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Knowledge, Health Beliefs, And Attitudes Toward Dementia Risk Reduction Among Rural Older Adults: A Qualitative Study, Jayanti Ray
Knowledge, Health Beliefs, And Attitudes Toward Dementia Risk Reduction Among Rural Older Adults: A Qualitative Study, Jayanti Ray
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Dementia, characterized by compromised memory, reasoning, and problem-solving, is one of the major health concerns for older adults in rural areas. Literature has indicated that there are gaps in knowledge about what older adults in rural communities know about dementia and its risk factors. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the knowledge, health beliefs, and attitudes toward dementia and its risk factors among older adults in rural areas. This study aimed to determine gaps in older adults’ knowledge of dementia and its risk factors and to identify their understanding of lifestyle factors and strategies that were likely …
Contributing Factors Affecting Health Care Access And Utilization Behaviors By Black Men In The United States, Alonzo Pendleton
Contributing Factors Affecting Health Care Access And Utilization Behaviors By Black Men In The United States, Alonzo Pendleton
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Generational racism, historical abuses, and mistreatment related to health care have long contributed to a lack of trust among Black Americans in the U.S. health system, as well as disproportionate health status due to inadequate medical care-seeking behavior. Black American men have been particularly affected, with worse health and a higher mortality rate than men and women of other U.S. ethnic groups. The causal factors that manifest and sow distrust of the medical community among Black men are not thoroughly understood. The purpose of this study, which had the health belief model as its theoretical framework, was to explore the …
Strategies For Small Business Sustainability For Restaurants, James Harold Jones
Strategies For Small Business Sustainability For Restaurants, James Harold Jones
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Many small restaurant business owners in the United States industry lack effective leadership strategies to sustain their business operations. For small restaurant businesses, the survival rate from 1994-2018 was 15 years. One-third of all small businesses are sustainable to 10 years without successful business sustainable leadership strategies. Grounded in authentic leadership theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple-case study was to explore sustainable leadership strategies five small restaurant business owners use to sustain their business for 5 years and longer. The participants were five small business restaurant owners in Arkansas and Tennessee. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews, member checking, …
Teachers’ Use Of Screencast Feedback To Improve Secondary Students’ Writing, Safwa Abdul-Aziz
Teachers’ Use Of Screencast Feedback To Improve Secondary Students’ Writing, Safwa Abdul-Aziz
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Many students struggle with decoding and implementing feedback given to them on writing assignments. Researchers and instructors have used various technologies and strategies to improve students’ uptake of feedback given on written assignments, one of which is a form of video feedback called screencasting. Research has been conducted on students’ perspectives of screencasting feedback at the university level but has been more limited at the secondary level. The purpose of this qualitative single-case study was to explore screencast feedback as a strategy to support secondary students in their effort to improve their writing. The feedback triangle by Yang and Carless …
Crafting A Succession Process For A Nonprofit Organization: Exploring And Plotting The Creation Of A Succession Plan For The Chips Montgomery Foundation, Robert King
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In this case study, the phenomena of leadership loss and transition within a small nonprofit organization, which is a pivotal cycle impacting businesses of all sizes and types, was explored. The study underscored that employee turnover is an inevitable occurrence, influenced by a myriad of factors, leading to significant decisions on staff replacement and thereby shaping future organizational trajectories. Central to this investigation was the exploration of various organizational development theories, functionalism, and human resource planning, which provided a conceptual framework for understanding leadership transitions. Both for-profit and nonprofit entities grapple with leadership losses, yet nonprofits encounter distinct challenges necessitated …
Strategies For Building Supply Chain Resilience And Sustainability Within Law Enforcement, Vladimir Walter Jankov
Strategies For Building Supply Chain Resilience And Sustainability Within Law Enforcement, Vladimir Walter Jankov
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Insufficient supply chain management expertise among law enforcement departments during black swan events may hurt the operationality, functionality, and effectiveness of their purpose to keep the communities safe. Grounded in black swan theory, the purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies for building supply chain resilience and sustainability within law enforcement. Data were collected from 11 command staff personnel from three law enforcement departments in South Carolina through semi-structured interviews, member checking, and assessments of organizational documents related to departmental supply chain policies and procedures. Data were analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s six-step thematic analysis framework. Six …
