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The Effects Of Family Influence On Contraceptive Use Among Adolescents, Gladys Marie Davis Hill

MSN Research Projects

This was a descriptive correlational study designed to determine if there was a relationship between adolescent contraceptive use and family communication. The null hypothesis stated that there would be no significant correlation in the adolescent use of contraceptive methods and family communication. A researcher-designed tool, the "Adolescent Contraceptive Questionaire," was administered to 27 college students aged IS and 19 years. Of this group there were 3 whites and 24 blacks. The hypothesis was tested using the Pearson r correlation coefficient. There was no significant relationship between the adolescent's contraceptive use and family communication. The researcher failed to reject the null …

A Survey Of The Knowledge And Attitudes Of The Elderly Towards Exercise, Susan R. Carlson

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this descriptive study was to survey the knowledge and attitudes of the elderly towards exercise. The researcher hypothesized that when black and white elderly men and women were surveyed about exercise and the results were compared, there would be no significant difference at the .05 level. A researcher-designed tool, "Exercise: Knowledge and Attitudes Questionnaire," was used in data collection. Twenty-one elderly subjects were surveyed. Of these, 10 were white while 11 were black. The sample included 8 men and 13 women. The test results were analyzed using the ANOVA test. There was not a difference at the …

The Relationship Between Locus Of Control And Body Weight Utilizing The Weight Locus Of Control Table, M.A. Bailey

MSN Research Projects

This was a descriptive study designed to correlate the Weight Locus of Control scale with body weight. The researcher hypothesized that there would be no significant correlation between body weight and the scores on the Weight Locus of Control scale. The Weight Locus of Control scale and a researcher-designed demographic tool were administered to 50 subjects between the ages of 18 and 65. Data were analyzed utilizing Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient. The r value obtained was not significant at the .05 level. The researcher failed to reject the null hypothesis.

A Study Of How Health Locus Of Control Differs According To Type Of Residence Among Elderly Clients, Bonnie Adamski

MSN Research Projects

This study was descriptive in nature, designed to compare the Health Locus of Control (HLC) scores of the elderly living in the community with those who live in congregate housing. The researcher hypothesized that there would be no significant differences between the two groups on the HLC Scale. The HLC Scale was administered to 19 community and 22 congregate housing residents, all over age 65 Subjects also completed a demographic data form, designed by the researcher, that provided information about the age, sex, race, health and financial status of the participants. The null hypothesis was tested by comparing the mean …

The Effects Of Spouse Abuse On The Self Concept Of Women, Edna Elaine Newsome

MSN Research Projects

The purpose of this study was to compare the self concept of battered women with the self concept of non-battered women. The researcher hypothesized that there would be no significant difference between the self concept of battered women and the self concept of non-battered women. Twenty-five women were surveyed utilizing the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale: 15 subjects who had not been victims of battering and 10 subjects who were victims of battering. Voluntary participants were solicited from the Spouse Abuse Network and from a graduate nursing program. The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale was submitted to statistical analysis utilizing the test and Pearson's …

The Effects Of Tri-O-Cresyl Phosphate On 2',3'-Cyclicnucleotide-3'-Phosphohydrolase Activity In Neural And Non-Neural Tissue Of The Rat, Mark K. Schlager

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

A total of 44 Long-Evans rats received 5.7 g/kg tri-O-cresyl phosphate (TOCP) orally every 3 days for 6 days. A second group of 13 rats received 4.6 g/kg orally every 3 days for 6 days. Animals were administered atropine sulfate (10 mg/kg) intraperitoneally every 6 hours or as needed to alleviate cholinergic symptoms. Ten control animals were given corn oil orally. Eight rats (18%) survived the 5.7 g/kg dose regimen and 5 rats (38%) survived the 4.6 g/kg dose regimen. Surviving rats were killed at 30-33 days post-dose. Signs of delayed neuropathy included ataxia and motor impairment.

The CNP activity …

1984 Commencement For College Of Allied Health Sciences

Jefferson College of Nursing Commencements

No abstract provided.

