Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University

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Lau Suk-chu. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-94). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / 論文摘要 --- p.iii / Acknowledgements --- p.v / Table of Contents --- p.vi / List of Tables --- p.ix / List of Figures --- p.x / Table of Abbreviations --- p.xi / CHAPTERS / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Importance of Postoperative Pain Management --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Humanitarian --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Under-management of Postoperative Pain Relief --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Pain Relief- A Key Strategy for Better Surgical Outcomes --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Postoperative Pain Relief and Clinical Outcomes --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Postoperative Pain Relief and QoR --- p.8 / Chapter 2.4 --- A New Concept of Service Expected for Better Surgical Pain Relief --- p.9 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Recognition of the New Concept of Service - APS --- p.10 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Role of an APS --- p.11 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Organization of APS --- p.12 / Chapter 2.4.3.1 --- The Anesthesiologist-based APS --- p.12 / Chapter 2.4.3.2 --- The Nurse-based APS --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4.3.3 --- The Multidisciplinary APS --- p.14 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Postoperative Pain Management Service in Hong Kong --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4.4.1 --- Review of postoperative pain management service in Hong Kong --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4.4.2 --- Recommending APS in Hong Kong --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4.4.3 --- The recognition of APS in Hong Kong --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4.4.4 --- The development of APS in Hong Kong --- p.16 / Chapter 2.4.4.5 --- The compliance of APS teams in Hong Kong with the recommendations made by Hospital Authority --- p.17 / Chapter 2.4.5 --- Summary of Background of APS --- p.19 / Chapter 3. --- Economic Evaluation of Acute Pain Service Programs: A Systematic Review --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1 --- Abstract --- p.20 / Chapter 3.2 --- Introduction --- p.21 / Chapter 3.3 --- Methods --- p.22 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Study Selection Criteria --- p.22 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Search Strategy --- p.23 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Data Analysis --- p.23 / Chapter 3.4 --- Results --- p.24 / Chapter 3.5 --- Discussion --- p.27 / Chapter 3.6 --- Conclusion --- p.30 / Chapter 4. --- Methodology of the RCT Study --- p.41 / Chapter 4.1 --- Setting --- p.41 / Chapter 4.2 --- Eligibility Criteria for Participants --- p.42 / Chapter 4.3 --- Obtaining Informed Consent --- p.42 / Chapter 4.4 --- Study Intervention --- p.43 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Randomization --- p.43 / Chapter 4.4.1.1 --- Randomization: Generation and Concealment --- p.43 / Chapter 4.4.1.2 --- Randomization: Implementation --- p.43 / Chapter 4.4.1.3 --- Study Intervention: APS (Intervention group) and CWPS (Control) --- p.44 / Chapter 4.5 --- Data Collection and Outcome Measures --- p.44 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Primary Outcomes --- p.44 / Chapter 4.5.1.1 --- Data Obtained at 72 hours After Surgery --- p.44 / Chapter 4.5.1.2 --- "Data Obtained at 24, 48 and 72 hours After Surgery" --- p.46 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Secondary Outcomes --- p.47 / Chapter 4.6 --- Sample Size --- p.47 / Chapter 4.7 --- Data Analysis --- p.48 / Chapter 4.7.1 --- Comparability Between APS and CWPS Groups --- p.48 / Chapter 4.7.2 --- Comparing Costs and Effects of Interventions --- p.48 / Chapter 5. --- Results and Analysis --- p.51 / Chapter 5.1 --- Flow of Participation --- p.51 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Enrollment of Participation --- p.51 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Allocation of Treatment --- p.51 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Follow-up --- p.53 / Chapter 5.2 --- Results of Data Analysis --- p.53 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Patient Demographics --- p.53 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Costs of Interventions --- p.55 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Patient Satisfaction --- p.55 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- QoR --- p.61 / Chapter 5.2.5 --- Average Pain Severity Ratings --- p.62 / Chapter 5.2.6 --- Pain at Rest Severity --- p.63 / Chapter 5.2.7 --- Pain on Movement --- p.64 / Chapter 5.2.8 --- Average Pain Interference with Daily Activities --- p.65 / Chapter 5.2.9 --- Effectiveness of Pain Relief --- p.66 / Chapter 5.2.9.1 --- Side Effects of Pain Medications --- p.66 / Chapter 5.2.9.2 --- Summary of results --- p.67 / Chapter 6. --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.68 / Appendix A: Data Collection Form --- p.71 / Appendix B: Conference Abstract --- p.81 / Appendix C: Conference Abstract --- p.83 / REFERENCES --- p.85

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007. / "A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Under the direction of Walter S. Polka. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-180)

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1950.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-171). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

