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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Rural Midwest"”.
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Transinstitutionalization : a case study of two residential care facilities in rural midwest North America
Since deinstitutionalization began during the 1950's in North America, thousands of individuals with a Severe and Persistent Mental Illness were forced out of large, state run, institutions. While society may have seen deinstitutionalization as a positive direction for society, the outcome of this …
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An Integrated Delivery Model For Providing On-Site and Remote Radiology Services To Rural Midwest Hospitals
… delivery for providing radiology services to rural Midwest hospitals. A key priority was to investigate a model of delivery that ensured radiology services were available to rural Midwest hospital patients, similar to the level of quality and value patients could receive by traveling to larger …
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Health-promoting Behaviors of Adults Who Attend Nurse-managed Cardiac Risk Screening Clinics in the Rural Midwest
<p>Perceived health status, perceived healthy lifestyle, value of health, and selected demographics were analyzed for their relationship to. health-promoting behaviors in 143 adults between the ages of 28 and 86. The non-probability sample was obtained from adults who attended nurse-managed cardiac …
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A qualitative exploration of Latino immigrant integration in the rural Midwest : long-term resident and immigrant perspectives
… growth occurred in the South (57% increase) and Midwest (49% increase). Much of this increase is due to the migration of immigrants from urban areas to suburban and rural communities. Much of the extant literature on Latino immigrant integration focuses on urban areas and only accounts for the …
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Defining the Boundaries: Family Farmers, Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and the State in the Rural Midwest, 1898--1938
… new relationships and conflicts it engendered. Rural Michigan offers an excellent place for analyzing how one part of the rural Midwest experienced many of the social and economics changes historians usually associate solely with urban industrial America. By focusing on industrialization, class …
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“Rantoul es como Jayuya:” (De)valued migrations, education, and progreso within media, Puerto Rico, and the rural Midwest
… media with narratives of individuals engaging in rural-to-rural migration between the island and the United States in the 21st century. Specifically, this qualitative project based on ethnographic methods unveils how (1) migrants, (2) people in Jayuya, Puerto Rico, (3) individuals of varied …
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Mental health outcomes, social functioning, and the perspectives of children from methamphetamine-involved families in the rural Midwest: challenges and strengths
… to children from methamphetamine-involved, rural-dwelling families.Developing an understanding of children’s strengths as well as their limitations is necessary to the development of interventions that not only remediate deficits, but develop strengths. This cross-sectional, descriptive …
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Telecommunications and the second language classroom
… involved in this study were from two small rural Midwest high schools and were in their second year of studying either Spanish or German. A comparison group used a more traditional approach to writing, having the teacher and one other student in their class read their three assignments. The …
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Latina/o immigrant well-being in the heartland : a path analysis of acculturation, enculturation, and perceived discrimination
… communities throughout the South and Midwest. These areas present unique strengths and barriers for immigrant settlement. Drawing on Berry's (1974; 1997; 2001; 2003; 2013) model of acculturation and research on well-being outcomes associated with discrimination, the current study …
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Exploring the ally relationship between Black American students and White student affairs professionals at a small, private, liberal arts predominantly White institution
… arts predominantly White institution in the rural Midwest. Student participants shared that they expect student affairs allies to be educated, listen, show compassion, and take action. Student affairs staff members believe they are allies if they show up for their students, and if their …
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Adherence to Self-Monitoring Predicts Weight Loss and Weight Regain in Rural Breast Cancer Survivors
… survivors (BMI=27 to 45kg/m2) living in the rural Midwest enrolled in an intervention with two phases: non-randomized 6-month weight loss followed by 12-month weight maintenance where participants were randomized to either continued bi-weekly conference calls or bi-weekly newsletters. Final …
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The comparison of sexual attitudes and knowledge of female college students, their mothers and their same-sexed best friend
… sample was drawn from a population living in a rural Midwest state. Three groups of mother (N=24), female community college student (N=21), and same-sexed best friend (N=22) participated. Part I, II, and III of Lief and Reed's Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test was used for data collection. …
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Influences of stress, individual and family processes on rural low-income children’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors
… economic pressure, acculturative stress) places rural children at risk for adverse outcomes. Prior studies using rural samples to understand the stress processes at the individual and family levels have been predominantly dyadic in focus. Given family members are interdependent, it is interesting …
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Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota
… suggests that research on community radio in the rural Midwest, situated broadly within the New Latino Diaspora, offers critical insights into how emergent Latinx immigrant communities and their allies negotiate and assert their identities in the public sphere. I analyze three sociolinguistic …
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A Case Study: Understanding Fifth-Grade Students' Experiences with Conflict Transformation
… students and one classroom teacher in a rural, Midwest elementary school. Data collection included two transcribed student focus groups and two teacher interviews. Observational field notes were collected. Data from observations included student art, journal entries, and role-play. …