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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/the-impacts-of-income-region-and-reason-for-placement-on-reported-kinship-caregiver-challenges-and-needs/) The Impacts of Income, Region, and Reason for Placement on Reported Kinship Caregiver Challenges and Needs
Jan 9th 2024, 14:42

Families in Society, Ahead of Print. Kinship placement has been shown to be superior to foster care in increasing permanency and safety for children. Despite the many benefits of kinship placement, kinship caregivers receive less support than foster family, and this creates unique challenges. This study analyzes data from a state-wide kinship caregiver survey with 868 respondents. Caregivers reported their top three challenges and needs, which were stratified by caregiver-reported income, location of residence, and reasons for the child’s placement into kinship care. We found striking differences in reported challenges and needs based on income, region, and reason for placement. This further demonstrates the need for support for kinship families and can help develop targeted policies to alleviate challenges faced by kinship caregivers across the state.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/canadas-social-workers-launch-new-code-of-ethics/) Canada’s Social Workers Launch New Code of Ethics
Jan 9th 2024, 14:28

Consisting of seven values, the Code was developed through the lens of the Truth and Reconciliation principles, with a new value highlighting the profession’s commitment to uphold the rights of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Peoples and by acknowledging Indigenous world views in their practice with Indigenous people.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/14733250231225170/) Rethinking comorbidity: A case study of syndemic risk, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviors in adolescent girls of color
Jan 9th 2024, 14:11

Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. Decades of research have established a significant association between people struggling with an eating disorder and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Despite a robust literature indicating a link between these two mental health conditions, few studies have explored how differential risk factors interact over time to produce this comorbidity. Using the lens of syndemic risk, this study applied a critical case study design to identify the social and contextual conditions that give rise to the circumstances in which eating disorders and suicidal behaviors cluster together. Specifically, we draw on life history and clinical ethnographic interviews with an adolescent and her mother to illustrate the intersections between psychosocial and structural processes. Through our analysis, we develop a model for syndemic risk that foregrounds poverty, racism, heterosexism, and gender oppression as critical to the production of mental health comorbidities. As we delineate in our findings, multiple forms of oppression led to a higher risk of exposure to stressful and traumatic experiences, including physical maltreatment, emotional abuse and neglect, sexual coercion, and peer victimization. These events contributed to the emergence of psychological and social vulnerabilities associated with heightened eating disorder and suicide risk. Ultimately, our qualitative study contributes to understanding how syndemic risk factors interact and mutually reinforce one another over time to shape comorbid psychopathology. In doing so, our findings shift understandings of mental illness as emerging from individual vulnerabilities to a conception of mental health that is framed within a multidimensional perspective.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/14733250231224364/) Age logics in social work: The case of harm reduction for people over the age of 50 with long-term substance use problems residing in wet eldercare facilities in Sweden
Jan 9th 2024, 14:11

Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. Age is a commonly used criterion in social work, whether for entry and exit or for decisions about the appropriate measures for clients. This study introduces the concept of age logics in social work and investigates the use of age in ‘wet’ eldercare facilities. Wet eldercare facilities are harm reduction arrangements open to people over the age of 50 with long-term substance misuse. No treatment is provided, and residents can continue to consume alcohol and other substances for the rest of their lives. At wet eldercare facilities, age is used to mark a shift in ambition: earlier efforts to treat are replaced by attempts to provide care and dignity. The article uses wet eldercare facilities as the example with which to (i) introduce age logics as an analytical tool for critical studies of age in social work; (ii) understand how age logics are used in harm reduction arrangements for older people; and (iii) propose a method to increase age awareness and identify and challenge problematic uses of age in social work. The empirical data consists of interviews with 31 residents, 11 caseworkers and 12 staff members at two Swedish wet eldercare facilities. The analysis identifies four types of age logics linking chronological age with its meanings: (a) the logic of changeability; (b) the logic of lifestyle; (c) the logic of function; and (d) the logic of administrative fit. Together they construct an ideal type of the ‘older addict’, which justified existing arrangements.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/14733250231225156/) ‘I’m going to take my power back and do whatever I can’: The self-efficacy of survivors of intimate partner strangulation and their engagement in research interviews
Jan 9th 2024, 14:11

Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. Purpose: Existing literature identifies the agency used by survivors of domestic violence when they participate in research. However, some human research ethics committees act as gatekeepers on research into survivors’ lived experience due to their perceived vulnerability. This article explores factors that influence survivors’ decision-making when they participate in research interviews.Methods: Sixteen survivors of intimate partner strangulation participated in interviews about their lived experience. The analysis of the interview transcripts was guided by the research question: What factors influence the agency that survivors of domestic violence draw on when making decisions about participating in research interviews?Results: The findings revealed four processes through which the self-efficacy of participants became apparent – cognitive, motivational, affective and selection processes. Self-efficacy underpins a person’s agentic behaviours, particularly their decision-making.Conclusion: This article highlights how survivors of intimate partner strangulation, notwithstanding their lived experience of extreme violence, exercise self-efficacy. Knowledge in this area is valuable because it indicates survivors who have left the abusive relationship and have engaged in support can make informed decisions about their participation in research interviews. Such understandings can provide researchers with an increased awareness about the wellbeing of participants during interviews and human research ethics committees can be confident that research participants, who may be considered ‘vulnerable’, have the ability to assess their capacity to engage in research, if the caveats of having left the abusive relationship and having sought support are satisfied.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/14733250231222020/) Governing failed neoliberal subjects: Representations of women’s mental health in Australian mental health policies
Jan 9th 2024, 14:11

Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print. This paper uses Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) framework to explore representations of women’s mental health in federal and South Australian mental health policies. It argues that mental health policies govern women through neoliberal discourses that individualise mental health and illness while neglecting the social structural factors which significantly influence mental health outcomes and health equity. In a ‘self-monitoring’ neoliberal society, people are increasingly required to seek medical and pharmaceutical intervention to promote ideal personhoods, with women overrepresented in this group. The disciplinary power of the medicalisation discourse categorises women as either ideal or failed neoliberal subjects. This is concerning for social workers because neoliberal and medicalisation discourses shape how women’s mental health is represented in policy and responded to in practice. This paper challenges biomedical and neoliberal discourses underpinning policy representations and identifies the implications for social work and social policy.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10497315231223141/) A Comparative Analysis of the Strengths Perspective With the Theory Evaluation Scale
Jan 9th 2024, 14:11

Research on Social Work Practice, Ahead of Print. Purpose: The Theory Evaluation Scale (TES) is a psychometric tool for analyzing theoretical frameworks that guide practice. Its flexibility assumption contends that a single rater or a panel of experts can evaluate a given theory and the two sets of scores will be comparable. This study tests this assumption, using a popular practice model in social work: the Strengths Perspective (SP). Method: A panel of 50 social work faculty and administrators from five English-speaking countries used the TES to determine the theoretical quality of the SP. Their scores were first analyzed through common measures of central tendency and then compared to findings in an existing evaluation for the same theory. Results: The analysis yielded excellent overall TES scores for the SP (mean = 32.03, median = 33.00, mode = 36). These results reflect the 35 overall score that the theory received in Joseph et al.’s (2022) evaluation. Conclusion: Therefore, besides showing an excellent overall quality for the SP, these results support the flexibility assumption of the TES. These findings bear major implications for social work theory, practice, and research.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10497315231222159/) Book Review: Ethics for behavior analysts by J. Bailey & M. Burch
Jan 9th 2024, 14:10

Research on Social Work Practice, Ahead of Print. 
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00208728231214904/) Pathways to organizational commitment: Workplace empowerment and engagement among Spanish social workers
Jan 9th 2024, 14:10

