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Does The Alcohol Behavior Of Charleston High School Students Vary According To Their Source Of Information On Alcohol?, Christy J. Rawlins

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of Visual Problems Between Video Display Terminal Operators In A Developed And A Developing Country, Blessing F. Adeoye

Masters Theses

The work presented in this research study examined the visual problems between Video Display Terminal (VDT) operators in a developed and a developing country. Specifically, this study compared the responses of a group of 67 VDT operators in Nigeria and the United States of America. The study addressed the following questions that have remained unanswered for many years: 1. What are the most common VDT visual hazards? 2. Are these problems the same in the USA and Nigeria? 3. Are these visual problems work related? To accomplish this research study, a survey eliciting opinions of computer operators about the visual …

Évaluation De La Résistance Des Gants De Protection À La Coupure Suivant La Méthode Du Projet De Norme Pren 388, Jaime Lara, Renaud Daigle

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Les données de la CSST démontrent que sur les accidents indemnisés chaque année, près de 30% concernent des lésions aux membres supérieurs, dont 80% aux mains^[1]. Ces lésions sont principalement des coupures et des piqûres causés par la manipulation des pièces métalliques et des outils.

L'utilisation des gants de protection adaptés au type de travail réalisé et au type de risque mécanique pourrait diminuer le nombre ou la gravité des lésions.

Lors du choix d'un gant de protection, il faut tenir compte du niveau de protection offert par le matériau. La norme AFNOR NF S 75-001, sur les …

Évaluation Clinique Expérimentale De La Validité D'Instruments Utilisés Pour Le Diagnostic De Lombalgies : Spinoscopie, Dynamométrie Triaxiale (B-200) Et Thermographie, En Regard De L'Examen Clinique, Richard Leclaire, John M. Esdaile, James Hanley, Michel Rossignol, Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Jean-Claude Jéquier, Karim Hajian-Tilaki

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Objectif général

Évaluer la validité de trois technologies, soit la spinoscopie, lа dynamométrie triaxiale (B-200) et la thermographie, pour diagnostiquer une lombalgie récente chez des travailleurs.

Objectifs spécifiques

Déterminer les caractéristiques diagnostiques de chacune des trois technologies avec et sans les données cliniques, comparer les technologies entre elles, évaluer l'influence de la motivation des sujets sur la précision diagnostique chacune et déterminer la reproductibilité des résultats selon chacun des utilisateurs des technologies.

Méthode

Dans un premier temps, une étude portant sur les valeurs normales de sujets sains (phase I) a été réalisée afin de permettre à chaque technologie de se …

Expérimentation D'Un Dispositif Limiteur De Portée Pour Grues Mobiles Et Évaluation Des Distances Aux Lignes Électriques, Joseph-Jean Paques, Réal Bourbonnière, Daniel Imbeau, Sylvie Bergeron

Rapports de recherche scientifique

En continuation avec le projet de développement d'un limiteur de portée pour grue mobile, cette expérimentation a été faite afin, d'une part, d'évaluer la précision de grutiers d'expérience à juger de distance séparant des éléments de leur grue d'une ligne électrique et d'autre part, de vérifier l'adaptation de certains paramètres fonctionnels du dispositif limiteur de portée à la façon dont les opérateurs utilisent la grue et au comportement de la grue elle-même.

Deux méthodes d'évaluation des distances ont été comparées, une libre et l'autre imposée. Les résultats montrent que les grutiers sont généralement peu précis lorsqu'ils évaluent à vue d'œil …

Évaluation Des Programmes De Sécurité Du Travail Dans Des Petites Et Moyennes Entreprises, Diane Berthelette, Frédéric Planché

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Notre étude porte sur les programmes de sécurité du travail, implantés par des petites et moyennes entreprises (P. M. E.) du secteur du caoutchouc et des produits en matière plastique. Il s'agit d'une recherche évaluative dont l'objectif principal est d'expliquer la variation du taux d'incidence des accidents de travail, en fonction des caractéristiques 1) des activités et 2) des ressources humaines consacrées aux programmes de sécurité du travail, par les entreprises. Nous tentons également de mesurer l'effet des dimensions de l'organisation de travail sur le taux d'incidence des accidents de travail. Il importe de préciser que le taux d'incidence des …

