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Changes In Nursing Students' Knowledge Of Bloodborne Pathogens And Perception Of Safety In Practice From Sophomore To Senior Years In School, Ellen J. O'Connor

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Bloodborne pathogens have received increasing attention since Acguired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) became known in the United States. Until that time, antibiotics, immunizations, and increasingly sophisticated infection control practices had markedly decreased health care workers' occupational risk for contraction of bloodborne and other infectious diseases. From a nursing education perspective, it was important to ascertain knowledge deficits students have related to caring for clients infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV).

Therefore, the purposes of this study were to compare sophomore and senior nursing students relative to: a) their knowledge of bloodborne pathogens (particularly HIV …

A Selective Medium For Isolation Of Corynebacterium Species, Hua Tu

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The Prevention Of Aids: Assessment And Intervention In A Heterosexual College Population., Dawn Marie Ehde

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In an examination of heterosexual college students' knowledge, attitudes, risk perception, and behavior as they relate to the prevention of AIDS in this population, the present study included two separate but related studies. The first study examined midwestern heterosexual students': (a) knowledge of HIV risk factors; (b) attitudes toward homosexuality, AIDS, and mandatory HIV testing; (c) sexual and other risk behavior; and (d) self-perception of risk for exposure to HIV. Students (N = 308) completed an assessment battery that included the AIDS Risk Behavior Knowledge Test, the AIDS Attitude Scale, the Sexual Risk Behavior Questionnaire, and a background questionnaire which …

Pus, Pox, Propaganda And Progress: The Compulsory Smallpox Vaccination Controversy In Utah, 1899-1901, Eric L. Bluth

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This thesis examines the compulsory smallpox vaccination controversy in Utah, 1899-1901. It looks at the two smallpox epidemics during 1899-1901 and follows the boards of health attempts to eradicate smallpox primarily by compelling the vaccination of school children.

Dr. Theodore B. Beatty, secretary of the State Board of Health, championed the effort to vaccinate all Utahns; however, the opposition led by Charles W. Penrose, editor of the Deseret Evening News, produced anti-compulsion and vaccination information which influenced Utahns to generally oppose vaccination. Consequently, the legislature passed an anti-compulsory vaccination statute over the governor's veto to annul the courts decision …

Reuse Of Disposable Syringes By Crnas : Current Practice In Anesthesia, Jeffrey J. Simon

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No abstract provided.

Infant Mortality On The Nineteen Indian Reservations Included In The Northern Plains Healthy Start Program, Linda Lea Neuerburg

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Staffing Sources Of Usaf Medical Center Systems Offices: A Study Of Their Relation To Information Systems Quality, William K. Dorr, Shelley D. Christia

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This study measured the relationship between Medical Systems Office staffing source (i.e., military medical, military communications/computer, civilian government, and contractor personnel) and quality of automated information services provided at CONUS USAF medical centers. A literature search determined that information system quality is best measured on eight dimensions: performance, features, reliability, conformance, durability, serviceability, aesthetics, and perceived quality. The CIO at each medical center was surveyed to determine the level of system conformance to Air Force standards and to gather data on each MSO staff. Users at the medical centers were also surveyed in order to measure performance, features, reliability, serviceability, …

The Relationship Of Mini-Dose Heparin Therapy And Neurological Sequelae With Epidural Anesthesia, Kari L. Joachim

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The Trend Toward Preventative Medicine Through Health And Fitness Programs In The Public And Private Sectors, Christina M. Lehnertz

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Taking Care of the Employees While Cutting Health Care Costs: Can the Private and Public Secotrs Learn from one Another?

In the face of skyrocketing health care costs for employees in both the public and private sector, each must find ways to contain these costs while providing their employees adequate care. The trend has been toward the practice of preventative medicine. Each sector has experimented with and developed different programs for employee health that must operate within the particular constraints of the sector. Public sector examples to be used in the study are public health programs and the old and …

Murine Immune Responses To Herpes Simplex Virus-1 In Relation To Nutrition., Stephen Michael Wright

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This laboratory has observed significantly different survival rates for male balb/c mice maintained on different diets following infection with herpes simplex virus type I (HSV). The two diets, presumably nutritionally complete, are Purina, an undefined laboratory chow, and Teklad, a defined zinc control diet. This investigation examined the effect of these diets on the production of interferon, anti-HSV antibodies and peritoneal macrophage activity. Animals maintained for five weeks on each of the diets remained healthy, and no visible differences were apparent. Food intake and growth rates were equivalent for the diet groups. The concentration of virus in various organs was …

