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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Screening Behavior"”.
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Perceptions of Ghanaian Women Regarding Breast Cancer Screening Behavior
… engagement of Ghanaian women in breast cancer screening is limited and the existing literature has produced conflicting results. This research aimed to enhance understanding of Ghanaian women’s knowledge, beliefs and attitudes regarding breast cancer. This study explored Ghanaian women’s …
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A Salutogenic Framework to Understand Disparity in Breast Cancer Screening Behavior in African American Women
… Limited access to care reduces mammography screening for AAW. Despite barriers, some AAW engage in breast cancer screening (BCS) behaviors like mammography. The salutogenic theory of health focuses on positive health behaviors and offers a framework to understand personal factors which allow …
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Breast cancer screening behaviors and beliefs in college women
… factors that may influence breast cancer screening behaviors. Examiners and non-examiners were compared on a series of variables: (1) health beliefs and practices (personal risk estimates for breast cancer, risk reduction expectancies, perceived susceptibility to breast cancer, perceived …
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A method for the calculation of excitonic effects in certain metals
Due to the long-range screening behavior of electrons in metals, interactions between excited electrons and their corresponding holes are few and are generally ignored. In this thesis, we attempt to include this electron-hole interaction into the calculation by randomly choosing a finite number of …
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Suc Khoe La Quan Trong Hon Sac Dep! Health is Better than Beauty! Improving Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Outcomes among Vietnamese Women
Vietnamese women experience cancer screening disparities and inconsistent adherence to screening guidelines. The goal of this study was to implement and evaluate a breast and cervical cancer screening intervention to promote cancer screening knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, intention, and …
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Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards prostate cancer screening amongst men in Zambezi region, Namibia
… of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding screening of PCa among men in Zambezi region. A quantitative cross-sectional descriptive approach was used, with 391 men from all six constituencies of the Zambezi Region. Respondents were selected through a multi-stage sampling method, combining …
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Intentions to undergo dementia screening among older Black adults
… among Black Americans, rates of dementia screening remain low and diagnosis often occurs at more advanced stages of the disease. Consequently, those living with dementia and their families lose valuable time planning for care and for interventions. There is a dire need to address this …
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Applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior to explain clinicians’ intention to screen men who have sex with men for syphilis infection
… life-threatening complications. Routine screening for syphilis in high-risk populations remains an important prevention and control measure. Research consistently demonstrates the relative advantage of greater testing frequency in at-risk populations such as men who have sex with men …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Cancer Care and Mis-Measured Self-Reports of Cancer Screening Status
… effects after taking care of mis-measured cancer screening self-reports. The first essay examines the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion on time to oral cancer treatment initiation since diagnosis, quality of hospital care such as length of stay in the hospital, planned and …
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Retrospective Analysis of a Breast Health Program on Routine Annual Mammography in Low-Income, Uninsured Women
… rates, yet little is known about their screening behavior.</p><p> Purpose: A retrospective subject-controlled study of an ongoing Breast Health Program, at a not-for-profit, non-government assisted, volunteer clinic, was undertaken to examine mammography usage and discovery …
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Breast Cancer Risk Perception, Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Screening Behaviors of Chamorro Women in Guam
… associated with Chamorro women’s breast cancer screening behaviors. Purpose: This qualitative descriptive study was designed to obtain a straight forward description of perspectives and insights of Chamorro women in Guam ages 45 – 65 years, about their breast cancer risk perception, knowledge, …
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Asymptotically Safe Gravity: from spacetime foliation to cosmology
… breaks down suggest that the short-distance behavior of spacetime may require a more fundamental quantum theory for the gravitational interaction. However, as it is well known, the quantization of General Relativity leads to a (perturbatively) non-renormalizable theory. The Asymptotic Safety …
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Operating characteristics of passenger screening processes and the development of a paced inspection system
The airport checkpoint security screening (ACSS) system is an important line of defense against the introduction of dangerous objects into the U.S. aviation system. Recently, there has been much interest in modeling these systems and to derive operating parameters which optimize performance. In …
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The Effect of Mailing HPV Self-sampling Kits to Women Underscreened for Cervical Cancer on Uptake of Preventive Health Services
… that adults who attended an in-clinic health screening are more likely to attend other preventive services, yet the effect of home-based screening on adherence to other preventive services is unknown. This study examined the effect of receiving or using a high-risk (hr) human papillomavirus …
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Artificial Intelligence in Labor Market Matching
… evidence for these mechanisms using employer screening behavior and the embeddings of the job posts’ texts. In my third chapter, we investigate if LLMs can be used to help non-technical workers adapt to technology induced, rapidly changing skill demands by “upskilling” into a more technical …