Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many educational institutions to shift to flexible learning options (FLO), which require technology in teaching. Digital immigrant nurse educators, who are educators born before 1985, may need help adopting FLO due to their limited knowledge and skills in technology. This study aims to explore the experiences of digital immigrant nurse educators' cha...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study are to: i) examine differences in body mass index (BMI) and prevalence of overweight/obesity between immigrant versus non-immigrant youth aged 12-19 years, and ii) identify the extent to which lifestyle and socio-demographic factors account for between-group differences. METHODS Data for analyses come from combining repeated, cross-sectional surveys of ...

As households immigrate to the United States, persistent food preferences or challenges in producing desired foods may affect their ability achieve security. Alternatively, some immigrants excel new environment allowing them be more secure than native counterparts. Using Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement, we compare security levels between Chinese, Indian, Mexican, and West Afr...

AIM To define the demographics and clinical characteristics of cases presenting with nutritional rickets to paediatric centres in Sydney, Australia. METHODS Retrospective descriptive study of 126 cases seen from 1993 to 2003 with a diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency and/or confirmed rickets defined by long bone x ray changes. RESULTS A steady increase was seen in the number of cases per year...

This study investigates the role of immigrant composition in creating the observed negative correlation between immigrant supply and immigrant wages in US time series, which has recently been interpreted as evidence of immigrant-native complementarities in production. The main finding is that compositional effects fully explain this empirical pattern. Newlyarrived immigrants, notably Latin Amer...

Immigrant cohorts have varied over time in many ways that have important implications for projecting the contributions immigrants make to the Social Security system. Using immigrant cohorts in the 1970, 1980, and 1990 decennial censuses, we find that immigrant men experience faster earnings growth than U.S.-born men; that there has been a large decline in initial immigrant earnings over time; a...

The article by Dogra et al made for an interesting read. 1 However, the use of only the self-report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and lack of validation of the SDQ in Indian adolescents – which the authors acknowledge – pose serious methodological concerns. The authors also mention the absence of SDQ reference standards for children of Indian ethnic backgrounds. In contrast, th...

needs of Indian adolescents The article by Dogra et almade for an interesting read. However, the use of only the self-report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and lack of validation of the SDQ in Indian adolescents – which the authors acknowledge – pose serious methodological concerns. The authors also mention the absence of SDQ reference standards for children of Indian ethnic bac...