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DISSERTATIONS

A list of recent dissertations:

Yolanda Wall
“Physician Information – Giving and Partnership-Building Behaviors: Possible Disparities in Health Communications”

Meg Gambrell Zomorodi
“Instrument Development to measure Critical Care Nursing Values and Behaviors when providing End-of-Life Care ‘

Jill Hill
“Racial and Ethical Disparities in Hospice use After Referral”

Donna Roberson
“Factors Influencing Adherence with Anti-Retroviral Therapy for HIV Positive Female Inmate”

Kerry Thompson
“The Relationship Among Social Support Spiritual Well-Being uncertainty and Self-Care in Class I & II Heart Failure Patients”

Anthony Roberson
“The Experiences of Adolescents Consenting to Psychiatric Mental Health Treatment”

Carolyn McKenzie
“Exploring Perception of Coronary Heart Disease Risk in African American Women with Type II Diabetes”

DaiWai Olson
“Combining Observation-al and Physiological Sedation Assessment Tools”

June Cho
“Effect of Gender on the Interaction Between Mothers and their Medically-at-Risk Infants”

Susan Rasmussen
“Acoustic Measurement of Emotion Expression of Women with Chronic Knee Pain”

Robin Knobel
“Physiological Effects of Thermo-regulation in Transitional Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants”

Kwanjai Amnatsatu
“The Measure of Physical in Thai Older Adults”

Emelia Amoako
“Managing uncertainty in diabetes: An intervention for older African American women”

Susan Appel
“Central obesity: Predisposing factors and consequences in children age 8 through young adulthood”

Donald Bailey
“Uncertainty Watchful waiting in men with prostate cancer”

Robin Bartlett
“Patterns of problem behaviors in adolescents and the effect of risk and protective factors on these patterns of behavior”

Lorna Bell-Kotwall
“Factors that Predict Change in Urinary Incontinence in Rural Older Women”

Mona Bingham
“Mediators and moderators of the intervention effects of the cardiovascular health in children study”

Debra Brandon
“Effects of cycled light vs. continuous light near darkness on growth and development in premature infants born less than 31 weeks gestation”

Denise Spector
“The Influence of Breast Cancer Risks and Risk Perception of Lifestyle Behaviors Among Women with a Family History:  A Mixed Method Approach”

Margaret Clayton
“Testing a model of communication, uncertainty and emotional well-being in older breast cancer survivors”

Natasha Greene
“The Influence of Family Function on Dietary Intake and Glucose Control in African American Women with Type 2 Diabetes”

Camille Lambe
“Complimentary and Alternative therapy use during Treatment of Early Stage Breast Cancer”

Ann Jessup
“Adiporetin and Risk factors for Cardio-vascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes in Black and White Children”

June Cho
“Effect of Gender on the Interaction Between Mothers and their Medically-at-Risk Infants”

Brenda Cobb
“HIV-related sexual protective practices of late adolescent females”

Sharron Docherty
“Patterns of Symptom Distress During the Initial Treatment Period in three Children with Cancer”

Rebecca Gary
“The Evaluation of Home Based Exercise in Women with Diastolic Heart Failure”

Mary Jo Gilmer
“The Health Behaviors of Young Adolescents in Three Family Risk Groups which Place Them at Risk for CHD as Adults”

Bradi Granger
“Factors associated with adherence in heart failure: A secondary analysis of a large clinical trial”

Kim Larson
“An Ethnographic Study of Sexual Risk Among Latino Adolescent in rural N.C.”

Lynda Hardy

“Psychometric testing of a developmental food frequency for elementary school children in NC”

Charlene Kreuger
“Fetal heart rate variability and learning in the 28-34 fetus”

Yeur-Hur Lai
“The use of cognitive-behavioral pain coping in Taiwanese cancer patients”

Eve Layman

“Brief Nursing Workload Scale”

Lynne Lewallen
“Barriers to prenatal care in low income women”

Yuan-Mei Liao

“The prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and factors related to LUTS among female elementary school teachers in Taipei”

Shu-Yuan Lin
“Effects of Behavioral Interventions, Goal-Setting, and Client-Professional Interaction on Longitudinal Continence Outcomes for Rural Older Women with Urinary Incontinence”

Linda Mayne
“Testing a modified adherence model for cancer control to predict both mammograpgy intention and mammography behavior among women over 50 years of age”

Maureen O'Rourke
“Prostate Cancer Treatment Selection”

Patricia Pearce
“Designing for children, with children: Computerized physical activity recall”

Supapek Phetrasuwan
“Psychological Adjustment in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder”

Rebecca Polzer
“Spirituality and Self-Management of Diabetes in African Americans”

Hyek-Yun Rhee
“Prevalence & of Physical Symptoms in Adolescents”

Pamela Smith
“Care Management and Health Care Delivery System Integration: To What Extent Is Care Management Used As An Integrating Mechanism Within An Organized Health Care Delivery System?”

Barbara Speck
“Maintenance of regular physical activity in working women”

Janet Stewart
“Test of a conceptual model of uncertainty in children with cancer”

Wanda Stutts
“Use of the health promotion model to predict physical activity in adults”

Julie Taylor
“Experience of menopause after breast cancer”

Elizabeth Van Horn
“Recovery after injury: Variables influencing depression”

Gloria J. Weber
“Employed mothers with pre-school-aged children: An exploration of their lived experiences and the nature of their well-being

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