International Social Work, Ahead of Print. This study examined the relationship between structural empowerment and affective commitment, mediated by work engagement, in frontline social workers in Spain. Based on two samples (240 participants from public agencies and 226 participants from private agencies) and using linear regression models (bootstrapping method), our results showed two effects in the relationship between structural empowerment and organizational commitment: a direct effect fostering experiences of power and an indirect effect by increasing engagement at work. Empowering human resources management (HRM) practices (access to opportunities, information, resources, and support) is a useful tool for managers and administrators, with strong benefits for both social workers and agencies.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00208728231214133/) Global forensic social work education: A cross-national comparison of education models in 10 countries
Jan 9th 2024, 14:10

International Social Work, Ahead of Print. Unlike qualifying education, forensic social work education is heterogeneous. This review provides a cross-national comparison of 10 countries: the United States, Brazil, England, the Netherlands, Hungary, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, India and Australia. It aims to understand education models across diverse contexts and encourage further reflection on forensic social work pedagogy. Findings revealed that there is little mandating of educational standards or curriculum requirements in forensic social work. Moreover, current modelling is drawn from Eurocentric epistemologies and has a duty to incorporate and celebrate First Nations, non-Western and culturally inclusive paradigms. Opportunities exist to develop international standards for forensic social work education.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00208728231213965/) Professional training for strengthening the bond between intervention agent and participant in a psychosocial poverty alleviation programme
Jan 9th 2024, 14:10

International Social Work, Ahead of Print. The objective of this article is to identify relevant aspects of the bond between intervention agents and participants for the training of social workers and other professionals who are involved in programmes with a psychosocial component. A qualitative study was done, with 21 interviews with participants, intervention agents and a team leader, which were analysed using Grounded Theory. Transversal and technical skills, sources of training, facilitators and hinderers, and recommendations for training were identified. We conclude on the relevance of training in transversal and technical skills for the agent–participant bond for improving both social work practice and social care policies.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00224278231220613/) An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prison Misconduct Punishment
Jan 9th 2024, 14:10

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Ahead of Print. Objectives: To examine whether the likelihood of guilty dispositions and the manner of sanctioning prison misconduct differs across racial/ethnic groups, with emphasis on sanctions other than solitary confinement. Methods: A random sample of men incarcerated in a large Northeastern state prison system is analyzed. Propensity weights are estimated by Black–White and Hispanic/Latino-White prehearing characteristics. Weighted logistic regression is used to examine guilty verdict, weighted multinomial logistic regression is used to examine type of sanction, and weighted ordinary least squares regression is used to examine length of sanction. Results: Findings reveal disproportionality in the likelihood of receiving a misconduct write-up, though reduced likelihood of guilty verdict among Black charges. Minor non-restrictive sanctions are used less among Black individuals and loss of privileges is used more often among Hispanic/Latino individuals, while disciplinary confinement is used more often among White individuals. Black and Hispanic/Latino individuals receive longer sentences for certain sanction types. Some effects are conditional on offense severity. Conclusions: Differential imposition and length of seemingly lenient sanctions may disadvantage Black and Hispanic/Latino groups for rehabilitative resources, while imposition of solitary confinement may disadvantage White groups in terms of restrictive damages. Parity should be sought in the implementation of sanctions for similarly severe misconduct.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10983007231215530/) Maintenance Effects for Preschool Students Participating in First Step Next
Jan 9th 2024, 14:10

Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, Ahead of Print. In preschool settings, ample evidence has long existed that some administrators and educators rely heavily on exclusionary practices to address unwanted behaviors despite evidence they are ineffective. There is a need for evidence-based interventions that provide teachers with skills to foster positive student–teacher relationships, teach students skills that result in positive interactions with teachers and peers, and provide opportunities to practice new skills during daily classroom interactions. First Step Next (FSN) is a short-term, multi-component Tier 2 intervention that helps address these needs. The current study examines the extent to which the immediate, post-intervention effects were maintained after the FSN intervention was delivered in preschool classrooms in the U.S. Results provide evidence that initial, post-intervention gains reported for social skills, problem behavior, student–teacher conflict, and relational aggression domains were maintained for 2 months post-intervention. The current study adds to the evidence base suggesting that FSN is a promising alternative to exclusionary discipline as its’ implementation addresses several factors contributing to continued reliance on these ineffective approaches such as (a) the escalation of conflicts with students with challenging behavior, (b) failure to anticipate and defuse problem situations, (c) unclear communication of behavioral expectations, and (d) unskilled use of teacher directives.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10783903231216138/) A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Treatments for Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Victims
Jan 9th 2024, 14:09

