University Work Research Articles

The Psychological Impacts of Taking Physiotherapy Teaching Online in 2020: What Did We Learn?

The rapid shift to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges for physical therapy (PT) education worldwide. This article aims to explore the factors influencing the well-being of the PT faculty and department chairs involved in delivering PT programs during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The literature has focused on the pedagogical impacts of the rapid shift to online learning. Little is known about the social and psychological impacts of this rapid transition on the well-being of the faculty involved in implementing PT programs. Physical therapy faculty and department chairs at 3 universities in metropolitan Sydney, Australia who taught into or led PT programs in 2020. Focus group methodology was used to explore the experiences of PT faculty and department chairs during the initial stages of the COVID pandemic. The focus groups were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim and the transcripts analyzed thematically. The main finding of this study was the extent of stress experienced by PT program faculty and chairs during this period. Both work-related institutional and faculty factors and non-work-related personal factors contributed to perceived high levels of stress. Overall, there was a feeling that the stressors had not improved over the duration of the pandemic and that this had left the faculty and chairs feeling more fatigued, less collegiate, and may have ongoing impacts on their mental health. The pandemic created stresses for faculty and program chairs over and above the usual stress of faculty and college work. The reality of taking steps to reduce the stressors in the current climate is very difficult. Moving forward, it is vital to secure increased institutional support, including the support for creating realistic boundaries without the risk of penalty, to address the psychological health and well-being of PT faculty and chairs to enable high-quality education in the future.

Review of “You’re Paid What You’re Worth And Other Myths of the Modern Economy”

In December of 2022, one of the largest strikes in US history was resolved after 48,000 academic workers represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) signed new agreements with the University of California (UC) system. The academic workers argued for large increases in pay by comparing their current stipends and salaries with the pay of highly educated workers outside of academia, the pay of academic workers in peer universities, the cost of living near the UC campuses, the price of other high-ticket items in the UC budget, and the value of the workers’ contributions to research and teaching missions. Negotiators for the UC system pointed to budget constraints and tradeoffs, including the specter of cuts to the number of academic workers (a disemployment argument) and large revenue shortfalls that would require raising tuition. In the end, academic workers’ pay increased, but not by as much as they requested. The UAW strike and the claims of each party illustrate the rhetoric often deployed in contests surrounding pay and “merit” in the US labor market. Jake Rosenfeld’s meticulously researched “You’re Paid What You are Worth, and Other Myths about the Modern Economy” (YPWYW) unpacks the pay-setting processes behind this rhetoric. His core argument is that worker pay is not the result of a careful, systematic, or accurate measurement of an individual worker’s productivity or contributions to their organization. Rather, it is the outcome of the interplay of power, norms of fairness, equity, and legal and institutional arrangements under capitalism. Indeed, the notion that you are paid “what you are worth” becomes a cultural trope that justifies large disparities in pay among workers, even those doing similar jobs, and makes them seem natural and inevitable.

COVID-19 Incidence and Vaccine Effectiveness in University Staff, 1 March 2020-2 April 2022.

