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Showing 1 to 20 of 385 for “"Convenience sampling"”.
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Hospice Nurses Knowledge, Attitudes, and Reported Confidence in End-of-Life Story Telling and Perceptions of the Dying Experience: Intervention Study
… nurse’s knowledge, attitudes, and confidence. A convenience sampling method was used. The sample consisted of 6 Hospice Nurse Case Managers. The study findings support offering Hospice Nurses a class on client end-of- life story telling.</p>
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African American Males, Mentorship, And University Success: A Qualitative Study
… graduates. The researcher used purposeful convenience sampling to select black male graduates who had experienced mentoring. Face to face interviews were conducted and the transcripts were analyzed for themes. The findings suggest that mentoring played a significant role in helping the …
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The implementation of restorative justice by magistrates, prosecutors and probation officers in sentencing of young offenders at selected district magistrate courts in the Western Cape
… the judicial and social welfare system. Using convenience sampling (non-probability), magistrates, prosecutors and probation officers were specifically targeted to ascertain to what extend participants were currently implementing the approach of restorative justice in the sentencing of young …
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Contribution of Reference Agents to Recovery Maintenance: A Social World Analysis of Narcotics Anonymous Affiliation
… semi-structured interviewing (N = 13) based upon convenience sampling were employed. This study elicited six stages of social referencing that Newcomers experience during the process of becoming recovering addicts.
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An Exploration of the Occupational Needs of College Students
… this question, we conducted a survey using convenience sampling with twenty-seven Dominican undergraduate students, interviewed staff, and conducted a focus group with the students who participated in the survey. Our results indicated four main themes which include: occupational needs, …
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A survey of the prevalence and burden of pain and symptoms amongst HIV positive patients attending HIV treatment clinics in the University of the Witwatersrand Academic Hospital clinics
… at the three clinics were invited, using convenience sampling, to participate in completing the interviewer administered Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale-Short Form (MSAS-SF) which assesses the 7 day prevalence and distress for 28 physical symptoms and prevalence and frequency of four …
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Resilience in Indian families in which a member has died
… adapt after the loss of a family member. Using a convenience sampling method, thirty families were identified. Open-ended questions and the following measurement scales were completed by the parent and an adolescent of each selected family: a biographical questionnaire, Social Support Index, …
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ELDERLY SINGAPOREANS' PERCEPTIONS OF UNDERGOING JOINT REPLACEMENT SURGERY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY
… MODEL (CCM) AND SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY (SCT). CONVENIENCE SAMPLING WAS UTILISED TO RECRUIT 14 ELDERLY PARTICIPANTS UNDERGOING TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT AND TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERIES AT A LOCAL ACUTE TERTIARY HOSPITAL USING SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS. EIGHT THEMES AND 21 SUBTHEMES EMERGED …
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The Experience of Adults with Chronic Stroke who have Participated in Occupation-Based or Modified Constraint Induced Interventions as a Part of a Research Study
… study. Four participants were recruited through convenience sampling and interviewed about their participation in research. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed until themes emerged. Results showed participants engaged in the research interventions because of a desire to …
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A study using black physically disabled women leaders' experiences to examine how a developmental state can deal with economic disparities faced by black young physically disabled women
… qualitative methods, the researcher used convenience sampling of four physically disabled women who are leaders in the disability rights movement. The sample took into cognisance provincial boundaries, different disabilities, races and ages in an endeavour to have as diverse a population …
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Exploring family-centered care among pediatric oncology nurses
… Hospital were recruited through purposeful convenience sampling and were then interviewed. Five major themes were identified from the data set: ACH support f FCC, How participants defined FCC, Establishing FCC, Enhancing FCC, and Barriers and Challenges to providing FCC. Recommendations for …
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Supervisor-focused impression management and social undermining as self-enhancing responses to perceived job insecurity
… (CSE). Data were gathered through targeted sampling to workers in the federal government (Sample 1, N = 91), as well as convenience sampling (Sample 2, N = 146). Results from hierarchical regression indicate that the type of job insecurity plays a role. In Sample 1, quantitative job …
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Exploring Factors Impacting Veterans' Hypertension Control
… exploratory, cross-sectional, retrospective, convenience sampling research design, 331 electronic medical records in a VA dashboard data set were reviewed for men and women veterans between the age 24 and 98 years (M=62, SD=13) in a Southern California Veterans Affair primary care clinic from …
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Are a materialistic lifestyle and income associated with subjective well-being?
… between income and materialism. The study used convenience sampling, with 237 participants. Material values of the participants were measured with the Material Values Scale. The subjective well-being of the participants was measured with the Satisfaction With Life Scale. The results were …
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Ethical decision-making amongst HR employees within a retails organisation
… Africa. The researcher used a non-probability sampling technique specifically, a convenience sampling approach. The results of this study indicate that there is a statistically significant correlation between moral awareness and decision-making amongst HR employees. However with regards to …
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Autocompasión y evitación experiencial, una relación inversa en adultos jóvenes de Lima Metropolitana
… were evaluated through non-probability convenience sampling. For the measurement of the variables, two scales adapted to the Peruvian context were used: Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) and Acceptance and Action Scale II (AAQ-II). The results showed a strong and negative relationship between …
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The Lived Experience of Informal Caregivers of Chronic Stroke Patients
… chronic stroke were recruited for the study via convenience sampling. Participants were audio-recorded during a semi-structured interview lasting 60-80 minutes. The interview guide was consistent across participants and included open-ended questions about the caregiver’s leisure participation and …
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Health-Related Quality of Life and Associated Factors in Patients with Hypertension
… This study was a correlational survey using a convenience sampling. A total of 110 patients diagnosed hypertension were recruited from one health center in Gyeonggi-do. Used questionnaires were Cardiovascular Disease Specific -HRQOL questionnaire, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression, …
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A Multiple Case Study of the Training of Instructors Teaching Inclusive Postsecondary Education Students in Typical College Courses
… the sample for this study. Two types of sampling were used: convenience sampling and non-probability or purposeful sampling. Convenience sampling was used to select the five IPSE programs based on their willingness to participate and provide the needed documents for analysis. Purposeful …
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Determining entrepreneurial challenges among women entrepreneurs selling fruits in the Vhembe District
… within the qualitative approach dictates. The convenience sampling technique was utilised to select the participants. The study interviewed 15 women entrepreneurs using face-to-face interviews guided by the structured interview guide. The collected data was transcribed using Microsoft Word and …
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