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Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Of Secondary Schools Teachers Toward Psychological Support To Their Students: Sample From Baghdad, Zainab Hadi, Sahar Al-Shatari

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

 BACKGROUND:There are obvious effects of war trauma on students 'life performance causing long lasting impact when occur before adulthood. Early recognition and treatment are vital.AIM:To assess knowledge, attitude and practice of secondary school teachers’ toward psychological support to their student and the factors that affect them.METHODS:Cross sectional study conducted in Baghdad 2018 by using a structured questionnaire developed upon WHO guidelines and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies guideline for psychological support.  A total of 235 teachers completed the questionnaire. RESULT:Mean age of participants was 44.51±9.17 years, 75.7% were female, 70.2% college graduate, 72.8%married, 80.1% had …

Analysis Of Thyroid Function Abnormalities Induced By Pembrolizumab In Patients With Advanced Malignancies, Moez Mobarek, Ibrahim Al-Shamary, Mazin Ibrahim

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

Pembrolizumab is an effective anticancer immunotherapy. It is generally well tolerated although immune-related adverse events can occur. Autoimmune thyroid dysfunction is the most common one among these events. Several evidences suggested that pembrolizumab can induce thyroid dysfunction after several treatment cycles. The aim of the study is to evaluate the incidence and risk factors of thyroid function abnormalities related to pembrolizumab therapy.This is a multicenter prospective study including 100 patients with different cancers who initiated pembrolizumab treatment. Demographic data was collected in addition to the number of treatment cycles, history of thyroid surgery, thyroid disease, chemotherapy and steroid treatment. Baseline …

Area Deprivation Index And Segregation On The Risk Of Hiv: A U.S. Veteran Case-Control Study, Abiodun O Oluyomi, Angela L Mazul, Yongquan Dong, Donna L White, Christine M Hartman, Peter Richardson, Wenyaw Chan, Jose M Garcia, Jennifer R Kramer, Elizabeth Chiao

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BACKGROUND: Preventing HIV infection remains a critically important tool in the continuing fight against HIV/AIDS. The primary aim is to evaluate the effect and interactions between a composite area-level social determinants of health measure and an area-level measure of residential segregation on the risk of HIV/AIDS in U.S. Veterans.

METHODS: Using the individual-level patient data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, we constructed a case-control study of veterans living with HIV/AIDS (VLWH) and age-, sex assigned at birth- and index date-matched controls. We geocoded patient's residential address to ascertain their neighborhood and linked their information to two measures of …

Evaluation Of The Effect Of Varicoceles On Testicular Stiffness By Shear Wave Elastography, Raad Abedtwfeq, Aws Khudhur

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT:BACKGROUND: Varicocele is a disease characterized by abnormally engorged veins of the pampiniform plexus.                     The prevalence of varicocele is approximately 15% in adult males. Multiple classification systems are available for grading varicoceles, all of them are non-ideal. Ultrasound elastography (USE) is a new imaging technology that examines tissue stiffness. Elasticity imaging by USE provides stiffness measurement as additional information to conventional US.AIM OF THE STUDY: Is to examine changes in testicular stiffness in varicocele in an attempt to assess the role of Shear wave elastography in testicular varicoceles and to provide additional diagnostic data to further improve and unify a …

Do We Need Sub Specialization In Medicine?, Hadi Al Khalili

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

Over the recent decades, we have seen an explosion in scientific knowledge, and medical technology has made it difficult for individuals to keep up with the current advancement.  This explosion has established the need for sub specialization.  Historically, the practice of medicine went through historical phases. In Mesopotamia, there were two types of doctors: Asu, the scientific doctor, and Asipu, the temple healer. Both were treating people, dentists, and veterinarians.(1) Egyptian medicine was as advanced with some specialization.(2)

Psychiatric Consequences Of Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients In Iraq: A Preliminary Report, Hussein Meften, Rafid Al Zaidy, Marwa Ahmed, Lubna Naji, Mushtaq Hashim, Nesif Al Hemiary, Jawad Al-Diwan

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT:BACKGROUND:World Health Organization (WHO) termed coronavirus disease 2019 COVID-2019, then declared it as a pandemic. It was documented that survivors of COVID-19 were at risk of developing anxiety, depression, and insomnia. This study was carried out to report on prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and identifying some determinants.PATIENTS AND METHODS:A total of 120 patients with COVID-19 were included in this study. Their age was 22 to 91 years giving male to female ratio of 1.6:1. They were selected conveniently (they were hospitalized in  Al-Shafa center). The hospital anxiety and depression scale was used.RESULTS:Out of the total, 66% and 52.9% were showing …

