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Effects of Emotional Symptoms on Pain and Social Functioning in Youth with Sickle Cell Disease
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-29)
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders primarily affecting people of African, Latino, and Mediterranean descent and has currently been diagnosed in over 100,000 Americans. This chronic disease ...
A BRIEF MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING INTERVENTION (SIESTA) FOR ADOLESCENT SLEEP : EFFECTS ON NEUROCOGNITION AND SLEEP-RELATED BEHAVIOR
(East Carolina University, 2013)
Several studies have described sleep characteristics of adolescents, concluding that adolescent sleep lacks duration, quality, and consistency. Due to behavioral, environmental and biological changes, adolescents tend to ...
Undergraduates' Perceptions of High School Experiences
(East Carolina University, 2013)
Sexual harassment is common in high schools and research has provided in-depth information about the frequency and types of sexually harassing behaviors. Female students experience more sexual harassment and are more ...
Assessing the Efficacy of a Culturally Informed Adherence Intervention for Rural African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes
(East Carolina University, 2013)
African Americans (AAs) experience higher rates of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and difficulty adhering to T2DM treatment plans. The current study aims were to create a culturally informed intervention for AAs with ...
The Differential Framing Measure for Procrastination : An Implicit Measure of Procrastination Cognitions
(East Carolina University, 2013)
The present study attempted to create a scale for measuring the implicit cognitions related to procrastination. Items for the measure were created from a set of cognitive rationalizations derived from existing procrastination ...
Trauma, Coping, & the Couple Relationship : An Investigation of Pregnant Couples' Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Health
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Pregnancy and trauma are each complex biopsychosocial-spiritual processes with implications for the couple relationship, but there is not enough research on the ways that the two constructs are connected. Two articles were ...
USING A GROUP CONTINGENCY TO INCREASE STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN THE SECOND LIFE CLASSROOM
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Given the expanding definition of classrooms, it is important to investigate evidence-based interventions to address student behavior in various academic formats. Universities have been using Second Life (SL) learning ...
School-Based Mental Health Therapy : Meeting the Needs of Rural Adolescents
(East Carolina University, 2014)
School-based mental health (SBMH) therapy offers promise in addressing the mental health needs of rural adolescents. The current investigation includes two studies that examine rural adolescents' educational and mental ...
AGGRESSION, INCIVILITY, FORGIVENESS, AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
(East Carolina University, 2014)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the incremental validity of forgiveness and experiences of incivility to the prediction of deviant behavior by trait aggression. Participants consisted of 480 undergraduate ...
Facilitating Visitation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Examining the Influence of Parental Feeding Involvement
(East Carolina University, 2017-04-27)
Each year thousands of infants in the United States are admitted to a Neonatal intensive Care Unit (NICU). These units exist to provide highly specialized care to a wide array of newborns in critical condition. However, ...