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Deal, Mark. "Attitudes of disabled people toward other disabled people and impairment groups." Thesis, City, University of London, 2006. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17416/.
Full textEdman, Viktor. "Tracking Groups of People in Video Surveillance." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Reglerteknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-93996.
Full textBujila, Ioana. "Plasmodium falciparum-mediated modulation of innate immune cells: responses and regulation." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för molekylär biovetenskap, Wenner-Grens institut, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-126138.
Full textAt the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript.
Burke, Sara Emily. "The Excluded Middle| Attitudes and Beliefs about Bisexual People, Biracial People, and Novel Intermediate Social Groups." Thesis, Yale University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10584940.
Full textThe history of intergroup research is built on groups that represent "endpoints" of a dimension of social identity, such as White, Black, heterosexual, and gay/lesbian. Social groups who fall between these more readily recognized advantaged and disadvantaged groups (e.g., biracial people, bisexual people) have received less attention. These intermediate social groups are increasingly visible and numerous in the United States, however, and a detailed account of the biases they face can contribute to a fuller understanding of intergroup relations. This dissertation examines attitudes and beliefs about intermediate social groups, focusing on bisexual people as the primary example at first, and then expanding the investigation to biracial people and novel groups to make the case that intermediate groups elicit a distinctive pattern of biases. Across studies, participants expressed beliefs that undermined the legitimacy of intermediate groups in a variety of ways. They endorsed the view that intermediate groups are low in social realness (conceptually invalid, meaningless, lacking a concrete social existence) and that intermediate group identities are unstable (provisional, lacking a genuine underlying truth, the result of confusion). These views of social realness and identity stability partially explained prejudice against intermediate groups.
The concept of social group intermediacy is abstract; actual intermediate groups (e.g., biracial and bisexual people) are different from each other because their defining types of intermediacy stem from different dimensions of social identity (race and sexual orientation). Therefore, focused research on each specific intermediate group is necessary to fully understand the types of attitudes they evoke due to their intermediate status. To demonstrate the value of attending to the details of a particular intermediate group, Chapters 2 through 5 focused on bisexual people. The observed patterns of attitudes and beliefs about bisexual people demonstrated the role of their perceived intermediate status in the context of sexual orientation.
Chapter 2 investigated attitudes toward sexual orientation groups in a large sample of heterosexual and gay/lesbian participants. Bisexuality was evaluated less favorably and perceived as less stable than heterosexuality and homosexuality. Stereotypes about bisexual people pertained to gender conformity, decisiveness, and monogamy; few positive traits were associated with bisexuality. Chapter 3 extended these findings, demonstrating that negative evaluation of sexual minorities was more closely associated with perceived identity instability than it was with the view that sexual orientation is a choice. This relationship was moderated by both participant and target sexual orientation.
Chapter 4 addressed one reason why bisexual people are evaluated more negatively than gay/lesbian people. A common explanation given for the discrepancy in evaluation is that bisexuality introduces ambiguity into a binary model of sexuality. In line with this explanation, we found that participants with a preference for simple ways of structuring information were especially likely to evaluate bisexual people more negatively than gay/lesbian people. Chapter 5 investigated how bisexual participants saw themselves as a group. Results suggested that bisexual people largely disagree with the prevailing stereotypes of their group; these stereotypes reflect non-bisexual people's impressions of the intermediate group rather than a consensus.
Chapter 6 shifted the focus from bisexual people as an example of an intermediate social group to intermediate social groups in general. Results from a set of studies involving novel groups demonstrated that perceiving a group as intermediate can cause negative evaluation and low ratings of social realness and identity stability. Similar results held for real-world intermediate groups (biracial people and bisexual people). The extent to which an intermediate group was perceived as less socially real than other groups predicted the extent to which it was evaluated less positively than those groups. Social realness seems to be a unique explanatory factor in the relative negative evaluation of these intermediate groups, working in conjunction with the more well-known processes of intergroup attitudes traditionally studied with respect to Black people and gay/lesbian people. The effects of social group intermediacy were amplified among participants who identified strongly with an advantaged ingroup. Acknowledging an intermediate group as legitimate may require one to acknowledge shared characteristics or overlapping boundaries between one's valued ingroup and the "opposite" outgroup, which can be threatening to highly identified group members.
Taken together, these chapters make the case that intermediate social groups incur particular biases due to their perceived intermediate status. The processes of intergroup bias that result in derogation of traditionally recognized disadvantaged groups may be insufficient to account for some forms of prejudice in the modern demographic landscape. As biracial people and bisexual people become more prevalent, researchers must address the conditions under which they are recognized or dismissed, included or excluded.
