Keith Torkelson - The Torkel Saga - Book 3 - RENHEW or Renewal or Setting Right

Keith E Torkelson
The Torkel Saga - Book 3

RENHEW or Renewal or Setting Right

Gallery First Method (Then Sort)

Alliances (TAS)

20160321-M: Executive Summary – Abstract

This paper addresses: Rest – Exercise – Nutrition – Health – Education – Welfare or RENHEW.  For each category we preferred using existing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) assessment tools.  Nearly half were pre-existing.  For the categories where we could not find a good fit we modified or derived assessments.  This is a collaborative effort with one of my old university roommates TAS.  We had a successful partnership back in 1985.  Until further notice I (DAG AKA KET) am the only research subject.  Using my most current Conditional Health Fitness (ConFit) score of a 53% (deficit level) we balanced things out with assets for a RENHEWFit score of 64%.  The point is that asset development can help measurably offset health (conditions) issues.  For completing the data sets for this paper we addressed hundreds of items – questions or statements.  The timeframe we addressed was October 2015 till March 2016.  Most of the data we scored since the beginning of 2016.

 

 

Alliances

 

A summary of RENHEWFit Data is presented first (Results First Practice)

RENHEWFit Calculation Defined

RENHEWFit is a balance between deficits and assets (or strengths).  It takes into consideration Self Care and Health Condition management working towards goals under happiness (TAS) and/or personal peace (KET).  KET’s current (2016) RENHEWFit is 64% with 100% being the ideal.  The REHNEWFit calculation will be refined as needed.  We are currently using the Beta Version (RF-Beta).  The calculation took into consider a measurement we derived early the Conditional Fitness Score or ConFit.   

Team Two-O-Ate (1984-1985)

RENHEW Scale Index – RENHEW Quality Score (Five of the Six Elements)

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	Area	Assessment	AcroCode	Last Application	NLZD %
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	Rest	Rest & Sleep Index Health Benefits Employee Services – Sleep Assessment	HBES_SA (5 Parts)	Retained due to complexity
	Rest	USC - Sleep Disorder Self Test Magnitude of Rest Problem	USC-SDST-40 LIF	20160120	18 (40)
	Exercise	Count Collector Central	CCC-29 HIF	20160312-SAT	66 (29)
	Nutrition I	Ideal Nutrition Checker	INC-9 HIF	20160312-SAT	39 (9)
	Nutrition II	Performance Nutrition Value Scale	PNVS-10 HIF	20160312-SAT	65 (10)
	Physical Health	Counts & RealAge Online Calendar Age 56.9	RAOA-(>100)	20150402-TH	62.7 Years
	Mind Health	Diagnostic Assessment Cluster Outcome Score Conditional Fitness	ConFit Score	20160208	52 Years (43)
	Education	Link to Curriculum vitae (CV) Lived Experience (LE)	“LE & CV”	20150313	> 26 Years
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20160321-M: Table – Partial RENHEW Scores of KET (DAG) – Snapshot

HIF = High is Favorable

LIF = Low Is Favorable
NLZD % = Normalized to Percent unless Other

“LE & CV” Keith Edward Torkelson - Curriculum vitae (2013-2015)

Keith Torkelson - Curriculum vitae

 

CV in Pictures

Keith Torkelson - Curriculum vitae (CV) in Pictures

Welfare Stratified

	Area	Assessment	AcroCode	Last Application	NLZD % (Items)
	Welfare Stratified
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	Freedom	Gross Freedom Evaluation	GFE-28	20160312-SAT	64 (27)
	Happiness	Oxford Happiness Questionnaire	OHQ-29	20160216	70 (29)
	Happiness - Electronic	Oxford Happiness Questionnaire	E-OHQ-29	20160306	70 (29)
	Quality of Life	BND-Quality Of Life	BND-QOL-15	20160309-W	66 (15)
	Quality of Life Professional	Stamm’s Professional Quality of Life	ProQOL-30	20160312-SAT	61 (30)
	Satisfaction “Satisfied With My Life”	Orange County Health Care Agency – Behavioral Health Service “Satisfaction” Modified	OCHCA-SWML-M-40	20160311-F	78 (40)
	Satisfaction “Satisfied With My Life”	Orange County Health Care Agency – Behavioral Health Service “Satisfaction” Modified	OCHCA-SWML-M-55	20160312-SAT	87 (55)
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20160321-M: Table – Partial RENHEW Scores of KET (DAG) – Snapshot

