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  1. Article ; Online: Commentary on "Syncope in the Emergency Department: A Guide for Clinicians".

    White, Jennifer L

    Journal of emergency nursing

    2021  Volume 47, Issue 2, Page(s) 208–210

    MeSH term(s) Emergency Service, Hospital/organization & administration ; Guideline Adherence ; Guidelines as Topic ; Humans ; Risk Factors ; Syncope/diagnosis ; Syncope/therapy
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-02-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 604632-0
    ISSN 1527-2966 ; 0099-1767
    ISSN (online) 1527-2966
    ISSN 0099-1767
    DOI 10.1016/j.jen.2020.12.012
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  2. Article ; Online: What can critical suicidology do?

    White, Jennifer

    Death studies

    2017  Volume 41, Issue 8, Page(s) 472–480

    Abstract: Critical suicidology is an emerging area of scholarship and praxis that brings together academics, community activists, service users, practitioners, policy makers, family members, and persons with lived experience, to rethink what it means to study ... ...

    Abstract Critical suicidology is an emerging area of scholarship and praxis that brings together academics, community activists, service users, practitioners, policy makers, family members, and persons with lived experience, to rethink what it means to study suicide and enact practices of suicide prevention in more diverse and creative, less psychocentric and less depoliticized, ways. In this article, I begin to articulate what it might mean to "think like a critical suicidologist," the questions that might get asked from this position, the academic and activist allies who might get recruited to the cause, and the potential cracks we might open up in pursuit of a more hopeful, life-affirming, and just future.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 632596-8
    ISSN 1091-7683 ; 0748-1187
    ISSN (online) 1091-7683
    ISSN 0748-1187
    DOI 10.1080/07481187.2017.1332901
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  3. Article ; Online: Commentary on "Remote Advance Care Planning in the Emergency Department During COVID-19 Disaster: Program Development and Initial Evaluation".

    White, Jennifer Lynn / Hollander, Judd E

    Journal of emergency nursing

    2021  Volume 48, Issue 1, Page(s) 7–9

    MeSH term(s) Advance Care Planning ; COVID-19 ; Disasters ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Humans ; Program Development ; SARS-CoV-2
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-13
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 604632-0
    ISSN 1527-2966 ; 0099-1767
    ISSN (online) 1527-2966
    ISSN 0099-1767
    DOI 10.1016/j.jen.2021.10.007
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  4. Article ; Online: "COVID-19 - A Perfect Storm": A Qualitative Exploration of Residential Care Facility Managers Perspectives on the Psychosocial Impacts of COVID-19.

    Bolsewicz, Katarzyna T / White, Jennifer / Murray, Peter / Vidler, Megan / Durrheim, David N

    Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society

    2024  , Page(s) 7334648241238920

    Abstract: Growing evidence highlights the negative impact of managing the COVID-19 pandemic on the wellbeing of the healthcare workforce, including in the aged care sector. We undertook a qualitative study during the pandemic's third year to explore the ... ...

    Abstract Growing evidence highlights the negative impact of managing the COVID-19 pandemic on the wellbeing of the healthcare workforce, including in the aged care sector. We undertook a qualitative study during the pandemic's third year to explore the psychosocial impacts on nine managers of residential care facilities (RCFs) across metropolitan and rural New South Wales, the largest state in Australia. Four themes were identified: (1) Increased pressure on maintaining aged care services, (2) Increased responsibility on RCF managers, (3) Psychosocial impacts due to accumulating pressures, and (4) Experience of beneficial supports. COVID-19 compounded pre-pandemic sector challenges and added new stressors. While resilient and resourceful, RCF managers experienced workplace stress and burnout, which may affect quality of resident care and impact on staff retention. There is a need for more investment to effectively support staff, and research to identify optimal psychosocial and management supports.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-08
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 155897-3
    ISSN 1552-4523 ; 0733-4648
    ISSN (online) 1552-4523
    ISSN 0733-4648
    DOI 10.1177/07334648241238920
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  5. Article ; Online: Adding pattern and process to eco-evo theory and applications.

