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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Practical support"”.
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How do speech-language pathologists perceive their influence over patient adherence regarding dysphagia recommendations?
… to dysphagia recommendations, family buy-in and practical support, perpetuation of bad feelings toward SLPs, personality clashes, and provider continuity. After an analysis of the findings, the Health Belief Model (HBM) was posed as the framework through which the themes could be applied to …
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Student Disability and Employability: Empowering Self-Discovery
University students with disabilities are supported in a variety of ways designed to help all students realise their academic potential. Students are supported whether they have physical disabilities or cognitive learning difficulties. When these students leave higher education and enter the …
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Supporting design: a computational theory of design and its implementation in a software support tool
… A theoretical framework is developed that supports the refinement of design from high-level concepts through implementation. This framework includes a computational model that is shown to be completely general (Turing-equivalent). Therefore, the theory and model are suitable for …
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From Crisis to Empowerment: African American Women in Community Colleges
… women who employed community colleges and other support strategies to accomplish appropriate responses to crises, identify practical support mechanisms, and achieve professional advancement in order to attain professional success. Findings provide a clearer picture of the elements these …
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The Internal Conversations and Social Networks of Care Leavers at University
… well connected and able to access emotional and practical support in their social networks. They felt different to others and managed their difficult histories in a variety of ways. The results are considered in relationship to Archer’s theory and theories of resilience.
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Evaluating breastfeeding support : a randomised controlled trial of support from breastfeeding counsellors
… for stopping. Study two, a randomised trial of support from breastfeeding counsellors, recruited 720 women. At four months, 46.1% (143/310) intervention and 42.3% (131/310) control women breastfed (Chi\(^2\)=0.942, P=0.33); 73.9% (229/310) vs 79.4% (246/310) gave bottle feeds (Chi\(^2\)=2.60, …
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Navigating Menopause in the Workplace: A Case Study exploring Attitudes, Awareness, and Impact of Menopause on employees at the Healthcare Management Trust
… duty requiring UK employers to provide supportive environments to menopausal employees, this study qualitatively evaluates the attitudes, awareness, and impact of the menopause transition amongst staff at the Healthcare Management Trust (HMT). Using an inductive approach to explore the …
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Early-career music teachers’ perceptions of the Facebook Band Directors Group as professional induction
… content-area and grade-level specific induction support for early-stage band directors. Analysis reveals that FBDG provides effective emotional and practical support to early-stage teachers, helping reduce feelings of isolation and being overwhelmed, potentially improving teacher success in the …
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African-American males with mental retardation: Friendship formation and maintenance in community-based employment
… length of involvement as friends, provision of practical support, provision of emotional support, recreational episodes, common interests, and social responsibility on the part of the friends. Findings for this study show that in all cases, the participants were highly successful in establishing …
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Social Reactions to Sexual Assault Survivors Presenting with PTSD: The Impact of Survivor Gender and Psychotherapy Treatment-Seeking Status
… perceptions of and willingness to provide social support to survivors of sexual assault presenting with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) based on the survivor’s gender (male vs. female), psychotherapy treatment-seeking status (no treatment vs. dropped out after four sessions vs. still in …
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The quality of mother-infant interactions in Khayelitsha
… the infants as wen as with poor emotional and practical support from the spouse. The rate of depression in Khayelitsha was found to be of major concern for the future of the mothers and their infants. Compared to their British counterparts, the Khayelitsha mothers-infant interactions portrayed …
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Health Promotion Intervention in Mental Health Services
… 4 factors: alliance, empowerment, educational support and practical support. The findings from study IV showed that overall perceived health promoting interventions were positively correlated to helping alliance, client satisfaction with care and empowerment. The strongest relationship was …
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How do attitudes to careers and employment aspirations differ across generations?
… both positive factors such as encouragement and practical support, and negative factors such as excessive pressure to succeed. Despite existing research suggesting that friends and peers play an important role in shaping the choices young people make, there was very little evidence of that in …
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Global Citizenship Education: Secondary Teachers’ Perceptions Of Global Education
… in their classrooms so that it can provide practical support to educators looking to begin making or improve existing global connections in the classroom.</p> <p>This study was guided by two research questions: (1) In a public school district committed to global citizenship, how do secondary …
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Reifegradmodellbasierte Implementierung von Self-Service Business Intelligence in deutschen Klein-, Mittel- und Großun-ternehmen – diskriminanzanalytische Untersuchung tech-nischer, organisatorischer und kultureller Unterschiede
… lack of orientation leaves companies without practical support and highlights the absence of a research-based, empirically supported model for SSBI implementation, resulting in low success rates despite high demand. This dissertation develops a theoretically grounded and empirically validated …
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Exploring clinicians' views about their roles when working with young people presenting with gender identity issues: a qualitative enquiry
… containment; self-reflection; and practical support. Conclusions: All clinicians highlighted the importance of thinking, exploring, seeking meaning and deeper understanding in the face of the complex presentations of TGNC young people in their care. Key to this involved clinicians’ …
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A 'pueblo' that walks together: trust and bonding among Central American transit migrants in Mexico
… quickly create trust and deep bonds and provide practical support for each other. These ties are solid and enable cooperation but are also temporary. These bonds had not been defined previously by the literature. While most authors had assumed that kin or kin-like ties are most useful while …
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An exploration of the experiences of support for informal adult carers of individuals with substance use issues in North East Scotland.
Informal carers provide unpaid support to an individual, usually a family member. The care and support which they provide has been shown to provide positive effects to the individual they support. However, this role may impact on the informal carer, often on their psychosocial wellbeing. Although …
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Harnessing the real estate market for equitable affordable housing provision in Nairobi, Kenya : insights from California, USA
… of its main agenda. Housing provision approaches supported by the current planning and housing policies which have been used for many years are unlikely to bring much change in the provision of affordable housing given the financial constraints faced by the government. This leads to the question …
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An investigation of the structural relationships among employee autonomous motivation, job performance, and satisfaction at international hotel chains in China
… total of 31 interviews were conducted to provide practical support and credibility for the theoretical model. Secondly, a survey was conducted in China, which provided 307 valid responses for use in assessment of the model. The key findings of this study are presented as follows: firstly, pay is …
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