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ST3003 Assessment

The Normal Distribution and Confidence Intervals

Part 1 — Confidence Intervals in Research

For this section, refer to the following article from the Walden Library:

References

Siamisang, K., Kebadiretse, D., Tjirare, L. T., Muyela, C., Gare, K., & Masupe, T. (2022). Prevalence and predictors of depression, anxiety and stress among frontline healthcare workers at COVID-19 isolation sites in Gaborone, Botswana. PLoS ONE, 17(8), e0273052. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273052

All articles are available in full text in the Walden Library, which you may search by title or DOI. Be sure to provide an explanation for each of your answers and include supporting evidence from the text and/or Learning Resources.

Write responses to address the following in paragraph form by inserting your answers directly beneath the questions.

Table 3 of the journal article displays the number of health care workers who report various levels of depression, anxiety, and stress. These numbers are presented as the number of workers as well as the percent of the total (447). Confidence intervals are given for each percentage value. Choose ONE level of either depression, anxiety, or stress (e.g., normal depression) to use to address the following questions:

ST3003 Assessment

Show how the given percentage was derived based on the sample data.

1. Write 1–2 sentences explaining how the confidence interval would be interpreted.

2. Based on this interval, provide one value that could be considered reasonable as the population proportion and one that would not be considered reasonable as the true population proportion. Fully explain your reasoning.

3. If a subsequent study was completed that increased the sample size to 1,000 participants, explain one change you would expect to see in the confidence intervals. Explain why you feel this change would occur.

Table 1 of this journal article provides a breakdown of characteristics of the 447 participants in this study. The number of participants is given, followed by the percentage in ().

1. Provide one reason you believe a confidence interval was not presented for this data.

Part 2 — Using the Normal Distribution

The following should be based on the data set you created from the larger BODY DATA (ST3001) data set complete the following table:

Smokers Nonsmokers

Mean

Standard deviation

Sample size (n)

Replace the questions below with your response to the following:

Use the table above to answer the following questions based on your individual data. For each question, write a 1-sentence explanation about how Excel was used to assist you in your computations.

Find the percent of smokers expected to have a BMI of greater than 25 (overweight).

1. Find the percent of nonsmokers expected to have a BMI of less than 18.5 (underweight).

2. A normal BMI range is between 18.5 and 24.9. What percent of smokers are expected to be within this range? What percent of nonsmokers are expected to be within this range?

3. A researcher is interested in which BMI represents the 90th percentile (90% are at this BMI level or lower). What BMI score represents the 90th percentile cut-off rate?

ST3003 Assessment

Part 3 — Creating Confidence Intervals

Use the table above when addressing the following.

Complete the following table:

Group 90% confidence interval 95% confidence interval 99% confidence interval

Smokers

Nonsmokers

Replace the questions below with your response to the following:

1. As the level of confidence increases, what happens to the width of the confidence interval? Does it increase or decrease? Explain one reason why this would happen.

Using the 95% confidence interval compare the BMI of smokers vs. nonsmokers. Write a 2–3 sentence paragraph explaining whether these intervals overlap or not. What does that indicate about the differences in BMI between the two groups?

2. In 1–2 sentences, explain the following: What is one situation in which you as a researcher might choose a 99% confidence interval? A 90% interval? Fully justify your choices. Use APA referencing style.

September 26, 2024

Assignment – Child Poverty Rate

Assignment – Child Poverty Rate

While there are policies intended to address the social problem of poverty, the definition of poverty itself is dictated by policy (i.e., the poverty rate as defined by the federal government). As a practicing social worker, you may say that number is “just a number” and not reflective of the true, real costs of poverty. Likewise, the financial realities of contemporary society or your community may mean the policy-driven number does not reflect the amount of money it actually takes to survive.

The child poverty rate is a component of the poverty rate. What more can it tell us about social welfare policy, society’s responsibility to those in need, and how social welfare policy translates at the state level? In this Discussion, you consider these questions as you examine the impact of the child poverty rate.

Assignment – Child Poverty Rate

Resources

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.

Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

Weekly Resources

To Prepare

Research the Annie E. Casey Foundation site found in the Learning Resources to locate information about child poverty and the child poverty rate in your state.

Assignment Below

Respond to the following:

Explain the importance of understanding the child poverty rate.

Identify the child poverty rate in your state.

Describe an important characteristic of your state’s poverty rates.

Explain one contributing factor to child poverty in your state.

