Megan Jones

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The use of Social Media in Dental Hygiene Programs: A Survey of
Program Directors
Aug. 2014
Henry, Rachel K, RDH, MS; Pieren, Jennifer A, RDH, MS.
The beginning of this article goes into detail about how common
social media has become with this generation and some of the areas
that it has helped. They developed a survey instrument to help them
understand how social media is and can help in this particular field.
This survey was intended to help them understand if social media was
being used for before the job like pre-screening, as well as dental
hygiene school entries. This survey included an open-ended question
where they could type their feelings free of choosing from preset
answers. This survey was able to answer questions about admission
into many schools; it found which schools use social media before
accepting and which schools use social media during the interview
process before acceptance.
The results concluded that some schools did use social media as
a tool before they accepted an applicant while most other schools used
in it a screening process but just discussed it during the interview
process. They had to take into consideration that there are legal
considerations and that they must keep the identity of each school
anonymous. A total of 155 responses were received so they had a
little less than 50% respond to their survey to complete their data pool.
They decided that compared to the GPA criteria, test scores,
interviews, personal statements and references that social media was
not used a lot in the admissions field of dental hygiene schools.
However, they found that many policies have a clause about the use of
social media. Some schools use social media as a way to get data from
their students as well.
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Child Care and Child Development: Results from the NICHD Study of
Early Child Care and Youth Development
Aug. 2007
Axe, Judah B.

This article begins to consider how many mothers are now going
into the work force, which in most families is increasing the amount of
child care needed. In this study, they focused on the number of hours
the child was in care, the childs age, the type of care and the quality
of care. They found that on average, children entered childcare around
three months of age. This study also found that most of the childcare
settings did not meet the standards of the America Public Health
Association and according to the study, had great effects on the
children in their care. They directly observed children in all different
settings and had certain scales in which they measured the quality of
care.
They also describe the difference in care for children who have
special needs and how the center is able to care for them and assist
them. Part of this article focuses on the differences between the
children based on their family interaction with the child care centers
and teachers. The author also discusses how childcare settings affect
childrens health and how sanitary the center is directly relates to the
amount of sickness passed through the center. This study looked at
outside variables like nonmaterial childcare and determined that it
didnt really affect the attachment security or responsiveness. The
researchers found many different ways that childcare centers affect
children as well as having a working mother. If the child was in a high
quality day care most times their development was not slowed but
strengthened.