HIF = High is Favorable for all in the above table

Indicators of Progress - As Measured By (AMB)

	Area	Assessment	AcroCode	Last Application	NLZD % (Items)
	Inner Peace	Personal Peace Assessment Inner Peace Assessment	PPA-IPA-22	20160312-SAT	73 (22)
	Self Care Efficacy	Butler Self-Care Assessment Global Self Care Value	SCA-78	20160205	67 (78)
	Conditional Health Fitness Score	ConFit	CHFS	20160208	52 (43)
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	RENHEW Score	RENHEWFitScore			64 (143)

20160321-M: Table – Snapshot - Measures for Desired Changes and Outcomes

RENHEWFit Calculation (Moved to Front)

20160321-M: Blog Keeping

Date Chartered – March 24, 2016 (Actual on March 21, 2016 before deadline)

Means/Method – Blogger/Post

Title – Keith Torkelson - The Torkel Saga – Book 3 on RENHEW (TTS-0003)

RENHEW & ENERGY Issue – B&4 The DAG at MSG Datic Division

Principle Author – TheDAG

Partners = TAS and KET

Version: N/A

Back Link(s) [PENDING]

The Torkel Saga

Anchors

http://the-torkel-saga-2059.blogspot.com/2016/01/keith-torkelson-torkel-saga-2059-book.html

Priors

http://the-torkel-saga-2059.blogspot.com/2016/02/thedag-torkel-saga-canto-ii-on-priors.html

Tags - #MeasureableOutcomes - #SafetyNets - #SelfCare - #ThisIsTheEnd - #$1E9 - #PUT (TheDAG) - #Pressure - #2059 - #TGTU - #WATER - #GRAVITY (KET), #ENERGY (TAS), #JC2020, #TheInappropriatelyServed

Standalone Branches

CV in Pictures

http://the-torkel-saga-2059.blogspot.com/2016/03/keith-torkelson-lived-experience.html

 

Post People and Community Partners

Wellness Persons of Interest and Inspirations

TAS, Heather Rink, Yoga Teachers, Leno, Steinberg, Correa

 

20160321: Introduction - To A Solution

Research and Needs

Is there a need for routine renewal?  How is renewing oneself implemented?  Do people have meetable unmet needs about renewal?  Are people being served inappropriately? We here at MSG think yes to all.

Renewable Partnerships – Win & Won Partnership (1985)

Even though the TAS and I associated after we lived together in 1985 it was living together in the dorms at UC Davis that cemented our harmonic partnership.  Thinking back, there was not feature of the TAS that annoyed me.  At the end of this last year (2015) the TAS indicated that he wished to partner up again.  We are still working out the details of what product our partnership should generate.

Priorities

In my and MSG’s prior publications (2013-2015) I (TheDAG) was the one that picked the priority items.  For this paper the TAS has selected three priories of the total ten or so areas about Rest-Exercise-Nutrition-Health-Education-Welfare or RENHEW.  The TAS selected: Nutrition, happiness, and self-care for elaboration.

Having Fun First

I selected as a priority for us have fun first rather that taking things too seriously as I have done previously.  I suffer anxiety and my manner of coping has been taking life very seriously.

Pacing

Normally I would address all the data here and not get back to it for at least four months.  This time the pace is set about the TAS’s needs, interests, and products.

