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Showing 1 to 20 of 235 for “"Prevalence rates"”.
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Mesosystem Variables and Schools' Learning Disabilities Prevalence Rates
… in a large suburban district in Virginia. LD prevalence rates were collected for all elementary schools in the district. Data was analyzed to answer the following questions: (a) How does school organizational health correlate with the number of students referred to special education in a given …
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The Effects of Prereferral Intervention Through the Connecticut Early Intervention Project on Special Education Prevalence Rates in Connecticut Schools
… solution to concerns about special education prevalence rates. This study analyzed change in special education prevalence rates in Connecticut schools participating in the Early Intervention Project (EIP) as compared to Connecticut schools not participating in the project. The project …
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Longitudinal Course of Eating Disorder Risk Among Undergraduate Females at Brigham Young University
This research study examined the prevalence rates and longitudinal course of eating disorder risk among undergraduate females at BYU, and compared the identified prevalence rates at BYU with identified rates at other colleges and universities. Almost 2,000 undergraduate females, in three cohort …
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The prevalence of asthma in urban and rural Black children : an epidemiological survey
… 1. to provide accurate information on the prevalence rates of asthma in Xhosa children living in an urban westernised community, Guguletu, Cape Town and in a rural traditional community, Tsolo District, Republic of Transkei; 2. to compare the findings of this survey with studies done …
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Risky Behavior, Urgency, And Anonymity: What Sex, Drugs, And Eating Disorders Have In Common
… indicate that UCT produced potentially invalid prevalence rates for the risky behaviors, whereas the RRM and conventional condition produced similar prevalence rates. Negative urgency predicted eating disordered behaviors, alcohol abuse, risky sexual behaviors and supplement use, whereas …
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Children with specific learning difficulties of mathematics and reading: behavioural, emotional, and social problems : and research portfolio
This review considers prevalence rates, risk factors, neuropsychological profiles and behavioural and socioemotional problems associated with specific learning disabilities in arithmetic and reading. Both arithmetic and reading difficulties can arise from environmental, genetic, neurological and …
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Evaluation of the Impact of the Provision of Triple Combination Antiretroviral Therapy to Employees Through the In-House Health Programme at a Large South African Mining Company
… strain due to the fact that the highest HIV prevalence rates coincide with the most productive years of people’s lives, with prevalence rates peaking around the 30 to 34-year-old stratum (Shisana, et al., 2012). Loss of business productivity as a result of HIV related illness through a …
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Definitions and Criteria Used by State Education Departments for Identifying Specific Learning Disabilities
… obtain updated information regarding the current prevalence rates of SLD, current SLD definitions, and current methods being used for the identification of SLD across the United States. After examining the regulations and procedures of each state, this study found that all fifty states have …
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Gambling in San Diego County: A Case Study
… of gambling are predictors of high gambling rates, there is little information on the impact of economic conditions on gambling intensity, as well as the prevalence of such behavior in specific locations. With multiple gambling venues, a growing population of the demographic groups associated …
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Controlling the pressure : an investigation of knowledge, locus of control, and value of pressure sore prevention in relation to prevalence
… pressure sore prevention relate to knowledge and prevalence rates of pressure sores. Reference is made to value of pressure sore prevention. The survey population consisted of nursing and assistant nursing staff in both hospital and community settings of a rural Health Service Trust. Surveys were …
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Naděje dožití bez demence v Evropě
… is calculated using Sullivan's method, based on prevalence rates of dementia and constructed life tables. The results show that standardized dementia prevalence rates are relatively homogeneous across Europe but increase sharply with age and are higher among women. The share of life spent without …
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Development, implementation and evaluation of a diabetes educational outreach inervention for pharmacists
Increasing diabetes prevalence rates, poor involvement of and limited knowledge among health care professionals in disease management, and poor implementation of guidelines are barriers to quality diabetes care. This thesis aimed to develop, implement and evaluate an on-site diabetes …
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Retrospective analysis of treated prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity prevalence, and healthcare utilization and expenditures in commercially insured children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
… to explain geographic variation in the treated prevalence of ASD, compare the prevalence of selected psychiatric conditions between ASD and non-ASD patients, and to estimate incremental healthcare utilization and expenditures. A commercial claims database was utilized to address all aims. …
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HIV prevalence estimates and their use in regression models: cautionary evidence from Zimbabwe and studies of the relationship between armed conflict and HIV
… first is that regressions on country-level HIV prevalence are compromised by the fact that the HIV data used are estimates and not empirical data points. The HIV prevalence rates published by UNAIDS are estimates derived from epidemiological modelling (using EPP and Spectrum) in which data from …
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Obesity and spatial context in Appalachia
The prevalence of obesity has increased substantially over the past 30 years. Obesity is a multi-factorial disorder, which is often associated with many other significant diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases, osteoarthritis and certain cancers. For these …
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Adolescent Inhalant Use in the United States: Examining Long-Term Trends and Evaluating the Applicability of Self-Determination Theory
… I examined long-terms trends in inhalant use prevalence rates and changing proportions of gender and ethnic groups among lifetime inhalant users. Study I also evaluated the effects of policies aimed at other drugs, including regional "three strikes laws" and national methamphetamine laws, on …
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Placing the dead: the spatial distribution and spread of HIV in a major South African city
… that detect the spatial relationship between HIV prevalence rates and vectors that drive the pandemic.
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Three essays on institutions and development in sub-Saharan Africa
… seek to explain the correlation between high HIV prevalence rates and the Christian share of the population that contrasts with low HIV prevalence rates observed with the Muslim share of the population. We conclude that, while male circumcision (a predominantly Muslim tradition) is inversely …
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Utility of the Motivation to Change Lifestyle and Health Behaviors for Dementia Risk Reduction Scale (MCLHB-DRR) Based on a North American Sample
<p>As the population ages, the prevalence rates of dementia continue to increase. Without a cure or promising treatment for dementia, the best course of lowering the prevalence rates of dementia is through preventative measures. Through an electronic survey, the study utilized the MCLHB-DRR scale …
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