A Secondary Data Analysis of the WomanKind/Centers for Disease Control Evaluation A Study of Hospital Staff s ability to Engage, Assess and Refer Victims of Domestic Abuse

This is a secondary data analysis of an evaluation of a domestic violence program in a hospital setting in the Midwest. Hospital staffs in five hospitals who work in either the Emergency Department, Intensive Care, or Perinatal/Ob/Gyn were surveyed to evaluate their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding domestic abuse. This secondary data analysis looked at the results of the 320 completed baseline surveys to examine if hospital staff who have a high concordance with feminist principles perceive themselves as having a high ability to engage, assess, and refer victims of domestic abuse. Multiple regression was used to compare practitioner values with their skills in engagement, assessment, and referral of battered women. I found in this research that a high concordance with feminist principles is not a strong predictor of physician and registered nurses self-perception of their ability to engage, assess and refer victims of domestic abuse. In this study physicians and registered nurses both felt most confident in their referral skills than in their engagement and assessment skills. These findings suggest that hospital staff need to be educated on engaging and assessing victims of domestic abuse

Knowledge and practice of breast self-examination among rural women in South-West Nigeria: Implications for development of women empowerment programme

Cancer is a major public health concern globally. In Nigeria, over 10 000 cancer deaths and 250 000 new cases of cancer are recorded yearly. It was reported that the number of women at risk of breast cancer increased progressively from 24.5 million in 1990 to about 40 million in 2010. Due to the progressive nature of breast cancer, early detection can improve survival chances of women and reduce death. Breast self-examination (BSE) is a relatively simple and low-cost intervention for women to detect breast cancer before the disease has progressed too far. This paper reports on knowledge and practices of BSE among rural women, living in Iddo Local Government Area (LGA) in south-west Nigeria. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 345 women, aged 20–60 years, from five selected villages in Iddo LGA, who volunteered to participate in an empowerment programme to promote breast cancer prevention. Data were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire and analysed using descriptive and basic inferential statistics. The majority of participating women had low levels of knowledge about BSE (75.1%) and did not practise BSE (76.5%). It was also found that marital status, occupation and income levels were significantly associated with knowledge and practice of BSE. The main reasons offered for not practising BSE were lack of knowledge on the timing of when to do it (85.5%) and not knowing how to do it (87.8%). There is a need to design an intervention programme to educate women on the importance of early diagnosis of breast cancer and to empower them with knowledge on how to practice BSE.DHE

The meaning of successful aging among older adults with long-term disabilities

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)In this study, I explore the meaning of successful aging among older adults with long-term disabilities. The study is a review of scholarly literature on the subject of successful aging, with a specific focus on older adults with long-term disabilities. The objective is to shed light on the issue by critically examining what research exists and what research is still needed. The purpose of this study was to investigate the following question: What does it mean for an older adult with long-term disability to age successfully? Seven older adults with sensory impairment, either deaf, hearing impaired, blind, visually impaired or a combination of these, were interviewed using qualitative phenomenological research methods. Findings include themes of aging as inevitable, frequent activity, social and family interaction as essential, sense of worth, acceptance of disability, coping and resilience as well as advice to others

An evaluation of a service program in reading in grades one through six,

Includes tests in separate folders in back of dissertation. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Duality through the symplectic embedding formalism

In this work we show that we can obtain dual equivalent actions following the symplectic formalism with the introduction of extra variables which enlarge the phase space. We show that the results are equal as the one obtained with the recently developed gauging iterative Noether dualization method (NDM). We believe that, with the arbitrariness property of the zero mode, the symplectic embedding method (SEM) is more profound since it can reveal a whole family of dual equivalent actions. We illustrate the method demonstrating that the gauge-invariance of the electromagnetic Maxwell Lagrangian broken by the introduction of an explicit mass term and a topological term can be restored to obtain the dual equivalent and gauge-invariant version of the theory.Comment: RevTeX4, 10 pages. To appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys.