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Factors Associated With Parental Decision Making And Childhood Vaccination, Zuwen Qiu-Shultz Dec 2013

Factors Associated With Parental Decision Making And Childhood Vaccination, Zuwen Qiu-Shultz

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In order to better understand factors affecting immunization status, logistic regression was used to assess the association of various socio-demographic factors and whether parents would have their child immunized if not a state mandate. Factors included in the study were race, household income, number of children in the household, number of adults in the household, if the child had a primary provider, if the child had a health check-up in the last twelve months, and medical insurance status of the child. The combined Nevada Kindergarten Health Survey Result of 2009-2010 (Year Two) and 2010-2011 (Year Three) conducted by the Nevada …


Self-Management And Self-Management Support On Chronic Low Back Patients In Primary Care, Jennifer Kawi Apr 2013

Self-Management And Self-Management Support On Chronic Low Back Patients In Primary Care, Jennifer Kawi

Interdisciplinary Research Scholarship Day

  • Chronic low back pain (CLBP) afflicts 28.5% of adults costing $100-200 billion dollars.
  • In response, the Institute of Medicine (2011) strongly recommended self-management (SM) to engage patients to care for themselves adequately.
  • Healthcare professionals are also urged to provide effective self-management support (SMS) to empower patient’s ability to self-manage.
  • SM and SMS have shown success in improving other chronic disease outcomes; current knowledge base are insufficient in non-malignant CLBP