La Résistance Des Gants À La Coupure : Développement D'Une Méthode D'Essai, Jaime Lara, Denis Turcot, Renaud Daigle, Jérôme Boutin

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Analyse Des Accidents Survenus Durant Une Année Dans Trois Centres Hospitaliers, Marie St-Vincent, Chantal Tellier, Thierry Petitjean-Roget

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Le but du projet présenté est de mieux documenter et comprendre les mécanismes d'accidents du personnel soignant en milieu hospitalier, surtout les accidents de manutention. L'originalité de l'étude réside dans la nature des données recueillies pour décrire le processus accidentel. Au contraire de plusieurs études antérieures, les accidents ont été décrits non pas sur la base des rapports d'accidents usuels mais à partir d'un questionnaire spécialement développé pour enrichir la description des circonstances d'accidents. Ce projet fait suite à une première étude où l'on a développé et validé un logiciel de recueil et d'analyse de données d'accidents (du personnel soignant) …

Étude Des Paramètres Affectant L'Efficacité D'Atténuation Des Vibrations Par Un Siège Suspendu, Paul-Émile Boileau, Subhash Rakheja

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Les sièges à suspension comportent des caractéristiques de conception et d'ajustements variées établies en fonction de l'environnement vibratoire à atténuer et permettant aux sièges d'être adaptés à des conducteurs dont le poids et la taille sont différents. Or, il est bien connu que dans la pratique, les sièges ne sont que rarement ajustés par les conducteurs. Certains de ces ajustements, dont le réglage du poids, de la hauteur de l'assise, de l'angle d'inclinaison du dossier et du degré d'amortissement pourraient avoir une influence importante sur le degré d'atténuation réalisable dans des environnements vibratoires précis. De même, la façon d'évaluer le …

Student Evaluations Of Teaching Effectiveness: The Interpretation Of Observational Data And The Principle Of Faute De Mieux, B. Burt Gerstman

Faculty Publications

Student opinion surveys are important but widely misunderstood tools for evaluating teaching effectiveness. In this brief review, an analogy is drawn between the use and interpretation of observational data for public health and biomedical research and the use of student opinion data in evaluating teach ing effectiveness. Sources of systematic error in the form of selection bias, information bias, and confounding are defined and illustrated. Original data concerning intermittent "quid pro quo" confounding (i.e., the effect of expected grades on student evaluations of teaching) are presented. Finally, the principle of faute de mieux ("lack of anything better") and the interpretation …

Life, Death And Public Policy, Larry I. Palmer

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Hazard Recognition And Regulation : An Asbestos Chronology, Diane A. Colson

Theses

One hundred years after it was first mined, several uses of asbestos were banned in the United States. The latency period that typifies asbestos-related diseases was but one factor in the delayed recognition of asbestos as a health hazard. Many other factors delayed the initiation of practical measures to alleviate the hazards.

Controversies surrounding exposure to asbestos continue. Epidemiological studies have answered many questions, but many others are, and may remain, unanswered. Some of the controversies surrounding exposure to asbestos are embedded in the development of the United States of America as a country. An understanding of the historical basis …

Breast Self Examination: A Healthy Approach: Teaching Manual, Margaret Imeson, Molly Mccartney

Research outputs pre 2011

The theme of this health teaching package is breast care with an emphasis on step-by-step instruction f0r breast self examination. The package has been designed to guide health professionals in the facilitation of workshops and discussion groups promoting breast care for women. Materials included in the manual may be adapted to suit audience requirements...

A Mathematical Model To Describe Haemophilus Influenzae Type B Within Western Australia, Kevin Dennis

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This work is primarily aimed at determining the effect that an immunisation policy Is likely to have on the incidence of Haemophllus influenzae Type B (HIB) and systematic HIB in Western Australia. There was a significant effort made to collect data pertinent to the estimation of parameter values but since HIB has only been a notifiable disease since 1992, there was a distinct lack of relevant data available. Private communication with individual’s such as Dr Jeffrey Hanna and Dr Beryl Wild resulted in practical information being obtained that was used to estimate certain parameters. The deterministic mathematical models within the …

The Implementation Of A Needleless Iv System And Its Impact In Needlestick Injuries, Renée Gadilhe Childers

