A blueprint for telerehabilitation guidelines.

Telerehabilitation refers to the delivery of rehabilitation services via information and communication technologies. Clinically, this term encompasses a range of rehabilitation and habilitation services that include assessment, monitoring, prevention, intervention, supervision, education, consultation, and counseling. Telerehabilitation has the capacity to provide service across the lifespan and across a continuum of care.

Binge drinking in African American males from adolescence to young adulthood: the protective influence of religiosity, family connectedness, and close friends' substance use.

We examined the contribution of culturally relevant protective factors (i.e., adolescent religiosity, family connectedness, and perceived close friends' substance use) to the probability of young adult binge drinking among African American males.

Brief report: the number of sexual partners and race-related stress in African American adolescents: preliminary findings.

The current study examined the association between the number of lifetime sexual partners and race-related stress among African American 201 high school juniors and seniors at two urban high schools in the Southeastern region of the country. Students completed the Index of Race-Related Stress-Brief (IRRS-B) and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). African American male adolescents reported higher race-related stress and a higher number of sexual partners compared to African American females.

A pilot telerehabilitation program: delivering early intervention services to rural families.

The enTECH Telerehabilitation Program explored the use of telerehabilitation as an alternative service delivery model for early intervention therapy services. Utilizing the Kentucky Telehealth Network, two families living in rural Kentucky received occupational therapy services over a 12-week period. Following program implementation, qualitative data was collected using participant journals and interviews.

Disposition toward critical thinking among occupational therapy students.

The ability to think critically is an important outcome of education. The disposition, or internal motivation, to think critically strongly influences the development of critical thought. Students (N = 79) at three levels of education in one program were administered the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI).

My journey through Project LEAD.

The author described valuable skills learned as a Project LEAD Fellow that enhanced her leadership and professional development and helped her become a more effective leader at her home institution. Leadership concepts and principles learned from Project LEAD workshops were implemented by the author as she collaborated with faculty to redesign the nursing curriculum to address multiple initiatives in the university and School of Nursing. The author shares insights on the use of leadership principles derived from the Project LEAD model developed by Bessent and Fleming (2003) and other noted Project LEAD consultants and discusses how these leadership principles provided guidance in the design and implementation of strategies to enhance students'outcomes in a newly created time-intensive scheduling format.

A comparison of the correlational structures and elevation patterns of the MMPI-2 restructured clinical (RC) and clinical scales.

The relationship between the MMPI-2 restructured clinical scales and the original clinical scales was evaluated using an outpatient clinical sample (N = 150). Similar patterns of correlations to those reported by Tellegen et al. in 2003, such as high correlations between the restructured scales and their original scale counterparts and lower intercorrelations among the restructured scales than among the original scales, were found in the outpatient sample.

Evidence for occupational therapy interventions: a student educational assignment.

As an educational assignment, two classes of graduate students who had recently completed Level II fieldwork listed interventions they had either witnessed or implemented at their sites. Interventions were then randomly assigned to a different group of graduate students in an upper level research class. Searching the literature from the past 10 years, students located the literature providing evidence for the efficacy of these interventions and categorized them according to five hierarchical levels of effectiveness.

Reciprocal teaching of social studies in inclusive elementary classrooms.

Reading comprehension relies on the use of metacognitive strategies. Reciprocal teaching has been found to be an effective comprehension technique to use with students with learning disabilities. This study examined the effectiveness of reciprocal teaching during social studies instruction with several students with learning disabilities in fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade inclusive classrooms.

Getting reluctant substance abusers to engage in treatment/self-help: a review of outcomes and clinical options.

This review examines the results from 19 outcome studies, involving 1,501 cases, within 10 different clinical approaches to getting alcohol or drug abusers to engage in treatment or self-help. Each approach is summarized and its "success rate(s)" presented. Comparisons are made across various subcategories, such as alcohol vs.

Can everyone be refreshed?

Although most inactive nurses enrolled in a registered nurse refresher course can safely and effectively be returned to active practice on completion of such a course, there is a small group for which this is not the case. The authors explored factors that could predict successful course completion and transition back to active practice. Although not statistically significant, three factors seemed to suggest areas for further study.

Reiki therapy: the benefits to a nurse/Reiki practitioner.

This study evaluates how nurses who gave Reiki therapy perceived the benefit of this therapy on their clients and on themselves concurrently as providers of the therapy. As an adjunct, the study's purpose was to enhance the understanding and credibility of nurse/Reiki practitioners.

Parameters for the treatment of urticaria and angioedema.

This month's CPG column reviews "The Diagnosis and Management of Urticaria: a Practice Parameter Part I: Acute Urticaria/Angioedema and Part II: Chronic Urticaria/Angioedema." As many as 15%-24% of the U.S.

Social support in pregnant and parenting adolescents: research, critique, and recommendations.

Unlabelled: ISSUE AND PURPOSE: Adolescent pregnancies continue to occur at an alarming rate in the United States, resulting in adverse outcomes for both the adolescent and her baby. Since social support has been shown to improve pregnancy and parenting outcomes, a critique of research in this area is presented.

Sources: Published literature.

Single-participant research design. Bringing science to managed care.

The ongoing transition to managed health care continues to have repercussions for health care providers, perhaps the most important of which is an emphasis on accountability for demonstrating the usefulness of clinical interventions. This requirement places a premium on intervention research and highlights the historically strained relationship between psychological research and professional practice. In the midst of this challenge, researchers have increasingly criticized the logic and practice of traditional null hypothesis significance testing.

The application of constructivism to concepts of occupation using a group process approach.

Students in an undergraduate occupational therapy program used the concepts of constructivism and the group process to select and decoupage chairs depicting varieties of occupations for one of four life span segments: infancy, adolescence, young adulthood and older adulthood. Students were not provided a set of specific guidelines to follow during the process but constructed their learning according to their creativity and hands-on application of classroom concepts. Student feedback indicated that, while they found the experience challenging, they enjoyed the process and learned a great deal not only about the group process but also about how to approach and solve unfamiliar problems.

Helping women caregivers obtain support: barriers and recommendations.

Women frequently assume the role of caregiver, and the demands of the caregiving role may lead to stress. Social support may moderate the effects of this stress. This article describes characteristics of effective social support, barriers to obtaining adequate support, and recommendations for how a woman in a caregiving role can obtain the support she needs.

Accountability and competence: occupational therapy practitioner perceptions.

Objective: Occupational therapy practitioners must meet ever-increasing accountability demands in all service delivery environments. Accountability is made possible through the ongoing development of continued competence throughout a practitioner's career. Behaviors that demonstrate accountability and reflect competence include commitment, leadership, and professional knowledge.

Guiding mothers of high-risk infants in obtaining social support.

The purpose of this article is to describe how nurses can assist the new mother of a high-risk infant, especially a preterm infant, in identifying and obtaining the social support needed to help the family adapt in the first few weeks after the birth. The interventions recommended are based on a research study conducted by the authors and colleagues and summarized within this article. Because support was more important than these mothers expected it to be, it is important that nurses in prenatal, postpartum, neonatal, home health, and extended care settings recognize the need to assist women in identifying their support needs.