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Access To Health Insurance And Health-Seeking Behavior In A Nigerian Suburban Community, Charles Olalekan Mensah
Access To Health Insurance And Health-Seeking Behavior In A Nigerian Suburban Community, Charles Olalekan Mensah
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The purpose of this study was to understand the effects of access to health insurance on the healthcare-seeking behavior of the population in four suburban communities in Rivers State, Nigeria. The conceptual framework of the study is based on Anderson's behavioral model of health services use. The study looked at how access to health insurance affects the healthcare seeking behavior and the preventive care seeking behavior of the study population. Two-hundred and seventy participants were surveyed using the Health Care Access and Utilization Survey (HCAUS) questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) and bivariate logistic regression. Respondents …
The Role Of Self-Mutilation Behaviors Among Adolescents Who Are Depressed, Patricia Wilkins
The Role Of Self-Mutilation Behaviors Among Adolescents Who Are Depressed, Patricia Wilkins
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Adolescents who are depressed may self-injure themselves. Common methods for non-suicidal self-injury are cutting and burning the skin of one’s own body. Multiple confounding factors of age, gender, race and socio-economic status could lead one to engage in intentional or unintentional self-mutilation acts. The current body of literature on adolescent mental health demonstrates limited understanding of how racial and ethnic identity factors contributes to depression, self-injurious behavior, and suicide. This quantitative study determined if there was a relationship between depression and prevalence of adolescent self-mutilation. The social ecological theory was used to study the intersection of social determinants of depression …
Positive Behavior Support-Based In-Home Services For Traumatic Brain Injury, Charles Jack
Positive Behavior Support-Based In-Home Services For Traumatic Brain Injury, Charles Jack
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of positive behavior support (PBS) services in the in-home (IH) setting but few studies examined its use with traumatic brain injury (TBI) clients, and most of these were small sample cases. Additional research on IH PBS services for TBI clients was recommended, in particular using larger samples. The purpose of this study was to address that need by examining the effectiveness of IH PBS services in treating TBI-related challenging behaviors on a larger sample. The theoretical foundations for PBS, behaviorism, cognitive constructivism, social learning theory, and the biopsychosocial model of behavior, are described. The research …