    White, Jennifer M / Schumaker, Nathan H / Chock, Rachel Y / Watkins, Sydney M

    PloS one

    2023  Volume 18, Issue 3, Page(s) e0282535

    Abstract: Eco-evolutionary dynamics result when interacting biological forces simultaneously produce demographic and genetic population responses. Eco-evolutionary simulators traditionally manage complexity by minimizing the influence of spatial pattern on process. ...

    Abstract Eco-evolutionary dynamics result when interacting biological forces simultaneously produce demographic and genetic population responses. Eco-evolutionary simulators traditionally manage complexity by minimizing the influence of spatial pattern on process. However, such simplifications can limit their utility in real-world applications. We present a novel simulation modeling approach for investigating eco-evolutionary dynamics, centered on the driving role of landscape pattern. Our spatially-explicit, individual-based mechanistic simulation approach overcomes existing methodological challenges, generates new insights, and paves the way for future investigations in four focal disciplines: Landscape Genetics, Population Genetics, Conservation Biology, and Evolutionary Ecology. We developed a simple individual-based model to illustrate how spatial structure drives eco-evo dynamics. By making minor changes to our landscape's structure, we simulated continuous, isolated, and semi-connected landscapes, and simultaneously tested several classical assumptions of the focal disciplines. Our results exhibit expected patterns of isolation, drift, and extinction. By imposing landscape change on otherwise functionally-static eco-evolutionary models, we altered key emergent properties such as gene-flow and adaptive selection. We observed demo-genetic responses to these landscape manipulations, including changes in population size, probability of extinction, and allele frequencies. Our model also demonstrated how demo-genetic traits, including generation time and migration rate, can arise from a mechanistic model, rather than being specified a priori. We identify simplifying assumptions common to four focal disciplines, and illustrate how new insights might be developed in eco-evolutionary theory and applications by better linking biological processes to landscape patterns that we know influence them, but that have understandably been left out of many past modeling studies.
    MeSH term(s) Population Dynamics ; Ecology ; Biological Evolution ; Genetics, Population ; Computer Simulation
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0282535
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  6. Article ; Online: Associations between pressure to breastfeed and depressive, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and eating disorder symptoms among postpartum women.

    Thompson, Katherine A / White, Jennifer P / Bardone-Cone, Anna M

    Psychiatry research

    2023  Volume 328, Page(s) 115432

    Abstract: Background: Data from qualitative interviews indicate postpartum individuals feel pressure from their healthcare providers, the media, and their partners to breastfeed their infant(s). However, the link between pressure to breastfeed and maternal mental ...

    Abstract Background: Data from qualitative interviews indicate postpartum individuals feel pressure from their healthcare providers, the media, and their partners to breastfeed their infant(s). However, the link between pressure to breastfeed and maternal mental health symptoms has not been evaluated quantitatively. The goal of the current study was to evaluate the associations between perceived pressure to breastfeed from various sources and depressive, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and eating disorder symptoms among postpartum individuals.
    Methods: Participants were 306 women, ages 18-39, who gave birth in the past 12 months in the United States (primarily in North Carolina). They completed an online survey about their health history (including mental health symptoms) and breastfeeding experiences.
    Results: Results found postpartum women perceived more pressure to breastfeed from healthcare providers and from the media compared to pressure to breastfeed from their partners. Pressure from healthcare providers was associated with depressive, obsessive-compulsive, and eating disorder symptoms, but not with anxiety symptoms. Pressure from the media was associated with only depressive and eating disorder symptoms. Pressure from partners was not significantly associated with mental health symptoms. Above and beyond the other sources of pressure, pressure from healthcare providers explained a unique proportion of variance of obsessive-compulsive and eating disorder symptoms.
    Limitations: Limitations include the cross-sectional design (which limits causal interpretations), and the homogenous sample (87% identified as White).
    Conclusions: Messaging and information about breastfeeding (particularly from healthcare providers) should be reviewed to determine if there is language which could be perceived as "pressure." It is important to screen for a variety of mental health symptoms, including eating disorders, in perinatal populations when discussing breastfeeding.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-27
    Publishing country Ireland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 445361-x
    ISSN 1872-7123 ; 1872-7506 ; 0925-4927 ; 0165-1781
    ISSN (online) 1872-7123 ; 1872-7506
    ISSN 0925-4927 ; 0165-1781
    DOI 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115432
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  7. Article ; Online: The qualitative experience of telehealth access and clinical encounters in Australian healthcare during COVID-19: implications for policy.

    White, Jennifer / Byles, Julie / Walley, Tom

    Health research policy and systems

    2022  Volume 20, Issue 1, Page(s) 9

    Abstract: Background: Adaptive models of healthcare delivery, such as telehealth consultations, have rapidly been adopted to ensure ongoing delivery of essential healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there remain gaps in our understanding of ... ...

    Abstract Background: Adaptive models of healthcare delivery, such as telehealth consultations, have rapidly been adopted to ensure ongoing delivery of essential healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there remain gaps in our understanding of how clinicians have adapted to telehealth. This study aims to explore the telehealth experiences of specialists, based at a tertiary hospital in the Hunter Region, and general practitioners (GP), including barriers, enablers and opportunities.
    Methods: An interpretative qualitative study involving in-depth interviews explored the telehealth experiences of specialists, based at a tertiary hospital in the Hunter Region of Australia, and GPs, including barriers, enablers and opportunities. Data were analysed using an inductive thematic approach with constant comparison.
    Results: Individual interviews were conducted with 10 specialists and five GPs. Key themes were identified: (1) transition to telehealth has been valuable but challenging; (2) persisting telehealth process barriers need to be addressed; (3) establishing when face-to-face consults are essential; (4) changes in workload pressures and potential for double-up; (5) essential modification of work practices; and (6) exploring what is needed going forward.
    Conclusions: While there is a need to rationalize and optimize health access during a pandemic, we suggest that more needs to be done to improve telehealth going forward. Our results have important policy implications. Specifically, there is a need to effectively train clinicians to competently utilize and be confident using this telehealth and to educate patients on necessary skills and etiquette.
    MeSH term(s) Australia ; COVID-19 ; Delivery of Health Care ; Humans ; Pandemics ; Policy ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Telemedicine
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-15
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1478-4505
    ISSN (online) 1478-4505
    DOI 10.1186/s12961-021-00812-z
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  8. Article ; Online: Parasitism in heterogeneous landscapes: Association between conserved habitats and gastrointestinal parasites in populations of wild mammals.

    Solórzano-García, Brenda / White, Jennifer M / Shedden, Aralisa

    Acta tropica

    2022  Volume 237, Page(s) 106751

    Abstract: Parasites constitute essential elements of biodiversity, playing fundamental roles for the functioning and configuration of any ecosystem. The continuous and accelerated human expansion into previously pristine territories is changing landscape structure ...

    Abstract Parasites constitute essential elements of biodiversity, playing fundamental roles for the functioning and configuration of any ecosystem. The continuous and accelerated human expansion into previously pristine territories is changing landscape structure and climatic regimes that could alter host - parasite dynamics. We explore the influence of landscape structure and habitat quality on gastrointestinal parasites in several species of mammals inhabiting remnants of tall evergreen forest within a matrix of anthropic vegetation. Here, we record 32 taxa of gastrointestinal parasites with nematodes as the most diverse group. Landscape variables such as forest edge density, river density and percentage of conserved habitat were among the best predictors of gastrointestinal parasites. Parasite species richness increased with a higher proportion of conserved habitat, but hosts living in disturbed areas show higher intensity of infection. The results presented here indicate that parasites are susceptible to habitat perturbation. It is pertinent to keep monitoring wildlife health in human dominated landscapes to understand disease dynamics, zoonotic risk, and ecosystem health.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Humans ; Ecosystem ; Parasites ; Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic/parasitology ; Biodiversity ; Mammals
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-11-11
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 210415-5
    ISSN 1873-6254 ; 0001-706X
    ISSN (online) 1873-6254
    ISSN 0001-706X
    DOI 10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106751
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  9. Article ; Online: Effective long-term management of brachial plexus injury following surgery: What is needed from hand therapists' perspectives.

