Holistic Experience Research Articles

Teaching and discussing mental health among university students: a pilot arts-based study

PurposeInterdisciplinary approaches to health education are becoming increasingly common. Here, the authors describe an arts-based approach designed by academics and artists to both supplement the study of mental illness and support the individual mental health of undergraduate and postgraduate university students, by raising the visibility of mental illness in an innovative way.Design/methodology/approachThrough workshops, university students were guided in a sensory and physical way to discuss psychological health and vulnerability. This was followed by the creation of physical representations of mental distress through art pieces.FindingsStudents were able to design their own art pieces and discuss mental health issues in an open and creative way. Students reported that the arts-based initiative was beneficial to their practice as future professionals and provided a holistic learning experience. At the same time, artists were able to generate powerful images which facilitated further discussions within the faculty.Practical implicationsThis project provides an innovative model for workshops which could be employed to raise the visibility of common mental health disorders among university students while providing a safe space to discuss and support wellbeing. Additionally, variations could be implemented to enhance the teaching of affective disorders within a university curriculum.Originality/valueThis paper presents the results of collaboration between academics and artists, who together generated an innovative way to both support students' mental health and provide an alternative way to supplement experiential learning about common mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.

A holistic aesthetic experience model: Creating a harmonious dining environment to increase customers' perceived pleasure

For chasing a harmonic condition among all elements and customers' positive emotion-pleasure in a restaurant, this study constructs a holistic aesthetic experience model within the context of a restaurant through the consensus opinions of experts who have aesthetics-related experience and work in the restaurant relevant organizations. This study adopted a mixed study, multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach for forming a solid and practical model. Four dimensions—physical environment, product and service, employee's aesthetic traits, and other customer's aesthetic traits —and twenty-three with an influential network relation map (INRM) for finding the roots of influence and influential weights for the further practitioners' decision making. The study contributes to the aesthetic theory and practical implementation in the hospitality industry.

What are the holistic experiences of adults living long-term with the consequences of cancer and its treatment? A qualitative evidence synthesis.

The number of people living with and beyond cancer is increasing; a significant number of these people will experience the long-term and late effects of cancer and its treatment. Research into this group has been identified as a priority to better understand healthcare needs. This review identified and synthesised qualitative research data relating to the lived experience of the consequences of cancer and its treatment. A systematic search via electronic databases was conducted in July 2019. Literature was identified that explored the experience of adults living beyond cancer from their own perspective. Thematic synthesis was used to extract and analyse data. Six articles were reviewed. Three main themes were identified with four subthemes:1. Living with an altered sense of self; 2. Things are never going to be quite the same again (2.1. The unexpected. 2.2 The uncertain.); 3. Ways of coping with the unexpected and the uncertain. (3.1. Drawing on internal resilience. 3.2. The influence and impact of external relationships.). The findings showed that the participants' world-view changed after cancer and this affected everyday lives both positively and negatively. The experience of having had cancer remains significant long after diagnosis and treatment, yet effective preparation and ongoing support for living beyond cancer is lacking. The experience of living long-term after cancer is characterised by an altered sense of self and has implications for long-term wellbeing. Further research should explore healthcare needs and services required to adequately meet the needs of this growing group of people.

Up, Down, and All-Around: The Swirling-Transfer Collegiate Athlete Experience

Intercollegiate athletics have become an integral part of campus life (Denhart, Villwock, & Vedder, 2010; Mixon & Trevino, 2005; Shulman & Bowen, 2001), and have grown exponentially in the resources universities put forth to participate in this extracurricular activity (Clotfelter, 2011). One of the biggest evolutions of intercollegiate athletics has been the collegiate athlete transfer phenomenon (Cooper & Hawkins, 2014); however, little research has been conducted on transfer collegiate athletes, or the transfer collegiate athlete experience. As such, the purpose of this instrumental case study was to discover and describe the experiences and perceptions of swirling-transfer collegiate athletes at Athletic State University. A purposive sample included nine collegiate athletes (six football and three baseball) interviewed and observed to gain a holistic experience of the swirling-transfer phenomenon, with multiple supporting documents also collected and analyzed. Participants of this study describe this unique experience as “the roller coaster experience”. Each collegiate athlete perceives their participation in athletics and higher education as a means for social mobility and intends to pursue professional league opportunities. Recommendations to intercollegiate athletic governing associations, institutions, and scholars are included, with an emphasis of creating a database to track this subpopulation of transfer collegiate athletes, as well as educating practitioners who support these collegiate athletes every day.

