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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Prospective Design"”.
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A Prospective Design Identifying Etiological Risk Factors Associated with MTSS and Stress Fractures in Female Intercollegiate Athletes.
… athletes. This study used a mulitifactorial, prospective design for 13-26 weeks. Thirty-nine Division I intercollegiate female student-athletes in volleyball, soccer, and track were examined. Anatomical, physiological (eating disorder and menstrual history), and training (duration and recovery …
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Risk Factors in the Development of Postnatal Anxiety Symptomatology
… investigate the role of these factors by using a prospective design and standardised measures. Attachment theory is presented as a theoretical framework. It has been debated whether anxiety symptoms in the postpartum should be understood as a feature of postnatal depression, or as a separate …
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A Prospective Investigation of Social-Cognitive Predictors of Physical Activity: Development of a Causal Model
… in a sample of 277 university students using a prospective design. Results of structural equation modeling indicated a good fit of the social-cognitive model to the data. Self-efficacy had the greatest significant total effect on physical activity, largely through its significant association …
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The journey of a lifetime : conceptualising mental health in community-based asylum-seekers negotiating the refugee determination process
… the RDP, particularly studies employing a prospective design.
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Cynicism and narcissism: masking the good life?
… is important. A recent study, utilizing a prospective design, revealed cynicism and narcissism as significant inhibitors of trait and state gratitude over time (Solom, Watkins, McCurrach, & Scheibe, 2016). The current study hoped to build upon those results by examining whether these two …
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Danger appraisals as prospective predictors of disgust and avoidance
… distress and avoidance. The current study used a prospective design to assess threat appraisals, personality traits, and obsessive compulsive symptoms in an unselected sample of university students and community members (N = 105) several days prior to a contamination behavioural approach task …
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Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Neurocognitive Performance in Dementia Patients
… in any domain. Future research should utilize a prospective design and administer neuropsychological batteries to participants in early or middle adulthood who have not been yet diagnosed with dementia.</p>
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The concept of conflict in health psychology: Person by situation measurement
… psychological conflict in a short-longitudinal prospective design to investigate differences in chronic illness versus no-chronic-illness controls and to assess the power of these conflict measures in predicting health outcomes. In particular, Emmons' (1986) Personal Strivings Matrix, which …
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A descriptive study of the use of troponin I testing at a Cape Town district hospital
… specialties. Methods A cross-sectional, prospective design was employed, using multiple data sources. We collected a consecutive sample over a three-month period from Victoria hospital’s Emergency Centre using a dedicated data collection tool connected to use of the point-of-care troponin …
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The Effect of a Professional Practice Model on Clinical Nurses' Perceptions of Their Practice Environment and Job Satisfaction on Medical and Medical-surgical Units
… focusing on elements of the PPM.</p> <p><strong>Design</strong>: A descriptive, pretest-posttest design using secondary data to analyze nurses’ perception of their practice environment and job satisfaction before and after implementation of the healthcare organizations PPM. Also, a prospective …
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Cognitive factors in NHS staff responses to violence and aggression
… potential psychological consequences. Using a prospective design, the present study sought to establish whether cognitive factors, specified in Ehlers and Clark's (2000) model, could predict symptom severity over and above other established risk factors. The aim was to develop and refine a …
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Thyroid hormones and breast cancer-prospective studies on incidence, mortality and prognostic factors
Thyroid hormones and breast cancer-prospective studies on incidence, mortality and prognostic factors The aim of this thesis was to investigate in a prospective design, thyroid hormones in relation to breast cancer risk, mortality and prognostic factors. The association between total …
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Clinical Outcomes Associated with Speech, Language and Swallowing Difficulties Post-Stroke – A Prospective Cohort Study
Background: Due to a lack of prospective research in South Africa's Speech-Language Therapy (SLT) private healthcare sector, this prospective cohort study investigated associations between speech, language, and swallowing conditions (i.e. dysarthria, apraxia of speech, aphasia, dysphagia), risk …
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Developing and Validating a Measure of Transformational Followership
… Prolific Academic. Finally, Phase 3 entailed a prospective design whereby leaders filled out the transformational followership scale with reference to one of their followers at three separate timepoints (N = 207). This third study assessed the temporal consistency of the new measure, aided in …
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Falls And Hospitalized Cancer Patients
… agency, and self-care impact falls.</p> <p>Design: case-control with prospective design component. Sample: retrospective, n=104; (74 controls, 30 cases); prospective, n=32 Findings: Statistically significant variables that were associated with a fall and included in the logistic regression …
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Probing Nanoscale Functional Properties of Perovskite and Wurtzite Ferroelectrics via Scanning Probe Microscopy
… and wurtzite ferroelectric materials for prospective applications in science and technology. Ferroelectrics exhibit a switchable spontaneous polarization when subjected to an electric field and are instrumental in developing low-energy nanoelectronics. Topologically tailored nanoscale …
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Stress and Reward Function in Concurrent Depression and Chronic Cannabis Use
… cannabis use. This investigation utilized a prospective design to examine differences in depression, functioning, perceived stress, and facets underlying anhedonia (consummatory and anticipatory pleasure, motivation, and reward sensitivity/responsiveness) between the following groups: …
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Informal Caregivers of Advanced Cancer Patients: The Impact of Geographic Proximity on Social Support and Bereavement Adjustment
… were of particular interest. This study used a prospective design to explore how a caregiver's geographic proximity impacted their social support and bereavement adjustment. A 2 x 3 repeated measures design was used to gather data from caregivers before a patient's death (using a pre-death …
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The Separate and Collective Effects of Personalization, Personification, and Gender on Learning with Multimedia Chemistry Instructional Materials
… employed in multimedia instructional materials designed following principles understood through the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. Additionally, these materials can expand the known use of principles like personalization (addressing the learner as "you") and test prospective design …
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Risk Perception, Psychological Well-Being, and Health-Promoting Behaviors in Persons Informed of a Coronary Artery Calcium Score
… This study used a descriptive prospective design with 174 high risk adults (3 or more major risk factors) recruited at a radiology center offering CAC scans in a Chicago suburb. Baseline self-report surveys using the Perception of Risk of Heart Disease Scale, the Quality of Life …
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