    Brito, Sara / White, Jennifer / Hill, Bridget / Thomacos, Nikos

    Journal of hand therapy : official journal of the American Society of Hand Therapists

    2022  Volume 35, Issue 2, Page(s) 267–274

    Abstract: Introduction: Traumatic, brachial plexus injuries (BPI) result represent a significant cost to the individual and society. Recovery involves multiple surgeries, takes years, and often results in permanent physical dysfunction. While the last couple of ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: Traumatic, brachial plexus injuries (BPI) result represent a significant cost to the individual and society. Recovery involves multiple surgeries, takes years, and often results in permanent physical dysfunction. While the last couple of decades have seen advancements in surgical management, the BPI rehabilitation literature has not kept pace with these developments.
    Purpose: We aim to explore the experience of public and privately employed hand therapists' in delivering effective long-term rehabilitation services to inviduals with BPI in Australia.
    Methods: An interpretative qualitative study. Two focus groups were conducted with Australian hand therapists' (n = 10). Data were analyzed using an inductive thematic approach.
    Results: Three key themes were generated from the data. The first theme 'Falling through the gaps: overlooked components of therapy for BPI' captures participants' thoughts on postinjury health care and rehabilitation services. The second 'Developing a therapeutic alliance: underpinned by time and trust' relates to the relationship building challenges and opportunities following trauma that will withstand the long-term recovery of individuals following BPI. The last theme, 'Factors required for professional development: knowledge and support,' considers the variation seen with these clients in relation to therapy needs and outcomes.
    Conclusions: The findings of this study highlight the need to better equip hand therapists' skills and knowledge in responding to pain and psychological management post BPI. Our results reinforce the benefit of interdisciplinary models of care in the management of individuals with BPI.
    MeSH term(s) Australia ; Brachial Plexus/injuries ; Brachial Plexus/surgery ; Hand ; Humans ; Qualitative Research ; Upper Extremity
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-02
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 639284-2
    ISSN 1545-004X ; 0894-1130
    ISSN (online) 1545-004X
    ISSN 0894-1130
    DOI 10.1016/j.jht.2022.01.006
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  10. Article ; Online: Endosymbionts facilitate rapid evolution in a polyphagous herbivore.

    Lenhart, Paul A / White, Jennifer A

    Journal of evolutionary biology

    2020  Volume 33, Issue 10, Page(s) 1507–1511

    Abstract: Maternally transmitted bacterial symbionts can be important mediators of the interactions between insect herbivores and their foodplants. These symbionts are often facultative (present in some host individuals but not others) and can have large effects ... ...

    Abstract Maternally transmitted bacterial symbionts can be important mediators of the interactions between insect herbivores and their foodplants. These symbionts are often facultative (present in some host individuals but not others) and can have large effects on their host's phenotype, thus giving rise to heritable variation upon which selection can act. In the cowpea aphid (Aphis craccivora), it has been established that the facultative endosymbiont Arsenophonus improves aphid performance on black locust trees (Robinia pseudoacacia) but not on fava (Vicia faba). Here, we tested whether this fitness differential translated into contemporaneous evolution of aphid populations associated with the different plants. In a laboratory study lasting 16 weeks, we found that the frequency of Arsenophonus-infected individuals significantly increased over time for aphid populations on black locust but declined for aphid populations on fava. By the end of the experiment, Arsenophonus infection was >3× more common on black locust than fava, which is comparable to previously described infection frequencies in natural field populations. Our results clearly demonstrate that aphid populations with mixed facultative symbiont infection status can rapidly evolve in response to the selective environments imposed by different host plants. This selection differential may be a sufficient explanation for the global association between Arsenophonus-infected cowpea aphids and black locust trees, without invoking additional assortative mechanisms. Because the aphid and plant originate from different parts of the world, we further hypothesize that Arsenophonus infection may have acted as a preadaptation that has promoted functional specialization of infected aphids on a novel host plant.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Aphids/genetics ; Aphids/microbiology ; Biological Evolution ; Gammaproteobacteria/physiology ; Herbivory ; Robinia ; Selection, Genetic ; Symbiosis ; Vicia faba
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-09-30
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 1465318-7
    ISSN 1420-9101 ; 1010-061X
    ISSN (online) 1420-9101
    ISSN 1010-061X
    DOI 10.1111/jeb.13697
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