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For monitoring the spread of HIV epidemic, both national population-based surveys and antenatal clinics (ANC) are used. However, in all cases, there are potential biases. Bias associated with ANC data includes whether the pregnant women who attend public ANC are representative of all pregnant women. Reduced fertility among HIV-infected women, selection for sexual activity and under-representation of smaller rural sites in surveillance systems are other factors that may be source of biases (Boerma et al. 2003 & Walker et al. 2003). So, the question arising is how women who attend ANC could be representative of the general female population. Evidently, not all women become pregnant and not all pregnant women attend ANC. This research project has been designed to address those biases especially in Rwanda and Malawi. It focused on investigating the significance of this bias by doing a comparative analysis of sero prevalence between both those using ANC and those who do not. This study, therefore, intends to test whether women attending ANC may be representative to the general female population of both Rwanda and Malawi using respectively 2004 MDHS and 2005 RDHS. Using statistical techniques with the aid of STATA software program, univariate, bivariate and logistic regression (bivariate and multivariate) were performed for 11321 women in Rwanda and 11698 in Malawi aged between 15 and 49. However, among them, those who had live birth in last five years prior to the surveys were the most interested on in this study; that is especially, 5390 in Rwanda and 7304 in Malawi. Besides, HIV status of respondents was an important variable. Considering both women who had live birth and those who did not have live birth, I find that women who had live birth in Rwanda are 0.62 times less likely to be HIV positive and 0.48 times less likely to be infected for those who had live birth in Malawi. When controlling for women who had live birth, I find that in both countries women who use ANC are less likely to be infected compared to those who do not (0.53 times less likely in Rwanda and 0.58 times less likely in Malawi). Based on these findings, relying only on data from ANC may lead to biases in HIV prevalence estimates; particularly referring to 2004 MDHS and 2005RDHS. Besides, considering the level of significance of the difference between HIV status between those who use ANC and those who do not, I find that this is not identical in Rwanda (5% level of significance) and in Malawi (10% level of significance). Thus, these results suggest, briefly, that not only the degree of ANC data representativeness is changing depending on various stages of HIV epidemic as Fylkesnes said (1998), but also is affected by the amount of women who had live birth and their respective HIV status. In fact, this difference may be based on the fact that in Malawi, HIV prevalence is high compared to Rwanda and those who had live birth were in high percentage comparing to Rwanda.

"The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether there were differences between a sample of 93 reopened cases at the Leon County Mental Health Clinic in Tallahassee, Florida, during a two-year period, and a sample of 100 cases-not-reopened during that period of time. The period used in the selection of cases was from July 1, 1955 through June 30, 1957. A schedule of eighteen items was utilized to gather information from 193 case records. The comparison of the two samples was done by an analysis of the information thus obtained"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "May, 1958." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Vernon Fox, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Sandra Leal Calais / Banca: Walter José Martins Migliorini / Banca: Hugo Ferrari Cardoso / Resumo: Serviços-escola de cursos de Psicologia são espaços de aprendizagem e que cumprem uma função social ao prestar serviços para a comunidade. Conhecer as características da população que procura estes serviços, portanto, é necessário para que este possa se adequar às suas demandas. O presente estudo realizou a caracterização da clientela que procurou atendimento psicoterapêutico em um determinado serviço-escola entre os anos de 2012 e 2016 e levantou as principais queixas apresentadas. Foram consultados os prontuários de todos os inscritos nestes anos para categorizá-los de acordo com suas características sociodemográficas e queixas. Os dados foram computados em uma planilha eletrônica e os resultados encontrados corroboram a literatura na área. Entre o público infantil há a predominância de inscritos do gênero masculino com queixas de não-cumprimento de regras e, entre o público adulto, inscritos do gênero feminino com queixas relacionadas ao relacionamento interpessoal no âmbito familiar. Em todos os anos analisados o maior número dos inscritos para psicoterapia era de adultos, representados em grande parte por estudantes da universidade em que o serviço-escola se encontrava. Houve poucos adolescentes e idosos inscritos e, entre esses públicos, não foi encontrada uma queixa específica que se destacou em todos os anos. Questões relacionadas ao ambiente familiar estiveram presentes entre as principais queixas apresentadas por todos os públicos. Questões de gênero que justificam ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: School-clinics of Psychology courses are learning spaces that play a social role in providing services to the community. Knowing the characteristics of the population that search for these services, therefore, is necessary so that it can adapt to their demands. The present study carried out the characterization of the clientele who sought psychotherapeutic care in a specific school-clinic between 2012 and 2016 and raised the main complaints reported. The records of all those enrolled in these years were consulted to categorize them according to their sociodemographic characteristics and complaints. The data were computed in a spreadsheet and the results found corroborate the literature in the area. Among the children's public, there is a predominance of male enrollees with complaints of non-compliance with rules and, among the adult public, female enrollees with complaints related to interpersonal relationships within the family. In all the years analyzed, the largest number of psychotherapy enrollees were adults, represented in large part by students from the university where the school-clinic was located. There were few adolescents and the elderly enrolled, and among these publics, a specific complaint was not found that stood out in all the years. Issues related to the family environment were among the main complaints presented by all audiences. Gender issues that justify male predominance in childhood and female in other age groups among those enrolled for psychotherapy. ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre