Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1975.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1975.

Thesis (M.S.)--Medical College of Ohio, 2004. / "In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Nursing." Major advisor: Dianne Smolen. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: vii, 75 p. Title from title page of PDF document. Bibliography: pages 54-56.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1981. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-78).

As breast cancer survival rates increase, quality of life issues should be addressed, specifically regarding sexual health. Breast cancer treatment can lead to sexual dysfunction, alterations in sexual self-concept, body image, self-esteem, and relationship issues which can cause a depressed quality of life. These sexual health issues can also uniquely affect the intimate partner. It appears that a strong relationship and supportive intimate partner can protect against the stressors due to these sexual problems. Addressing sexual concerns, whether physical, psychological, or relational are a clear necessity in managing the care of patients with breast cancer, regardless of partner status, age, or disease stage. Clinicians and medical professionals should address these issues in patient care plans, examinations, and patient education, focusing not only on the patient but also on the couple as a unit. However, there are barriers to communication in regards to sexuality on both the part of the physician and the patient that cause a discrepancy between available resources and patients actually receiving them. Developing effective treatment plans and interventions are essential in improving the quality of life in women suffering from physical, psychological, and relational sexual issues due to the management of breast cancer.

Religious identity, self-concept, and resilience are considered the three main components that contribute to adolescents' life developmental tasks. The purpose of the current study is to examine the effect of psycho-educational group intervention on religious identity, self-concept, and resilience among 94 Malaysian female orphan adolescents. Participants, aged between 14 and 17 years (early adolescence), were selected from four different orphanages in Malaysia. Using a quasi-experimental design, these participants completed two sets of pretests and post-tests on demographic information, the Muslim Religious Personality Inventory (MRPI), the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale-2 (TSCS-2), and the Singaporean Youth Resilience Scale (SYRESS). The data was analyzed using both Pearson Correlation and Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA). Findings found a positive relationship among three constructs--religious identity, self-concept, and resilience. Given the types of orphans in this study, there was no significant difference between true and social orphans on their religious identity, self-concept, and resilience scores. The results also showed that the psycho-educational group intervention did have a significant effect on the treatment group's score of religious identity, self-concept, and resilience tasks over a four-week session. The change of religious identity, self-concept, and resilience suggests that this intervention group is sufficient to be effective in female orphans who are participating in this study while providing new perspectives for group worker practitioners, caregivers, institutional principals, and Pertubuhan Kebajikan Anak Yatim Malaysia (PEYATIM).

The purpose of the current study is to examine middle school students' attitudes toward math, intent to pursue STEM-related education and occupations, and STEM interest from middle school to high school. The data used in this study are from a larger, on-going National Science Foundation (NSF) grant-funded study that is investigating middle school students' disengagement while using the Assistments system (Baker, Heffernan & San Pedro, 2012), a computer-based math tutoring system. The NSF grant study aims to explore how disengagement with STEM material can aid in the prediction of students' college enrollment as well as how it may interact with other factors affecting students' career choices (San Pedro, Baker, Bowers, Heffernan, 2013). Participants are students from urban and suburban schools in Massachusetts measured first in middle school and again four years later. Measures at Time 1 included: various items related to attitudes toward mathematics, occupations they could see themselves doing as adults, and the Brief Self-Control Scale (Tangney, Baumeister, & Luzio Boone, 2004). Measures at Time 2 included: items requesting the students' current mathematics and science courses and intended majors or occupations following high school graduation. Exploratory factor analysis, multiple regression and logistic regression analyses were used to test the following four hypotheses: I. There will be several distinct factors that emerge to provide information about middle school students' attitudes toward math; II. Students' attitudes toward math will correlate positively and significantly with students' intent to pursue STEM-related careers at Time 1 with a medium effect; III. Middle school attitudes toward mathematics will relate positively and significantly to level of high school mathematics and science courses with a medium effect; IV. Middle school intent to pursue STEM will correlate positively and significantly with high school intent to pursue STEM majors/careers with a medium effect. Results supported a 2-factor model of Attitudes toward Mathematics consisting of Math Self-Concept and Attitudes toward Assistments. Other significant findings include: a positive relationship between students' Attitudes toward Assistments and level of math class taken in high school; a positive relationship between students' Math Self-Concept and Self Control; a positive relationship between Self Control and students' endorsement of STEM careers while in middle school, and discrepancy between male and female students' endorsement of STEM careers as early as middle school. Although many of the study's primary hypotheses were not supported, the present study provides a framework and baseline for several important considerations. Limitations, including those related to the present study's small sample size, and future implications of the present study, which add to career development literature in STEM, are discussed in regard to both research and practice.

