Dementia Caregive Module and Pamphlet

Dementia care is an immediate and growing issue that affects everyone. People are living longer increasing the likelihood that they may be diagnosed with dementia. Friends and family are become caregivers but are often unprepared for the role. The purpose of this project was to develop a 15-minute dementia care module to assist caregivers with the home care of dementia patients. A pamphlet was created to reinforce the module information and to provide a quick reference for dementia support. The self-efficacy theory, along with the review of best practice guidelines and evidence from literature, informed the development of the module. The Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) and the Flesch Reading Ease scales were used to ensure that the written materials were at an appropriate reading level for the targeted group. A single group evaluation was used to determine whether caregivers would be able to understand and use the information. A total of 5 lay dementia caregivers volunteered to evaluate the dementia module and related pamphlet. They volunteered to provide feedback using Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) tool. Four out of the 5 caregivers strongly agreed or agreed that the module met the designated criteria. All participants stated that the information presented in the module/pamphlet was applicable to their circumstance as dementia caregivers, that the information would assist to provide better care for their loved one, and that they would recommend the dementia module to other caregivers. This project will have a positive impact on social change by providing dementia caregivers with strategies and information to deliver quality dementia care for their loved ones

IT-Unterstützung der Arktisexpedition MOSAiC (IT support of the Arctic Expedition MOSAiC)

Ab September 2019 beginnt die vom AWI geleitete größte Arktisexpedition aller Zeiten: Bei der MOSAiC-Expedition erforschen Wissenschaftler*innen aus 17 Nationen die Arktis mit dem Forschungsschiff Polarstern, um den Einfluss der Arktis auf das globale Klima besser zu verstehen. Antonia Immerz ist als Data Scientist in MOSAiC tätig und bildet dort die Schnittstelle zur Wissenschaft. Daniela Ransby ist Datenkuratorin für die geowissenschaftliche und umweltwissenschaftliche Datenbank PANGAEA, in der die während der MOSAiC-Expedition erfassten Daten gespeichert werden. In ihrem Vortrag berichten sie über IT-Hintergründe dieser Expedition und wie die erhobenen Daten möglichst zeitnah zu den Klimaforscher*innen gelangen und der Wissenschaft langfristig zur Verfügung stehen. (Slides provided in English

Evaluation of telemedicine in patients suspected of acute coronary syndrome at a non-invasive centre

Introduction: The benefits of prehospital electrocardiograms (ECG) for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are well-known. Evaluation of the present algorithm for prehospital ECG transmission is important to ensure correct and expeditious patient care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate ECGs transmitted from the prehospital setting to a non-invasive department of cardiology. Methods: At Lillebaelt Hospital, the cardiologist on-call evaluated and entered the transmitted ECGs and the associated transmission criteria into the Clinical Measurement System database (KMS). Furthermore, data from the KMS and the diagnoses at discharge were obtained from 2012 to 2015. Results: A total of 9,751 ECGs were included in the study. ECG transmission increased by 35% from year one to year three (p &lt; 0.05). A total of 362 patients (3.7%) had STEMI. 25% of all ECGs were transmitted without any obvious cardiac symptom but produced a diagnosis of other cardiac illnesses than acute coronary syndrome in 28% of these patients. The number of ECGs sent per adult inhabitant in the area per year was 1:85. Conclusions: A large number of ECGs are transmitted annually and at an increasing rate, and STEMI only comprises a very limited proportion of all transmitted ECGs to a non-invasive centre in Denmark. The high number of ECGs challenge the available resources, which are limited and should be used effectively, particularly in a period characterised by increased healthcare demands.</p

Evaluation of telemedicine in patients suspected of acute coronary syndrome at a non-invasive centre

Introduction: The benefits of prehospital electrocardiograms (ECG) for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are well-known. Evaluation of the present algorithm for prehospital ECG transmission is important to ensure correct and expeditious patient care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate ECGs transmitted from the prehospital setting to a non-invasive department of cardiology. Methods: At Lillebaelt Hospital, the cardiologist on-call evaluated and entered the transmitted ECGs and the associated transmission criteria into the Clinical Measurement System database (KMS). Furthermore, data from the KMS and the diagnoses at discharge were obtained from 2012 to 2015. Results: A total of 9,751 ECGs were included in the study. ECG transmission increased by 35% from year one to year three (p &lt; 0.05). A total of 362 patients (3.7%) had STEMI. 25% of all ECGs were transmitted without any obvious cardiac symptom but produced a diagnosis of other cardiac illnesses than acute coronary syndrome in 28% of these patients. The number of ECGs sent per adult inhabitant in the area per year was 1:85. Conclusions: A large number of ECGs are transmitted annually and at an increasing rate, and STEMI only comprises a very limited proportion of all transmitted ECGs to a non-invasive centre in Denmark. The high number of ECGs challenge the available resources, which are limited and should be used effectively, particularly in a period characterised by increased healthcare demands.</p

