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When (and how) should you evaluate a child for obstructive sleep apnea?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
Well-child visits are the appropriate time to screen all children for a history of snoring and apnea (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, based on expert opinion). Children should be further evaluated for obstructive sleep ...
Do antibiotics shorten symptoms in patients with purulent nasal discharge?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2012)
For most patients with purulent nasal discharge, antibiotics don't decrease symptom duration; they do increase adverse events (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, 3 meta-analyses and 2 randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). ...
Improving tall fescue shade tolerance : identifying candidate genotypes
(2009)
to select genotypes for dry mass yield during April to September. Experiment (Exp) 1 included 30 genotypes of each of the eight families randomly assigned to each of two microenvironments: artificially shaded with fabric and unshaded. Maximum and minimum...
Do OTC remedies relieve cough in acute URIs?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2009)
Dextromethorphan (DM) for adults and honey for children provide some relief. DM may modestly decrease cough in adults compared with placebo (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, systematic review of inconsistent or limited ...
Promoting parent-child secure attachment bonds in adoptive families through community-based family music groups: a heuristic grounded theory study
(2013)
adoptive family included at least one parent and at least one adopted child under three and one-half years old: siblings also participated. Data sources included three parental interviews, eight-weeks of parental journaling, and an eight-week Kindermusik...
The role of teamwork in public child welfare caseworkers' intentions to leave
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
in 2005. Findings indicate that the workers' positive perception of teamwork decreases their stated intentions to leave whereas the workers' burnout increases their stated intentions to leave. Based on the findings, implications for social work practice...
Evidence-Based Practice Asthma Education in Primary Care
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
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 ...
Navigating cultural crossroads : a family-centered approach of studying acculturative stress and career identity among Filipino and Korean American youth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
stressors. Using a large-scale survey dataset from the Midwest Longitudinal Study of Asian American Families (MLSAAF) project, I conducted latent profile analyses to determine whether there were distinct parent-youth acculturative profiles among Filipino...
Older childless adults' inter-vivos transfers of emotional, instrumental, and financial support and predictors of giving to kin and non-kin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Inter-vivos transfers, or support given to others during a person's lifetime, are vital to the economy, public resource preservation, and social policies. The increasing prevalence of childlessness among older adults and ...
Investigating dyadic interactions within the family as an interdependent system : associations between mothers and adolescent siblings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Adolescence is a developmental time period of self-exploration and self-discovery for that brings about change to family processes and interactions. Conflict during this time can be interpreted as a mechanism that reconceptionalizes how the family...
Economic considerations of the effects of sire and length of feeding on beef steers and carcasses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1969)
The influence of media on implicit weight bias
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-04-16)
The purpose of this dissertation is to determine if exposure to media that exhibits weight bias increases implicit anti-fat attitudes using an objective assessment of emotional response to obesity cues. Participants completed ...
Improving Adolescent Asthma Management Using a Smart Phone Application
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020)
Asthma is a common condition in adolescence and finding a way to optimize asthma care
management is a priority in primary care. The purpose of this project was to introduce an
electronic asthma action plan using a ...
Analysis of the information needs of primary care physicians in an electronic health record (EHR)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
. An interdisciplinary team conceptualized nine interview questions over weekly group sessions and fictitious but typical acute and chronic physician's documentation (progress notes) was created by two family medicine physicians (JLB and RJK). An analysis of hour long...
A descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational exploration of perceived stress, quality of life, and family functioning in parents of a child with congenital heart disease: The PinCHeD Study
(2020)
.02); social functioning (r(58) = -0.254, p = 0.05); worry (r(58) = -0.281, p = 0.03); daily activities (r(58) = -0.314, p = 0.01); parent HRQL summary score (r(58) = -0.260, p = 0.04); family functioning summary score (r(58) = -0.260, p = 0.05); and total...
Short-term weekly effects of ethnic-racial discrimination on academic outcomes : ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic-racial identity as moderators
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
the challenges associated with growing up as an ethnic-racial minority in society, many African American and Latinx young adults are often equipped with important culturally responsive familial and individual resources that may function as protector factors...
Three essays on labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
at the added worker effect in the great recession, the wife's labor market response to a husband loss of job. The second chapter investigates the impact of a wife's labor market participation on family poverty. The third chapter examines employment...
Motivational differences between self-reported user groups of the MKT Nature and Fitness Trail
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of this study was to determine if there are any significant differences between the walkers, runners, and cyclists using the MKT Nature and Fitness Trail in Columbia, Missouri. This study helps describe the ...
The Relationship Between In-Service Teachers’ Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-efficacy and Outcome Expectancy Beliefs, Instructional Practices (CLASS), and Student Outcomes in the Urban School Setting
(2015-06-19)
Culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and outcome expectancy beliefs have emerged as constructs to investigate pre-service teacher preparedness for teaching children who represent culturally, ethnically, economically, ...
A Dyadic Analysis of Racial-Ethnic Socialization Among Black-White Interracial Parents
(2020)
on monoracial families of color and cannot necessarily be generalized to multiracial families, where individual family members vary in racial-ethnic background. In order to extend this area of research to the experiences of multiracial families, the dyadic...