scholarly journals From Interpersonal Violence to Institutionalized Discrimination: Documenting and Assessing the Impact of Islamophobia on Muslim Americans

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naheed Ahmed ◽  
Sandra C Quinn ◽  
Rupali J Limaye ◽  
Suleiman Khan
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Workplace Discrimination ◽  
Muslim Americans ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Government Surveillance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Background: Muslims and people perceived as Muslims in the U.S. face Islamophobia, defined as anti-Muslim or anti-Islam sentiments. Reports of hate crimes motivated by Islamophobia have increased, as have other forms of Islamophobia, such as workplace discrimination. This qualitative study examined the impact of Islamophobia on Muslim Americans, ranging from school and workplace discrimination to policies that target Muslims, such as government surveillance. The objectives of this study were: 1) Document the spectrum of Islamophobia in the U.S.; and 2) Assess the impact of Islamophobia on Muslim Americans.Methods: Components of grounded theory guided data collection and analysis. Using a semi-structured interview guide, a total of 40 participants (20 women, 20 men) were interviewed regarding self-reported experiences with Islamophobia and responses to bias incidents. Participants self-identified as Muslim, were at least 18 years of age, and represented various ethnic groups. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using Nvivo 12.Results: Findings indicate that Islamophobia and xenophobia are significant sources of long-term stress. Participants discussed physical assaults in public locations, vandalism at their homes, persistent questioning regarding their country of origin, and verbal harassment in the form of derogatory terms.Conclusion: Islamophobia in the U.S. is multifaceted and a significant source of stress for Muslim Americans. Findings from this study and others on this topic highlight the need for interventions to support Muslim Americans.

scholarly journals Needs of Family Survivors of Floods in Molepolole, Botswana

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s151-s151
Author(s):  
Dorcas Basetsana Maripe-perera
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Flood Mitigation ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Recovery Stress ◽  
Entire Family ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Disaster Survivors ◽  
The Impact

Introduction:Floods are common worldwide and are the leading cause of fatalities. They are destructive to property, crops, and livestock, and leave survivors homeless or displaced to evacuation camps.Aim:To explore the needs of family survivors of floods in Molepolole, determine assistance received and needed, and identify coping strategies used to deal with the impact and effects of floods.Methods:Jordan (2015) model of disaster survivors’ hierarchy of needs guided the study. Purposive sampling selected six families, and seven participants from these families enrolled in the study. A pilot-tested semi-structured interview guide collected data. Data were analyzed using the content style.Results:The study findings confirmed that survivors of floods had immediate and long-term needs, and these were classified into basic, safety, recovery, stress reaction, grief and loss, and growth. Not all survivors were grateful for the assistance they received following floods. Survivors used varied coping strategies to deal with their stressors. The study was conducted in Molepolole, hence, the findings may not be applicable in other settings. Individuals were interviewed on behalf of the entire family.Discussion:There is a need for a multidisciplinary team which will keep the community at the forefront in tackling flood mitigation and developing policies specific to floods. Policies will include indigenous flood mitigation practices and will strengthen awareness of communities to improve knowledge, skills, and attitude. More research is needed on the needs of each survivor.

THE INFLUENCE OF SCOTTISH ACCOUNTANTS IN THE UNITED STATES: THE EARLY CASE OF THE SOCIETY OF ACCOUNTANTS IN EDINBURGH

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. LEE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Research Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Case ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Chartered Accountants ◽  
The U.S

This study represents part of a long-term research program to investigate the influence of U.K. accountants on the development of professional accountancy in other parts of the world. It examines the impact of a small group of Scottish chartered accountants who emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Set against a general theory of emigration, the study's main results reveal the significant involvement of this group in the founding and development of U.S. accountancy. The influence is predominantly with respect to public accountancy and its main institutional organizations. Several of the individuals achieved considerable eminence in U.S. public accountancy.

The Impact of Personality Disorders on Longitudinal Change in Relationship Satisfaction in Long-Term Married Couples

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan C. South ◽  
Michael J. Boudreaux ◽  
Thomas F. Oltmanns
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Longitudinal Change ◽  
The Impact

Personality disorders (PDs) are significantly, negatively related to marital satisfaction. We examine how maladaptive personality is related to change in marital satisfaction over time utilizing data from the St. Louis Personality and Aging Network (SPAN), a longitudinal, community-based study of personality and health in older adults. Participants were assessed at baseline for PD (self-report, informant-report, and structured interview); self- and spouse-reported relationship satisfaction assessed at baseline and five follow-ups was analyzed with latent growth curve modeling. Higher levels of PD at baseline were associated with lower self and spouse relationship satisfaction at baseline. On average, satisfaction did not change significantly over the study period, but there was significant individual variability. Higher levels of schizoid PD were protective of declines in partner's perception of satisfaction. Findings suggest that partners in long-term married unions may have adapted to the presence of their own or their spouse's level of personality pathology.

