Adaptation of a stoma care pathway and use of telephone clinics during the pandemic: patient experience survey

With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, outpatient clinics had to adjust and reduce the number of face-to-face appointments. The Cambridge stoma service has a recognised pathway of stoma care but needed to adjust this in line with government guidelines. The team took the opportunity to audit the current pathway and complete a patient experience survey to determine the future of the service and potential adaptations to the pathway in the future. Aim: To determine the need for adaptation and improvement of the standard stoma clinics pathway. Method: A survey was conducted using a postal questionnaire to all patients who attended stoma clinics between April and June 2020. Findings: 160 questionnaires were sent and 72 responses returned (45%). All elements of the virtual clinic were rated positive by more than 80% of respondents, with nearly 90% of them feeling that all their stoma care needs were met. When asked to indicate their preferred consultation methods (patients were allowed to choose more than one), face to face received 50 votes, telephone 32 votes and video clinic 5 votes. Conclusion: There is a need to adapt the standard clinic pathway to be able to offer standardised care but with flexibility to adjust to circumstances and patients' preferences.

Does It Feel the Same? Danish and Finnish Social Science and Humanities Doctoral Students’ Academic Emotions

Even if pursuing a doctorate is both emotionally challenging and rewarding, empirical research focusing on doctoral students’ academic emotions is limited. Therefore, in this study we have contributed to bridging the gap in the research on the doctoral experience by mapping the emotional landscape of doctoral experience. In addition, we have shed light on potential invariants and socio-cultural characteristics of the emotional landscape by doing a cross-country comparison between Danish and Finnish doctoral students. A total of 272 doctoral students (Danish: 145, Finnish: 127) from the field of humanities and social sciences responded to the Cross-cultural Doctoral Experience Survey. The data were both qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed, using a mixed methods approach. The results showed that the doctoral students experienced a wide range of both positive and negative emotions embedded in various activities of the doctoral experience, including supervision, scholarly community, doctoral research, development as a scholar and structures and resources. The results revealed some associations between the emotions that were experienced as well as differences between the countries.

The Involvement of School Teachers in the Prosess of Practice-Oriented Training of Students at Pedagogical University

The requirements of the modern system of general education determine the need to give the training of a studying pedagogical university a practical-oriented nature. Thus, the issue of how to involve teachers of general education organizations in the training process is updated. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the identified prerequisites for involving teachers of general education organizations in practical-oriented training of students in pedagogical areas, as well as to reveal the potential possibility of implementing the plan. Research methodology and methods. The foundations are a practical-oriented approach to the implementation of educational programs in the direction of «Pedagogical Education», a problematic approach that involves targeted search activity of new solutions, research in action. Applied methods: analysis of special literature, study of experience, survey, pedagogical modeling. Conclusion. A method of structuring the content of training in a task form is justified, which allows you to control the process of conscious mastery by students of pedagogical activities, to constructively approach the mastery of professional actions. It is shown in various ways that the implementation of the proposed method requires the involvement of teachers. Based on the survey data, the potential of teachers to be involved in the training of students in pedagogical fields is analyzed and conclusions are drawn about the existing reserves of motivation. A proposal is made to create vocational training platforms as new forms of vocational and educational cooperation between teachers, teachers and students, their model-semantic description is given.

Expression of Sport Experiences between Cadet and Junior Basketball Players

Background. The hypothesis of this study is formulated as follows: the experience of junior basketball players in competitions will be more valuable than that of cadet basketball players. The aim of our study was to examine the peculiarities of youth and basketball players’ sport experiences. Methods. A total of 104 basketball players, 47 cadets and 57 juniors participated in the study. Survey questionnaire is used for the study. The following methodologies were used: Athlete’s Personal Experience Survey (Athletic Coping Skills Inventory, ACSI-28) and the Sport Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ). Results. The results of the study revealed statistically significant differences (p <.05) in personal sport experiences (athletic endurance skills) among basketball players of different age groups according to the following indicators: the coach’s influence on basketball players, concentration, athletes’ self-confidence and resilience. The results of the study of athletes’ competitive experiences revealed that there were statistically significant differences (p <.05) between cadet and junior basketball players in competition experience. No statistically significant differences were found in terms of risk and progress parameters. Conclusions. The coach’s influence was greater for the cadet basketball players. Concentration, self-confidence and resilience were better among junior basketball players. This shows that when competing, junior basketball players have higher levels of concentration compared to the cadet group, as they are more confident and can better cope with tension. In addition, it was found that the experience of junior basketball players in competitions is richer than that of cadet basketball players. Keywords: sport experience, junior, cadet, basketball players, basketball.