Effects of study abroad on cultural and interprofessional competencies.

Background: Healthcare professionals require personal and professional skills that include the ability to provide care to diverse populations and to collaborate across disciplines to deliver culturally sensitive quality care. International learning experiences can provide opportunities for students in health professions to work and learn collaboratively across disciplines.

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to measure the effect of a short-term Costa Rican study abroad experience on interprofessional and cultural competencies of occupational therapy (OT) and nursing students.

Online Focus Groups with Parents And Adolescents with Heart Transplants: Challenges and Opportunities.

Pediatric heart transplant recipients are scarce and widely dispersed. Previous studies of adolescents in this population were limited to small homogenous samples. Although online focus groups are an emerging data collection method, its use in pediatric populations has not been fully realized.

Transition to self-management after pediatric heart transplant.

Context: Little is known about adolescent transition to self-management after heart transplant. This gap in knowledge is critically important because the consequences of poor self-management are costly and life-threatening, often resulting in nonadherence, rejection, repeated hospitalizations, and poor quality of life.

Objective: To explore how adolescents and parents perceive their roles in self-management, and how adolescents integrate self-management into their daily lives and navigate the transition from parent-dominated to self-management.

"It has its ups and downs": adolescents' quality of life after heart transplantation.

Context: Heart transplantation is not curative and results in a high-morbidity chronic illness. Despite this, little research has focused on adolescents' quality of life after heart transplant. Such research is critically needed because of the complex developmental changes experienced by adolescents and the need for transition to self-management during this vulnerable period.

The relationship of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition.

The purpose of this study was to compare scores on the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS) with scores on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition (WAIS-III) in a group of college students diagnosed with a Learning Disability, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or a combination of the two. The RIAS Composite Index score was significantly higher than the WAIS-III Full Scale IQ, although scores on both tests were in the average range. Correlations between the two tests were significant on all measures.

Constantly responsible, constantly worried, constantly blessed: parenting after pediatric heart transplant.

Context: Very little research has focused on the long-term caregiving demands associated with parenting a child after a transplant or on the parents' perceptions of those demands.

Purpose: To describe parents' experiences parenting a school-aged child after heart transplant.

Design: Focused ethnography.

The impact of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Louisiana school nurses.

In the fall of 2005, the coast of Louisiana was devastated by two hurricanes, Katrina and Rita. Not only did these natural disasters have detrimental effects for those directly in their path, the storms had an impact on the lives of everyone in Louisiana. The professional practice of many Louisiana school nurses was affected by several factors, including a sudden influx of students with no medical records.

Camp nursing: rewards and challenges.

Every summer, millions of children attend summer camp, bringing with them flashlights, sleeping bags, bug spray, and a wide array of acute and chronic medical conditions. Registered nurses provide care to these children in an environment that is fun-filled, rewarding, and challenging. Familiarity with camp settings, as well as with expectations of the nurse at camp, are important because the demands are quite different from traditional nursing practice.

Stimulant medications: a trade-off? The lived experience of adolescents with ADHD.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to gain information and insight about prescription stimulant medication use among children and adolescents with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across developmental stages.

Design And Methods: Investigators conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with 15 college students with ADHD. Follow-up interviews confirmed and validated information obtained during initial interviews.

The relationship between behavioral inhibition and time perception in children.

Purpose: To test one component of Barkley's (1997) model of executive functions by examining the relationship between behavioral inhibition and time perception in children.

Method: Correlation analysis was used to determine the relationships between measures of behavioral inhibition and time perception for the entire sample, and for boys (n = 34) and girls (n = 26) separately.

Findings: For both parent and child measures, behavioral inhibition and time perception scores were correlated for the total group and for girls.

Effect of methylphenidate on time perception in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

The effects of methylphenidate (MPH) on performance of a time-production task were studied in 17 children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder who participated in 1 test session on and 1 off MPH. Participants held a response lever down for at least 10 but no longer than 14 s. Administration of MPH had no effect on the number of correct responses or on the mean duration of lever holds.

Time perception differences in children with and without ADHD.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to compare time perception in children with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with use of a time reproduction task.

Methods: The sample consisted of 60 children (30 with ADHD and 30 without ADHD) ranging in age from 9 to 12 years. Children were asked to watch a light, verbally estimate how long the light was illuminated, and hold a lever in a depressed position for the same amount of time they thought the light was on.