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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Alternative therapies"”.
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Oncology nurses' perceived knowledge, assessment, and recommendation of alternative therapies
Cancer patients use alternative therapies (ATs) frequently and often without the knowledge of their health care providers. The purpose of this study was to investigate oncology nurses' perceived knowledge of ATs, their level of assessment of the use of ATs by cancer patients, and what ATs they …
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Perceptions of professional nurses towards alternative therapies in the Umgungundlovu District, South Africa
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree in Masters of Technology in Nursing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2015.
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A description of the use of alternative therapies by selected nurse practitioner groups
… Practitioner (NP) utilization of 28 identified alternative therapies in providing patient care. Using a written questionnaire, a national sample of 500 randomly selected adult, family, and geriatric NP's from the membership of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners were asked to rank their …
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Case Manager's Beliefs, Knowledge and Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Clinical Practice
… with their patients who use some of these therapies. A descriptive, non-experimental, quantitative research design was utilized. A general e-mail was sent to all case managers employed by Paradigm Health Inc. inviting them to complete an anonymous on-line survey. A total of 48 case managers …
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A Literature Review Examining the Effects of Complementary and Alternative Therapies on Cancer Pain Management
… to assess the effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in managing pain for both adult and child populations with cancer. Several databases were searched using the keywords children, child, adult, CAM, complementary and alternative medicine, integrative medicine, CIM, …
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Understanding and treating eating disorders from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective
… are known to seek help from complementary and alternative therapies (CAM). There is no scientific evidence investigating the role of acupuncture as a CAM treatment in eating disorders. The aim of this thesis is to provide a scientific evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the area …
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Shared Consciousness: A Social History of Tourette Syndrome and its Treatments
… with the disorder to practice complementary and alternative therapies. While some of these alternative interventions continue to rely on the guidance of a standard health care professional, several individuals with Tourette syndrome, often referred to as Touretters, have formulated treatments of …
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Shared Consciousness: A Social History of Tourette Syndrome and its Treatments
… with the disorder to practice complementary and alternative therapies. While some of these alternative interventions continue to rely on the guidance of a standard health care professional, several individuals with Tourette syndrome, often referred to as Touretters, have formulated treatments of …
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The role of the cytochrome B and cytochrome C oxidase III genes in the immune response of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae
… Probiotics are increasingly being viewed as an alternative to chemical and antibiotic treatments (Balcazar et al., 2006), and have been shown to improve the health of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae (Macey and Coyne, 2005). In order to establish better health management systems, and to …
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Analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Treatment Options
… of ASD and ADHD, whether using medications or alternative therapies.</p>
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The Last Remedy
… The author’s experience with medical clinics, alternative therapies, and the lifelong search for a remedy illuminates the fact that the body is more than a medical subject. It is a complex set of axes—emotional, physical, intellectual—between which no distinct boundaries can be drawn.</p> …
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Mechanisms into the development of fatty liver disease: role of bile acids, Betaine and MHY908
… investigations focused on investigating possible alternative therapies for NAFLD such as bile acids, betaine and a PPARα/γ dual agonist MHY908. Method: Human hepatoma cell line, VL17A cells were treated with saturated fatty acid palmitic acid (PA) with a range of concentrations between 10 μM - 300 …
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Acupressure and its use for dysmenorrhea
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of acupressure applied to the Ho-ku acupuncture point (on the hand between the index finger and thumb) on dysmenorrhea and attitudes towards menstruation. Sixty menstruating women were randomly assigned to a control group and an experimental …
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Avaliação do uso de nano carreadores de ramnolipídeos associados ao fotossensibilizador azul de Taylor na terapia fotodinâmica antimicrobiana contra Staphylococcus aureus: estudo in vitro
… to antibiotics has driven the search for alternative therapies, such as Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy (PDT). With the advancement of science, nanotechnology techniques are increasingly present, promoting the enhancement of existing techniques. This study evaluated, in vitro, the …
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Lysin Based Antimicrobial Peptides Against Acinetobacter Baumannii
… A. baumannii clones has fueled a search for alternative therapies, including bacteriophage endolysins with potent antibacterial activities. A common feature of these lysins is the presence of a highly positively charged C-terminal domain with a likely role in promoting outer membrane …
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Investigating the effectiveness of New Zealand Blackcurrant extract to modulate postprandial glycaemia in overweight/obese individuals
… reducing caloric intake is poor, and therefore alternative therapies need to be investigated. A major component surrounding the progression of obesity to diabetes and further co-morbidities is sustained periods of postprandial hyperglycaemia. Current epidemiological evidence has suggested that …
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Naturopathic Physicians’ Attitudes, Knowledge, and Practices Regarding Xylitol in Clinical Practice
… the current trend toward complementary and alternative therapies.</p>
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A Recurrent Network Approach to G-Computation for Sepsis Outcome Prediction Under Dynamic Treatment Regimes
… trials allow researchers to test the effects of alternative therapies more directly, but these types of studies tend to span multiple years and recent results regarding optimal regimes have been conflicting. In this thesis, we use methods from causal inference to predict outcomes in sepsis …
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Stimulation of angiogenesis through growth factor delivery from synthetic heparinised hydrogels
… to minimal regenerative capability of the heart, alternative therapies have been sought after with engineered biomaterials being extensively investigated in this area. In this study, enzymatically degradable heparinised polyethylene glycol (PEG-Hep) hydrogels were synthesized and characterised for …
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Modulation of neuronal ryanodine receptor-mediated calcium signaling by calsenilin
… controlled by CICR and aid in developing novel alternative therapies using these newly identified mechanisms as targets.
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