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Use Of Marijuana In Those With Anxiety And Depression, Heather Flaa

Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters

The purpose of this research and literature review was to compare the use of marijuana to SSRIs in reducing anxiety and depression symptoms.

• This literature review searched databases Cochrane, PubMed, Clinical Key, PsycINFO, and DynaMed Plus from the year 1990 and on. Keywords: cannabis, marijuana, anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

• Many meta-analyses show SSRIs continue to be first line treatment in those with anxiety and depression in reducing symptoms.

• Patients with marijuana use showed an increased odds ratio of developing anxiety and depression or increasing symptoms in several studies.

• No studies …

Military Sexual Trauma Survivor Preferences For Provider Gender And Associations With Mental Health Evaluation Attendance, Minden B. Sexton, Raeann E. Anderson, Diana C. Bennett, Edward J. Thomas, Rachel B. Broman, Sarah K. H. Richards

Psychology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

One Hundred Voices: Harrisburg’S Historic African American Community, 1850-1920, Calobe Jackson Jr., Katie Wingert Mcardle, David Pettegrew, Lenwood Sloan

Digital Press Books

In 2020, a coalition of citizens, organizers, legislators, and educators came together to commemorate the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments by establishing a new monument in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This would be a memorial dedicated to the capital city’s significant African American community and its historic struggle for the vote. The Commonwealth Monument, located on the Irvis Equality Circle on the South Lawn of Pennsylvania’s State Capitol Grounds, features a bronze pedestal inscribed with one hundred names of change agents who pursued the power of suffrage and citizenship between 1850 and 1920.

This book is a companion to this monument and tells …

Vulnerability When Fecundity Fails: Infertility And Assisted Reproductive Technologies In The Bridge, Melissa Gjellstad

Languages & Global Studies Faculty Publications

Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) transformed the treatment of infertility in the Scandinavian welfare state. In the course of a forty-year history, Denmark has become an international leader in the proportion of babies born via ART. The third season of the Danish/Swedish television serial The Bridge (2015) includes a subplot of infertility and state responsiveness to the involuntarily childless, fertile donors and donor-conceived children. This chapter outlines milestones in medically assisted reproduction in Denmark and Sweden, including current policy differences around surrogacy, and considers those states and the consequences for their citizens in a literary vulnerability analysis of The Bridge informed …

The Safety, Accuracy, And Cost-Effectiveness Of Confirmatory Penicillin Allergy Testing In The Outpatient Setting As A Means Of Reducing Patient Morbidity And Mortality, Mitchell Mimbach

Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters

The purpose of this review is to investigate the prevalence of documented penicillin (PCN) allergies in health care and any negative outcomes associated with being labeled as such. Additional topics researched included the safety and accuracy of PCN allergy testing, the cost-effectiveness of PCN allergy testing versus using non-PCN related antibiotics, and barriers to confirmatory PCN allergy testing implementation. A complete review of the aforementioned topics included meta-analysis’, systematic reviews, cohorts, clinical trials, and cross-sectional studies from the last five years. Databases utilized for this research included PubMed, Cochrane Review, Embase, Dynamed Plus, and ClinicalKey. Sources that were excluded from …

An Analysis Of The Incidence And Severity Of Drug-Drug Interactions Between Prescribed Pharmaceuticals And Cannabinoids, Jennifer Mcrae

Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters

Identify the incidence and severity of drug-drug interactions between commonly prescribed medications and cannabinoids • Medications that are substrates for CYP2C19, CYP2C9 and CYP1A2 are at the greatest risk of interaction with concomitant use of phytocannabinoids or synthetic cannabinoids • Caution is recommended with medications metabolized via UGT or CES1, however information is currently limited and further research is necessary • Lack of universal standards for laboratory testing of cannabinoid products call into question the legitimacy of reported results in currently reported research as the contents of many cannabinoid products are inaccurately labeled

The Effect Of Proton Pump Inhibitors On Normal Gastrointestinal Flora Leading To Weight Change, Emi L. Binstock

Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters

The goal of this literature review was to determine what effects proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have on the normal gastrointestinal (GI) flora and how that may lead to weight loss or weight gain. A literature search was performed using the database PubMed. Only articles from the last ten years (2009-2019) were included in this review. Keywords used in the search are listed below. After exclusion criteria was applied, 30 articles were relevant and used in this review. Five themes were identified in the literature review. An investigation of normal GI flora associated with weight loss and weight gain identified a …

Assistive Technology For Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Group Protocol For Improving Occupational Performance Of College Students, Jacob Horn, Kyler Peterson

Occupational Therapy Capstones

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to develop a group protocol to improve the occupational performance of college students who have had a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). This will be done by using iPad apps that address three specific areas of cognitive functioning impacted by mTBI in college student seeking to return to school: psychosocial support needs, task support needs, and memory support needs.