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Sexual assault (SA) is a serious crime that is a prevalent mental and public health problem.AIMS:Addressing the needs of SA victims and providing appropriate treatment are essential to reduce potential adverse short- and long-term outcomes.METHODS:Our team undertook an extensive systematic literature review (published between January 2006 and July 2021) to provide evidence-based mental health intervention recommendations for adolescent and adult victims of SA. Where SA-specific research was limited, the literature and clinical practice guidelines on treatments for trauma-induced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were reviewed to provide additional information to formulate recommendations.RESULTS:Findings strongly support several primary psychotherapy treatments: cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive processing therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, narrative exposure therapy, and prolonged exposure therapy. Complementary (aerobic exercise, art, drama, and music therapy) and pharmacological treatments were explored.CONCLUSIONS:Mental health nurses who provide services for victims of SA can utilize this overview to guide recommendations for treatment of SA trauma and related PTSD symptoms to mitigate the short- and long-term negative impacts after a traumatic event. When victims of SA receive optimal mental health treatments, our communities benefit as victims heal and recover.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/0160449x231218982/) The Effect of Right-to-Work on Unfair Labor Practice Charges: Synthetic Control Evidence From Indiana and Michigan
Jan 9th 2024, 14:09

Labor Studies Journal, Ahead of Print. This study investigates the effect of adopting right-to-work on unfair labor practice charges filed at the National Labor Relations Board. Most charges accompany union elections, which are expected to decrease under right-to-work. However, this work’s synthetic control method results show that unfair labor practice trends in rates and success are generally unaffected by right-to-work adoption. Underlying these stable rates of filing and success is a more resource-intensive strategy where federations collaborate on charges with their constituent members. Using the cases of Michigan and Indiana, which both adopted right-to-work in 2012 and a unique dataset of all charges filed from 2000 to 2019, I show that legal mobilization is one union activity that adjusts under right-to-work as unions and federations look to protect workers.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00187267231218430/) Contesting corporate responsibility in the Bangladesh garment industry: The local factory owner perspective
Jan 9th 2024, 14:09

Human Relations, Ahead of Print. In the developing economy of Bangladesh, local factory owners in the garment industry have felt great pressure to improve factory safety, but the costs for those improvements are not shared by the global apparel firms that wield immense influence over them. Consequently, we examine whether multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs), as vehicles of corporate social responsibility (CSR), offer platforms for democratic oversight or merely serve as new arenas to exercise corporate power. Given their role in connecting global and local contexts and their history of safety incidents, local factory owners possess a unique perspective on the impact and contested nature of CSR in global supply chains. This article presents a qualitative study of MSIs in the Bangladesh garment industry, particularly after the Rana Plaza collapse. Through interviews with local factory owners and executive managers, we explore the reasons behind their opposition to CSR as exercised by global apparel firms, and the contestation of those practices by their local business association. Our findings lead us to conclude that garment industry MSIs are unlikely to be effective without labor procurement practices that harmonize global and local interests to mitigate the competitive pressures on local factory owners.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00131644231222603/) Two-Method Measurement Planned Missing Data With Purposefully Selected Samples
Jan 9th 2024, 14:09

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Research designs that include planned missing data are gaining popularity in applied education research. These methods have traditionally relied on introducing missingness into data collections using the missing completely at random (MCAR) mechanism. This study assesses whether planned missingness can also be implemented when data are instead designed to be purposefully missing based on student performance. A research design with purposefully selected missingness would allow researchers to focus all assessment efforts on a target sample, while still maintaining the statistical power of the full sample. This study introduces the method and demonstrates the performance of the purposeful missingness method within the two-method measurement planned missingness design using a Monte Carlo simulation study. Results demonstrate that the purposeful missingness method can recover parameter estimates in models with as much accuracy as the MCAR method, across multiple conditions.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00131644231215771/) On the Benefits of Using Maximal Reliability in Educational and Behavioral Research
Jan 9th 2024, 14:09

