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Healthcare Access For Elderly African American Type 2 Diabetics On Medicare, William Alexander Floyd
Healthcare Access For Elderly African American Type 2 Diabetics On Medicare, William Alexander Floyd
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
AbstractPrior research has shown that African Americans have less access to healthcare than do White Americans. The study’s purpose was to determine the association between race/ethnicity and quality care measures in a population of Medicare recipients with Type 2 diabetes, aged 65 75 years and over. Covariates predicted satisfaction with doctor care, compassionate doctor care, and indifferent doctor care using Andersen’s health behavior theory. The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) sample consisted of 1,716 people with Type 2 diabetes, with most (76.6%) being non-Hispanic Whites, and the remainder non-Hispanic Blacks (10.8%) and Hispanics (12.6%). Race/ethnicity were associated with quality-of-care measures …
Improving Nurses’ Knowledge To Provide Diabetes Self-Management Education For African Americans, Jakeyla Reed
Improving Nurses’ Knowledge To Provide Diabetes Self-Management Education For African Americans, Jakeyla Reed
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
African Americans are at high risk for type II diabetes compared to other ethnic groups due to biological, socioeconomic, and psychosocial risks. Specifically, African American adults are nearly two times more likely than White individuals to develop type II diabetes. The meaningful gap-in-practice addressed by this doctoral project was nurses’ lack of diabetes knowledge affecting their ability to provide diabetes care and diabetes self-management education (DSME) to their patients with diabetes. The clinical practice-focused question asked whether an education intervention for outpatient clinic nurses could improve their knowledge of DSME. Orem’s self-care model, Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, and Lewin’s change theory …
Increasing Nurse Knowledge Of The Underutilization Of Hospice Services For African Americans, Vicki Schmidt
Increasing Nurse Knowledge Of The Underutilization Of Hospice Services For African Americans, Vicki Schmidt
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The focus of this doctoral project was increasing knowledge of underutilization ofhospice services for African Americans (AAs) and the need to increase cultural competence among nurses regarding this issue. The identified gap in practice was nurses’ lack of cultural competence and knowledge regarding the underutilization of hospice specific to AAs. The practice-focused question focused on whether a staff educational intervention increased nurses’ knowledge of the cultural implications regarding the introduction of hospice services for AAs. The education was guided by the Purnell model for culturally competent health care, Healthy People 2030, and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organizations AA …
Internet Use, Perceived Social Support, And Obesity Among African American Young Adults, Cynthia Adams
Internet Use, Perceived Social Support, And Obesity Among African American Young Adults, Cynthia Adams
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
African Americans are disproportionately affected by obesity. Public health practitioners have an incomplete understanding of the social-environmental risk factors and how they affect obesity. The purpose of this quantitative, cross-sectional study was to explore whether internet use and perceived social support predicted obesity among African American young adults. The social cognitive theory guided this study. Secondary data were analyzed from the 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. The sample consisted of 6,765 African American young adults age 18 to 34 and represented the U.S. population using weighted estimates. A Bonferroni correction was performed to reduce Type I error due to …