Human Service Professionals Perceptions About Support From Supervisors During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ericka Booker
Human Service Professionals Perceptions About Support From Supervisors During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ericka Booker
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The United States Department of Human Services provided information about how to administer services remotely to human service organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, but multiple challenges arose including lack of support, ethical concerns, and difficulty in building a rapport with clients remotely. The problem that was addressed in this study was the negative impacts on clients due to the issues with human service professionals providing virtual services during the pandemic. This generic qualitative study aimed to explore perceptions about the support human service professionals received from their supervisors during the pandemic. Bandura’s self-efficacy theory was used to explore participant perceptions …
Nigerian Secondary Physics Teachers’ Perceptions Of Factors That Challenge Information And Communication Technology Integration, Hemamalini Srinivasan
Nigerian Secondary Physics Teachers’ Perceptions Of Factors That Challenge Information And Communication Technology Integration, Hemamalini Srinivasan
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Challenges to integrating technology into educational institutions pose a significant issue that impacts students’ performance and accomplishments. The research problem addressed through this study was that secondary school physics teachers were challenged to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) in a southwestern state of Nigeria. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore secondary physics teacher perceptions of the factors that challenged ICT integration in the southwestern state of Nigeria, so that schools could be provided with research-deduced recommendations to take informed steps forward toward developing technology-integrated student-centered pedagogies. In this study, the unified theory of acceptance and …
Financial Strategies For The Survival Of Immigrant Latinx-Owned Small Businesses, Brenda Rios Brombacher
Financial Strategies For The Survival Of Immigrant Latinx-Owned Small Businesses, Brenda Rios Brombacher
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Latinx small business owners have the lowest rates of financial access when starting and growing their businesses in the United States, hindering national economic resilience and growth. Grounded in the pecking order theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore financial strategies that six Latinx small business owners in Houston, Texas, used to grow and sustain their small businesses. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and reviewing public and participant-supplied documents such as their business plan, financial statements, and budget forecast reports. Five themes emerged from thematic data analysis: (a) filling a market gap and leveraging …
Elementary School Counselors’ Experiences Using Restorative Practices In Bullying Prevention, Janelle H. Brooks
Elementary School Counselors’ Experiences Using Restorative Practices In Bullying Prevention, Janelle H. Brooks
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Restorative practices provide alternatives to punitive practices, such as exclusionary discipline and zero-tolerance policies. Restorative practices are important for elementary school counselors because they help repair the harm students do to one another while building positive relationships between and among students. A lack of understanding exists in the educational community among teachers, parents, and administrators regarding the impact of restorative practices on elementary school bullying. This qualitative study involved addressing that knowledge gap. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to address the research question, which focused on lived experiences of elementary school counselors regarding their experiences with using restorative practices …
Lived Experience Of Burnout And Self-Efficacy In Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurses Caring For Covid-19 Patients In U.S. Hospitals, Trixie Alohilani Harris
Lived Experience Of Burnout And Self-Efficacy In Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurses Caring For Covid-19 Patients In U.S. Hospitals, Trixie Alohilani Harris
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the physical and mental health of intensive care unit registered nurses (ICU RNs). Burnout in ICU RNs existed long before the pandemic; however, the massive increase in critically ill patients and the scarcity of supplies and qualified staff to care for these patients put RNs in a dangerous situation. Research addressed this topic early in the pandemic but were primarily quantitative, with minimal qualitative studies appearing later. There remained a gap in examining ICU RNs in rural hospitals in the United States. The research question for this hermeneutic phenomenological study explored the interpretation of the …
White Clinical Social Workers’ Comfort With Black People’S Mental Illness, Lushunda Wood-Buckson
White Clinical Social Workers’ Comfort With Black People’S Mental Illness, Lushunda Wood-Buckson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Social workers constitute one of the largest clinically trained groups in the helping professions delivering mental health services in the United States. Most U.S. social workers are White and provide mental health services to diverse people. The social work literature has limited information about White clinical social workers’ comfort with delivering mental health services to Black people with mental illness. The aim of this study was to better understand how White clinical social workers who self-identify as culturally competent describe their perceptions of comfort when delivering mental health services to Black people with mental illness. This basic qualitative study was …
