Probiotics and rifaximin (Xifaxan) have been shown to reduce total number of flatus episodes and associated discomfort. (Strength of Recommendation [SOR]: B, based on small randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). Oral ...

OBJECTIVE: This study explored the acceptability and feasibility of adopting and implementing religious determinants, including prayer and referral to religious leaders, into engagement in HIV care [EIHC] for African ...

a mammogram. Participants in this study (n=12) were recruited from community agencies that provided social services to low-income families. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted, guided by the Integrated Behavioral Model. Data were...

Historical trauma refers to the generationally transferred human consequences of cultural oppression in a population associated with colonization, slavery, and genocide. Historical trauma theory suggests that such trauma ...

Background: As survival rates for infants born with severe forms of cardiac disease improve, attention is directed to evaluating factors that affect the child’s short- and long-term outcomes, including parental stress, quality of life, and family...

Asthma affects more than 300 million people across the globe. The financial burden impacts individuals and their families as well as communities and health care systems. Although asthma education is a fundamental ...

In the United States, approximately four million surgical procedures are performed on children every year. Unfortunately, severe post-surgical pain is common. Children are at risk for the development of chronic ...

Current antimicrobial stewardship guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest staff nurses play a key role in the stewardship process. The American Nurses Association (ANA) supports the CDC guideline and has charged...

to the United States in 1857 as part of a chain of other Busch family members. There Busch utilized ethnic and family connections, such as Eberhard Anheuser, his father-in-law and eventual partner at Anheuser-Busch. Busch made innovations, such as pasteurized...

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to identify factors that impact the health seeking behaviors of young, assigned female at birth (AFAB) sexual minority individuals. This understudied population is less ...

as it has been for countless generations of Americans. In our great country, education is the key to bringing all of us together.For our part, the University of Missouri is dedicated to preparing the next generation of good citizens. As our world becomes...

Department of Health and Senior Services PRAMS survey between 2007-2019. There were 15,938 respondents -- 11,475 urban and 4,463 rural. Stress measures included responses from 13 items on the PRAMS survey related to the experience of stress within the 12...

mental health services, distrust of the mental health profession, or perception that treatment is inadequate. Left untreated, PTSD can cause significant social, emotional, and financial hardships for the Veteran, family, and community. Animal assisted...

-depth individual interviews were conducted with Midwestern BMSM (n=12) who were successfully taking PrEP for over one year. The men were sophisticated, privately insured healthcare consumers and yet, the overarching theme that emerged from the data...

This dissertation examines the potential of local food as an economic development strategy in the United States. Using an interdisciplinary approach it traces the development of the local food movement within the broader ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) receptors are overexpressed on approximately two thirds (62-71%) of primary breast carcinomas and all (100%) of the ...

Pandemics are anthropogenic events, and an anthropological perspective can be advantageous for a comprehensive understanding of the impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Research on the 1918 influenza pandemic has shown ...

Nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners play an important role in ensuring the quality and safety of nursing care and in guiding nurses through practice transitions. In recent years, an increasing number of ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Researchers have gathered irrefutable evidence substantiating that the increase in childhood obesity rates is primarily due to environmental and lifestyle ...

Untreated perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) have short- and long-term consequences for mental, physical, developmental, social, and economic outcomes affecting the mother, infant, family, and community. Online health interventions...