Home Life Research Articles

Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 Disruptions for California College Students

This paper documents the experience of California college students in the midst of the pandemic as their academic and home lives were disrupted. The analysis relies on a survey sent to all financial aid applicants statewide. Survey respondents include nearly 100,000 students enrolled in both two-year and four-year postsecondary institutions. Results reveal multiple stressors strained the educational experience and trajectories of many students. These stressors were not evenly distributed. In particular, students from low-income backgrounds were more likely to face increased financial stress, additional home responsibilities, and difficulty accessing the online learning environment, when compared to their higher-income peers.

Constructions of family relationships in a COVID Christmas: An analysis of television advertisements on YouTube

Christmas time is a site of intensified domesticity, a reliance on traditional norms, and centring of family relationships. Christmas in the year 2020 was unique in this regard, given how the COVID-19 pandemic widely disrupted home life and shifted family relationships. Feminist researchers have previously noted how analysis of contemporary cultural artefacts, such as online media, can be a useful way of exploring how different relationships are constructed to serve various functions. Therefore, we thematically analysed 11 television advertisements on YouTube to investigate how family relationships are constructed through a lens of feminist psychology in the context of a COVID-19 Christmas. Our analysis generated three dominant themes. First, the television advertisements in our sample constructed nostalgia as women's work. Second, family relationships were positioned as a means of reclaiming power and purpose in an effort to instil a new normal. Lastly, television advertisements constructed family relationships as a critical site for representing gendered norms. We discuss these themes in relation to feminist scholarship on the function of family relationships, during COVID-19 and beyond.

Kumusta ka? Challenges, mental health and well-being assessment among DNSC employees during the COVID-19 pandemic

The study aimed to identify the work challenges encountered by the employees due to the pandemic, their current depression, anxiety, stress, mental well-being, and perception of the institution’s capacity to manage the current crisis and mental healthcare needs. Online surveys were utilized as a method. The results revealed that the top on the list of the work challenges encountered by most of the employees due to the pandemic was: internet connection, too many distractions at home, balancing work and personal life, general anxiety of getting infected, and technology-based communication like virtual meetings, while for teaching personnel doing modules, checking and monitoring students and conducting online classes were among their concerns. Out of 73 sample population, 64% were at normal level, 36% were at mild to extreme levels in depression subscale. About 58% were at the normal level for the anxiety subscale while 42% fell on the mild to extreme levels. For the stress subscale, 23% were mild to severe, and the rest were on a normal level. As to the wellbeing level, 22% of the samples were in the low level, 67% were in the average, and 11% were in the high level. Though most of the employees were confident towards the institution’s leaders in handling the crisis, they still felt worried about the impact of the pandemic on the institution. The employees strongly agreed on the necessity of the presence of mental health professionals in the institution and suggested conducting debriefing/processing to ease the mental and psychological burden brought by this pandemic.

Supporting the Transition to Adulthood for Youth With Spina Bifida: A Call for Neuropsychology-Informed Interventions.

Supporting the Transition to Adulthood for Youth With Spina Bifida: A Call for Neuropsychology-Informed Interventions.

BIOPOLÍTICA I NOSTÀLGIA POSTHUMANA: ESTACIÓ BOIRA D’ENRIC HERCE

Enric Herce’s Estació Boira (2018) is one of the most outstanding examples of Catalan cyberpunk fiction. It constructs a complicated detective noir plot which unfolds in hyperspace, developing a large cyberpunk repertoire that ranges from all kinds of technological devices and lives — cyborgs, androids — to the perverse interests of multinational companies. The story opens with a policeman, Max, who has to investigate the brutal killing of a man in an orbital station. The murder is suspected to have been committed by someone who has not taken the compulsory medication the government uses to neutralize people’s natural aggressiveness. Drugs, along with technology, are considered a biopolitical procedure to keep the population under control in the near future that the novel depicts. The article focuses on two main topics: on the one hand, the biopolitical control of the human population, and on the other, the protagonist’s nostalgia for some wasted opportunities: a home life, a human past, and what historian Enzo Traverso calls “left-wing melancholia.” By this term, Traverso means the utopian world dreamt by the left but never fully achieved, an egalitarian world where multinational corporations do not monitor democratic governments.

