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Showing 1 to 20 of 197 for “"Culturally Appropriate"”.
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Delivering culturally appropriate healthcare to Mexican immigrant women
… that appear to be critical factors in delivering culturally appropriate healthcare. The questions that guided the research were: What adjustment issues .related to providing culturally appropriate healthcare to female Mexican patients do nurses have to face? What specific knowledge, skills can …
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Perceptions About Culturally Appropriate Practices: A Survey of Early Intervention Professionals
… likely to interact with an increasing number of culturally diverse families. Despite the ethnic diversity among families, the staffing patterns of early intervention (EI) programs remain predominantly European-American and monolingual. A challenge for the next decade will be to diversify the …
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Conceptualisation and Culturally Appropriate Assessment of Executive Function in Children in Ghana and Nigeria
… (CAMHS). However, presently there are no known culturally appropriate tools for assessing EF in Ghana and Nigeria. This study aimed to explore the local conceptualization of EF and adapt an appropriately selected EF tool for the cross-cultural context of Ghana and Nigeria. Methods: This study …
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Metabolic syndrome: effect of a culturally appropriate diet and physical activity in female Pakistani immigrants
… Syndrome exist in Pakistani females? Is a culturally appropriate diet and lifestyle intervention an effective mechanism for preventing the onset, or reducing the severity of Metabolic Syndrome in migrant Pakistani women?
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Culturally Appropriate Indian Applications of Marriage and Family Therapy Interventions Explored Through an HIV Example
There are 5.7 million people in India who are living with HIV/AIDS and many more are indirectly affected by the epidemic (families, children). Since HIV/AIDS is a growing problem, further research for prevention and treatment is needed. Family therapists possess an important role in the AIDS crisis …
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A Gap Analysis of Nursing Systems and Practices in Malaysia: Culturally Appropriate Interventions to Advance Nursing
… nursing programs, and additionally, proposes culturally appropriate interventions for Malaysian nursing to adopt American nursing models. The gap analysis was conducted on nursing systems and practices in Malaysia undertaken to identify the differences between Malaysian and American nursing, …
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Providing Culturally Appropriate Services to Immigrant Children and Families Involved with the Allegheny County Department of Human Services
… immigrant children and families from receiving culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
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Oral tradition in the classroom: The relationship between the use of culturally appropriate reading material and reading comprehension
… explores the relationship between the use of culturally sensitive reading material and reading comprehension among Spanish-speaking language minority students of elementary school age. Text includes Spanish and English transcriptions of stories.
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Oral tradition in the classroom: The relationship between the use of culturally appropriate reading material and reading comprehension
… explores the relationship between the use of culturally sensitive reading material and reading comprehension among Spanish-speaking language minority students of elementary school age. Text includes Spanish and English transcriptions of stories.
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Towards culturally appropriate speech-language and hearing services : exploring the cultural narrative in initial consultations with Xhosa-speaking patients
… health providers aspire. This move towards more culturally and linguistically appropriate services is in line with the worldwide trend away from the biomedical to a more biopsychosocial and patient-centered approach to health care. Within the field of Speech-Language and Hearing Therapy (SLHT), …
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The development and validation of the appearance satisfaction questionnaire - the first culturally appropriate measure for body image in black women
Current theories in body image postulate that body dissatisfaction predicts eating disorder pathology. Previous research in body image with Black women claims that Black women do not experience body dissatisfaction and suggests that being Black may act as a protective factor against body image …
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Examining health information source-selection, access, and use by men in rural areas of south-east Nigeria: mapping culturally appropriate health information provision.
… the provision of health information that is culturally and locally appropriate. This research aims to investigate the health information behaviour of men in rural Nigeria and explore the local sociocultural aspects that relate to the provision of prostate cancer information. The research …
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The development and evaluation of a socio-culturally appropriate information literacy programme for journalism and mass communication students at the National Open University of Nigeria.
… and evaluating a subject-specific and socio-culturally appropriate information literacy instructional programme for students. Previous research in this area within the context of Nigeria, has focused mainly on assessing students' information literacy skills, librarians' perceptions of …
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Fa’afatāmanu talafeagai mo lesona fa’asaienisi: O le tu’ualalo mo a’oga a faia’oga saienisi fa’aōliōli. A culturally appropriate formative assessment in science lessons: Implications for initial science teacher education.
… of teachers on doing formative assessment. The culturally constructed le-tautala or pupil silence in the classrooms that was mentioned by teachers seemed to hinder formative interactions in classrooms. Written worksheets from this study seemed to be culturally appropriate for doing formative …
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The meaning and experience of receiving HIV post-test psychological counselling by African childbearing migrant women from a culturally appropriate counselling model in comparison to classical western models: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… there is a plethora of literature advocating culturally sensitive counselling services, there is a paucity of research relating to HIV-counselling. A notable exception is the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT). A 2001 service-user feedback survey conducted by this trust revealed some reasons why …
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Media Effects: Cultural Appropriation And Attitudes Towards Cosmetic Surgery
… media's influence on Caucasian women to culturally appropriate the physical features generally ascribed to African American women through non-surgical and or surgical cosmetic procedures and vice versa. Participants were 26 African American women and 54 Caucasian women who had previously …
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Preliminary Validation of a Native American Food Safety Knowledge Survey
… and validate a food safety knowledge survey culturally appropriate for Native American Populations. A reiterative three-phased approach (survey generation and item construction, survey item review, and statistical item analysis) to survey validation was employed to collect both quantitative …
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A preliminary study of a correlation between scores on a 6-item cognitive impairment test and a modified Bristol Activities of Daily Living Scale obtained from older women in Khayelitsha
The absence of culturally appropriate assessment tools for the measurement of cognition and activities of daily living in an older black African population living in South Africa was the reason for embarking on the study. The purpose of the study was to develop culturally appropriate screening …
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A Descriptive, Comparative Health Assessment Of Unique Older-Adult Populations In Israel
… include development and implementation of culturally appropriate policies and intervention strategies to improve health outcomes, close disparities, and increase access to internet and tele-medicine. Interdisciplinary translational research and appropriation of funding must be prioritized …
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Writing and Teaching Curriculum With Relationships in Our Place: A Critical Meta-analysis of Saskatchewan Core French Curricula's Cultural Indicators
… action, specifically the principle of developing culturally appropriate curricula. Senator Murray Sinclair said Indigenous children must be able to answer the following questions: Where do I come from; where am I going; why am I here; and who am I? (Sinclair, 2016). I framed my research along …
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