scholarly journals Pharmacist—Pharmacy Technician Intraprofessional Collaboration and Workplace Integration: Implications for Educators

Pharmacy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Jetha ◽  
Ali Walji ◽  
Paul Gregory ◽  
Dalya Abdulla ◽  
Zubin Austin
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Multiple Stakeholder ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Pharmacy Technicians ◽  
Intraprofessional Collaboration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

Globally, concerns have been expressed regarding the impact of regulation of pharmacy technicians. After more than a decade of experience with technician regulation in Ontario, Canada, uptake of the full scope of practice for technicians has been sporadic at best. The objective of this study was to examine barriers and facilitators to intraprofessional collaboration between pharmacists and pharmacy technicians for the purpose of identifying possible curricular or educational interventions to enhance workplace integration. A qualitative, interview-based study of 24 pharmacists, technicians, educators, pharmacy managers, and owners was undertaken using a semi-structured interview guide. Key findings of this research include: (i) Confirmation of suboptimal utilization of regulated technicians in practice; (ii) identification of crucial knowledge and skills gaps for both pharmacists and technicians; and (iii) proposals for undergraduate education and training, and continuing professional development learning opportunities to address these gaps. In order to achieve the promise and potential of regulation of pharmacy technicians, system-wide change management—beginning with education—will be required and will benefit from multiple stakeholder engagement and involvement.

The Potential Impact of Border Security Upon Prevalence of Infectious Disease

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-562
Author(s):  
Christiana R. Dallas ◽  
Curtis H. Harris ◽  
Cham E. Dallas
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Migrant Health ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Health Care Monitoring ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

AbstractIn the U.S., migration has been documented to affect the prevalence of infectious disease. As a mitigation entity, border security has been recorded by numerous scholarly works as being essential to the support of the health of the U.S. population. Consequently, the lack of current health care monitoring of the permeable U.S. border places the U.S. population at risk in the broad sectors of infectious disease and interpersonal violence. Visualizing border security in the context of public health mitigation has significant potential to protect migrant health as well as that of all populations on both sides of the border. Examples of how commonly this philosophy is held can be found in the expansive use of security-focused terms regarding public health. Using tools such as GIS to screen for disease in people before their entrance into a nation would be more efficient and ethical than treating patients once they have entered a population and increased the impact on the healthcare system. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:554–562)

The Impact of Donor-funded Community Empowerment Projects on Poverty Alleviation in Zimbabwe

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pius T. Tanga ◽  
Mulwaini Mundau
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of donor-funded community empowerment projects on poverty alleviation in Zimbabwe. The primary data were collected from a questionnaire survey from 52 project members who were from two local ngos that were selected randomly. A semi-structured interview guide designed for two officials of the selected ngos implementing the projects was also used. The findings show that there is heavy dependence on outside funding, no adherence to the principles of the empowerment approach and a failure to positively impact the lives of the project members. This therefore calls for ngos to adopt better empowerment practices: community involvement in decision making, project ownership, and clear lines of communication with the ngos. However the findings also show the strength of linking project members with relevant institutions and training in order to ensure sustainability of community projects that may foster community empowerment towards poverty eradication.

scholarly journals the Phenomenology Study: Post-Flood and Landslide Farmers Resilience Experiences in Klungkung Village, Sukorambi District, Jember Regency

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
FITRIO DEVIANTONY
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Unusual Event ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Floods and landslides are disasters that can cause a lot of damage related to the material and of course fatalities, as well as the amount of damage from the environment that occurs, and other impacts will undoubtedly affect the psychology of the communities that changed by the disaster. The psychological effect of this unusual event will undoubtedly lead to trauma or it called posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study aims to explore the experiences of farmers who experience floods and landslides directly, the research design used is a qualitative research design using an interpretative phenomenology approach. The technique of collecting data used in-depth interviews with a semi-structured interview guide involving five participants and analyzed using interpretative analysis of phenomenology. This study produced six themes including disasters that occur due to humans, accepting the existing reality, getting closer to God, having the desire to farm again, recovering the family economy, keeping the environment around and improving themselves. The role of health workers is important because the impact caused by this condition can be worse so that health workers need to provide services so that farmers can understand, live and be able to accept and adapt to the conditions that occur

scholarly journals The impact of some macroeconomic indicators on exchange rate fluctuations in Sudan in the period (1990- 2016): أثر بعض مؤشرات الاقتصاد الكلي على تقلبات أسعار الصرف في السودان في الفترة (1990- 2016)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelsamie Eltaeb Tayfor
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Time Series Regression ◽  
Econometric Methods ◽  
Exchange Rate Fluctuations ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
The Exchange Rate ◽  
The Impact

