Development Of Toolkit Research Articles

Translating Violence Prevention Programs from Research to Practice: SafERteens Implementation in an Urban Emergency Department.

Youth violence is a leading cause of adolescent mortality, underscoring the need to integrate evidence-based violence prevention programs into routine emergency department (ED) care. To examine the translation of the SafERteens program into clinical care. Hospital staff provided input on implementation facilitators/barriers to inform toolkit development. Implementation was piloted in a four-arm effectiveness-implementation trial, with youth (ages 14-18 years) screening positive for past 3-month aggression randomized to either SafERteens (delivered remotely or in-person) or enhanced usual care (EUC; remote or in-person), with follow-up at post-test and 3 months. During maintenance, ED staff continued in-person SafERteens delivery and external facilitation was provided. Outcomes were measured using the RE-AIM implementation framework. SafERteens completion rates were 77.6% (52/67) for remote and 49.1% (27/55) for in-person delivery. In addition to high acceptability ratings (e.g., helpfulness), post-test data demonstrated increased self-efficacy to avoid fighting among patients receiving remote (incidence rate ratio [IRR] 1.22, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.09-1.36) and in-person (IRR 1.23, 95% CI 1.12-1.36) SafERteens, as well as decreased pro-violence attitudes among patients receiving remote (IRR 0.83, 95% CI 0.75-0.91) and in-person (IRR 0.87, 95% CI 0.77-0.99) SafERteens when compared with their respective EUC groups. At 3 months, youth receiving remote SafERteens reported less non-partner aggression (IRR 0.52, 95% CI 0.31-0.87, Cohen's d -0.39) and violence consequences (IRR 0.47, 95% CI 0.22-1.00, Cohen's d -0.49) compared with remote EUC; no differences were noted for in-person SafERteens delivery. Barriers to implementation maintenance included limited staff availability and a lack of reimbursement codes. Implementing behavioral interventions such as SafERteens into routine ED care is feasible using remote delivery. Policymakers should consider reimbursement for violence prevention services to sustain long-term implementation.

The Pain at Work Toolkit for Employees with Chronic or Persistent Pain: A Collaborative-Participatory Study.

Self-management tools for people with chronic or persistent pain tend to focus on symptom reporting, treatment programmes or exercise and do not address barriers to work, facilitators of work ability, or workplace pain self-management strategies. We developed the Pain at Work (PAW) toolkit, an evidence-based digital toolkit to provide advice on how employees can self-manage their pain at work. In a collaborative-participatory design, 4-step Agile methodology (N = 452) was used to co-create the toolkit with healthcare professionals, employers and people with chronic or persistent pain. Step 1: stakeholder consultation event (n = 27) established content and format; Step 2: online survey with employees who have persistent pain (n = 274) showed employees fear disclosing their condition, and commonly report discrimination and lack of line manager support. Step 3: online employer survey (n = 107) showed employers rarely provide self-management materials or education around managing pain at work, occupational health recommendations for reasonable adjustments are not always actioned, and pain-related stigma is common. Step 4: Toolkit development integrated findings and recommendations from Steps 1–3, and iterative expert peer review was conducted (n = 40). The PAW toolkit provides (a) evidence-based guidelines and signposting around work-capacity advice and support; (b) self-management strategies around working with chronic or persistent pain, (c) promotion of healthy lifestyles, and quality of life at work; (d) advice on adjustments to working environments and workplace solutions to facilitate work participation.

Understanding Resident, Family, and Staff Safety Priorities to Guide Development of an Engagement Toolkit

Resident and family engagement (the desire, ability, and activation as a partner in care) is a necessary component of keeping assisted living (AL) residents safe. Barriers to engagement include differing priorities between the resident/family and staff. This presentation outlines the results of a content analysis of qualitative interviews with 105 AL staff, residents, and family members, in which we examined AL stakeholder priorities for safety. Qualitative interviews were analyzed to first identify safety priorities by stakeholder type (staff, resident, and families), and then compared across stakeholder group. Stakeholder-specific safety priorities were identified, including infection management (COVID-19 and others), medications errors, falls, elopement, lack of AL resources/staffing, conflict, adverse events, nutrition, physical hazards, building security, chemical agents, fire/natural disasters, and abuse/neglect – the importance of these priorities vary by stakeholder type. Presentation discussion will include implications for future intervention to address the top safety problems in AL.

Tools to Enhance Resident and Family Engagement in Assisted Living Safety: A Scoping Review.

