Deafblindness is a combined vision and hearing impairment, which results in difficulties with communication, information acquisition, orientation, and mobility. Access to information in accessible formats and communication support is crucial for individuals who are deafblind, particularly within the healthcare system, where communication barriers can result in inadequate medical treatments or misdiagnoses. Accordingly, this study aimed to investigate the experiences and challenges of deafblind individuals within healthcare settings, as well as their satisfaction with the quality of care received. A focus group with six deafblind individuals was conducted, with an interpreter facilitating communication. Analysis of participants’ experiences identified eight themes, with the greatest challenges being inadequate organization of the healthcare system and communication difficulties with medical professionals. Although interpreters are essential for effective communication, participants reported situations where they were not allowed to be present during examinations. Despite the dedication of certain healthcare professionals, they mostly emphasized negative experiences and expressed overall low satisfaction with the quality of care received. Deafblind individuals face numerous challenges in the healthcare system that diminish satisfaction with care, underscoring the importance of raising awareness about deafblindness and ensuring that the accessibility requirements of this population (such as communication support) are addressed in healthcare practice.
Vocational rehabilitation. Employment of people with disabilities
Il fenomeno della vittimizzazione secondaria di donne e figli di età minore ha suscitato crescente attenzione, inizialmente nell’ambito del diritto penale e, più recentemente, anche nel diritto civile di famiglia e minorile, soprattutto nei casi di violenza domestica di genere. Tuttavia, manca una definizione condivisa che ne chiarisca i confini e le implicazioni giuridiche. Il presente contributo si propone di offrire un tentativo di definizione della vittimizzazione secondaria nei casi di violenza domestica di genere ai fini di una comprensione più strutturata del fenomeno, attraverso un’analisi delle principali fonti normative, senza pretesa di esaustività sistematica. Particolare attenzione sarà dedicata alle sue manifestazioni più ricorrenti nei procedimenti di famiglia riguardanti la violenza domestica di genere, al fine di proporre strategie e interventi per mitigarne gli effetti e rafforzare la tutela delle persone che hanno fatto esperienza di violenza.
Abstract Shaped by inconsistent policy decisions, the COVID‐19 pandemic in Brazil has made structural gender and racial inequalities more acute. Black and low‐income women are overburdened with unpaid domestic work, increased domestic violence, and more vulnerable due to informal and exploitative working regimes. These structural aspects are intensifying, since the pandemic has broadened inequalities at the intersection of gender, race, labor market, and social class. We examine pre‐ and during pandemic inequalities on three dimensions: (a) unpaid domestic and care work, (b) women's labor market participation, and (c) domestic violence. We link the care diamond model and racial stratification forwarding a feminist perspective by examining how the interlocking of race and gender in Brazil renders different socioeconomic dynamics to the detriment of Black and low‐income women. Based on this evidence, we stress that a more equal future requires a better social protection and policies targeting the articulation of gender, race, and class.
Background & Purpose: The purpose of this study is to design a model to measure employee engagement in the Qazvin Civil Registration Organization.
Methodology: This research is applied in terms of purpose and quantitative in terms of the nature of the data. First, by studying the theoretical literature, the factors affecting employee engagement were identified, and based on that, a conceptual model of the research was designed. Then, in order to measure the level of employee engagement, a hierarchical fuzzy inference system was designed.
Findings: Factors affecting employee engagement including motivations of social, emotional, and intellectual engagement were identified. The proposed model was used to evaluate the level of employee engagement in the Qazvin Civil Registration Organization and the results show the performance consistent with the reality of the fuzzy inference system. The results showed that in the first level, emotional engagements are the most important factors, and among the following parameters, quality of work life has the greatest impact on the system output.
Conclusion: This research provided a multilevel model for measuring the level of employee participation in the organization, which dynamically traces the output variable according to the values of input variables. This template can be used in various organizations to increase employee participation.
