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Education during the COVID-19 pandemic has experienced a massive shift towards online modes of instruction in higher education. This paper presents an example of such adaptation during the spring 2020 lockdown in the context of an ESP course taught to psychology students at a Spanish university. Specifically, we adopted the Cybertask model (Girón-García C.Learning styles and reading modes in the development of language learning autonomy through ‘Cybertasks'. Barcelona. ed. Universitat Jaume I. Retrieved November 7, 2020, from http://hdl.handle.net/10803/125440, 2013;Girón-García & C, Boghiu-Balaur S. Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas 16:95–122. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2021.13950, 2021) to design an online task about psychotherapy that could be integrated into the Moodle platform in the form of a Lesson to explore the effectiveness of this asynchronous ‘Cybertask-based Lesson' as compared to an equivalent synchronous online task guided by the teacher during a live online session. The study examines the outcomes of each type of task by assessing the students' achievement in learning new specialized content as well as their impressions regarding perceived interest and usefulness. 144 students were assigned to one of three different groups. The Experimental group 1 (N = 40) performed the Lesson/asynchronous task, the Experimental group 2 (N = 38) did the teacher-guided/synchronous task while the Control group (N = 36) did a regular online class addressing a different topic. The results indicate that, regarding achievement, both pedagogical alternatives are effective to a similar extent. However, task perception scores were significantly higher in the Experimental group 1. Further research is needed to explore the potential benefits of similar asynchronous tasks in the current higher education panorama, where there is a progressively greater demand for online learning. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Despite improvements in cancer outcomes over time, significant disparities remain between Black and White cancer survivors. Medical care is estimated to account for 10-20% of health outcomes, while other modifiable factors explain as much as 80-90% of outcomes. These disparities may thus be driven by multiple factors including social determinants of health, differences in treatment or follow up, or attitudes and behaviors of care teams. As part of a larger project, we conducted a qualitative study to understand cancer survivor preferences for and experiences with social needs screening and referrals. The results of this assessment will inform the delivery of social risk screening for breast and prostate cancer survivors in the multi-site study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in English between March and April 2022 with breast and prostate cancer survivors from two cancer institutes in Washington DC. Patients were purposively recruited to ensure diversity in age, race, and cancer stage (I-III). Each interview lasted 60 minutes. Transcripts were reviewed for consensus and preferences for social needs screening. Thirteen survivors participated in the interviews. Participants were mostly breast cancer survivors (n=10), African American (n=6), were equal in stages I and II at time of diagnosis (n=5), and ranged in age from 34 to 81 with a median age of 64. Most patients (n=7) did not report social needs screening during their treatment, though all patients welcomed having these conversations with their care team. The majority of patients (n=9) desired face-to-face conversations as opposed to on paper (n=1) or through the patient portal (n=1). Similarly, most patients (n=7) did not mind who on their care team held the conversations. There was difference in opinion on how often social needs should be discussed, with four participants suggesting every appointment to another patient suggesting once at diagnosis. When asked about the needs patients experienced during treatment, food insecurity and nutrition were most cited (n=6), followed by transportation (n=4) and emotional resources (n=4). Only one patient reported not desiring social needs referrals during treatment. Other avenues for seeking out social resources included self-initiated research online or through books (n=2), and another patient described utilizing their local church (n=1). Finally, patients also spoke about challenges in receiving treatment and transitioning to survivorship due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including hospital staff turnover and care team inconsistency (n=1), bringing loved ones to appointments (n=1), and transportation challenges for individuals who relied on public transport to and from the clinic (n=1). This research reveals important insight to the perspective on social needs screening among a group of breast and prostate cancer survivors in the Washington DC region and highlights the ways in which patients have experienced and desire screening for social needs. In future work we will expand the number of interviews and apply these findings into practice.
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The research proposes a social support program for rhythmic gymnastics athletes of the School of Sports Initiation of Cienfuegos for the reincorporation to sports practice post-COVID-19. The program is psychosocially based on 1) reading of needs in terms of social support to rhythmic gymnastics athletes for the reincorporation to post-COVID-19 sports activity;2) social support as a resource of psychosocial strengthening for the reincorporation of rhythmic gymnastics athletes to postCOVID-19 sports activity;and 3) integral, processual and systemic character of the program of social support to rhythmic gymnastics athletes for the reincorporation to post-COVID-19 sports activity. It is structurally organized into three projects: mental health services, psychosocial accompaniment in the sports context and social support to the family. Main strategies It contains the planning of the evaluation and monitoring of the implementation and results.
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This research proposes the objective of unveiling social support needs for the reincorporation of rhythmic gymnastics athletes to practice sports that the Cienfuegos Sports Initiation School. The research followed a qualitative constructive interpretive approach. For the sample selection, a convenience strategy was used, accessing 12 Rhythmic Gymnastics athletes from the Cienfuegos Sports Initiation School. To obtain the information, the qualitative questionnaire of social perception of COVID-19. The main results reveal a negative significance of the pandemic as an epidemiological phenomenon, from the reference point of its definition and consequences, the confrontation and protection measures, as well as the psychological discomforts experienced. Needs, fears and discomforts are expressed mainly around sports activity and study activity. The expressed demands for social support are based on actions of emotional, instrumental and informational social support.
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Mobility behavior was impacted severely by the COVID-19 health crisis. To understand the changing situation, crisis managers need access to credible and timely data. In this paper, we look at the potential of traffic management data for crisis management. We list the different categories and types of traffic data sources and provide an overview of how policymakers, research institutions and private companies can repurpose their data to monitor the effect of the crisis and the accompanying lockdown measures on mobility behavior. Finally, we illustrate this through two use cases in the Belgian city of Ghent, and conclude that existing information from connected infrastructure in smart cities can be quickly repurposed with minimal effort. © 2020 IEEE.