scholarly journals Evidence of Declining Nicotine Dependency in New Callers to a National Quitline

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Li ◽  
Michele Grigg
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Nicotine Dependence ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Nicotine Dependency ◽  
Quitting Smoking ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

AbstractObjective: To look for evidence of changing nicotine dependency self-reported by new callers to a national quitline in New Zealand between 2001 and 2005. Methods: Levels of self-reported nicotine dependence of new callers were compared across 5 years to determine changes over time. Results: Statistically significant decreases were found in all 3 measures of nicotine dependence over the 5-year period: time to first cigarette (7.9% decline for smoking within 30 minutes of waking), intensity of inhalation (36.8% decline for ‘heavy’ inhalation), and number of cigarettes per day (29.8% decline for 21+ cigarettes per day). Conclusions: The results showed the proportion of callers with high nicotine dependency remains large but decreased continuously during the 5-year period. A decline of highly nicotine dependent callers to the Quitline may indirectly suggest an increased proportion of hard-core smokers in the overall smoking population as this group tends to be less likely to consider quitting smoking. However, the results may also suggest that the overall smoking population was less nicotine dependent in 2005, than it was in 2001, or that the Quitline has become less appealing to heavily nicotine dependent smokers.

A content analysis of the portrayal of alcohol in televised music videos in New Zealand: Changes over time

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Sloane ◽  
Nick Wilson ◽  
Fiona Imlach Gunasekara
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals The Primacy of the Nurse in New Zealand 1960s-1990s: Attitudes, Beliefs and Responses over Time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Barbara Gay Williams
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Past ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

<p>Exploring the past, and pulling ideas through to the present, to inform the future can make a valuable contribution to nurses and nursing in New Zealand. By gaining some understanding of the attitudes and beliefs nurses held, and how these influenced their responsiveness, we can learn what active responses might help inform our future. Nurses in New Zealand, as individuals and within the profession as a whole, reveal the primacy of the nurse – nurses who have made and can continue to make a difference to the health of the peoples of New Zealand. A hermeneutic process was used to interpret material, from international texts, national texts and public records over four decades, the 1960s to 1990s. This was supplemented and contrasted with material from twelve oral history participants. Analysis of the material led to the emergence of four themes: Nurses’ decision-making: changes over time; An emerging understanding of autonomy and accountability; Nurses as a driving force; and Creating a nursing future. These four themes revealed an overall pattern of attitudes, beliefs and responses of the New Zealand Registered Nurse. The themes surfaced major revelations about the primacy of the nurse in New Zealand, nurses confident in their ability to take the opportunity, seize the moment, and effect change. The contribution this thesis makes to the discipline of nursing is an understanding of how the nurse actively constructs the scope of a professional response to the context. The thesis demonstrates how nurses can learn from the past, that the attitudes and beliefs that underpin our active responses can either move us forward, or retard our progress. As nurses we can also learn that to move forward we need particular attitudes, beliefs and responses, that these are identifiable, and are key factors influencing our future, thus ensuring the continued primacy of the nurse.</p>

scholarly journals The Primacy of the Nurse in New Zealand 1960s-1990s: Attitudes, Beliefs and Responses over Time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Barbara Gay Williams
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Past ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

<p>Exploring the past, and pulling ideas through to the present, to inform the future can make a valuable contribution to nurses and nursing in New Zealand. By gaining some understanding of the attitudes and beliefs nurses held, and how these influenced their responsiveness, we can learn what active responses might help inform our future. Nurses in New Zealand, as individuals and within the profession as a whole, reveal the primacy of the nurse – nurses who have made and can continue to make a difference to the health of the peoples of New Zealand. A hermeneutic process was used to interpret material, from international texts, national texts and public records over four decades, the 1960s to 1990s. This was supplemented and contrasted with material from twelve oral history participants. Analysis of the material led to the emergence of four themes: Nurses’ decision-making: changes over time; An emerging understanding of autonomy and accountability; Nurses as a driving force; and Creating a nursing future. These four themes revealed an overall pattern of attitudes, beliefs and responses of the New Zealand Registered Nurse. The themes surfaced major revelations about the primacy of the nurse in New Zealand, nurses confident in their ability to take the opportunity, seize the moment, and effect change. The contribution this thesis makes to the discipline of nursing is an understanding of how the nurse actively constructs the scope of a professional response to the context. The thesis demonstrates how nurses can learn from the past, that the attitudes and beliefs that underpin our active responses can either move us forward, or retard our progress. As nurses we can also learn that to move forward we need particular attitudes, beliefs and responses, that these are identifiable, and are key factors influencing our future, thus ensuring the continued primacy of the nurse.</p>

Intertidal communities in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand: Changes over time

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Boyle ◽  
John B. Jillett ◽  
Philip V. Mladenov
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Intertidal Communities ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

scholarly journals Establishment of Performance Scales for Team Integration Assessment

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Khairil Izam Ibrahim ◽  
Seosamh B Costello ◽  
Suzanne Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Team Integration

