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Parent and professional perspectives of communication in developmental treatment settings
(1994)The focus of this study was the communication process between parents of children with developmental delays and disabilities who are seeking services for their child and the professional providers in developmental treatment ... -
Parental Oral Health Beliefs and Practices toward Young Children’s Dental Caries among Chinese Immigrant Parents
Background. Dental caries is the most common chronic childhood disease. Chinese immigrant children have higher decayed and filled primary teeth than their US counterparts. There is limited information regarding Chinese ... -
Parental stress in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Purpose: The purpose of this dissertation is to address parental experiences and responses to their child hospitalization in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). There are three papers in this dissertation, all of ... -
Passive Leg Raising Maneuver and Prediction of Fluid Responsiveness: Noninvasive Monitoring of Pulse Pressure and Systolic Blood Pressure
Background: Fluid boluses are administered to improve tissue hypoperfusion in shock. However, only approximately 50% of patients respond to a fluid bolus with a clinically significant increase in stroke volume index (SVI). ... -
Patterns of chronic illness management, psychosocial development, family and social environment and adaptation among diabetic women
(1989)On a daily basis, individuals with chronic illness must cope with complex treatment regimens and symptoms of illness as they try to integrate these demands into their personal, family, social, and work lives. Furthermore, ... -
Pediatric Hospital Falls: Patient Risk Assessment and Associated Parent Characteristics
Background: Falls account for approximately 42% of adverse events reported in hospitalized children. These falls can result in patient injury which can increase hospital length of stay (LOS) and costs of care and decrease ... -
Perioperative immunonutrition in head and neck cancer: a feasibility study
(2006)Problem. Head and neck cancer (HNCA) has one of the highest associated mortality rates of all cancers. Immune-modulating nutrition (IMN) support before and after surgery has the potential to promote host defense, antitumor ... -
Physical Exercise and Behavioral Management Interventions for Dementia Care at Home
Background: Due to global aging, the rising number of people with dementia (PWD) presents a looming public health crisis both in the United States and globally. Although memory and cognitive decline are the clinical hallmarks ... -
Physiological responses to convective-air blanket warming of women after 60 minutes of cool exposure
(1994)Convective-air warming is frequently applied to postoperative patients, but the process of warming is not understood. Hence, the study purpose was to describe the rewarming process during convective-air warming in women, ... -
Premature infant responses to taped maternal voice
(1997)Premature infants are at risk for many potential problems including deficits in social interaction and sensory perception skills. One of the major reasons for this is the relative social isolation of these infants housed ... -
Primary Care Providers' Perspective on the Inclusion of Behavioral Risk Measures in the Electronic Health Record for Patient Engagement of Individuals with Multiple Chronic Conditions
(2013-07-23)The Society of Behavioral Medicine issued a policy statement supporting inclusion of a "core set of behavioral and psychosocial measures in EHRs" in 2011. The core set of 17 screening measures cover nine domains: anxiety ... -
Promoting Sleep Health in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Their Parents Through Pilot Test, Evaluation of SLEEPSMART Intervention and Theory Reformulation
Background: Sleep deficiency is highly comorbid in children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) and associated with poorer health-related quality of life, more arthritis symptoms, and healthcare utilization. Despite ... -
Protecting Your Ability to Breastfeed Your Baby: A Pilot Feasibility Study of an Educational Program for Breastfeeding Mothers and Babies
Despite the fact that the first 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding is recommended by WHO/UNICEF and the American Academy of Pediatrics, only 16% of mothers in the United States exclusively breastfeed their infants for the ... -
Public Health Infrastructure and Performance: Analyses of Local Health Department Characteristics and Accreditation Performance Scores
Local health departments (LHDs) work at the local level, through provision of essential PH services, to promote and protect their communities' health, and maintain effective response to PH crisis. LHDs’ capacities to provide ... -
Radiation-Induced Cardiovascular Disease and Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors: Understanding Biological Mechanisms and Risk Factors
Although survival rates have improved, many breast cancer survivors experience adverse effects related to the physiologic consequences of cancer treatment including an increased risk cardiovascular disease (CVD) and symptoms, ... -
Re-imaging Healthy Aging: Perspectives of Older Black African Immigrant Women
University of Washington Abstract Re-imaging Healthy Aging: Perspectives of Older Black African Immigrant Women Sharon G. McRae Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Barbara Cochrane Family and Child Nursing Older ... -
The relationship between heart rate variability, auditory evoked heart rate responses, and performance on recognition memory tests in low birth weight and normal birth weight infant macaques (Macaca nemestrina)
(1994)This study describes heart rate variability (HRV) in the first two months of life and explores the relationships between HRV, auditory evoked heart rate responses and performance on tests of visual recognition memory (VRM). ... -
The relationship between sleep hygiene practices and nocturnal sleep for midlife women with and without insomnia
(1996)In this study sleep hygiene practices and perceived and somnographic sleep indicators were analyzed for 92 women with insomnia and 29 women with no insomnia ages 40 to 55. Women recorded practices and perceptions in diaries ... -
Relationships among Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, Social Timing and Symptoms in Adults Living with a Health Condition
The overall purpose of this dissertation was to examine the relationships among sleep, circadian rhythms, social timing and symptoms in adults living with a health condition and in particular adults with acute respiratory ... -
Resilience and Associated Factors in Pediatric Nurses
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore pediatric nurse resilience and the contextual factors surrounding it, and propose a heuristic framework of pediatric nurse resilience. A convergent mixed-methods approach to ...