Let Us Save Lives Using Games! A Study of the Effect of Digital Games for Traffic Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-218
Author(s):  
Qing Li ◽  
Richard Tay ◽  
Arkhadi Pustaka
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Knowledge Gain ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
The Third ◽  
Secondary Purpose ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Relationship

The main purpose of this research is to examine the effect of game-based learning on knowledge acquisition and retention of road rules. A secondary purpose of this study is to investigate possible gender differences related to such an approach. The third purpose is to explore the relationship between beliefs and knowledge acquisition. This quasi-experimental study employed pretest–posttests design involving 42 participants, randomly selected from people in Alberta, Canada. The participants took a pretest, played a game specifically designed to help players learn road rules, and then two posttests. The results show that gaming not only can improve players’ knowledge of road rules and road safety but also can help players retain such knowledge. However, no gender difference was identified in knowledge gain after the gaming intervention.

The Relationship Between Hip-Abductor Strength and the Magnitude of Pelvic Drop in Patients With Low Back Pain

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen D. Kendall ◽  
Christie Schmidt ◽  
Reed Ferber
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Load Transfer ◽  
Frontal Plane ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Secondary Purpose ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Hip Abductor ◽  
The Relationship

Context:It has been theorized that a positive Trendelenburg test (TT) indicates weakness of the stance hip-abductor (HABD) musculature, results in contralateral pelvic drop, and represents impaired load transfer, which may contribute to low back pain. Few studies have tested whether weakness of the HABDs is directly related to the magnitude of pelvic drop (MPD).Objective:To examine the relationship between HABD strength and MPD during the static TT and during walking for patients with nonspecific low back pain (NSLBP) and healthy controls (CON). A secondary purpose was to examine this relationship in NSLBP after a 3-wk HABD-strengthening program.Design:Quasi-experimental.Setting:Clinical research laboratory.Participants:20 (10 NSLBP and 10 CON).Intervention:HABD strengthening.Main Outcome Measures:Normalized HABD strength, MPD during TT, and maximal pelvic frontal-plane excursion during walking.Results:At baseline, the NSLBP subjects were significantly weaker (31%; P = .03) than CON. No differences in maximal pelvic frontal-plane excursion (P = .72), right MPD (P = 1.00), or left MPD (P = .40) were measured between groups. During the static TT, nonsignificant correlations were found between left HABD strength and right MPD for NSLBP (r = −.32, P = .36) and CON (r = −.24, P = .48) and between right HABD strength and left MPD for NSLBP (r = −.24, P = .50) and CON (r = −.41, P = .22). Nonsignificant correlations were found between HABD strength and maximal pelvic frontal-plane excursion for NSLBP (r = −.04, P = .90) and CON (r = −.14, P = .68). After strengthening, NSLBP demonstrated significant increases in HABD strength (12%; P = .02), 48% reduction in pain, and no differences in MPD during static TT and maximal pelvic frontal-plane excursion compared with baseline.Conclusions:HABD strength was poorly correlated to MPD during the static TT and during walking in CON and NSLBP. The results suggest that HABD strength may not be the only contributing factor in controlling pelvic stability, and the static TT has limited use as a measure of HABD function.

scholarly journals Quasi-experimental study of decision-making under conditions of equal choice

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
A.N. Lebedev
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
The Third ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

The problem of decision-making in the situation of choice among equivalent alternatives is considered in the article. This problem is relevant for behavioral and cognitive Sciences, as well as for practice. At present, it does not have an unambiguous solution. For the first time the problem has been formulated in philosophy and described by the famous parable of Buridan’s donkey. In experimental psychology, the complexity of the problem was shown in the experiment of Nisbett R.T. and Wilson T.D., who offered the subjects to choice one from four identical goods in the supermarket. It has been shown that this choice is not accidental. Most buyers prefer a product that lies fourth on the storefront but do not realize it. The researchers concluded that in a situation of equal choice, the factor of place of goods on display is significant. The proposed article refers to a pilot study of the impact of different ways of presenting subjects with equivalent alternatives to choose from. Three groups of subjects were asked to make a choice in three different situations: to randomly select and cross out one cell in the rows of the figure in the form of a ladder and a pyramid (from 2 to 20). The third group was offered a situation of “distribution of 11 financial funds between 12 unfamiliar managers” sitting at a round table. The study showed that in the first two cases there is a tendency to choose alternatives that are at the center of the proposed figures. In the third case, there is a tendency to “allocate funds in the form of a clock face”. However, many subjects seem to apply some of their strategies of choice and are not aware of them. In practice, such choice is going to be irrational and often unpredictable.

