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2017

City University of New York (CUNY)

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A Quasi-Experimental Study Of A Health Patterning Modality About Childhood Vaginitis And Power In Haitian Primary Caregivers, Anne Marie Berthe Leveille-Tulce Feb 2017

A Quasi-Experimental Study Of A Health Patterning Modality About Childhood Vaginitis And Power In Haitian Primary Caregivers, Anne Marie Berthe Leveille-Tulce

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The purpose of the study was to appraise the power as knowing participation in change of primary caregivers of Haitian children aged 6 to 13 years old before and after participation in an education and resource health patterning modality related to risk factors and prevention of childhood vaginitis. The study was framed within the realm of Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings and the conceptual framework of Barrett’s Power as Knowing Participation in Change. A pretest-posttest quasi- experimental study was conducted. Descriptive statistics were used to answer the first research question “What are the power profiles of Haitian caregivers before …