The Predictors Of Taxane Induce Peripheral Neuropathy As A Side Effect In Breast Cancer Patients Among Iraqi Women, Ahmed Mahmood, Alaa Alawad

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT:BACKGROUND:Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death. Worldwide, breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the chief cause of cancer death among females.The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines recommend taxanes for the treatment of early-stage and metastatic breast cancer. Peripheral neuropathy is a common non-hematological side effect of taxanes, which may result in chemotherapy delays, reductions, discontinuations and poor quality of life. Taxane-induce peripheral nerve damage can lead motor and sensory symptoms. Initial detection of peripheral neuropathy simplifies complete …

Transmountain Diversion In The Forest Wilderness: Natural History Is Human History, José A. Rivera Ph.D

Faculty Publications

The case study details how an adjudication involving the water rights of Indigenous pueblos downstream of rights held by Hispano irrigators led to a prolonged conflict not with the pueblos but between Cuba valley farmers and the United States Forest Service. It happened that an adjudication decree in federal court mandated the Nacimiento Community Ditch Association to replace its diversion located in a wilderness forest with a modern structure to partition water equitably among all users on the Jémez River. The transmountain diversion, as it was called, took water out of the Jémez basin and dropped it to a canyon …

The Zanjeras Of Ilocos In The Northern Philippines: A Legacy Of Sustainable Resource Management, José A. Rivera Ph.D

Faculty Publications

Zanjeras are farmer-managed irrigation systems that have endured for centuries in the Ilocos region of northern Luzon in the Philippines. These cooperative irrigation societies emerged during the Spanish regime when Augustinians were deployed to congregate indigenous populations into pueblos, convert them to Christianity, and raise tributes for the Crown. Zanjeras evolved from a blending of two traditions: the Iberian model of irrigation and indigenized practices of water-for-land exchanges with landowners and atar-holdings to distribute shares among the members. Like other community-based irrigation systems in Southeast Asia and globally, zanjeras are self-governed, long-enduring, and serve as exemplary models of …

Identifying Systemic Errors In Refilling Insulin To Prevent Another Hospitalization: An Rca, John Butler, Mikayla Button, Jared Fincher, Rakin Solaiman, Michael Woodfin

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Code Status In The Inpatient Setting, Alyssa Harper, Travis Fisher, Marjorie Schoen, Caroline Pappas, Ian May

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Improving Metabolic Monitoring During Transfers Of Care For Psychiatric Patients Discharged From The Inpatient Psychiatric Residency Service On An Antipsychotic Medication – Part 2, Allison Cohen, Anisha Boetel

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Treating Opioid Use Disorder: One Shot At A Time, Shelly Haferkamp, Michael P. Kinney, Daniel Yang, Lindsey Cunningham, Anna Davey, Amy G Burns

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Preventing Chf Hospitalizations In Patients With Dementia, John Beale, Zoe Tartz, Jackson Harley, Tory Starzyk, Matthew Kennedy, Colleen Zimmermann

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Transition From Estimated Blood Loss To Quantitative Blood Loss In Labor And Delivery, Taylor K. Stewart, Brigette Schuman

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The Intake Jailbreak Evaluation Of An Admission-Focused Residency Team, Alex Crist, Kang X Zhang

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Benzodiazepine-Minimizing Protocol For Alcohol Withdrawal: A Comparative Analysis, Jennifer Gaston, Hsin-Fang Li, Emily J Cox, Caitlin Klamper, John F Wurzel

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Value And Ongoing Quality Improvement Of The Journal Club In Im Residency, Kang X Zhang, Cody Howdeshell

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Spontaneous Rupture Of A Previously Asymptomatic Giant Angiomyolipoma, Reed Ritterbusch

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Discrepancies In Age-Based Medication Dosing, Chad Ruger, Anne Keeling, Sera Jacob, Cassidy Macarthur

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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Microneedling Plus Clobetasol Propionate 0.05% Cream Versus Clobetasol Propionate 0.05% Cream Alone In The Treatment Of Alopecia Areata, Husam Salman, Aliaa Hameed

