Feasibility, acceptability and potential helpfulness of the PROACTIVE intervention in Flanders, Belgium: A survey study
ConclusionThe recruitment of target participants for a subsequent RCT evaluation study is feasible, and identified associated factors should be considered during the recruitment process. The PROACTIVE intervention and core components except ‘peer-group participation’ were perceived as helpful by most caregivers. The CPS2 = 3–4 subgroups were most accepting of the intervention and were most likely to benefit from the intervention. (Source: PLoS One)
Source: PLoS One - August 10, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Shanshan Wang Source Type: research

Children ’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight
Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2024, Page 1-26 . (Source: Journal of Cognition and Development)
Source: Journal of Cognition and Development - August 8, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Rebecca Peretz-LangeKeri CarvalhoPaul Muentenera Department of Psychology, The State University of New York, Purchase, USAb Tufts University, USA Source Type: research

Two Kinds of Visual Art Prodigies: Characteristics and Future Trajectories
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Source: Creativity Research Journal - August 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jennifer E. DrakeCity University of New York Source Type: research

NIH researchers say agency seeks to block unionization effort
Early-career researchers who work in labs operated by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) have hit a roadblock on their way to unionizing. In June, a group of postdocs, graduate students, and postbaccalaureate researchers asked the agency that oversees the certification of unions by federal employees, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), for permission to hold an election to determine whether early-career researchers at NIH are in favor of forming a union. But on Monday, the organizers say, they were told that NIH had submitted paperwork to FLRA arguing that many of the union’s potential members are not...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 4, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Does social media polarize voters? Unprecedented experiments on Facebook users reveal surprises
The bitter 2020 U.S. presidential election still reverberates in the courts and the media—and, in results out today, in scientific journals. Three papers in Science and one in Nature present some of the first conclusions of the 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study (FIES), in which researchers joined with Meta, the company behind Instagram and Facebook, to study the effects of social media on the attitudes and behavior of tens of thousands of users during the election. “These are huge experiments,” says Stephan Lewandowsky, a University of Bristol psychologist who was not part of the wo...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - July 27, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Meaningful Community-Engaged Partnerships: Lessons Learned from Implementing a Community Health Needs Survey among Asian American and Pacific Islander Subgroups
CONCLUSIONS: Findings to facilitate community health programming and initiatives were built from lessons learned and informed by new and existing community-based partners.PMID:37462552 | DOI:10.1353/cpr.2023.a900204 (Source: Progress in Community Health Partnerships)
Source: Progress in Community Health Partnerships - July 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jennifer A Wong Laura C Wyatt Yousra Yusuf Layal Rabat O Fahina Tavake-Pasi Heather Kawpunna Vivian Ching Chau Trinh-Shevrin Simona C Kwon Source Type: research

Meaningful Community-Engaged Partnerships: Lessons Learned from Implementing a Community Health Needs Survey among Asian American and Pacific Islander Subgroups
CONCLUSIONS: Findings to facilitate community health programming and initiatives were built from lessons learned and informed by new and existing community-based partners.PMID:37462552 | PMC:PMC10361577 | DOI:10.1353/cpr.2023.a900204 (Source: Progress in Community Health Partnerships)
Source: Progress in Community Health Partnerships - July 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jennifer A Wong Laura C Wyatt Yousra Yusuf Layal Rabat O Fahina Tavake-Pasi Heather Kawpunna Vivian Ching Chau Trinh-Shevrin Simona C Kwon Source Type: research