Employee participation in management. Employee ownership. Industrial democracy. Works councils
Adrián Garrido Zurita, Noemy Martín Sanz, Laura Galindo López
A lo largo de estos años, la Planificación Centrada en la Persona (PCP) se ha encontrado con obstáculos que han impedido atender y cubrir algunas de las necesidades de las personas con discapacidad intelectual y del desarrollo con problemas de conducta tanto en el ambiente familiar, profesional y personal (PCDI/PC). Por este motivo surge el presente estudio, detectar las necesidades que tienen PCDI/PC y, a su vez, las necesidades de los profesionales y familiares que afectan en la atención a las PCDI/PC mediante grupos de discusión con profesionales, familias y PCDI/PC que forman parte de Plena Inclusión Madrid. En total han participado 82 personas que se distribuyen en profesionales (sanitarios, educativos, laborales y sociales), familias y PCDI/PC y, en total, se han detectado 81 necesidades que afectan a estos tres grupos. Como conclusión, estas necesidades descubiertas están suponiendo un obstáculo para que la metodología PCP tenga efectividad en las PCDI/PC, por lo que sería interesante que en futuros trabajos se estudien dimensiones que ayuden a cubrirlas.
Psychology, Vocational rehabilitation. Employment of people with disabilities
Introduction: Work-related fatigue on workers are usually caused by some factors such as individual characteristics (age, work period, nutritional status) and rest break. This research aims to analyze the correlation between individual characteristics and rest break with work-related fatigue on telecommunication network service workers. Method: This research used an observational analytic and a cross-sectional approach. The population and sample in this research were all 32 workers at I-OAN unit in a telecommunication network service company. The independent variables in this study were age, work period, nutritional status, and rest break, while the dependent variable was work-related fatigue. Data were obtained throughquestionnaires about individual characteristics (age, work period, nutritional status) and rest break filled by workers. The data were also obtained through the Industrial Fatique Research Committee (IFRC) questionnaires filled by workers. All of the data in this study were analyzed with the Spearman correlation test (α = 0.05). Results: The majority of I-OAN unit workers are in the age range of 25-29 years (46.9%), have 3-4 years of work period (56.2%), and have normal nutritional status (40.6%). For the rest break variable, there are16 workers (50%) who have <30 minutes rest break and also 16 workers (50%) who have ≥ 30 minutes rest break. Conclusion: There is a correlation between individual characteristics and rest break with work-related fatigue on telecommunication network service workers.
Keywords: individual characteristics, rest break, work-related fatigue
Олег Семененко, Ігор Воронченко, Петро Онофрійчук
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У Збройних Силах (ЗС) України продовжується робота щодо підвищення ефективності оборонного планування та управління оборонними ресурсами. Алгоритм оборонного планування розвитку ЗС України крок за кроком використовує результати аналізу досвіду провідних країн світу, які перейшли від планування у галузі оборони на основі загроз до оборонного планування, орієнтованого на досягнення військами (силами) спроможностей, необхідних для виконання покладених на них завдань із урахуванням економічних можливостей держави. Перелік завдань ЗС України визначається на основі ймовірних сценаріїв їх застосування. Одним із ключових моментів ефективного планування застосування ЗС за відповідним сценарієм є вірне, обґрунтоване визначення обсягів необхідних оборонних ресурсів (людських, матеріально-технічних, фінансових). На сучасному етапі трансформації системи оборонного планування до стандартів НАТО та застосування методу планування на основі спроможностей необхідне удосконалення змісту та алгоритму оцінювання воєнно-економічних можливостей держави щодо ефективного утримання власних Збройних Сил, які є одним із головних факторів забезпечення необхідного рівня воєнно-економічної безпеки країни. Ефективність оцінювання залежить від повноти та якості оцінок основних воєнно-економічних факторів, які впливають на розвиток ЗС України. У статті автори запропонували свої погляди щодо удосконалення існуючих підходів до проведення розрахунків обсягів необхідних оборонних ресурсів для ефективного розвитку ЗС, а також визначили основні економічні фактори, які на нього впливають. Проведений у статті детальний аналіз воєнно-економічних умов розвитку ЗС країн світу та України у період 2012-2021 років дозволив сформувати рейтингові оцінки воєнно-економічних умов розвитку збройних сил цих країн у порівнянні з Україною та визначити їх вплив на достатність рівня воєнно-економічної безпеки для кожної країни із урахуванням ймовірних воєнних та економічних загроз для кожної із країн.
The professions are committed to promoting certain values such as social justice and empowerment. But how should these abstract values be interpreted? We argue that an adequate methodology for the study of values relevant to the professions must include principles for dealing with implicit background assumptions and shared understandings embedded in different social perspectives, and that central among these is a principle of grounding the inquiry in the experience of vulnerable or oppressed groups of living with oppression. To illustrate the approach, we include an example of how ethnographic studies can be used in the analysis of values relevant to the professions.
