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Posttraumatic Growth, the Physically Active Body, and Self-Compassion

Creator:: Mitchell, Erin E.
Abstract:: Individuals who have been traumatized have the opportunity to experience posttraumatic growth, conceptualized as positive changes that result from navigating highly challenging life circumstances (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004). The current model of posttraumatic growth (Calhoun, Cann, & Tedeschi, 2010) is based solely on cognitive-emotional processing yet by examining the role...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: being safe, as well as experiences of self- compassion (Falconer, Slater, Rovira, King, & Gilbert, 2014

The Phenomenological Experience of Shame in the Context of Physical Activity

Creator:: Rogers, Kim A.
Abstract:: Not all experiences in physical activity, exercise, and sport are positive. Losing, getting injured, making a mistake, and not measuring up can all elicit a variety of highly negative emotions, including shame. To make matters worse, individuals often cope with shame in maladaptive ways––magnifying, suppressing, or ignoring the experience––which can...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ; Gilbert, 2009; Van Vliet, 2009). Despite the positive outcomes linked to self-compassion, only a small

Using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to Explore the Relationship between Food Insecurity, Childhood Lead Poisoning, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children

Creator:: Sparks, Megan M.
Abstract:: Lead is a ubiquitous environmental toxin known to cause neurological deficits in children. There is no biological need for lead and no safe level of lead in the body has ever been identified. Despite dramatic decline in mean blood lead levels nationwide since the U.S. EPA’s ban on lead-based paint...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: /dL, which was set in 2012 (Paulson and Brown, 2019; CDC, 2012; Gilbert and Weiss, 2006). Where

Health Service Utilization among Medicaid Enrollees in Oregon : Assessing Variation by Level of Rurality

Creator:: Larson, Annie E.
Abstract:: Research Objective: Nearly 60 million people in the United States reside in a rural area. Residents in rural areas have higher rates of chronic disease, risky health behaviors, disability, infant mortality, and age-adjusted mortality than their urban counterparts. Health insurance and access to care mitigate those risks, in part because...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: preventive care utilization.83 Allen et al. (2017) found that among new Medicaid enrollees in rural Oregon

Perceived Discrimination and Hypertension: Contextual and Mediating Factors

Creator:: Sims, Kendra D.
Abstract:: Marginalized groups in the United States are often diagnosed with hypertension at younger ages, contributing to their excess burden of cardiovascular disease. These disparities in blood pressure control do not appear to be fully accounted for by individual risk factors, such as health behaviors or genetic differences. Experiences of discrimination...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Identifying Differences in the Release of Bioactive Milk Peptides Across the Intestinal Tract Between Term and Preterm Infants

Creator:: Beverly, Robert L.
Abstract:: Premature birth interrupts the typical development of the human fetus, leaving the infant born with underdeveloped gastrointestinal and immune systems. Preterm infants have reduced stomach acidity, reduced digestive protease activity, more permeable intestinal membranes, impaired innate and adaptive immune response, and poor microbiome development. Due to these factors, preterm infants...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Examination of Multiple Air Pollutant Exposure, the Food Environment, and Low Birth Weight in Los Angeles, County

Creator:: Coker, Eric S.
Abstract:: Exposure to urban outdoor air pollution is ubiquitous and low birth weight represents an important health disparity in the United States. While previous research suggests that exposure to outdoor air pollutants are associated with term low birth weight, few studies have evaluated the effects of multipollutant outdoor air exposures or...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: micronutrient deficiencies that are important for fetal growth and development (Allen, 2005). Therefore, to

Evaluating the public health risks of methylmercury exposure and benefits from omega-3 fatty acids and selenium from fish consumption

Creator:: Cusack, Leanne K.
Abstract:: Although fish are a nutritious food source, they also are the main source of methylmercury exposure in U.S. populations. This research examined the risks from methylmercury and benefits from omega-3 fatty acids and selenium from fish consumption. The first study provided the first region-specific quantitative risk/benefit analysis for nine commonly...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Environmental and Community Exposures and Children’s Infectious Diseases in Bangladesh

Creator:: Ahmed, Sharia M.
Abstract:: Under-5 mortality has decreased globally, but millions of children still die every year. In Bangladesh, respiratory infection and diarrheal disease remain leading causes of morbidity and mortality for children under-5, despite incredible progress in the past three decades. Immune system development begins in utero and continues into adulthood. Toxic environmental...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Western Diet-Induced Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH): The Impact of Time on the Onset and Remission of Disease

Creator:: Spooner, Melinda H.
Abstract:: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by an accumulation of neutral lipids in the form of triglycerides and cholesterol esters accounting for >5% of liver weight. Excess neutral lipids accumulate in large lipid droplets, i.e., macrosteatosis, displacing the nucleus of cells. Current theory suggests neutral lipid accumulation is the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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Posttraumatic Growth, the Physically Active Body, and Self-Compassion

The Phenomenological Experience of Shame in the Context of Physical Activity

Using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to Explore the Relationship between Food Insecurity, Childhood Lead Poisoning, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children

Health Service Utilization among Medicaid Enrollees in Oregon : Assessing Variation by Level of Rurality

Perceived Discrimination and Hypertension: Contextual and Mediating Factors

Identifying Differences in the Release of Bioactive Milk Peptides Across the Intestinal Tract Between Term and Preterm Infants

Examination of Multiple Air Pollutant Exposure, the Food Environment, and Low Birth Weight in Los Angeles, County

Evaluating the public health risks of methylmercury exposure and benefits from omega-3 fatty acids and selenium from fish consumption

Environmental and Community Exposures and Children’s Infectious Diseases in Bangladesh

Western Diet-Induced Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH): The Impact of Time on the Onset and Remission of Disease

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