Bradley-Scott, Cerys. "Exploring mentalization-based psychoeducation groups for people with borderline personality disorder." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2017. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/16453/.
Full textDEL, CACHO ESTIL-LES MARIA ASUNCION. "Simulation and Control of Groups of People in Multi-modal Mobility." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1057578.
Full textTurner, Tavia N. "Changing performance in older work groups a qualitative study of employee transition /." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000turnert.pdf.
Full textMcNally, Stephen James. "Advocacy and empowerment : self advocacy groups for people with a learning disability." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434573.
Full textGmür, Marco. "Different types of mission approaches of tentmakers among unreached Muslim people groups." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
Full textRheaume, Randall G. "A manual on the Trinity for lay people engaged in small groups." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
Full textFivecoat, Bruce. "Sociocultural strategies of indigenous evangelism and church building among preindustrial people groups." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
Full textRotherham, Annette. "The benefits of groups for people with aphasia: "We just thought this was Christmas"." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Communication Disorders, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7608.
Full textBähre, Erik. "Money and violence financial self-help groups in a South African township /." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=467904.
Full textLongino, Elizabeth. "People power in struggling cities : pressure groups in Liverpool and Baltimore, 1980-1991." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ed16425c-212f-4e4a-b396-2ceaab825fca.
Full textMorgan, Makayla Q. "Making Gallery Groups at a Public Art Museum Accessible to People with Aphasia." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586515207124486.
Full textPriebe, Stefan, Aleksandra Matanov, Henrique Barros, Reamonn Canavan, Edina Gabor, Tim Greacen, Petra Holcnerova, et al. "Mental health-care provision for marginalized groups across Europe: findings from the PROMO study." Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för hälsovetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-15874.
Full textCousineau, Ronald N. "A manual for equipping leaders of small groups to empower local church people for the ministry of work." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Full textWacks, V. Quinton. "Successful aging, coping and learning : a case study of two diverse groups of older adults /." Diss., This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07102007-142512/.
Full textChakraborty, Kokila. "Understanding diabetes treatment behaviours : health risk decisions of Asian sub-groups and White people." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435202.
Full textMitchell, Elizabeth. "Efficacy of Leisure Intervention Groups in Rehabilitation of People with an Acquired Brain Injury." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9996.
Full textDonley, Amy. "THE PERCEPTION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE: IMPORTANT FACTORS IN DETERMINING PERCEPTIONS OF THE HOMELESS AS DANGEROUS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3813.
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Ofosuhene, Godwin Kwame. "The concept of God in the traditional religion of the Akan and Ewe ethnic groups compared the Bible /." Berlin : Viademica, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2841159&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textSeebohm, Patience. ""It's about liberation" : community development support for groups of black people with mental health problems." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2013. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/305404/.
Full textSeebohm, Patience. ""It's about liberation" Community development support for groups of black people with mental health problems." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2013. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/305404/1/Seebohm%20thesis%20Aug%202013.pdf.
Full textSmale, Kathryn. "Better together? : a social identity approach to psychological adjustment groups for people with multiple sclerosis." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38067/.
Full textPitana, I. Gde. "In search of difference origin groups, status and identity in contemporary Bali /." Online version, 1997. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/23850.
Full textLeaney, Sarah. "Located lives : an ethnographic representation of people and place on a British council estate." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65117/.
Full textEmond, H. Ruth. "Survival of the skilful : an ethnographic study of two groups of young people in residential care." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2397.
Full textChapman, Rohhss. "The role of the self-advocacy support-worker in UK People First Groups : developing inclusive research." Thesis, Open University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424812.
Full textARAUJO, FABIO FRANCISCO DE. "MEANINGS OF LEISURE FOR THE ELDERLY PEOPLE: AN INTERPRETIVE STUDY OF SERESTA AND BALLROOM DANCING GROUPS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=25256@1.
