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Primary care provider prep prescribing practices : southern United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The Southern United States (U.S.) accounts for more than half of new HIV cases annually and African Americans make up the majority of new HIV diagnoses in this region. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective biomedical HIV prevention...
Mizzou weekly, volume 26, number 29 (June 9, 2005)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2005)
Case of the month : delayed presentation of primary spontaneous pneumothorax
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2011-07)
"That's what happens when you sleep around" : women's intergenerational family stories about sexual health, HPV, and cervical cancer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
interventions and guide family conversations around cervical cancer prevention and treatment. Future research can build upon this study by examining these story types in other family and gender roles (e.g., father-son stories), cancer types (e.g., prostate...
NGOMSL simulation model in an emergency department
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
significantly influence the quality of patient care. This study advances our understanding of time and workload related to the clinical processes in an ED. To understand the current ED workflow and observe physicians and nurses' behavior, we visited the ED...
Hospitalist update : why does team-based care matter to hospitalists?
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2011-07)
Cultural framing of diabetes from a public health perspective: a comparative content analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This content analysis of 161 newspaper articles identified public health facts and socio-cultural schema within two Los Angeles County newspapers, La Opinión and the Daily News of Los Angeles. It extended Rodgers and ...
Mizzou, volume 094, number 2 (2006 Winter)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2006)
Examining contraceptive use and perceived side effects among teen girls in rural Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In Missouri, there are 114 counties with 101 rural counties; 41 of these rural counties have teen pregnancy rates that vary from 42.4 to 90.1 per 1,000 (national rate is 43 per 1,000; Kost et al., 2017; TPPP, 2013). ...
Smart, sultry and surly : a textual analysis of the portrayal of women scientists in film, 1962 - 2005
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study was to evaluate the portrayal of women scientists on film and what kinds of messages these films are sending about a woman's ...
"The art of printing shall endure": journalism, community, and identity in New York City, 1800-1810
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis reconstructs the community of printers, booksellers, and bookbinders that existed in New York City in the first decade of the nineteenth-century. A close analysis of city directories published between 1800 and ...
College adjustment of Black/African American student-athletes at predominately-white institutions and historically black colleges and universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
A dearth of research studies has examined the psychosocial experiences of African American college student-athletes. By comparison, numerous studies have examined the adjustment process of African American students at predominately White...
Systematic review and meta-analysis of primary care-based physical activity interventions among older adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Background. Most healthcare providers agree that increasing physical activity (PA) in older adults is beneficial but providing effective interventions can be difficult. The purpose of this research is to determine the ...
Missouri's hidden Civil War : financial conspiracy and the decline of the planter elite, 1861-1865
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
intensified the state's notorious guerrilla insurgency, the worst such conflict ever fought on American soil. The financial history of the Civil War in the West has been hitherto largely unresearched, and this dissertation explains certain social and economic...
The Germans in Missouri, 1900-1918 : prohibition, neutrality, and assimilation
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Throughout its existence the National German-American Alliance was not only an important cultural institution in the German-American community but also one of the principal organized opponents, ethnic or otherwise, to those organizations...
The experience of living with hypertension: a narrative analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
literacy and social support from the healthcare system, family, and church among African American people living with hypertension....
Privacy and senior adoption of assistive technology in residential care
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
to health care providers such as nurses or physicians. Little evaluation research exists on user acceptance and effectiveness of assistive technologies in RC facilities (Demiris et al., 2004). Older adults' perceptions of privacy can inhibit their adoption...
Penetration of innovation : taming the unexplored interactions between information, knowledge and persuasion in the innovation-decision model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Building upon Everett Roger's theory of Diffusion of Innovations, foraging into knowledge acquisition theories, and leaning heavily onto the new communication perspectives opened by New Media, the present study aims to ...
Bioethicists in the news : the evolving role of bioethicists as expert sources in science and medical stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
and 2006. A quantitative content analysis of 456 stories, a qualitative framing analysis on a subset of that coverage, and interviews with a science or medical reporter at each newspaper provided converging lines of inquiry. This study finds that one...
Passive representation and the client-bureaucrat relationship: communication and demand inducement in the patient-provider relationship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The ways that passive representation could produce substantive benefits for the clients of a bureaucracy irrespective of active representation are an understudied aspect of the theory of representative bureaucracy. Further, ...