importantly, organizing training courses on life values for parents to increase happiness and reduce stress in parent-child relationship.


2021 ◽  
pp. 002205742110259
Author(s):  
Tarak Dridi

Digital media literacy has become an intrinsic component in shaping high school students’ knowledge acquisition and critical thoughts. Over the last two decades, internet and computers have been the implemented tools to reach such goals and promote the students’ learning. This article looks for the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Tunisian secondary school students by detecting their technical skills as well as their critical understanding. This quantitative study relies on a self-reporting approach and targets 150 Tunisian secondary students. It proves the necessary consideration of technological and social variables in helping sort out major digital handicaps related to secondary students and displays the interconnectedness between the different dimensions of digital media literacy. It also displays that Tunisian high school students cannot be referred to as digital-media literate people. The study contributes to the field of digital media literacy as it offers a solid empirical background to build on and indicates the necessity of integrating digital media literacy into the school-based initiatives.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-64
Author(s):  
Gian Paolo Barbetta ◽  
Paolo Canino ◽  
Stefano Cima

Abstract The availability of cheap Wi-Fi internet connections has encouraged schools to adopt Web 2.0 platforms for teaching, with the intention of stimulating students’ academic achievement and participation in school. Moreover, during the recent explosion of the SARS-CoV-2 crisis that forced many countries to close schools (as well as offices and factories), the widespread diffusion of these applications kept school systems going. Despite their widespread use as teaching tools, the effect of adopting Web 2.0 platforms on students’ performance has never been rigorously tested. We fill this gap in the literature by analyzing the impact of using Twitter as a teaching tool on high school students’ literature skills. Based on a large-scale, randomized controlled trial that involved 70 schools and about 1,500 students, we find that using Twitter to teach literature has an overall negative effect on students’ average achievement, reducing standardized test scores by about 25 percent of a standard deviation. The negative effect is stronger on students who usually perform better.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 374-377
Author(s):  
Prapattra Hongwisat ◽  
Thanawat Wuthikanokkan ◽  
Nathakan Preechakansakul

Covid-19 are one of the viruses that were widely spreaded in 2019 and are still separate until nowadays. Thailand is one of the countries that are highly infected. The majority of people who are infected with this virus tend to have mild to severe respiratory symptoms. Furthermore, anyone can get sick, and it can lead to death. However, the most common symptoms of this virus are fever, cough, tiredness, and loss of taste or smell, on the other hand, characteristics in a minority of people, such as diarrhea and headaches. Due to the impact of the Covid-19 virus, people have to change their lifestyle to the online form. These changes have impacted mostly on economics and education in particular countries, so this problem also affects anxiety among high school students; who must prepare to apply to the university during the COVID-19 outbreak. In addition, we have collected 151 answers from high school students by surveying in order to know the feelings for entrance to the university during the pandemic situation. We found out that 81.3% of the students are highly affected by covid, and only 0.7% of students are slightly affected. We also found out that 55% of the students are worried about university entrance, and only 2.6% of the students were not worried at all. According to the result, most of the students in Thailand are facing the problem about their education and their entrance for the university which are caused by Covid-19. This may lead to illnesses like depression and anxiety. Keywords: Students, Learning, COVID-19, Thailand, University.


1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Schonert ◽  
Gordon N. Cantor

Very few studies have examined moral reasoning in students identified as having behavioral disorders and enrolled in a special education setting. Furthermore, little attention has been paid to the impact of alternative education programs designed for behaviorally disordered youth on moral reasoning development. This research examined the moral reasoning of behaviorally disordered adolescents enrolled in alternative and traditional high school settings. The results indicate that behaviorally disordered high school students enrolled in either an alternative or traditional school setting are significantly lower in moral reasoning compared to their non-behaviorally disordered peers. The moral reasoning of the behaviorally disordered students enrolled in an alternative setting is similar to that of like students enrolled in a traditional school setting. The correlation between time (months) spent in the alternative setting and moral reasoning is positive, but not significant.


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