scholarly journals Preschool/Pre-Kindergarten Education Promoting Student Performance in Later Years: A Qualitative Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-58
Author(s):  
Carla J. Thompson ◽  
Giang-Nguyen Thi Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Early Education ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews

A thoughtful decision confronting parents considering pre-kindergarten or pre-school programs across the United States provided from the literature has focused on school readiness of children within the pre-kindergarten years. Prior to children moving into kindergarten, parents are often concerned with the related potential for increased student achievement and student performance of these children in later years. Public opinion concerning the “worth” of preschool education as a readiness provider for preparing children to enter kindergarten adequately prepared for learning has been a topic of dissention among educators and parents for more than a decade. This qualitative study involved conducting structured interviews with five educators (two pre-school teachers, two kindergarten teachers, and one early learning district administrator) from the same school district located in the southeast region of the United States. The current qualitative study focused on eight specific interview questions generated from the literature review. Each of the eight interview question responses was examined relative to specific criteria, positioning, and information aligned from the related literature. Resulting literature analyses and discussions provide specific viewpoints from the interviews of the five educators regarding the merits and potential worth of early education experiences. Implications of the study findings involve describing potential future research efforts aimed at examining influences of early education or preschool experiences related to students’ performance levels and attitudes relative to later school achievement.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic Adversely Affects the Provision of Desired Newborn Circumcision: Perinatal Physician Perspectives

2022 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren E. Corona ◽  
Ilina Rosoklija ◽  
Ryan F. Walton ◽  
Derek J. Matoka ◽  
Catherine M. Seager ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Newborn Period ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Urban City ◽  
Physician Perspectives ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Hospital Policies

Over half of boys in the United States undergo circumcision, which has its greatest health benefits and lowest risks when performed during the newborn period under local anesthesia. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected delivery of patient care in many ways and likely also influenced the provision of newborn circumcisions. Prior to the pandemic, we planned to conduct a qualitative study to ascertain physician perspectives on providing newborn circumcision care. The interviews incidentally coincided with the onset of the pandemic and thus, pandemic-related changes emerged as a theme. We elected to analyze this theme in greater detail. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with perinatal physicians in a large urban city from 4/2020 to 7/2020. Physicians that perform or counsel regarding newborn circumcision and physicians with knowledge of or responsibility for hospital policies were eligible. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and qualitative coding was performed. Twenty-three physicians from 11 local hospitals participated. Despite no specific COVID-19 related questions in the interview guide, nearly half of physicians identified that the pandemic affected delivery of newborn circumcision care with 8 pandemic-related sub-themes. The commonest sub-themes included COVID-19 related changes in: (1) workflow processes, (2) staffing and availability of circumcision proceduralists, and (3) procedural settings. In summary, this qualitative study revealed unanticipated COVID-19 pandemic-related changes with primarily adverse effects on the provision of desired newborn circumcisions. Some of these changes may become permanent resulting in broad implications for policy makers that will likely need to adapt and redesign the processes and systems for the delivery of newborn circumcision care.

scholarly journals Emojis As Evidence in Trial

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Zeidler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Appellate Court ◽  
Court System ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Southwest Region ◽  
Made In

As the sophistication and use of technology increases, communication through technology becomes more common, leading to the increasing use of emojis. In turn, this has led to an increase of emojis being used as evidence in court, with little guidance of how they can be interpreted within the law. This study examines the ways judges perceive emojis in court, especially when they are used as evidence. Through a grounded theory qualitative study, semi-structured interviews of judges throughout the Southwest region of the United States were conducted and analyzed according to Charmaz grounded theory guidelines (Charmaz, 2006) to determine judges’ perceptions of the use of emojis in court as evidence. This seeks to determine how emojis are used within the court system as they can carry and convey many different meanings to different people.  This study found that many judges find it necessary to have context with emojis for the purposes of interpretation by the jury, but it is not necessary for special instructions to be made in regards to emojis. Additionally, this study found other aspects of trial including jury selection and the appellate court are being affected by the increasing usage of emojis as evidence due to their highly subjective nature. Further research is needed to assess the broader implications of advancements in technology on the legal system.

Diagnosis to death: family experiences of paediatric heart disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 1672-1678
Author(s):  
Kathryn Neubauer ◽  
Erin P. Williams ◽  
Pamela K. Donohue ◽  
Elliott M. Weiss ◽  
Mithya Lewis-Newby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Heart Failure ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Prenatal Diagnosis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Experiences ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Causes Of Mortality

AbstractCHD remains one of the leading causes of mortality of children in the United States. There is limited research about the experience of parents from the diagnosis of their child with CHD through the death of their child. A prior study has shown that adults with heart failure go through a series of four transitions: 1) learning the diagnosis, 2) reframing the new normal, 3) taking control of the illness, and 4) understanding death is inevitable. In our qualitative study, we performed semi-structured interviews with parents who have a child die of CHD to determine whether the four transitions in adults apply to parents of children with CHD. We found that these four transitions were present in the parents we interviewed and that there were two novel transitions, one that proceeded the first Jones et al transition (“Prenatal diagnosis”) and one that occurred after the final Jones et al transition (“Adjustment after death”). It is our hope that identification of these six transitions will help better support families of children with CHD.

