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Assessing Nurses' Knowledge About Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cynthia Queisser

DNP and Student Works

Background: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) consist of a group of neurodevelopmental disorders with lifelong effects. Autism is rising at an alarming rate for unclear reasons. Increasing ASD rates create major concern for nurses in a variety of clinical surroundings and they need to be adequately prepared to interact with and provide care for these special individuals.

Method: The methodology included the use of a nonexperimental, quantitative research design using two different knowledge assessment tools, the Survey of Knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorders among Professionals along with the Knowledge about Childhood Autism Among Health Workers (KCAHW), the implementation of an evidence-based …

The Future Of Global Health Education: Training For Equity In Global Health, Lisa V. Adams, Claire M. Wagner, Cameron T. Nutt, Agnes Binagwaho

Dartmouth Scholarship

Background:

Among academic institutions in the United States, interest in global health has grown substantially: by the number of students seeking global health opportunities at all stages of training, and by the increase in institutional partnerships and newly established centers, institutes, and initiatives to house global health programs at undergraduate, public health and medical schools. Witnessing this remarkable growth should compel health educators to question whether the training and guidance that we provide to students today is appropriate, and whether it will be applicable in the next decade and beyond. Given that “global health” did not exist as an academic …

The Role Of School Climate In Mitigating The Effects Of Neighborhood Socio-Economic Status And Violence On Academic Achievement, Linda D. Ruiz

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

In recent years the quality of education available to children has become increasingly dependent on the social and economic demographics of neighborhoods in which the children live. This study assesses the role of community violence in explaining the relation between SES and academic outcomes and the potential of positive school climate to promote academic achievement. With a sample of 297 Chicago public elementary schools, we test the hypotheses that violent crime mediates the relation between SES and academic achievement, and school climate has a direct effect on achievement and moderates the relation between SES and academic achievement. Results support the …

A Reexamination Of The Cognitive Behavioral Model Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Investigating The Cogency Of The Model’S Behavioral Pathway, Madison Sunnquist

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Cognitive behavioral theories of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) assert that cognitions and behaviors perpetuate the fatigue and impairment that individuals with CFS experience (Wessely, Butler, Chalder, & David, 1991). Vercoulen and colleagues (1998) utilized structural equation modeling to empirically develop a cognitive behavioral model of CFS. The resulting model indicated that attributing symptoms to a physical cause, focusing on symptoms, and feeling less control over symptoms were associated with increased fatigue. Additionally, individuals who attributed symptoms to a physical cause reported lower activity levels and more fatigue and impairment. However, in an attempt to replicate this model, Song and Jason …

Moderating Effects Of Ethnic Identity On The Relationship Between Environmental Stressors On School Suspensions Of Urban Latino/A Youth, Carlos Luna

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Latinos are the largest growing and overall youngest population in the US, in comparison to other ethnic groups. Nearly 40% of Hispanic youth were found to be living in poverty, the largest group of any minority. As of 2014, 20% of Hispanics had less than a high school education and fourteen percent had an educational attainment between ninth and tenth grades; indicating that they had begun a high school education but were unable to finish. Racial and ethnic disparities have also been found to exist within the justice system; Hispanics accounted for twenty-two percent of the prison population while only …

Young Survivors Of Disaster: A Meta-Analytic Review Of Mental Health Interventions For Children And Their Families, Theressa L. Labarrie

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Disasters, both natural and human-made, are on the rise. While disasters affect everyone, the most vulnerable populations are often hardest hit. Our nation’s youth are among the most vulnerable, suffering the most severe psychological repercussions. This is a population in need of empirically supported post-disaster mental health interventions. However, the research on mental health treatments for post-disaster trauma treatment among youth is still in its developmental stages. There is no known synthesis of treatment interventions for youth and their families, even though there is clear evidence that this population is among the most vulnerable to the effects of disaster exposure. …

Affective And Deliberative Processes In Decision Making: Option Framed Scenarios, Charles E. Drehmer

