Faculty Research: Recent submissions
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Team-Based Learning
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Left Without Being Seen: Rapid Reduction 18-Month Journey
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Nurse Adaptability and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Family and Perceived Organizational Support
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2022-03-04)Objective: To examine the effect of family and perceived organizational support on the relationship between nurse adaptability and their experience with COVID-related PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) symptoms in ... -
Association between Handwashing Behavior and Infectious Diseases among Low-Income Community Children in Urban New Delhi, India: A Cross-Sectional Study
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021-11)Diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections (RI) are two leading causes of childhood mortality in low and middle-income countries. Effective handwashing at critical time-points may mitigate these diseases. However, there ... -
Teaching and Learning in the Large Classroom: A Mixed-Methods Approach for Undergraduate Health Management Education
(The Journal of Health Administration Education, 2020)For several decades, many involved in U.S. higher education—researchers, educational psychologists, professors, students, and administrators—have highlighted the challenges the large lecture class format presents for ... -
Influence of high school sport participation and adult physical activity
(Journal of Sport and Health Research, 2014)BACKGROUND: Although the need for physical activity is often cited, few research studies examine the influence of high school sport participation on adulthood physical activity. This study examines this association using ... -
Resilience Training for Functioning Adults: Program Description and Preliminary Findings from a Pilot Investigation
(International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, 2010)It has previously been asserted that the construct of resilience holds great promise for diverse high-risk populations and that resilience may be an attribute that can be acquired through training. A rich body of literature ... -
Preventive Mental Health Education for Functioning Adults: Stress, Coping and Mental Health Courses at the University of Maryland
(International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, 2002)Three fifteen-week courses at the University of Maryland are described. These courses explore diverse cognitive-behavioral skills that facilitate coping, are preventive in nature, and are suitable for learning by healthy ... -
Comparing Medical Emergency Preparedness in U.S. Public and Academic Libraries
(Taylor & Francis (Public Services Quarterly), 2022-12)This study sought to determine what medical emergency resources and training are provided in U.S. public and academic libraries, how public versus academic preparedness compares, and what reasons may contribute to decisions ... -
Recapping the History of the Antipodes: Reappraising Absolute and Relative Connotations
(Research in Geographic Education, 2014-11)During the first half of the 20th century teaching and learning about the antipodes were considered a fundamental element within the undergraduate geography curricula. However, in the 1970s the antipodes were absent from ... -
Circumstantial response to "Who shot Bounty mast with this small lead ball?"
(Pitcairn Log, 2022-10)A circumstantial response to Herb Ford's question "Who shot the Bounty mast with this small lead ball?" Using primary and secondary sources the author examins different situations for plausibility. -
Mary Ann Christian, Exercising Social and Spatial Agency: An Isolated Island Case
(Shima, 2022)Mary Ann Christian (1793-1866) was the only daughter of chief Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and his Tahitian consort Mauatua who settled on Pitcairn Island in 1790. After a violent first decade, and one death to a ... -
Mutiny on the Bounty - A Cornucopia of Fruits and Invectives
(The Pitcairn Log, 2022-07)On April 28, 1789, the most infamous of mutinies occurred in the South Pacific Ocean within sight of an erupting volcano on Tofua. Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian deposed “Captain” William Bligh and eighteen men in ... -
Hispanic Student Access to Advanced Placement Courses
(Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation, 2011)This qualitative, collective case study describes the perceptions of academically successful Hispanic students regarding their access to Advanced Placement (AP) courses in 4 suburban Texas high schools. A multistage, ... -
Nurse Adaptability and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms During the COVID- 19 Pandemic: The Effects of Family and Perceived Organizational Support
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2022-03-04)Objective: To examine the effect of family and perceived organizational support on the relationship between nurse adaptability and their experience with COVID-related PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) symptoms in ... -
Healthy Tazewell County Initiative: Variations in Community Quality of Life, Health Problems, and Risky Behaviors by Age Category
(Undergraduate Research Journal of for the Human Sciences, 2014)The MAPP process, a strategic planning tool that allows communities to prioritize their public health issues, was employed by the Tazewell County Health Department to assess what factors residents perceived to be (a) the ... -
Understanding Centenarians’ Psychosocial Dynamics and Their Contributions to Health and Quality of Life
(Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research, 2010-06)While it is understood that longevity and health are influenced by complex interactions among biological, psychological, and sociological factors, there is a general lack of understanding on how psychosocial factors impact ...