Publications by authors named "Virginia Taylor"
Background This project investigates a music intervention to deprescribe antipsychotics in rural Veterans with dementia. Methods The Veterans Health Administration Home-Based Primary Care Program is care provided in the home by an interdisciplinary team with the goals of decreasing hospitalizations and falls, providing education to patients and caregivers, and improving quality of life. Eighteen Home Based Primary Care Veterans with dementia and active antipsychotic prescriptions were identified with the goal to deprescribe antipsychotics in 50% of them using a music intervention.
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- Maternal diabetes increases the risk of negative outcomes for both mothers and their offspring, and this study investigated whether changes in uterine decidualization in prepubertal offspring from diabetic rats could be influenced by diets including extra virgin olive oil (EVOO).
- The study involved mating control and mildly diabetic female rats with control males and analyzing their offspring after dietary regulation, focusing on key signaling pathways and microRNAs that affect uterine decidualization.
- Results indicated that offspring from diabetic mothers had disrupted signaling pathways in the uterus, but these negative effects were largely mitigated by the inclusion of EVOO in the maternal diet.
Rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are disproportionately burdened by a pervasive lack of access to safe drinking water. Widespread programmatic failure in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) sector has resulted in particularly slow progress in alleviating these challenges in the region. Drawing from decolonial and participatory methodological scholarship, this research demonstrates how geographically and demographically specific, locally controlled, and long-term educational programming can improve health and wellness outcomes when associated with a technological intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Canine-assisted therapy (CAT) has been used in many settings with much success, yet no study has assessed its feasibility and receptiveness in hospitalized patients awaiting heart transplantation.
Methods: Patients admitted to our institution with a status I for heart transplantation during a 12-month period (April 2014-April 2015) were prospectively included in a feasibility pilot study. Patients were included if there was no history of transmittable disease or active infectious process and consented for study participation.
Background: To determine whether exercise performance changed over time once patients stabilized after heart transplantation, metabolic stress testing was performed in patients one and two yr post-heart transplantation.
Methods: The patient cohort includes those transplanted in our program who survived at least two yr and were able to perform metabolic stress tests during their one- and two-yr annual evaluations. Standard stress test parameters were assessed, including weight, body surface area, rest and exercise heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP), exercise time, anaerobic threshold (AT), and maximum VO2 (MVO2).