This presentation reports the results of a scoping review which identified and evaluated existing engagement strategies, tools, and interventions for their fit with assisted living (AL). Using the PRISMA criteria, we evaluated 54 empirical studies in assisted living/residential care or nursing homes (NH) for how they engaged families and residents, promoted person-centered and/or safety in AL/NH care, and assessed relevant outcomes (safety, experience, service use, satisfaction with care, health behaviors, and quality of life). The strategies, tools, and interventions aimed to improve residents’ activities of daily living, function, and quality of life. Studies also targeted staff and family caregivers to increase knowledge, improve relationships, and decrease caregiving stress. Overall, the studies reported statistically significant changes in resident quality of life, agitation, antipsychotic use, staff knowledge and job satisfaction. Results from this systematic review will inform the development of a testable toolkit to increase engagement and improve safety in AL.

Team-based care Evaluation and Adoption Model (TEAM) Framework: Supporting the comprehensive evaluation of primary care transformation over time.

To introduce the new Team-based care Evaluation and Adoption Model (TEAM) Framework. The initial TEAM Framework was derived from a series of reviews and consultations with academic and clinical experts. In a parallel process, team-based primary and community care evaluation in Canada was assessed through a structured review of academic literature, followed by a review of policy literature of existing primary care evaluation frameworks. The review of academic articles alongside an analysis of policy documents and existing evaluation frameworks in primary care resulted in the development of the 10-dimension TEAM Framework. Primary care transformation requires evaluation over time. The TEAM Framework provides a comprehensive framework for assessing evidence needed to support short- and long-term actionable improvements for team-based primary and community care in Canada. This framework will inform the development of an evaluation tool kit for primary care teams.

Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Kathleen M. Pike.

APA's Committee on International Relations in Psychology (CIRP) is pleased to present the 2021 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology to Dr. Kathleen M. Pike. Over a nearly 40-year career, Dr. Pike has worked with scholars and research centers around the world. Having conducted valuable and high-quality scholarship around the world, she delivered the keynote address, about the global burden of mental health, at the 2014 G-20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia. In her current role as Director of the Columbia-WHO Center for Global Mental Health, she continues to work tirelessly for the advancement of psychological science as a pathway to improve the lives of people everywhere. This is evident in her development of an evidence-based online toolkit for supporting mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, her establishment of the Global Mental Health Scholars Program, and her founding of the Global Mental Health Small Grants Program. She has taught over a thousand students from more than 60 countries, laying the groundwork for future generations to continue this important work. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Harnessing the power of the electronic health record for ALS research and quality improvement: CReATe CAPTURE-ALS and the ALS Toolkit.

The electronic health record (EHR) is designed principally to support the provision and documentation of clinical care, as well as billing and insurance claims. Broad implementation of the EHR, however, also yields an opportunity to use EHR data for other purposes, including research and quality improvement. Indeed, effective use of clinical data for research purposes has been a long-standing goal of physicians who provide care for patients with ALS, but the quality and completeness of clinical data, as well as the burden of double data entry into the EHR and into a research database, have been persistent barriers. These factors provided motivation for the development of the ALS Toolkit, a set of interactive digital forms within the EHR that enable easy, consistent, and structured capture of information relevant to ALS patient care (as well as research and quality improvement) during clinical encounters. Routine use of the ALS Toolkit within the context of the CReATe Consortium's institutional review board-approved Clinical Procedures to Support Research in ALS (CAPTURE-ALS) study protocol, permits aggregation of structured ALS patient data, with the goals of empowering research and driving quality improvement. Widespread use of the ALS Toolkit through the CAPTURE-ALS protocol will help to ensure that ALS clinics become a driving force for collecting and aggregating clinical data in a way that reflects the true diversity of the populations affected by this disease, rather than the restricted subset of patients that currently participate in dedicated research studies.

THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO DEFINING THE CONCEPT OF "FINANCIAL RESULTS"

The article discusses various approaches and basic regulatory documents that interpret the concept of "financial results". In the context of increased competition, accounting is one of the main functions of managing the economic activities of an enterprise, which leads to the need to develop an information system, improve its organizational structure. It has been proven that the purpose of accounting for the financial results of an enterprise is observation, identification, registration, processing, interpretation and transmission of information to external and internal users. It was revealed that the continuous circulation of funds, carried out through the expenditure of resources and the receipt of income, their distribution and use, is the goal of most enterprises to minimize costs and maximize income. It was determined that the industrial sector is one of the leading sectors of the economy and is characterized by the complexity of technological processes, focus on meeting the needs of the population. It was found that the profitability of industrial enterprises has been ambiguous in recent years (in 2020, the number of profitable enterprises – 71%; unprofitable – 29%). Therefore, profit accounting is the most important indicator of financial results. It is proved that income and expenses are interrelated factors in the formation of the enterprise's profit and on the basis of their data determine the financial condition and solvency, the efficiency of using the material and financial resources of the enterprise. Own understanding of the concept of financial results has been formed. It has been established that there are unexplored questions. The analysis showed that the approaches to the definition of the term in the literature of Ukrainian scientists and regulatory documents "financial result" are ambiguous. It is concluded that the problem in this area needs to be investigated in the future and there is a need for constant development and improvement of Ukrainian legislation. An important issue in improving the current state documents is the specification and detailing of concepts and terms, the development of a unified methodological toolkit for business entities.

