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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"parental decision making"”.
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An Enhanced Model for Parental Decision Making for Pediatric Care
… come enhanced ethical issues and challenging decisions. Currently within pediatric medicine, decision-making processes are primarily guided by the models of adult surrogate decision making, in particular substituted judgment and best interests models. The substituted judgment model focuses on …
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Understanding the Determinants of Parental Decision-Making and Harsh Parenting Behavior
… in part because of lack of understanding of the decision-making processes underlying the behavior. In an effort to incorporate tradition decision making methodology, I designed a between subjects, single-blind, randomized experiment. The experimental manipulations were design to induced emotional …
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Parenting in the age of Prozac: Parental decision -making in social context
… insights into the social contexts that shape decisions around diagnoses and treatment. The bases of the theoretical underpinnings of this research are situated at the intersection of medicalization and mother-blame.</p><p>Survey data were collected from 235 parents in a single New Hampshire …
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Parental decision-making regarding their child's participation in a middle-school talent search.
… sought to identify variables that predicted parental decision-making regarding their child's participation in a national gifted and talented identification program for middle school students and subsequent participation in recommended educational options. One hundred sixty-nine parents of …
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Parental Decision Making in the Administration of Stimulant Medication for their Latency Age Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The purpose of this study was to examine parental decision making in the administration of stimulant medication to their latency age children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Research has shown that psychostimulants, used to treat ADHD are effective for 75-90% of children (US …
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Parenting Coordinators' Practices Recommendations: A Qualitative Study
… promoting cooperative co-parenting, stress parental autonomy, and supported parental decision making over parenting coordinator recommendations. Practical implications are discussed.
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Auto-Motives: Unraveling the Riddle of Alternative Transportation to School
… and cycling for the trip to school, few explore parental decision making and the interaction between all travel modes. This study conducts a survey of parents of children attending six elementary schools in San Luis Obispo regarding their children’s travel to school. It explores factors in mode …
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Shaping confidence to advocate for my child: The meaning of how 'significant others' can support parents to make decisions when their child has cancer
… they enter a world where they are faced with making many complex decisions including treatment and social decisions (such as school attendance and shielding). Whilst previous research has focused on how health care professionals may support parental decision-making, attention has not been …
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Considering consent : an analysis of factors influencing parental perceptions of decisional quality in the context of newborn screening
This thesis explores decision-making and perceptions of decisional quality in parents whose children have undergone newborn bloodspot screening. Newborn bloodspot screening is the programme through which newborn babies are screened for a variety of conditions shortly after birth. In the UK babies …
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Time for change: a study of enrolment decision dynamics for admission into English secondary education
… to agree a system dynamics concept model. Parental decision-making behaviours were deduced by survey to understand key factors for model calibration. Dynamic system sensitivities were abduced from the simulation model before comparing long-term psychosocial impacts on children from expert, …
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Parental Perceptions of Childhood Vaccines: A Qualitative Study
… has become clear parents’ intent to vaccinate, decision-making, perceptions, and vaccine hesitancy have changed post-COVID-19 pandemic and must be examined.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> A qualitative descriptive study using a constructivist approach was used. Participants were parents from a …
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Conscientious Object-ion: Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Medical Controversy
… or patient’s perceived right to make vaccination decisions based on personal perceptions of acceptable risks—has been used since vaccination’s inception as a rationale for individual rights to refuse vaccines in the face of the very public health goals that vaccinations aim to achieve. Existing …
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School choice, competition and ethnic segregation in Lancashire : evidence from structural models of two-sided matching
… The thesis investigates the contribution of parental decision-making to observed patterns of school segregation, and also argues that sorting influences the efficacy of competition-based policies for ed- ucational improvement. Focusing upon three towns with ethnically-mixed populations in the …
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Child Care Decision Making Among Parents of Young Children: A Constructivist Inquiry
In order to understand parents' child care decision making for young children (under 6), this interpretive research interviewed 24 parents and 7 child care professionals from a mid-sized region in Virginia. Using a constructivist research design, the research question explored how parents make …