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PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Este estudo investiga os significados atribuídos ao lazer por consumidores de Terceira Idade que frequentam grupos de reunião musical e aulas de dança de salão. Especificamente, buscou-se estudar a experiência desses consumidores em atividades de lazer em grupo e de que forma atribuem significado às vivências e às relações sociais e de amizade que ocorrem em espaços sociais de lazer. No contexto desta pesquisa, o consumo de lazer não é visto apenas por seu aspecto utilitário, mas é compreendido a partir de seu conteúdo simbólico, em que os consumidores atribuem significados ao consumo expressando seus valores, estilos de vida, categorias, identidades sociais e projetos coletivos. Ao privilegiar, a dimensão simbólica do consumo sob a perspectiva de marketing, o presente estudo se insere em uma linha de estudos em marketing que se apresenta como CCT – Consumer Culture Theory. Nesse contexto, a presente tese se filia ao paradigma interpretativo, ao partir dos aspectos subjetivos do consumo para perceber as relações dinâmicas das ações de consumidores e os significados socialmente construídos. Para condução do presente estudo, optou-se por utilizar métodos de inspiração etnográfica – a observação participante e as entrevistas em profundidade – buscando fazer parte da experiência vivida pelo idoso para compreender os significados a ela atribuídos. A pesquisa de campo incluiu dois grupos de idosos. O primeiro grupo é um encontro musical de seresta, sendo realizada a observação participante por um período de aproximadamente seis meses. As entrevistas em profundidade foram realizadas com 15 idosos participantes do grupo e com o fundador e líder do grupo. O segundo grupo estudado é voltado para dança de salão. Novamente, foi feita a observação participante durante um período de seis meses e entrevistas em profundidade com 16 idosos participantes. Os registros em diário de campo e as entrevistas foram analisados conjuntamente e permitiram identificar os significados que os idosos associam ao consumo das atividades de lazer analisadas. Realizou-se, inicialmente, uma análise de cada atividade de lazer. Para cada grupo, os significados identificados emergiram das análises. Em seguida, foi feita uma análise cruzada dos resultados obtidos para os dois grupos. Verificou-se que, embora possa haver significados comuns às atividades de lazer, há também significados distintos atribuídos à mesma atividade e a diferentes atividades. Estes resultados sugerem a existência de grande variedade de necessidades por detrás das escolhas de lazer dos idosos. Tais resultados sugerem ainda que a pesquisa sobre lazer de idosos deve levar em conta a heterogeneidade deste grupo de consumidores, evitando trata-los de forma reducionista, como se se tratasse de grupo homogêneo, caracterizado unicamente a partir de suas dificuldades físicas. Já no que se refere à aplicação empresarial, os resultados do estudo sugerem que os consumidores idosos podem ser segmentados a partir de distintos significados atribuídos ao lazer, que parecem traduzir os benefícios buscados por esses consumidores.
This study investigates the meanings of leisure for the elderly people who attend a musical encounter and a ballroom dancing class. Specifically, the study investigates these consumers experience of leisure group activities; and how they extract meaning from these experiences and from the social relationships that occur in these social spaces of leisure. In the context of this research, consumption is not seen only by its utilitarian nature, but it is rather understood in its symbolic aspects, as consumers create meanings in order to express their values, lifestyles, categories, social identities, and collective projects. By focusing on the symbolic dimension of consumption from the marketing perspective, this study is positioned as part of a line of research in marketing known as CCT - Consumer Culture Theory. In this context, this thesis is affiliated to the interpretive paradigm, departing from the subjective aspects of consumption to understand the dynamic relationships between the consumers actions and the social and cultural meanings created. Methods of ethnographic inspiration – participant observation and in-depth interviews – were used to conduct this study. These methods permitted to be part of the leisure experience lived by the elderly as a means of understanding the meanings attributed to the experience. Fieldwork included two groups of elderly people. The first group is a musical encounter group called Seresta. Participant observation covered a six-month period; 15 elderly participants were interviewed in-depth, plus the founder and leader of the group. The second group included the elderly that participated in ballroom dancing classes. Again, participant observation lasted for six months and in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 participants. Fieldnotes and transcripts of the interviews together permitted to extract the meanings assigned by older people to these leisure activities. First, each activity was analyzed separately. For each group, meanings emerged from the analyses. Then a cross-group analysis was performed. The results showed that, despite meanings that are shared by the two leisure activities, each activity showed different meanings, or different nuances of the same meaning, and some of the meanings identified only appeared in one of the activities. These results suggest that there is a great variety of needs behind the leisure choices made by the elderly. In addition, the results indicate that leisure research focusing the elderly should take into account the heterogeneity of this group of consumers, therefore avoiding a reductionist approach that considers the elderly as a homogeneous group based on their physical limitations. As to managerial implications, the results of the study suggest that firms can segment the elderly consumers by the different meanings attributed to leisure, which can be equated to the benefits aimed when choosing their leisure activities.
Shapira, Faians Adi. "Social skills learning groups : a case study of young people identified with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54452/.
Full textClark, Ailie. "Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & questioning young people on the Internet : insights from European focus groups." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22876.
Full textHolder, Sharon M. "Health inequalities amongst older people from ethnic minority groups in Britain : 'sensitivity' of different SES measures." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/208223/.
Full textWhittaker, Lisa S. "Young and unemployed : giving and getting recognition in peer groups and online." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3604.