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Student Satisfaction and Experience Following Training and Delivery of Interprofessional Cooking Classes for Adults With Disability Living in Group Homes: A Pilot Study

ObjectivesIndividuals with disabilities (IwD) often need an interdisciplinary team including nutrition professionals and physical and occupational therapists to manage care. The purpose of this study was to 1) evaluate dietetic, occupational therapy (OT), and physical therapy (PT) students’ satisfaction and experience with an online training and implementation of interprofessional cooking classes for IwD living in group homes, and 2) describe students’ experience working in an interprofessional team. MethodsThe training and intervention took place during fall 2021. The training included 5 online asynchronous modules and a 3-hour synchronous class on: cooking 5 recipes, communicating with IwD, and interprofessional education. Students completed a 22-item closed and open-ended survey related to their satisfaction with the training, cooking class implementation and working in interprofessional teams. Both quantitative data analyses and analysis of preliminary qualitative themes are presented. ResultsEleven graduate students representing Dietetics, PT and OT participated. Ten completed the survey. Ten cooking classes were delivered across 4 group homes. All students agreed that the training was clear and easy to follow, and provided skills to implement the cooking classes and work with IwD. Nine students agreed the training prepared them to lead cooking demonstrations and that training length was appropriate. Students enjoyed the training’s flexibility, found that it offered ways to modify cooking steps to engage IwD, and enjoyed the interaction with residents and students across disciplines. Cooking class implementation difficulties cited were: driving distances to group homes, engaging IwD, and coordinating cooking class plans. All students agreed the experience positively impacted their awareness and value of other professional roles, the need for support from other professionals, and their ability to work together on an interdisciplinary team. ConclusionsA combination of synchronous and asynchronous online training to deliver cooking classes in group homes is a feasible and effective way to provide student training on caring for IwD and a novel interprofessional opportunity. Funding SourcesThe New Jersey Division of Disability Services.

Support for people starting a new life in a care home

Support for people starting a new life in a care home

Assessment of Quality of life in Home versus Hospital Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD Patients: A Comparative Study

Assessment of Quality of life in Home versus Hospital Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD Patients: A Comparative Study

A qualitative exploration of psychologists' experiences of teletherapy within the Irish Public Mental Health System

AbstractObjectiveThe current qualitative study aimed to investigate psychologists' experiences of teletherapy throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic, with a particular focus on teletherapy's impact on therapeutic relationships.MethodFifteen participants, consisting of clinical and counselling psychologists employed by the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland, participated in semi‐structured interviews conducted via telephone.ResultsConstructionist thematic analysis yielded three prominent themes: (i) psychologists experienced a lack of control over therapeutic boundaries with their clients, such as the setting and time in which sessions take place. Teletherapy also encroaches on psychologists' personal boundaries from having aspects of their home lives becoming associated with clients' trauma; (ii) psychologists have to work much harder to make the connection with clients due to the substantial loss of information, including non‐verbal cues, transmitted across teletherapeutic platforms; and (iii) psychologists themselves feel uncontained from being insufficiently supported by the HSE, which impacts on their ability to contain high‐risk clients via teletherapy.ConclusionsVarious aspects of the therapeutic relationship, including therapeutic boundaries between psychologists and their clients, and psychologists' ability to make the connection and foster containment with their clients, were impacted by teletherapy. Psychologists need to feel heard, supported and appreciated to ensure optimal delivery of teletherapy in future.

An Exploration of Adolescents’ Daily Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Photovoice Study

The purpose of this study is to understand the daily lives of adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and to provide educational implications for enhancing the competencies of adolescents living in rapidly-changing environments. To this end, the photovoice method, consisting of orientation, documentation, discussion, and analysis, was employed to study nine adolescent participants, who were interested in sharing aspects of their daily lives. The results yielded four themes and nine sub-themes. The first theme is “home life”, which is composed of two sub-themes: most comfortable to be alone and EA (eating alone) for lunch. The second theme is “leisure life”, which consists of two sub-themes: the virtual world of playing with friends and exercise is the only way out to breathe. The third theme is “school life”, which consists of three sub-themes: time for inner exploration and reflection, cracks in daily life due to excessive autonomy, and pros and cons of virtual classes. The fourth theme is “the voice of adolescents”, which consists of two sub-themes: requiring adults to set a golden example and anxious voices due to an uncertain future. This photovoice method of study is meaningful in that it explores the daily lives of adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides valuable educational implications.