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. This note is concerned with the benefits that can result from the use of the maximal reliability and optimal linear combination concepts in educational and psychological research. Within the widely used framework of unidimensional multi-component measuring instruments, it is demonstrated that the linear combination of their components that possesses the highest possible reliability can exhibit a level of consistency considerably exceeding that of their overall sum score that is nearly routinely employed in contemporary empirical research. This optimal linear combination can be particularly useful in circumstances where one or more scale components are associated with relatively large error variances, but their removal from the instrument can lead to a notable loss in validity due to construct underrepresentation. The discussion is illustrated with a numerical example.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00131644231218401/) Conceptualizing Correlated Residuals as Item-Level Method Effects in Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Jan 9th 2024, 14:09

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Conceptualizing two-variable disturbances preventing good model fit in confirmatory factor analysis as item-level method effects instead of correlated residuals avoids violating the principle that residual variation is unique for each item. The possibility of representing such a disturbance by a method factor of a bifactor measurement model was investigated with respect to model identification. It turned out that a suitable way of realizing the method factor is its integration into a fixed-links, parallel-measurement or tau-equivalent measurement submodel that is part of the bifactor model. A simulation study comparing these submodels revealed similar degrees of efficiency in controlling the influence of two-variable disturbances on model fit. Perfect correspondence characterized the fit results of the model assuming correlated residuals and the fixed-links model, and virtually also the tau-equivalent model.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00131644231213319/) Separation of Traits and Extreme Response Style in IRTree Models: The Role of Mimicry Effects for the Meaningful Interpretation of Estimates
Jan 9th 2024, 14:09

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Item response tree (IRTree) models are a flexible framework to control self-reported trait measurements for response styles. To this end, IRTree models decompose the responses to rating items into sub-decisions, which are assumed to be made on the basis of either the trait being measured or a response style, whereby the effects of such person parameters can be separated from each other. Here we investigate conditions under which the substantive meanings of estimated extreme response style parameters are potentially invalid and do not correspond to the meanings attributed to them, that is, content-unrelated category preferences. Rather, the response style factor may mimic the trait and capture part of the trait-induced variance in item responding, thus impairing the meaningful separation of the person parameters. Such a mimicry effect is manifested in a biased estimation of the covariance of response style and trait, as well as in an overestimation of the response style variance. Both can lead to severely misleading conclusions drawn from IRTree analyses. A series of simulation studies reveals that mimicry effects depend on the distribution of observed responses and that the estimation biases are stronger the more asymmetrically the responses are distributed across the rating scale. It is further demonstrated that extending the commonly used IRTree model with unidimensional sub-decisions by multidimensional parameterizations counteracts mimicry effects and facilitates the meaningful separation of parameters. An empirical example of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) background questionnaire illustrates the threat of mimicry effects in real data. The implications of applying IRTree models for empirical research questions are discussed.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10499091231226062/) Integrating Frailty Assessment to Enhance Care in Cancer Patients with Borderline Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status
Jan 9th 2024, 14:09