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

As the internet becomes more widely used as a marketplace, consumers are increasingly faced with scenarios where they have to customize products by adding features to a base model or delete features from a fully loaded model, a phenomenon known as option framing. People can now customize their vacations, pizzas, personal computers, shoes and cars with the click of a mouse. Recent research has shown consumers will end up with more features and spend more money when they have to remove features from a fully loaded model versus adding features to a base model (Biswas, 2009; Park & Kim, 2012). …

“We Just Pretended As If Everything Was Good”: Communication About Alcohol In Families Of Nonalcoholic And Alcoholic Parents, Marie Haverfield

Faculty Publications

Family communication is a strong predictor of the attitudes and behaviors children and adolescents have toward alcohol. This study explored perspectives of family communication about the topic of alcohol in focus groups consisting of adult children of alcoholics and adult children of nonalcoholics. The study utilized Koerner and Fitzpatrick’s (2002) family communication patterns theory and Gottman’s (2001) emotion regulation theory to guide research and focus group questions. A group of trained coders conducted an analysis of transcripts from four focus groups—two were comprised of self-proclaimed adult children of alcoholics and two consisted solely of adult children of nonalcoholic parents. Based …

Subjective Well-Being Of Children Of Migrant Families In Schooling Alternatives Of Urban China, Steven D. Silver, Yan Gao

Faculty Publications

Organizational labor forces in countries that include China, the OECD and U.S. continue to be increasingly composed of workers who migrate across country regions or from other countries. Since their children will enter the next generation of labor forces, it is increasingly relevant to assess the educational experience of these children. Background studies of both children and adults indicate the importance of assessing subjective well-being (SW-B) to overall health and human capital. This study reports results of an initial assessment of SW-B in children of migrantfamily in an urban center of China across school type, grade and gender differences.

This Thanksgiving, Let’S Show Gratitude For Disease Researchers And Drug Hunters, Kenneth P. Serbin

At Risk for Huntington's Disease

No abstract provided.

George W. Thompson Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

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Vocal Flexibility In Early Human Communication, Y Jhang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The dissertation contains two papers on the theme of flexibility in infant communication using an infrastructural approach. An infrastructural approach considers infant communication in terms of properties of human language (i.e., spontaneous vocalization, functional flexibility, social interactivity, and etc.). Infants' vocal flexibility is explored in two ways in the dissertation: 1) How infants use sounds with varying emotional valences, a primary determiner of their communicative functions, and when this infrastrucutral property emerges (the first paper, in Chapter 2), and 2) what role the voice plays independently and jointly with the face in the transmission of affect and vocal type (the …

The Persistence And Retention Of Students Participating In A Student Success Program, Karen Westerman Kitchens

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine and explore the institutional policy levers that facilitate successful educational outcomes in a TRiO funded Student Success Program at a large, urban research university in the Mid-South. Three research questions guided the study: (1) how do the educational outcomes of the university's TRiO SSP participants differ compared to the university's low income, first generation students, (2) how are the university's SSP institutional policy levers structured to improve the educational outcomes of program participants, and (3) how do the university's SSP participants experience the effectiveness of the program's institutional policy levers …

Role Of Nutrition And Physical Therapy In Maintaining Fat Free Mass And Muscle Strength During Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Courtney Melissa Nordhus

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a pediatric cancer treatment, but malnutrition and fat free mass (FFM) loss during the process induce negative outcomes. Tracking changes in body composition, physical activity, and handgrip strength (HGS) may determine the effectiveness of current nutrition and physical therapy in maintaining FFM. This prospective quality improvement study of 9 participants receiving first-time HSCT considered bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and HGS data at intake and discharge with nutrition, physical activity, medication administration, and incidence of graft versus host disease (GVHD) throughout admission.An overall loss of weight, FFM, and right and left HGS (p=0.009; p=0.020) and …

Meet The Interns

Jefferson Surgical Solutions

The Department has welcomed a dynamic group of categorical interns including one graduate of Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. The interns were selected from over 1200 applicants to our program. These doctors, who recently matched with Jefferson, started on June 20, 2016. Please welcome:

Peter Altshuler, MD Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Kashmira Chawla, MD Mayo Medical School