Methods: An extensive literature review was completed on mTBI to determine its impact on occupational performance of college students, the role of occupational therapy (OT) interventions for managing cognition post-mTBI, and the use of …

Critically Appraised Topic: Impact Of Occupation-Based Interventions On Older Adults In Skilled Nursing Facilities Experiencing Occupational Deprivation, Kassandra Severson, Kaitlynn Stearns, Tyler Stecher

Critically Appraised Topics

Occupational therapy (OT) is “the only profession that helps people across the lifespan to do the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of daily activities (occupations). OT practitioners enable people of all ages to live life to its fullest by helping them promote health, and prevent—or live better with—injury, illness, or disability” (AOTA, 2020 p. S1) OT practitioners use meaningful occupations to promote health and a better lifestyle for people with injury, illness, or disability in all stages of life. OT practitioners use evidence-based practice, look at the environment and the task and make the …

Scavenger Hunt: Zombie Tag, Karlene T. Clark

Librarian Publications

Zombie Tag was put together by the author with assistance from the Library’s outreach / activity committee, Zeineb Yousif (Digital Initiatives Librarian), and Kristen Borysewicz (Information Literacy Coordinator). This is an event that can be run after hours or later in the evening with a soft close, letting others know the building will be noisy. It indirectly introduces information literacy by having students find physical “resources” (cards such as housing, food, weapons, etc.) given to them by a librarian. The students need to avoid “zombies” while they seek out computers throughout the building designated at Centers for Disease Control (CDC) …

Digging For Roots In All The Wrong Places: Rethinking The Use Of Secret Drafting Documents In Interpreting The North Dakota Constitution, Nicholas S. Samuelson

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Privacy Law Invasion From The West Coast Or Nothing To Worry About? The Impact Of The California Consumer Privacy Act In North Dakota, Jeremy Straub, Joseph Vacek

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Establishment Clause Forbids Coercion, Not Cooperation, Between Church And State: How The Direct Coercion Test Should Replace The Lemon Test, Charles Adside Iii

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Can I Get Your Name Please? Not Unless You Want To Go To Jail, Jeremy Straub, Joseph Vacek

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Federal Jury Service: North Dakota Should Amend Its Federal Jury Plan To Supplement The Source Of Names Of Potential Jurors, Katie Winbauer

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

North Dakota Supreme Court Review, North Dakota Law Review Associate Editors

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Proceedings Of The One Hundred Twenty First Annual Meeting Of The North Dakota State Bar Association, North Dakota Law Review Associate Editors

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

To Object Or Not Object, That Is The Question: A Criminal Law Practitioner's Guide To The "Five W'S" Of Evidentiary Objections, Jonathan J. O'Konek

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Mayflower Compact: Celebrating Four Hundred Years Of Influence On U.S. Democracy, Julia L. Ernst

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Real Property - Eminent Domain: Assessing The Takings Clause And Ending The State-Litigation Requirement, Ashley Vander Wal

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Cash Bail In Cass County, Dane Dekrey

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reasonable Doubt Ratcheting: How Jurors Adjust The Standard Of Proof To Reach A Desired Result, Michael Conklin

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Looking To Peers: Transjudicial Citations Behavior Among State Supreme Courts, Jonathan S. Hack

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mental Health And The Character And Fitness Examination: The Tide Is Shifting, Kristen Clow

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

North Dakota Supreme Court Review, North Dakota Law Review Associate Editors

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

The North Dakota Constitution: An Original Approach Since 1889, Jerod Tufte

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

100 Years Of Women's Suffrage: Celebrating Pilgrims On The Journey For Equality-One Step At A Time, Katie Carpenter, Lisa Fair Mcevers

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Comparative Scoping Study Report For The Extraction Of Microalgae Oils From Two Subspecies Of Chlorella Vulgaris, Jasmine Kreft, Eric Moe, Nicholas Garcia, Andrew Ross, Wayne Seames

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The production of microalgae as a fatty acid oil resource for use in biofuels production is a widespread research topic at the lab scale. Microalgae contain a higher lipid content on a dry-weight basis compared to oilseeds such as soybeans. Additionally, the growth and cultivation cycle of microalgae is 15 days, in comparison to soybeans, for which the cycle occurs once or twice annually. However, to date, it has been uneconomical to produce microalgae oils in a world-scale facility due to limitations in cultivating microalgae at commercial scales. Recent developments suggest that the use of heterotrophic microalgae may be economically …

Fostering Improvement In Occupational Performance Through Environment Modification In Skilled Nursing Facilities, Grant Baker, Erin Grensteiner, Rachel Lindemann

Critically Appraised Topics

First-year occupational therapy students at the University of North Dakota School of Medicines and Health Sciences completed this CAT. The general topic assigned was the completion of activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) by older adults in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). Students formed a focus question, a case scenario, and then researched and presented key findings. Students then presented implications for practice in occupational therapy with the evidence of scholarly research in the areas of theory, environment, population, and interventions. The intervention that was chosen for this CAT was the Green House Project. …

Sixty Years Of Boom And Bust: The Impact Of Oil In North Dakota, 1958-2018, Kyle Conway

Digital Press Books

In the 1950s, North Dakota experienced its first oil boom in the Williston Basin, on the western side of the state. The region experienced unprecedented social and economic changes, which were carefully documented in a 1958 report by four researchers at the University of North Dakota. Since then, western North Dakota has undergone two more booms, the most recent from 2008 to 2014. Sixty Years of Boom and Bust republishes the 1958 report and updates its analysis by describing the impact of the latest boom on the region’s physical geography, politics, economics, and social structure.

Sixty Years of Boom and …