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Ahead of Print. BackgroundThe (ECOG) performance status (PS) is commonly used to evaluate the functional ability of patients undergoing antitumor therapy. An ECOG PS of 2, indicating patients capable of self-care but restricted strenuous activity, can complicate treatment decisions owing to concerns regarding treatment-related toxicity. We investigated whether frailty assessment could help discriminate treatment tolerance and survival outcomes in patients with an ECOG PS of 2.MethodsWe prospectively included 45 consecutive patients, aged ≥65 years, with an ECOG PS of 2, and newly diagnosed solid cancer scheduled for chemotherapy. Frailty was assessed using an eight-indicator geriatric assessment. The primary outcome was overall survival (OS) based on frailty status; secondary outcomes included treatment tolerance and toxicity.ResultsThe median patient age was 73 years (range 65-94), and 71% had stage IV disease. Predominant frailty-related deficits were functional decline (96%), malnutrition (78%), and polypharmacy (51%). The median OS was 12.6 months (95% confidence interval [CI]: 6.8-18.4). Patients with 4-6 deficits had significantly lower OS than those with 1-3 deficits (9.9 months vs. 20.0 months, adjusted hazard ratio 2.51, 95% CI: 1.16-5.44, P = .020). Frailty significantly correlated with reduced 12-week chemotherapy competence (52% vs. 85%, adjusted odds ratio [OR] .14, 95% CI: .03-.70, P = .016) and enhanced risk of unexpected hospitalization (60% vs. 20%, adjusted OR 6.80, 95% CI: 1.64-28.1, P = .008).ConclusionOur findings highlight the multifaceted nature of patients with an ECOG PS of 2 and emphasize the importance of frailty assessment for treatment outcomes.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10499091231226429/) The Perspective of Cancer Patients in Palliative Care on Unmet Needs: A Qualitative Synthesis Using Meta-Ethnography
Jan 9th 2024, 14:09

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Ahead of Print. BackgroundAs cancer patients approach the end of life, their needs become more complex, increasing the demand for palliative care. Advanced-stage cancer patients encounter increasing unmet psychological, physical, autonomy, and communication needs, reflecting the difference between patients’ perceived requirements and the support from health care professionals. The objective of this study was to synthesize qualitative evidence on unmet needs in palliative cancer care among inpatient and outpatient adults.MethodsWe conducted a meta-ethnographic review according to Noblit and Hare’s framework and the operationalized guidelines developed by Sattar. The eMERGe Reporting Guidance was followed. A literature search was conducted in Cinahl, Embase, Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, PsycINFO and Google Scholar for gray literature. For all the studies, direct quotes from the participants and authors’ results were identified, coded and analyzed in NVivo 1.7.1 and extracted as I and II order constructs from which higher third-order themes originated.ResultsEight studies were included. Four new themes emerged, representing areas where palliative cancer care patients expressed a need for help: the need for comprehensive, patient-centered care, the need for maintaining a sense of autonomy and dignity, the need for attentive support to patients’ soul and the need for accessible and timely care.ConclusionsPalliative care patients require a secure, suffering-free end-of-life journey with informed decision-making and team support. Ensuring continuity of care, validating their suffering, and allocating sufficient time are crucial aspects of care. This involves maintaining a consistent care plan, respecting patients’ emotions and experiences, and providing services tailored to individual needs.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10499091231225739/) Long-Term Impact of the End-of-Life Care Nursing Education Consortium on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice (KAP) of Indian Nurses Working in Non-Palliative Care Settings: A KAP-GAP Analysis
Jan 9th 2024, 14:08

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Ahead of Print. Background: The End-of-life Care Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) program aims to equip nurses with knowledge and skills in palliative and end-of-life care. While this program improves knowledge and attitudes of Indian nurses regarding palliative care and end-of-life care, its long-term impact on their knowledge, attitude, and clinical practice remains unknown. This study aims to assess ELNEC’s long-term impact on knowledge, attitude, and practice of Indian nurses. Methods: A 18-month follow-up survey of practicing nurses at a tertiary care institute who completed ELNEC in September 2021. Data was collected between April-June 2023 via a questionnaire covering demographics, Palliative Care Quiz for Nurses (PCQN), Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale Form B (FATCOD-B) and a clinical practice questionnaire developed and validated to access impact of ELNEC on clinical practice. Quantitative and qualitative data were assessed using Statistical package for social sciences and thematic analysis respectively. The 18-month follow-up PCQN and FATCOD-B scores were compared with the pre-ELNEC (baseline) and immediate post-ELNEC scores. Results: Out of 108 nurses, 69 responded with a response rate of 63.8%. The mean follow-up PCQN score was 9.03 ± 2.58; significantly higher than the pre-ELNEC (8.45 ± 1.88) but lower than the immediate post-ELNEC scores (10.2 ± 1.88). Attitudes toward end-of-life care declined over time but remained positive in the end-of-life care value and care of the dying. Thematic analysis of responses to open questions revealed that ELNEC motivated nurses to work in palliative care and care for patients with chronic life-limiting illnesses (n = 52, 75.3%), improved their nursing practice (n = 60, 86.9%), and helped enhance their communication skills (n = 51, 73.9%). Participants (n = 55, 79.7%) emphasized on regular palliative care training to reinforce their knowledge and skills. Conclusion: Compared with baseline, ELNEC leads to long-term improvement in practicing nurses’ palliative care knowledge, clinical practice, communication skills and motivates them to work in palliative care.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10499091231223964/) The Association Between an Electronic Health Record (EHR)–Embedded Frailty Index and Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer on Immunotherapy: A Brief Report
Jan 9th 2024, 14:08

