Breastfeeding is a valuable infant feeding method that offers many preventative health benefits to mothers and infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization provide recommendations ...

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...

The purpose of this narratalogical case study was to investigate the strategies military families utilize to contribute to the academic performance of highly mobile military connected students. The unit of analysis was ...

Advance care planning is the guideline recommended process which encourages adults to analyze values, identify goals, and articulate preferences for future medical care in order to protect autonomy in the event of ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations have smoking rates twice that of their heterosexual counterparts. To design effective outreach, prevention, and treatments for these individuals, a comprehensive ...

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....

African Americans (AAs) are disproportionality affected by mental health issues. They are more likely to experience chronic depression, greater impairment from depression, and serious psychological distress than the ...

years of marriage. Gender differences emerged, with husbands reporting more stable marital functioning than wives. Guided by the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation model, I also found individual (family-of-origin experiences), dyadic (e.g., perceptions...

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 ...

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 ...

Transition from pediatric to adult healthcare settings poses significant risks to morbidity and mortality for adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease. Increasing transition readiness, the acquisition of ...

Individual heterogeneity in fitness within a population is well established and provides the required variability for natural selection to take place. Yet, in the case of overabundant midcontinent lesser snow (Anser ...

Today, nearly 20.5% of young people of in America are overweight or obese, affecting roughly 12.7 million children and adolescents. The obesity trend has been shown to be a precursor not only to physiological ailments ...

families and Key Informant Interviews of 37 managers of agricultural cooperatives. In order to make the inferences on access and income gain, probit regression, matching, ordinary least square and two-stage least squares techniqpropriate identification...

The American news media has been criticized for failing to accurately reflect the country's racial diversity. Previous research has found that large broadcast and print news outlets overrepresent the White population, while ...

Ho fosters a narrative of racial harmony that ignores the structural inequalities that black people face. Borrowing from the literature on stereotypes, myths, and peace journalism (PJ), this investigation restructures a model that explains the relationship...

This thesis analyzes the prevalent use of acupuncture in nineteenth-century American medicine. Using medical journal articles, school catalogs, lecture notes, fee tables, newspaper clippings and other primary sources, I argue against the modern myth...

Walk-in coolers and freezers are medium (~35º F) and low (~-10º F to -20º F) temperature commercial food preservation equipment, with high market demand. There is considerable potential for energy savings through ...