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Iatrophobia: How It Impacts Health, Jessica Newbury
Iatrophobia: How It Impacts Health, Jessica Newbury
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According to Mara Hollander (2019), iatrophobia is “the fear of doctors, medical care, or the medical care system." The most severe cases of this fear only affect a small percentage of the population; however, many people, for a variety of reasons, reported that they disliked or felt uncomfortable seeking medical care. An anonymous survey was created and distributed to males and females between the ages of 18 to 75 to retrieve self-reported data regarding specific questions about doctor's visits and the healthcare system. The total sample consisted of 379 participants who voluntarily completed the assessment. Quantitative data was collected using …
Fostering Meaning Making In Grieving Adults With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, Teresa Graziano
Fostering Meaning Making In Grieving Adults With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, Teresa Graziano
Senior Honors Projects
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Cultural Humility: A Lifelong Process For Professional Nurses, Jenny Adelstein
Cultural Humility: A Lifelong Process For Professional Nurses, Jenny Adelstein
Senior Honors Projects
Cultural humility is necessary for all nurses in order to provide the best quality patient care. It is a life-long process of self-reflection and self-critique, which allows nurses to examine differences and similarities between their own beliefs, values, and health care goals with those of their patients (Schuessler et al., 2012). Cultural humility helps nurses to recognize potential differences in the meaning of health and wellness among their patients, and to begin to understand the many challenges to accessing quality health care. Cultural immersion programs is one educational strategy to allow nursing students to develop cultural humility through acquiring critical …
A College Study On Grief, Depression, And Anxiety, Briana Alexandre Paulo
A College Study On Grief, Depression, And Anxiety, Briana Alexandre Paulo
Senior Honors Projects
Trauma and stress have been commonly studied with the occurrence of anxiety disorders. However, less research has been conducted on the relationship between the experience of loss, the centrality of the loss to a person’s identity and the experience and severity of symptoms of depression and anxiety. Current research has examined the relationship between a significant stressful event and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Symptoms of anxiety and depression are experienced by people during various points in their life, although higher levels of these disorders may be exhibited after having experienced a loss or stressful life event.
Grief can …