Thomas O’Malley, MD Tulane University School of Medicine

Arturo Rios Diaz, MD Universidad Central de Venezuela

Steven Woodward, MD University of Maryland School of Medicine

Alicja Zalewski, MD Rutgers University – New Jersey Medical School

We are also pleased to …

Smoking Cessation, Counseling & Therapy Program Helps Patients Kick The Habit

Jefferson Surgical Solutions

The Department of Surgery’s Smoking Cessation, Counseling & Therapy (SCCT) Program offers evidencebased strategies for quitting smoking, including one-on-one counseling, nicotine replacement therapy and prescription medication, such as Chantix and Wellbutrin, to reduce cravings and lessen withdrawal symptoms. Although the program started as a resource for patients preparing for cardiac or thoracic surgery, it is now available to many more patients—and nurse practitioners Chuck Rowland, MSN, CRNP, CTTS, and Sung Whang, MSN, CRNP, CTTS, are eager to spread the word.

Chuck and Sung are both Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialists (CTTS). They each completed an intensive 40-hour course offered by the …

Departmental Retreat: The Big Four And Integration, Charles J. Yeo, Md, Facs

Jefferson Surgical Solutions

Fall is here, excitement is in the air, and we in the Department of Surgery have begun the journey towards clinical integration with our partners at Abington and Aria.

On Saturday, September 24, 2016, nearly 100 attendees joined us in the Hamilton Building for our second Department of Surgery retreat in the last 18 months. This retreat differed from our first as we focused on two topics: The Big Four and Jefferson Health System Integration.

The morning commenced with a reminder of our vision and mission statements, a review of the fiscal exigencies which prompted a need for change, and …

Arts And Humanities: Reauthorization (1976): Report 01

Arts and Humanities: Reauthorization (1976)

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Arts And Humanities: Reauthorization (1975): Report 03

Arts and Humanities: Reauthorization (1975)

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Arts And Humanities: Reauthorization (1973-1976): Report 03

Arts and Humanities: Reauthorization (1973-1976)

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Arts And Humanities: Program Funding (1976): Report 08

Arts and Humanities: Program Funding (1976)

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Arts And Humanities: Program Funding (1976): Report 10

Arts and Humanities: Program Funding (1976)

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Arts And Humanities: Pell Amendments (1975): Report 14

Arts and Humanities: Pell Amendments (1975)

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Sleepwalking Used As A Defense In Criminal Cases And The Evolution Of The Ambien Defense, Beth E. Teacher

Duquesne Criminal Law Journal

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Courts Must Give Adequate Consideration To Statutory Sentencing Factors: United States V. Olhovsky, Danielle Diethorn

Duquesne Criminal Law Journal

Recent Decisions

Criminal Defendants In Pennsylvania, While Constitutionally Entitled To The Right To Counsel, May Forfeit That Right If They Undertake Extreme Dilatory Conduct: Commonwealth V. Lucarelli, Amanda Kraft

Duquesne Criminal Law Journal

Recent Decisions

An All Inclusive Practical Approach To Pbis, Sandra Long, Ben Steele, Nicole Hudson

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Schools are faced with daily opportunities to create a schoolwide culture where students want to learn and teachers are able to teach. PBIS allows flexibility to create a program that best meets the needs of each individual school. Futral Road has excelled in creating a culture of recognizing positive growth, while consistently raising the bar for excellence in academics and behavior. Futral’s program focuses on proactive strategies that meet the needs of students, parents, and teachers. This presentation will help the participants to create an all inclusive sustainable program that will create real change. This presentation will also highlight the …

Arts And Humanities: Funding Levels (1976): Report 04

Arts and Humanities: Funding Levels (1976)

No abstract provided.

Defendant Must Prove That Mental Retardation Existed Before The Age Of Eighteen In Order To Be Protected From The Death Penalty: Commonwealth V. Vandivner, A, William Grant

Duquesne Criminal Law Journal

Recent Decisions

Commonwealth May Involuntarily Administer Antipsychotic Medication To Inmates To Render Them Competent To Participate In Post Conviction Relief Act Proceedings: Commonwealth V. Sam, Joseph M. Stichler

Duquesne Criminal Law Journal

Recent Decisions