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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"barriers to communication"”.
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Barriers to Communication in Healthcare: Perceptions of the Rural Elderly
… is presently a lack of research on the types of communication barriers faced by the rural elderly when accessing health care. Furthermore, much of the research on the rural elderly is old and outdated. Thus, this thesis research sought to identify and explore communication barriers faced by the …
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Barriers to Health: Understanding the Barriers Faced by Community Intervention Projects
… Health Information Hub, 2017). This study aims to understand how nonprofit organizations focused on addressing food insecurity disseminate information to members of the local community and how the input of community members impacted the overall food insecurity campaign. This study was conducted …
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Knowledge networks and innovation policy
… is increasingly more dependent on the ability to create unique products and services. This is achieved through innovation. Innovation is a highly knowledge intensive activity, which requires combining different types of knowledge. Firms require many types of specialized knowledge that they …
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Gestão do Conhecimento e o uso estratégico de Tecnologias de Informação: um estudo em Redes de Franquias no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte
… spread of their network unities, creating barriers to communication and information sharing between franchisors, franchisees and final customers. In view of this, the following hypotheses were formulated: the knowledge management can be a positive alternative for improving communication …
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Voices from the Hinterland: lesbian women's experience of Irish health care
… in the health care nvironment. In their day to day living, lesbian women know bow to act, react and behave to exist within society. However, these taken-for-granted ways of understanding of being-in-the-world are brought to the forefront when lesbian women seek health care. For lesbian …
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Communication In Family Members With A Rare APC Mutation
… in the APC gene and includes familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), an autosomal dominant cancer predisposition syndrome which has a lifetime risk of colon cancer of almost 100%. Identifying a genetic mutation can provide important health information to families. Family communication about …
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Effective Print Media Relations Practices of Georgia's Rural High-Performing Principals: Three Case Studies
… the purpose of this qualitative study was to determine the perceived best print media relations practices from the viewpoints of identified high-performing principals, print media professionals, and parents. This qualitative study employed a multi-case study design with purposive sampling. …
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Building and Mobilizing Social Capital: A Phenomenological Study of Part-Time Pofessors
… of resources. A person uses social connections to access or use resources; the stronger and more extensive the social network, the greater the resources (i.e. social capital). Connections in social networks allow us to access and use social capital to achieve instrumental or expressive goals. …
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Deaf people and career advice: Applying structuration theory to encounters between deaf and hearing people
The research concerns communication between deaf people and hearing advisers in career or job seeking interviews. Issues of disability, emancipatory research and methods used in deaf research are explored together with the medical and social models of disability and the complexity of …
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A study of sexual relationships and sexual funcation in people with rheumatoid arthritis and partners of people with RA
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory joint disease that impacts on all aspects of peoples' lives, including their sexual relationship. Healthcare professionals appear reluctant to address this area of patient care. The lack of evidenced based research to identilS' key issues and barriers …
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Perceptions and experiences of distress among older Pakistanis in Bradford
… in Bradford who immigrated in the 1960s to meet a labour shortage. While this group had initially been almost entirely men who had planned on earning money and then returning to Pakistan relatively wealthy, changes in laws in the 1970s compelled them to bring their entire families to …
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Exploring Patient-to-Provider Communication of Childhood Adversity in Primary Care
… adverse events during childhood are more likely to have a greater number of health disparities in adulthood compared to adults who have not experienced traumatic events during childhood. Despite this knowledge and a growing awareness that ACEs are a significant predictor of an array of health …
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Effective communication with people with learning disabilities with epilepsy and their carers.
… compared with the general population. Effective communication is central to the management of people with learning disabilities and epilepsy. It has both therapeutic and health promotion functions including psycho-social benefits to the individual and their carers. Carers play vital roles in …
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Facilitating Configural Processing Within the Audit Team: An Additional Benefit of the SAS 99 Fraud Brainstorming Session
… study considers the ability of the audit team to configurally process information, that is, to piece together information cues held by individual team members and recognize the underlying pattern in the information. It also examines how the hierarchical structure of the audit team impacts the …