Flint, Michigan, and the Politics of Safe Drinking Water in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Sara Hughes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Structured Interviews

Flint’s drinking water crisis has brought renewed⸺and needed⸺attention to the importance of safe drinking water in the United States. The Flint water crisis was the result of a confluence of factors operating at multiple scales in time and space. My aim is to draw out more explicitly the role of policy, and specifically rationalized policy, in incentivizing and allowing the mistakes and decisions that most proximately led to the Flint water crisis. I build on and extend existing analyses of the Flint water crisis, drawing on thirteen semi-structured interviews and publicly available reports, testimony, newspaper articles, and secondary data. My analysis brings to the fore the particular vulnerability to the marginalizing effects of rationalized policy and its implementation of poor and minority communities in the United States, and it reveals the stickiness and entrenchment of these rationalized policies. The response to the Flint water crisis, both in Michigan and nationally, has centered on renewed commitment to risk-based standards and rulemaking for safe drinking water protections, and maintains interventionist approaches to municipal financial distress. I discuss important alternatives that are emerging and indicate areas for future research on the politics of safe drinking water.

scholarly journals "Marijuana Moms" : the collective work of negotiating individual and group identity in the age of cannabis legalization

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jennifer McKinney-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Marijuana User ◽  
Collective Work

This research is the result of a qualitative study that explored the ways in which marijuana using mothers come to identify as such and how they structure their relationships and parenting as a result. The experiences of 57 self-identified marijuana using mothers (aged 20-48 years-old) from across the United States participated in semi-structured interviews and shared their everyday experiences with both marijuana use and motherhood. Participants were all mothers with children between 3 months and 19 years at the time of the interviews. A thematic narrative analysis uncovered common experiences among these women in constructing both individual and group identity: Participants varied in how each of these themes identified were reflected in their lives, depending upon each participant's interpretation of her local social context. Both motherhood and self-identifying as a marijuana user were valuable and meaningful parts of their identity

scholarly journals Acculturative Stress and Adjustment Experiences of Greek International Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-228
Author(s):  
Mixalis Poulakis ◽  
Craig A. Dike ◽  
Amber C. Massa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Acculturative Stress ◽  
English Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Consensual Qualitative Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
International College

This study investigated eight Greek international college students’ experiences of acculturation and acculturative stress at a mid-western university in the United States. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants and Consensual Qualitative Research methodology was utilized for data analysis to identify contextual themes and domains expressed by participants. Seven domains relevant to extant literature were revealed: presojourn perceptions of the United States; postsojourn perceptions of the United States; acculturative stress problems in the United States; coping strategies for acculturative stress problems; peer and family networks: English language usage and difficulties; and cultural concerns regarding the United States or native country. Implications, areas for future research, and the study’s limitations are also discussed.

scholarly journals Latino Fathers Report Low Awareness and Knowledge of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine, but High Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children if Recommended by Primary Healthcare Provider: a Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Cristina Lindsay ◽  
Denisse Delgado ◽  
Madelyne J. Valdez ◽  
Phillip Granberry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Healthcare Provider ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Hpv Vaccine ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Primary Healthcare Provider

Objective: Despite increasing interest in understanding factors influencing awareness, knowledge, and acceptability of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine among Latino parents to date, limited information is available specific to Latino fathers living in the United States. Methods: This descriptive qualitative study explored Latino fathers’ awareness, knowledge, and acceptability of the HPV vaccine for their adolescent children. Data were collected through individual, semi-structured interviews and analyzed using a hybrid method of thematic analysis that incorporated deductive and inductive approaches. Results: Nineteen, majority foreign-born Latino fathers (63.2%; n = 12) fathers of male and female adolescents participated in the study. Four main themes and two subthemes emerged from the analyses. Results found fathers’ low awareness and knowledge of HPV and the HPV vaccine. Results also identified fathers’ positive attitude toward vaccines in general. Moreover, results revealed fathers’ trust in healthcare providers. This trust translated into an increased willingness to vaccinate their children against HPV if recommended by their child’s primary healthcare provider. Conclusion: Findings indicate the need for increased efforts to raise awareness and knowledge among Latino fathers of HPV and the HPV vaccine. In addition, findings underscore the critical role of healthcare providers’ recommendation of the HPV vaccine. Given the limited research focused on Latino fathers, this study’s findings are valuable in building a knowledge foundation needed for developing future studies and interventions to promote the HPV vaccine by targeting Latino fathers living in the United States. Future research should quantify Latino fathers' awareness, knowledge, and acceptability of the HPV vaccine for their children, and preferences for educational interventions to promote HPV vaccination.

Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Highly Skilled

This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better understanding of the gendered importance of social relations for the future mobility aspirations of scientists working abroad.

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