National Needs Assessment for a Pediatric Trauma Toolkit: General Requirements for Moderate- and High-Volume Hospitals.

Optimal outcomes have been reported for children treated at pediatric trauma centers; however, most children are treated at nonpediatric trauma centers or nonpediatric general hospitals. Hospitals that are not verified or designated pediatric trauma centers may lack the training and level of comfort and skill when treating severely injured children. This study focused on identifying common pediatric guidelines for standardization across all trauma centers to inform a pediatric trauma toolkit. A needs assessment survey was developed highlighting the guidelines from an expert committee review. The purpose of the survey was to prioritize needed items for the development of a pediatric trauma toolkit. Professional trauma organizations distributed the survey to their respective memberships to ensure good representation of people who care for traumatically injured children and work in trauma centers. Deidentified survey results were analyzed with frequencies and descriptive statistics provided. Data were compared by hospital trauma verification level using a chi-square test. The value of p < .05 was considered statistically significant. A total of 303 people responded to the survey. The majority of respondents reported a high value in the creation of a pediatric trauma toolkit for the guidelines that were included. There was variability in the reported access to the guidelines, indicating a significant need for the toolkit development and dissemination. As expected, Level III centers reported the largest gaps in access to standardized pediatric guidelines and demonstrated high levels of interest and need.

A new perspective in e-learning training toolkit development for advanced textile research centres in Morocco and Jordan

This paper presents an overview of training/learning tools for advanced textile research centres in Morocco and Jordan. Within the Erasmus+ FOSTEX project, the main courses necessary for the training of researchers and students enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs in Morocco and Jordan and who will work within the advanced research centres have been identified and selected. Starting from good European practices on learning, teaching, research and testing services, several courses have been structured that offer knowledge on international conformity certification, standardization, quality management, testing/inspection, labelling, integration of technical specifications, testing physical-mechanical, colour resistance testing, tests specific to instrumental analysis and development of advanced materials. In order to improve the skills of human resources (research staff, masters and doctoral students), the Erasmus+ FOSTEX consortium has developed an extensive toolkit of learning-training, thematic workshops and services appropriate to the equipment purchased by partners in Morocco and Jordan for research centres in the field of advanced textiles.

Development of a Rapid and Sensitive CasRx-Based Diagnostic Assay for SARS-CoV-2.

The development of an extensive toolkit for potential point-of-care diagnostics that is expeditiously adaptable to new emerging pathogens is of critical public health importance. Recently, a number of novel CRISPR-based diagnostics have been developed to detect SARS-CoV-2. Herein, we outline the development of an alternative CRISPR nucleic acid diagnostic utilizing a Cas13d ribonuclease derived from Ruminococcus flavefaciens XPD3002 (CasRx) to detect SARS-CoV-2, an approach we term SENSR (sensitive enzymatic nucleic acid sequence reporter) that can detect attomolar concentrations of SARS-CoV-2. We demonstrate 100% sensitivity in patient-derived samples by lateral flow and fluorescence readout with a detection limit of 45 copy/μL. This technology expands the available nucleic acid diagnostic toolkit, which can be adapted to combat future pandemics.

Food Insecurity on College and University Campuses: A Context and Rationale for Solutions

Food Insecurity on College and University Campuses: A Context and Rationale for Solutions

Mapping the path forward to next generation algal technologies: Workshop on understanding the rules of life and complexity in algal systems

Algal technology offers enormous potential as a source of renewable biomass and bioproducts for fuels, biochemicals, nutrients, and numerous other applications. While tremendous opportunities exist, significant challenges are also present in harnessing and utilizing this valuable and potentially sustainable bioproduction platform. Funded by a joint partnership between the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) at the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), the recent virtual workshop, “Understanding the Rules of Life: Complexity in Algal Systems Workshop,” was organized to bring together thought leaders from academia, national laboratories and other government agencies, and industry to identify key challenges and propose research strategies to overcome these barriers. Two parallel sessions were undertaken: 1) algae strain and toolkit development and 2) algal ecosystem and microbiome dynamics, in order to advance algae engineering and cultivation efforts. In each session, attendees discussed the most pressing challenges from the perspective of model systems and omics analysis. Themes such as genetic engineering toolboxes, translation from the laboratory to outdoor cultivation, functional genomics, metabolomics, algal ecology, consortial design, microbiome dynamics, mathematical models, and data analytics emerged from the discussion. Overall, this workshop has served to elucidate the key hurdles and many opportunities present as we continue to advance algal science and technology from the laboratory and into the commercial realm.

