Escape Room with a Twist: Designing an Interprofessional, Active Learning Experience with a Focus on Specific Healthcare Professions.

Engagement of all students in an interprofessional learning activity is crucial to the overall success of the event. Due to limited diversity of healthcare disciplines, academic programs on regional medical campuses face particular challenges to create events where all students can have an active role in learning experiences. To meet the interprofessional education needs of all healthcare disciplines on a regional medical campus, a learning event was designed to purposefully involve each group of students to solve an escape room/scavenger hunt experience.

Interprofessional Students' Perspectives on Culinary Medicine Training: Intentions from Plate to Practice.

Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the impact a culinary medicine teaching activity had on interprofessional healthcare students' knowledge, confidence, and intent to apply practical dietary principles in practice.

Methods: Thirteen interprofessional students ( = 13) completed a 3-h, hands-on culinary medicine session focused on recipe conversion and nutritional coaching skills to modify a favorite comfort food into a significantly more nutritious, Mediterranean diet-based meal. Participants produced variations of a recipe to gain a deeper understanding of how diet modifications that consider both taste and nutritional value can treat health conditions.

The Haunted House Experience: Developing a Home Health Assessment Training Utilizing an Interprofessional, Interinstitutional Virtual Simulation.

To meet the interprofessional education needs of students during the COVID-19 pandemic, universities transitioned to virtual options. For many universities, this transition was challenging and time-consuming. The Arkansas Interprofessional Education Consortium (ARIPEC) combined resources to create a novel learning experience for students with a focus on the skill of home assessment.

Pilot Implementation of Adapted-Family Diabetes Self-Management Education Into a Clinical Setting.

Marshallese are a Pacific Islander community that experience a disproportionate rate of type 2 diabetes. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the preliminary effectiveness and feasibility of an Adapted-Family Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) intervention among Marshallese adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and their family members when delivered in a clinical setting. Marshallese patients (primary participants) with type 2 diabetes (n = 10) and their family members (n = 10) enrolled in a pilot study deigned to evaluate an Adapted-Family DSME curriculum conducted by community health workers and a certified diabetes educator in a clinical setting.

First Do No Harm: Ethical Concerns of Health Researchers That Discourage the Sharing of Results With Research Participants.

Health researchers and health research participants support the sharing of research results; however, results are typically only shared through peer-reviewed publications. Few studies have investigated researchers' ethical concerns related to sharing results with research participants. An explanatory approach was used to explore the ethical concerns researchers may have with returning aggregate results to research participants.

Identifying and Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Medication Adherence Among Marshallese Adults in Arkansas.

Significant health disparities are present in Marshallese adults residing in the United States, most notably a high incidence of type 2 diabetes and other chronic conditions. There is limited research on medication adherence in the Marshallese population. This study explored perceptions of and experiences with medication adherence among Marshallese adults residing in Arkansas, with the aim of identifying and better understanding barriers and facilitators to medication adherence.

Health Research Participation, Opportunity, and Willingness Among Minority and Rural Communities of Arkansas.

Prior research suggests that rural and minority communities participate in research at lower rates. While rural and minority populations are often cited as being underrepresented in research, population-based studies on health research participation have not been conducted. This study used questions added to the 2015 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to understand factors associated with i) health research participation, ii) opportunities to participate in health research, and iii) willingness to participate in health research from a representative sample (n = 5,256) of adults in Arkansas.