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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"care theory"”.
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Culture Care Meanings, Beliefs and Practices of Rural Dominicans in a Rural Village of the Dominican Republic: An Ethnonursing Study Conceptualized within the Culture Care Theory
… analyze the meanings, beliefs and practices of care for Dominican people living in a rural village of the Dominican Republic. Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory and ethnonursing method was utilized as an organizing framework for studying the domain of inquiry. Interviews …
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Student and instructor perceptions of care in online graduate education: a mixed methods case study
… Using Nodding’s (1984, 1988, 1995, 2001, 2002) care theory, questions were crafted for structured interviews and a survey. The study was conducted at a Midwestern, midsized university. Structured online interviews were conducted with the instructors, and an online survey was offered to students …
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Gender differences in policing: a consideration of care ethics
… between police officers and ethics of care theory are further limited. This study evaluated gender differences in policing to determine whether ethics of care theories apply to female police officers. For the purposes of this study, approximately 400 sworn officers were sampled via …
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Depression Outcomes in Care Coordination, Primary Care and Psychiatry Patients After Pharmacogenetic Testing
… activation before and after pharmacogenetic care in a coordinated care population. The process of pharmacogenetic care includes the patient’s acknowledgment of medication changes which are based on their genetic profile. This study will be framed by Dorothea Orem’s Self-Care Theory and Davies …
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Culture Care of Puerto Rican Elderly in a Community Setting
… ethnonursing study was to discover the culture care meanings, beliefs, expressions, and practices of urban elderly Puerto Ricans residing in a mid-sized community. The Culture Care Theory was used as the guiding framework in studying the domain of inquiry: the discovery of the meanings and …
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Fostering disability inclusion in hospitality organisations: Exploring co-workers' role in the social integration of employees with disabilities (EWDs)
… to support EWDs. This study applies the extended theory of planned behaviour and ethics of care theory. It evaluates how positive attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, anticipated emotions and the moderating effect of past behaviour affect co- workers' intention to support …
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Generic and Professional Health Care Beliefs, Expressions and Practices of Syrian Muslims Living in the Midwestern United States
… to discover the generic and professional health care beliefs, expressions, and practices of Syrian Muslims living in the Midwestern United States and to describe the influence of worldview, cultural context, and social structure, such as technological, religious, political, educational, and …
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Autocuidado de mulheres e homens com estomas intestinais mediado pela aromaterapia a luz da teoria de Dorothea Orem
… women and men with intestinal stomas about self-care mediated by aromatherapy. This is a study qualitative, comprehensive nature, which included six women and five men with intestinal stomas treated at a reference unit in Bahia, Brazil and six evaluative stoma therapy nurses. Data production …
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Against Eternity: A Critical Reading of Transhumanism
… earthly existence. Building on Black feminism, care theory, and degrowth arguments, I conclude by advancing a countervailing materialism that centers the body’s vital-fatal politics inherent in reproduction.
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A Political Theory of Accessibility and Care for Animals
Care, I argue, is where and how animals most commonly experience political agency as an accessibility issue within their relationships and interactions with humans. Yet animal care is not usually viewed as animal politics, resulting in a failure to critically evaluate the nature of the politics …
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Cultural Aspects of End of Life Advance Care Planning for African Americans: An Ethnonursing Study
… to patient autonomy, mistrust of the healthcare system, low health literacy, strong spiritual beliefs, desire for aggressive interventions, importance of family-communal decision making, and presence of comorbidities. End of Life (EOL) advance care planning (ACP) promotes patient and family …
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Boys’ achievement gap and the ethic of care: a participatory action research study
… underachievement to consider how Noddings (1984) care theory and relationships might be used to close the gap. Six themes came from the research: differences between boys and girls, care through responsive teaching, care through building relationships, power of parents, stress and pressure in …
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Self-care activities and quality of life in ovarian cancer survivors
… a non-experimental survey to determine if self-care activities and selected basic conditioning factors affect quality of life in ovarian cancer survivors. Three hypotheses were derived from the research question: (a) self-care activities are predictors of quality of life, (b) period of cancer …
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The Role of the Caring Imagination in the Narrative Construction of Care in Human-Animal Work
… evolving field. This thesis takes an ‘ethic of care’ approach to human-animal work, specifically by investigating the role of the ‘caring imagination’. Existing care literature does not address how the caring imagination acts to construct animals as responsive cared-for others in the context of …
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Factors Related to Resilience Abilities and Self-Care Practices in Adolescents
… self-efficacy, resilience abilities, self-care agency and self-care practices in adolescents and (2) to evaluate a revised measure, The Solem Adolescent Resilience Abilities Scale (SARAS-R). Orem's self-care theory was used as the theoretical framework for this study. The convenience sample …
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Factors Related to Self-Care Agency and Self-Care Practices of Obese Adolescents
… (FS), and life events (LE)--and the self-care agency (SCA) and self-care practices (SCP) among obese adolescents. The relative predictive strength of each BCF in relation to the outcome variables was also explored. Orem's self-care theory provided the conceptual framework for this study. …
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Searching for the 'Good' in Physiotherapist Practice: Toward an Ethic of Care
… that draw on Joan Tronto’s ethic of care theory as a theoretical perspective. The second manuscript is an examination of twelve physiotherapists’ accounts of what constitutes a ‘good’ physiotherapist garnered from semi-structured phenomenological interviews. Seven themes were …
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Recuperando la Tierra: Understanding the Legacies of Social Movements through the Entanglement of Home and Urban Housing Landscapes in Costa Rica
… studies, heritage studies, and feminist care theory, I trace the ways historical social movements inform how subsequent generations frame and respond to contemporary and emerging forms of intrafamilial and economic violence.
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Educative encounters: An analysis of Dewey, Buber and Noddings to understand the role of encountering self, others and the world in teaching and learning in higher education
… cultivating growth, and specifically cultivating care (N. Noddings, 2003a). By honing in on encounter as the relational aspect of experience, emphasizing the importance of the relational quality of the learning experience, and articulating a different approach to teaching in higher education, this …
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Committed to encounter: Sources of teacher engagement with students in a cross -cultural study of two sister schools in Japan and the United States
… to engage with students. I have chosen care theory upon which to build the conceptual framework for this phenomenological study, and I consider both natural and ethical care as seen by Nel Noddings. I have also drawn upon the work of Jane Roland Martin and The Schoolhome (1992), and that …
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