The impact of attentional demands on audiovisual integration depends on task-specific components.

Research investigating how attentional demands impacts audiovisual (AV) integration has used a variety of multisensory tasks and procedures to manipulate attentional demands, leading to very differing results. Also, the secondary tasks used to increase attentional demands draw on the sensory modalities already being investigated; for example, a visual distracter task may be used to increase attentional demands in an audiovisual integration task. It is therefore not clear whether the additional task interfered with sensory processing or with audiovisual integration.

Burnout, compassion fatigue and work-related stressors among organ donation and transplantation coordinators: A qualitative study.

Aim: Organ and Tissue Donation Coordinators (OTDCs) are healthcare professionals who manage deceased organ donation cases. This study investigated the experiences and perceptions of OTDCs, pertaining to compassion fatigue, burnout, and resilience as it relates to their daily work.

Methodology: A qualitative descriptive study was undertaken using semi-structured interviews conducted with a convenience sample of OTDCs.

Effects of Audiovisual Memory Cues on Working Memory Recall.

Previous studies have focused on topics such as multimodal integration and object discrimination, but there is limited research on the effect of multimodal learning in memory. Perceptual studies have shown facilitative effects of multimodal stimuli for learning; the current study aims to determine whether this effect persists with memory cues. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect that audiovisual memory cues have on memory recall, as well as whether the use of multiple memory cues leads to higher recall.

"People in regular society don't think you can be a good mother and have a substance use problem": Participatory action research with women with substance use in pregnancy.

Objective: To work collaboratively with women accessing an integrated program for women with substance use in pregnancy to learn how services can be improved.

Design: Qualitative design using focus groups within a participatory action framework.

Setting: Sheway, a program located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, BC.

CENTRE: creating psychological safety in groups.

Background: Ten years of clinical and teaching experience has shown us that when teams or groups come together, it is often for a commonly understood and agreed upon purpose, but often without an agreed upon process of how to work together. Explicit guidelines in this regard promote psychological safety.

Context: This article presents a method of developing agreements that can be used in a variety of settings to create psychological safety and cohesion.