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

Retiree Dies After Tractor Overturns Into Creek, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 58-year-old retired factory worker and part-time farmer was killed when the tractor he was operating overturned into a creek and pinned him. At the time of the incident, the victim was mowing a pasture along a creek bed. The tractor was not equipped with a Roll Over Protective Structure (ROPS) or a seat belt. Attached to the tractor was a five foot bush hog. About 3:00 pm the day of the incident, the victim began mowing a 30 acre bottom land pasture by entering a gate at the east of the pasture. The victim drove in a westward direction …

Part-Time Farmer Is Killed In Rops-Equipped Tractor Rollover, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 60-year-old male minister and part-time farmer began mowing a 15-acre field near his home at about 11:00 am. Operating a farm tractor with a side sickle bar mower attached to the right side, he proceeded around the perimeter of the field. One edge of the field dropped off steeply to a ravine. While making the second pass around the field the ground under the left wheels gave way causing the tractor to roll over. The tractor came to rest on the victim causing massive internal injuries. A Roll Over Protective Structure (ROPS) had been retro-fitted to the 1962 tractor …

Farmer Pinned When Tractor Overturns Into Dry Creek Bed, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 65-year-old farmer died after his tractor overturned, pinning him underneath. The victim, working alone, began mowing with a bush hog along the perimeter of a soy bean field. At approximately 12:30 pm, the victim was about 1/4 mile from the main road mowing blackberry briars along a creek bed. This area was between the bean field and a creek embankment. Having made two cuts into the brush about 30 feet apart for the purpose of marking the creek edge, he proceeded to make a third cut. He backed the tractor, bush hog attached, toward the embankment. The 3-point hitch …

Farm Worker Is Killed In Tractor Rollover, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 42-year-old farm worker was killed when the tractor he was operating rolled over on him. The tractor was not equipped with Roll Over Protective Structures (ROPS) or a seat belt. The victim had been bush hogging alone in a field the morning of the incident. Having completed a lower pasture, he proceeded up a single lane loose gravel road carved in the side of the hill. The left side going up the hill was covered with trees and brush. The right side fell quickly off to form a steep embankment. As the victim maneuvered the tractor up the hill, …

Ua66/14/4 Kentucky Partnership Newsletter, Vol. Ii, No. 6, Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health & Safety

University Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Kentucky Partnership for Farm Family Health & Safety.

The Pollution Effects Of Pleasure/Work Boat Sewage Discharges On Fecal Contamination Levels Of Waters In And Around Marinas And Other Places Where Boats Are Moored On The Eastern Shore Of Virginia, George H. Bangs

Community & Environmental Health Theses & Dissertations

Contamination of seafood harvested from and recreational areas of the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries and the Atlantic coast inshore waters may cause health problems for people consuming the seafood or coming in contact with the waters by swimming, water skiing, or other water sports. These health problems include, but not limited to, dysentery, typhoid and hepatitis (Natchez, 1990). This is a preliminary study into the level of fecal pollution generated by sewage discharges from boats in marinas and other places where boats are moored on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Sites selected for the study included; (I) marinas and other …

Women’S-Perceived Quality In Postpartum Care, Maryland A. Hunter

Theses and Dissertations (ETD)

Increased competition among healthcare organizations for the obstetric consumer market has led to increased interest in women’s perceptions of their obstetric experience. This study explored women’s perceptions of quality and women’s perceptions of benefits for women who received family-centered postpartum care (FCPPC) and women who received traditional postpartum care (TPPC). The study also assessed the relationship between women’s-perceived quality (WPQ) and women’s-perceived benefit (WPB) for those receiving FCPPC and those receiving TPPC. Quality and beneficence are the two concepts of Larrabee’s (1992) model of quality operationalized in this study. The sample consisted of 60 postpartum women, 30 receiving care on …

Part-Time Farmer Is Killed After Losing Control Of His Tractor, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 38-year-old part-time farmer (landowner) was killed after the tractor he was operating turned over on him. The victim was mowing his property using a tractor and rotary mower attachment. The tricycle-type tractor was not equipped with a rollover protective structure (ROPS) or a seat belt. After completing an upper field, he drove the tractor down a hill toward the public roadway. The brakes apparently failed and he lost control of the tractor. The tractor slid off the gravel road, turned over and came to rest on top of the victim. There were no witnesses to the event. In order …