Full textChow, Wai-ling. "Planning for priority groups : a case study of mentally handicapped in Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14802338.
Full textCosta, Wedja Josefa Granja. "Socionomy basic systemic: method and management support groups in the organization." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2007. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3560.
Full textThis research presents the development and application of a support method to diagnosis, intervention and evaluation of management groups for decision making in corporations using Socionomy as a systemic basis. The theoretical basis of the research was consubstantiated in Morenoâs Theory (1974, 1983, 1984, 1991, 1992, 1994a, 1994b) on Psychodrama, Sociodrama e Socionomy and on Systemic Thought and its methods, notably on the works of Vasconcellos (2005) plus contributions from several authors referred on the chapters of the present research. Such fundamenting allowed theoretical and methodological sedimentation to the elaboration of a proposal for the systematization of Socionomyâs method with systemic basis as a result of this research. The methodology used was composed of exploratory studies in bibliographical basis and research procedures applied as a way of elaboration and validation of the method. In order to experimentally validate the method it was applied on a real demand on the confection company in Fortaleza-CE having as subjects of research a group of managers from that organization. As results it was appointed the practicability of the method moreover confirmed the individual and group benefits thought theoretical and practical application, action and reflection baring in mind that the Socionomic methods are based on the dynamic movements of corporate groups, on successive applications presenting the evident evolution of experimental groups.
Coon, Sharon K. "An investigation of two groups of registered nurses comparing attitudes toward the elderly and the ability to differentiate signs, symptoms and interventions with dementia and depression in the elderly." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845954.
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Liu, Jie. "The co-existence of endangered primate species and ethnic groups in southwest China." Kyoto University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/253136.
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京都大学大学院理学研究科生物科学専攻
(主査)教授 平田 聡, 教授 幸島 司郎, 教授 伊谷 原一
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Blank, Sarah T. "The robot club : robots as agents to improve the social skills of young people on the autistic spectrum." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/4407.
Full textWeaver, Jay R. "The role of missionary radio as a change agent with reference to church planting among unreached people groups." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
Full textCapstick, Andrea, Alison Dennison, Jan R. Oyebode, Lesley Healy, Claire A. Surr, Sahida Parveen, C. Sass, and Michelle Drury. "Drawn from life: Cocreating narrative and graphic vignettes of lived experience with people affected by dementia." Wiley, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18590.
Full textBackground: The growing literature on Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) and dementia identifies specific problems related to the influence involvement has on research outcomes, over-reliance on family members as proxies, and lack of representation of seldom-heard groups. Adaptations to the PPIE process are therefore needed in order to make possible the involvement of a broader spectrum of people living with dementia. Objective: To adapt the PPIE process in order to make participation in co-creation by people living with dementia accessible and meaningful across a spectrum of cognitive abilities. Design: Narrative elicitation, informal conversation, and observation were used to co-create three vignettes based on PPIE group members’ personal experience of dementia services. Each vignette was produced in both narrative and graphic formats. Participants: Nine people living with dementia and five family members. Results: Using enhanced methods and outreach it was possible to adapt the PPIE process so that not only family members and people with milder cognitive difficulties could participate, but also those with more pronounced cognitive problems whose voices are less often heard. Conclusions: Making creative adaptations is vital in PPIE involving people living with dementia if we wish to develop inclusive forms of PPIE practice. This may, however, raise new ethical issues, which are briefly discussed.
National Institute for Health Research. Grant Number: PR-R10-0514-120006
Capstick, Andrea, Alison Dennison, Jan R. Oyebode, Lesley Healy, Claire A. Surr, Sahdia Parveen, C. Sass, and Michelle Drury. "Drawn from life: Cocreating narrative and graphic vignettes of lived experience with people affected by dementia." Wiley, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18590.
Full textBackground: The growing literature on Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) and dementia identifies specific problems related to the influence involvement has on research outcomes, over-reliance on family members as proxies, and lack of representation of seldom-heard groups. Adaptations to the PPIE process are therefore needed in order to make possible the involvement of a broader spectrum of people living with dementia. Objective: To adapt the PPIE process in order to make participation in co-creation by people living with dementia accessible and meaningful across a spectrum of cognitive abilities. Design: Narrative elicitation, informal conversation, and observation were used to co-create three vignettes based on PPIE group members’ personal experience of dementia services. Each vignette was produced in both narrative and graphic formats. Participants: Nine people living with dementia and five family members. Results: Using enhanced methods and outreach it was possible to adapt the PPIE process so that not only family members and people with milder cognitive difficulties could participate, but also those with more pronounced cognitive problems whose voices are less often heard. Conclusions: Making creative adaptations is vital in PPIE involving people living with dementia if we wish to develop inclusive forms of PPIE practice. This may, however, raise new ethical issues, which are briefly discussed.
