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[Justin Davis]

I went through the google doc and did an edit for both content and grammar.  I also added the limitations section to the results.  Please review what I have done and make comments.  Also please let the group know where you are at in completing your sections as the deadline is fast approaching.

thanks,

jd

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARtriPbwPCOPZGdoOHIzOThfMTA5ZHdjbmZxZnY&hl=en&pli=1

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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Nelson Mandela

[Mickey Lui]

I'll take a look at it and add to my sections tonight/ tomorrow morning

Mickey

[Mickey Lui]

One  more thing it would be nice if the results/ methodology sections were filled with more meat so to speak as it would help to see whats there in doing to discussion else it might be hard to come up to the page limit. 

Mickey

[Justin Davis]

By the way--

Sarah and Nhi,

I am wondering how you are doing with the Poster, what ideas you have and what you feel you need to get it in on time by Monday?

Thanks

[Justin Davis]

Pretty much every other group is meeting this weekend to work on their paper together...  Do we need to do that this weekend or is everyone feeling clear?

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[Mickey Lui]

Honestly I would prefer not to have to as its quite a commute from the east bay 35 miles one way. If the other parts are up I can crank out a summary discussion sometime tomorrow afternoon. The intro only needs a slight workout and it is done as long it gets to almost 3 pages thats fine. Even if nothing gets in I will extrapolate and ports the parts I can for the summary and updates can be made accordingly depending on the parts as they come in. As for the poster it would be nice to see an actual template draft of our poster based on what we have right now.

Mickey

[Sarah Zitsman]

Hi All,

My part will be up today.  As for the poster, I think what we need is a strong foundation in each part of the paper.  We can always fix typos or change wording a bit for the poster but we need all the information, charts, etc.  In my opinion, we need all that up by tomorrow noon at the latest.

Justin - Thanks for being our fearless leader and keeping us all on track!

Erin- As we discussed, I added the pre and post intervention HTN so you can put that into your charts. That is attached.

Nhi- We are listed as doing the poster together; however I'm feeling pretty swamped with my calculations and write-up section.  Could you start the poster design/ pictures, etc (ie the parts that make it pretty...)?  Then I can help tomorrow evening with edits and final touches?


~Sarah

P.S. I'm sorry, I cannot meet this weekend because I'm actually at a medical conference in San Diego till late Sunday night.

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Touro University

[Justin Davis]

Thank you Sarah and Mickey for such a quick response.  I am ok if we don't meet as long as I get regular updates to know where we are at daily between now and Monday when the poster is due.  I would like to see a template today of the poster so we can all add to it, and when all the info is posted by tomorrow noon the lattest then I would like to see a final draft of the poster asap so we can all comment and help with finalizing it before the end of the day.

I am happy to help,  and thank you for your work.

J

<Epi Project - Stats.xls>

[Nhi Duong]

Sarah, I'll get started on the poster today.

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[Erin Littmann]

Thank you Sarah.  I am working on the stuff now, and not to add another thing to the plate, but I am not exactly sure how the IIEF scoring thing works for ED but to we need a pre and post on that as well?
 
Erin
 

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[Erin Littmann]

Sarah-
 
I also added pre data for over wt (same at post), obese (Case-14, control-15), smokers (same as post), and htn is what we had before.  I don't think this numbers need to be analyzed, but I thought that I would let you know.  The IIEF scores would go here too but I forgot if they go higher or lower.  you can just give me two numbers for the pre in the control and case and that would work for me.
 
Thanks,
Hope you having fun in SD

 

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[Erin Littmann]

I have uploaded my written portion of the results onto the google doc.  
 
Sarah-  I left some blank spots for some data (they are in red).  Feel free to add anything else, it may need to be a little beefy. 
Nhi- feel free to add to the section as you see fit.
 
Does anyone know how to get the graphs from Excel to the google doc?  I am attatching the graphs now, but there are two numbers that need to be filled in when I get them from Sarah and then they should be complete.  We may not need the Graph number 5, but I will leave that up to you guys.
 
Let me know if there is anything else that you need me to do.  
Thanks,
Erin
 

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[Nhi Duong]

Erin, the graph looks good. I'd like to use that for the poster but not sure how to add it onto the poster.