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Ahead of Print. Background: While frailty is a well-established predictor of overall mortality among patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC), its association with patient-reported outcomes is not well-characterized. The goal of this study was to examine the association between an electronic frailty index (eFI) score and patient-reported outcome measures along with prognostic awareness among patients with mNSCLC receiving immunotherapy. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, patients with mNSCLC who were on immunotherapy completed the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (EORTC-QLQ-C30) and the National Cancer Institute Patient Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE). We utilized bivariate analyses to compare quality of life, symptoms, supportive services, and prognostic awareness among 3 groups defined by e-frailty status. Results: Sixty patients (mean age 62.5 years, 75% Caucasian, 60% women) participated. Most patients were pre-frail (68%), with 13% being frail and 18% non-frail. Pre-frail and frail patients had significantly lower physical function scores (mean 83.9 fit vs 74.8 pre-frail vs 60.0 frail, P = .04) and higher rates of self-reported pain (75% frail vs 41.5% pre-frail vs 18.2% fit; P = .04) compared to non-frail patients. We found no differences in palliative referral rates. Conclusion: Pre-frail and frail mNSCLC patients identified by the eFI have higher rates of pain and physical functional impairments than non-frail patients. These findings highlight the importance of emphasizing preventive interventions targeting social needs, functional limitations, and pain management, especially among pre-frail patients to reduce further decline.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/15570851231220715/) “It’s Just, You Don’t Have a Ride:” Transportation Experiences of Rural Women on Probation
Jan 9th 2024, 14:08

Feminist Criminology, Ahead of Print. Increased incarceration rates of women in small county jails raises questions about how women experience reentry in often under-resourced rural areas. This study examined links between transportation, supervision requirements, and risk for women living in rural towns during probation. Travel data of 25 women and thematically analyzed interview data of four probation officers and five women representing 11 rural towns in a Northeastern State are understood using the vulnerable populations conceptual model (VPCM). Findings confirmed high travel need with limited transportation access, which corresponded to risk in mothering roles, housing, and relationship safety. Policy implications and future research are discussed.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10596011231223263/) Starting Your Day with Dread or Excitement? The Effects of Meeting Scheduling Cadences on Anticipated Daily Outcomes
Jan 9th 2024, 14:08

Group &Organization Management, Ahead of Print. While researchers have explored many facets of workplace meetings, current research has yet to consider the concept of scheduling cadences (e.g., how meetings are dispersed throughout the day). Leveraging research on task interruptions and anticipatory reactions, we conducted two studies using experimental vignette methodology (EVM) where we presented hypothetical daily work schedules, varying by meeting load and dispersion, to a sample of full-time employees (Study 1: N = 109; Study 2: N = 222) and captured their anticipated feelings about the day. We also considered daily task-characteristics (e.g., expected task duration, task complexity) and an individual difference trait (work interruption resiliency; WIR) as moderating variables. Results from both studies provide evidence that daily meeting schedules influence employees’ anticipatory reactions to the day in terms of positive affect and productivity. Days with meetings high in quantity, duration, and dispersion result in decreased anticipations of positive affect and productivity. Moreover, characteristics of the daily work task/s influence these relationships. When daily task complexity is expected to be high, the negative effects of meeting duration and dispersion are heightened. Further, an individuals’ level of WIR moderates the relationships between daily meeting dispersion and anticipated end-of-day outcomes, with those low in resiliency more negatively affected by dispersed meetings compared to their counterparts. Findings from this research extend literature on meetings, workplace interruptions and anticipatory responses to offer insight into how to best schedule workplace meetings to increase employees’ anticipated outcomes and experiences.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10596011231225685/) Proximally Fat? Extending Stigma by Association to Explore Why an Employee May be Impacted by Another Employee’s Obesity
Jan 9th 2024, 14:08