Coping with COVID: COVID-19 experiences and drinking to cope

ABSTRACT Background The COVID-19 pandemic has been a source of stress that may have increased drinking level overall and, more specifically, drinking to cope motivation. The current study tests whether specific domains of pandemic-related experiences are related to drinking to cope motivation and drinking level and whether drinking to cope motivation moderates the association between pandemic experiences and alcohol consumption. Method Participants (N = 292, 57% women) reported on their positive and negative experiences during the pandemic, their drinking to cope motivation, and their typical weekly alcohol consumption. Results Regression analyses revealed that negative emotional health and well-being experiences were related to higher levels of drinking to cope motivation. Negative social activity experiences were related to higher weekly alcohol consumption. In addition, negative home life experiences were related to higher consumption among individuals with high drinking to cope motivation and positive experiences were related to lower consumption among individuals with high drinking to cope motivation. Conclusions These findings underscore the importance of considering the domain of experiences during the current pandemic and future mass crisis events and may provide insight for designing interventions to prevent drinking to cope.

Patient Autonomy in Direct Primary Care

Patient Autonomy in Direct Primary Care

Mothering in the Streets: The Familial Adaptation Strategies of Street-Identified Black American Mothers.

Using components of the Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response Model, Critical Race Feminism, and Sites of Resilience this study explored how street-identified Black American mothers engage in street life, while juggling the pressures of childrearing, family, and home life within a distressed, urban Black community. Street-identified Black American mothers are vilified for their intersecting identities of being Black women who are experiencing poverty, and who may also be involved in illegal activity. Black mothers are disproportionately represented in the criminal legal system, but existing research has inadequately examined how street-identified Black mothers "do" family in the confines of structural violence. We addressed this gap by analyzing interview data with 39 street-identified Black American mothers ages 18 to 54. Data were collected using street participatory action research. We identified a typology of three adaptive mothering strategies employed by street-identified Black women as they respond to and cope with violent structural conditions shaping their mothering: constrained mothering, racialized mothering, and aspirational mothering. Findings suggested that these strategies were developed in response to an overarching carceral apparatus, of which these mothers were tasked with avoiding when possible and confronting when necessary. Their mothering strategies were shaped by a collective, Black American cultural identity and worldview, and the mothers possessed a unique way of perceiving the world as criminalized subjects with disproportionate proximity to the punitive State.

Analysis of working women in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh in context to work life balance

Economic and societal factors have altered the roles and obligations of women across the globe. Thus, women who work are under great pressure to achieve professional success on par with their male colleagues while retaining an active role in their home life at the same time. Because of their increasing responsibilities, many working women are finding it more difficult to take time for themselves. Today's knowledge-based culture is overburdened with stress due to the proliferation of high-tech gadgets like smartphones, laptops, and other portable computing devices. All three aspects of a person's health are affected by this. In order to maintain a high standard of living while working, women must learn to strike a WLB. Women in the workforce have particular challenges in juggling their professional and personal lives. These are the questions that we want to answer with this study. This study found that a broad variety of factors affected married working women's ability to maintain a healthy WLB. The Industrial Society's handbook on work–life balance was used for this study. In a survey of working women in Bareilly,Uttar Pradesh, some shocking findings were found on the difficulties they encounter in juggling job and family obligations.

치매 환자의 보조기기 적용에 대한 체계적 고찰

Objective : To investigate the develeopment status of auxiliary device, Research trend, Characteristics of subjects and How to use it through the domestic and foreign studies of Assistive Devices for People with Dementia. Methods : In this study, 13 of studies were selected according to the selection criteria using RISS and Pubmed databases. As search terms, “assisted device” OR “assisted engineering” AND “dementia” were used. The studies to be analyzed were classified according to the research-based qualitative level analysis model. The study was summarized as PICO. Results : As a result of analyzing all studies, 8 out of 13 studies showed a positive effect on the emotional state of dementia patients(Feelings, Depression, Anxiety). The common effectiveness of robot-type assistive devices includes communication and positive emotional state and behavior promotion of the elderly with dementia. The use of Roar detector showed a significant difference in roaming behavior and anxiety reduction in dementia. AT-based devices were highly satisfied by users in terms of usability and usefulness. The digital assistance device had the effect of extending the ability of dementia patients to continue their home life. Conclusions : Dementia assisted device have positive effects in the areas of emotion, problem behavior, and communication. It can also be useful for the dementia who have difficulties in their basic daily lives. Through this study, a study that complements the limitations should be conducted. It will be an appropriate reference for applying auxiliary devices suitable for the characteristics of each elderly with dementia. Accordingly, intervention studies on the application of various dementia aids should be actively conducted.

Associations between the self-reported happy home lives and health of Canadian school-aged children: An exploratory analysis with stratification by level of relative family wealth.

