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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Demographic Predictors"”.
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Socio-Economic and Demographic Predictors of Mammography and Pap Smear Screening in US Women
… cancer screening and examines socio-economic and demographic predictors for usage of preventative screening measures. This project also examines disparities in the current screening process. Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) from 1987 and 2010 were used to compare differences …
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Juvenile recidivism: an analysis of race and other socio-demographic predictors within three intervention modalities in the state of Louisiana
… between recidivism and clients' individual socio-demographic characteristics; to find out whether race would have any effect on recidivism, ceteris paribus; and to examine the relationship between race and other potential predictors of recidivism. Existing literature was reviewed and among the …
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Are Functional Limitations Predictive of Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Chronic Pain Patients?
… these techniques. While some health-related and demographic predictors for use of complementary and alternative techniques are known, it is not known if the level of limitations can help predict the use of complementary and alternative techniques in chronic pain patients. The 2012 National Health …
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Risk-Taking Behaviour in people diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder
… with BD compared to controls. Clinical and demographic predictors of risk-taking in BD were also explored. The research paper aimed at characterising a group of people with BD in the context of FTT and to explore whether measures of FTT were predictive of higher risk-taking tendencies after …
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Attitudes and Perceptions Towards Snakes: Informing Conservation Education
… efforts. This study explored how sociodemographic factors, emotional responses, and personal experiences influence attitudes toward snakes and willingness to engage in conservation education programs. A quantitative survey of 369 Canadian adults assessed emotional, experiential, and …
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THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG MENTAL HEALTH, MEDICINAL DRUGS, DRINKING AND DRIVING AND ROAD RAGE AND MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS ON A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF ONTARIO ADULTS
… in a hierarchical logistic regression analysis. Demographic predictors, psychiatric distress, and mediating variables were entered in blocks into five models. Findings indicated the relationship between psychiatric distress and motor vehicle collisions was not mediated by antidepressant and/or …
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Predicting the risk for postoperative delirium using routine EEG monitoring data
… Current prediction models often rely on demographic factors that lack sufficient granularity in age-homogeneous populations. We hypothesized that routine intraoperative EEG monitoring could detect underlying brain vulnerability patterns predictive of POD beyond clinical risk factors. We …
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The Role of Demographics: Who Engages in and Who Benefits from Family Supportive Supervisor Behavior?
… purpose of this study is to empirically examine demographic predictors of FSSB and of which employees benefit most from FSSB.</p> <p>Drawing on social identity theory, a research model is proposed to examine whether an individual’s demographic characteristics, operationalized as gender identity, …
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Illusory judgments under conditions of uncertainty: Reasoning errors related to paranormal and religious beliefs
<p>This research examined the predictors of illusory judgments of prediction under conditions of uncertainty. Study 1 investigated the believability of an experimental manipulation that required participants to choose a strategy for target object selection. Study 2 expanded upon Study 1 by giving …
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The Politics of Repeal and Replace: Testing the Limits of the Affordable Care Act's Behavioral Policy Feedbacks
… to predict ACA beneficiaries using known demographic predictors of ACA benefit. Together, the findings of the three papers, while supportive of threat as a key motivator of protective political behaviors, draw attention to the limitations of survey data and our reliance of self-reports in …
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Client Satisfaction and Kentucky Adult Day Care Services
… center. A third hypothesis predicted that client demographic predictors of satisfaction would be similar to those reported by Weissert et al. (1990). Due to the uniformly high level of satisfaction, the hypotheses could not be evaluated. The author did, however, explore the explanation that social …
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MULTIDIMENSIONAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS DISABILITY AMONG INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AT A MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES
… between these variables and the following demographic factors: sex, age, country of origin, religion, college major, and level of college study. The study is a cross-sectional survey design. The effective sample of the study was 211 enrolled undergraduate and graduate international students …
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Population pharmacokinetics: model-free approach and nonlinear mixed-effects modelling
… the model-free method is capable to identify predictors of exposure in a wide range of variability in the data. The non-linear mixed effect modelling is used to confirm the results of the model-free investigation. Model-free approach is successfully applied to several drugs. Non-linear Mixed …
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ADHD-specific knowledge and attitudes of New South Wales Government school teachers
… instrument, and also examined the impact of demographic characteristics on the level of knowledge and attitudes. Analysis showed that NSW government school teaches scored average 73.32% on Scale for ADHD-specific knowledge (SASK), but had a less sound knowledge in some areas than others, for …
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The Transfer Promise: An Investigation of Impediments to Academic Success and Persistence in a Mid-Sized Urban University
… of attrition.</p> <p>To identify noncognitive predictors, the researcher examined the percentage of transfer students in academic difficulty for every response to each of the 152 items on a Transfer Student Survey (TSS). Respondents were separated into 4 groups based on their restrictive levels …
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Examining the Relationship between Technology & Engineering Instruction and Technology & Engineering Literacy in K-8 Education
… study findings provided evidence to suggest that demographic predictors such as gender, socioeconomic status, and race/ethnicity have a significant relationship on student achievement in technology and engineering literacy. Additionally, evidence suggests that the more frequently students are …
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Worldviews and health care choices among people with chronic pain
… that people with chronic health conditions, demographic predictors, and philosophical differences might contribute to characteristics associated with CAM use. In the literature review, two premises were established: (1) that healing is the psychophysiological response to underlying beliefs, …
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Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainability in Urban Planning and the Energy Impact of Sprawl
… we analyze the relative contribution of various demographic predictors on total household energy consumption and develop two models for scenario analysis. This analysis offers opportunities for local planners to formulate policies and plans that would be more effective in reducing household …
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Relationship between Industry and Occupation with Cancer Using the Illinois BRFSS Survey (2018 to 2022)
… data with those found using the CDC's standard demographic weighting approach. The method showed mapping civilians' industry (NAICS 2022) and occupation (SOC 2018) codes to International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifications to identify exposure to known (Group 1), probable (Group …
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Understanding the Drivers of Vaccine Hesitancy During COVID-19 in Mississippi, United States
… study, I explored how physician-participant demographic concordance affects vaccine intentions. Race-concordant physician trust consistently associated with lower vaccine intentions, potentially reflecting deep-rooted historical (mis)trust. Gender- and age-concordant trust initially showed …
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