HLT-362V Applied Statistics for Health Care Professionals Exercise 36 in Statistics for Health Care Research: A Practical Workbook. 1. The researchers found a significant difference between the two groups (control and treatment) for change in mobility of the women with osteoarthritis (OA) over 12 weeks with the results of F(1, 22) = 9.619, p = 0.005. Discuss each aspect of these results. There is a significant difference between the control and treatment group with an F value at 5% level.
34, No. 11 p. 1146-1152. | Background Information | This study reports, in 2004 hospital infections accounted for 99,000 deaths, affecting 1.7 million patients. The authors also present the argument hand hygiene practices among healthcare workers average 5% to 89 % compliance rate. Several interventions have been implemented by hospitals to improve hand hygiene compliance.
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A study was conducted by Dr. Graham Emslie, a professor at UT Southwestern, within the last decade that included 334 teenagers, all of whom suffered from major depression. In the study, the researchers looked at the types of treatment each participant was receiving in order to treat his or her depression. It was concluded from the study that those participants that were unresponsive to their initial antidepressant “responded when they switched to a different antidepressant and participated in cognitive behavioral therapy” (Drug Week, 2008). Using these results Emslie concluded that “medication and therapy do not have to be independent of each other” (Drug Week, 2008). Dr. Emslie states in her report that “if you haven’t had a good response with antidepressants,
Therapeutic Alliance as a Measurable Psychotherapy Skill ap.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=47792by RF Summers - 2003 - Cited by 42 - Related articles 1 Sep 2003 – The therapeutic alliance may be a "holy grail" of psychotherapy competency ... The self-report and observer-rater versions use 7-point Likert type scales in a ... measuring therapeutic alliance, and we have presented the basic psychometric data ... Other contributors have emphasized the role of specific skill ... Three Courses for Certified Addictions Counselor I ... - CSU-Summer www.summer.colostate.edu/campusindex.cfm?dispg=addictionThis lab course is designed to accompany PSY 310, Basic Counseling Skills. ... perform the basic skills, and by role-playing them while being
Cystic Fibrosis Heather Province Southwest Florida College Anatomy & Physiology August 30, 2012 Margaret Forget Cystic Fibrosis What is Cystic Fibrosis and what it means to me personally? This disease is a lethal genetic disease that’s common in the white population. Many patients with this disease live till 37 years old due to better treatment to improve their survival rate. “Average Life Expectancy in Cystic Fibrosis Better Treatment=Improved Survival” (Source: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation). Throughout my research I will explain treatments, therapy options, and prescription drugs offered to patients with this disease.
Discuss the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy as a treatment for depression. In the UK alone, depression affects 8.8% of the population. (Foroushani, P.S., Schneider, J., Assareh, N. 2011) This means that there is a constant requirement for an effective method of treating depression. One favoured method is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). CBT aims to set goals over a series of therapy sessions in order to encourage positive physical and mental behaviour.
For instance, electroshock therapy raised many questions such as, is this a safe form of treatment. It may sound scary but electroshock therapy is safe and is still used to treat patients today. After many years of research, author Ken Kessey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a book that would help end the abusive treatments that happened throughout mental hospitals (ProQuest Staff) Along with the abusive treatment, many people suffering from severe mental disorders are not able to be admitted to mental institutions causing hospitals to be at maximum capacity; up to 108,000 emergency rooms are full. And of the hundreds of thousands of adults with severe mental disorders, only about forty percent received treatment (Szabo). Another treatment for mentally ill people is prescription drugs.
Exercise Exercise as a Successful Treatment for Depression LIB100, Write Your Class Section Here Student’s Name Professor Kahn Summer 2011 Topic: Exercise as a Successful Treatment for Depression Thesis statement: Moderately strenuous exercise performed three times a week for forty-five minutes to an hour can relieve moderate depression. Similarly, moderately strenuous exercise performed for thirty minutes three to five times a week may help relieve severe depression. Search strategy and evaluation of resources: I began my research about treating depression through the use of exercise by performing a keyword search for the words depression exercise in the Gale Virtual Reference Library which I accessed through the ASA Library Dabases and eBooks. I chose an entry about how exercise can successfully treat depression from the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine because this is a subject specific encyclopedia that provides background information about medical topics. The entry was written by L. Fleming Fallon, a Professor of Public Health at Bowling Green State University making him an authority on medical issues.