Journaling to Publishing (Therapeutic)

After my parents died in (1988 and 1989 respectively) I used journaling to cope.  Starting in 2013 I began to publish as one of my means to cope with the substantial challenges I cross in my day-to-day concerns, commitments, and responsibilities. 

Digital Preservation Management (Digital Preservation Project)

I am part of the digital preservation management movement.  My goal is to significantly digitize my materials by the time I am sixty years old or about three years out from 2016

Measurable Outcomes

The TAS and I are preparing to make some positive behavioral changes.  Some we are already in the process of changing such as routine communications.  The baseline data shared in this paper represent a baseline with which to measurably determine the outcomes of said changes.  Whereas the TAS may notice some substantial improvements I am hoping to improve across only two or three areas. 

Sharing

Whereas I share via my Blog (Now Blogs), personal communications, and public comment I am hoping the TAS shares via his website.  When we get that going I will include the link to his material such as his (self) assessment results in this post. 

[LINK PENDING]

20160321-M: Materials

The List of Materials including Assessments is the same as in the data tables presented earlier.  For the time being we will live them out to make the paper four or five pages shorter.  For the feature items: Nutrition, happiness, and self-care we will include links and other information we find helpful.  In addition the list of material required for desktop publishing has been left out.

 

 

Partners in Photos

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Individual Community Partner	How is that?
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Any Yoga Teacher	AYT - USA
Bren	Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Contributor & Housing Specialist
Leno	SB 614 – Peer Support Specialist Movement in Behavioral Health
Rink	Inspirational
Steinberg	Co-author of the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) From which we have and do draw benefit
TAS	Pleasant person and ally

Table of Community Partners and Inspiring People

Heather R

 

 

Any Yoga Teacher (AYT) - USA

 

More Later On JK - TJE

 

Bren

Leno

 

"Lou"

 

Stop for Now

20160321-M

20160323-W Resumed

 

Method – Metrics

Define Metrics

A method of measuring something, or the results obtained from this.  For example "the report provides various metrics at the class and method level"

The methods used here are a combination of: Bio (Biological) - Psycho (Psychological) – Behavioral and Socio (Social).  We left out Psychiatric Diagnostic (Psyche) measurements.  The results of diagnostic measurements were included in the RENHEWFit score as the ConFit (Conditional Fitness) element.

Methods Applied - What Is RENHEW?

Daily activities directed at making measurable differences about indicators for Health, Education, and Welfare by addressing “Whole Person Care” (WPC-DHCS, 2016)

Introduction

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AcroCode	Description	Detail
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R	Rest	Self-Care and Daily Activity
E	Exercise	Self-Care and Daily Activity
N	Nutrition	Self-Care and Daily Activity
H	Health	Indicator
E	Education	Indicator
W	Welfare	Indicator
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Table – Defining RENHEW

 

Partner Priority

I let my old and now new again partner TAS picked the areas of priority for him.  He picked nutrition, happiness, and self-care.  So in this report we will only elaborate on his priority items.

 

R&D

20160308-TU: Define Welfare

Welfare Assessment Tool (WAT) Development Separate

Welfare is the last element in RENHEW yet we have the most data pertaining to Welfare.  We will be applying self-care to improve both our common welfares.

Method - Sharing Results & Misinformation

We have some preexisting posts (papers) that apply to the RENHEW concept.  Some of the links are listed below.  The HEW post addresses a single challenge that ate up considerable resources (Circa 1989).

Health-Education-Welfare - Link to Existing HEW

Health Education and Welfare (HEW) - A Twilight Zone - Integration - "Kid's First" - By Various

http://ktork46.blogspot.com/2015/03/health-education-and-welfare.html

Education - Link to Existing CV

Keith Edward Torkelson - Curriculum vitae – CV 

http://ktork46.blogspot.com/2013/01/keith-torkelson-curriculum-vitae.html

 

Link to CV in Pictures

Keith Edward Torkelson - Curriculum vitae – CV – In Pictures

Inspired by my Aunt JMB (Born 1925)

http://the-torkel-saga-2059.blogspot.com/2016/03/keith-torkelson-lived-experience.html

