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Fracture pain relief for kids? Ibuprofen does it better
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2010)
Use ibuprofen instead of acetaminophen with codeine for pediatric arm fractures. It controls the pain at least as well and is better tolerated. Stength of recommendation: A: Based on 1 longer-term and 2 short-term randomized ...
Unveiling the influence of family of origin environment and relationship education programming on single adults' relational attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Guided by the Development of Early Adult Romantic Relationships (DEARR) model (Bryant & Conger, 2002), the current study examined how single adults' relational attitudes are shaped by both family of origin environment and relationship education...
Generational status, social capital and family engagement in immigrant families
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study highlighted the importance of social capital in understanding the disparity in family engagement across immigrant generations. Using the national representative data, the ELS:2002, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural...
Beyond money : relating local school taxation to family and community risk
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
-driven formulas to student needs, local revenue requirements remain. However, no study has examined the potential links between a family, community and economic risk factors that affect a student's educational opportunity and local taxation choices. This study...
Understanding family violence assessment practices of pediatric emergency department nurses and physicians
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-12-16)
analyses were performed to evaluate two additional yes/no questions related to participants personal experience with family violence. The predictor variables of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control made a significant contribution...
Growing pains : pubertal status, gender, and skin tone as influences on Latinx parent-child relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Puberty is a time of new changes for adolescents, both physical and social. Puberty signals changes in relationships such as the parent-child relationship, especially in Latinx families. Using a sample of 219 Latinx...
A therapist survey of evidence-based practices in publicly funded youth mental health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
orientation, private practice setting, younger client age, and longer time since degree completion predicted more frequent implementation of EBT strategies. We discuss how such features may be targeted in future training and implementation efforts in order...
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...
Socioeconomic Status, Acculturation, Family Characteristics, and Health Behaviors: Testing the Reserve Capacity Model with Hispanic Adolescents
(2014-09-30)
Research shows that socioeconomic status (SES) can impact adolescent use of alcohol and
smoking. These relationships may be mediated by stress, psychosocial reserves, and
negative emotions. I explored these relationships ...
Latinx Women’s Disordered Eating: Considering Culturally Relevant Variables in the Objectification Theory Framework
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Using an objectification theory lens, the purpose of this study was to better understand
religious/spiritual coping and acculturative stress as moderators in the relationship among sexual
objectification, internalization ...
Three studies on psychological distress, health-risk behaviors, and health care access among Chinese, Filipino, and Asian Indian American Subgroups
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing ethnic minority population in the United States. Among this group, Chinese-, Filipino-, and Asian Indian Americans are the most three largest Asian American subgroups. Yet, health-related ...
Reasons Why Low-Income Women in Northwest Missouri Do Not Access No-Cost Mammography Services
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2010)
. These women had conflicting attitudes about the advantages and disadvantages of mammography. Their perceptions about mammography were greatly influenced by family and friends. The overarching barrier to no-cost mammography for each of the participants...
Alternative tillage and nitrogen management options to increase crop production and reduce nitrous oxide emissions from claypan soils
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
than most agricultural soils partly due to poor drainage which may increase the potential for gaseous nitrogen loss of applied fertilizers, including nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural practices in the United States account for 78...
Insights for rural health care provider retention : a quantitative survey analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
. In this thesis, I examine the role of provider background and familial characteristics, workplace characteristics, and community characteristics that may impact a provider's likelihood to consider leaving a rural community. I use data from a survey of over 900...
Cultural values reflected within Chinese children's stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
A total of 145 Chinese children's stories published from the 1980s to the present were examined to explore the changes in Chinese culture as a result of modernization and globalization in Chinese society. The selected ...
Retention of new graduates to their first professional role: perceptions of those that have stayed
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
There is an inability to retain new graduate nurses in their initial positions.
Patricia Benner (1984) developed the From Novice to Expert Theory of nurse
development outlining the nurses’ transition through the developmental ...
Walking over 'em : associations between emotion dysregulation, masculine norms, intimate partner abuse and interpersonal functioning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study was to explore relations between emotion dysregulation, masculine norms, abuse perpetration and interpersonal functioning ...
Marital conflict and spousal wellbeing : the moderating role of emotion regulation strategies among couples in first married families and stepfamilies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This study examined cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression as moderators of the association between marital conflict, marital satisfaction, and mental health among couples in first-marriages and remarriages. ...
Influence of a faculty development workshop on clinical evaluation practices in a nurse anesthesia program
(2016-05)
Faculty development has a number of benefits in academiaacademia. Specifically, in nurse anesthesia
education, doctoral programs are required to provide faculty development for their clinical
instructors. In order to ...