Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

Preparing the books to read every day is enjoyable for many people. However, there are still many people who also don't like reading. This is a problem. But, when you can support others to start reading, it will be better. One of the books that can be recommended for new readers is experience and education. This book is not kind of difficult book to read. It can be read and understand by the new readers.

Experience and Education.

The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

Recording of presentation introducing narrative analysis, outlining what it is, why it can be a useful approach, how to do it and where to find out more. Presentation given at methods@manchester seminar at University of Manchester on 4 March 2010.

What is Narrative Analysis

The current evidence suggests that many diet and exercise interventions to prevent obesity in children are not effective in preventing weight gain, but can be effective in promoting a healthy diet and increased physical activity levels.Being very overweight (obese) can cause health, psychological and social problems for children. Children who are obese are more likely to have weight and health problems as adults. Programmes designed to prevent obesity focus on modifying one or more of the factors considered to promote obesity.This review included 22 studies that tested a variety of intervention programmes, which involved increased physical activity and dietary changes, singly or in combination. Participants were under 18 and living in Asia, South America, Europe or North America. There is not enough evidence from trials to prove that any one particular programme can prevent obesity in children, although comprehensive strategies to address dietary and physical activity change, together with psycho-social support and environmental change may help. There was a trend for newer interventions to involve their respective communities and to include evaluations.Future research might usefully assess changes made on behalf of entire populations, such as improvements in the types of foods available at schools and in the availability of safe places to run and play, and should assess health effects and costs over several years.The programmes in this review used different strategies to prevent obesity so direct comparisons were difficult. Also, the duration of the studies ranged from 12 weeks to three years, but most lasted less than a year.

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Interventions for preventing obesity in children

This paper outlines a practice-centered method for creation of a hypermedia corpus. It also describes experiences with creating such a corpus of information to support interprofessional work at a Primary Healthcare Center. From these experiences, a number of basic issues regarding information systems development within medical informatics will be discussed.

Developing a clinical hypermedia corpus: experiences from the use of a practice-centered method.

Conventional smart card-based authentication systems used in health care alleviate some of the security issues in user and system authentication. Existing models still do not cover all security aspects. To enable new protective measures to be developed, an extended model of the authentication process is presented. This model includes a new entity referred to as secure server. Assuming a secure server, a method where the smart card is aware of the status of the terminal integrity verification becomes feasible. The card can then act upon this knowledge and restrict the exposure of sensitive information to the terminal as required in order to minimize the risks. The secure server model can be used to illuminate the weaknesses of current approaches and the need for extensions which alleviate the resulting risks.

Towards second-generation smart card-based authentication in health information systems: the secure server model.

Introduction: Successful team performance has been associated with traits of individual team members that facilitate team interaction and function. 
Personalities combine different traits and other psychological characteristics as defined by instruments such as the Big Five personality model. In this study 
we raised the question if there are certain personalities among team players? Methods: We examined whether medical- and nursing-students who had been identified as “Team Players” with the instrument Readiness for 
Interprofessional Learning Scale, also convey certain personality traits as measured by a personality test. Results: The study comprised n=670 participants of total N=955 invited (response rate 70.2%) medical and nursing students from two different 
universities in Sweden. They were asked to fill in these two instruments; the Big Five instrument and the RIPL Scale. The results showed that students who 
scored as being “Team Players” also scored as “agreeable” in the Big Five personality test, (p<0.0001) independent of gender, educational program and type 
of university. Conclusion: This result in this study strengthens our hypothesis that our “Team Player” concept developed from the RIPL Scales seems to be 
accurate and suitable for identifying students that have a personality optimal for interprofessional collaboration. Possibly the items constituting the 
“Team Player” concept in this study could form a new instrument to identify team-players in interprofessional settings and education. Keywords Health care education; Interprofessional education; Personality; Team work

Are there Certain Personalities among Team Players? - Using the Concept “Team Player” Developed from the Instrument Readiness for Inter Professional Education Scale (Ripels)


 In applied program settings, such as in natural environment control and education, performance evaluation is usually conducted by evaluators considering both self-comparison and comparison with peers. We have developed the Performance Outcome Scoring Template (POS-T) for assessments with high face-validity in these settings. POS-T puts achievements of individuals or groups in context, i.e. the resulting performance outcome score (POS) reflects a meaningful measure of performance magnitude with regards to internal and external comparisons. Development of a POS is performed in four steps supported by a statistical framework. Software is supplied for creation of scoring applications in different performance evaluation settings. We demonstrate the POS-T by evaluation of CO2 emissions reduction amongst 36 OECD member countries.

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Trustworthy performance evaluations: The Performance Outcome Scoring Template (POS-T) for transparent assessments in real-world programs

Background Athletics is one of the most popular global sports, but little is known of injury patterns among elite athletic athletes. Injury prevalence has been proposed to be the most valid measure of injury burden in sports where athletes practice long hours and are at risk for overuse problems. Objective To compare two different indicators of injury prevalence in athletics as measures of the injury burden among adult and youth elite athletics athletes. Design Cross-sectional epidemiological study using web-based data collection. Setting Swedish elite youth (U17) and adult athletics athletes. Data were collected in April 2009. Participants 278 youth and adult athletes (91%) submitted a web-based questionnaire from an eligible study population of 301 athletes. Assessment of risk factors Athlete9s sex, age and anatomical body regions were assessed as risk factors. Main outcome measures 1-year prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries causing at least 3 weeks of partial or complete absence from practice and competition; point prevalence of musculoskeletal injury. Results The 1-year injury prevalence was 43.6%. Among the age groups, the prevalence was 48.1% for adult and 37.1% for youth athletes. The point prevalence of injury was 36.2%, 38% among adult athletes and 33% among youth athletes. Female youth athletes had a tendency towards higher 1-year (p=0.06) and point (p=0.025) injury prevalence than male youth athletes. There was no sex difference in injury prevalence among the senior athletes. A majority of the injuries (74% 1-year prevalence; 78% point prevalence) reported by the athletes were located to the lower extremities. Conclusion Using either the point or 1-year retrospective window definition of prevalence, currently approximately 4 out of 10 Swedish elite athletic athletes have injuries that interfere with their performance of sports activities. Most injuries are located to the lower extremities. Prospective epidemiological studies investigating individual risk factors for athletic injuries are warranted.

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Toomas Timpka

Papers

Developing a clinical hypermedia corpus: experiences from the use of a practice-centered method.

Towards second-generation smart card-based authentication in health information systems: the secure server model.

Are there Certain Personalities among Team Players? - Using the Concept “Team Player” Developed from the Instrument Readiness for Inter Professional Education Scale (Ripels)

Trustworthy performance evaluations: The Performance Outcome Scoring Template (POS-T) for transparent assessments in real-world programs

The swedish athletics study: various prevalence measures of musculoskeletal injury in élite athletics athletes