Influence Of Social Media On Mothers’ Decision-Making Regarding Vaccinations, Wendy Michele Patterson
Influence Of Social Media On Mothers’ Decision-Making Regarding Vaccinations, Wendy Michele Patterson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
This study involved determining why mothers hesitate to vaccinate their children and where they get their information about vaccinations. This descriptive qualitative study guided by the health belief model explored the influence social media has on mothers’ perceived barriers to vaccinating their children. A descriptive qualitative approach was used, and one-on-one audio interviews were conducted via Zoom or in person with 19 participants. Participants were mothers 19 or older, had children between zero and 18, made medical decisions for their children who resided in their household, and sought information about vaccinations via healthcare providers, social media platforms, friends, or family. …
Principal Literacy Leadership Perspectives And Practices, Megan Patricia Shay
Principal Literacy Leadership Perspectives And Practices, Megan Patricia Shay
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Current elementary data from a large suburban district in the eastern part of the United States demonstrate that less than half of students in Grades 3 through 5 are demonstrating sufficient literacy achievement as measured by state assessments. This problem is of great concern since strong literacy achievement is fundamental to student success in school and preparation for college and career. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of elementary principals from this district on their role and practices as leaders in their students’ literacy achievement. The conceptual framework for this study is Murphy’s model …
Racial Stressors, Resiliency, And African American Women Counselors, Barbara Ann Bazemore
Racial Stressors, Resiliency, And African American Women Counselors, Barbara Ann Bazemore
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
African American women therapists are the second largest group of counseling providers, with many displaying behavioral health symptoms differently than other cultures. This quantitative correlational cross-sectional study explored the resiliency of African American women counselors related to racial-specific stressors inclusive of self-identity, COVID-19 anxiety, and daily discrimination. Initially, three research questions were selected to investigate the relationship between demographic factors (age, education level, active years as a counselor), racial-specific stressors (self-identity, COVID-19 pandemic anxiety, and everyday discrimination), and resiliency in 112 African American women counselors. Emails and an online survey were sent to collect data to answer the research hypotheses. …
College Students’ Experiences And Perceptions Of Mental Health In A Campus Culture, Elizabeth Remick Fait
College Students’ Experiences And Perceptions Of Mental Health In A Campus Culture, Elizabeth Remick Fait
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Mental health issues among college students are increasing, and a better understanding of the issues may lead to more effective solutions. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to explore mental health culture at a college setting for first-year students by exploring communication methods used by students. Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior was the theoretical framework that guided this study. Data were collected from personal artifacts shared by 12 participants followed by interviews to explore their mental health experiences, perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors. The findings from coding and thematic analysis were put into context by participant definitions of mental …
Strategies To Reduce Truck Driver Turnover, Thomas Antoine Streeter
Strategies To Reduce Truck Driver Turnover, Thomas Antoine Streeter
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Professional truck driver turnover is a massive problem for the leaders of trucking organizations. Business owners are concerned with driver turnover, as it is the number-one predictor of business stability and net income. Grounded in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, this qualitative multiple case study was conducted to identify and explore effective strategies trucking company leaders use to reduce driver turnover. The participants included six trucking company leaders from six different organizations located in the United States. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and archival documents. Three themes emerged using Yin’s five-step analysis: (a) competitive driver pay, (b) improving work-life balance, …
Strategies To Effectively Manage Hospital Energy Costs With Renewable Energy Technology, Nelli Holtz
Strategies To Effectively Manage Hospital Energy Costs With Renewable Energy Technology, Nelli Holtz
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
High energy costs and hospital financial solvency have become significant problems for hospitals and community leaders. Hospital managers are concerned with knowing the best uses of renewable energy technology to reduce energy expenditures effectively. Grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry study was to explore the strategies hospital leaders use to reduce costs using renewable energy technology effectively. The participants were eight hospital managers from four large and four small hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and a review of relevant public records, documents, and literature on renewable …
