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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"research participation"”.
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Retention and Attrition in Bariatric Surgery Research: A Qualitative Study
<p>Problem: Longitudinal bariatric surgical research studies often lack information on retention and attrition of study participants and the strategies utilized to optimize these. The potential for attrition bias with adverse effects on validity, reliability, and generalizability increases over …
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Strandline and Sediment Analysis of Stump Lake Area, Nelson County, North Dakota
… a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participation Program and completed for credit in Geologic Problems 421.</p> <p>The research began in July, 1967, after several weeks of familiarization with field techniques and problems associated with glacial terrain. The project …
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Are first generation immigrants more inclined to participate in clinical research?
… and ethnic groups are underrepresented in research studies. This study examined first- and second-generation Arab American immigrants in Dearborn, Michigan, using a survey from 65 participants to determine the impact of generation on clinical research participation. Fifty-one (78%) of the …
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Ego Depletion and Delay of Gratification
… either chose the immediate, small reward of 1 research participation credit or waited for a larger amount of credit. Participants who completed a difficult task while being recorded by a video camera waited a shorter period of time for more credit than those who performed an easier version of …
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Are clinical research professionals more inclined to participate in clinical trials?
… in the median rank score between clinical research professionals and other post-graduate educated participants. The research question asked whether the clinical research program graduates were more inclined to participate in clinical trials than other groups with a post-graduate education. …
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What Are The Lived Experiences Of Young Adults With Spina Bifida In The UK Today And What Can Be Learned From Challenges in Recruiting This Group To Online Qualitative Research? Lessons From An Unsuccessful Qualitative Online Research Study
Existing research on young adults with spina bifida commonly focuses on how the condition impacts their health outcomes rather than their lived experiences in key areas such as employment, social life and external support systems. The original research study aimed to gain a wider understanding of …
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Cultural Influences on Diagnostic, Treatment, and Research Perceptions of Parents Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Three-Article Dissertation
… and the well-being of their family system. While researchers and practitioners have worked in tandem over decades to provide evidence-based services, there exists a longstanding gap in the access to and even quality of care delivered to families from marginalized backgrounds. Reducing disparities …
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Women’s Experiences of Late Pregnancy Ultrasound: Implications for Antenatal Care
… (n=50) conducted 18 months – 4 years following participation in the Pregnancy Outcome Prediction study (POPs) Participants were identified from the POPs database and sampled according to three criteria regarding pregnancy outcomes. Setting: Interviews were conducted in participant’s homes in …
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Information systems design for the community health services
… pragmatism, adaptation and flexibility. In this research, participation in the development stages by those who will eventually use the system was thought desirable. This was achieved by forming a representative design group. Results would seem to show a highly favourable response from users to …
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Privacy and identifiability in clinical research, personalized medicine, and public health surveillance
… health information has become pervasive in research, clinical, and public health investigations, posing substantial risk to patient privacy. From clinical genetic screenings to publication of data in research studies, these activities have the potential to disclose identity, medical …
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The Ethically Required Level of Mental Capacity Needed for Consent to Participate in Clinical Research on the Terminally Ill
… This is especially apparent in the medical research field where clinical trials are done with terminally ill human subjects. However, analyzing competence is crucial for the protection of subjects’ autonomy. If informed consent is to be truly considered an expression of autonomous action, …
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Participating in a Research Study: a Qualitative Study of the Clients' and Therapists' Experience
… 26 clients and 5 therapists participating in a research project testing a manualized multi-couple treatment program for domestic violence. The purpose of this study was to understand the experience of clients and therapists in participating in a research study with the hope of informing …
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Investigating the effects of psychoeducation interventions in improving misconceptions of traumatic brain injury (TBI) among undergraduate university students.
… the use of convenience sampling and the Student Research Participation Program (SRPP). Statistical analyses included descriptive statistics, one-way and repeated measures ANOVAs, and thematic analyses, related to parts A-C of the study, respectively. The results of the study suggested the …
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Faith, hope and fallacy: an idiographic exploration of the experiences of people with Multiple Sclerosis participating in research trials
… about the experience of participating in MS research. Moreover, evaluation of experience of taking part in research has been largely conducted using impersonal survey approaches to assess study conduct satisfaction or barriers to recruitment. Whilst there is extensive published literature …
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Cognitive Effects And Academic Consequences Of Video Game Playing
Introduction: prior video game playing (vgp) research has generated mixed empirical findings. Recent studies suggested positive effects vgp may have on cognitive skills, particularly improvements in visuospatial skills, processing speed, working memory, multitasking, and problem solving skills. By …
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A mixed methods exploration of picky eating in adulthood
… for picky eating adults and through a university research participation scheme, and asked to complete measures relating to food, eating, and a number of psychosocial factors. 270 participants completed all of the measures required to address the issue of measuring picky eating, whilst 230 …
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Authentic Identity: A Visual Grounded Theory of Construction and Sustainability of Professional Identity in Adult Nursing
… and retain (Goodman, 2015, 2016). What this research has investigated is ‘how do pre-registration adult nursing students construct and sustain their professional identity’ despite this dissonance?<br/>Visual grounded theory, combining constructivist grounded theory and visual research, is the …
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Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA) Utility in Differentiating Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Subtypes
<p>Research has indicated that Continuous Performance Tests (CPTs) can differentiate Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity (ADHD) subjects from controls without any psychiatric illness. However, CPTs have neither accurately differentiated ADHD children from those with other psychiatric disorders—nor …
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The Influence of Acculturative Discrepancies on Negative Affect, Drinking to Cope, and Drinking Behavior in Latinas
… Latinas. Participants were recruited from a research participation subject pool of a large NC university, and completed an online survey regarding acculturative discrepancies, acculturative stress, negative affect, drinking to cope motivation, and drinking behavior. The majority of …
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Forensic genetic research on sudden unexpected death in an infant (SUDI) at Salt River Mortuary: experiences an perceptions of parents
… of participating in molecular autopsy research are unknown, and not previously done in South Africa. This study explored the experiences and perceptions of bereaved next-of-kin participating in forensic genetic research on SUDI at Salt River Mortuary, Cape Town. Methods Eleven …
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