The Hsus Condemns Psychological Experimentation On Animals

Close Up Reports

For almost a century, millions of cats, dogs, monkeys, and other laboratory animals have fallen victim to the misguided notion that by torturing animals we may someday find the golden key that unlocks the dark corners and passageways of human psychology. Heedless of any relevance the experiments may have to the human condition or of the differences between humans and other animals, experimental psychologists are exercising unbridled on animals the whole range of suffering, from emotional trauma, like that experienced by the doomed infant monkey, to outright physical torture. Animals have been blinded and returned to the wild to test …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 26 Number 8, Summer 1984, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

2 - ALBEE'S ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON By Michael Tueth, S.J. Some principles of archetypal criticism are applied to Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

7 - NUCLEAR ADDICTION Edmund G. Brown Jr. The United States and the Soviet Union are engaged in an addictive and ultimately lethal process. Neither will break out of the curse of assured mutual destruction.

9 - GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD By Charles E. French. There are good reasons today to hope for a solution to world hunger, one that will occur in our time.

13 - TRAITS OF A HEALTHY …

Measuring The Effectiveness Of Patient Teaching In Postpartum Patients, Nancy Racine

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

[Abstract Not Included]

Commencement Program 1984, Loma Linda University

Commencement Programs

CONTENTS

2 | 1984 Events of Commencement

3 | Academic Procession

4 | The Speakers

7 | The Honorees

Order of Program

• School of Medicine, 12
• Graduate School, 18
• School of Dentistry, 23
• School of Nursing, 29
• School of Education, 32
• College of Arts and Sciences, 38
• School of Allied Health Professions, 45
• School of Health, 50

A.V. Black Interview (3) Conducted On May 26, 1984 About The Boonshoft School Of Medicine At Wright State University, A. V. Black, James St. Peter

Boonshoft School of Medicine Oral History Project

In this third of three interviews, Dr. Black first discusses the activities and influences of Dr. Richard DeWall, prominent Dayton heart surgeon and early advocate of development of a Dayton School of Medicine. Dr. Black goes on to describe Dayton area reaction to the School of Medicine feasibility/suitability study authored by Dr. DeWall and Wright State University Dean of Science Dr. Robert Conley.

Dr. Black devotes the second half of the interview to his interaction with the School of Medicine here at Wright State University. He discusses the development of the Family Practice Department of the School of Medicine, Dr. …

A.V. Black Interview (1) Conducted On May 24, 1984 About The Boonshoft School Of Medicine At Wright State University, A. V. Black, James St. Peter

Boonshoft School of Medicine Oral History Project

In this first of three interviews, Dr. A.V. Black, former Chairman of the Montgomery County Medical Society and former faculty member of the Community Medicine Department of the Wright State University School of Medicine, discusses his early background and experiences as a physician in the Miami Valley area. He describes his wartime activities and his involvement in the Montgomery County Medical Society.

Dr. Black then discusses briefly the initial reaction of the Medical Society to the invitation of study of the feasibility of establishment of a School of Medicine in Dayton.

Mrs. Regina Borum Interview (2) Conducted On May 16, 1984 About The Boonshoft School Of Medicine At Wright State University, Regina Borum, James St. Peter

Boonshoft School of Medicine Oral History Project

In this second interview, Mrs. Borum continues her description of responsibilities and duties, concentrating on her interactions with the press and organizations outside of the university. Mrs. Borum then turns to the development of the School of Medicine's Development Department, and her thoughts and recollections on key people in the School of Medicine's development.

