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Understanding the Role of Schools in Community Prevention of Childhood Obesity
(2014)
Childhood obesity is considered an epidemic with the percentage of obesity among children in the United States more than tripling in the past 30 years (Institute of Medicine, 2012). Many factors in the environment contribute ...
Implementing the Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM) to Improve Health Literacy at a Rural Community Health Center
(2014)
Health literacy, as defined by the Institute of Medicine, is "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information and services needed to make appropriate decisions regarding ...
Exploring the Attitudes Toward Interprofessional Practice: Eastern North Carolina Perspectives
(2014-12-16)
Interprofessional health care delivery has the potential to greatly impact the experience, costs, and outcomes of health care. Primary care providers have the capacity to be the tipping point of this change. Primary care ...
Complementary pain intervention pilot study in the acute hospitalization phase after lower extremity amputation surgery
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Complementary pain intervention pilot study in the acute hospitalization phase after lower extremity amputation surgery. The national prevalence of limb loss is approximately 1.7 million people. Leading causes of this ...
Initiating Practice Guidelines for Postpartum Depression Screening at Well-Child Visits
(2014-11-21)
Purpose: This project examined the process of initiating postpartum depression (PPD) screening via a PPD protocol at 2 month well-child visit in four pediatric/family practice offices in a rural North Carolina county. The ...
Are the Health Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs Met Through School Services?
(2014)
The Maternal and Child Health Bureau recognizes children with special health care needs (CSHCN) as "those with chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions that require health and related services ...
Usual Care Versus Best Practice: A Program Evaluation on Fall Risk Assessment
(2014)
In the United States, falls are a significant cause of morbidity, mortality, and loss of independence in the older adult population. One third of adults, age 65 years and older, fall each year (Centers for Disease Control ...
The Effects of School Sports Programs on Obesity in Adolescents
(2014)
In the Southeastern United States, healthcare issues related to obesity in adolescents ages 13-18 years have become a growing concern. Along with an increasing body mass index in these adolescents comes many other comorbidities ...
Local Anesthetic Adjuvants Providing the Longest Duration of Analgesia for Single Injection Peripheral Nerve Blocks in Orthopedic Surgery: A Systematic Review
(2014-12-01)
Inadequate pain relief after surgery may delay surgical recovery, decrease patient satisfaction, increase length of stay, increase hospital readmissions, and increase overall health care costs. One way to decrease postoperative ...
A descriptive exploratory study on how nurse educators use digital stories in the classroom
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This study examines the experiences of 12 nurse educators using digital stories in undergraduate nursing courses. Two issues were explored: 1) How and for what purpose are nurse educators incorporating digital stories in ...