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IMPACTS OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH ON ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER DIAGNOSIS RATES WITHIN STATES
(East Carolina University, 2020-05-04)This study analyzes the potential associations between social determinants of health and ADHD diagnosis. There are several well documented social factors that have been correlated with ADHD diagnosis on the national level, ... -
IMPLEMENTATION OF A SENSORY MODULATION ROOM ON AN ACUTE CARE PSYCHIATRIC UNIT: SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES
(East Carolina University, 2022-12-14)Formerly, there has been a finite amount of research regarding adjunctive methods to de-escalate violent or aggressive behavior in psychiatric facilities. Health care providers had limited evidence-based interventions to ... -
Implementing a high sensitivity point-of-care troponin assay is beneficial in an emergency department chest pain population
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Point of care tests (POC) can provide accurate and more rapid results for physicians at the bedside, thus decreasing the patient’s time to treatment and increasing patient prognosis. Cardiac troponin (cTnI) is the leading ... -
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 ... -
Improving Cultural Competence via a Virtual Clinic for Service Providers in Rural Eastern North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-05)The Latino population in the United States of America is the nation’s largest ethnic minority, and is steadily increasing in size and diversity. The Southeastern region leads the US in Latino population growth (Pew Research ... -
Improving Mental Health Literacy in Middle School Teachers Through Emotional Poverty© Training: Signature Honors Project
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-28)Background: A community-engaged research project with a public middle school in Wilson, North Carolina has been ongoing since 2018. The project, supported by the Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy (EOSA), was established ... -
IMPULSE BUYING: HOW DIGITAL MARKETING IS INFLUENCING THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION’S IMPULSIVE SPENDING
(East Carolina University, 2022-05-06)Impulse buying, in its most simplest form, is the process of making a purchase one had not intended to make (Cruze, 2020). Impulse buys can be small, they can also include larger items such as cars and computers. Millennials, ... -
IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND THE TABLE: A CREATIVE ENDEAVOR IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-04)I’ve wanted to be a musical theatre performer since I was a little girl. I loved to sing and dance and play pretend, and being able to study what I love is an utter blessing. I’ve learned that in order to accomplish what ... -
InclusivECU: Promoting Inclusivity, Understanding, and Education
(East Carolina University, 2023-05-04)InclusivECU is a student-led group that has set a goal to increase understanding, diversity, and inclusivity for all students that are pursuing higher education. This problem was identified, and a solution developed through ... -
Income and Oral Health: The Relationship Among Medicaid Recipients
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-23)Medicaid provides health insurance coverage for 97 million low-income Americans over the course of a year. Each state operates its own Medicaid program within broad federal guidelines leading to significant variability ... -
Incorporating Team Science in Undergraduate Research
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-25)Across many environments today, including work, education, and research, it has become increasingly common to use interdisciplinary teams to perform science and research to tackle a variety of complex challenges and advance ... -
The Incorporation of Reading and Writing in the Middle Grades Math Classroom
(2015-03-23)Through observations during my training in teacher education, I have noticed a general student distaste, accompanied by lower achievement, in mathematics word problems. Among closer investigation, I noticed that this ... -
Increasing Awareness through my Passion for the Arts
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-03)As we meet more people in our day to day lives, we come to notice that we are more different than we are similar. However, it’s these differences that seem to bring us closer to one another. Varying cultures play a large ... -
Indigenous Ways of Explaining Health and Illness
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-11)The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to examine indigenous ways of explaining health and illness from the perspectives of Mayans in one rural village in Guatemala. A bilingual research team conducted ... -
Individual Virtual Competence Across the Generations in a Workforce
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)Many companies have found huge benefits in having work groups who have the flexibility to work from any location at any time by using various tools for virtual communication, also known as virtual teams. The success of a ... -
Influence of Aerobic Training in Unfit Women During Pregnancy on Infant Heart Function
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Research has shown that women are more likely to make positive lifestyle changes, such as exercise, during pregnancy. Women, with healthy, low-risk pregnancies, free from complications, can participate in exercise throughout ... -
Influence of Dialect and Stimulus Audibility on LiSN-S Performances
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)The main objectives were to investigate the effect of dialect on Listening in Spatialized Noise-Sentences (LISN-S) performances and to assess the relationship between bilateral pure-tone threshold averages (PTAs) and LISN-S ... -
Influence of Exercise Types during Pregnancy on Maternal Cardiometabolic Profiles
(East Carolina University, 2023-12-15)Pregnant women can follow exercise recommendations posted by the American College of Sports Medicine for the general population. Various studies demonstrate that exercise during pregnancy is safe for the pregnant woman and ... -
THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY FUNCTIONING ON MEDICAL SELF-EFFICACY IN ADOLESCENTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE
(2015-04-29)Objectives: Medical self-efficacy is defined as an individual’s belief in his or her ability to manage aspects of their disease and to lead to desired health outcomes (Edwards, Telfair, Cecil, and Lenoci, 2001). Prior ... -
INFLUENCE OF MATERNAL FITNESS LEVEL BEFORE PREGNANCY ON INFANT HEART OUTCOMES
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Heart disease has increased over the past 40 years, with little focus towards prenatal development. Maternal behaviors and in utero environment influence offspring development and health into adulthood. Recent research ...