Parents’ Perceptions Of Bullying In A Local Middle School, Clifphene Reid
Parents’ Perceptions Of Bullying In A Local Middle School, Clifphene Reid
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Bullying is known to have far-reaching negative implications for students and the school community. One important first step toward successfully preventing and addressing school bullying is to ensure that all members of the school community have a common understanding of the nature of bullying. The problem investigated in this study was the significant disparity between substantiated and unsubstantiated bullying reports made by parents, students, and staff in the local middle school. Given that parents at the local middle school had not received ongoing bullying prevention training, the purpose of this study was to investigate parents’ perceptions of bullying and the …
Nontraditional, African American Women College Students’ Lived Experiences, Cheryl Yvonne Jackson
Nontraditional, African American Women College Students’ Lived Experiences, Cheryl Yvonne Jackson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Nontraditional African American women continue seeking degrees in higher education graduating despite the challenges they face oftentimes displaying resilience in doing so This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of four nontraditional African American women college students. The theoretical foundation for this study was Garmezy’s resilience theory. The theory capitalizes on the positive aspects or in this case protective factors which foster success in overcoming negative circumstances. This narrative, thematic analysis included data from in-depth interviews to identify key themes related to resilience to determine protective factors used by this population to succeed in college. The results show each participant …
Experiences Of Online Faculty When Peer-To-Peer Incivility Is Observed, Juliet Lockwood
Experiences Of Online Faculty When Peer-To-Peer Incivility Is Observed, Juliet Lockwood
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Incivility in the college classroom distracts from the learning process. Students who are uncivil to their peers often shame and embarrass them in front of others, and uncivil students distract from learning opportunities by arguing with professors and coercing them for grades that were not earned. Incivility by students is counterintuitive to the goals of higher education which include offering a space for meaningful learning. The literature describes incivility by students in the physical classroom, yet lacking from current research is how peer-to-peer incivility in the online classroom affects student learning. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to …
Early Childhood Teachers’ Experiences With Overrepresentation Of English Language Learners In Special Education Programs, Tiffeny Sharpton
Early Childhood Teachers’ Experiences With Overrepresentation Of English Language Learners In Special Education Programs, Tiffeny Sharpton
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The population of English Language Learners (ELLs) enrolled in kindergarten to second grade (K-2) in the Southern region of the United States has increased. K-2 teachers are challenged to serve ELLs in the regular education classroom and students are often being referred for special education services. There needs to be more literature on the overrepresentation of ELL students in special education programs. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore K-2 teachers’ experiences with the overrepresentation of ELL students in special education programs and what teachers need to facilitate appropriate interventions for ELL students within the general education …
The Sexual Experiences Of U.S. Married Black Evangelical Christian Women, Latisha Woods
The Sexual Experiences Of U.S. Married Black Evangelical Christian Women, Latisha Woods
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
When learning about sex, a person's cultural identity can include messages about how sex is to be experienced. For Evangelical Christians, those messages are connected to religious doctrine and beliefs. For women, in general, those messages can be tied to what is considered appropriate sexual behavior. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the role that messages stemming from the intersecting identities of religion, gender, and race play in the sexual experiences of married Black evangelical Christian women. This study's theoretical framework and research design was Benner’s interpretive phenomenology. Upon use of convenience sampling, semistructured interviews were conducted …
Factors Influencing Donation Decisions To Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations, Fernando Alferd Crocheron
Factors Influencing Donation Decisions To Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations, Fernando Alferd Crocheron
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
While philanthropic studies have been conducted for centuries, little information exists regarding factors that impel donors to make financial donations to environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs). The phenomena surrounding human motivation have been studied via numerous lenses providing information focused on various domains of interest e.g., poverty alleviation, provisioning of educational opportunity, disease eradication, disaster relief, etc. The theoretical framework for this study was Self-Determination Theory (SDT). This study focused specifically on U.S. citizens and the motivational factors that impel said citizens to make monetary contributions to ENGOs. Ten participants ages 18 and over who had donated to an ENGO in …
Understanding Access To Preventive Health Screening For Working Women Through The Lens Of The Socioecological Model, Charlotte R. Bonner