The increased use of the alliance model in recent years highlights the importance of integration practice among multi-disciplinary teams, as it promotes a collaborative culture and the continuity of equitable relationships to improve project performance. If continuous improvement in project alliances is to be achieved through the use of integrated teams, then a means of assessing how well teams integrate and how team integration changes over time, needs to be introduced. In response to that need, an Alliance Team Integration Performance Index (ATIPI) has been developed as part of a wider study to develop an assessment tool for team integration in road construction alliance projects in New Zealand. In this paper, a set of Key Indicators (KIs) of team integration practice and the Quantitative Measures (QMs) for each KI are first introduced and then, in order to enhance the associated ATIPI model, the establishment of scales for the performance levels, namely ‘poor’, ‘average’, ‘good’, ‘very good’ and ‘excellent’, for each KI are described. The establishment of performance scales will help ensure that the assessment of team integration practice is quantified in a consistent and objective manner. Keywords: Alliance, Assessment, New Zealand, Performance Scales, Team Integration

Salmonella entericaserotypes and antibiotic susceptibility in New Zealand, 2002–2007

2009 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. I. BROUGHTON ◽  
H. M. HEFFERNAN ◽  
C. L. COLES
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Salmonella Enterica ◽  
Antibiotic Susceptibility ◽  
Serovar Typhimurium ◽  
Common Serotypes ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

SUMMARYWe analysed the serotypes and antibiotic susceptibility of 1560 human and 1505 non-humanSalmonellaisolated in New Zealand (NZ) between 2002 and 2007. The most common serotypes in humans wereSalmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium,S. Enteritidis,S. Brandenburg andS. Infantis. Over the 6-year period human cases due toS. Agona andS. Enteritidis increased and cases due toS. Typhimurium decreased. The most common serotypes from non-human sources wereS. Typhimurium,S. Brandenberg,S. Hindmarsh andS. Infantis, and there were no significant changes over time. More isolates were non-susceptible to streptomycin than to any other antibiotic. Almost all isolates were susceptible to ciprofloxacin and gentamicin. There were significant trends of increasing non-susceptibility to streptomycin and sulfonamides in isolates from human and non-human sources, while ampicillin, tetracycline and multidrug non-susceptibility also increased in human isolates. Despite these increases, rates of antibiotic non-susceptibility inSalmonellain NZ are still lower than in many international settings.

scholarly journals Longitudinal Survey of Income, Employment and Family Dynamics

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janette Briggs
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Data Policy ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Statistics New Zealand has completed the feasibility study for a Longitudinal Survey of Income, Employment and Family Dynamics, and is now in the process of implementing the recommended methodology for this survey. Data collection begins in April 2002. The survey will provide information about changes over time in the economic wellbeing of individuals, and factors influencing that change such as labour market behaviour and changes in family structure. From an initial panel of households the individuals selected will be interviewed and re-interviewed once every 12 months for 8 years. The paper describes the information to be collected, output variables and types of analysis possible with longitudinal data. Policy uses of the data are briefly discussed, with selected examples of overseas analysis using longitudinal survey information.

Regional and chronological variations in energy harvests from prehistoric fauna in New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian W. G. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Dietary Energy ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Human Predation ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Regional variations in the subsistence practices of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori were recognized by the first Europeans who studied them closely in the late eighteenth century. There is now a critical need to reassess the evidence for both regional and chronological variations in evidence for the types and relative importance of the foods that prehistoric Maori ate to establish when, where, and how changes took place. Reliably dated archaeological assemblages from two New Zealand study areas are examined to generate estimates of the dietary energy harvested from major classes of fauna. These reveal changes over time which are attributable to human predation, and regional differences that reflect differing trajectories of human population growth.

Comparison of two devices for measuring exercise transcutaneous oxygen pressures in patients with claudication

VASA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 355-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Urban ◽  
Alban Fouasson-Chailloux ◽  
Isabelle Signolet ◽  
Christophe Colas Ribas ◽  
Mathieu Feuilloy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Pressure ◽  
Optical Sensors ◽  
Chemical Sensors ◽  
Transcutaneous Oxygen ◽  
Starting Values ◽  
Two Systems ◽  
Transcutaneous Oxygen Pressure ◽  
New Sensors ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Abstract. Summary: Background: We aimed at estimating the agreement between the Medicap® (photo-optical) and Radiometer® (electro-chemical) sensors during exercise transcutaneous oxygen pressure (tcpO2) tests. Our hypothesis was that although absolute starting values (tcpO2rest: mean over 2 minutes) might be different, tcpO2-changes over time and the minimal value of the decrease from rest of oxygen pressure (DROPmin) results at exercise shall be concordant between the two systems. Patients and methods: Forty seven patients with arterial claudication (65 + / - 7 years) performed a treadmill test with 5 probes each of the electro-chemical and photo-optical devices simultaneously, one of each system on the chest, on each buttock and on each calf. Results: Seventeen Medicap® probes disconnected during the tests. tcpO2rest and DROPmin values were higher with Medicap® than with Radiometer®, by 13.7 + / - 17.1 mm Hg and 3.4 + / - 11.7 mm Hg, respectively. Despite the differences in absolute starting values, changes over time were similar between the two systems. The concordance between the two systems was approximately 70 % for classification of test results from DROPmin. Conclusions: Photo-optical sensors are promising alternatives to electro-chemical sensors for exercise oximetry, provided that miniaturisation and weight reduction of the new sensors are possible.

Neuropsychological Symptoms in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Changes Over Time

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda Olff ◽  
Mirjam Nijdam ◽  
Kristin Samuelson ◽  
Julia Golier ◽  
Mariel Meewisse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Neuropsychological Symptoms ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time
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