Family Vacation Research Articles

Do statutory holidays impact the number of opioid-related hospitalizations among Canadian adults? Findings from a national case-crossover study.

In Canada, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths due to opioid use have risen substantially in recent years. While these events have exhibited seasonal and day of week patterns, there have been no attempts to investigate the extent to which statutory holidays influence these patterns, particularly opioid-related hospitalizations. We applied a time-stratified case-crossover study design to investigate whether statutory holidays were predictive of opioid-related hospitalizations using the Canadian Discharge Abstract Database (excluding Quebec) for fiscal years 2011/2012 to 2016/2017. This design controls for day of week effects. We restricted analyses to opioid hospitalizations (ICD-10 codes: F11.x, T40.0-T40.4, and T40.6) among individuals 15years and older. Conditional logistic regression models were fit to estimate the odds of opioid-related hospitalization on holidays relative to non-holidays. We examined these patterns across different holiday types, namely social gathering holidays (e.g., Canada Day) and family holidays (e.g., Christmas). Stratified analyses were done to identify whether these associations varied by agegroup and sex. We identified a total of 59,965 opioid-related hospitalizations. Overall, we found a 12% reduced odds in opioid hospitalizations on holidays (odds ratio [OR] = 0.88, 95% CI 0.83, 0.93) relative to non-holidays. Similar reductions were observed for both family (OR = 0.86, 95% CI 0.79, 0.93) and social gathering holidays (OR = 0.90, 95% CI 0.84, 0.96). No substantive differences were noted by agegroup or sex. Our findings support the hypothesis that opioid-related hospitalizations occur less frequently on statutory holidays. This knowledge may help inform healthcare resources and health promotion activities to reduce the impacts of opioid use.

Beyond ‘a trip to the seaside’: exploring emotions and family tourism experiences

Family tourism is a key tourism segment, yet it is often taken for granted, and therefore passed over in contemporary research studies. Little research exists in the tourism literature that explores the experiential aspect of how families perform tourism in various spatial settings. Furthermore, the emotional aspects of such family tourism performances receive little attention. The concepts of existential authenticity and of ‘interpersonal authenticity’ are used to assess how families construct ideals of ‘their real’ (collective) selves, while on holiday at the beach, together. A case study of Brighton in the UK assesses family holiday experiences in a traditional British seaside resort. The primary research findings show that emotional connections are strengthened during family coastal holidays. These connections are not without complexity and contestation, particularly in terms of intra-family power relationships, gender and the social reproduction of domestic/holiday roles. The concept of quality time is revealed as a varied but important value in family tourism motivations. Wellbeing improvements (emotional, physical and psycho-social) are reported widely across the sample. The creation of memorable tourism experiences is shown to be a key driver for families as they attempt to come together away from the busyness of everyday stresses. Human-seascape interactions form a meaningful socio-spatial context for these explorations. The sea space itself facilitates the myriad of idealised expectations around family holiday connections. Deeper insights are therefore offered into a key tourism offering, ‘the family holiday’, through a lens that is often overlooked.

Young adult children traveling with parents: insights on conflict and its causes

ABSTRACT This study examined conflict in family trips taken by young adult children and parents and the causes of such conflict. A three-step analysis of the data derived from netnographic and interview approaches. The result revealed four types of conflict in both the pre-travel and in-transit travel stages which included travel choice and consumption, travel involvement level, schedule, and uncivil parental behavior. These conflicts appear to be caused by intergenerational differences and personal characteristics. The findings enrich the understanding of the complexity of family travel, revealing that family holiday is a demonstration of togetherness, yet it is also imbued with disagreements.

POST-CONSERVATION EVALUATION (PCE): FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF ADAPTIVE REUSE MUSEUMS IN GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA

Adaptive reuse of historic buildings has become a prominent trend in the scenario of built heritage conservation of Melaka and George Town, UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Malaysia. Such implementation however is questionable since there have been several dilemmas raised in relation to the local museum industry. Among them are stiff competition faced by museums as an attractive cultural product, not appealing to business funders, rarely favoured as a family holiday destination and being perceived as dull and old repositories by the younger generations. As adaptive reuse is known to revive the physical and functional facets of historic building which then contributes to its economic generation, this study attempts to understand the financial impact from such implementations. Post-conservation evaluation (PCE) focusing on financial performance was conducted on adaptive reuse museums in the Core Zone and Buffer Zone of George Town, involving Penang State Museum (PSM), Made in Penang Interactive Museum (MIPIM), Batik Painting Museum (BPM) and Dark Mansion-3D Glow in the Dark Museum (DM) which were shortlisted trough purposive sampling. Key informants’ survey was then carried by engaging key person identified to be resourceful and knowledgeable with the respective museums’ financial background and history. It is found that the adaptive reuse museums have yet to gain a stable return of investment, due to low-income generation from their ticketing sales in relation to higher operational and maintenance costs they require. By conducting PCE on the financial performance of adaptive reuse buildings that are of cultural and historical values, conservation stakeholders may be furnished with better information that aids better decisionmaking in the future.

Outreach

Abstract The artwork displayed here was posted in response to a global call for the Little Artists Exhibition, inviting children around the world to draw a UNESCO World Heritage site that matters to them. This could be a site in their community, a memory from a family vacation, or a place they saw in a book, movie or television show.

Family Identity Bundles and Holiday Decision Making

As the main contributor to leisure vacations, family travel is an important topic in academia; however, limited tourism research has addressed the subject. Most family travel studies have focused on who makes the decision with comparatively little attention paid to how. The present study argues that family travel decision making is determined by interactions between different individual, relational, and family identities using various communication approaches. Based on the family identity bundle framework, this research employs a longitudinal qualitative approach to examine 28 Chinese families’ summer holiday decision-making processes. The results indicate that two moderators (relationships with extended family and involvement in social groups through social media) strengthen the influence of identity bundles on decision making, as do different communication forms on decisions. Findings from this study contribute to the body of knowledge on family tourism decision making and provide suggestions for family tourism promotion.

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 2019

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 2019

"I Was Wrong": A Surgeon's First-Person Account of His COVID-19 Illness.

A surgeon failed to heed his own misgivings on taking a family vacation cruise. Despite scrupulous hand-washing and antiseptic precautions with anything within reach, he contracts COVID-19. His anxiety increased as his condition became increasingly serious: uncontrollable dry coughing spells, spiking fevers, and his worst symptom, progressive dyspnea and chest pain. From what he knew about the disease, he feared admission to the intensive care unit, a step that portended a significantly worse prognosis. After a week-and-a-half of illness, misery, and fear, he began to improve: first, his fevers diminished, breathing came more easily, and coughing spells occurred less frequently, if still unpredictably. Now with his strength slowly returning, he contemplated returning to work but was frustrated when tests showed he was still shedding active virions. Under quarantine and with time to reflect, he cautions against complacency with regard to the infectiousness of COVID-19. His own denial led to the loss of his health and livelihood. At home but still separated from his wife and children in a basement bedroom, the bittersweet circumstances of his reunion with them is a reminder of the preciousness of life and love of family.

Scientific Editing in the COVID‐19 Era—Personal Vignettes from the JBMR Editors

Scientific Editing in the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 Era—Personal Vignettes from the <scp><i>JBMR</i></scp> Editors

Larisa Rudenko

Born in 1943 during World War 2, Larisa Rudenko grew up in Zaporozh'ye, in southeast Ukraine. Having lost her father during the war, she was raised by her mother, a paediatrician, and spent many early days queuing for food rations. Later, things improved and they were able to take family holidays to Crimea. “I saw many unhappy children in wheelchairs there, and mother told me they had polio and there was no treatment”, she tells The Lancet Infectious Diseases. “I wanted to help those children. My mother said that American and Russian scientists were working together on a vaccine to help prevent this horrible disease.”

Cuchlaine Audrey Muriel King (26 June 1922–17 December 2019)

Cuchlaine Audrey Muriel King (26 June 1922–17 December 2019)

Putting Within-Country Political Differences in (Global) Perspective.