Retiree Is Killed When Tractor Overturns, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 61-year-old retiree was crushed to death when the tractor he was operating turned over on him. At 4:30 pm, the victim was bush-hogging a pasture on his farm, driving a tractor pulling a five-foot-wide, three-point hitch rotary bush-hog. The tractor was not equipped with a Roll Over Protective Structure (ROPS) or a seat belt. Mowing the outer perimeter of the pasture, the victim was on the first pass outlining the field. An eroded ravine forced the victim to go up the hill along the edge of the rose-briar-filled 18-foot-wide ditch. The left front and rear tractor wheels began sliding …

Ua12/2/1 Phase - Drugs On Campus, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special magazine edition of the College Heights Herald:

• Grundy, Julie. Reality Check: We’re a Town That Has Drugs – Rebecca Maldonado, Student Health Services
• Bernardy, Patrick. Local Drug Use: A Slow But Steady Rise – WKU Police, Audrey Spies
• Quarles, Mitchell. Know the Downers: Jail, Fines, Probation
• Hutchins, Chris. I Did It Because It Was Fun . . . I Did Them to Escape – Drug Abuse
• Bernardy, Patrick. Marijuana No Worse than Alcohol
• Hieb, Dan. Drugs Steal Freedom; Don’t Create It

Tree Trimmer Dies After 50-Foot Fall While In Bucket Truck, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Motor Vehicle

A 48-year-old male tree trimmer (the victim) died from a fall while trimming a tree from a bucket truck. The victim was the owner/operator of a tree trimming service. He operated the business for about 23 years, employing various part time helpers. On the day of the incident, two sons-in-law were operating chain saws at the scene when they heard a loud "pop." As they looked up, the witnesses saw the bucket carrying the victim slam against the truck. The sons-in-law removed the victim from the bucket. He was not breathing. The rescue squad was called and arrived at the …

The Aids Project Newsline, Vol.7, No.2 (November 1994), Eve Cimmel, The Aids Project

AIDS Project Newsline (1991-1996)

No abstract provided.

Correlates And Consequences Of Early Initiation Of Sexual Intercourse, Ann L. Coker, Donna L. Richter, Robert F. Valois, Robert E. Mckeown, Carol Z. Garrison, Murray L. Vincent

CRVAW Faculty Journal Articles

This cross-sectional analysis of the 1991 CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey explored factors associated with an early age at first sexual intercourse. Almost 18% of White males, 49% of Black males, 5% of White females and 12% of Black females were sexually active before age 13. Carrying a weapon to school, fighting, and early (< age 13) experimentation with cigarettes and alcohol were associated with early initiation of sexual activity for all four race and gender groupings. Those initiating sexual activity early had greater numbers of partners but were 50% less likely to use condoms regularly and were two-seven times more likely to have been pregnant or caused a pregnancy. Females who initiated sexual activity early were more likely to have had a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Interventions to postpone sexual activity need to be tailored to the ethnic and gender differences observed in these analyses. Interventions must begin before age 13 and should be comprehensive school-based efforts.

Fibrinolytic Responses To Moderate Intensity Exercise: Comparison Of Physically Active And Inactive Men, Linda M. Szymanski, Russell R. Pate

Faculty Publications

The purposes of this study were to compare fibrinolytic responses to moderate intensity exercise in physically active and inactive men and during morning and evening exercise. Fourteen physically inactive men (mean age, 34.7 ± 4.0 years) and 12 regularly active men (34.8 ± 4.0 years) performed two exercise sessions, morning and evening, at 50% of maximal oxygen consumption. Tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) andplasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) activity were measured before and after exercise. Data were analyzed using a three-way ANOVA with repeated measures. TPA actively increased with exercise in both groups, although the active group demonstrated greater increases than the …

An Assessment Of Associations Between Selected Health Practices And Mental Wellness, Ginger Bomar

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between mental well-being and selected health behaviors. A cross-sectional study was performed on a sample of 490 students at Western Kentucky University during the 1993 Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters. Study participants completed the Participant Data Sheet, General Weil-Being Schedule, and the Health Behavior Instrument. The data were gathered and analyzed via correlation analysis which revealed a relationship between mental well-being and certain health behaviors. The correlations between general well-being and selected health behaviors were stronger among males than females. There was a relationship found between mental well-being and hours …