Understanding Access To Preventive Health Screening For Working Women Through The Lens Of The Socioecological Model, Charlotte R. Bonner
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Many U.S. working women lack access to routine preventive health screenings due to their 40-hr workweek, problems with transportation, and lack of workplace flexibility as clinic hours often coincide with their work schedules. Research is currently limited on how mobile health clinics (MHC) may enhance access to preventive health screenings for working women. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how working women experienced access to preventive health screenings through MHCs. The socioecological model served as the conceptual framework. The study population was working women over 21 years of age who were not homemakers, who worked 30 or …
The Concept Of Leadership During Climatological Crisis: A Comparative Case Study Of Puerto Rico Higher Education, Aniello Alberti
The Concept Of Leadership During Climatological Crisis: A Comparative Case Study Of Puerto Rico Higher Education, Aniello Alberti
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
During times of climatological crisis, leadership is a crucial component of postsecondary education administrators’ arsenal, specifically regarding their ability to execute strategies in action plans aimed at restoring the normal operations of institutions. This comparative case study aimed to examine how strategies in crisis leadership plans were implemented in Puerto Rico's higher education system, focusing on the experiences of key administrators in two higher education units who managed the response to the impacts of the 2017 Hurricane Maria. The conceptual framework for this investigation was grounded in Blanchard and Hersey's situational leadership theory and Bass’s transformational theory. In-depth interviews were …
Pandemic Impact On Feedback Environments Among Remote And Traditional Office Workers, John Bryan Gianneschi
Pandemic Impact On Feedback Environments Among Remote And Traditional Office Workers, John Bryan Gianneschi
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Research on feedback-seeking, a critical component of employee self-regulatory behavior, has heavily relied on conventional offices, laboratories, and classrooms. Researchers have called for studies in varied workplaces and remotely situated work locations, but opportunities were constrained by organizational limits on deploying workers beyond organizational offices. The COVID-19 pandemic’s forced dispersal of office workers to work remotely from their homes overcame these organizational limits. This quantitative survey study compared 232 employee ratings of feedback environments and leader-member exchange relationships to assess their relative effectiveness among employees dispersed by the COVID-19 pandemic to remote locations with those of employees remaining in conventional …
The Experiences Of Post Secondary School Completion Of Academically Talented African American Teenaged Parents, Adrienne Denise Butler
The Experiences Of Post Secondary School Completion Of Academically Talented African American Teenaged Parents, Adrienne Denise Butler
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Teen pregnancy and parenting are cited as the reasons 1 in 3 teens drop out of high school. For African American teenagers, the drop-out rate is slightly higher, with 38% of teen parents leaving high school without a diploma. Living in impoverished communities with substandard educational facilities and opportunities, academically talented African American teen mothers must make choices about education and parenting. Pregnant teens must consider their future and decide whether to keep their baby, to complete high school or dropout, and if to attend a postsecondary institute. The problem is the low college attendance and graduation rate for parenting …
Multiple Location Retailer Online Training Strategies For Improving Customer Support And Relations, Shaun Paythress
Multiple Location Retailer Online Training Strategies For Improving Customer Support And Relations, Shaun Paythress
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Online customer services have always been difficult for companies to handle using either employees or management. The general business problem is that leaders of retail organizations face challenges to satisfy and retain customers. The specific business problem is that some corporate retail leaders in retail organizations with multiple locations lacked effective strategies to train employees to improve online customer support. Grounded in the theory of diffusion of innovation and transformational leadership, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to explore strategies corporate retail leaders use to train employees to improve online customer support in multiple locations. These developments implement …
Childcare Teachers’ Perspectives Of State-Required Training And Available Professional Development, Christina L. Kastl
Childcare Teachers’ Perspectives Of State-Required Training And Available Professional Development, Christina L. Kastl
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The problem affecting Oklahoma’s child care teachers is that the required state trainings and available professional development (PD) are not meeting their needs. The purpose of this qualitative study was to obtain child care teachers’ perspectives of the state’s required training and available PD. The theoretical foundation of this study was based on project-based learning (PBL) theory. The PBL theory supports active in-class learning that allows teachers to continually learn new concepts for their students and provides in-class training and coaching. Three research questions guided the study: What are early child care teachers’ perspectives of the Oklahoma-mandated training. What are …