Browsing by Subject "caregiver"

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    Educator-Caregiver Communication Through Technology: A Survey of Early Childhood Educators of the Deaf
    (2023) Roemen, Brynn
    There has been an increasingly steady growth and utilization of communication technology between early childhood educators and caregivers. This practice for communication has revealed benefits for educators, caregivers, and children as well as positive perceptions surrounding the use of technology for communication between school and home. Despite the largely positive findings, there is limited research of this nature in the field of Deaf education with early childhood educators and caregivers of Deaf children. The goal of this study was to develop a survey of educators who serve Deaf children (ages 3-8 years old) to examine the current state of how educators in early childhood were utilizing technology to communicate with students’ caregivers, share American Sign Language resources to support language and literacy development, and identify differences between educational settings. Results revealed educators in early childhood Deaf education utilize a variety of technology for communication and hold generally positive perceptions about technology and how it can increase communication and knowledge between school and home. Perceptions about the benefits and challenges of using technology with caregivers aligned with findings from previous research. However, new benefits and challenges distinctive to early childhood Deaf education in the United States were also found. This research is one of the first studies to contribute and expand on the limited literature in early childhood Deaf education and explore possibilities for future research studies in the field of early childhood Deaf education and educator-caregiver communication through technologies.
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    Program Evaluation for the Alongside Network Wellbeing Groups
    (2023) Dalsheim, Hannah; Gillespie, Aimee; Lohr, Dr. Jamie
    This capstone group designed and carried out a program evaluation for the Alongside Network. The specific work agreed upon was 1) a program evaluation of the Alongside Network’s Wellbeing Groups (AWBG); and 2) informational interviews with healthcare providers with interest and expertise in traumatic medical stress to identify areas in which Alongside Network could support systematic efforts to reduce traumatic stress for patients and families. Alongside Network’s Wellbeing Groups are facilitated virtual meetings designed to provide validation, networking and mental health support to family members and caregivers of children who have been hospitalized due to severe illness or injury. Alongside Network will use this information to help support program growth, access and collaboration with partners to support children and families who have experienced traumatic medical events.
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    Supporting Care Partner Mental Health: Feasibility of a Behavioral Intervention Tailored for Stroke Survivor-Care Partner Dyads
    (2020-04) Hultman, Meghan
    This dissertation begins with an introduction to the current state of the science in patient-caregiver dyad research. Current studies have largely focused on cancer and dementia, and additional research is needed in other chronic conditions. Evidence suggests that various factors may impact caregiver outcomes such as caregiver burden, depression, and quality of life (QOL), and these outcomes may improve with intervention. Three manuscripts are presented, the first presenting a review of the literature related to characteristics of stroke survivors that are associated with depressive symptoms in their caregivers. The findings offer support for dyad-focused interventions to manage depressive symptoms in stroke survivor-caregiver dyads. This led to development of a two-arm randomized feasibility study exploring the use of problem-solving therapy (PST) compared to stroke-related health education for depressive symptoms and QOL in stroke survivor-caregiver dyads. Dyad-focused PST is a novel approach. The second manuscript describes challenges and lessons learned tailoring PST to dyads. These include: personalizing the intervention, balancing participation, maintaining focus, managing conflict, and addressing ethical concerns. Considerations for future research involving dyad-focused interventions are presented. The third manuscript illustrates the design, methods and results of the study. Recruitment required substantial efforts, yielding a recruitment rate of 14.4%. Overall attrition was 25%. Dyads completing the study showed excellent protocol adherence and provided positive experiential feedback, especially for PST, supporting intervention acceptability. No significant changes in outcome measures were seen over time for care partners or stroke survivors. Finally, the work is synthesized, highlighting key takeaways and implications for research and practice.
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    Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Students’ Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    (SERU Consortium, University of California - Berkeley and University of Minnesota., 2020-08) Soria, Krista M.; Horgos, Bonnie; Jones-White, Daniel; Chrikov, Igor
    One in five undergraduates (22%) and graduate and professional students (19%) enrolled at large public research universities experienced food insecurity, according to the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium survey of 31,687 undergraduate students at nine universities and 16,453 graduate and professional students from ten universities during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results from the survey suggest that undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds experienced significantly higher rates of food insecurity compared to their peers. Specifically Black, Hispanic and Latinx, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and international students; low-income, poor, or working-class students; students who are caregivers to adults during the pandemic; first-generation students; and students who are transgender, nonbinary, bisexual, pansexual, or queer all experienced significantly higher rates of food insecurity during the pandemic compared to their peers. As colleges and universities prepare for the upcoming fall 2020 semester, we encourage them to provide resources to alleviate students’ food insecurity, offer students greater access to nutritious and affordable food, and expand food security efforts given that the pandemic is likely to disrupt students’ traditional means of accessing food on campus. We encourage institutional leaders to provide targeted outreach efforts to the students who are most likely to experience food insecurity and consider novel ways of providing students with access to free or discounted meals, even if institutions are offering primarily online classes.