 

Everyone, I'm attaching what I have so far for the poster. Please let me know if I should make any changes to the format, colors, font, etc. Also, the texts under each heading is temporary. Once everyone's part is in, I will fill in with the updated texts. Thanks

 

Nhi

Nhi Duong
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Touro University, California
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[Erin Littmann]

Nhi-  That looks good.  The only thing is that there are currently 5 graphs (I don't think we really need the last one).  I guess just make sure that there is room for those.  If I had to only pic a couple I would pic graphs 2 and 3 (still waiting on one piece of data for graph 3).  Justin said that he was able to cut and paste the graphs into word, but can't get them to show up on the google doc.  I was playing with it for awhile and not really sure how to do it.  If anyone else knows how, please share your secret.
 
Erin
 

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[Justin Davis]

I agree with what Erin said.  It looks good and we will prob  need more space for graphs.  We will probably have to only summarize each section for the poster due to space constraits.

[Sarah Zitsman]

Nice everyone!  I think we shouldn't worry too much about getting the graphs into google docs. 

After the exam, I'm happy to take our finished google doc and put it back in word, check formatting and add the graphs back-- and then run it past all of you for final printing. 

~Sarah

[Nhi Duong]

Ok, i'll make more space for graphs on the poster. if each of you could write me a short summary of your part that you did for the paper, and email it to me, then i can compile and format the texts to fit. erin, i'll summarize the results for our part. Thanks everyone.

 

Nhi

[Mickey Lui]

Okay guys after looking through the stuff I have decided that I am going to need to results in a prose format which I have not found on the google doc. As part of the discussion is not to summarize but to interpret the results compared to the research done before that has been summarized in the introduction. Without them in hand it will be easy to repeat points already made and delay the overall process.

Mickey

[Mickey Lui]

Okay updated to the google doc.

Minor changes to introduction is up. I believe it is close enough to our recommended page length. Feel free to add and make changes if any of you see fit. 

Discussion summary is up based on what I gathered from the prose results that are up. Combined with the limitations portion it is still about 1 page double spaced short of 4 pages. As I am out of things to write about in the moment take a look and see if there is anything you all want to add change etc. 

I will look to see if there is anything I can add to it tomorrow but it will be nice to get some input from a fresh pair of eyes.

As for the poster summary sections for the intro and summary part of the discussion I will look into it in the morning tomorrow unless someone wants to get to it first.

Mickey

[Sarah Zitsman]

Thanks, Mickey.  I've been furiously crunching statistics and trying to get significance levels on different outcomes...... I will be entering the prose of my work into the google doc shortly and I will send you all the revised excel sheet soon too.

[Justin Davis]

Awesome Sarah & Mickey.  I will review tomorrow with fresh eyes and plan on doing some editing. 

J

[Erin Littmann]

Thank you everyone. We are almost there. I can look over stuff tomorrow as well.

[Sarah Zitsman]

Hey All,

 

So, I've added some stuff to the google doc online and spent way more time than I'd like to admit calculating p-values....  Please find the updated stats attached.  In one sheet you'll see the important take-away info and in the other you'll see updated numbers.

 

Erin - Your graphs look splendid. However, it looks like on one of the graphs you've flipped the results -- instead of putting that 1/3 fewer men have ED (ie 2/3 still have ED) you reversed it.....

 

Later all,

 

Sarah

[Nhi Duong]

Great job, all! I look forward to knocking the poster out by tonight =)

[Erin Littmann]

Hey all, so I've made some changes to my graphs...
 
Thank you Sarah for discovering my little switch.  I have corrected that, along with realizing that the IIEF scores needed their own graph and not apart of the others since my y axis was "number of subjects", that didn't really work for the IIEF scores. 
 
Nhi-  I have not made any changes to the written portion of the results.  Sarah's numbers can be added and may help to lengthen that section. 
 
Good work everyone.
Erin
 

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[Justin Davis]

OK.... I just spent the last couple hrs editing the google doc.

I edited grammar and such again, but mostly added stuff to various sections.  I expanded a bit in the Introduction section by adding a bit of background info on Yoga in the US.  I added some more limitations to the discussion, and I worked a bit on the discussion summary, as per Mickey's request for a fresh pair of eyes.

One thing to note is that the ages for our group are 55-70 (NOT 60-75).  This is because when I did the inclusion/exclusion criteria I found a study backing up that age group.  I changed all the places that said 60-75 to 55-70.

We are definitely starting to make progressive, which is EXCITING!  Thanks for your work.

