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2005
Kulig, J., Stewart, N. J., Smith, B., Remus, G., Kosteniuk, J., Andrews, M. E., MacLeod, M., Pitblado, J. R., D’Arcy, C., Forbes, D., Morgan, D.
Research on nursing practice issues in rural and remote areas of Canada is very limited. This report describes the method and initial results of a comprehensive survey of registered nurses (RNs) practising outside the commuting zones of large urban centres, designed to determine: who practises...
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Assessing the potential to involve healers in expanding coverage of cARV programs in rural western Uganda
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In Uganda there is a gap between the coverage of cARV programs and the number of people who require treatment. Community-based initiatives are necessary to scale-up cARV programs. Healers have been shown to be able to play a role in other aspects of HIV care including prevention. This study...
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Fall 2015
Artivism is a creative and youthful way of being, doing and seeing in the world that hinges on an explicit commitment to intervening in personal/collective circumstances toward change. Artivists respond to injustices by engaging any, and often multiple, artistic means in a shared effort to...
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2003
Adamowicz, Wiktor, Naidoo, Robin
The benefits of nature-based tourism to biodiversity conservation are often presumed but rarely quantified. The relative value placed on attributes of nature parks is unknown, as is the contribution of biodiversity to tourists' willingness to visit a particular protected area. We surveyed...
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Fall 2017
In nursing education, preceptorship practica typically occur at the end of the undergraduate nursing program and are intended to consolidate learning as the student prepares to enter practice. Nursing students are evaluated throughout the preceptorship in part related to their ability to manage...
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Spring 2011
The focus of this study is to understand why, despite high uptake of antenatal care, women in Uganda continue to deliver without skilled birth attendants. A critical gap in our knowledge is an understanding of the decisions women make during pregnancy and childbirth that determine the services...
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Spring 2017
The purpose of this qualitative study is to gain a better understanding of the type of trust, and what factors influence the trust community members have in community health workers (CHWs) serving their communities in rural Western Uganda. Trust is a complex concept that has been widely...
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Exploring Ugandan secondary school students’ sexual health education needs and developing school-based sexual health interventions through participatory action research
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This study began by exploring the factors that influence the sexual health information sources available to Ugandan adolescents and how they decide what sources to use. Guided by participatory action research, focus group discussions and interviews were conducted with students and teachers from...
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Fall 2021
Background Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity globally. Vertical transmission is the primary mode of HIV acquisition among infants. Although successful interventions have reduced vertical transmission to less than <2.9% in low-to-middle income countries...
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Hope against hope: Exploring the hopes and challenges of rural female caregivers of persons with advanced cancer.
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Thomas, R., Hallstrom, L., Williams, A., Cooper, R., Holtslander, L., Eby, J., Duggleby, W.
Background This paper focuses on the qualitative component of a study evaluating a hope intervention, entitled Living with Hope Program (LWHP), designed to foster hope in female caregivers of family members living with advanced cancer. The purpose of this research is to share, in the form of a...