Assignment – Child Poverty Rate

September 26, 2024

Pulmonary Embolism Presentation

Pulmonary Embolism Presentation

Give an overview of the patient with the presumptive diagnosis*. You can “create” a patient case based on your knowledge of the diagnosis, based on a patient you have seen in your work or personal experience.
Give an overview of the diagnosis including risk factors and how they cause or contribute to adaptation or pathogenesis.
Give an in-depth discussion of the pathophysiology of your diagnosis as it occurs over time; include signs, symptoms, diagnostic studies and the underlying pathophysiologic process causing these signs and symptoms. Support this pathophysiology with high level Evidence.
Summarize treatments and outcomes in terms of pathophysiologic alterations.

Pulmonary Embolism Presentation

Once you have had an in-depth discussion of your diagnosis overall, be sure to connect your case discussion back to the patient you have presented. Example, if your patient has HTN and DM, be sure to include a discussion of the symptoms that your patient is exhibiting and discuss treatments specifically aimed for your patient.
Support your case discussion with current (in the past 5 years) high level evidence. Patient information portals, disease association websites and other resources such as Up-to-date, Ephorates, Medscape, Mayo Clinic are not considered high levels of evidence and should be avoided for your presentations. While use of the course textbooks is permitted, a minimum of 3 high level citations outside of the course texts is required. If you are unclear about what is considered high level evidence, please review content from your Evidence Based Nursing Practice Course
Include some graphics to support your presentation and to make it more visually engaging
The discussion of the case progression and pathophysiology is typically 10-15 slides. APA formatting for your presentation is required.

Pulmonary Embolism Presentation

September 26, 2024

Accounting Information System Assignment

Accounting Information System Assignment

1. What is Blockchain and how is currently impacting accounting information systems?

2. How Artificial Intelligence Can benefits Accountants?

The paper should have a minimum of 750 words, APA format, original work will be checked by SafeAssign plagiarism checker. A reference page with at least two references per question from the FNU Library (LIRN / Library and Information Resources Network), specifically Pro-Quest, and textbook is required. You must also cite your in-text.

1. What is Blockchain and how is currently impacting accounting information systems?

2. How Artificial Intelligence Can benefits Accountants?

Accounting Information System Assignment

1. What is Blockchain and how is currently impacting accounting information systems?

2. How Artificial Intelligence Can benefits Accountants?

1. What is Blockchain and how is currently impacting accounting information systems?

2. How Artificial Intelligence Can benefits Accountants?

Accounting Information System Assignment

September 26, 2024

PY2100 Special Topics Paper

PY2100 Special Topics Paper

Instructions

*Note: It is expected that students will have a working knowledge of APA format, citations, etc., as well as writing skills appropriate to a college level course. Students who struggle in these areas, may want to review previous courses and/or other sources to be prepared to write and format these papers.

This assignment the following main goals:,

To apply critical thinking and logic to content areas in Psychology,

To demonstrate correct academic writing content style and format.,

To explore topics in Psychology to further students’ knowledge in the field,

PAPER 1– Topics should be written on any topic related to the foundations of psychology or a foundational figure theory or research., Examples might include thing such as dreams development or psychotherapy theories group processes brain functioning principles of persuasion emotion or psychosocial theories.,

PAPER 2– Topics should be written on any aspect of applying some area of psychology. It does not have to be connected to Paper 1. Some examples might include a type of therapy, social or group interactions, treatments for mental illness, consumer behavior, rehabilitation psychology, or any other area of applied psychology.

Students should have topics approved in advance if uncertain it is appropriate to the assignment. PY2100 Special Topics Paper

INSTRUCTIONS: You should present a well-written, well-researched, and correctly formatted paper on the topic. While there is no specific length, paper shorter than five pages will generally be underdeveloped, and result in lower grades.

Locate at least five professional research articles on the selected topic (professional, peer-reviewed, original research). Most well-written papers will use more than five sources. Using more sources will also generally make the paper easier to write, with more information provided to support your topic. Using these articles, summarize and synthesize the information into a well-written paper on the topic. Your paper MUST include a variety of perspectives or approaches to the topic. Even if you are presenting a particular position, it must be well-researched and supported by the facts (focus more on “logos”), and indicate you have researched and thought through various approaches to the topic. PY2100 Special Topics Paper

Your paper must include a correctly formatted and cited APA paper which includes a title page body and reference page. Headings should also be used to outline and identify the various sections of your paper.

Additional questions should be directed to your course instructor.

