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Kitto, Simon C.; Grant, Rachel E.; Peller, Jennifer; Moulton, Carol-Anne; Gallinger, Steven – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2018
In 2007 the Cancer Care Ontario Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic (HPB) Community of Practice was formed during the wake of provincial regionalization of HPB services in Ontario, Canada. Despite being conceptualized within the literature as an educational intervention, communities of practice (CoP) are increasingly being adopted in healthcare as quality…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Conflict, Cancer, Surgery
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Habel, Melissa A.; Coor, Alexandra; Beltran, Oscar; Becasen, Jeffrey; Pearson, William S.; Dittus, Patricia – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: To describe the array of sexual health care services provided at US colleges and universities. Participants: During 2014-2015, 885 colleges were surveyed about their provision of sexual health services. Methods: 55% of colleges responded. Data were weighted and stratified by minority-serving institutions (MSIs), 2-year and 4-year…
Descriptors: Health Services, Colleges, Universities, Sexuality
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Coronado, Gloria D.; Petrik, Amanda F.; Spofford, Mark; Talbot, Jocelyn; Do, Huyen Hoai; Taylor, Victoria M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Purpose: Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the United States, and rates of screening for colorectal cancer are low. We sought to gather the perceptions of clinic personnel at Latino-serving Federally Qualified Health Centers (operating 17 clinics) about barriers to utilization of screening services for colorectal…
Descriptors: Cancer, Screening Tests, Patients, Low Income
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Rawl, Susan M.; Christy, Shannon M.; Monahan, Patrick O.; Ding, Yan; Krier, Connie; Champion, Victoria L.; Rex, Douglas – Health Education Research, 2015
To compare the efficacy of two interventions to promote colorectal cancer screening participation and forward stage movement of colorectal cancer screening adoption among first-degree relatives of individuals diagnosed with adenomatous polyps. One hundred fifty-eight first-degree relatives of individuals diagnosed with adenomatous polyps were…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Counseling, Cancer, Counseling Effectiveness
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de Paiva, Eduardo – Physics Teacher, 2016
Every year millions of people contract cancer in the world, and according to prediction of the World Health Organization by the year 2030 there will be about 27 million new cases. Because of these figures and the resulting social and economic implications of this disease, radiotherapy, which is one form of treatment that uses ionizing radiation,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Physics, Radiology, Cancer
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Critchfield, Thomas S.; Reed, Derek D. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2016
Participants first became familiar with an image showing moderate symptoms of the skin cancer melanoma. In a generalization test, they indicated whether images showing more and less pronounced symptoms were "like the original." Some groups (cancer context) were told that the images depicted melanoma and that the disease is deadly unless…
Descriptors: Stimulus Generalization, Cancer, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Control Groups
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Baumann, Eva; Koller, Michael; Wiltfang, Jörg; Wenz, Hans-Jürgen; Möller, Björn; Hertrampf, Katrin – Health Education Research, 2016
In Germany, ~13 000 people are found to have oral and pharyngeal cancer every year. Awareness and knowledge about this cancer remain insufficient, particularly amongst elderly people. A campaign for early detection was launched in Northern Germany in April 2012. The first step of the campaign was to increase awareness about oral cancer. Prior to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cancer, Human Body, Consciousness Raising
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Mazzi, Davide – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Over the last twenty years, medical discourse has attracted a great deal of scholarly research. Language in healthcare settings has been more generally analysed through genres--whether in terms of expert-to-expert or expert-to-lay communication--whereas more specific aspects include the study of discourse strategies behind the expression of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Allied Health Personnel, Cancer, Information Dissemination
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Amuta-Jimenez, Ann Oyare; Cisse-Egbounye, Nafissatou; Jacobs, Wura; Smith, Gabrielle P. A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Introduction: Most studies lump Black immigrants (BIs) and African Americans (AAs) as "Black/African American" during investigation. Such categorization assumes that the sociocultural determinants that influence BIs are the same as for AAs. This study attempts to disentangle the AA and BI subgroups to recognize the differences in…
Descriptors: Blacks, Immigrants, African Americans, Cancer
Sahin, Mehmet; Onur, Fatma Baris – Online Submission, 2019
With the study, titled "Women's Breast Cancer Consciousness and Sport Burdur Example" aimed at the awareness and practice of breast cancer in women at Burdur city center. In our study, descriptive screening and structured interview technique were applied. At the end of the research, regardless of the education level of women, it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Cancer, Knowledge Level
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Hoggan, Chad – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2014
This study explored the processes by which a group of breast cancer survivors experienced positive learning and growth from their cancer experiences. The author argues that such learning and growth can be considered transformative learning, especially from ontological perspectives of the theory. The participants' change process consisted of…
Descriptors: Cancer, Epistemology, Transformative Learning, Coping
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Pierre-Victor, Dudith; Trepka, Mary Jo; Page, Timothy F.; Li, Tan; Stephens, Dionne P.; Madhivanan, Purnima – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends routine human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization for 11- to 12-year-old adolescents. In 2008, Louisiana required the school boards to distribute HPV vaccine information to parents or guardian of students in Grades 6 to 12. This article investigates the impact of this policy on HPV…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Cancer, Risk, Secondary School Students
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Floyd, Tiffany D.; DuHamel, Katherine N.; Rao, Jessica; Shuk, Elyse; Jandorf, Lina – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
African American women have the highest colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates among women of any race/ethnicity in the United States. Colonoscopy screening is an efficacious procedure for the prevention and early detection of colorectal cancer, making it a promising tool in the effort to eliminate colorectal cancer disparities. Toward…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Screening Tests, Cancer
Jabour, Abdulrahman M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Introduction: Cancer registries collect tumor-related data to monitor incident rates and support population-based research. A common concern with using population-based registry data for research is reporting timeliness. Data timeliness have been recognized as an important data characteristic by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Descriptors: Cancer, Data Collection, Information Management, Databases
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Wolfe, Christopher R.; Widmer, Colin L.; Torrese, Christine V.; Dandignac, Mitchell – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2018
We developed a method for using Coh-Metrix to automatically analyze tutorial dialogues. Coh-Metrix, a web-based tool for automatically evaluating text, is freely available to researchers. We applied the method to 190 tutorial dialogues between women and "BRCA Gist" from two experiments. "BRCA Gist" is an intelligent tutoring…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Risk, Cancer, Females
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