Q: Is there supposed to be an appendix at the end, and if so, what goes there?

Also I noticed that the Abstract section makes several assertions that are not backed up with references and I am wondering if those could be added to that section by the person (Sarah I think?) who wrote that, as I am assuming you know where to find them. 

As for the POSTER---  I think we can just have 4 sections listed: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Conclusion-- plus graphs.  Who is working on each of these sections today, as this is due tomorrow?

I will work on the conclusion (which is the discussion restated) and get that in today.  Each of the sections need to be about 1/2 page in length to fit on the poster.  1 page max.

thought?

justin

"Live sensibly- among a thousand people, only one dies a natural death, the rest succumb to irrational modes of living."

Maimonides, AD 1135-1204

[Sarah Zitsman]

Hi Justin,

Thanks!  You are AWESOME!  Last night I tried to change some of those numbers to match your researched age group but clearly I missed some as it was 2am.

Here are some other responses to your questions:

Appendix: Ms. Smith said it is not necessary but if we would like we could put calculations in an appendix.

Abstract: I spoke w/ Ms. Smith about this as well -- she confirmed that we do not need to put references in the abstract as most journals do not do that.....  I asked about this at our meeting with her.... anyone else remember her saying this as well?

Methods Section: I am still working on the "study analysis" segment of this.  Please let me know how much of this we want to include in the poster.  Although, I've spent a long time actually doing the "analysis" (researching statistical equations to use and crunching numbers) I have not spent a whole lot of time writing about HOW I did that yet.  If possible,  I'd like to just do a few lines on this for the poster unless you guys feel like it is more important.  Obviously, I will finish writing the rest for the paper.

Best,

Sarah

[Nhi Duong]

Hey all, could the following people summarize the following sections (please, NO MORE THAN 200 words per section):

 

introduction: nhi

methodology: study design; sarah

                 inclusion/ex: justin (between the two of you, the word count may go over 200, but if possible, keep it at 200)

results: nhi (erin, you can help me look over it afterwards to make sure i get all the important info on the poster along w/graphs.)

discussion: summary: mickey

                  limitations: justin (between the two of you, the word count may go over 200, but if possible, keep it at 200)

 

Please get these to me within the next 4 hours. By 6PM, I hope to get the poster draft up for your view and comments. Thanks all.

 

nd

[Justin Davis]

THANKS SARAH!!  MUCH APPRECIATED.

OK--- Below is the summary for the CONCLUSION section of the poster!!!  

Please also get your summaries in soon, so we can have a completed poster to comment on by..... 8PM-ish?

(Is everyone clear on which section they are doing---the Introduction section, the Materials & Methods section and the Results section). 

THANKS NHI FOR ORGANIZING THE POSTER!!!!

By the way--which graphs do we think are necessary to include?

Also we should add an acknowledment section to the poster which says something like: "The authors would like to acknowlegde the Touro California University Review Board for approving this study.  We would also like to thank Professor Jessica Smith for her knowledge and insight in preparing our study."

HERE IS THE COMPLETED CONCLUSION/SUMMARY SECTION FOR THE POSTER!!!

This study demonstrated that yoga can reduce the prevalence of ED among older men, 55-70, in a community setting.  This may suggest that yoga has a place in helping older communities improve and maintain their sexual vitality during their 'golden years.'  Further studies are needed in order to evaluate the potential generalizability of this community trial.

 

Initial results after six months utilizing 100 male participants from two senior community centers in separate cites within the San Francisco Bay Area of similar ethnicity, race, marital status, and age, show promise that yoga is an effective treatment for ED, based on IIEF scores. This study individually determined that yoga therapy over a period of six months is effective in reducing ED. A reversal of ED in 34% of the case participants at Center A (p< .001) was observed. In contrast, the control Center B showed no statistically significant reversal in ED amongst participants.

 

As all other risk factors tracked (pre-hypertension, weight, obesity, and smoking status) remained virtually unchanged when compared between study start and end points, it can be inferred that yoga has an independent effect on reducing ED. It is not presently possible to determine if yoga would confer a greater change in ED reduction combined with smoking cessation, weight reduction, or decreased hypertension. It is also unknown whether a customized exercise system could be found to reduce ED more efficiently. As yoga programs are extremely customizable based on individual limits and targets, further studies can be done to assess which type of yoga is most effective in ED management. More research is also needed in order to generalize the results of this study’s findings to younger age groups, as this study included individuals of advanced age.  In order to do this, further studies are needed to include broader populations of men with varied socio-economic status (SES), age, and culturally distinct backgrounds.  Additional control of exercise quantity and intensity, as well as experiments that follow patients for a longer time range may be helpful in assessing how far the decrease in ED can be with yoga based interventions.