September 26, 2024

Counseling Treatment Plan One

Counseling Treatment Plan One

Scenario for Treatment Plan #1

A family comes to your practice for help. Here is the following information that is collected during their intake.

Mom and Dad have been married for twenty years. They have a middle-class income. Mom works twenty hours per week as a para legal. Dad is a college professor at the local four-year institution. They have three children. The oldest is a 16-year-old girl. She is a straight A student, and she is well liked at her school and the family’s church. She does not play any sports. Her hobbies are reading, art, and theatre club at the school. She just received her driver’s license about three months ago. It is rare that she is ever in trouble and in need of discipline for breaking family or school rules.

The second child is 12-year-old male. This young man seems to find trouble anywhere he goes during the day. He struggles in school, but the teachers state he is fully capable of completing the work; he just refuses to do the work. He is defiant at school and at home. He spends most of his time defying authority figures who are left in charge of him each day. He can go for days without getting in trouble and then he could go a week getting in trouble every day. Even when he is presented with a “video” of his infraction, he will sit and deny it. He never claims that anything is his fault. He has been known to get into fights at school and even with his older sister. The older sister never fights back. She tries to get away from him rather than engage.

He will intentionally break a rule at home and blame it on his older sister or younger brother.

Spanking him only makes him madder and more out of control. Time-out ruins everyone’s night because he sits in time-out and verbally says things to bother the rest of the household. The only person he has never shown the behavior is his grandmother on his mother’s side.

The third child is a 10- year-old boy. The boy is identical to the older sibling. He makes good grades, and he is well liked by others. He does show some of the “baby of the family” traits. For example, when his older brother picks on him, he immediately cries and screams for his mother.

Presenting Symptoms/Issues (i.e. Anxiety Depression etc.) Spaces are provided for three symptoms or issues but you may have less or add more if needed., UWA students have access to the full-text DSM-5 via the Library website (found at uwa.edu/current students faculty and staff). ,The DSM is in a database titled “Psychiatry Online”. ,This database is filled with incredible diagnostic information.,
Information that Supports Item I. How did you arrive at the above conclusions? Again you may have less or more information here.),

III. Treatment Theoretical Approach(es): List and describe one or two theories that you, as the counselor, would use to work with the individual/family and give a rationale for choosing those approaches. Please do not describe a “integrated” approach but, rather, describe one or two specific theories. For each theory you list here, describe it using at least 250 words. Cite at least two scholarly sources in this description (no websites!). Include the two sources in a reference section at the end of your document (after case #2)

Treatment Modalities (i.e. Specify Group Family Couple Individual make sure that your choice of treatment modalities correlates with what you going to do with the individuals in the scenario.),
Reasons for the Chosen Modalities in Item IV. Frequency of Sessions for Each Modality in Item IV.

VII. Measurable Treatment Goals (Be sure to state these using action verbs. For example, “The client(s) will be able to identify, discuss, describe, etc.”)

VIII. Techniques from Theoretical Approaches: Based on the theory you described in section III above, list and describe three techniques that you could use for this case. Describe each technique using at least 150 words. These techniques/interventions should be directly related to the theory you described in Item III. Besides your textbook, include at least two other scholarly sources (articles or textbooks; no websites). Include your sources in the reference section at the very end of your document (after case #2).

Frequency for Evaluating Each Goal
How will Progress Be Defined? What will you be looking for regarding progress with your client(s)?

September 26, 2024

Counseling Treatment Plan Two

Counseling Treatment Plan Two

Scenario for Case Study #2

A couple enter for their intake regarding pre-marital counseling., They have been dating for approximately fifteen months., They are wanting to get married; however, they are concerned with several issues. ,The woman has been married twice before. ,She has one child with each of her past ex-husbands. ,She has an eight-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy. ,The man has been married once before. He has one child, a boy, age 13.,

Both woman’s ex-husbands play a large role in the children’s lives. However, the man’s ex-wife has nothing to do with her son. The woman receives a large alimony check that she would lose if she re-marries. This is a concern since she does not work outside the home. The man has a good job, but they would be living on a tight budget without her alimony check each month.

They have discussed living together, but, if it is proven that they are cohabitating, she would still lose the alimony. The children have not met each other at this point. The woman’s ex-husbands are not aware that she has been in a serious relationship. Counseling Treatment Plan Two

The 13-year-old boy has been in trouble with the juvenile court system for inappropriately touching girls at school. The last episode was six months ago. He has been in counseling for over one year. The man has not told the woman of his son’s issues.

Again, they have come in for pre-marital counseling and how they should tell the children the news if they decide to marry.

