2,625 research outputs found
Heartland Sonshine: A Thriving Rural Church and Community
No full textxi, 236 leaves. Advisor: Dale Patrick
Junior High School Interschool Athletic Programs In Iowa Cities With Populations Of Over 2,000
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Romantic Trend: A Comparison Of Representative Pre-Romantic And Romantic English Writers
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An Appraisal of the Southeast Warren Community High School Curriculum Relating to Vocational Guidance, Citizenship Training and Personal Social Development from 1961 Through 1964 and 1966 through 1969
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The Development And Implementation Of A Salary Schedule For C and M Community School, Cumberland, Iowa, 1959-1960
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The Effects of Effleurage as a Nursing Intervention to Promote Prenatal Attachment
No full textvi, 118 leaves. Advisor: Sandra Sellers.The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of effleurage on prenatal attachment. A quasi-experimental research design was used for the study. A group of 49 pregnant women who
attended childbirth education classes at a medical center in the Midwest participated in the study. The experimental group consisted of 16 pregnant women who were taught the intervention of effleurage. The control group consisted of 33 pregnant women who were not taught the intervention. Three research hypotheses were posed for the study. The first research hypothesis was: Pregnant women in the experimental group who use the intervention of massage will demonstrate a
significantly greater increase between pretest/posttest PAI scores than pregnant women in the control group. With an alpha set at .05, an independent t-test of the mean differences between
the pretest/posttest scores for the experimental and control groups revealed t = 1.634, p = 0.056. This hypothesis was not supported. The second research hypothesis was: Pregnant women in the
experimental group who use the intervention of massage will have significantly higher posttest scores than women in the control group. With an alpha set at .05, an independent t-test revealed
t = 1.11, p = 0.14. There was no significant difference between the posttest PAI scores of the experimental and control groups. The third hypothesis was: There is no relationship among the
demographic variables of maternal age, marital status, education level, perceived social support, number of other living children, and race/ethnicity and PAI scores. Social support was the only moderate correlation noted (r = 0.311). There was no statistically significant relationship between PAI scores and the demographic variables of maternal age (r= -0.105), marital status (r= -0.006), educational level (r= -0.015), number of children (r= -0.113), race/ethnicity (r= -0.008), or gestational age (r = 0.028) .
The literature revealed a lack of prenatal attachment intervention studies and conflicting results of studies correlating prenatal attachment and demographic variables. Recommendations were made for more studies that test a variety of
nursing interventions that promote prenatal attachment. Conceptual clarification is needed, which would enhance both tool refinement and prenatal attachment theory development.
Implications of the study for advanced nursing practice include incorporating emerging prenatal attachment interventions into general nursing practice, nursing education, and childbirth
education. Intervening through social support as a way to promote prenatal attachment was discussed.
Supportive care during pregnancy and beyond is best accomplished with the help of an advanced practice maternal-child nurse. With a focus on the developing attachments throughout pregnancy, the nurse can "mother the mother" throughout her
pregnancy and significant contributions can be made to the health of society by strengthening families
The Relation Between Employee Attendance and Productivity
No full textiv, 27 leaves. Advisor: Phillip K. DuncanThe problem. Absenteeism has been identified as a
major problem among employees who are paid on an hourly basis. The use of operant procedures to correct attendance problems has been successful, but most programs have relied exclusively on monetary reinforcers. Furthermore, applied
researchers have yet to examine the relationship between measures of attendance and productivity. The present study investigated the effectiveness of non-monetary reinforcers on attendance and the relationship between attendance and productivity.
Procedures. Daily attendance feedback and social reinforcement were used to improve employee attendance. Workers' productivity was monitored concurrently to determine the relation to changes in attendance.
Findings. Both feedback and social reinforcement were effective in improving attendance. The mean rate of productivity among workers was found to increase slightly as absenteeism increased.
Conclusions. Non-monetary relnforcers can effectively control employee absenteeism. Worker productivity may change with changes in group attendance and such performance variables
should be considered in future attendance improvement efforts.
Recommendations. The present study manipulated attendance variables and measured productivity concurrently. More research is needed to further assess relationships between these variables. It would also be helpful to examine how attendance changes when production variables are manipulated
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