Background: University workers undergo intense social interactions due to frequent contact with students and colleagues and lectures in crowdy conditions. The aim of our study was to assess the incidence of COVID-19 infection and vaccine effectiveness in a cohort of workers of the University of Trieste from 1 March 2020 (start of the pandemic) through 2 April 2022. Methods: The University of Trieste implemented a number of public health policies to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2 on the campus, including prompt contact tracing, enhanced ventilation of all premises, fomites disinfection and mandatory use of face masks indoors. In compliance with the surveillance protocol of the local public health department, university personnel were tested for SARS-CoV-2 by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on a nasopharyngeal swab on demand, in the event of symptoms consistent with COVID-19 or for contact tracing, following close contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case. The incidence rates of SARS-CoV-2 infections were estimated as number of cases by number of person-days (p-d) at risk. Multivariable Cox proportional hazard regression model was employed to investigate the risk of primary COVID-19 infection, controlling for a number of potential confounders and expressing the risk as the adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) with a 95% confidence interval (95% CI). Results: The incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among university staff was lower than that of healthcare workers (HCWs) of the same area. Compared to unvaccinated colleagues (6.55 × 10,000 p-d), the raw incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was higher among university workers immunized with one (7.22 × 10,000 p-d) or two (7.48 × 10,000 p-d) doses of COVID-19 vaccines, decreasing in those receiving the booster (1.98 × 1000 p-d). The risk of infection increased only in postgraduate medical trainees (aHR = 2.16; 95% CI: 1.04; 4.48), though this was limited to the Omicron transmission period. After the implementation of the national vaccination campaign against COVID-19, workers immunized with the booster were less likely than unvaccinated workers to be infected by SARS-CoV-2 both before (aHR = 0.10; 95% CI: 0.06; 0.16) and after (aHR = 0.37; 95% CI: 0.27; 0.52) the Omicron transmission period. Vaccine effectiveness of the booster was 90% (=(1-0.10) × 100) before versus 63% (=(1-0.37) × 100) during the Omicron wave, without a significant difference between homologous (three doses of m-RNA vaccines) and heterologous immunization (first two doses of Vaxzevria followed by a third dose of m-RNA vaccine). Conclusions: The incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in university staff was lower than that of HCWs of ASUGI, likely because the testing-on-demand schedule inevitably missed the vast majority of asymptomatic infections. Therefore, the observed significantly protective effect of the booster dose in university personnel referred to symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections. The infection prevention and control policies implemented by the University of Trieste managed to equalize the biological risk between administrative and teaching staff.

Promoting the research on the cultivation of college students' national concepts with the learning of the histories of the Party, New China, the reform and opening-up, and socialist development

Culturing college students' concepts of the country is an important part of the current ideological and political education work in colleges. The education of the histories of the Party, New China, the reform and opening-up, and socialist development, as an important work to enhance the education of college students' ideals and beliefs in the new era, contains rich and valuable resources for cultivating college students' concepts of the country. In the histories of the Party, New China, the reform and opening-up, and socialist development, the precious historical facts, heroic model resources, and historical law resources can be used for cultivating college students' concepts of the country. In the new journey of building socialist modernization in an all-round way, it is necessary to dig deep into the historical facts passed on in the histories of the Party, New China, the reform and opening-up, and socialist development to promote college students to deepen their understanding of the basic state construction and functions, and the heroic models passed on in the histories of the Party, New China, the reform and opening-up, and socialist development. The understanding of the national spirit and the historical laws transmitted in the histories of the Party, New China, the reform and opening-up, and socialist development promote college students to deepen their political identification with the socialist country with Chinese characteristics, and the ideals and beliefs transmitted in the histories of the Party, New China, the reform and opening-up, and socialist development promote college students to deepen their cognition of the country. Educating people with history not only has an important resource advantage in the ideological and political education work of college students, but also plays an important role in correcting and deepening the concepts of the country of young college students, so as to become qualified future socialist builders for young people, and build with a high-spirited attitude. The cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics is of great significance to promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Influence of Parental Rearing Style on the College Students' Psychological Resilience

Psychological resilience is a new concept emerging with the development of psychology. It is defined by Conner as an individual's ability to resist pressure and is an important indicator for the treatment of anxiety, depression and stress response. According to the current model of resilience, parenting style is an important influencing factor. However, most studies have focused on teenagers and young children and less on college students. College students are at a stage of maturing self-awareness where qualities such as psychological resilience are further developed. Therefore, this study regarded college students as the research object, using literature analysis to explore the relationship between parental rearing style and college students' psychological resilience. This can not only expand the research scope of parental rearing style and psychological resilience in theory but also have certain practical significance for personality education and willpower cultivation of college students, and to a certain extent, provide reference and reference for psychological counselling work in colleges and universities and psychological counselling units.

Proper Integration Study of Ideological and Political Education Based on Cultural Vision and Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture

Proper integration study of ideological and political education based on cultural vision and Chinese excellent traditional culture is discussed. We all know that culture is an important carrier for the spread of ideas. In a multicultural environment, we will be affected by it unconsciously. Although this is conducive to shaping an inclusive cultural concept. deological and political courses in colleges and universities are the key courses and "main fronts" for casting souls and educating people in the new era. They are the soul courses for strengthening and improving ideological and political work in colleges and universities. The textbooks are the basic projects for building soul projects. This paper gives the novel ideas for the construction of the solutions.

