scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A SMARTPHONE EDUCATIONAL GAME REGARDING HEALTHY LIFESTYLE HABITS FOR ADOLESCENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thais Norberta Bezerra de Moura ◽  
Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira ◽  
Alcilene Dalília de Sousa ◽  
Antonino Calisto dos Santos Neto ◽  
Renan Xavier e Sousa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Living Room ◽  
Protective Behaviors ◽  
Content Validation ◽  
Methodological Study ◽  
Lifestyle Habits ◽  
Development And Validation

ABSTRACT Objective: to elaborate and validate the content and appearance of an educational game regarding healthy lifestyle habits for adolescents Method: methodological study carried, in 2016 out in Picos (Brazil). In order to develop the initial version of the game, a survey gathered scientific information and the content. In the end, the game was divided into: home screen and the living room, kitchen and the square scene, where the sports scene was inserted. To validate the instrument, 15 experts were selected, who evaluated the content, didactics and appearance of the game. Ten adolescents evaluated the appearance and usability. In addition, one questionnaire was used for the specialists and another for the adolescents. The Content Validation Index was used to validate the game, which considered the instrument and the items as validated when an index ≥ 0.78 was obtained. Results: the room scene had access to the kitchen and the square. The sport scene was designed for physical activity and the purchase of food, which would be consumed in the kitchen scene. The experts gave the game a Content Validation Index of 0.88 for the item "objectives", 0.87 for "structure and presentation" and 0.99 for "relevance", reaching a overall Content Validation Index of 0.89. For adolescents, the item "appearance" reached the index 0.97 and for the other items, 1.0 and overal index of 0.99. Conclusion: the game was validated in terms of content and appearance and could be validated clinically with adolescents as an incentive to adopt protective behaviors for their health.

scholarly journals Development and validation of a technology for obstetric intraoperative care safety

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nátale Carvalho de Souza Lugão ◽  
Marcos Antônio Gomes Brandão ◽  
Rafael Celestino da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Content Validation ◽  
Methodological Study ◽  
Surgical Safety ◽  
Intraoperative Care ◽  
The Third ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
First Moment ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Third Moment

ABSTRACT Objectives: to develop and validate an obstetric surgical safety checklist for intraoperative care. Methods: this is a methodological study with two phases: integrative review in databases, using selection criteria and descriptors to synthesize the evidence and develop the checklist; checklist content validation, with 37 judges, who answered a Likert-type questionnaire. For analysis, a >85% content validation index was applied. Results: the checklist’s first moment reached a 96.1 content validation index; the second moment, 95.5; the third moment, 98.9. Thus, the validation index of all verifying sections present in the three surgical moments was 97.1. Cronbach’s Alpha value was 95.57%. Conclusions: the checklist items were validated by judges, with improvement of some items and insertion of others.

scholarly journals Construction and validation of indicators and respective definitions for the nursing outcome Swallowing Status

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Railka de Souza Oliveira ◽  
Thelma Leite de Araujo ◽  
Emilia Campos de Carvalho ◽  
Alice Gabrielle de Sousa Costa ◽  
Tahissa Frota Cavalcante ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Intraclass Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Minimal Important Difference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clinical Validation ◽  
Content Validation ◽  
Methodological Study ◽  
Friedman's Test ◽  
Difference Calculation

OBJECTIVE: to develop indicators for the nursing outcome Swallowing Status and the respective conceptual and operational definitions validated by experts and in a clinical setting among patients after having experienced a stroke.METHOD: methodological study with concept analysis and content and clinical validations. The Content Validation Index was verified for the scores assigned by 11 experts to indicators. Two pairs of nurses assessed 81 patients during the clinical validation: one pair used an instrument with definitions and the other used an instrument without definitions. The resulting assessments were compared using Intraclass Correlation Coefficient, Friedman's test, and Minimal Important Difference calculation.RESULTS: All the indicators, with the exception of the indicator Ability to bring food to mouth, presented Content Validation Index above 0.80. The pair using the instrument with definitions presented an Intraclass Correlation Coefficient above 0.80 for all the indicators and similarity was found in all the assessments, according to the Minimal Important Difference calculation. The pair using the instrument without definitions presented a low coefficient (ρ<0.75) for all the indicators.CONCLUSION: the results showed that greater uniformity and accuracy was achieved by the pair of nurses using the conceptual and operational definitions for the indicators of the nursing outcome Swallowing Status.