Physician Utilization Behavior In Selected Rural Areas : Analysis Of The Effects Of Predisposing, Enabling And Need-For-Care Factors, Kyle John Muus

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Synthesis And Characterization Of A New Fluorine Substituted Nonionic Dinucleoside Phosphonate Analog, 3',5'-Bis(Deoxythymidine) Difluoromethylphosphonate., Patrick Wai-Kwok Shum

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Phosphate-modified oligodeoxyribonucleotide analogs have been extensively investigated for the sequence hybridization arrest of mRNA translation and as biochemical probes of nucleic acid-protein interaction. The goal of our research was to synthesize a new class of nonionic oligodeoxyribonucleotides which structurally closely resembled natural DNA.Our initial research concentrated on the synthesis of bis(deoxythymidine) difluoromethylphosphonate, a dinucleotide analog of 5$\sp\prime$-deoxythymidyl-3$\sp\prime$-deoxythymidine in which a CF$\sb2$H group replaces a phosphate OH. The difluoromethyl group is isosteric and isopolar to an oxygen atom. We chose to model our approach after a scheme devised for conventional phosphodiester synthesis via the protected hydroxybenzotriazole of phosphonic acid. The difluoromethylphosphonate …

Synthesis Of Modified Nucleotides To Incorporate Into Oligonucleotides., Jeffrey Allan Jenson

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The use of modified analogs of 2$\sp\prime$-deoxyuridine as probes that incorporate into oligonucleotides are discussed. These probes can be useful in many areas including diagnostics, sequencing and therapeutics, and will be discussed later in more detail.The development of DNA probes is important in the diagnostic area because the use of the probes can diminish dramatically the time needed to diagnose an infection (from weeks to hours). Use of DNA probes for sequencing the genomes of hereditary diseases can help find cures. Fighting infectious disease by blocking replication of the virus using DNA probes is a therapeutic use. These are only …

The Synthesis And Reactivity Of 5-(2-Nitroethenyl)-2'-Deoxyuridine, Kathryn Benedict Norrix

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No abstract provided.

Adult Family Member Stressors In The Trauma Intensive Care Unit, Jayne A. Cromer

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No abstract provided.

Immunomodulators In Senescent Mice, Kevin R. Mccormick

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The suppression of the immune response in senescent animals, including humans, is not complete and may be ameliorated by specific interventions. Previous studies have suggested that the replacement of thymus factors lost with age may rejuvenate senescent immune function. Similarly, exogenous growth hormone has been reported to improve senescent immune function in certain mammals. Other studies with the immunomodulator PSK claim to restore tumor-induced immunosuppression even in aged mice. This project investigated the abilities of thymus supernatant, ovine growth hormone, and PSK to rejuvenate different

parameters of the senescent immune response.

In the first series of experiments, erythroid depleted bone …

Induced Resistance To Ixodid Tick Infestation: Analysis And Isolation Of Antigens., Fred William Olsen Jr.

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Ticks are both vectors and reservoirs for significant pathogens of man and livestock. They are currently controlled through use of acaracides, but have rapidly developed resistance to every new acaracide produced to date. Alternative methods of control are needed. One proposed alternative is immunologic control, achieved through vaccinations which induce resistance to tick infestation. This proposal stems from the knowledge that cattle and laboratory animals actively acquire resistance to infestation. Immunization with crude extracts of different ixodid life cycle stages or organs has induced limited levels of resistance compared to acquired resistance. Defined tick antigens are needed to study the …

Home Teaching: Effect On Compliance, Hospital Readmissions And Days Of Rehospitalization For Patients With Chronic Congestive Heart Failure, Betty Sue Holliday Ashby

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This study was conducted to determine the effect of patient teaching in the home setting on compliance to one's home care regimen, number of hospital readmissions, and days of rehospitalization for patients with chronic congestive heart failure. An experimental design was used with subjects randomly assigned either to the experimental or control group. Both groups received traditional education in the hospital setting. In addition, the experimental group received the home health teaching program and the control group received an assessment visit for the purpose of counteracting the Hawthorne effect. Compliance data were collected from both groups by the investigator via …

The Effects Of A Program Of Physical Conditioning On Selected Blood Parameters In Female Athletes, Wanda Raschkow

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No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Oral Contraceptives And Intraepithelial Neoplasia Of The Uterine Cervix, Barbara Jeannette Fox

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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between specific oral contraceptive use and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), and to determine if duration of use and content of oral contraceptives were related to CIN. The hypotheses tested in this study were: (1) norgestrel-containing oral contraceptives are associated with more severe levels of CIN, and (2) longer duration of oral contraceptive use is associated with more severe CIN.

