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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"post-secondary students"”.
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Understanding the usage of mental health apps among post-secondary students
… It is well documented that ethnic and racial students experience a high prevalence of mental disorders yet underutilize health services. Culturally relevant mental health apps that incorporate insights from the targeted population can possibly reduce the mental health disparities that exist …
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Perceptions and experiences of fairness amongst Muslim post-secondary students in Canada
… and experiences of fairness amongst Muslim post-secondary students in order to gain insights for internationalization policy making in post-secondary education. This study is a mixed methods study. A triangulation design was employed to collect data. The participants, 189 Muslim students, …
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Post-Secondary Students with Symptoms of Psychosis: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review
… synthesize evidence on symptoms of psychosis in post-secondary students, including participant characteristics, prevalence, risk factors, interventions, and reported experiences. The design was a mixed-methods systematic review, modeled on the Joanna Briggs Institute and PRISMA guidelines, with …
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Colloid Thruster to Teach Advance Electric Propulsion Techniques to Post-secondary Students
… to have a tactile and experiential impact on the students. The final design is a scaled up configuration of an existing electrospray design so that the students can easily see each component with the naked eye and can be correlated to a real world thruster that they might see in industry.</p> …
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Investigating the association between sleep quality and depressive symptomatology in post-secondary students
… symptomatology in undergraduate university students. However, high-quality epidemiological evidence about this association is lacking. Purpose: To determine whether poor sleep quality is associated with depressive symptomatology in undergraduate university students. Methods: I conducted two …
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The associations between physical activity, sedentary behaviour and anxiety in post-secondary students
… The prevalence of anxiety is high in post-secondary students and most do not meet recommended physical activity levels. It is hypothesized that low levels of physical activity may be associated with anxiety in post-secondary students. Purpose: To determine whether physical activity and …
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Post-secondary Students' Travel Behavior through the Lens of Urban and Rural Contexts
… research investigates the travel behavior of post-secondary students across urban and rural contexts through four interrelated studies. The research addresses gaps in understanding how activity choices, departure time decisions, and active transportation behaviors are shaped by contextual, …
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Unspoken Words Beyond the Numbers: Lived Experiences of Low Socioeconomic Status Post-Secondary Students
… across Canada, to increase access to post-secondary education (PSE) for students from low-socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. More specifically, this study sought to understand these dynamics within an Ontario higher education context. Despite low-income students having some degree …
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Exploring experiences of mental health and well-being with post-secondary students in rural Saskatchewan
… the mental health and well-being experiences of post-secondary students in rural Saskatchewan as there is limited research pertaining to this population. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three participants from different rural locations in Saskatchewan who were currently attending a …
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Does Education Setting Influence the Relationship between Substance use and Depression among Post Secondary Students
… differs for first year college and university students. Methods. A proportionate stratified random sample of 6,100 university students and a census sample of 7,300 college students were invited to anonymously complete the National College Health Assessment. The final sample included 444 young …
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An Exploration of Post-Secondary Students’ Use of an Online Pledge Program to Improve Wellbeing
BACKGROUND: Increasing numbers of post-secondary students report that their stress is so overwhelming it inhibits their academic achievement and impacts their health. On campus, traditional, clinical paradigms for managing mental health by treating individuals already experiencing breakdowns in …
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The Relationship Between Locus of Control and Academic Success of Post-Secondary Students in Electronics Technology
… locus of control and academic success in students taking courses in Electronics Technology at a post-secondary technical school. The Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal External Control-Scale was used to determine a locus of control score for each subject, and the students' current GPA …
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Post-secondary students' and work-site supervisors' perceptions of diversity experiences and needs of students in a school-to-work transition program
… documented accounts of cooperative education students' experiences when interacting with diverse groups and (b) to obtain cooperative education students' and work-site supervisors' perceptions of the knowledge and attitudes needed by cooperative education students to interact effectively with …
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Teaching normalcy, learning disability - the risky business of special education : exploring the retrospective reflections of schooling experiences by learning disabled post-secondary students
… around a premise of mobility and opportunity, students from low income backgrounds (‘at risk’ youth) are twice as likely to be labeled “special.” Moreover, of all the special educational categories, learning disabilities (a diagnosis deeply contested) account for the largest group of special …
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Post-Secondary Perceptions of the Secondary School Counselor and Their Functions at the High School Level
The purpose of this study was to investigate post-secondary students' perceptions of the role and functions of their high school counselor. One hundred seventy-three students currently attending a community college in a suburban area of a large metropolitan city participated in this study. The …
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Postsecondary Students’ Perceptions Toward Accepting and Understanding Biological Evolution: A Qualitative Metasynthesis
… is the exploration and analysis of postsecondary students’ perceptions towards accepting and understanding evolution. Evolution as a process and theory is a foundation for understanding the biological sciences. Within the scientific and educational communities, evolution is a central …
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Six-month outcomes of a multi-campus smoking cessation contest
Background: Up to 40% of North American post-secondary students smoke at least occasionally, and most want to quit. Given students' preferences for free, easy-to-access, self-directed, convenient cessation methods, a motivational, incentive-based cessation contest may be an effective way to assist …
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A Validation Study: Fitbit Charge 2 Heart Rate Measurement at Rest and During Cognitive-Emotional Stressors
… under sedentary conditions. In a sample of 32 post-secondary students, agreement was observed during rest, negative affect images, deceptive pattern solving task, and a listening task. ECG HR and FBC2 HR was sampled continuously and transformed into 1120 paired 1-min epochs throughout a …
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