Book Reviews Of Church Property, Church Finances, And Church-Related Corporation By Bishop Adam J. Maida And Nicholas P. Cafardi -- Genetics And The Law Ii Edited By Aubrey Milunsky And George J. Annas -- Psychogenesis: The Early Development Of Gender Identity By Elizabeth R. Moberly -- The Hospice Alternative By Ann Munley, Catholic Physicians' Guild

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Loneliness And Health Related Complaints In Residents Of High Rise Apartment Buildings For The Elderly, Susan H. Jones

Ellmer School of Nursing Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore feelings of loneliness among relocated elderly residents of age-segregated, high-rise apartment buildings and any relationship between these subjective feelings of loneliness and certain variables which were hypothesized as predictors of feelings of loneliness. The variables studied in relation to loneliness were cathectic investment, activity, and perceptions of health. A non-experimental survey design where data were collected by interviewing subjects was used. The sample consisted of 18 female residents of a high-rise apartment building for the elderly. Each was interviewed using the Loneliness Rating Scale developed by Dr. Gloria M. Francis and a …

Adolescent Egocentrism And Its Relationship To Parenting Styles And The Development Of Formal Operational Thought, Theo A. Riley

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A predicted association between family relations and cognitive development and the emergence of adolescent egocentrism was explored in this study. A sample of seventh grade boys (n=131) and girls (n=120) completed Elkind and Bowen's Imaginary Audience Scale (a measure of egocentrism) and selected items from Heilbrun's Parent-Child Interaction Rating Scale and Schaefer's Parent-Behavior Inventory. A modified version of Lawson's Classroom Test of Formal Operations was used to measure cognitive development. Contrary to a theoretical based hypothesis a negative rather than positive relationship was found between level of formal operational thought egocentrism. For parenting style, perceived rejection/control …

Human Need Fulfillment Alteration In The Client With Uterine Cancer: The Registered Nurses' Perception Versus The Clients' Perception, Linda Lane Lilley

Ellmer School of Nursing Theses & Dissertations

This study was a comparison of the similarities and differences between the registered nurses' perception and clients' perception of human need fulfillment alterations in the client with uterine cancer. The effect of level of educational preparation and number of years work experience on the nurses' perception was also analyzed. The participants were 15 registered nurses and 15 clients who had uterine cancer and were admitted to two acute care hospitals in Tidewater. Registered nurses were asked to complete the tool entitled Human Needs Assessment Scale and rate the 35 human needs in relation to the perceived importance for the client. …

What's Happening: April 25, 1984, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Group Comparability: A Multiattribute Utility Measurement Approach To The Use Of Random Assignment With Small Numbers Of Aggregated Units, C. Anderson Johnson, John W. Graham, Brian R. Flay, William B. Hansen, Linda M. Collins

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

It is not always possible, especially in large-scale evaluation research, to ensure that random assignment will produce groups that are comparable on any number of potentially important factors. Typically, gaining comparability has been achieved only at the expense of random assignment. A method is presented that allows multivariate comparability while making only minimal restrictions on randomization. The procedure is demonstrated in the context of assigning 63 aggregated units (schools) to 28 experimental and control conditions. Good comparability of groups for all primary main effects and interactions was verified for 15 individual variables.

Community Mental Health Attitudes, Fenimore William Johnson

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to compare community mental health attitudes of the past and the present, and between mental health workers and the public. The results indicate that the public is better informed and more favorably disposed toward the mentally ill today than was true several decades ago. Some stereotypes persist, however, and the mentally ill are still regarded less favorably than are other disability groups. Mental health workers and the public appear to be similar in their endorsement of a medical approach to treatment, although the former endorse more strongly a community-based treatment orientation. There was no …

Rhythmicity, Rate, And Perceived Effort Level Of Fluent And Disfluent Children And Their Parents, Lorraine Destefano Proctor

Masters Theses

Finger tapping and CVC syllable repetition measures of 7 four to eight year old fluent and disfluent children and their mothers were evaluated. Perceptual ratings of speech rate and effort level were also completed by the children, their mothers, and nine graduate students. These procedures were used to test hypotheses that mean interval durations for tapping and for speech, and perceptual ratings of speech rate and effort level are individual in nature.

Results indicated that the subjects1 measures of mean interval durations for tapping and for speech as estimates of rhythmicity, and perceptual ratings of speech rate and effort level …

The Impact Of Modernization On The Aged In American Samoa, Ellen C. Rhoads

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Vital Signs, Spring 1984, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A twenty eight page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, alumni profiles, class notes, and more.

