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Ureteral calculi: What should you consider before intervening?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2011)
The size of the calculi, their location, and complicating factors such as infection should all be considered. Most ureteral calculi smaller than 5 mm pass spontaneously, as do approximately half of calculi between 5 and ...
Exploring Family Resilience and Connectedness During a Pandemic in Families Raising a Child with a Neurodevelopmental Disorder
(2023)
Families have been significantly affected by coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and those raising a child with a Neurodevelopmental Disorder (NDD) may be particularly vulnerable to negative consequences from the health catastrophe. Family resilience...
Youth agripreneurship development in Benin : lessons for scaling up from Songhai Center agripreneurs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
as well as its resilience, and how it contributes to strengthening the livelihoods of small producers. Survey data collected via face-to-face interviews from January to April 2023 was used in this study to characterize youths after their graduation from...
Factors Affecting Italian Consumer Attitudes Toward Functional Foods
(AgBioForum, 2011)
Healthier food products have entered the global markets with force in the past few years and have rapidly gained market shares. The food industry has reacted to this trend by developing a growing variety of new products ...
Chinese urban households' security market participation : does investment knowledge and having a long-term plan help?
(2015)
Investment in the securities markets is vital to households' wealth accumulation and financial security. Using data from the 2008 Survey of Chinese Consumer Finance and Investor Education, we found that self-assessed ...
Toxic Stress Education for Pediatric Practitioners to Improve Health Outcomes
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Toxic stress associated with adverse childhood experiences during childhood can have
catastrophic lifelong neurobiological, social, and emotional effects and has been shown to
decrease life expectancy up to 20 years. ...
Reaching digital native music majors : pedagogy for undergraduate group piano in the 21st century
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
development and (c) individual differences are importantv considerations when assisting students with adaptation processes and technology selection in group piano. These findings may transfer to other core music classes, student experiences, and practice...
Factors that Lead to Principal Retention: An Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry
(2023)
with the hopes of illuminating what motivates them to remain in the principalship
and how supported they feel in their leadership roles. Participants captured photographs
representing their lived experiences and engage in journaling and interviews to develop rich...
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...
Practice-based evidence research design for lymphedema management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
-group construct validity of functional status (FS) scores on patients with LE at Maccabi; and (3) describe characteristics of the patients with lymphedema treated at Maccabi between the years of 2010-2017. We used a Practice-based Evidence (PBE) research design...
Differentiation of Self Inventory - short form: creation and Initial evidence of construct validity
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-07-18)
This study sought to retain the structure and reliability of the four subscales of the
Differentiation of Self Inventory - Revised yet make the instrument more efficient by
reducing the total number of items within each ...
Observation of food safety behavioral practices in foodservice employees after training and examination
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
in improved food safety behavior. However, knowledge gained from food safety training programs does not always transfer into behaviors. There is gap between knowledge and practice of food safety where the issue lies in the transference of food safety training...
Black families as embodied policy : politics of dignity transforming colonized policy procedures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
process that requires a complete reconceptualization in the following: educational power as horizontal, theory and research as practice, and policy development as inclusive of families as policy entrepreneurs....
Confucian values and economic performance: exploring their effects on citizens satisfaction with democracy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The political climate in East Asia is of emerging importance in the world. Democracy in this region has had mixed levels of success in the past decades leading to a significant debate on how democracy and cultural values ...
The cost of a GMO-free market basket of food in the United States
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2016)
to the cost of a typical market basket of food consumed by American households, GMO-free food consumption would increase the average family food budget from $9,462 to $12,181 per year....
The Congestive Heart Failure Nurse Development Project
(2017)
One of the leading diagnoses for hospital 30-day readmissions is congestive heart failure.
Closing gaps in nurses’ knowledge and comfort level in congestive heart failure management
principles can potentially contribute ...
Perspectives of informal caregivers on using in-home technology to monitor activities of person with serious mental illness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
As a result of the U.S deinstitutionalization policy of the 1960's persons with serious mental illness often live with and rely upon family members and friends to serve as informal caregivers. The purpose of this study was to investigate...
Faculty burnout and its relationship to social and institutional support
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The purpose of this sequential explanatory study was to determine if there was a relationship between faculty burnout, social support, institutional support, or salary, as well as establish if any college at a regional ...
Effects of an Online Meditation-Based Intervention Compared to an Attention-Controlled Group on Chronic Pain Outcome among Nurses: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study
(2022)
research into micro-practices as a possible effective strategy for managing chronic pain and stress among nurses....
Strain, satisfaction, and hospitalization in caregiver/veteran with heart failure dyads: a secondary analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
of the Veteran needing assistance with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living. The overall multiple regression model for CG satisfaction was significant, F(4,128) = 9.70, p [less than] .001, R2 = .233, with 23.3 percent...