SCCM/ACCM Guideline and Toolkit Development Pathways.

SCCM/ACCM Guideline and Toolkit Development Pathways.

Natural language processing for under-resourced languages: Developing a Welsh natural language toolkit

Language technology is becoming increasingly important across a variety of application domains which have become common place in large, well-resourced languages. However, there is a danger that small, under-resourced languages are being increasingly pushed to the technological margins. Under-resourced languages face significant challenges in delivering the underlying language resources necessary to support such applications.This paper describes the development of a natural language processing toolkit for an under-resourced language, Cymraeg (Welsh). Rather than creating the Welsh Natural Language Toolkit (WNLT) from scratch, the approach involved adapting and enhancing the language processing functionality provided for other languages within an existing framework and making use of external language resources where available.This paper begins by introducing the GATE NLP framework, which was used as the development platform for the WNLT. It then describes each of the core modules of the WNLT in turn, detailing the extensions and adaptations required for Welsh language processing. An evaluation of the WNLT is then reported. Following this, two demonstration applications are presented. The first is a simple text mining application that analyses wedding announcements. The second describes the development of a Twitter NLP application, which extends the core WNLT pipeline.As a relatively small-scale project, the WNLT makes use of existing external language resources where possible, rather than creating new resources. This approach of adaptation and reuse can provide a practical and achievable route to developing language resources for under-resourced languages.

Development and Evaluation of an Online Toolkit for Managers of 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Centers to Reduce Occupational Stress.

This article describes the development and evaluation of an online workplace stress reduction toolkit for use by managers of 9-1-1 emergency communication centers (ECCs). A three-step process for development and testing of digital learning resources was used: (1) establishing need and focus through ECC manager stakeholder engagement, (2) pretesting of the toolkit with the target ECC manager audience, and (3) toolkit utilization and evaluation. The toolkit was developed in close partnership with stakeholders throughout the entire process. Toolkit usage was documented via registration data. The evaluation utilized an online survey that included closed and open-ended questions, which were analyzed using descriptive statistics and qualitative thematic analysis. Over a 20-month period, 274 people registered for the toolkit and, of those, 184 (67%) accessed the content. Respondents to the evaluation survey (N = 156) scored the toolkit highly on satisfaction, self-efficacy, and perceived utility measures. Survey respondents reported intent to apply toolkit content through the following: providing organizational resources to help workers take better care of themselves (41%); creating a lower stress worksite environment (35%) and sharing resources with staff to (1) reduce stress (19%), (2) support conflict resolution (21%), and (3) prevent and/or stop bullying (17%). In delivering actionable content to ECC managers, the toolkit shows promise in addressing and mitigating occupational stress in ECCs. Further research needs to determine the relationship of this strategy for reducing ECC stress.

Development and Implementation of an Immune Suppression Toolkit to Guide Nephrology Fellow Medication Prescribing and Monitoring

Development and Implementation of an Immune Suppression Toolkit to Guide Nephrology Fellow Medication Prescribing and Monitoring

Evaluation of Online Programmes: Constructing the SEA-EU Toolkit

The COVID-19 pandemic brought online learning to the forefront of education across the globe. Educational institutions were forced to develop and deliver online programmes of study at a manner and pace that left many unprepared. A year and a half into the pandemic, the need for review and evaluation of swiftly developed online programmes is clearly indicated. This paper presents the process of developing a toolkit for evaluating online programmes by academics from the six partners of the European University of the Seas (SEA-EU) project. The toolkit provides a user-friendly guide for educators, managers and stakeholders in the education field, seeking to assess the quality of online programmes. The toolkit development process is extensively described in order to highlight its potential and the usefulness of collaborative work amongst international academic partners.

Initiate.collaborate: a design for health collaboration toolkit

The emerging Design for Health (D4H) field has considerable potential to identify and address existing challenges faced by healthcare systems. D4H is a challenging environment for designers (and others who desire to ‘do things differently’) to work in. D4H projects require transdisciplinary approaches, making it more difficult for those who come from different perspectives to work effectively together. This paper reflects on the challenges and opportunities of those working in the field and describes the development of a practical toolkit to support teams embarking on D4H projects.

CN38 Development of an advocacy toolkit for cancer nurses

Cancer nurses have an important role in advocating both for nurses and for patients. They are of great importance in advocating for patients, being their voice and educating them. However, nurses also have a significant role in advocating for nurses on the level of education and policymaking. Cancer nurses can be leaders in different facets within their profession. In caring for patients, they have a vital role in prevention, education, raising awareness and caring for patients and their significant others.