The study aimed to identify the determinants and economic variables that affect the exchange rate in Sudan during the period (1990- 2016). The study used the descriptive analytical approach in data collection and analysis as well as the use of econometric methods in the construction of economic models and analysis of time series regression models to verify the existence of a long- term integrative relationship between independent variables and dependent variable. The results of the study showed a positive correlation between GDP, degree of economic openness, inflation and exchange rate during the study years, and an inverse relationship between money supply and exchange rate. The study recommended the need to move away from administrative decisions in determining the exchange rate, while achieving greater flexibility in the exchange rate, and increased interest in bank financing of projects that lead to increase productivity and improve GDP and thus improve the exchange rate by encouraging domestic exports.

scholarly journals Sounds of Silence in Times of COVID-19: Distress and Loss of Cardiac Coherence in People With Misophonia Caused by Real, Imagined or Evoked Triggering Sounds

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Ferrer-Torres ◽  
Lydia Giménez-Llort
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Stress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Medical Psychology ◽  
Auditory Stimuli ◽  
Limited Sample ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Rate Loss ◽  
The Impact

The extreme, unprecedented situations in the current COVID-19 pandemic are risk factors for psychosocial stress for the entire population. However, strict confinement had a particular impact on people suffering from misophonia and their families. Misophonia is a condition in which hearing certain sounds triggers intense anger, disgust and even severe autonomic nervous system responses. This prospective cohort study examined the impact of strict confinement (Spain, March 14–June 21, 2020) on a sample of 24 people (16 women and eight men) who had been diagnosed with moderate to extreme misophonia and were regularly attending a medical psychology center in Barcelona. The 3-month period of confinement caused general emotional maladjustment, distress, and a transitory crisis. Long-term biomonitoring of their heart variability rate (HRV) enabled to identify a significant increase in physiological arousal after the confinement period, which had already been recorded in a loss of cardiac coherence under basal rest/relaxation conditions. Certain auditory stimuli triggered adverse responses, lowered HRV scores, and an increased stress level and heart rate. Loss of cardiac coherence in their responses to these auditory stimuli (triggering mouth, nose and other sounds), as well as to non-triggering mouth, nose and other sounds was increased when compared to two assessments performed during the previous year. Despite the limited sample size, sex differences were observed in the incidence. Loss of cardiac coherence worsened with the severity of the misophonia. Most importantly, imagined or evoked triggering sounds, as well as real ones, were enough to cause the aversive responses, as displayed by the increased loss of cardiac coherence with respect to the at-rest basal level. A semi-structured interview revealed the exceptional nature of the situations, increased hyper-sensorial sensitivity, fear of being infected with or dying from COVID-19, the patients' coping strategies, and the difficulties and constraints they faced. Finally, the article gives recommendations for better management of misophonia. Improved knowledge of this disorder would help address the current lack of health and social care, hopefully preventing this shortfall's impact on social and affective relationships, which are particulary important for well-being now and in the coming periods of physical distancing measures.

The effect of postoperative morbidity on long-term survival after curative resection for extra-hepatic biliary tumors: A multi-institution analysis from the U.S. Extrahepatic Biliary Malignancy Consortium.

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 435-435
Author(s):  
Linda Jin ◽  
Bradley Krasnick ◽  
Jesse Davidson ◽  
Cecilia Grace Ethun ◽  
Timothy M. Pawlik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Curative Resection ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
Complication Rates ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Long Term Survival ◽  
Curative Therapy ◽  
Biliary Malignancy ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

435 Background: Surgical resection is the cornerstone of curative therapy for extrahepatic biliary tumors (EHBTs) Postoperative complications (POCs) can negatively impact survival after oncologic resection. We evaluated the impact of POCs on survival after resection of EHBTs. Methods: We analyzed 914 patients from ten institutions of the U.S. Extrahepatic Biliary Malignancy Consortium who underwent curative resection for gallbladder adenocarcinoma (n=389), hilar (n=295) and distal (n=294) cholangiocarcinoma between 1998 and 2015. POCs were graded using the modified Clavien-Dindo system. Overall survival (OS) probabilities were estimated using the method of Kaplan and Meier and analyzed using multivariate Cox regression. Results: Median follow-up was 20 months. The median age was 66 years, and the overall complication rate was 54%. Complication rates were significantly higher in patients with distal or hilar cholangiocarcinoma (62%) when compared with gallbladder cancer (41%, p<0.001). For all cancer types, patients who experienced POCs had lower 5-year OS when compared with those who did not (18% vs 28%, p<0.001). On multivariate Cox regression, POC remained an independent predictor for decreased OS (HR 1.5, 95% CI 1.3-1.9, p<0.001; Table). Among patients who experienced POCs, survival did not differ by greatest Clavien grade of complication experienced (p=0.89), however patients who had 2 or more POCs did have decreased long term survival when compared with patients with only a single POC (HR 1.5, 95% CI 1.2-1.8, p=0.001). Conclusions: POCs adversely affect long-term outcomes after curative resection for extra-hepatic biliary tumors. While any complication grade did not have a significant impact on long-term survival, increasing number of POCs did significantly worsen the prognosis for OS. [Table: see text]

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