scholarly journals A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Relationship Between Lung Disease Knowledge and Brief Lung Health Educational Sessions

CHEST Journal ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 572A
Author(s):  
Alphonso Quinones ◽  
Rachael Ali-Permell ◽  
Laura Gazarra ◽  
Erfan Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Lung Disease ◽  
Disease Knowledge ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Lung Health ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Responding to Campus Shootings: Two Studies Exploring the Effects of Sex and Placement Strategy on Knowledge Acquisition and Organizational Reputation

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Lachlan ◽  
Patric Spence ◽  
Leah Omilion-Hodges ◽  
Robert Rice ◽  
Amanda Brink
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Television News ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Mediated Learning ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Organizational Reputation ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Multiple Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Two separate studies used quasi-experimental procedures to examine how college students learn about campus shootings from press releases, television news, or exposure to both. The first study found that women tend to report higher levels of learning than men and that participants generally learn the most when exposed to messages delivered through multiple media. The second study extended the findings to include consideration of the impact of learning on organizational reputation. Taken together, the results of both studies offer further evidence that knowledge acquisition can help mitigate against the formation of negative impressions of an organization in crisis. They also offer that the relationship between learning and attitude formation may be mediated by sex. The results are discussed in terms of message placement strategy and sex differences in mediated learning processes. Implications for the relationship between these learning processes and organizational reputation are addressed.

scholarly journals ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS RATE IN TYUMEN: 21th CENTURY TRENDS

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Artur I. Petrov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Transportation Risk ◽  
The Third ◽  
Transport Mobility ◽  
The Relationship

The article deals with the problems of road traffic accidents rate in a large Russian city Tyumen in the late 20 – early 21st centuries. The statistics describes the actual road safety (RS) in Tyumen in 1998–2020. The article presents models based on specific data from Tyumen, that confirm R. Smid's law on the relationship between motorization and the estimated characteristics of RS – human risk (HR) and transportation risk (TR). The trends of HR and TR formation over time for the Tyumen transport system correspond to the stage of a qualitative transition from the third to the fourth RS paradigm. The leading countries are characterized by the fifth paradigm of RS in the field of ensuring the safety of the population today. This is a system of views based on the ideas of the highest value of human life and the need to limit transport mobility, transfer it to another quality. Tyumen with the values of the third and fourth paradigms of RS in practice, so far in all objective manifestations repeats the experience of cities in other countries that passed this stage 20–30 years ago.

scholarly journals Implementation of improvement cycle in health records of mobile emergency prehospital care

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Socorro Telma Batista Araújo Timóteo ◽  
Rodrigo Assis Neves Dantas ◽  
Ilanne Caroline Santos Costa ◽  
Tâmara Taynah Medeiros da Silva ◽  
Kauanny Vitoria Gurgel dos Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Emergency Service ◽  
Prehospital Care ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Health Records ◽  
The Third ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Quality Assessments

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the effect of the implementation of a quality improvement cycle in the completion of occurrence forms of a Mobile Emergency Service. Methods: this is a time series, quantitative, quasi-experimental study without control group, with three quality assessments in which was used an improvement cycle for adequacy of health records in Mobile Emergency Service Patos. Results: in 100% of the seven criteria, there was improvement between evaluations. Noncompliance with criteria reduced from 95 cases in the first evaluation to eight cases in the third evaluation. Conclusions: the representation of joint results between the three evaluations highlighted progressive improvement in the compliance with each criterion.

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