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Mental Health Month

Healthy Vision Month

Nurses Week, 6—12  
 

            

              

                                                                                                  

                                               

             

       

       

        National Allied Health Week, 7—13

 

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· National Marrow Awareness Month

· National Allied Health Week, 7—13

 

 

 

 

 

MAY QUESTION 

 

Large numbers of  workers from which two Asian Pacific Islander groups were brought by the Spanish to the Americas in the 1600s?

A.       Chinese

B.       Japanese

C.       Indonesians

D.       Filipinos

E.       Malaysians

 

Email your response to nwosu@etsu.edu by 4:30 pm by May 15.  Answers are always in a link found in the current month’s newsletter. A prize will be awarded to one winner, selected at random among those who submit the correct answer. 

 

Answer to the April Question:    A recent study to determine patients’ feelings about  healthcare providers collecting information about their race and ethnicity found which rationale most acceptable to patients?

D. Monitor and assure quality of care for all patients. Source: Patients’ Attitudes Toward Health Care Providers Collecting Information About Their Race & Identity.

 

Did You Know?

¨ Lifetime prevalence rates for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam veterans were higher among all ethnic minority veterans except for Japanese Americans than among Whites.  Exposure to war stresses (atrocities, violence, and combat) was found to be a factor in PTSD.

 

¨ Self-reported health for most  Asian and Pacific Islander adults was better for immigrants than for their US born counterparts.  A few significant differences were found across Asian and Pacific Islander national origin groups.   Health care visits for Vietnamese were much  higher than for other groups, and among visits for Koreans, were much lower than for the other groups. 

Health Links on Diversity

Article of the Month

Lagakos SW.  The Challenge of Subgroup Analyses– Reporting without Distorting.  New England Journal of Medicine 2006:354; 16.

Lagakos, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, explains how to some subgroup analyses can distort the findings of clinical trials, leading to inappropriate care. An “interaction test” is recommended for comparing subgroups.  A quantitative interaction is one in which the new treatment is superior for both subgroups but is more effective in one subgroup.  When multiple subgroup analyses are performed, there is increased possibility of a false positive result. There are some suggestions to correct for the false positive rate in multiple subgroup analyses.  One is to apply a stricter criterion than the usual P = 0.50 (see article for the formula Lagakos recommends to assess statistical significance).  Another method is to adjust the P value using a given formula.  He warns that post hoc subgroup analyses could be misleading.  All articles should contain details such as the number of subgroup analyses and how the variables were categorized.     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

assessed annually for three years.  The research took an ecological approach simultaneously studying multiple individual, family, and community risk and protective factors focused on occurrence of two types of abuse: severe physical assault and assault of child self-esteem. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The listing below represents just a few of the resources available to promote knowledge, awareness and discussions on diversity in health care among ETSU students, faculty and staff.  

 

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Other Observances in May

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