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Assisted living facilities residents' and relatives' preferences for family access to their medical and personal information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
right for every American. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) as well as the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT's Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) project are prime examples...
Responsibility framing and the Obama health care reform bill
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The purpose of this research was to examine early online news coverage of the Obama health care reform bill by both Foxnews.com and MSNBC.com. The study aimed to look at framing techniques and whether or not these publicly-known, politically...
Temporary public eating places : food safety knowledge and practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Food borne illness outbreaks are still a serious health problem in the US, even though the knowledge and training materials needed to prevent the outbreaks are readily available. It is important for those whose activities have an effect...
Communicating medical advances in television health news : the influence of a human interest frame on audiences' cognitive and emotional responses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The dissemination of scientific advances in medicine became popular in television health news over the last few decades. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of news frames in television health news reporting of scientific...
Program assessment : industrial hygiene and safety sciences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Program assessment has long been a critical element for academic programs to ensure continuous quality improvement of their programs. More recently, occupational safety, health and environmental programs have embraced assessment by external groups...
It's elementary my dear Watson
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This creative research explores connections between the fields of scientific research, weapons proliferation and ceramic art making. My work consists of a twisted world of these themes seen and told through childhood imagery and subjects...
Impaired spatial learning and increased locomotor activity in TgCRND8 mice as a model of Alzheimer's disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study provides a behavioral characterization of the TgCRND8 mouse strain, an APP (double-mutant) transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). While past research focused mainly on 2-5 month-old TgCRND8 mice, this study used an older age cohort...
Perspectives of informal caregivers on using in-home technology to monitor activities of person with serious mental illness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
caregivers in social work research aimed at determining the extent to which the use of IMS results in positive mental health outcomes for persons with serious mental illness....
Investigation of the relative amplitude method in detecting early illness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
as to compensate for lack of data for that duration. Using results from earlier work as a source of ground truth for separating normal days from abnormal days, various classification methods were investigated to separate the daily relative amplitude values...
Validity of the hangover symptoms scale : evidence from two diary studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
produced mixed results. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for the practical use of HSS scores in hangover research, the interpretation of HSS correlates, and the need to develop additional measures of individual differences in hangover...
Visitor experiences at Eagle Days in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Missouri since the winter of 1978-1979, only one formal study has been conducted on these events and it was after the first year. The purpose of this research is to evaluate visitors' perceptions of Eagle Days events in Missouri using the experience economy...
Professional practice models in long-term care
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
suggest a positive association between presence of select principles of the Everyday Excellence for Professional Nursing Practice in Long-Term Care Framework and improvement in select Quality Measure scores. Additional research is needed to support...
Interest group activity and the political process : examining the origins of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The goal of this research was to identify whose interests were served in the creation of the Drug Price Competition and Term Patent Restoration Act of 1984, a health...
Immunomodulatory effects of opioids
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
subcutaneously every eight hours for 4 days. Specific immune parameters were evaluated after the rats were euthanized on day 5. Evaluation of the data obtained revealed that rats treated with morphine had a better survival rate, contrary to the hypothesis...
Proactive environmental risk communication : multiple publics' evaluation of for-profit corporations' sustainability communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research expands understanding of corporate environmental communication beyond green advertising and environment responsibility reports of CSR into the more developed...
Developing a model of psychiatric visit non-adherence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
of technology driven improvements to health care quality. Psychiatric visit non-attendance is often perceived as an intractable problem, because of the direction taken in previous studies of the problem. Previous research into the issue of visit non...
Where is the L in STEM?: one teacher's integration experiences with literacy, science, and engineering
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain a better understanding of how literacy is integrated within the context of STEM education (more specifically science and engineering) in a primary classroom through integration. Such a study...
Social proximity and user-generated health content : an experimental test of perceived source similarity and construal level theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
. distal source cues) online between-subjects experiment (n = 305), this study explores how source cues indicating expertise and social proximity affect assessment of interpersonal similarity and user-generated health messages. Assessment of interpersonal...
The development and psychometric testing of the shared decision-making instrument
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-18)
, or anal cancer. Healthy People 2020 established a goal that 80% of 13 to 15 year old females complete the HPV vaccine series. Previous research has focused on the medical provider and parents influence on HPV vaccine receipt and have excluded the school...
The use of cognitive enhancing substances and academic stress
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study investigated relationships between reported academic stress, caffeine consumption, and illicit prescription stimulant use, as a means of ...