National Institute for Health Research. Grant Number: PR-R10-0514-120006
Chow, Wai-ling, and 周惠玲. "Planning for priority groups: a case study ofmentally handicapped in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31258815.
Full textLilienfeld, Margaret. "The social interaction of an adolescent who uses augmentative and alternative communication the evaluation of a peer training programme /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2002. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07212005-093438.
Full textSummary in English and Afrikaans. Appendices are on a CD-ROM accompanying the print version of the thesis. Includes bibliographical references.
Kekana, Mamma Olga. "Perceived barriers to participation in HIV support groups among people living with HIV and AIDS at Katlehong township South Africa." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/399.
Full textBackground: Support groups are an informal resource that attempts to provide healing components to a variety of problems and challenges. An informal support outside of family, friends, or professionals often provides greater understanding, more similarity (from individuals experiencing similar life events), an opportunity for empathy and altruism, and a sense of identity for participants. Learning new ways to handle challenges, cope with changes, and maintain new behaviors are all important aspects of the support group experience. Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine what HIV positive people perceive as barriers to participate in HIV support groups. Methods: This was a quantitative study design using structured questionnaires on 248 participants who gave written consents to participate in the study. Results: Majority were female 63% participants, single (52.63%), unemployed (60%), between ages 31-40 and 52.02% attained secondary education. Participants who were currently on HIV treatment (prophylaxis and ARV) has attended HIV support groups before while participants who were not on any treatment have never attended HIV support groups. Participants who never attended HIV support group also never attended other support groups. The main reasons that participants gave for not attending in HIV support groups was that they are concerned about their privacy and HIV status being known by others. Barriers preventing attendance of HIV support group were support groups are hard to find, work schedules and lack of transport money.
Chou, Cynthia. "Money, magic and fear : identity and exchange amongst the Orang Suku Laut (sea nomads) and other groups of Riau and Batam, Indonesia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/230199.
Full textMoreman, Jacob Bradley Lau Tin-Man. "Guidelines to change the cultural paradigms of designers toward third world people groups though missiology to influence furniture design." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Fall/Thesis/MOREMAN_JACOB_19.pdf.
Full textWojcik, Joanne D. "Clinical Characteristics of People in Randomized Clinical Trials of First Episode Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Attrition versus Non-Attrition Groups." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1031.
Full textClinical Characteristics Of People In Randomized Clinical Trials Of First Episode Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Attrition Versus Non-Attrition Groups Submitted by Joanne D. Wojcik PhD, RN Dissertation Advisor Judith Shindul-Rothschild, PhD, RN Abstract Background: Early identification of psychosis and intensive treatment has been the focus of the treatment of people with a first episode (FE) schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD). Attrition rates in studies of people in the first episode are high, which makes it difficult to understand the meaning of the study outcomes. High attrition rates affect the validity of a study by decreasing its power and the study's ability to detect differences between treatment groups. Additionally, the people who leave a study may be different from those who stay in demographic, illness and treatment characteristics. Method: This study is a secondary analysis of a group of FE SSD participants enrolled in one of three separate double-blind, randomized, drug trials. The variables were first analyzed across the three drug study data sets to determine if the patient populations are comparable across the three studies to allow for the merging of the data. Exploratory and descriptive statistics of study participants were conducted in a comparison of the three studies, for the merged group, and for the attrition and non-attrition groups. Effect sizes (Cohen's d) were calculated for each variable in the individual studies and in the merged dataset for the magnitude of difference between the attrition and non-attrition groups. Results: The three studies were merged after analysis found no consistent difference in demographic and illness characteristics between the three studies. There was no significant difference between the attrition and non-attrition groups in the merged data in demographic and illness characteristics. Treatment characteristics consistently found lack of efficacy and patient withdrawal of consent to be the two most frequent reasons for attrition from the studies. In addition, participants receiving a typical agent were less likely to complete the study. Effect size calculations found attrition group to more likely be Caucasian, with a lower median income. The attrition group had more years of education, but was not in school in the year previous to hospitalization. Conclusion: Historically, attrition is a major problem in clinical trials of people in a first episode of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. People receiving typical antipsychotic medication are more likely to leave a study. Most common reasons for attrition include lack of efficacy and withdrawal of consent
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Connell School of Nursing
Discipline: Nursing
Page, Bobby Vincent. "Small groups a strategy for ministry with young single adults in the United States Air Force /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textJordan, Richard Wayne. "Building people and teams for effective ministry at the Pitman Creek Church of Christ." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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