An Extensive Questionnaire about Metacognition during Emergency Remote Teaching Involving More Than 3000 Engineering Students

By 11 March 2020, the phrase "COVID-19” had officially entered everyday life across most of the word. Each level of education suddenly faced new changes and new challenges. Emergency remote teaching became widespread, and new methodologies to deliver classes and courses were adopted by educational institutions. In this paper, we focus on the impact of the remote learning experience of engineering students enrolled at the Politecnico di Milano. The subjects were recruited from all engineering courses from the first to the fifth year and were asked to complete a multidimensional survey. The survey featured 66 items regarding the participants' perceptions of the challenges of emergency remote teaching compared with pre-COVID-19 in-person teaching. The questionnaire addressed six dimensions: the organization of emergency remote teaching, subjective well-being, metacognition, self-efficacy, identity, and socio-demographic information. In this paper, we describe the entire survey and discuss a preliminary analysis. Using Cronbach's alpha test, a confirmatory factor analysis, and the t-test, we performed a more in-depth analysis concerning the outcomes of metacognition and self-efficacy. The data analysis suggested a small, unexpected change in the metacognition strategies. The students, in some regards, improved their learning strategies. Some other answers underlined their appreciation of the courses' organization and the lack of relationships with their peers and teachers. © 2023 by the authors.

EXPERIENCE REPORT OF THE VIRTUAL HEALTH EXTENSION PROJECT PREVENTION INSIDE THE HOME: EMERGENCY AID

The State University of Tocantins (Unitins) developed the extension project with the name "Virtual health: prevention inside the home", where several activities were carried out completely online in order to provide information to the population in the areas of health, social and legal assistance related to the Covid-19 pandemic. This work seeks to report the experience about the podcast and also the booklet that dealt with the emergency aid brought by law 13,982, which was published on April 2, 2020. The podcast and booklet were made available on the Project's website, in order to bring information to the community on this aid whose main objective was to benefit the most needy people in this moment of public calamity.

Managing complexity: the experience of the Internal Medicine unit of Cesena (AUSL Romagna-Italy) during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Aim of the study: The impact of COVID-19 pandemic put the Italian health system to the test. A retrospective analysis of an Internal Medicine ward experience in north of Italy is described. Materials and Methods: Between september 2020 and june 2021, the Internal Medicine unit of the M. Bufalini Hospital of Cesena managed 954 COVID-19 patients;339 of the totals were hospitalized in sub-intensive area, treated with high flow nasal cannula (25,5%) and non-invasive ventilation support (28,8%). To allow the management of these patients, compared to pre-pandemic, 47 beds and 24 to ordinary and sub-intensive area respectively were added. Results: Patients had an average age of 66 years and 62% of the total was female;prevalent comorbidities were arterial hypertension (53%), smoking habit (28,7%), obesity (27.9%), uncomplicated (10%) and complicated diabetes (9%). Hospitalization lasted about 7 days in the ordinary ward and 13 in the sub-intensive area. The overall mortality rate was 11%. In the considered period, the mean percentage of deaths compared to hospitalizations in Italy was equal to 22.21%. Conclusions: Our organizational model included different areas of intensity care in the same ward, various specialist skills as the pre-existing ability to manage non-invasive ventilation and bedside ultrasound knowledge, as well as an unitary organization and additional nursing assistance well trained. This allowed management of the “complex” COVID patient and even the mortality rate may be the result of this model. These features mark what modern internal medicine should be like.

Post-discharge follow-up of severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: clinical evolution and contribution of lung ultrasound. A cohort study

Introduction: Lung Ultrasound was proposed as a diagnostic and follow-up toll for acute Sars-CoV-2 pneumonia. Information about its role in post-discharge is fewer. Materials and Methods: 53 patients with severe Sars-CoV-2 pneumonia, admitted in the period of March-May 2021 and treated with non-invasive ventilation, underwent a monthly follow-up post-discharge, including collection of symptoms, vital signs and lung ultrasound (LUS) exam with 14-zone method (damage score of 0-3). We compared all results (significance threshold: 0.05). Results: 69.8% of patients were male, a median age of 62 years. 79.3% of patients still presented at least one symptom at the first month with a significant decrease at next months;the median of dyspnea score (mMRC) decreased from 0-3(1st month) to 0-2(2nd month). Median of peripheral oxygen saturation significantly increased. Regarding the LUS score, a significant decrease has been observed between hospitalization (average: 21) and next months, as also a progressive decrease in its variability. All lung segments improved, except the anterior apices and the posterior middles areas. Conclusions: In first 3 months after discharge, we observed a progressive and significant reduction of Sars-CoV-2 related symptoms and an improvement in vital parameters. The congruent improvement in LUS exam helped the physician to confirm the positive trend or to anticipate other exams. “Long Covid” is a worrisome post-infectious condition for which health publics systems are investing in follow- up pathways. Lung ultrasound can preserve an important monitoring role.

Blue swimming crab supply chain before and during the covid-19 pandemic against small fishermen in central buton regency, indonesia (A case study of the spelman strait coastal waters)

Unprepared mitigation due to the Covid-19 pandemic caused disruption in the food supply chain. On the other hand, food needs increased along with the implementation of lockdown. It includes one of the blue swimmer crab (Portunus pelagicus) raw material suppliers, the Spelman Strait's coastal waters which experienced supply chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic, compared to before the pandemic. This raises concerns that in the future, the Covid-19 pandemic will cause new unemployment. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of the blue swimmer crab supply chain before and during the Covid-19 pandemic and the role of the Central Buton Regency Government in addressing these problems. The data analysis applied is a socio-ecological system approach based on the spider diagram model. Respondents were selected using the purposive sampling method. Furthermore, the research results showed that the blue swimmer crab supply chain in the Spelman Strait experienced disruption. Since the catch of fishers are not accommodated by the local collectors, exporters did not provide local collectors either. Before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, there was no intervention from the local government in the supply chain. The supply chain that currently works formed its networking independently. Therefore, both central and local governments must have concern and support for supply chain risks for coastal fisheries actors. It can be applied through the formulation and implementation of information systems and network policies. © 2021, BIOFLUX SRL. All rights reserved.

Analysis of Household Food Security of The Bajo Community in West Muna Regency during The COVID 19 Pandemic

Food security during the Covid-19 pandemic is a condition in which all Bajo households have access to food both physically and economically for all their family members so that they are not at risk of losing both access during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study aims to determine the household food security of the Bajo community in the West Muna Regency during the Covid 19 pandemic. This research was carried out in March-May 2020 in Latawe Village, Napano Kusambi District, West Muna Regency. The research location was selected purposively considering that the village is a coastal village where most of the population living is Bajo people who work as fishermen as many as 180 families. Many as 64 families determined the number of research samples using the Slovin formula and sampling using a simple random sampling technique. Data analysis was carried out using a descriptive method to measure the food security of Bajo households during the Covid 19 pandemic, which was estimated using the share of food spending where if the percentage of food spending was <60% of total spending, the household was food-secure and if the share of food spending was 60% of total expenditures, are households that are food insecure. The results show that 46.88% of Bajo households are food secure, and 53.12% are food insecure.