Publications – Page 4 – Karen Zgoda, LMSW

April 7, 2009September 7, 2010

April 2009

SW 2.0 column now live in the New Social Worker! My first article is called "CaringBridge: A Valuable Tool for Social Workers and Those With Critical Illness."

October 10, 2008September 10, 2010

October 2008

Published Back-to-School Resolution: Avoiding Common APA Mistakes in the New Social Worker Magazine.

August 10, 2008September 10, 2010

What a summer! It's been an eventful time, to say the least! Kate Silfen and I published an article together titled "Evidence-based practice and library instruction: An assessment of student reference lists" in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian. Here is a link to the official NASW, The New Social Worker magazine, & socialworkchat.org partnership …

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October 10, 2007September 10, 2010

October 2007

Presented The Role of the Internet in Health Informatics among Older Adults at the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Annual Program Meeting in San Francisco. Published Application Review: HyperRESEARCH in the Journal of Technology in Human Services.

September 10, 2007September 10, 2010

September 2007

Published When the white cane comes in handy: Helping older adults navigate the health care system chapter in the book Days in the Lives of Gerontological Social Workers. Published Book Review: Age matters: Realigning feminist thinking in The New Social Worker. Presented Internet-Based Health Information Use by Persons aged 50 and Older: An Exploration of …

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Being ‘socially frail’ comes with health risks for older adults
Social frailty is a corollary to physical frailty, a set of vulnerabilities (including weakness, exhaustion, unintentional weight loss, slowness, and low physical activity) shown to increase the risk of falls, disability, hospitalization, poor surgical outcomes, admission to a nursing home, and earlier death in older adults. The post Being ‘socially frail’ c […]
Frequency of Physical Activity Done with a Companion: Changes Over Seven Years in Adults Aged 60+ Living in an Australian Capital City
Journal of Aging and Health, Ahead of Print. Objectives:This study examined how often adults 60+ years were physically active with a partner, close family, friends, and neighbors, over 7 years. Methods: Data from 2062 adults living in an Australian capital city were collected using a mail survey at four time points and analyzed using multinomial logistic […] […]
A pragmatic trial evaluating the effectiveness of web versus live training in functional behavior assessment and interventions among special educators
Abstract This study adopted a pragmatic trial with randomization to investigate the relative effectiveness of web versus live training on special educators’ competence and perceived skills in functional behavior assessments (FBA) and behavior interventions. Pragmatic trials seek to determine the effectiveness of an intervention in a real-world setting to ens […]
Evaluating caregivers arrangement of infant sleeping environments in the home
Abstract Sleep-related infant deaths are one of the top causes of infant mortality in the United States. A few behavior analytic studies have examined behavioral skills training to teach adults to arrange safe infant sleeping environments. These studies were conducted in an analogue environment, and no data were collected outside the training setting. The pu […]

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