Simulations: Urban Fiscal Crisis

1986 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 15-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus D. Pohlmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fiscal Crisis ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Policy Problem ◽  
Other Hand

PurposeI wish to describe a role-playing simulation, as opposed to an educational game. A game normally has an elaborate set of rules and requires participants to function within the logic of its own reality. A role-playing simulation, on the other hand, allows the participants to maintain their own personalities and values as they interact within far more general roles and rules, creating a unique reality each time. The goal of this particular simulation is to overcome a public policy problem within a simulated political environment.

Headache

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Initial Treatment ◽  
Abrupt Change ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Symptomatic Relief ◽  
Lifestyle Habits ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Chronic Daily Headaches ◽  
Systemic Symptoms

Key Points Most headaches in children, in the absence of neurologic or systemic findings, require only symptomatic relief with ibuprofen or acetaminophen. Neuroimaging is indicated only with abnormal neurologic features, systemic symptoms, an abrupt change in pattern, or with chronic daily headaches. With recurrent headaches the 1st step in management is promoting healthy lifestyle habits—nutrition, sleep, exercise, hydration, etc. With migraine, DON’T WAIT—medication works best the earlier it is given. Ibuprofen is the initial treatment of choice. If needed, triptans are safe and can be effective.

Effect of behavioral variables on cooling rate of man in cold water

1975 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 1073-1077 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Hayward ◽  
J. D. Eckerson ◽  
M. L. Collis
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Cooling Rate ◽  
Rectal Temperature ◽  
Body Surface ◽  
Cold Water ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ocean Water ◽  
Protective Behaviors ◽  
Control Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Variables

Five different behaviors of man while in cold ocean water (9–10 degrees C) were assessed for their effect on rate of progress into hypothermia. With subjects wearing lifejackets, two thermally protective behaviors were studied which reduce exposure to the water of areas of body surface with high relative heat loss potential. One was huddling of three persons and the other a self-huddle behavior (HELP or Heat Escape Lessening Posture). These two behaviors resulted in significant reductions of rectal temperature cooling rate of 66 per cent and 69 per cent, respectively, of that of a control behavior. With no flotation available, two survival swimming behaviors (treading water and drownproofing) were shown to result in significant increases in cooling rate to 134 per cent and 182 per cent, respectively, of the control behavior. Potential swimming distance of subjects wearing a life-jacket was 0.85 miles in water near 12 degrees C before predicted incapacitation by hypothermia. It was concluded that behavioral variables can be of major importance in determining survival time in cold water through modulation of cooling rate associated with other variables such as fatness, body size, and clothing.

scholarly journals Fear vs humor appeals: a comparative study of children's responses to anti-smoking advertisements

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Nicolini ◽  
Fabio Cassia
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Fear Appeal ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Youth Smoking ◽  
Lifestyle Habits ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study aims to examine the different effects that the fear and humor appeals in anti-smoking advertisements for children have on their affective reactions to the advertisements, on their beliefs about smoking and on their behavioral intentions to smoke.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents the findings of a qualitative research study conducted in Italy with children aged from 8 to 11 years.FindingsThe results indicated that the humor appeal is a useful method for conveying a social theme in a pleasant way and creating a likable character that becomes an example for children to imitate; however, it is necessary to employ the fear appeal to make children reflect carefully about the negative consequences of smoking.Research limitations/implicationsThis study examined only children's behavioral intentions derived from anti-smoking advertisements, but future research should also examine their real behaviors after a period following repeated viewing of public service announcements about smoking prevention or other social issues.Practical implicationsUnderstanding how different types of appeals can influence children represents an important result for the prevention of youth smoking and the promotion of healthy lifestyle habits during childhood.Social implicationsUnderstanding how different types of appeals can influence children represents an important result for the prevention of youth smoking and the promotion of healthy lifestyle habits during childhood.Originality/valueFew studies have examined the impact of social advertisements on children, and particularly little is known about the effectiveness of fear appeals on this group.

scholarly journals Development and Validation of the Psychotherapeutic Effectiveness Attribution Questionnaire (PEAQ-12) in a Spanish Population

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (19) ◽  
pp. 10372
Author(s):  
Antonio Romero-Moreno ◽  
Alberto Paramio ◽  
Serafín J. Cruces-Montes ◽  
Antonio Zayas ◽  
Diego Gómez-Carmona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Content Validation ◽  
Theoretical Orientations ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Attribution Questionnaire ◽  
Patient’S Perception ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Initial Process