Lipid peroxidation and occupational stress among workers of a private university in northern Peru

Objective: To establish the relationship between occupational stress levels and the production of malondialdehyde (MDA), as a product of lipid peroxidation, among workers of Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo in Chiclayo. Materials and methods: A descriptive, correlational research. The sample consisted of 72 workers, 37 of whom wereprofessors and 35 administrative staff members. Plasma MDA was measured spectrophotometrically by thiobarbituric acid (TBA) reaction. To determine stress, the Occupational Stress Scale, developed by Ivancevich and Matteson in 1989 and adapted by Suárez in 2013, was used. The instrument had 25 items and seven dimensions: organizational climate, organizational structure, organizational territory, technology, leadership influence, lack of cohesion and group support. Results: Twenty-three men and 49 women participated in the research. The mean age was 45.1 years and the standard deviation was 11.33, with a minimum of 25 and a maximum of 68 years. The highest percentage of high occupational stress was observed in the dimensions leadership influence (19.40 %), organizational structure (16.70 %) and organizational territory (16.70 %). A total of 39 workers (54 %), 17 of whom were men and 22 were women, had high levels of MDA—i.e., plasma values higher than 3.94 μM. Spearman’s Rho at 95 % confidence interval showed that the correlation between MDA values and sex, working in another workplace and childcare at home were p = 0.08, p = 0.61 and p = 0.33, respectively; herefore, there was no statistical significance. Conclusions: Out of all workers, 54 % had high plasma levels of MDA. Although no statistically significant correlation was found, the dimensions leadership influence, organizational structure and organizational territory showed high stress levels on the order of 19.40 %, 16.70 % and 16.70 %, respectively.

Promoting Physical Activity and Health in the Workplace: A Qualitative Study among University Workers, Spain.

The social changes we have been experiencing in recent years are generating anxiety that, together with sedentary lifestyles and poor health habits, are leading to premature ageing of society, in addition to the high rates of obesity and associated morbidity. In order to improve the lifestyles of the university community, the objective of this research project was the implementation of the UAL Activa programme based on physical activity. The beneficiaries were UAL staff from different sections, a total of 68 participants aged between 28 and 61 years (Mage = 49.36). Additionally, a total of 12 final year students of the degree in physical activity and sport sciences were responsible for designing and developing the exercise tasks. In-depth interviews were held with the participants of this project about the different benefits that their participation had brought them. The results obtained from the analysis with Nvivo v.10. showed five thematic blocks on the perceived improvements in physical fitness, physical condition, mood and emotional state, assessment of the new lifestyle, and social relations. In conclusion, the benefits of physical activity and the need to continue implementing action and intervention plans to encourage and promote its practice in all sectors of the population were highlighted.

Ideological and Political Function Modeling of College Music Education Based on Improved Neural Network

In the new situation, the state attaches great importance to the ideological and political work in colleges and universities. In order to optimize the function of ideological and political education in colleges and universities, this paper puts forward a modeling method based on improved neural network. Combining ideological and political education with music education organically, this paper studies and calculates the influence relationship and optimizes the structure of ideological and political function model of university music education combined with neural network principle. It puts forward effective strategies to promote the integration of the two.

Participation in the National Campaign on Viral Hepatitis C and Non-Communicable Diseases among Administrative Workers of Ain Shams University, Egypt

Background: On the first of October 2018, the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) launched an initiative; named “100 Million Healthy Lives”, for nationwide screening of hepatitis c virus (HCV) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Egypt has the highest prevalence of HCV infection in the world where about 10% of the Egyptian population is affected by the disease. NCDs are the leading cause of mortality in Egypt and account for about 84% of all deaths. This study was conducted to a) Estimate the prevalence of participation in the national campaign on viral hepatitis C and non-communicable diseases among administrative workers in Ain shams University (ASU), b) Estimate the self-reported satisfaction of these participants with the campaign. Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 400 administrative workers of ASU faculties between March and August 2019 in Cairo, Egypt. A multistage random sample was done. Results: The study showed that 96% of the study group participated in the campaign. “Evaluating health status” was considered the main reason for participation at 92%, followed by "desire to obtain follow-up card", at 36%. Non-participation rate was about 4% and the main cause of non-participation was “fear of needle prick". About 91% of the participants were satisfied with the provided services. Mass media played a major role in awareness about the campaign for 91% of participants. Conclusions: The majority of the study group participated and was satisfied with the campaign. Mass media played a major role in participant awareness of the campaign.

