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Teaching Behavioral Pain Management To Healthcare Professionals: A Systematic Review Of Research In Training Programs, Jill E. Maclaren, Lindsey L. Cohen
Teaching Behavioral Pain Management To Healthcare Professionals: A Systematic Review Of Research In Training Programs, Jill E. Maclaren, Lindsey L. Cohen
Psychology Faculty Publications
Pain is a common and potentially debilitating condition. Whereas there is vast literature on developmentally appropriate behavioral techniques for pain management, results of curriculum evaluations and knowledge surveys reveal a dearth of awareness of these strategies in healthcare professionals. As a result, the development and evaluation of pain management training programs is an important endeavor. Results of studies evaluating such programs are promising and suggest that training may be an effective means of impacting healthcare professionals’ knowledge, attitudes, and even patient care. These results must be interpreted with caution however, as the literature contains several conceptual and methodological limitations. These …
Assessing Medical Room Behavior During Infants’ Painful Medical Procedures: The Measure Of Adult And Infant Soothing And Distress (Maisd), Lindsey L. Cohen, Rebecca S. Bernard, Catherine B. Mcclellan, Jill E. Maclaren
Assessing Medical Room Behavior During Infants’ Painful Medical Procedures: The Measure Of Adult And Infant Soothing And Distress (Maisd), Lindsey L. Cohen, Rebecca S. Bernard, Catherine B. Mcclellan, Jill E. Maclaren
Psychology Faculty Publications
This study evaluated the Measure of Adult and Infant Soothing and Distress (MAISD) for examining infant, parent, and nurse behavior during infants’ immunizations. Videotapes of 62 infants, parents, and nurses during immunizations were coded. Concurrent validity and reliability for the MAISD were demonstrated. The scale revealed that infants displayed predominately distress, and adults exhibited primarily reassurance. Parents’ and nurses’ distractions were positively related to infants’ engaging in distraction, and parents’ and nurses’ reassurance was positively associated with infant distress. There appear to be avenues in which to intervene to teach parents and nurses how to best behave to help infants …
The Woodcock Reading Mastery Test: Impact Of Normative Changes, Hye Kyeong Pae, Justin Coy Wise, Paul Cirino, Rose Sevcik, Maureen Lovett, Robin Morris, Maryanne Wolf
The Woodcock Reading Mastery Test: Impact Of Normative Changes, Hye Kyeong Pae, Justin Coy Wise, Paul Cirino, Rose Sevcik, Maureen Lovett, Robin Morris, Maryanne Wolf
Psychology Faculty Publications
This study examined the magnitude of differences in standard scores, convergent validity, and concurrent validity when an individual’s performance was gauged using the revised and the normative update (Woodcock, 1998) editions of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test in which the actual test items remained identical but norms have been updated. From three met- ropolitan areas, 899 first to third grade students referred by their teachers for a reading in- tervention program participated. Results showed the inverse Flynn effect, indicating systematic inflation averaging 5 to 9 standard score points, regardless of gender, IQ, city site, or ethnicity, when calculated using the …
Evaluation Of The Double-Deficit Hypotheses In College Students Referred For Learning Difficulties, Paul Cirino, Mary K. Morris, Robin Morris, Marlyne K. Israelian
Evaluation Of The Double-Deficit Hypotheses In College Students Referred For Learning Difficulties, Paul Cirino, Mary K. Morris, Robin Morris, Marlyne K. Israelian
Psychology Faculty Publications
The present study explored the double-deficit hypothesis (DDH) in a sample of 146 college students with and without reading disabilities (RD). The results indicated that although both phonological awareness (PA) and visual naming speed (VNS) contributed to performance on measures of decoding and comprehension, their relative contribution was influenced both by the nature of the stimulus (word vs. nonword vs. text) and by the conditions of the task (timed vs. untimed). Similar results were obtained using an individual differences approach, or when between-group comparisons were made of individuals with deficits in PA or VNS. The relative representation of DDH subgroups …
Relationship Between Home Literacy Environment And Reading Achievement In Children With Reading Disabilities, Robin Morris, Rose Sevcik, Fontina Rashid
Relationship Between Home Literacy Environment And Reading Achievement In Children With Reading Disabilities, Robin Morris, Rose Sevcik, Fontina Rashid
Psychology Faculty Publications
Past research has indicated that a significant relationship exists between young children’s early home literacy environment and their reading-related skills. However, this relationship has rarely been investigated among older children with reading disabilities (RD). In the present study, the relationship between parent and child home literacy activities and children’s academic functioning was investigated with a sample of 65 elementary-age children with RD. The results indicated that children’s home literacy activities were not significantly related to any of their academic abilities, whereas parents’ home literacy activities were significantly related to children’s passage comprehension and spelling scores. However, relationships between home literacy …