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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"Rural women"”.
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Rural Women and Health Status Appraisal
… purposes of this study are to examine how rura1 women define health, appraise their own health status, and identify how they maintain their current health status,. Specific research questions include: How do rural women define health? How do rural women maintain their current health status? How …
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Breast Self-Examination Performance Proficiency Among Rural Women
… of performance proficiency of BSE among rural women that lived along the southeastern boarder of South Dakota. Insight gained from this study also provided two secondary benefits. Secondary benefits were: (1) the identification of educational deficits related to BSE performance, and (2) …
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Depressive Symptomatology and Perceived Social Support in Rural Women
… the incidence of depressive symptomatology in rural women, (b) identify levels of perceived social support in rural women, and (c) determine if perceived social support is related to depressive symptomatology in rural women. The Beck Depression Inventory (DDI) measured depressive symptoms and …
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Help-Seeking for Depression in Rural Women: A Community Portrait
… with fourteen participants who lived in a rural Virginia community. The focus of the study was exploration of the nature of the experience of depression and of help-seeking for depression in one rural woman and in her community social network. The need for exploration of the community …
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Health-promoting Behavior Comparisons of Insured and Uninsured Rural Women
… and the health care seeking behavior of rural insured and uninsured women. The study also described the demographic characteristics of these groups. A comparative, descriptive, and non-experimental study design was utilized. A sample size of sixty-four (N=64) was achieved. Information …
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Rural Women's Perspectives on Cancer Care in Southern Saskatchewan
… follow up and palliative care. Those living in rural areas in Canada experience additional burdens in meeting supportive care needs. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of women who had been diagnosed with cancer living in a rural area, related to met and unmet supportive …
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Exploring the development challenges facing rural women in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe
The objectives of the study are to explore how women assess their situation in Matabeleland South with regard to their socio-economic realities; to find out the individual and community circumstances that these rural women in the drought prone region find themselves in; to explore the most …
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Hut lung : a study of domestically acquired pneumoconiosis in rural women
Pneumoconiosis in rural Transkeian women termed "Transkei Silicosis" has been thought to be caused by silica inhaled while grinding maize by traditional methods (Palmer and Daynes, 1967). This study was undertaken to investigate the features and causes of hut lung. The range of clinical, …
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The Determinants of Physical Activity in Rural Women, Ages 20-44 Years
… it is reported that only 14.7% of American women engage in the recommended amount of physical activity. Whereas the potential negative consequences of not exercising are well documented, there is a scarcity of literature that investigates the determinants of physical activity in rural women. …
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Gender constraints to increased agricultural production faced by rural women in KwaZulu
It is well known that women are constrained by their gender role, which is imposed on them by the gender relations they experience. This role allocates them the direct responsibility for maintenance of the household and subjects them to patriarchal relations of male domination and female …
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The development and acquisition of leadership skills among rural women from Northern Ireland
… and acquisition of leadership skills among women leaders from rural areas of Northern Ireland. A noticeable gap in the literature exists concerning positive factors beneficial to rural women’s leadership development. This research addressed that gap through its concentrated focus on such …
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Evaluation of Decision Support Aids for Early Stage Breast Cancer Treatment among Rural Women
… of candidates eligible for BCT, especially in rural areas. Decision support aids can be utilized to streamline communication between providers and women. The purpose of this study is to discover how rural women perceive existing decision support aids (DSAs) for surgical treatment of early stage …
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Country Schoolgirls: A Study of Rural Women and the Rise of Public Education, 1820-1914
… the rise of public education, its influence on rural society, and the ways that farmwomen used schooling for a variety of purposes. Throughout the nineteenth century, more opportunities for women appeared as communities in the mountainous areas of West Virginia and Pennsylvania established free, …
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An exploratory study of the information availability and utilization by the rural women of Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal
Women constitute 51,6 % of the population of South Africa. It is widely known that in many households, especially blacks, men leave homes for urban areas in search for jobs, leaving women behind to maintain the entire household on their own. Despite significant role played by the women, they are …
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Rural Women in Bangladesh : The Legal Status of Women and the Relationship between NGOs and Religious Groups
… human development - especially the education of women and girls, family planning and health, and microcredit to the poor. As a Muslim country it has strong patriarchal social norms and cultural legacies that are predominantly derived from Hinduism. In general, most of the population is religious …
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