The Problem Of Reductionism In Theories Of Hemispheric Specialization And Recovery Of Functions, Grant Jackson Butterbaugh

Masters Theses

A selective review of functional and anatomical hemispheric asymmetries in humans confirms the doctrine of hemispheric specialization. However, the post-insult phenomenon of recovery of functions challenges theories that posit too strict a correspondence between anatomical structures and functions. Follow-up studies on hemispherectomized and hemidecorticated patients, who later recovered language, support a hypothesis of hemispheric redundancy, rather than "invariant" hemispheric specialization for language. Thus, through an evolutionary selection process, the brain may have developed as two potentially similar organs. Neuropsychological research on recovery phenomena is criticized as neglecting environmental contributions to recovery. Several models of hemispheric specialization are compared with recovery …

Improving Interpersonal Perceptual Accuracy And Psychological Adjustment Through Brief Perception Therapy With A Substance Abuse Population, B. Gerald Hartman

Dissertations

This study's purpose was to determine if a type of cognitive therapy, Brief Perception Therapy, (Bullmer, 1980) could improve interpersonal perceptual accuracy and psychological adjustment in a substance abuse population. Thirty-five patients seeking inpatient treatment were randomly assigned to a treatment and a comparison group. Twenty-five patients completed the three week program, 13 in the treatment group and 12 in the comparison group. The treatment group received Group Brief Perception Therapy (GBPT) and the comparison group received Regular Group Therapy (RP). Therapists were experienced master's level psychologists and social workers trained in group treatment. GBPT groups used a programmed text, …

The Relationship Between Thought Disorder And The Diagnosis Of Schizophrenia, David Frank Fatzinger

Dissertations

The diagnosis of schizophrenia has been considered unreliable, especially when derived by psychiatric interview. Thought disorder is one symptom that has been accepted by most clinicians as a major indicator of schizophrenia. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between thought disorder and the diagnosis of schizophrenia in a state hospital setting.

The sample consisted of 88 patients, 58 males (mean age = 32.0) and 30 females (mean age = 38.6) and was gathered from newly admitted patients in a large state hospital. Thought disorder was measured by the Whitaker Index of Schizophrenic Thinking (WIST) Form A, …

Admissions Criteria As Predictors Of Students' Successful Completion Of A Dental Hygiene Program, M. Linda Brown

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the criteria used to select dental hygiene students and to determine the ability of these criteria to predict students' successful completion of a dental hygiene program. One hundred sixteen graduates of the certificate level dental hygiene program at Old Dominion University between 1971- 1981, inclusive, comprised the sample. The majority of the subjects were Caucasian females, ages 20 to 24. The admissions criteria examined were (1) Dental Hygiene Aptitude Test scores, (2) Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, (3) preadmission quality point average, (4) college chemistry quality point average, and (S) percentile rank in …

The Use Of Alternative Behaviors, Covert Sensitization And A Package Intervention In Treatment Of Bulimia, Janice Marie Arone

Masters Theses

Bulimia is a complex eating disorder that involves bouts of binge eating which are usually followed by a purge to rid the individual of the unwanted food. This disorder occurs primarily in females and may lead to several medical and psychological complications. The efficacy of two single component treatments and a package intervention designed to decrease variables related to binge eating were investigated with three bulimic females. The results of the research indicated that individuals who were exposed to the package intervention experienced the largest decrements in the binge eating when compared to the single component procedures.

Trait Anxiety In Female Heads Of Household, Bonnie Martinette Wheeler

Ellmer School of Nursing Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this investigation was to determine if being the female head of a single-parent household was associated with increased trait anxiety. Ninety-four female nurses completed the Trait portion of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory developed by Spielberger, Gorsuch, and Lushene (1964) and a demographic inventory. The demographic inventory provided the information regarding marital status and presence or absence of children needed to delineate the sample into four groups: Group I (n=31) married females with dependent children in the home; Group II (n=10) married females with no dependent children in the home; Group III (n=26) single, separated or divorced females …