Effectiveness of online advanced C.A.R.E suicide prevention gatekeeper training program among healthcare lecturers and workers in national university of Malaysia: A pilot study.

Suicide is a major cause of death among adolescents and young adults, especially students. This is particularly true for healthcare students with a higher risk and more access to lethal means. Thus, it is vital for healthcare educators who have regular contact with these healthcare students to be trained as gatekeepers in preventing suicide. Evidence of the effectiveness of such gatekeeper training, mainly using an online module, is lacking predominantly in Malaysia. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of an online gatekeeper suicide prevention training program that is conducted for healthcare lecturers. A single-arm interventional pre-and post-pilot study was conducted on a sample of healthcare lecturers and workers who are involved in supervising healthcare students. A purposive sampling technique was used to recruit 50 healthcare educators in Malaysia. The program was conducted by trained facilitators and 31 participants completed a locally validated self-rated questionnaire to measure their self-efficacy and declarative knowledge in preventing suicide; immediately before and after the intervention. Significant improvement was seen in the overall outcome following the intervention, mostly in the self-efficacy domain. No significant improvement was seen in the domain of declarative knowledge possibly due to ceiling effects; an already high baseline knowledge about suicide among healthcare workers. This is an exception in a single item that assesses a common misperception in assessing suicide risk where significant improvement was seen following the program. The online Advanced C.A.R.E. Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Program is promising in the short-term overall improvement in suicide prevention, primarily in self-efficacy.

The Role of New Media Technology in the Innovation of Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities

The 21st century is an era of rapid development of new media and new technology. How to make good use of new media and new technology to innovate the ideological and political work in colleges and universities, so as to enhance the sense of the times and enhance the appeal to college students is a huge problem faced by the ideological and political work in colleges and universities. At the same time, it has a great influence on the establishment of ideological and political education for all staff, all directions and the whole process, and realizes the comprehensive integration of reality and virtual education environment. Relying on new media technology, ideological and political education in colleges and universities should start from the macro level, establish an educational mechanism in which the other party participates, and gradually strengthen the professional information literacy of ideological and political teachers and the sense of participation of students in ideological and political learning.

A Career Recommendation Method for College Students Based on Occupational Values

The numerous recruitment information and the information asymmetry between college majors and work posts make it difficult for college students to seize the job opportunities that conform to their occupational values, and the employment success rate is always at a low level. The effect of current college student career recommendation systems is usually unsatisfactory, and the existing systems haven’t fully considered the role of college students’ occupational values in instructing their employment. To fill in this research blank, this paper studied a career recommendation method for college students based on occupational values. At first, the paper proposed a collaborative filtering algorithm based on the features of collect students’ occupational values, introduced a few features that can affect their occupational values, assigned weight values to these features, and gave the method for determining the weight. Then, based on the principle of the Kruskal’s algorithm (the minimum spanning forest), this paper modified the K-Means algorithm and clustered the features of occupational values. At last, the paper elaborated in detail the principle of generating career recommendation results for college students based on occupational values, and used experimental results to verify the correctness of the proposed career recommendation algorithm.

Cultivation through Management in Colleges and Universities in the New Era: Connotation, Characteristics and Functions

The cultivation with management work in colleges and universities is the basis and guarantee for the smooth development of other education work, is an important part of the education work in colleges and universities in the new era, and plays an important role in establishing morality and cultivating people. The connotation of cultivation with management in colleges and universities can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. The cultivation with management in colleges and universities has distinctive characteristics of systematic education process, integrity of education methods, diversity of education subjects, and refinement of education content. It is an important path for colleges and universities in the new era to make full use of its characteristics and give full play to the functions of ideological guidance, system guarantee, measure standardization and cultural edification of cultivation with management.