 

Link to High Viewer-Ship Post

Peace in 3D

http://ktork46.blogspot.com/2013/12/peace-in-death-disaster-and-disease.html

Scandinavian Explorer

Looking Back - The Torkel Saga Editions 1 & 2

Canto II Link

The Torkelson Saga - Canto II - On Prior Publications

Book I Link 

The Torkel Saga - Book 1 - Anchors

 

20160323-W: Priority Results

Again I decided to retain one third of the priority results to keep things less wordy.  I am going ahead with happiness and self-care. 

Assessing for Happiness

Materials

Two different approaches to the same assessment

Paper Assessment & Via Link to Electronic Assessment

Sample Results (Baseline Subject DAG)

 

Assessment Specifications

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Specification
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Assessment Name	Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ-29)
Number of Items	29
Nature	Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Paper and Electronic
Easy Score Protocol Grade	B+ (Docked for Reverse questions)
Results	Page 4 (or as follows)
Assessment Links	Page 3 (or as follows)
Completeness	Paper version does not have interpretation information

Goal

Get a baseline data set about happiness using a standardized assessment “instrument” by addressed two methodologies: Paper and Electronic.  Ponder the results and attempt an interpretation.

Instructions

If you intend to reuse (like say every four months (4M)) the assessment consider scoring on a separate sheet of paper.  We will address periodicities for administering various assessments at a later time.

Link to Paper [Download and Print the Assessment option]

Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (29 Item – 2 pages) [USING THIS ONE]

http://www.marin.edu/~npsomas/Projects/OxfordHappinessQuestionnaire.pdf 

Electronic Assessment [TESTED THIS ONE]

Happiness Survey [Online Survey] – 29-Item - Exactly Identical to Paper Version Above

www.happiness-survey.com/

How Happy Are You?

Take The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire and your score will be emailed to you. Interpretation brief - The most unhappy score you can get is a "1" and the happiest is a "6." The average person scores slightly over 4.  Score arrives via e-mail 

Note on Mr. Take Away (Avey, 2016)

One note is whether a resource falls under satisfaction, happiness or whatever if Mr. Take Away wants a resource – your powerless and it is gone.  There is a fine line between loss and taken away by Mr. Take Away.

 

Yields “Your Happiness Score” or “Self-Actualizing Your Happiness Score”

Sample Reporting Using Actual Results

Timestamp	Assessment	Relations	Raw AVE (MAX)	Score NLZD % (NIS)	Interp
2012-R	P-OHQ Paper	CSA	3.1 (6)	11 (29)	Overtly Unhappy
20160124	E-OHQ Electronic	CSA	4.0 (6)	67 (29)
20160216	P-OHQ	CSA	4.2 (6)	70 (29)
20160216	Plan Scoring Algorithm	MSG
20160217	Delivered Algorithm	MSG
20160306	E-OHQ	CSA	4.2 (6)	70 (29)	AVG Person Slightly Happy

20160306: Table – Results for Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ 29 Item) – AII = TheDag

4M = Every Four Months (Re-evaluation frequency)

AII = Anonymous Identifying Information

CSA = Client Self Assessment

ESP = Easy Score Protocol Grade B (For some reverse scored items)

MSG = Proprietary Product Development

NIS = Number of Items Scored

NLZD % = Normalized to Percentages

R = Retrograde

SAYHS = Self-Actualizing Your Happiness Score

Interpretation

Unless we specifically focus on about five items to work for improvement this year (2016) will probably yield unremarkably changes to our OHQ-29.  Another observation is that we may have reached a linear and flat part to the graph.  We are experiencing average happiness with is a whole lot better that the eleven percent reported retroactively for 2012.  Most of the improvement was driven by us rather that any outside entity.