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar as memórias do escritor Pedro Nava, destacando as estratégias de autorrepresentação adotadas pelo autor nas obras Baú de osso e Balão cativo. Essas duas obras compreendem as etapas do nascimento até os treze anos do memorialista, ou seja, período no qual Pedro Nava recebeu as maiores influências para sua formação. Analisamos que os autobiografemas elementos comuns nas escritas de si foram utilizados por Pedro Nava para moldar uma autofiguração de pesquisador, observador, analista de perfis humanos, além de grande leitor e intelectual. Abordamos a história familiar, a descoberta do mundo através das cidades, a paixão pelos livros e as experiências como interno dos colégios Anglo-Mineiro e Pedro II. Locais, inclusive, de descobertas para o caminho da medicina e da literatura. Consideramos que esses procedimentos fazem parte de um processo de construção de sua autoimagem / This dissertation investigates the memories of writer Pedro Nava, giving prominence to strategies of self-representation adopted by the author in Baú de ossos and Balão cativo. These two books show the stages up to thirteen years since the birth of memorialist, in other words, the period in which Pedro Nava received the best influences for your formation. We analyzed ordinary of autobiography wich have been used by Pedro Nava to shape a self-concept of researcher, observer, analyst of human profile, as well as a great reader and intellect. We addressed the family history, his discovery of the world through cities, his passion for books and his experiences at boarding schools such Anglo-Mineiro and Pedro II. In these places, he discovered skills for medical sciences and literature. We considered these procedures are parts of process of the construction of the your self-concept

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar as memórias do escritor Pedro Nava, destacando as estratégias de autorrepresentação adotadas pelo autor nas obras Baú de osso e Balão cativo. Essas duas obras compreendem as etapas do nascimento até os treze anos do memorialista, ou seja, período no qual Pedro Nava recebeu as maiores influências para sua formação. Analisamos que os autobiografemas elementos comuns nas escritas de si foram utilizados por Pedro Nava para moldar uma autofiguração de pesquisador, observador, analista de perfis humanos, além de grande leitor e intelectual. Abordamos a história familiar, a descoberta do mundo através das cidades, a paixão pelos livros e as experiências como interno dos colégios Anglo-Mineiro e Pedro II. Locais, inclusive, de descobertas para o caminho da medicina e da literatura. Consideramos que esses procedimentos fazem parte de um processo de construção de sua autoimagem / This dissertation investigates the memories of writer Pedro Nava, giving prominence to strategies of self-representation adopted by the author in Baú de ossos and Balão cativo. These two books show the stages up to thirteen years since the birth of memorialist, in other words, the period in which Pedro Nava received the best influences for your formation. We analyzed ordinary of autobiography wich have been used by Pedro Nava to shape a self-concept of researcher, observer, analyst of human profile, as well as a great reader and intellect. We addressed the family history, his discovery of the world through cities, his passion for books and his experiences at boarding schools such Anglo-Mineiro and Pedro II. In these places, he discovered skills for medical sciences and literature. We considered these procedures are parts of process of the construction of the your self-concept