A new procedure to measure children's reading speed and accuracy in Italian

Impaired readers in primary school should be early recognized, in order to asses a targeted intervention within the school and to start a teaching that respects the difficulties in learning to read, to write and to perform calculations. Screening procedures inside the primary schools aimed at detecting children with difficulties in reading, are of fundamental importance for guaranteeing an early identification of dyslexic children and reducing both the primary negative effects - on learning - and the secondary negative effects - on the development of the personality - of this disturbance. In this study we propose a new screening procedure measuring reading speed and accuracy. This procedure is very fast (it is exactly one minute long), simple, cheap and can be provided by teachers without technical knowledge. On the contrary, most of the currently used diagnostic tests, are about 10 minutes long and must be provided by experts. These two major flaws prevent the widespread use of these tests. On the basis of the results obtained in a survey on about 1500 students attending primary school in Italy, we investigate the relationships between variables used in the screening procedure and variables measuring speed and accuracy in the currently used diagnostic tests in Italy. Then, we analyze the validity of the screening procedure from a statistical point of view and with an explorative factor analysis we show that reading speed and accuracy seem to be two separate symptoms of the dyslexia phenomenon

Evaluation of telemedicine in patients suspected of acute coronary syndrome at a non-invasive centre

Introduction: The benefits of prehospital electrocardiograms (ECG) for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are well-known. Evaluation of the present algorithm for prehospital ECG transmission is important to ensure correct and expeditious patient care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate ECGs transmitted from the prehospital setting to a non-invasive department of cardiology. Methods: At Lillebaelt Hospital, the cardiologist on-call evaluated and entered the transmitted ECGs and the associated transmission criteria into the Clinical Measurement System database (KMS). Furthermore, data from the KMS and the diagnoses at discharge were obtained from 2012 to 2015. Results: A total of 9,751 ECGs were included in the study. ECG transmission increased by 35% from year one to year three (p &lt; 0.05). A total of 362 patients (3.7%) had STEMI. 25% of all ECGs were transmitted without any obvious cardiac symptom but produced a diagnosis of other cardiac illnesses than acute coronary syndrome in 28% of these patients. The number of ECGs sent per adult inhabitant in the area per year was 1:85. Conclusions: A large number of ECGs are transmitted annually and at an increasing rate, and STEMI only comprises a very limited proportion of all transmitted ECGs to a non-invasive centre in Denmark. The high number of ECGs challenge the available resources, which are limited and should be used effectively, particularly in a period characterised by increased healthcare demands.</p

MOSAiC und weiter: Digitalisierung und nachhaltige Nutzung von Forschungsdaten in der Polarforschung

Die MOSAiC-Expedition war die größte Polarexpedition, die je durchgeführt wurde. Mehr als ein Jahr driftete das Forschungsschiff Polarstern durch den Arktischen Ozean und erhob dabei unzählige Forschungsdaten. Die Umsetzung stellte große logistische und technische Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig setzte das Projekt Meilensteine in der Digitalisierung der MOSAiC-Daten. Das vorhandene Datenrepositorim PANGEA wurde als Datenbasis für die Abspeicherung der erhobenen und gewonnenen Daten genutzt. Das Datenmanagement hatte ein frühestmögliches Teilen der Daten zum Ziel. Außerdem stand von Anfang an das Datenmanagement als ein Teil von open science und einer frühen Datenzitierbarkeit. Ab 2023 sollen alle MOSAiC-Daten im Repositorium frei verfügbar sein. MOSAiC ist der bisher größte Anwendungsfall für das Projekt Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI)

Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa

This article charts the trip made by civil rights leader Bayard Rustin to West Africa in 1952, and examines the unpublished ‘Africa Program’ which he subsequently presented to leading American pacifists. I situate Rustin’s writings within the burgeoning literature on black internationalism which, despite its clear geographical registers, geographers themselves have as yet made only a modest contribution towards. The article argues that within this literature there remains a tendency to romanticize cross-cultural connections in lieu of critically interrogating their basic, and often competing, claims. I argue that closer attention to the geographies of black internationalism, however, allows us to shape a more diverse and practiced sense of internationalist encounter and exchange. The article reconstructs the multiplicity of Rustin’s black internationalist geographies which drew eclectically from a range of Pan-African, American and pacifist traditions. Though each of these was profoundly racialized, they conceptualized race in distinctive ways and thereby had differing understandings of what constituted the international as a geographical arena. By blending these forms of internationalism Rustin was able to promote a particular model of civil rights which was characteristically internationalist in outlook, nonviolent in principle and institutional in composition; a model which in selective and uneven ways continues to shape our understanding of the period