J

[Justin Davis]

Oh thats funny cuz i just sent my email....

SO, obviously i summarized the two discussion sections into the 'conclusion' section... as such i suggest someone else summarize the methodology sections.

thanks for getting on it NHI!!!

[Nhi Duong]

Erin, you said you've made changes to the graphs. Could you forward me the updated ones?

 

Also, has anyone figure out how to put the graphs onto the poster? The only way I know how is to "print scan" them into paint, resize them, and save them as images. I'm afraid doing it that way may distort the resolution for printing. =/

[Mickey Lui]

Minor changes to discussion for poster. Deleted one sentence at end of first paragraph that felt redundant potential for generalizability in more detailed mentioned at the end of the summary. Also slightly changed phrasing.  Going out for a bit anyways changes can be found below. 

Mickey

This study demonstrated that yoga via community intervention can effectively reduce the ED prevalence among older men, ages 55-70. This may suggest that yoga has a place in helping older communities improve and maintain their sexual vitality during their 'golden years.' 

Initial results after six months utilizing 100 male participants from two senior community centers in separate cites within the San Francisco Bay Area of similar ethnicity, race, marital status, and age, show promise that yoga is an effective treatment for ED, based on IIEF scores. This study individually determined that yoga therapy over a period of six months is effective in reducing ED. A reversal of ED in 34% of the case participants at Center A (p< .001) was observed. In contrast, the control Center B showed no statistically significant reversal in ED amongst participants.

As all other risk factors tracked (pre-hypertension, weight, obesity, and smoking status) remained virtually unchanged when compared between study start and end points, it can be inferred that yoga has an independent effect on reducing ED. It is not presently possible to determine if yoga would confer a greater change in ED reduction combined with smoking cessation, weight reduction, or decreased hypertension. It is also unknown whether a customized exercise system could be found to reduce ED more efficiently. As yoga programs are extremely customizable based on individual limits and targets, further studies can be done to assess which type of yoga is most effective in ED management. More research is also needed in order to generalize the results of this study’s findings to younger age groups, as this study included individuals of advanced age.  In order to do this, further studies are needed to include broader populations of men with varied socio-economic status (SES), age, and culturally distinct backgrounds.  Additional control of exercise quantity and intensity, as well as experiments that follow patients for a longer time range may be helpful in assessing how far the decrease in ED can be with yoga based interventions.

 

[Mickey Lui]

Nhi for graphs on excel you should be able to just click on it and use ctrl + c to copy then ctrl + v to paste on the poster and resize there

Mickey

[Erin Littmann]

Nhi- Sorry I guess I forgot to attatch the new graphs.  Here they are.
 
I would say that graphs 3 and 5 are the most important.  If you have room I would add in Graph 4.
 
Thanks,
Erin
 

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[Sarah Zitsman]

I like the new graphs!  I hope we can get that IIEF graph up -- that one looks cool :-)

This is what I propose we use for the poster section on study design (I know it skimps a bit on Justin's amazing inclusion/exclusion criteria but I was not sure how else to get it anywhere close to 200 words... please edit liberally....):

The focus of this study was to determine the impact of regular yoga practice in a community setting of older men with erectile dysfunction.  Therefore, the study design consisted of a community trial utilizing two senior centers in different cities within the San Francisco Bay Area. Center A and Center B serve similar populations in terms of ethnicity, marital status, age and race.  Each center enrolled 50 male participants between the ages of 55 and 70, adhering to strict inclusion and exclusion criteria outlined in our study design. The six month “Healthy Men” program at Center A consisted of 1-hour Integral Yoga classes 3 times per week, plus a take-home video, adapted for older adults.  The control program at Center B consisted of weekly meetings to promote and discuss healthy lifestyles and included take-home pamphlets discussing the benefits of exercise.

