Socio-demographic characteristics and life satisfaction in Jamaican women aged 15 to 24 years

Life satisfaction plays a key role in the lives of adolescents and emerging adults. Findings from this secondary data analysis showed that overall, the majority of young Jamaican women aged 15 -24 years are satisfied with their live

Open Educational Resources: What Do Students Want?

This project aims at identifying the needs and requests of students for Open Educational Resources (OERs) in order to develop rubrics for design, evaluation but also revisions of OERs. For this purpose literature searches on the matter were conducted to determine if information on students’ perspective on OER content and expectations existed. Simultaneously, feedback from fellow City Tech students with experience using OERs has been collected. Our results provide insight on how City Tech students perceive OERs, in comparison with traditional resources. This also pinpoints the key pedagogical features that OERs should offer in order to attract, engage and better serve students. The data collected will also contribute to a more methodical approach for assessment and improvement of existing OER material

The lived experience of heart failure in a lower middle-income country: Patient and caregiver perspectives

The experience of heart failure management and self-care in the resource limited context of a LMIC may be very different from the first world experience, and could have implications for morbidity, mortality and quality of life in the affected patient-caregiver dyads. This study addresses that gap in the literature

The usage of cyber slang and the academic writing behavior among College students in a Private Higher Educational Institution

Abstract onlyThis study aims to determine the correlation between the usage of Cyber Slang and Academic Writing Behavior in a Private Higher Educational Institution for the Academic Year 2023-2024, utilizing the descriptive-correlational research design. Using Slovin’s formula, it was calculated that 173 was the sample size wherein 89 students were in their first year, and 84 were in their second year. The research instrument involved a self-report online questionnaire through Google Forms and data was collected for a month. The questionnaire consisted of 14 items for Cyber Slang Usage and 19 items for Academic Writing Behavior, both graded on a 5-point scale. The results were analyzed using mean scores for each level of usage. The data gathering focused on 1st and 2nd-year students through their block representatives' messenger. After data collection, the information is encoded in Google Excel, and a statistician helped analyze the results. IBM’s SPSS 20.0 statistical package program is utilized to analyze the descriptive statistics: frequency count, percentage, and measures of central tendency. The results revealed that respondents had a moderate usage of cyber slang, and their academic writing behavior showed 'satisfactory' indicating efficiency in producing written outputs adhering to formal writing. The Pearson correlation coefficient (r), set at a 0.05 level of significance, was used to analyze the correlation between cyber slang usage and academic writing behavior, which revealed no significant relationship between the usage of cyber slang and academic writing behavior. Therefore, respondents can switch language according to various situations and objectives.Bachelor of Science in Psycholog

Using Climate Data to Increase Agriculture Yields

Guest speakers: Dr. Antonio Joyette, Meteorologist, Climate & Environmental Scientist, University of the West IndiesDr. Antonio Joyette, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of the West Indies highlights some of the of the key climate elements affecting the Caribbean regiona and their potential impact on the regions agriculture sector, simple instruments that can be usd to collect climate data, climate data that is available to the general public, how these data can be accessed and used to guide on-farm decision making to help improve farm resilience to climatic changes and increase agriculture yields

Lateral violence among nurses at a Jamaican hospital : a mixed methods study

Purpose: In many first-world settings, lateral violence among nurses is pervasive and has been associated with deleterious psychological effects, high staff turnover and negative patient outcomes. This study explored lateral violence among nurses at a Jamaican hospital.Methods: A fixed concurrent QUAN= QUAL mixed method study design was employed. Data were gathered from 114 registered nurses using the 38-item Briles’ Sabotage Savvy self-administered questionnaire and two focus group discussions.Results: Exposure to lateral violence was reported by 96% of participants, and 3/4 rated the exposure as moderate to severe. Nurse Managers were the main perpetrators of lateral violence (63%). Lateral violence created a hostile environment, and half of the nurses surveyed indicated an intent to resign. These survey findings were supported by the focus group discussions which yielded themes inclusive of professional disengagement and erosion of team work.Conclusion: The high levels of lateral violence reported in this study indicates an urgent need for the implementation of appropriate workplace violence policies. Reported threats to the healthcare system included poor staff retention and professional disengagement.Highlights:Lateral violence among nurses is one of the most damaging issues affecting the progress of the nursing profession and is well studied in the developed world.The attributes of the phenomenon of lateral violence in a low and middle-income country are described in this paper.Exposure to lateral violence was reported by 96% of participants, forms of lateral violence appeared to be mainly verbal or emotional and nurse managers were the major perpetrators.Assimilated behavior in response to lateral violence among the nurses included professional disengagement, retaliation, avoidance and intent to resign.The pervasiveness of lateral violence among the nurses studied indicates the need to implement appropriate workplace violence policies. </jats:p