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Patient Trust: Predicting University Students' Trust In Their Physicians And The Health Care System, Lisa Elizabeth Stack
Patient Trust: Predicting University Students' Trust In Their Physicians And The Health Care System, Lisa Elizabeth Stack
Wayne State University Theses
The purpose of this thesis was to determine if sociodemographic characteristics of University students predict their level of trust with their physicians and their level of trust with the health care system. This study used the Primary Care Assessment Survey (PCAS) trust subscale to measure physician trust and the Medical Mistrust Index to measure health care system trust through a self-administered survey (N=186) using convenience sampling. A principle components analysis was conducted to avoid issues of multicollinearity and examine underlying constructs. Bivariate correlations, and regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between patient trust in his/her physician and patient …
What Are You? A Study Of Racial Ambiguity, Cindy Veronica Vargas
What Are You? A Study Of Racial Ambiguity, Cindy Veronica Vargas
Wayne State University Theses
Most literature on racial ambiguity focuses on individuals of mixed-race. While this type of literature is invaluable in understanding racial identity and all of its intricacies, the experiences of single-race individuals are marginalized. How do people who are single race experience racial ambiguity? Do their experiences differ from those of mixed-race individuals? For this study, nineteen individuals (single and mixed-race) who consider themselves to be racially ambiguous were interviewed and asked open-ended questions. The transcribed and coded interviews yielded important information on their self-perceptions, what they get mistaken for, how it makes them feel, and how they deal with their …