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Music And Medicine, Thomas Zink

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Music therapy is not a new concept, although its acceptance by the medical community as a clinical modality is just beginning to grow. This newfound acceptance is the result of recently emerging empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of music in a range of applications. Using music to aid learning, either in recovery from brain damage or to overcome neurological disorders is widely accepted. For instance, music has been used to help patients learn to speak after traumatic brain injury (Schlaug, 2009). Much of these music learning programs are based off the Tomatis method that uses specifically adapted music tracks to …

Community-Based Palliative Care: Trends, Challenges, Examples And Collaboration With Payers, Eric Wall Md, Mph

Palliative Care Institute

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Eric Wall is the Pacific Northwest Medical Director for United Healthcare overseeing quality and affordability initiatives in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Dr. Wall is a board-certified family physician with 35 years of practice experience. He was formerly the Senior Medical Director for Qualis Health and before that, the Vice-President for Medical Affairs at Lifewise Health Plan of Oregon.

Dr. Wall graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and completed his family medicine residency at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital. He then pursued a Masters of Public Health at the University of Washington after …

Nausea/Vomiting/Anorexia, Bree Johnston Md, Mph

Palliative Care Institute

By the end of this talk, the learner should be able to: –Identify anorexia as a common source of distress for both patients and caregivers –Discuss the importance of framing and exploring meaning when dealing with patients with anorexia –Discuss the prevalence of anorexia, nausea, and vomiting among patients with serious illness –Discuss the evidence for various pharmacologic approaches to anorexia, nausea, and vomiting –Discuss nonpharmacologic approaches to anorexia, nausea, and vomiting

Realities Of Advanced Medical Interventions, Koala (Maureen) Connelly Rn, Cathy Mcconechy

Palliative Care Institute

Strategies for sharing risks and benefits of advanced medical interventions and the implications for patients’ abilities to make informed decisions.

Understanding Death With Dignity Legislation: A Necessity For The Palliative Care Provider, Frances Derook Md

Palliative Care Institute

Evidence and experience to date of Death with Dignity in Washington and Oregon.

Program - Palliative Care Summer Institute: Helping Providers Heal Without Cure, Palliative Care Institute

Palliative Care Institute

No abstract provided.

Grant Peer Review: Improving Inter-Rater Reliability With Training, David N. Sattler, Patrick E. Mcknight, Linda Naney, Randy Mathis

Psychology Faculty and Staff Publications

This study developed and evaluated a brief training program for grant reviewers that aimed to increase inter-rater reliability, rating scale knowledge, and effort to read the grant review criteria. Enhancing reviewer training may improve the reliability and accuracy of research grant proposal scoring and funding recommendations. Seventy-five Public Health professors from U.S. research universities watched the training video we produced and assigned scores to the National Institutes of Health scoring criteria proposal summary descriptions. For both novice and experienced reviewers, the training video increased scoring accuracy (the percentage of scores that reflect the true rating scale values), inter-rater reliability, and …

What Is The Relationship Between Outdoor Time And Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, And Physical Fitness In Children? A Systematic Review, Casey Gray, Rebecca Gibbons, Richard Larouche, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Adam Bienenstock, Mariana Brussoni, Guylaine Chabot, Susan Herrington, Ian Janssen, William Pickett, Marlene Power, Nicholas Stanger, Margaret Sampson, Mark S. Tremblay

Environmental Studies Faculty and Staff Publications

The objective of this systematic review was to examine the relationship between outdoor time and: (1) physical activity, (2) cardiorespiratory fitness, (3) musculoskeletal fitness, (4) sedentary behaviour; or (5) motor skill development in children aged 3–12 years. We identified 28 relevant studies that were assessed for quality using the GRADE framework. The systematic review revealed overall positive effects of outdoor time on physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and cardiorespiratory fitness, although causality could not be assumed due to a lack of RCTs. Motor skill development was unrelated to outdoor time; however, this relationship was only examined in a single study of …

What Is The Relationship Between Risky Outdoor Play And Health In Children? A Systematic Review, Mariana Brussoni, Rebecca Gibbons, Casey Gray, Takuro Ishikawa, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Adam Bienenstock, Guylaine Chabot, Pamela Fuselli, Susan Herrington, Ian Janssen, William Pickett, Marlene Power, Nicholas Stanger, Margaret Sampson, Mark S. Tremblay

Environmental Studies Faculty and Staff Publications

Risky outdoor play has been associated with promoting children’s health and development, but also with injury and death. Risky outdoor play has diminished over time, concurrent with increasing concerns regarding child safety and emphasis on injury prevention. We sought to conduct a systematic review to examine the relationship between risky outdoor play and health in children, in order to inform the debate regarding its benefits and harms. We identified and evaluated 21 relevant papers for quality using the GRADE framework. Included articles addressed the effect on health indicators and behaviours from three types of risky play, as well as risky …

