Heidi Dumas
Research Mentor(s): Dr. Nikhil Parekh
Mentor Department: VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
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Session: Session 7 (4:00pm – 4: 50pm)
Presentation Type: Poster 50
Abstract
Whole Health encompasses eight realms of health and wellness including Moving the Body, Power of the Mind, Spirit and Soul, Surroundings, Personal Development, Food and Drink, Recharge, and Family, Friends, and Coworkers. Throughout the past months, I, along with 14 other undergraduate students and the guidance of our mentor Dr. Nikhil Parekh, drafted, finalized, and released an analyzable survey via U-M Qualtrics to better understand how the general public implements the ideas of Whole Health into their daily lives and how much they really understand about Whole Health. We first discussed the meaning of Whole Health and what it encompassed. This personal research allowed us to create questions individually for the survey. As a group, we came together to draft a survey with the questions that would provide us the most actionable data and then we released the test survey to work out any problematic areas and to determine what should be kept as is or changed. After careful analysis of that initial survey, we released the final survey on November 12th, 2024. We received 217 responses and cleaned the data set and then put it into statistical software to analyze it quantitatively. From this data analysis, we will create individual implementation projects to increase the knowledge of what Whole Health Integration means and offers.