Group &Organization Management, Ahead of Print. Across three studies, we explore the workplace implications of “obesity proximity effects,” where a proximal person working with an obese individual suffers the same negative perceptions and outcomes as the obese individual. Specifically, we investigate why working with an obese coworker would affect a proximal employee’s job performance. We use this context to propose new theory-driven mechanisms to challenge the understanding of stigma-by-association processes more broadly. Studies 1–2 extend theory on stigma-by-association effects by introducing a novel self-stigmatization perspective. Results from two time-lagged, multisource field studies reveal that obesity proximity effects emerge most consistently from the proximal employee taking on the emotions associated with obese people when working with an obese coworker. Study 3 dives deeper into this self-stigmatization path through a between-person, experimental coworker simulation. Results again show that a proximal employee, when working with an obese coworker, will take on emotions associated with people who are obese, independently of their own obesity status. These studies show it is important to study the broader impact of obesity, exploring its influence on other organizational members. Implications for the obesity literature, stigma theory, and other stigmatized characteristics are discussed.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10596011231225833/) Do Female CEOs Promote Behavioral Consistency in Firm’s Nonmarket Strategy: The Moderating Effect of Board Gender Diversity
Jan 9th 2024, 14:08

Group &Organization Management, Ahead of Print. This study explores whether and under what conditions women CEOs engage in behavioral consistency when promoting CSR practices. Specifically, drawing from the social role and behavioral consistency theories, we argue that women’s CEO presence will positively affect CSR consistency. We use two categories to capture the firm’s consistency in CSR practices: inter-domain and temporal consistency. Inter-domain consistency indicates reliability in a firm’s conduct across its various stakeholder groups. Temporal consistency refers to the consistency of a firm’s behavior toward its stakeholders over time. Using 167 unique S&P 500 firms over the 2005-2013 sample period, we found that women CEOs maintain higher temporal and inter-domain consistency than men. Our results also show that women CEO-led firms with greater gender diversity on their boards exhibit higher temporal and inter-domain consistency levels. Our study advances our understanding of how women CEOs use their situational and positional power to improve such equity and consistency.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/10596011231223272/) When boss puts off, the team worse off: The mitigating role of initiative-enhancing HRM systems
Jan 9th 2024, 14:07

Group &Organization Management, Ahead of Print. The negative role of workplace procrastination is widely recognized, while much less research focuses on leader procrastination. We bring our attention to this domain and investigate the implications of leader procrastination. By drawing insights from social information processing theory and identifying team procrastination climate as a new construct, which describes the collective perceptions team members hold regarding procrastination at work, we develop a moderated-mediation model to examine how leader procrastination and initiative-enhancing human resource management (HRM) systems foster conditions to inhibit or facilitate team procrastination climate and subsequent team effectiveness, operationalized as team performance and team organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). We tested the theoretical model with two-source data collected from 550 members of 124 teams across three time periods. Results showed that leader procrastination facilitated the development of team procrastination climate that undermined team effectiveness. Further, the effects of leader procrastination were significant only under low levels of initiative-enhancing HRM systems. These results offer new insights into theoretical implications for research on procrastination at work and provide practical implications on how to counteract the development of team procrastination climate.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/psyg-13054/) A neighbour to consult with is important in dementia‐friendly communities: associated factors of self‐efficacy allowing older adults to continue living alone in community settings
Jan 9th 2024, 13:43

Psychogeriatrics, EarlyView.
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