The Effect Of A Five-Week Exercise Intervention Using Emg Biofeedback On Scapular Stabilizer Muscle Activation And Scapular Kinematics., Samantha Gunderson

Scholars Week

This study investigated the effects of a five-week EMG biofeedback intervention on scapular stabilizer muscle activation, and scapular kinematics, in a healthy population. Twenty subjects participated in the study (n = 10 exercise with biofeedback, n = 10 exercise only). Both groups participated in exercises targeted at activating the serratus anterior and lower trapezius muscles three days a week for five weeks. The exercise with biofeedback group completed a biofeedback session once a week. All subjects were tested at baseline, week 6, and week 8 for muscle activation of the upper trapezius (UT), lower trapezius (UT), and serratus anterior (SA), …

White Paper: Northwest Life Passages - Improving Care For Patients With Serious Illness In Whatcom County, Bree Johnston, Chris Phillips, Waha Outpatient Palliative Care

Northwest Life Passages Coalition Documents

Northwest Life Passages (NWLP) is a new collaborative service that aims to address shortcomings in care and improve services for people with serious illness and their families. The proposal is to operationally couple the outpatient palliative care services already provided by PeaceHealth and Family Care Network (FCN) with community-based support services being developed by the Whatcom Alliance for Health Advancement (WAHA). It is further being proposed that PeaceHealth and WAHA pursue a collaborative fundraising strategy that calls for WAHA to focus on the development of the community-based services and PeaceHealth Foundation to pursue support for the expansion of clinical services.

Cochlear Implants: A Multi-Perspective Look At A Powerful Controversy, Ruth Tag

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Medical advancements have progressed to the point in which new organs can be printed from machines and placed in human beings giving them years more to live. Mechanical limbs are manufactured so that amputees can compete in the Olympic games. People who are born with a physical disability may be able to compensate through medical or surgical interventions, allowing for wider participation in society. These medical advancements challenge the way we define disability and more importantly how we define what is normal. For this paper, normal, or typical, will be defined as a person without a physical characteristic deviating from …

Perceived Risks Associated With Contraceptive Method Use Among Men And Women In Ibadan And Kaduna, Nigeria, Hilary Schwandt, Joanna Skinner, Luciana E. Hebert, Abdulmumin Saad

Fairhaven Faculty Publications

Research shows that side effects are often the most common reason for contraceptive non-use in Nigeria; however, research to date has not explored the underlying factors that influence risk and benefit perceptions associated with specific contraceptive methods in Nigeria. A qualitative study design using focus group discussions was used to explore social attitudes and beliefs about family planning methods in Ibadan and Kaduna, Nigeria. A total of 26 focus group discussions were held in 2010 with men and women of reproductive age, disaggregated by city, sex, age, marital status, neighborhood socioeconomic status, and—for women only—family planning experience. A discussion guide …

The Value Of Refining A Threshold Concept, Michael Fraas

Backward by Design Mini-Studies

In the summer of 2012, I had the privilege of attending the Backwards By Design workshop, where I was introduced to the “threshold concept” (Cousin, 2006). I learned how the use of this approach could shift the ontological and conceptual dimensions of students’ perspectives. That fall, I implemented the threshold concept into my undergraduate CSD 401 Writing Lab. My intention was for students to gain perspective into the lives of survivors of acquired brain injuries. I hoped the assignment would help them develop empathy for the types of clients they would work with one day as burgeoning speech-language pathologists.

Stuttering In The Movies: Effects On Adolescents' Perceptions Of People Who Stutter, Terrylandrea Miller

WWU Graduate School Collection

This study examined the effects of different portrayals of people who stutter on adolescents’ perceptions of people who stutter (PWS). Participants viewed either neutral or negative portrayals of stuttering taken from major motion pictures. Participants completed a bipolar adjective pair scale both before and after viewing either the negative or the neutral video sample. Data was analyzed using between group comparisons (MANOVA) and within group comparisons. Results indicated that the portrayal of stuttering influenced participant perceptions, with those viewing the negative video sample having more negative perceptions of PWS and those viewing the neutral video sample having slightly more positive …

Exploring A Threshold Concept In Kinesiology 306 Course, Harsh Buddhadev

Backward by Design Mini-Studies

In Fall 2015, the new 5-credit KIN 306 course was created by combining old KIN 306 and 301 classes (3-credits each). This is the first course completed by all students pursuing a major in Kinesiology. Prior to Fall 2015, all Kinesiology majors completed two separate introductory 3-credit courses KIN 301 and KIN 306. The old KIN 306 course introduced students to theories of measurement and evaluation and various health and sport related aspect of fitness. The KIN 301 course, introduced the process of conducting a systematic search of research literature on health and sport related aspect of fitness and it …