Research Ability of Academic Postgraduates Based on the Method of Optimum Index of Target Analysis Evaluation Research

The cultivation of the scientific research ability of postgraduates is the key factor to judge the quality of training on postgraduates in China, and the core element to promote the cultivation of high-quality talents and the development of high-tech in China. Therefore, by means of questionnaire survey, factor analysis and target analysis, the paper is committed to constructing the evaluation system of the scientific research ability of postgraduates and establishing the weight of index to make the scientific evaluation of their ability in scientific research. It aims to help teaching and research workers in university, management authorities and individuals establish a more scientific and reasonable model of postgraduate training.

Psychological Counseling Ability of College Ideological and Political Educators Based on Root Theory Exploration of Structure

Psychological counseling for college students has become one of the important contents of ideological and political education in current universities. The responsibility of ideological and political education workers is not only to strengthen and improve the objective requirements of ideological and political education for college students, but also to comply with the requirements of the era of quality education and promote the comprehensive development of college students. Thus, this paper selects 15 ideological and political educators in School R as the objects of this research, uses the Grounded theory method, and uses the qualitative analysis software Nvivo10 to conduct coding analysis and classification of interview data. Finally, 17 ability factors from six dimensions were preliminarily extracted, and 260 ideological and political education workers were randomly selected to participate in the questionnaire survey. Structural equation modeling software was used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis on the samples, hoping to establish a theoretical model of psychological counseling ability for ideological and political education workers in universities.

The Innovative Development Path of College Education Management Informatization in the Era of Big Data

The education management work in colleges and universities is gradually transforming in the direction of informatization. The informatization management mode is an important path for the new innovation and development of college education centers in recent years. In the era of big data, the school adopts an information-based management model to improve the management quality of the school and promote the information-based reform of campus management. At the same time, the management of colleges and universities should recognize the difficulties in the process of information management innovation, enhance the management personnel's innovative awareness of data application, promote the progress and development of the school education industry, and explore the effective path for the school's educational information management.

Research on the Strategy of Party Construction Work for College Students under the New Media Background

The party building work of college students is the top priority of political work in colleges and universities, but it has been affected by many factors in recent years, and its development stamina is obviously insufficient. In the new media era, while changing people's lifestyles, with its own advantages such as digitalization and interactivity, integration and penetration in higher education is more comfortable. It provides teachers and students with an interactive communication method and a three-dimensional network platform based on the network democracy mechanism of college students. The innovation of party building among college students has increased. The penetration of socialist ideas with Chinese characteristics has become more and more in-depth, which is more conducive to the training of qualified successors in social modernization.

Analysis on the Ideal and Faith Education of College Counselors in the New Era

Ideal and faith is the "master switch", is the direction, strength and support. As the ideological and political work team of the Party, college counselors are the backbone of the student work in colleges and universities, and shoulder the important mission of "cultivating people by virtue". Firm ideals and beliefs play a very important role in the problems encountered on the growth of college students in the new era and the society in the future. Therefore, starting from the overall situation of the development of the party and the country, it is urgent to strengthen the ideal and faith education of college counselors and improve the overall quality of the counselors. This paper will analyze the current situation of the ideal faith education, explore the strategies and methods of the ideal faith education in the new era, so as to enhance the effectiveness of the ideal faith education of college counselors.

IMPACTOS DO TREINAMENTO FUNCIONAL SOBRE O APRIMORAMENTO DA CAPACIDADE FÍSICA DOS ESTUDANTES UNIVERSITÁRIOS

ABSTRACT Introduction The physical health of college students in China is deficient. Efforts to improve the physical health of college students have become the focus of the national education department and the work of colleges and universities. Objective Analyze the impacts of functional training on college students’ physical fitness. Methods 180 college students were randomly selected into an experimental and control group. The experimental group received functional training, while the control group received no intervention. Mathematical statistics were used to compare and analyze the students’ fitness assessment indicators before and after the experiment. Results After functional exercise, the test data of various physical fitness of the experimental group of college students found the existing elements (P<0.05). Conclusion The functional physical training method improves the physical quality of college students. Functional training has a clear positive impact on physical fitness. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment outcomes.