 

Participants took detailed health surveys at the start and conclusion of the program in order to confirm eligibility in the program, assess baseline information, and measure improvements.  The surveys were administered by trained data collectors who were blinded to the intervention status of participants.  Based on the information gathered, the prevalence of ED was assessed using the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF).  The IIEF conists of 5 questions and the maximum score is 25; a score of less than 21 indicates erectile dysfunction. (Esposito, et al, p. 2979)   Additional health factors were tracked, including overweight/obesity status and the presence of hypertension.  Statistical analysis included T-tests and Chi Squared tests to evaluate the significance of change for continuous and discrete data respectively.

[Nhi Duong]

Please check back in an hour or two for the poster draft and to edit and finalize it together. By the way, I do not know how to convert powerpoint into PDF file. I hope one of you knows how! I think she says its ok if it's in powerpoint file, but converting to PDF will make the file size smaller and easier to load. But.. I guess it's really not a big deal. =)

 

Nhi

[Sarah Zitsman]

I can change it to PDF if no one else knows how.

[Justin Davis]

i thought we have to submit it as a power point file though?

"Live sensibly- among a thousand people, only one dies a natural death, the rest succumb to irrational modes of living."

Maimonides, AD 1135-1204

[Sarah Zitsman]

Nope. The advantage of sending it as a PDF is that no one can "accidentally" change it when they open it to print it.... :-)  We sent the pdf files to the printer last semester without a problem.

[Justin Davis]

ok

[Nhi Duong]

I'm playing with the pictures. 15 more mins and I will have it ready

[Nhi Duong]

Here's our poster, team! Please comment! =)

 

Nhi

[Justin Davis]

AWESOME------

It looks GREAT.

will email my edits in a few minutes

J

[Erin Littmann]

I haven't been able to read through it but I like the presentation!!  Thank you everyone for your hard work!!!
 
Just wanted to make sure that the age in the population table is correct for the age change that was made earlier today. 
 
Erin
 

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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:18:54 -0700

[Justin Davis]

ok, here are my edits... just a few word changes here and there.

J

[Nhi Duong]

IMPORTANT: please edit the most up to date poster, so that everyone's edits will be there in the end. So if possible, each time you make changes, update the file name by changing the last number... so we don't get confused . Thanks all.

 

Nhi

[Mickey Lui]

Looks great. Good job everyone.

Mickey

[Justin Davis]

Yes NHI that's correct, please everyone use the version that I sent out for any future edits.

Who is going to submit it and at what time?  Nhi and Mickey are you done with edits?  I am.  As long as Sarah and Erin ok the thing, send it off....

J

[Nhi Duong]

Sarah, since you know how to convert to pdf, go ahead and convert it once you and erin edit (if any) and email it to J.Smith. CC all of us in the email. Mickey, Justin and I are done with our edits. I will check back tonight to make sure that it gets sent. GOOD JOB EVERYONE!

 

Nhi

[Justin Davis]

great... thanks.

[Justin Davis]

ok.... i am heading to bed as i have a major final at 9am so i will not be available for more comments to the poster.  Thanks to everyone for your work..  Thank you Sarah for submitting it tonight and Nhi for checking to make sure that happens.

G-nite!

[Mickey Lui]

Okay everyone just in case there were any problems converting to pdf I have

I converted the last edit I got as a pdf using my own method, printing via CutePDF under architect paper size D, as insurance.

If it looks good and there are no other edits someone grab and send it, as I will be AFK for the rest of the night.

Mickey

[Erin Littmann]

looks good.  thanks everyone
Erin
 

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[Sarah Zitsman]

Hi Mickey,

Thanks for converting it. However, I found a few typos so I'm fixing them and will then reconvert if thats okay.

~Sarah

[Sarah Zitsman]

I'm almost done and will send a last draft out soon.

[Nhi Duong]

Yes Sarah, you are the last to edit. So convert it again and submit it you fix the typos. WOW, we're almost done w/the poster!

 

Nhi

[Erin Littmann]

I was going to try and read the poster again...don't remember how to get it to power point?  I trust all the additional edits, but just for future how do I read the parts individually?

Erin
 

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[Sarah Zitsman]

Erin et.al., Here is the current draft.

I plan on submitting it at midnight so please let me know if you see anything else that needs to be edited. :-)

Thanks to all! I'm reallly impressed with the way it turned out.

P.S. There is no way to "unconvert" a pdf unless you have special software.

[Nhi Duong]

I found one more mistake. Here's YogaPosteDraftr3