In recent decades, the study of psychotherapy effectiveness has been one of the pillars of clinical research because of its implication for therapeutic cure. However, although many studies have focused their interest on the patient’s perception, there are no instruments oriented to the study of psychotherapists’ attributions of effectiveness: to what factors psychotherapists attribute responsibility for the cure of the therapies they provide. The present study aimed to develop and validate an instrument for assessing the attribution of the effectiveness of psychotherapy in a population of 69 psychotherapists of different theoretical orientations. After an initial process of inter-judge content validation, 12 items were selected for validation in the targeted population, adequately fulfilling the quality requirements in the validity–reliability tests, and grouped into four factors after principal component analysis. These factors were as follows: (1) therapeutic alliance enhancers; (2) psychotherapist emotional characteristics; (3) therapy-specific variables; and (4) facilitators of patient engagement with therapy. This four-factor structure also showed a good fit for the fit indices checked in confirmatory factor analysis. In summary, we can conclude that the Psychotherapeutic Effectiveness Attribution Questionnaire (PEAQ-12) developed in our research can be helpful if tested on a larger number of individuals. The results can be replicated in other populations of psychotherapists.

scholarly journals التفسير العلمي لأحاديث التمر في ضوء جمع روايات الحديث والاكتشافات العلمية الجديدة

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Black Magic

The Hadiths of the Prophet regarding benefits of dates or scientifically known as Phoenix dactilyfera has gain so much attention from the scientist of Islamic knowledge and the modern sciences. Most researches presented in the topic focus on the benefit of dates in dealing with poisoning as it were clearly stated in the Hadith, furthermore some new scientific findings prove that the benefits of dates are far beyond that. Besides, the benefits of dates in dealing with black magic is still undiscovered by the modern sciences, even though some people claim to explain it scientifically, it is no more than an example of pseudoscience. It is also important to mention that most of the books published in the field of al-‘Ijaz al-‘ilmi related to the dates issue, especially those written in Arabic language has been observed to repeat the same scientific information regarding the benefits of dates despite the presence of new scientific researches and findings. On the other hand, some researches in this subject also has been notably neglect the importance of collecting all related texts of the Hadith before starting to interpret it, which is a vital step in understanding the Hadith. Therefore this research aims at understanding the Hadith regarding the benefits of dates through collecting all related Hadith in the topic and further interpreting it scientifically by referring to new scientific researches available.

Settlement of early Byzantine time at the Kyz-Aul necropolis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Н.Ф. Федосеев ◽  
Л.Ю. Пономарев
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Living Room ◽  
The South ◽  
Kerch Peninsula ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
The Village ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
Early Byzantine

Necropolis Kyz-Aul is located on the Black Sea coast, 1 km to the south-east of the village. Yakovenkovo. In 1930, 1979–1983, 1985, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2005–2006, 2015–2017, he was investigated by Yu. Martti, O. Chevelev, N. Sudarev and N. Fedoseev. Separate burials date back to the II–I BC, the burial of the I–III AD the most recent burials, apparently, were committed in the IV–V AD. In the VI – third quarter of the VII century AD on the territory of the already abandoned necropolis, a small settlement was located. Its cultural stratum is traced on all sites that have been followed in the last decade. As living quarters, the looted crypts of the 1st–3rd centuries AD were adapted, consisting of one or two funerary cells and built of massive blocks of limestone (№ 6, 7, 9, 10). With exception of the crypts of the poorly preserved pit of the semidugout (?) other residential and household buildings on the necropolis could not be fixed. One child burial also belongs to the same period. The most well-preserved living room in the crypt number 6. In one of its funerary cells housed five household pits and heating devices, including a fireplace, reminiscent of the design of the fireplace. In the other crypts, the interior details of the “underground” dwellings have not been preserved. In the “Khazar” time burial chamber crypts were adapted for the maintenance of small cattle. The time of the early Byzantine settlement on the necropolis dates numerous finds of amphorae. The upper date was determined thanks to the coin of 674 Constantine IV Pogonat. In addition, a ring with the image of an archangel was found, an analogy of which is known in the burial complexes of the 7th century. Unfortunately, the area and location of the necropolis of this settlement is not yet established. Cannot be reconstructed and its layout. It is difficult to reconstruct the interior of the “underground” dwellings themselves, since the crypts were reused in the “Khazar” period. In addition, no other settlements of this time were found on the ancient necropolises of the Kerch Peninsula

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