Health Sciences Campus: Recent submissions
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Discourse processing treatment for adults with aphasia.
(East Carolina University, 2015)The general goal of treatment for people with aphasia (PWA) is to improve their ability to communicate, which involves the discourse level. Treatment at this level is not a new concept, and there are many well-established ... -
Speech in noise ability, outer hair cell function, and working memory for trained flute players.
(East Carolina University, 2015)The process of auditory speech recognition requires verbal ability, working memory, recall, and adequate auditory abilities to recognize speech. There is a well-known positive effect of musical training and experience on ... -
Toward increasing leadership capacity in nurses: an exploration of the state and future perspectives of leadership education in pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing programs.
(East Carolina University, 2015)The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the state and future perspectives of leadership education in pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing programs. Study objectives were to describe nurse educator and practice ... -
Job satisfaction and intent to leave of nursing assistants in a hospital setting.
(East Carolina University, 2015)Nursing assistants are an important part of the healthcare team in hospitals. However, there has been little research about the antecedents of job satisfaction and intent to leave of nursing assistants in hospitals. The ... -
Hospice nurses' experience of caring for the elderly with wounds at the end-of-life.
(East Carolina University, 2015)Background: The goal of hospice care is to maximize quality of life and provide peace, comfort, and dignity to patients with terminal illness. Older dying patients pose unique challenges to meeting this essential goal, ... -
Nurse leader behavior and patient safety.
(East Carolina University, 2015)The incidence and significance of harm that occurs to patients while in the hospital setting continues to be alarming despite decades of efforts to produce safer healthcare systems. Leaders have a role in ensuring staff ... -
Impact of simulation experiences on learning transfer in new graduate registered nurses.
(East Carolina University, 2015)The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of pre-work factors (healthcare experience, type of education, type and frequency of simulation exposure) and work factors (type and frequency of simulation exposure) ... -
The Need for Interprofessional Collaborative Ready Nutrition and Dietetics Practitioners
(2014-10-01)This is the full length paper of what turned out to be a published brief after going through peer review. Many of our colleagues have requested the original full length description which is more of a call to action for ... -
Evaluating Type 1 Diabetes Management in an Elementary School Setting
(2015)Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease that affects 208,000 youth and children in the United States (American Diabetes Association, [ADA], 2014). Managing the disease requires intermittent monitoring throughout the ... -
Evaluation of the Sexual Health Education of Teenage Males in a Middle School in Rural North Carolina
(2015)Teenage pregnancy has serious consequences for the young couple including limited education, inadequate employment opportunities, and adverse health outcomes (Alford & Houser, 2011). North Carolina is consistently among ... -
Respiratory Measures of Musical Theater Singers, Classical Singers, and Non-singers
(2015)This study looked for respiratory trends between musical theater singers, classical singers, and a non-singer control group using the KayPentax Phonatory Aerodynamic System. Results of Kruskal-Wallis and graphical comparison ... -
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SYMPTOMS OF MUSCLE DYSMORPHIA AND BODY COMPOSITION IN HIGH VOLUME WEIGHTLIFTERS
(2015)Muscle dysmorphia is characterized by exercise-obsessed individuals who fixate on obtaining a perfect physique, and is often accompanied by extreme feelings of inadequacy. This project aims to determine the relationship ... -
VACCINIA VIRUS O1L VIRULENCE GENE AND PROTEIN LOCALIZATION
(2015)Smallpox killed an estimated 500 million people in the twentieth century alone. Although this fatal disease was eradicated from the world over thirty years ago, its potential use as a bioterrorism agent remains a concern. ... -
Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption and Food Insecurity in Pediatric Patients with Obesity
(2015-04-30)Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages and food insecurity are both thought to contribute to the development of obesity. However, little is known about the quantity and quality of sugar-sweetened beverages consumed, the ... -
REDUCING ABSENTEEISM AMONG CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS THROUGH SCHOOL NURSE COLLABORATION
(2015-05-01)This senior honors project was conducted as a part of a community health course in a baccalaureate nursing program. In this course, a senior nursing student completed the senior honors project in collaboration with a ... -
Preadolescent Body Image and Body Mass Index
(2015)Physical and psychological changes occur during middle childhood and the time preparing for adolescence. Healthy body image is a key factor in developing healthy physical and psychosocial habits among preadolescents. There ... -
Providing Access to Child Passenger Restraint Information: Is there a Role for Elementary Schools and Daycare Facilities?
(2015)The correct and appropriate use of a child passenger restraint system can increase the likelihood of a child surviving a motor vehicle crash and avoiding serious injury. Despite the benefits of the use of child passenger ... -
Notched Acoustic Stimulus and Tinnitus: A Treatment Intervention Using a Randomization Test Approach
(East Carolina University, 2014)Musical training has considerable effects on human brain plasticity and music listening has been investigated as a means of treating tinnitus. In a laboratory setting, tailor-made notched music has been shown to reduce ... -
Effects of Word Type, Orthographic Type, and Word Length on Decoding and Spelling Abilities of Fourth Graders with and without Reading Impairments
(East Carolina University, 2014)The effects of word type (real, nonsense), orthographic type (phonetic, nonphonetic), and word length (1 to 5 syllables) on the decoding and spelling abilities (accuracy) of fourth-graders with and without reading impairments ... -
Treating problem solving deficits in traumatic brain injury
(East Carolina University, 2014)Cognitive deficits following TBI are multidimensional. Current treatment programs approach problem solving training in a top-down approach with problem solving skill perceived independent of attentional control and working ...