Using a Learning Community Approach to Improve Health and Wellness among University Faculty and Staff

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 428-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary-Jon Ludy ◽  
Amy L. Morgan
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Campbell ◽  
Jacob Christenson ◽  
David Craig

Background and Hypothesis: People living in areas of high social vulnerability face health disparities in part due to disconnection. Health institutions recognize the importance of treating whole persons but are disconnected from local knowledge of community health assets and social and cultural barriers. People in health-challenged neighborhoods may experience disconnection and distrust in seeking the many resources and services needed for good health. Congregations are longstanding anchor institutions in marginalized communities. They build trusted relationships among members through shared values and care for wellness. Sometimes they extend these connections through on-the-ground service to neighboring communities. We hypothesize that a network of congregations can build trusted connections and share local knowledge and cultural competence to improve health outcomes and holistic wellness in vulnerable neighborhoods.    Methods: Community-engaged participatory research requires reciprocity in mapping assets, identifying priorities, narrating shared values, designing projects and messaging results. We developed mixed-methods tools to ensure community expertise drives an iterative research process. Methods include: an initial health and wellness survey, follow-up wellness interviews to collect stories and assets, an online learning community for 14 congregations with monthly focus groups, and visual maps of health data and wellness assets.    Results: While the study is ongoing, preliminary survey data demonstrates that congregations have local knowledge of issues affecting health and wellness among their congregants and the surrounding neighborhood. Their preexisting support for health and wellness through community outreach programs indicates building on their current network could expand their reach and improve health and wellness in vulnerable neighborhoods.    Conclusion and Potential Impact: Successful community engaged research prioritizes iterative methods that allow community participants to use their voice and tell their stories.   Congregations' practice of shared values and knowledge of lived experience can forge connections for greater resilience and health supports in socially vulnerable communities.  


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Masadah Masadah

Education is a conscious and systematic effort not only to humanize human beings but also for human beings to realize their position as khalifatullah fil ardhi, which in turn will increasingly increase itself to be a pious, faithful, knowledgeable and virtuous man. In general the problems formulated in this research is whether Implementation of Contextual Learning with Learning Community approach can improve student's motivation and achievement in FIQH study field? How Implementation of Contextual Learning has a Learning Community approach that can improve students' motivation and achievement in FIQH? Field. This research was conducted in Mojokerto Regency, precisely at MI Mambaul Hidayah Mengelo Sooko Mojokerto. This research is a classroom action research with collaborative type. This research phase follows a model developed by Kemmis and Taggart, which is a spiral cycle that includes planning activities, action execution, observation, and reflection. The data collection techniques used are: (1) observation; (2) measurement of learning result test; and (3) documentation. Data obtained from the action are then analyzed. Qualitative data consisting of observation and documentation are analyzed qualitatively, while data collected in the form of numbers or quantitative data, simply by using descriptive analysis and visual presentation. Based on the results of research that has been implemented can be concluded that the Implementation of Contextual Learning with Learning Community approach can improve student's motivation and achievement in the field of FIQH study. From the data in the field shows that there is an increase in student learning motivation that the initial average value of pre-test of 20 increased to 24 or about 20% in cycle I, in cycle II more increased to 31 or about 55%, and in cycle III the more increased to 45 or about 125%. Level of increase between cycle I with cycle II about 29%, between cycle II with cycle III about 45%, between cycle III with cycle I about 87%. With the increase of students' learning motivation, their learning achievement also increased, whereas the average value of pre test of 6.60 increased to 6.84 or about 4% in cycle I, in cycle II more increased again to 7.75 or about 17 %, and in cycle III it increases to 8.80 or about 35%. The level of improvement between cycle I with cycle II is about 13%, between cycle II with cycle III about 15%, between cycle III with cycle I about 30%.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina M. Serwe ◽  
Gayle I. Hersch ◽  
Karen Pancheri

Caregivers report poorer health and wellness than the general population and identify numerous barriers to their attending programs to improve health and wellness.  The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of employing a telehealth delivery method to enhance access to caregiver wellness programs. This article presents the quantitative results of a mixed methods feasibility study of translating the Powerful Tools for Caregivers (PTC) program to a telehealth delivery format. Four unpaid family caregivers of older adults participated in a telehealth delivered PTC program, a wellness program with established outcomes in the in-person environment.  The program was delivered using synchronous videoconferencing methods. High class attendance and a high median total average Telehealth Usability Questionnaire score of 5.7 indicated the telehealth delivery method was feasible. This research suggests that telehealth is a feasible delivery format for a caregiver program traditionally delivered in an in-person format.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Falletta ◽  
Stephanie Abbruzzese ◽  
Rebecca Fischbein ◽  
Robin Shura ◽  
Abbey Eng ◽  
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Author(s):  
D R. Sinclair ◽  
F Essig ◽  
A M. Swank ◽  
M P. Durham ◽  
K J. Adams ◽  
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2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
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Mona Mirehie ◽  
B. Liu-Lastres ◽  
A. Cecil ◽  
N. Jain

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy S. Wells ◽  
Ronald J. Ozminkowski ◽  
Michael P. McGinn ◽  
Kevin Hawkins ◽  
Gandhi R. Bhattarai ◽  
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