The current political discourse in the United States focuses on extreme political polarization as a contributor to ills ranging from government shutdowns to awkward family holidays. And indeed, a large body of research has documented differences between liberals and conservatives–primarily focused on Republicans and Democrats in the United States. We combine large international surveys and more fine-grained surveys of United States citizens to compare differences in opinion between Republicans and Democrats to the full range of world opinion on moral issues (N = 37,653 in 39 countries) and issues of free speech (N = 40,786 in 38 countries). When viewed in the full distribution, polarization between Democrats and Republicans appears relatively small, even on divisive issues such as abortion, sexual preference, and freedom of religious speech. The average Democrat-Republic overlap is greater than 70% of the country pair overlaps across eight moral issues, meaning that 70% of the country pairs are more dissimilar from each other than Democrats and Republicans are dissimilar; similarly, the average Democrat-Republic overlap is greater than 79% of the country pair overlaps across five freedom of speech issues. These results suggest that cross-cultural comparisons are useful for putting differences between political partisans within the same country in context.

Taking the Diet -Coke-and-Mentos demo to new heights, and testing a kombucha-based water filter

Putting some fizz into a family vacation Dropping a bunch of Mentos candies into a bottle of Diet Coke is a favorite science demonstration, as the action results in an impressive geyser of foam to ...

COVID-19 and How It Is Affecting Me as a Thyroidologist

COVID-19 and How It Is Affecting Me as a Thyroidologist

Prospective use of ecological tourism in Ukraine and integrative view of international experience

The international experience of the rural green (ecological) tourism objects development has been analysed in the article; the distinctive features and types of rural tourism have been outlined; both the peculiarities of definitions of this type of tourism in different countries of the world and the features of its organization have been studied; the real examples of ecological (rural green) tourism development in different countries and features of its organization have been presented. It has been demonstrated that in some countries more active forms of green (rural green) tourism are developing, in particular, cycling, horseback riding in scenic rural areas, fishing, etc.; in others, this type of tourism is primarily a family holiday in the countryside, an opportunity to get acquainted with national cuisine, winemaking, etc., to get to know national culture and customs, to visit interesting natural and cultural monuments. It has been also noted that international experience of the ecological tourism (rural green tourism) organization includes various forms and methods, demonstrates its growing popularity among holidaymakers, significant potential in the development of rural regions of the country, constantly increasing profitability. The ways of international experience usage of the ecological tourism (rural green tourism) organization in Ukraine nowadays has been also indicated in the article; it has been stated that the type of tourism researched in the article is a mature, dynamically developing tourism direction, and accordingly, it has already accumulated valuable experience necessary for the development of this type of tourism in Ukraine, which has huge potential for the development of its own ecological (rural green) tourism.

Three generations on a holiday: Exploring the influence of Neo-Confucian values on Korean Multigenerational Family vacation decision making

Abstract Despite being recognised as a lucrative segment by the industry, multigenerational family vacation remains an under-researched area. This study explores Korean multigenerational family vacation decision making (FVDM). Using a neo-Confucian epistemology, this study contributes to the existing family tourism literature, which has mainly researched Western nuclear family holidays, by investigating how Korean multigenerational families resolve conflicts during the FVDM process. Data were collected from 14 Korean multigenerational families using focus groups, interviews and visual methods. The study reveals the influence of neo-Confucianism on FVDM communication and the conflict resolution strategies. The vertical communication across generations was guided by filial piety while the horizontal communication within the second generation demonstrates seniority- and male- oriented values. Given the communication patterns, each generation adopted conflict resolution strategies to maintain family harmony, which is a core value of neo-Confucianism. Recommendations are provided to tourism practitioners to develop tourism products and marketing strategies.

Travelling and dialysis

As a result of their condition, kidney care patients have to take many extra factors into consideration when planning everyday activities. Nicholas Palmer describes some of the additional steps needed for a family holiday.

Crooked River City: The Musical Life of Nashville's William Pursell by Terry Wait Klefsted

