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Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University

"A field work placement in the social service department of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Augusta, Georgia, provided motivation and a source of data for this study. In reviewing the literature and conferring with social service administrators, it was pointed out that a basic criterion was needed in order to determine the positive effects of social service activities with neuropsychiatric tubercular patients. As the complexity of multiple interacting factors made a study of direct effect impossible, it was decided to compare social service activities and other factors to rapid and non-rapid movement of patients from Ward 14. This determined the association of other factors, in addition to social service activities, associated with movement and provided some basis on which further study of the effects of social service could be undertaken. An attempt was also made to show the association of specific characteristics of social service contacts with movement"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Howard Borsuk, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"The purpose of this study was to ascertain observable differences between two sub-samples of veterans from Veterans Administration Center, Gulfport, who were given more than one trial visit from which each returned. In one group (hereafter referred to as sub-sample "A") each veteran stated the same reason for return on each subsequent trial visit failure. In the remaining group (sub-sample "B") each veteran gave upon returning each time a different cause for his return"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1960." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: James H. Williams, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"The purpose of the study was to ascertain whether there were any marked differences when the study sample of fifty-seven patients (dichotomized by level of education attained) were distributed by each of the possible recommendations made by the Committee. The data for the study were collected from the hospital records of fifty-seven male patients to determine if there were marked differences on eleven social and medical descriptive items between twenty-four patients who had no high school education, and thirty-three patients who completed high school. Knowledge of marked differences not due to chance in the various social and medical descriptive items studied might be of help to the Committee in arriving at recommendations for patient care. The frequency distribution on sixteen possible Committee recommendations for patient care between the two sub-samples are given; to what extent the recommendations were followed also is indicated. If the data revealed differentiating items between the patients who completed high school and those who did not complete high school the Committee might show whether it would be feasible to make more recommendations for the patient population"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1960." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: John T. Greene, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / Epilepsy which has the longest known medical history of any disease effects a large segment of our population. In the United States, there are about a million persons affected with this connition which is characterized by a seizure or fit. It has been said that about seventy five recent of this group can have seizures controlled by medication. However, other studies have shown that with control of seizures, it does not follow that the problems of this group are solved, The difficulties besetting this chronically ill group seem at times to be almost insurmountable. Our society, because of its fears and lack of knowledge about the illness, discriminates against the epileptic in employment, education and other social activities, There are even discriminatory laws relating to his employment, marriage, and driving a car.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University

"The purpose of this study is to search out and record some of the social factors which influenced the patient's premature return to the hospital from a ninety day trial visit in his community. The goal is to gather and analyze the content of the records of these patients and to examine the literature relating to the problems of schizophrenic patients after they leave the hospital. The objective is to describe some of the stresses encountered by the patient which were more than he could bear and to isolate some of the social factors which upset his balance"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: William L. Leap, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"The purpose of this study was to determine whether the educational levels attained by epileptic male veterans at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida had a bearing on their employment as revealed by the analysis of nine selected items of information. The sample comprised thirty-four epileptic male veterans dichotomized by their educational level--an eleventh grade education or less, more than an eleventh grade education--who were treated as patients within a four month period"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1960." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: John T. Greene, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.