Presenting Symptoms/Issues (i.e., Anxiety, Depression, etc.) (Spaces are provided for three symptoms or issues, but you may have less or add more, if needed.)
Information that Supports Item I. (How did you arrive at the above conclusions? Again, you may have less or more information here.)

Treatment Modalities (i.e., Specify Group, Family, Couple, Individual—make sure that your choice of treatment modalities correlates with what you are going to do with the individuals in the scenario.)
Reasons for the Chosen Modalities in Item IV
Frequency of Sessions for Each Modality in Item IV

VII. Measurable Treatment Goals (Be sure to state these using action verbs. For example, “The client(s) will be able to identify, discuss, describe, etc.”

Frequency for Evaluating Each Goal (Will you evaluate after each session? …after two sessions? etc.)
How will Progress be Defined? [What will you be looking for regarding progress with your client(s)?]

September 26, 2024

Attachment & Forming Close Relationships

Attachment & Forming Close Relationships

Do you find yourself recreating relationships with the same characteristics with which you were handled when you were a child? Take a guess at the attachment style you feel you have currently;

Are your results surprising? Is your current attachment style the same as the one you think you had early in life?

Why do you think it is the same…or different? Use concepts from Chapter 4 in your textbook and the video below to support your reasoning.

Attachment & Forming Close Relationships

Do you find yourself recreating relationships with the same characteristics with which you were handled when you were a child? Take a guess at the attachment style you feel you have currently;

Are your results surprising? Is your current attachment style the same as the one you think you had early in life?

Why do you think it is the same…or different? Use concepts from Chapter 4 in your textbook and the video below to support your reasoning.

Attachment & Forming Close Relationships

Do you find yourself recreating relationships with the same characteristics with which you were handled when you were a child?, Take a guess at the attachment style you feel you have currently;,

Are your results surprising?, Is your current attachment style the same as the one you think you had early in life?,

Why do you think it is the same or different?, Use concepts from Chapter 4 in your textbook and the video below to support your reasoning.,

Attachment & Forming Close Relationships

Do you find yourself recreating relationships with the same characteristics with which you were handled when you were a child? Take a guess at the attachment style you feel you have currently;

Are your results surprising? Is your current attachment style the same as the one you think you had early in life?

Why do you think it is the same…or different? Use concepts from Chapter 4 in your textbook and the video below to support your reasoning.

September 26, 2024

Cultural Humanity Discussion

Cultural Humanity Discussion

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,

Read Chapter 2 in Diversity, Cultural Humility, and the Helping Professions: Building Bridges Across Differenceand investigate the topics of cultural identity, acculturation, assimilation, immigration, genocide, and multiculturalism.
Examine What Is Culture? Types of Culture, Elements of Culture, Characteristics of CultureLinks to an external site..

Each of us uses remnants from our culture to determine our cultural identity and the social rules associated with membership. ,This may include language food drinks values belief systems rituals and traditions techniques tools and skills that can be associated with each culture. ,These practices and behaviors help determine various social interactions that influence relationships.,

In your initial discussion post explore these topics:,

Describe your cultural identity using the culture wheel.,

Identify the ways that you may have altered your cultural identity in order to assimilate and acculturate into the American culture and include the usage of language, the adoption of values, traditions, rituals, foods, tools, objects, and so forth.

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the use of the term multiculturalism.

Summarize the historic and systemic societal bias found in the helping professions (i.e. public health and law enforcement) against minorities. Humanity Discussion

Analyze the methods used in medicine against various groups in Nazi Germany that can be attributed to antisemitism, genocide, and ethnic cleansing.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,

Read Chapter 2 in Diversity, Cultural Humility, and the Helping Professions: Building Bridges Across Differenceand investigate the topics of cultural identity, acculturation, assimilation, immigration, genocide, and multiculturalism.
Examine What Is Culture? Types of Culture, Elements of Culture, Characteristics of CultureLinks to an external site..

Each of us uses remnants from our culture to determine our cultural identity and the social rules associated with membership. This may include language, food/drinks, values, belief systems, rituals and traditions, techniques, tools, and skills that can be associated with each culture. These practices and behaviors help determine various social interactions that influence relationships.

In your initial discussion post, explore these topics:

Describe your cultural identity using the culture wheel.

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the use of the term multiculturalism.

Summarize the historic and systemic societal bias found in the helping professions (i.e. public health and law enforcement) against minorities.

September 26, 2024

Accent & Cultural Identity Loss