Abstract Background Caloric restriction (CR) is known to improve health and extend lifespan in human beings. The effects of CR on adverse health outcomes in response to particulate matter (PM) exposure and the underlying mechanisms have yet to be defined. Results Male C57BL/6 J mice were fed with a CR diet or ad libitum (AL) and exposed to PM for 4 weeks in a real-ambient PM exposure system located at Shijiazhuang, China, with a daily mean concentration (95.77 μg/m3) of PM2.5. Compared to AL-fed mice, CR-fed mice showed attenuated PM-induced pulmonary injury and extra-pulmonary toxicity characterized by reduction in oxidative stress, DNA damage and inflammation. RNA sequence analysis revealed that several pulmonary pathways that were involved in production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), cytokine production, and inflammatory cell activation were inactivated, while those mediating antioxidant generation and DNA repair were activated in CR-fed mice upon PM exposure. In addition, transcriptome analysis of murine livers revealed that CR led to induction of xenobiotic metabolism and detoxification pathways, corroborated by increased levels of urinary metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and decreased cytotoxicity measured in an ex vivo assay. Conclusion These novel results demonstrate, for the first time, that CR in mice confers resistance against pulmonary injuries and extra-pulmonary toxicity induced by PM exposure. CR led to activation of xenobiotic metabolism and enhanced detoxification of PM-bound chemicals. These findings provide evidence that dietary intervention may afford therapeutic means to reduce the health risk associated with PM exposure.
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O presente artigo busca destacar a atualidade dos estudos sobre renda da terra, tomando como base a análise realizada por Karl Marx, no livro 3 de O Capital, bem como perquirir como essa teoria tem sido retomada por autores das Ciências Sociais e da Geografia. Consideram-se estudos sobre renda da terra que abordam tipos de renda capitalistas e não-capitalistas, fundamentais para a compreensão do campo brasileiro, sobretudo para a análise das estratégias e alianças das classes detentoras dos meios de produção na extração do trabalho excedente. Assim, busca-se compreender a atuação dos proprietários fundiários na extração da renda e das empresas capitalistas que, ao adquirir amplas porções de terra, passam a atuar também na esfera da produção, conseguindo auferir renda e lucro.
Objectives: Cognitive functions are the most important factors that influence the performances of students with dyscalculia. This study investigates the effect of computer-assisted neurocognitive rehabilitation on the inhibitory control of students with dyscalculia.
Methods: A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was applied in this research. Thirty elementary students with dyscalculia were selected through convenience sampling. Then, a control and an experimental group (each containing 15 individuals) were formed and matched based on age, intelligence, gender, and school grades. The experimental group received neurocognitive rehabilitation in 20 sessions, each one taking 45 minutes. To gather data, the Wechsler Test (WISC-R), Key Math Test, and Go – No Go Test were used.
Results: The results of covariance analysis showed that cognitive rehabilitation interventions did not lead to a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in inhibitory, omission, commission and reaction time scores (P>0.05).
Discussion: The study findings suggest examining the effectiveness of long-term rehab during different ages and training strategies with follow-ups.
Medicine, Vocational rehabilitation. Employment of people with disabilities
Background: Peer mentorship is the way of teaching in which the senior one member teaches his/her experiences, skills and techniques to the junior member. The senior member is mentor and the junior one is mentee.(1) This is different from the other way of typical teaching styles because senior members have vast experience and juniors have fresh theoretical knowledge, which is exchanged through peer mentorship.
Objective: To describe Pakistani post graduate physical therapy students‟ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding peer mentorship.
Methodology: A quantitative cross-sectional survey was conducted. A questionnaire was given to students. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics to describe the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Pakistani postgraduate physical therapy students.
Results: Most respondents (58%) did not have any experience in a peer mentorship relationship. A few respondents (14%) reported having received formal training. Respondents showed positive attitudes toward peer mentorship 84% agreed that including peer mentorship is important, and 75% agreed that it can help the transition from student to professional. Most respondents (48 %) did not participate in a peer mentorship relationship during this month.
Conclusion: The response of students towards peer mentorship is positive but most of them had not enough knowledge about it. The research showed the importance of support from the university in this regard to overcome the hurdles in the way of peer mentorship. The results of this study gave a reason to support the peer mentorship for Pakistani post graduate students.
Key Words: Mentors, Physical Therapy, Students.
Vocational rehabilitation. Employment of people with disabilities, Therapeutics. Psychotherapy