Recruitment considerations for dental short-term missions relating to the holistic development of dentists

BackgroundThe universal need for dentistry persists and short-term missions (STMs) with dentists can make an incalculable difference to the participants and the recipients when charitable dental treatment is offered to underresourced people. The authors studied the holistic benefits of STMs for dentists, identified how STM detractors can be overcome, and provided recruitment recommendations for engaging dentists in STMs. MethodsThe authors of this mixed-methods, phenomenological research explored recruitment recommendations for dentists considering dental STMs via evaluating the holistic benefits and the detractors through the integration of the following developmental areas: emotional, intellectual, physical, moral, social, and spiritual. ResultsDentist participants revealed a relatively equal distribution of holistic beneficial motivators and encouraged participation in dental STMs. The more diversified detractor responses suggested that STM-experienced dentists were not easily deterred from dental STM participation. ConclusionsOutcomes of quantitative research instruments and qualitative interviews strongly suggested that dentists favored the benefits of dental STMs, almost equivalently, in 6 holistic developmental areas and generally disagreed that the detractors of dental STMs adversely affected their involvement. Practical ImplicationsThe dentists surveyed advocated for dental STMs as a “life-transforming,” developmentally holistic experience that brings caring and hope in action to underserved people globally. Detractors of dental STMs can be overcome, and dentists essentially concurred that quality dental STMs could be performed in portable, often austere, situations. Beneficial recruitment recommendations are presented for dentists contemplating STM participation.

Knowing as Holistic Experience: A Challenge to Plato from Jungian Sandplay

Plato’s suggestion that pure knowledge, described in his theory of Forms as the archetypal basis of reality, is questioned using the sequence from the key session of a Jungian Sandplay therapy case as an example of direct human experience of the archetype. As was recognized by Jung, a parallel may be drawn between Jungian archetypes and Platonic Forms in that both are primary structures contained and manifested in the phenomenal world. In Sandplay, a patient unable to transcend her quandary through reason is able to find relief from the tension of the arguing opposites within her when she creates an image with her hands, in a state of reverie, responding to an internal impetus governed not by reason alone but by spontaneous, nonverbal sensory experience. The image she creates in this way brings her into a deep relationship with herself and marks the beginning of a newly forming selfconfidence that guides her. This example illustrates the holistic nature of human experience and change processes, in therapy or in any learning context.

The Relationships among Experience, Delight, and Recollection for Revisit Intention in Chocolate Exposition

This study examined the relationship among holistic experience and delight, recollection, and revisit intention, in visitors to a chocolate exposition, to confirm the factors influencing their revisit intention. To accomplish this objective, a sample of 280 visitors to the Salon du Chocolat was utilized. The findings revealed that the visitors’ memorable on-site experiences had a positive impact on their sense of delight and recollection. These emotions were shown to positively influence their intention to revisit the exposition. In conclusion, the on-site experiences of sense, feel, think, act, and relate, were the most important determinants of revisit intention among visitors. The findings of this study meaningfully contribute to theory by applying the concepts of experiential marketing to food expositions. Our study also proposes practical suggestions for hosting food expositions in a post-COVID world. The theoretical framework proposed and tested for model validation lay the foundation for future research on experiential marketing of food expositions.

Impact of dementia on informal care: a systematic review of family caregivers’ perceptions

IntroductionCaregivers play a major role in providing all the support and care in daily activities for their relatives with dementia. To fully describe the influence of dementia caregiving on family...