 

Scoring Self-Care

One method – paper

Sample Results (Baseline for the DAG)

 

Assessment Specifications

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Specification
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Assessment Name	Self-Care Assessment (SCA-78)
Number of Items	78
Nature	Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Paper
Easy Score Protocol Grade	B+ (Docked for a bit lengthy for the beginner)
Results	Page 4 (or as follows)
Assessment Links	Page 3 (or as follows)
Completeness	Paper version does not have interpretation information

Goal

Get a baseline data set about Self-Care using a standardized assessment tool by addressing one methodology.  The Self-Care Assessment (SCA) we are using here is actually three assessments in one: Areas of self-care (Global), Overall balance (Balance), and Areas of Self-Care that are Relevant to You (Relevant).  Offer up an attempt to score a more complex assessment that the shorter screening assessments.

 

Instructions

If you intend to reuse (like say every four months (4M)) the assessment consider scoring on a separate sheet of paper.  We will address periodicities for administering various assessments at a later time.

Link to Paper Assessment

[PDF] - Self-Care Assessment (2 pages the one I am working with)

http://mnliteracy.org/sites/default/files/self-care_assesment.pdf

Repeat of Assessment Notes included with the assessment

 

“The following worksheet for assessing self-care is not exhaustive, merely suggestive. Feel free to add areas of self-care that are relevant for you and rate yourself on how often and how well you are taking care of yourself these days. When you are finished, look for patterns in your responses.”

Are you more active in some areas of self-care?

Do you tend to ignore others?

Are there items on the list that hadn’t even occurred to you?

 

“Listen to your internal responses and dialogue about self-care, and take note of anything you would like to prioritize moving forward.”

Missing: interpretation  

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Item	Baseline 20150403	% (Items)	4 Months Later 20150804	% (Items)
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Overall Balance	2.0	67 (5)	2.3	77 (5)
Areas Important to Test Taker	Hold over for more work		2.3	83 (3)
Self-Care 78 Item Summary	2.0	67 (78)	2.3	77 (78)

Table – Tabular – Two Point Longitudinal Format (Includes Baselines for DAG)

 

PDF] - Self-Care Assessment (Butler) (SCA - 2 pages – printed on May 3, 2015)

http://mnliteracy.org/sites/default/files/self-care_assesment.pdf

The following worksheet for assessing self-care is not exhaustive.  Adapted from Saakvitne, Pearlman, & Staff of TSI/CAAP (1996). Transforming the Pain: A Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization. Norton. Adapted by Lisa D. Butler, PhD.

 

Date or Interval	Global % (Items)	Relevant % (Items)	Balance % (Items)
Retroactive PENDING
20150403	65 (78)	78 (3)	67 (5)
20150804	78 (78)	83 (3)	89 (5)
20160205	67 (78)	77 (3)	77 (5)

Table – SCA (78 Item) Results – Ledger Format Longitudinal (DAG)

 

Retroactive Scores Pending

Conclusion

Same as Executive Summary – Abstract

In conclusion I will restate what was presented up front as the Abstract.

20160321-M: Executive Summary – Abstract

This paper addresses: Rest – Exercise – Nutrition – Health – Education – Welfare or RENHEW.  For each category we preferred using existing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) assessment tools.  Nearly half were pre-existing.  For the categories where we could not find a good fit we modified or derived assessments.  This is a collaborative effort with one of my old university roommates TAS.  We had a successful partnership back in 1985.  Until further notice I (DAG AKA KET) am the only research subject.  Using my most current Conditional Health Fitness (ConFit) score of a 53% (deficit level) we balanced things out with assets for a RENHEWFit score of 64%.  The point is that asset development can help measurably offset health (conditions) issues.  For completing the data sets for this paper we addressed hundreds of items – questions or statements.  The timeframe we addressed was October 2015 till March 2016.  Most of the data we scored since the beginning of 2016. 

Hope you found some of this Intel helpful.  Thank you for sticking it out to this point :o)

 

Hope to WRAP on this Wednesday

[20160323 @ 1358 Complete]

Now for a couple of last steps including format changes)

 

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