BackgroundConnections between home life, level of family wealth, happiness and health are strong, yet these relationships are complex and for Canadian adolescents not well studied. The objective of this investigation was to explore associations between aspects of health and self-reported happy home life among Canadian adolescents aged 10–16 years and to determine if level of self-reported relative family wealth modified associations.Material and methodsThis was a secondary analysis of Canadian data from the 2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study (n=21,745). Theory drove the selection of 26 health-related HBSC variables. Bivariate analyses and calculation of adjusted odds ratios, considering level of self-reported relative family wealth in a stratified analysis, were undertaken.ResultsOverall, proximal, micro-level factors were most strongly associated with reports of a happy home life, with distal, macro-level factors less strongly associated. Differences existed between the health and home-life associations for adolescents of different levels of self-reported relative family wealth indicating effect modification. Family support and levels of adolescent self-reported overall health and mental health were common factors that were strongly associated with reporting a happy home life.ConclusionWe believe happy home lives are central and critical for thriving youth and families. This was an exploratory analysis. Many of the factors and relationships in this study are potentially modifiable and represent important possible areas of future focus for adolescent and family health improvement.

PENDIDIKAN PRA NIKAH UNTUK MEWUJUDKAN RUMAH TANGGA SAKINAH, MAWADDAH, DAN RAHMAH PERSPEKTIF AL-QUR’AN DAN AL-HADITS

This study aims to describe pre-marital education to realize the household of sakinah, mawaddah, and rahmah perspectives of the Qur'an and Al-Hadith. This research uses qualitative methods of literature studies. The focus of this research is the conditions that must be carried out to achieve the family of sakinah, mawaddah, and rahmah in the Qur'an and Al-Hadith. The instrument of this research is the researcher himself. This research analysis technique uses content analysis techniques. The results of this study are the author can conclude that as a muslim human being, it is recommended to marry and be married. And the intention in the household is only to seek the pleasure of Allah SWT so that his home life becomes a happy family, congratulations, and blessings born and inner, both in the world and in the afterlife, which is by the guidance of Islamic teachings according to the Qur'an and Al-Hadith that has been exemplified by the Prophet Muhammad SAW, as a disciple of tauladan ummah. We can take lessons from how he exemplifies and must be applied in everyday life. In addition to the verses of the Qur'an and the Hadith Texts above, there may still be many other verses and hadiths that can be used as a concept to reach the household that is sakinah, mawaddah and rahmah

A Study on Quality of Life Among Elderly People Living in Old Age Homes in Bangladesh

Institutional care and support for a portion of the elderly people has become a new reality in the social setting of Bangladesh. This study aimed to explore the quality of life among elderly people living in old age homes in Bangladesh. Further, it focuses to find out the causes of living in old age homes. A sample of 60 elderly people (40 from free type of old age home and 20 from paid type of old age home) were included for the study in purposive manner. Survey and observation method were conducted among elderly living in old age homes of Old Rehabilitation Centre, Gazipur, Amena-Bashar Old Rehabilitation Center, Chattogram and Probin Nibash, Dhaka. The study examined the facilities offered at old age homes. The study found that negligence of the family members is the most important reason for shifting to the old age homes of elderly people. The study also found that the facilities like medical care, recreational facilities, spiritual facilities, safety, facilities for physical exercise and funeral arrangements were significantly better among elderly living in old age homes, while the facilities like food, accommodation and service of caregivers/staffs were average in the level of satisfaction among elderly living in old age homes. It is important to note that the elderly people have the scope to contribute for the welfare of the society in paid type of old age homes. This paper recommends that institutional facilities and participation in different social activities should be increased to improve the quality of life for the elderly people living in old age homes. Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 9, Issue-2: 48-54.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Northeast and Appalachian Loggers

ABSTRACT Objective: The Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety conducted a survey in December 2020 to understand the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Androscoggin Mill explosion among loggers in six states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Methods: Logger mailing addresses were aggregated with the assistance of state logging organizations. A paper survey, including a self-addressed return envelope was mailed to the loggers in December 2020. Results: The mailed survey had a response rate of 13.3% and captured data on 484 loggers. The majority knew someone (including themselves) who tested positive for COVID-19 (71.9%). Less than half (43%) received employer training about COVID-19 prevention measures, though 73% received some form of COVID-19 personal protective equipment from their employers. The health department, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and health care providers were the most trusted sources of health information. Nearly half acknowledged significant change in their home lives and work responsibilities due to the pandemic. The explosion of the Androscoggin Mill affected the business of 80% of Maine loggers, and 18% of loggers that resided outside Maine. Conclusion: The lessons learned can be used to enhance trust in public health institutions and future public health response to this unique occupational group.