Data was collected from 52 clinical records of clients who attended a colposcopy clinic during a four month period. Clients included in the study were utilizing one of five specific oral …

Phagocytic Response During Iron Deficiency., Kathleen Ann Murphy

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Severe iron depletion has been associated with an increased susceptibility to infectious diseases. The purpose of this study was to assess phagocyte function and resistance to infection with Staphylococcus aureus during not only severe, but also moderate and marginal states of iron depletion.An experimental animal model of iron deficiency was developed in BALB/c mice. The amount of dietary iron supplementation was varied to attain different levels of iron deficiency. Tissue iron stores (liver, spleen, granulocyte), hemoglobins, and hematocrits correlated directly to the level of dietary iron supplementation. Comparison of food consumption and body weights of iron-deficient and sufficient animals indicated …

Health Problems Of Selected Lds Missionaries Throughout The World, Susan Jensen

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The purpose of this study on Mormon missionaries was to determine the effect of health on missionary activity time, age, sex, months in field, laboring city population, monthly mission cost, living conditions, diet, pre-existing conditions, adequacy of medical care, nativity, effectiveness, emotional health, interpersonal relationships, and motivation and enthusiasm. In addition the research attempted to ascertain the effect of the selected independent factors on ill missionary lost time.

As an outcome of the statistical analysis performed on this study's sample the following results were obtained. Respiratory disorders, gastrointestinal difficulties and orthopedic injuries were the most common health problems. Well missionaries …

A Model For Developing Community Defined Health Care, Joan M. Flynn

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No abstract provided.

Protection In Mice Against Herpes Simplex Virus Following Corynebacterium Granulosum Or Corynebacterium Parvum Treatment., David Allen Gabrielson

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No abstract provided.

Life Change Events In Patients With Minor Injuries, Janice Vandenburg Keitz

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This study explored the time relationship of life change events in young adult patients with minor injuries for which medical attention was sought in an emergency department (ED). Life change events are those occurrences in life which require an alteration in a person's adaptive and coping responses to ease the discomfort associated with the change. Too much change without an increase in adaptation responses may cause loss of control. The manifestation of loss of control under evaluation in this study was the occurrence of a minor injury.

Mouse Interferon Levels Induced By Herpes Simplex Virus Type-2 And Poly I:C, Karen Rae Asche-Persky

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No abstract provided.

A Status Study Of The Physical Working Capacity Of Middle Aged Women, Anne M. Fluharty

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No abstract provided.

The Role Of North Dakota Health Council In State Government, Terry Brosseau

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Correlates Of Perceived And Experienced Life Stress, Jerry Allan Boriskin

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Previous researchers employing objective measures of life stress such as the Social Readjustment Rating Scale have demonstrated an association between life change and illness onset. More recently, because of their apparently superior predictive validity, individualized ratings of stressfullness of life events have been employed. The psychological contributors to perception of life events, as well as psychological correlates to the level of experienced stress, are basically unexplored.

The present study investigated the association of perceived stress and experienced stress with the psychological constructs measured by: the Repression-Sensitization Scale, the Adult Nowicki-Strickland Scale, the Hidden Figures Test, and the Mood Adjective Checklist. …

A Study Of The Identification Of Medically Important Streptococci, Margaret Antoinette Hardy

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Summary:

1. The type of animal blood used in preparing blood agar plates did not significantly affect the demonstration of hemolysis by any streptococcal species except for S.faecalis. S.faecalis more consistently displayed an alpha reaction on sheep blood agar while expressing a beta reaction on horse and rabbit blood agars.

2. A recommended scheme for identifying streptococci, adaptable to most any clinical laboratory, was developed and is outlined in Table 13.

3. S.agalactiae (group B) was the most frequent beta hemolytic streptococcal isolant. Significantly, it was the only species over-all to be recovered from every clinical source. The CAMP test …