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A Mixed Methods Study of Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia among Older Veterans with and without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Residential Long-Term Care Settings
(2020)Behavioral symptoms of dementia cause considerable distress for persons with dementia and their caregivers and are related to adverse outcomes that have significant social and economic impact. Thus, behavioral symptoms represent ... -
A Mobile Health Intervention to Sustain Recent Weight Loss
(2012)Background: Obesity is the number one health risk facing Americans. The obesity epidemic in America is attributed to physical inactivity, unhealthy food choices, and excessive food intake. Structured weight loss programs ... -
A Nationally Representative Survey of Depression Symptoms among Jordanian Adolescents: Associations with Depression Stigma, Depression Etiological Beliefs, and Likelihood to Seek Help for Depression
(2017)Problem and Purpose: Arab adolescents are considered a particularly vulnerable population to depression. The substantial lack of mental health services and the stigma associated with mental illness on the one hand; and poverty, ... -
A Novel Use of Social Network Analysis and Routinely Collected Data to Uncover Care Coordination Processes for Patients with Heart Failure
(2021)Effective patient care transitions require consideration of the patient’s social and clinical contexts, yet how these factors relate to the processes in care coordination remains poorly described. This dissertation aimed ... -
A Systems Thinking, Community-Based Exploration of Health Equity and Agency: Women’s Migraine as a Paradigmatic Case
(2017)Background. Creating health equity—“the attainment of the highest level of health for all people”— is a core tenet of public health (American Public Health Association, 2015; United States Department of Health and Human ... -
Age appropriate treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa
(2017)Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a threat to TB control globally. South Africa has the third highest epidemic of DR-TB – following only Russia and China, two much more populous countries. South Africa has stringent ... -
An Exploration of Resilience and Burnout among Healthcare Workers in the United States
(2023)Healthcare workers (HCW) have historically suffered from high rates of burnout, and these rates have continued to rise during the pandemic (Sexton et al., 2022). Burnout among healthcare workers carries significant consequences ... -
An Exploration of Social Relationships over the Life Course among African American Women Aging with HIV.
(2017)Introduction: In the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, African American women continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV across all age ranges in the U.S. African American women make up only 13% of the female population ... -
An mHealth-Based Medication Reminder Program for Patients with Coronary Heart Disease
(2019)Problem and Purpose: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the second leading cause of death in China. The treatment of CHD typically involves long-term pharmaceutical therapy. For patients with CHD, cardio-protective medications ... -
Association Between Migration and Cognitive Function Among Middle Aged and Older Adults: a Comparison Between China and India
(2018)Migration is a fundamental demographic process that has been linked to cognitive function among the immigrant populations in developed countries. However, there is limited understanding of how migration and cognitive function ... -
Cardiovascular Health Disparities among Older Adults in South Korea
(2020)The number of older adults in South Korea has increased faster than in any other countries. Along with this trend, the increasing burden of cardiovascular disease among this population is of growing national concern. Central ... -
Chronic Disease Management and Healthcare Utilization Among the Justice Involved Population
(2021)The criminal justice healthcare system has the potential to impact millions of individuals annually. There are more than 2.3 million individuals in a prison or jail at any given time. Not accounting for individuals that ... -
Cognitive Function and Decline Among Older Adults: The Roles of Sensory Loss and Psychosocial Factors
(2019)In the context of rapid global aging, cognitive decline among older adults has become a major public health and social issue. A better understanding of the risk factors for cognitive decline is important for developing ... -
Compassion Fatigue in Adult Daughter Caregivers for Older Adults with Dementia
(2013)<bold>Background</bold>: Family caregivers for a parent with dementia often experience negative emotional consequences. These caregivers may also be at risk for compassion fatigue, a concept that was introduced to the health ... -
Determining Health: Using Dyadic Peer Support to Promote Health in African American Faith Communities
(2020)African Americans face persistent health inequities. Obesity is linked to multiple chronic disease conditions and prevalence has climbed sharply in the last decades (Budd & Peterson, 2014; Samuel-Hodge et al., 2009) – especially ... -
Development and Test of an Intervention to Increase Exercise among Breast Cancer Survivors
(2017)Most breast cancer survivors do not exercise enough to experience its numerous benefits that include improved quality of life and decreased recurrence risk. A potentially effective strategy to increase exercise among this ... -
Development of Parental Confidence among Parents of Infants with Medical Complexity
(2019)Parental confidence is an important factor in gaining expertise in the parental role. The process of becoming a confident parent requires a personal belief in one’s own capacity but also the ability to engage in mastery ... -
Digital Health for Diabetes Self-Management Among Black Men: Barriers, Facilitators, and User Preferences
(2023)This dissertation aimed to explore the barriers, facilitators, and user preferences of digital health use for diabetes self-management among Black men while also investigating clinicians’ perspectives of digital health use ... -
Emotional Responses and Mother-Infant Interactions of Mothers with Early-Preterm, Late-Preterm, and Full-Term Infants in Malawi
(2018)Malawi has the highest preterm birth rate in the world and preterm birth contribute to more than one-third of the neonatal deaths annually. Malawi is also faced with limited resources, both human and material. The lack of ... -
Enhancing Symptom Monitoring Using Mobile Technology for Children and Adolescents with Life -Threatening Illness
(2020)AbstractBackground: Children and adolescents with life-threatening illness such as cancer or undergoing blood and marrow transplantation experience significant symptom distress. Intense debilitating symptoms are the result ...
