Broadening the View of Holistic Care: Integrating Arts and Humanities Into Physician Assistant Education.

Introduction: The integration of arts and humanities (A&H) into physician assistant (PA) preclinical curriculum may enhance student performance and improve their patient rapport. Arts and humanities content could promote the personal and professional qualities we desire in clinicians including competence, compassion, and empathy. The aim of this research was to determine what PA students report learning from A&H modules designed to foster personal insight and perspective-taking.

Flipped teaching transition to online teaching by STEM educators during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 necessitated online teaching (OT) during the second half of the spring 2020 semester. The perceptions of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) faculty of OT at a two-year (2-YI) and a four-year (4-YI) institution were examined during this sudden switchover. One group of educators had received flipped teaching (FT) training (FTEs, = 23), whereas the other group was practicing traditional teaching (TTEs, = 18).

Presence of children in the home and intimate partner violence among women seeking elective pregnancy termination.

Introduction: Growing evidence identifies adverse health effects for children who witness intimate partner violence at home. Research has also identified that women seeking elective pregnancy termination are at high risk for partner violence. However, little is known about the risk for violence exposure among the children of women seeking elective pregnancy termination.

Motivational interviewing and intimate partner violence: a randomized trial.

Purpose: To determine if motivational interviewing (MI) improves self-efficacy (primary outcome), depressive symptoms (secondary outcome), and stage-of-readiness-to-change (secondary outcome) among women in abusive relationships.

Methods: Randomized controlled trial among women who experienced intimate partner violence in a current relationship over the past 12 months. Subjects were recruited from two family planning clinics (December 2007 to May 2010).

Rural disparity in domestic violence prevalence and access to resources.

Objective: Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a significant health issue in the United States and worldwide. The majority of studies on IPV have been conducted in urban populations. The objectives of this study are to determine if prevalence, frequency, and severity of IPV differ by rurality and to identify variance in geographic access to IPV resources.

Prevalence of intimate partner violence among an abortion clinic population.

In this cross-sectional, clinic-based study, we estimated 1-year prevalence of intimate partner violence among 986 patients who had elective abortions. We assessed physical, sexual, and battering intimate partner violence via self-administered, computer-based questionnaires. Overall, physical and sexual intimate partner violence prevalence was 9.

Monitoring and reducing exposure of infants to pollutants in house dust.

The health risks to babies from pollutants in house dust may be 100 times greater than for adults. The young ingest more dust and are up to ten times more vulnerable to such exposures. House dust is the main exposure source for infants to allergens, lead, and PBDEs, as well as a major source of exposure to pesticides, PAHs, Gram-negative bacteria, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, phthalates, phenols, and other EDCs, mutagens, and carcinogens.

Tiagabine is associated with sustained attention during sleep restriction: evidence for the value of slow-wave sleep enhancement?

Study Objectives: To evaluate the impact of enhanced slow-wave sleep (SWS) on behavioral, psychological, and physiologic changes resulting from sleep restriction

Design: A double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled design was used to compare tiagabine, 8 mg, (a SWS-enhancing drug) to placebo during 4 nights of sleep restriction (time in bed = 5 hours per night). Behavioral, psychological, and physiologic measures of the impact of sleep restriction were compared between groups at baseline, during sleep restriction, and following recovery sleep.

Setting: Two sleep research laboratories.

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the suprasellar area: a case report and review of the literature.

Intra-axial involvement of the brain by an epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is rare, and biological properties of the tumor are uncertain. Most of the primary brain manifestations are confined to the cerebral hemispheres. We report magnetic resonance imaging and microscopic findings of a case of suprasellar involvement by an epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.

The diameter-cube hypothesis: a new biophysical model of aneurysm rupture.

Background: Recent discussions on the relationship between intracranial aneurysm diameter and rupture probability have focused on the presence of an apparent critical diameter of 10 mm for aneurysm rupture. Despite the fact that many investigators have argued against the existence of this critical diameter, no one has yet proposed a viable alternative concept. In this report we present a scientifically rigorous alternative concept, that the size-specific rupture probability (RP) of an aneurysm varies as the third power of the aneurysm diameter.

The Seattle-King County healthy homes project: implementation of a comprehensive approach to improving indoor environmental quality for low-income children with asthma.

Pediatric asthma is a growing public health issue, disproportionately affecting low-income people and people of color. Exposure to indoor asthma triggers plays an important role in the development and exacerbation of asthma. We describe the implementation of the Seattle-King County Healthy Homes Project, a randomized, controlled trial of an outreach/education intervention to improve asthma-related health status by reducing exposure to allergens and irritants in the home.

Evaluation of three smoke detector promotion programs.

Context: Seventy percent of U.S. residential fire deaths occur in homes without a working smoke detector.

Intracarotid pressure measurements in the evaluation of a computer model of the cerebral circulation.

Background: It is difficult to predict which patients will tolerate occlusion of the internal carotid artery. This difficulty arises primarily because of uncertainties in the prediction of the adequacy of collateral circulation. Because of these uncertainties, balloon test occlusion and other methods have been developed to determine a priori the safety of carotid occlusion.

A multiplicative statistical model predicts the size distribution of unruptured intracranial aneurysms.

A statistical model for characterizing the erratic nature of aneurysm evolution is developed and tested. This model is based upon a multiplicative hypothesis, whereby it is theorized that the progressive changes in the size of a given aneurysm are determined by random multipliers. Such a model would predict that within a large population of aneurysms, a lognormal histogram for aneurysm sizes would occur (i.