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The Effects of Art Therapy on the Well-Being of Medical Students in Eastern North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)
This research examines how art-based interventions may improve the well-being, and more specifically, any negative emotions, of medical students. Medical students are a population who are at high-risk for the development ...
Why Won't You Leave?: An Evaluation of Employees' Willingness to Take Time Off
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-17)
Presently, there is little empirical research that considers why some employees are more inclined than others to take advantage of their organization's leave benefits. This study aimed to explore employees' willingness ...
EXAMINING HEALTH RELATED EXPERIENCES IN ADOLESCENTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)
This study was focused on investigating the general patterns of self-reported health-related stigma in adolescents with SCD. To date there was little research concerning adolescent experiences with health-related stigma. ...
Understanding Trauma Reactions in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Patients and Piloting a Brief Web-based Trauma Intervention Protocol Study (ICD-TIPS)
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Background: Approximately 20% of patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), a medical device that prevents sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and mortality, score above a clinical cutoff on a screening measure ...
Pre-Matriculation Characteristics And Health Risk Behaviors Among Freshmen In Two Civil And Service Themed Residential Living Learning Communities : A Quasi-Experimental Study
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Living learning communities (LLCs) are first-year residential programs that incorporate themes (e.g., wellness, academics) and build community between faculty/staff and students through learning experiences in and outside ...
General And Device-Specific Quality Of Life In Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Patients : The Impact Of Shock And Sex
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Background: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a heritable cardiac condition that weakens the heart and results in frequent and often life-threatening arrhythmias, requiring the placement of an ...
The Relation Between Child Behavior, School Engagement, And Perceived Barriers And Parent Involvement
(East Carolina University, 2015)
There are positive outcomes for children whose parents are involved in school. Factors such as socioeconomic status (SES), child externalizing behaviors, parent perceptions on school engagement, and perceived barriers can ...
Academic and Behavioral Effects of Self-Regulated Strategy Development on Children with Writing Difficulties and ADHD Symptoms
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Although children of all ability levels underperform in writing proficiency according to national testing, and children with disabilities are perform at very low levels (below basic), the area of effective writing skills ...
AN EVALUATION OF DEFERRED TIME-OUT TO TREAT NONCOMPLIANCE IN THE CLASSROOM SETTING
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-07)
Time-out (TO) is a widely recommended behavioral management strategy that has been minimally researched in regards to its components and applications or training procedures for teachers (Ryan et al., 2007; Sterling-Turner ...
What does it mean to want it all? : The effect of gender role orientation on work-life conflict and employee health
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-22)
The extant work-life conflict literature focuses on differences in conflict related to differences between men and women based on biological sex even though work and life domain salience has become increasingly similar ...