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT:BACKGROUND:Alopecia areata is an inflammatory, non-scaring type of hair loss. Microneedling is a new therapeutic procedure used in dermatology. It facilitates the absorption of topical therapies across the epidermis.AIM OF STUDY:Evaluating the efficacy of Microneedling combined with clobetasol propionate 0.05% cream versus clobetasol propionate 0.05% cream alone in treatment of alopecia areata.PATIENTS AND METHODS:This study was carried out on 20 patients and the total number of patches was 99. In the same patient,              at least 2 patches were selected to be treated as group A or B; so, the 99 patches were divided in to two groups.Group A: Microneedling combined …

Effects Of Habitat Management On Rodent Diversity, Abundance, And Virus Infection Dynamics, Nathaniel Mull, Amy Schexnayder, Abigail Stolt, Tarja Sironen, Kristian M. Forbes

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

As anthropogenic factors continue to degrade natural areas, habitat management is needed to restore and maintain biodiversity. However, the impacts of different habitat management regimes on ecosystems have largely focused on vegetation analyses, with limited evaluation of downstream effects on wildlife. We compared the effects of grassland management regimes (prescribed burning, cutting/haying, or no active management) on rodent communities and the viruses they hosted. Rodents were trapped in 13 existing grassland sites in Northwest Arkansas, USA during 2020 and 2021. Rodent blood samples were screened for antibodies against three common rodent-borne virus groups: orthohantaviruses, arenaviruses, and orthopoxviruses. We captured 616 …

Can Changing Neighborhoods Influence Mental Health? An Ecological Analysis Of Gentrification And Neighborhood-Level Serious Psychological Distress—New York City, 2002–2015, Karen A. Alroy, Haleigh Cavalier, Aldo Crossa, Shu Meir Wang, Sze Yan Liu, Christina Norman, Michael Sanderson, L. Hannah Gould, Sung Woo Lim

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

Neighborhood conditions influence people’s health; sustaining healthy neighborhoods is a New York City (NYC) Health Department priority. Gentrification is characterized by rapid development in historically disinvested neighborhoods. The gentrification burden, including increased living expenses, and disrupted social networks, disproportionally impacts certain residents. To ultimately target health promotion interventions, we examined serious psychological distress time trends in gentrifying NYC neighborhoods to describe the association of gentrification and mental health overall and stratified by race and ethnicity. We categorized NYC neighborhoods as hypergentrifying, gentrifying, and not-gentrifying using a modified New York University Furman Center index. Neighborhoods with ≥100% rent growth were hypergentrifying; …

An Alternative To The Privation Theory Of Evil, Alexander R. Pruss

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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A New Aesthetic Argument For Theism, Noah Mckay

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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The Impeccability Of Christ, Divine Omnipotence, And Moral Perfection, Andrew Ter Ern Loke

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Jeffrey Hanson And Sharon Krishek, Eds., Kierkegaard’S The Sickness Unto Death: A Critical Guide, Sergia Hay

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Mark Siderits, The Buddha’S Teaching As Philosophy, Paul A. Macdonald Jr.

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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On The Same Team: Technical Services And Student Success Tackle Textbook Affordability, Mallory Jallas, Julie A. Murphy, Rachel Park, Rachel E. Scott, Anne Shelley

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, student textbook access and affordability have emerged as areas of focus for academic libraries to support student success. Librarians across departments at a public four-year institution developed a program to leverage campus information about textbook selection to inform library e-book purchases. The resulting eTextbook collection became an invaluable resource for students during the pandemic and created a direct connection between the work of Technical Services and Student Success. This presentation provides an overview of the project, discusses assessment elements, and highlights the vital aspects of collaboration within an academic library for student success.

Leadership Across The Career Continuum: Using Self-Reflection Effective Leadership Practices For Optimal Team Functioning, Emily Bonanni, Grant M. Latta, Michael Platt, Christine Irvin, Angela Etzenhouser, Megan Collins, Sian Best, Jonathan Ermer, Joy L. Solano, Jacqueline M. Walker

Presentations

Have you ever found yourself in a formal or informal leadership role and felt underprepared because of a lack of formal leadership training? Have you noticed unused potential in those around you and wondered how you maximize it? As academic pediatricians, we are identified as leaders by patients and their families, trainees of all levels, members of our multi-disciplinary care teams, and our peers. We are a group of passionate clinician educators who have found ourselves in both formal and informal leadership roles and have found success in these roles with leadership training. Our interactive workshop will give you the …