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Showing 1 to 20 of 878 for “"health professionals"”.
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Health professionals' perceptions of rehabilitation care workers
… disadvantaged communities and struggle to access health and rehabilitation, education and employment. This leads to poorer health outcomes, lower education achievements, and higher rate of unemployment in comparison to people without disabilities. Therefore there is a need to empower PWD to remove …
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Long term condition management: Health professionals’ perspectives
… in New Zealand. The burden upon secondary health care services to manage the complications of long term conditions has prompted calls for primary health care to lead the way in early diagnosis, management and coordination of care for long term conditions. Nurses are in an ideal position to …
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Attitudes to obesity : health professionals' views and practice
The purpose of this thesis was to study health professionals' views and practice in relation to overweight and obesity. In particular, the aims were: to explore the key cognitions of health professionals, with a view to describing their obesity stereotype and related attitudes; to explore the same …
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Patients’ and health professionals’ experience with home parenteral therapy
… on their experience with therapy, and their health outcomes. There is some evidence that the patients might achieve competence with their home parenteral therapy, but they might not achieve confidence. Providing continuous access to advice can boost confidence, but the information needs of …
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Neonatal Resuscitation: Interactive Flash Cards for Pediatric Health Professionals
The file named "GhuzziSuzanne.pdf" is the primary dissertation file. To view the supplemental flash card file, click on the file named "ghuzzi_nrp_flashcards.swf".
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Psychotropic Medications and Children: Perceptions of Mental Health Professionals
<p>This project explores mental health professionals' perspectives on the prescription of psychotropic medications to children. It emphasizes the placement of biomedicine within its larger social, economic, and political context, and the influence these structures have on the way mental illness is …
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Preparing Mental Health Professionals for Work in Collaborative Care Settings
… has been a significant shift regarding how health and illness are conceptualized. In decades past, the biomedical model predominated. Factors other than biological were not seen as important with regard to the diagnosis and treatment of illness; mind and body were viewed as separate. Engel’s …
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Psychiatric Genetics: Confidence Levels and Practice Patterns of Mental Health Professionals
… genetics into clinical practice, mental health professionals should be able to understand and confidently interpret current genetic and genomic research.</p> <p>PURPOSE: Identify areas where mental health professionals lack confidence in their knowledge of basic genetic concepts, risk …
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Economic influences on and impacts of the migration of health professionals
Migration has become an important feature of health labour markets due to the global shortage of health professionals. While there exists an extensive Labour Economics literature studying the general migration, policy development remains hampered by limited research undertaken in the health sector. …
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A study of factors influencing child abuse reporting by mental health professionals.
… influencing child abuse reporting by mental health professionals.
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Skills adequacy and service delivery among health professionals at Umphumulo public hospital
… inadequacy and poor service delivery in the health sector, and the case of uMphumulo Hospital has become of particular concern. In many organizations, skills adequacy and service delivery coexists and interlinks in order to produce quality service delivery. This depends on individual …
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Sensory processing sensitivity among mental health graduate students and mental health professionals
… on characteristics of the trait and mental health outcomes. This study investigated whether mental health graduate students and mental health professionals had higher SPS than students and professionals in other fields. It also explored what variables might moderate the relationship between …
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Development of a Measure of Interprofessional Collaboration Among School Mental Health Professionals
… collaboration specifically among school mental health professionals such as school psychologists, school social workers, school counselors, and other school-based mental health professionals. The purpose of this study was to develop a measure of school mental health professionals' current …
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Dreamwork with Children: Perceptions and Practice of School-Based Mental Health Professionals
Forty nine public school mental health practitioners (i.e., school counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers) completed a survey about working with dreams when counseling students. Most practitioners in this sample reported having at least one student bring up dreams during …
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Health technology assessment of online eLearning for post-registration health professionals’ education
… was to undertake and report the findings of a health technology assessment (HTA) on the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of online and LAN-based eLearning, and blended learning, among post-registration healthcare professionals. Methods: This HTA comprised three studies. The …
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The Dissemination of Clinical Practice Guidelines to Arthritis Health Professionals Using Innovative Strategies
… such as arthritis, there is an urgent need for health professionals to promote evidence-based arthritis self-management support to their patients. Objective: The overall objective of this thesis was to determine the feasibility of using Facebook as a dissemination strategy for an online …
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A Descriptive Study of Mental Health Professionals' Attitudes Toward Treatment of Eating Disorders
… affecting many youths and adults today. Mental health professionals play an integral role in the treatment of this disorder as well as the development of more effective interventions. Qualitative reearch methods were used to demonstrate current knowledge and opinions of various professionals in …
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Quantitative investigations of compassion satisfaction and challenges to compassion in mental health professionals
… of predictors and correlates of CS in mental health professionals (MHPs). CS was associated with increased age and clinical experience, health and wellbeing, therapeutic bond and the MHP’s capacity to maintain a coherent view of their social world, themselves and their clients. Several papers …
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