Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1944.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1941.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1935.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1945.

Thesis (M.S.)--Eastern Illinois University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-46).

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<p> Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition which has seen numbers increase in recent years. Being a diabetic is neither easy for the diabetic themselves nor the parents raising the diabetic child. In looking over the literature, very little research was found on the lived experiences of fathers raising a child with type 1 diabetes. Therefore, a qualitative design with a phenomenological approach was used in order to discover and describe the phenomenon. This study was based on 12 male respondents (fathers) who shared their experiences on parenting a child with type 1 diabetes. The responses of the 12 participants revealed four major themes discovered via the hermeneutic method of textual description, and sought to present the essence of their lived experience. The four major themes were diabetes is forever, dealing with it, increased pressure, and the &ldquo;new normal.&rdquo; The lived experiences of fathers who participated in this study disclosed a sense of resiliency, while learning a lot of information, quickly to better understand type 1 diabetes. The interviewees wanted to share their stories and help others, interested in this topic, gain a better understanding of what life is like parenting and raising a child with type 1 diabetes.</p>

<p> The purpose of this study was to increase the knowledge level and change self-reported behavioral intent among a sample of healthcare providers regarding safe sleep messaging. From 1995 through 2015 in New York City, an average of one infant died every week from unsafe sleeping conditions. One agency in New York City experienced four unsafe sleep infant deaths within two months in 2010. In 2011, the city provided case managers with training on infant safety. Before this training, up to six sleep-related infant deaths were reported annually. The following year, one sleep-related infant death occurred. None occurred during the second year subsequent to the training. Current literature demonstrates healthcare providers have considerable influence on safe sleep messaging. This current study utilized a similar educational training designed for healthcare providers working in an urban health facility.</p><p> A single group pre/post-test quasi-experimental design was delivered to 23 participants. The design incorporated an online educational intervention in order to increase healthcare provider&rsquo;s knowledge level and change their self-reported behavioral intent to educate parents and caregivers on the importance of safe sleep practices. Data were gathered at pre-test and post-test to assess changes.</p><p> Final analysis, using a repeated measures general linear model, was carried out on data from the twenty-three participants who returned completed pre- and post-class surveys. There was a statistically significant change in the overall 13-item composite score reflecting knowledge level and change the self-reported behavioral intent from pretest (M=6.13, SD=2.78) to post-test (M=8.78, SD=3.79) at the p &lt;.001 level. These findings support current literature recommendations for healthcare providers to incorporate the safe sleep message into their practice. Nonetheless, supplementary research is needed to conclude whether these results coincide with communities elsewhere and to examine the issues regarding knowledge and behavioral intent regarding safe sleep messaging.</p>

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University. / The primary purpose of this study is to determine the attitudes of twelfth grade students in Florida high schools toward selected areas of health and safety education. The study may be thought of as an assessment of attitudes which might provide the possibility for analyzing student behavior in health and safety matters. Related objectives are to determine the possible relationships of attitudes to sex, type of school, community, and previous experience in health education.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of a ten (10) hour Teacher's Motivational Teaching Model (TMTM) on student teachers' teaching behavior. The sample for this study consisted of 90 elementary education majors at Ball State University involved in a dental health study.Of the 90 students involved in this study, 46 were taught an experimental unit in dental health and 44 were taught a less concentrated unit in dental health. The experimental unit was 10 hours in duration and made application of operant conditioning principles, cognitive dissonance, and group decision making. A special unit in classroom first aid was also taught to remove experimental bias. The Student Teacher Observation Form (a category recording system) was developed to measure the effects of the TMTM on student teachers' teaching behavior. STOP is a four category recording system which lasts three minutes. The categories included in STOF were facts/reasons in dental health instruction, demonstrations in dental health instruction, facts/reasons in first aidinstruction, and demonstration in first aid instruction. The STOP system was taught to the classroom supervisors assigned to the student teachers. The classroom supervisors observed their student teachers for 12 minutes a day for 7 weeks. The 12 minutes of observation time were randomly selected and 6 of the minutes observed daily consisted of science health instruction. The data collected by the classroom supervisors was sent in weekly for analysis.Four major null hypotheses were considered in this study.1.1 There will be no significant difference in the amount of facts/reasons dental health instruction performed by the experimental and control groups.1.2 There will be no significant difference in the amount of demonstration dental health instruction performed by the experimental and control groups.2. There will be no significant difference in the kind of dental health instruction performed by the experimental and control groups.3.1 There will be no significant difference in the utilization of teaching materials between experimental and control groups.3.2 There will be no significant difference in the utilization of consultation services between experimental and control groups.4. There will be no significant differences in the relationship between the utilization of materials and the distance from the source of materials between experimental and control groups.In summary the following conclusions were drawn.1. Student teachers exposed to the TNfiM (experimental group)spent significantly more instruction time on facts/reasons and demonstrations in dental health than student teachers who received the less concentrated instruction (control group).2. Significantly more dental health facts/reasons and demonstration instruction occurred in the science health instructional areas than outside the science-health area.3. Student teachers in the experimental group spent significantly more time on dental health facts/reasons instruction outside the sciencehealth area than the student teachers in the control groups.4. Dental health teaching materials were utilized in similar amounts by experimental and control student teachers.5. Student teachers in the experimental and control groups utilized similar proportions between facts/reasons and demonstration instruction in dental health.6. Student teachers in the experimental groups used more dental health consultation services than students in the control groups.7. No relationship existed between students in the experimental and control groups and the utilization of dental health materials and the distance from the source of the materials.