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The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical research on the impact of social networks on the individual’s well-being.Nowadays, social networks have become an integral part of modern life, and with each passing month more and more Internet users are being registered in various social networks worldwide. In Ukraine, the most popular social networks are Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Telegram.The phenomenon of psychological has been studied: within the framework of eudemonistic and hedonistic theories; based on the positive functioning of an individual; considered in terms of preservation of psycho-physiological functions; as a holistic subjective experience of an individual.It is determined that all our respondents are involved in social networks, and most of them use several social networks at the same time. Most are registered in such networks as Instagram, Facebook, Telegram. More than half of Instagram respondents have 200 or more subscriptions. For the majority of respondents, social networks are a means of communication and opportunities for new acquaintances.Respondents, who spend up to 4 hours on social networks, feel more functional psychologically, are more satisfied, have a higher interest in life, and have a more positive mood than those who spend much more time online.Respondents from the group with a short stay on social networks are more likely to show emotional barriers to communication. At the same time, the group whose representatives spend more than 4 hours on social networks, has higher rates of organizational and communication skills.Respondents, who spend limited time on social networks, show a more positive attitude on looking-glass self, internal conflict and self-blame scales, and those who spend more than 4 hours on social networks – on openness, self-confidence, self-worth, self-acceptance, self-attachment scales.Correlations between the length of stay in social networks and the parameters of well-being, emotional barriers in communication, attitude, communication skills have been determined in the group that is on social networks for up to 4 hours a day. In the group that communicates on social networks for more than 4 hours, there are many more correlations. There are correlations between the length of stay in social networks and the parameters of well-being, life satisfaction, emotional barriers to communication, attitude.We see prospects for further research in the study of the structure of well-being in people with Internet addiction.

Transformation of the Educational Ecosystem in the Singularity Environment

This study was aimed at creating an effective model of the educational ecosystem in a singularity environment. The study is based on a system of general scientific methods of scientific knowledge, in particular, the method of expert assessment, the method of analogy and comparative analysis. The experts, with the support of facilitators, visualized the possible future of education as a symbiosis of individual and collective learning paths that connect learners with many learning spaces and educational opportunities. To ensure the operability of such a model of the educational ecosystem, it is necessary to create tools and processes that support personal and collective learning and development throughout life, including: processes and tools that help determine the goals of learners; educational processes integrated into the educational trajectory and developing various aspects of personal and collective existence through holistic educational experiences, including play and co-creation; processes and tools that measure learning outcomes; educational spaces and technologies that help to combine personal and collective educational trajectories, coordinating individual educational needs with the evolving needs of communities. These processes can be integrated into "ecosystem" systems of educational process management (in which personal and collective learning paths can be combined, and which connect learners with many learning spaces and educational opportunities).

Exploring the Use of Multimedia Resources in Online Medical Education: A Targeted Literature Review

Immersive technologies, which include augmented, virtual, and mixed reality are increasingly accessible to educators. For this literature review, we assessed the gaps that exist in current literature that have the potential to be filled by immersive technology. Five key websites were used to identify resources specific to pneumothorax anatomy. The relevant results are reported. Our findings revealed that there are many gaps in medical education resources for anatomy training, diagnosing, and treatment complications of tension pneumothorax. These gaps emphasize that other medical training media could be utilized to give medical students a more holistic experience when learning how to treat patients with tension pneumothorax. Augmented reality could be used to incorporate additional learning objectives, filling many of the gaps exposed in our literature review.

Service Design for a Holistic Customer Experience: A Process Framework

Modern service design practices conceptualize services as multistep processes. At each step, customers derive an uncertain value, which depends on a functional benefit and a subjective experience. The latter may depend on experiences realized at previous steps. Service designs determine the provider effort at each step given that customers prefer less-variable experiences, and enable a holistic perspective of the overall experience. We quantify two factors that shape service designs: the type of steps ((i) routine steps, where effort increases the functional benefit and decreases the experience variability, and (ii) nonroutine steps, where effort increases the functional benefit at the expense of higher variability) and a holistic coupling factor (at each step, the design is determined not only by experience realizations at predecessor steps but also by how it can shape subsequent experiences). The optimal efforts depend on the combination of these two factors, giving rise to actionable design rules. For a positive coupling factor, step type homogeneity leads to “spread the effort” designs (complementary efforts), whereas a negative coupling factor suggests focusing the effort on a few key steps at the expense of the rest of the service (substitutable efforts). Step type heterogeneity reverses these recommendations. Moreover, when the customer experience unfolds according to a nonstationary process with serial correlation, the effort at each step is determined by an impact zone defined by the steps surrounding the focal service step. Stronger correlation always induces higher effort, whereas weaker correlation may induce less effort in services with heterogeneous step types.This paper was accepted by Serguei Netessine, operations management.

Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Biochemistry Authentic Scientific Inquiry Lab (BASIL) CURE Consortium: Reflections and a Case Study on the Switch to Remote Learning

Campus shutdowns during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic posed unique challenges to faculty and students engaged in laboratory courses. Formerly hands-on experiments had to be quickly pivoted to emergency remote learning. While some resources existed prior to this period, many currently available online modules and/or simulations focus on a single technique. The Biochemistry Authentic Scientific Inquiry Lab (BASIL) curriculum has, for several years, provided a robust, linked, holistic inquiry experience that allows students to make connections between multiple techniques, both computational in nature as well as wet-lab-based. As a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE), this flexible, module-based curriculum allows students to generate original hypotheses based on analysis of proteins of unknown function. We have taught this curriculum as the upper-level laboratory course on our campuses and were obliged to transition to remote instruction at various points in the course sequence. We report on the experiences of faculty and students over the transition period in this course. Additionally, we report as a case study results of one of our campus’ ongoing discipline-based education research (DBER) on the BASIL curriculum prior to and during remote delivery.

Exploring consumers’ subjective shopping experiences in directly operated luxury brand stores

Customers’ in-store shopping experiences are critical for luxury brand success. Research on the creation of experiential value in retailing finds clear differences in the cues contributing to delightful consumer experiences depending on the retailing sector. A management perspective dominates research in luxury retailing, while research on consumers’ subjective luxury shopping experiences is scarce. This study contributes to filling the gap regarding consumers’ subjective experiences through a qualitative inquiry into shoppers’ accounts of experiences in luxury brand stores. The study finds that the major determinants of a delightful shopping experience in luxury stores are extraordinary service excellence, unique multi-sensory emotional stimulation conforming to the brand, and a feeling of personal importance and assurance. The study demonstrates the importance of a holistic individual experience in helping shoppers become immersed in the brand universe through all their senses.

Factor structure of the professional quality of life scale among direct support professionals: factorial validity and scale reliability.

Direct support professionals (DSPs) support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in activities of daily living. DSPs may experience both contentment and struggles with their work. As agencies grapple with their recruitment and retention, understanding DSPs' holistic work experience is important. The Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) scale assesses multiple domains of work experiences (i.e. compassion satisfaction, burnout and secondary traumatic stress). Despite extensive use across helping professions, the ProQOL is largely absent from DSP research. This study examined the factor structure of the ProQOL with DSPs. Using secondary data from 495 DSPs, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to determine if the original three-factor structure holds for this population. We confirmed the factorial validity of the ProQOL with the three-factor solution. In the validation process, some modifications were suggested to the model, which also improved the scale reliability. The current study provides initial evidence of the factorial validity of the ProQOL when used with DSPs, as well as recommendations for subsequent improvements and future research.

The Gut Microbiome as a Component of the Gut–Brain Axis in Cognitive Health

The human microbiome, the microorganisms living in and on the body, plays a vital role in brain physiology and pathophysiology. The gut microbiome (GMB) has been identified as a link in the gut-brain axis moderating cognitive development and health. The objectives of this scoping review are to discuss mechanisms of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in cognition, review the existing literature on the GMB and cognition, and discuss implications for nursing research. We searched Pubmed using the terms "gut microbiome," "brain," and "cognition" and the terms "gut brain axis," "microbiome," and "cognition"; removed duplicates, studies not published in English, and unrelated publications; and added additional articles identified through references. We retained the 85 most relevant publications for this review. Common themes in the current literature include GMB components; interactions on cognitive development; effects of GMB-gut-brain interactions on cognition, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease; effects of GMB interactions with physiologic stress on cognition in critical care; and GMB modification for improved cognition. Review of the literature on each of these topics reveals multiple theoretical mechanisms of action for GMB-gut-brain interaction that modify cognitive development and function across the lifespan. GMB components and dysbiosis have been implicated in many cognitive states, and specific microbiota constituents contribute to cognitive development, stability, and impairment. The study of these interactions is relevant to nursing research as it addresses the holistic human experience and microbiome constituents are modifiable, facilitating translation into the clinical setting.

The Okule Cult Education and Practice in Ghana

Using oral interviews, archival sources, observation, and published materials, we discuss the recruitment and training processes of the Okule Cult, an all-female cult. We analyze information obtained from the Nawuris of Northern Ghana to give insights into the relevance of Okule education practices to communities in Ghana. Knowledge about how members of the Okule cult educate new inductees and younger members advances our understanding of the continued importance of African Traditional Education. It would aid efforts to decolonize education on the African continent. The findings of our study can help educational authorities provide a balanced and holistic educational experience to learners.

Valuing Joyful Teaching Moments: Nursing Faculty Experiences in Texas.

Purpose: Studies of joyful experiences in teaching nursing and related implications are lacking in the literature. The concept of joy seems undervalued yet critical to the theoretical basis for improving holistic faculty experiences and potentially affecting students and patients. The purpose of this study is to give voice to instances of joyful teaching identified by nursing faculty and to consider related implications, including advancing holistic nursing education. Design: In this sequential exploratory multimethod study, faculty discussed joyful teaching, responded to survey questions, and completed a Likert-type measure of outcomes. Eleven faculty were interviewed; interviews were digitally recorded and professionally transcribed. Interviews were coded using qualitative content analysis; quantitative data provided frequency counts. Findings: Four main themes emerged: "aha" moments, faculty validation, witnessing transformation, and planting seeds. Faculty shared experiences with peers, students, or both, and occasionally with others. Three outcome themes of joy were identified: transcendence, meaning, and activity. The most frequently reported significance of joy was hope and resilience. Conclusions: Joyful experiences belong in the literature and can inform holistic practice. Our results suggest that joyful moments support faculty and that students and patients may also benefit from this emotion, even though it has been undervalued in nursing research.

An Investigation of Physics Teachers’ Multiple Representation Ability on Newton’s Law Concept

The ability of the teacher to represent a concept using various types of representation is a critical competency. Teachers who have limited multiple representation abilities will not be able to provide a holistic and appropriate learning experience because students have different abilities in constructing their knowledge. This study aims to determine the multiple representation ability of Physics teacher by using instruments to test multiple representations on the topic of Newton’s law consisting of text representations, images, pictorial diagrams, tables, graphs, and mathematical equations. The subjects in this study were 30 high school Physics teachers in North Maluku who were determined based on the purposive sampling technique. Data on multiple teacher representation abilities were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results of the data analysis showed that the multi-representation ability of high school physics teachers in Newton’s law concept was in the medium category (55.7%) with the highest achievement occurring in the type of mathematical representation and the lowest in the pictorial diagram representation types for both female and male teachers. Besides, based on data implemented using SPSS 2.0, it can be concluded that there are no significant differences with the ability of teacher’s multi-representation based on gender and teacher’s teaching experience.

Understanding retail quality of sporting goods stores: a text mining approach

PurposeSporting goods retailing is a significant sector within the sport industry with the total revenue of this sector reaching $52.2 billion in 2018. Beset with formidable competition, sporting goods stores are compelled to augment their merchandise with service and improve retail quality. The purpose of this study is to investigate retail quality of sporting goods stores (RQSGS).Design/methodology/approachBased on 27,793 online reviews of 1481 stores in the United States, this study used Leximancer 4.0, a text mining software, to identify critical retail quality dimensions associated with sporting goods stores, and further explored the most salient dimensions among different levels of ratings.FindingsCustomer service and store aspects are the two higher-order dimensions of RQSGS; holistic experience, manager and staff are three themes under customer service, and product, B&M store and online–offline integration are three themes under store aspects. Furthermore, extreme reviews focus more on customer service, whereas lukewarm reviews focus more on store aspects.Practical implicationsKnowledgeable staff, managers and online–offline integration are instrumental in creating superior retail quality. Sporting goods stores should enhance hedonic and social values for consumers in order to ward off online competitions.Originality/valueThis study explored retail quality dimensions that are pertinent to sporting goods retailing utilizing text mining methods. This study to certain extent cross-validated the existing retailing literature that is developed on alternative methods.