Reviewed by: Crooked River City: The Musical Life of Nashville's William Pursell by Terry Wait Klefsted Christopher M. Reali Crooked River City: The Musical Life of Nashville's William Pursell. By Terry Wait Klefsted. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. [xx, 248 p. ISBN 9781496818638 (hardcover), $90; ISBN 9781496818645 (paperback), $25; also available as e-book, ISBN and price varies.] Music examples, illustrations, composition list, discography, notes, bibliography, index. Unless you're a dedicated fan of the "Nashville sound" albums Columbia Records issued in the 1960s, you probably have never heard of Bill Pursell. Pursell (b. 1926), who has worn many musical hats during his long career, made his way to Nashville in the 1960s and began work as a session pianist. Indeed, author Terry Wait Klefsted notes that "the story of Pursell's life is the story of a musical life lived in America during the rise of popular music in both radio and recordings. It is the story of many choices made, and the crooked, winding path that a musical life can take, given the skills and musicianship that Pursell had worked so hard to develop" (p. xv). Forming part of frequent references to a winding river as a metaphor for Pursell's life, the title of the biography comes from Pursell's 2016 opera based on the life of Andrew Jackson. Sources for construction of the narrative are heavily indebted to Pursell's personal archive, housed at Belmont University in Nashville, as well as interviews with the subject. While this book has several shortcomings, Klefsted shines a light onto a [End Page 138] figure who has made a living since the 1940s as a working musician. Pursell grew up in Tulare, California, about sixty miles north of Bakersfield. Chapter 1 describes Pursell's childhood adventures camping and hiking in the Sierra Nevada foothills with his adoptive parents, listening to recordings of the "Russian orchestral greats" (p. 4), and developing an interest in piano playing at an early age. After receiving an ovation for playing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Rondo alla turca at a talent show during a family vacation, Pursell was hooked. Pursell's parents did not discourage his musical interests. The family moved to Berkeley for a summer so that Pursell could pursue more serious musical study with Elizabeth Simpson (p. 13). At the age of sixteen, Pursell moved by himself to Berkeley in order to continue his piano studies as well as lessons in composition and harmony. The young pianist also began to concertize. Although the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore did not accept him as a performance major, Pursell earned a scholarship as a composition student there in 1944. Chapter 2 provides details of Pursell's relationship with his adoptive and biological fathers, two very different individuals whose personalities left a mark on the pianist's future. "Everywhere [Pursell] went, he both belonged and didn't belong, and was always aware that he had been relinquished at birth, but embraced wholeheartedly by a family who loved and wanted him" (p. 38). Pursell's studies at Peabody included piano lessons with Alexander Sklarevski and composition lessons with Nicolas Nabokov. "Eighteen-year-old Pursell finally knew he was in the right place and had the right teachers and was finding success, not only as a composer, but as a pianist" (p. 41). Pursell enlisted in the military (1946–49), where he wrote musical arrangements for the Air Force Orchestra's Radio Hour broadcasts. After meeting in 1949 with Howard Hanson at the Eastman School of Music, Pursell was accepted as a composition student, with a minor in piano. Pursell studied with numerous teachers while at Eastman, including piano with Cecile Genhart and Orazio Frugoni and composition with Herbert Elwell, Wayne Barlow, and Hanson, ultimately earning both a BM and an MM. "Pursell composed some of his most important classical works ["Felis Domesticus" (1950) for piano and Three Biblical Scenes for Orchestra (1953)] while a student at Eastman" (p. 63). While pursuing a DMA, Pursell married, and his wife gave birth to a son. Now faced with "adult responsibilities" (p. 66), the pianist joined a rhythm-and-blues trio because he needed the money. "Not...

Commentary: Preferred practice pattern for primary eye care in the context of COVID-19 in L V Prasad Eye Institute network in India.

Commentary: Preferred practice pattern for primary eye care in the context of COVID-19 in L V Prasad Eye Institute network in India.

Mozaik iskonskih kulturnih vrednosti Srba Kosovskog Pomoravlja

Custom, as a social phenomenon, first and foremost refers to the presence of an order and a morality in a community of people, which presupposes a predetermined rule, behavior and respect for its specific unwritten laws. Specific characteristics and manifestations of interpersonal relationships and behavior are visible in community speech, creativity and artistic expression, architecture and culture of housing, their manner of dressing and their festive costumes, as well as in the veneration of family, church, school and other holidays and events. The richness and diversity of such characteristics and customs becomes a criterion for the development of the ethical consciousness of a society, a person or a family, as well as a measure of the level of their culture. The freedom of a moral person is reflected, in addition to good will, in the correct attitude and understanding of ordinary manifestations and the emotions of members of one social community conditioned by them. Each culture develops its own spiritual and material heritage and thus defines its identity and character, as its own way of understanding the world. The Serbs of Kosovsko Pomoravlje are dedicated guardians of all Serbian historical traditions, especially those about Kosovo. On that fateful task, they regularly had support in their church and clergy, as well as in the dedicated work and creativity of their teachers, such as Zarija Popović and Atanasije Urošević.