Orientadores: Elisabete Abib Pedroso de Souza, Marilisa Mantovani Guerreiro / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T10:22:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Siqueira_NathaliaFerreira_M.pdf: 904151 bytes, checksum: a644f5027fbb63d5569dbe3f69cbf6a8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A epilepsia passa a significar perdas em diferentes áreas: física, saúde, emprego, relações sociais e familiares. Autoestima e autoconfiança também são afetadas. O presente trabalho teve como principal objetivo avaliar e comparar a autoestima dos adolescentes com epilepsia e sem epilepsia. Também objetivou-se avaliar e relacionar a qualidade de vida com a autoestima no adolescente com epilepsia. Variáveis clinicas e demográficas e aspectos relacionados a representação da doença foram considerados. Esse estudo avaliou 67 adolescentes, de ambos os sexos, na faixa etária de 11 a 18 anos, 37 pacientes assistidos no ambulatório de Neurologia/ HC da Unicamp com diagnostico de epilepsia e 30 adolescentes sem este diagnostico que frequentavam escolas publicas na região de Campinas-SP. O critério de inclusão do estudo foi: ter diagnostico de epilepsia há mais de dois anos para o grupo com epilepsia e não ter epilepsia para o grupo sem epilepsia e habilidade para responder questões por eles mesmos. O critério de exclusão para os dois grupos foi: não ser portador de outras doenças neurológicas progressivas ou doenças psiquiátricas evidentes, não terem se submetido a cirurgia no cérebro, não fazerem uso de medicações que pudessem afetar o sistema nervoso central, exceto drogas antiepilepticas. Foram aplicados a Escala de Autoestima (EMAE) padronizada e validada para a população brasileira, o Inventario de Qualidade de Vida para adolescentes com epilepsia - versão brasileira (QOLIE-AD-48) e um questionário aberto para avaliar as representações da doença. Esse estudo mostra que o grupo de adolescentes com epilepsia obteve uma media de pontuação de autoestima acima do esperado com maiores escores nas dimensões autoestima família e autoestima escola comparado com o grupo sem epilepsia. O grupo com epilepsia também apresentou uma avaliação da qualidade de vida acima do esperado. Inicio das crises, idade e escolaridade obtiveram relações significativas com autoestima. Com relação aos aspectos subjetivos, os adolescentes sabem e entendem a doença, conversam com familiares e amigos, relatam mais sentimentos positivos e tendem a lidar com a doença de maneira mais adaptada, apesar das restrições de lazer. Foi importante o reconhecimento da presença de suporte social como estratégia de adaptação positiva e da importância da percepção do controle de crises como facilitador de contatos sociais e uma convivência normal / Abstract: Epilepsy is a disease that is associated with losses in different areas: health, employment, social and family relationships. Self esteem and self confidence are also affected. The study present primarily the evaluate and compare the self esteem of adolescents with epilepsy with adolescents without epilepsy. Aimed also evaluate and associate the quality of life with the self esteem of adolescents with epilepsy. Clinical and demographics variables and aspects related to disease representation were considered. This study evaluated 67 adolescents, both male and female, aged from 11 to 18 years, 37 were patients with epilepsy attending the Neurology Ambulatory and 30 adolescents who didn't have epilepsy were attending public schools in Campinas-SP. The inclusion criteria were: a diagnosis of epilepsy for more than 2 years for the group with epilepsy and no diagnosis of epilepsy for the group without epilepsy, ability to answer the questions by himself/herself. The exclusion criteria were: had another progressive neurological or psychiatric illness, if they had had brain surgery, used a concomitant medication with central nervous system effects, except antiepileptic drugs. Were applied the a scale for self esteem (EMAE), standardized and validated for the brazilian population, Inventory of quality of life for adolescents with epilepsy - Brazilian version (QOLIE-AD-48) and a opened questionnaire for evaluate the disease representation. This study showed that the group of adolescents with epilepsy got a mean score of self esteem above the expectations with higher scores in the dimensions family self esteem and school self esteem. The group with epilepsy also presented a evaluation of quality of life above the expectations. Onset seizure, age and schooling got significant relations with self esteem. With respect to subjective aspects, the adolescents known and understanding the illness, talking with family and friends, report more positive feelings and tend to deal with the disease in a manner best suited, despite of leisure restriction. It was important to recognize the presence of social support as positive adaptation strategy and the importance of the perception of seizure control as a facilitator of social contacts and living a normal / Mestrado / Ciencias Biomedicas / Mestre em Ciências Médicas