rural Appalachia
The Feminization Of Poverty: Rural Appalachia And Beyond
... The feminization of poverty is not a recent problem; poverty has historically impacted, and still impacts, women more commonly and harshly than men. This research has provided a more detailed look into how females are ...
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Social Determinants Of Health And The Effects On Quality Of Life And Well-Being In 2 Rural Appalachia Communities
... quality of life. It can be said that place, and the con- text that comes with it, plays a major contribution in the health disparities experienced every day by the millions of people living in this region of the United ...
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Diagnostic Prevalence of Diabetes Among Older Adults in Rural Appalachia
... in Appalachia, it is possible that diagnostic prevalence of diabetes begins to level off in an older adult ...in rural, Appalachia results in more undiagnosed and untreated ...in rural, ...
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Residing in economically distressed rural Appalachia is independently associated with excess body weight in college students
... living in Appalachian Kentucky were more likely to be obese compared to those living in non-Appalachian Kentucky adjusting for sociodemographics, days of poor mental health, and smoking status. However, it’s currently ...
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Program ACTIVE: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Treat Depression in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes in Rural Appalachia
... Limitations to the current investigation include modest sample size (N = 50) which may not be representative of the entire spectrum of patients with T2DM and depression. In addition, patient satisfaction data were not ...
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Community adaptations to an impending food desert in rural Appalachia, USA
... Conclusions: Opening a Green Grocer offset only some of the effects of the food desert, because community members use it as a convenience store to purchase fresh produce and dairy products that families may lack before ...
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Rural Appalachia Battling the Intersection of Two Crises: COVID-19 and Substance Use Disorders
... pandemic, rural Appalachia is at risk for previously unforeseen side effects from physical distancing needed to contain the virus, including increased mortality from substance-use disorders ...in ...
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Social Media Use Among Nonprofit Organizations in Rural Appalachia
... What are the implications for public health practice, policy, and research? Social media are inexpensive communication tools that NPOs in rural Appalachia can use to expand their digital footprint into ...
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Study protocol of coaching end-of-life palliative care for advanced heart failure patients and their family caregivers in rural appalachia: a randomized controlled trial
... Successful strategies for recruiting research participants in rural Appalachia will be used [30]. Recruitment is from sites affiliated with a large regional hospital in WV including Heart and Vascular ...
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Future Care Planning Practices of Aging Services Professionals in Rural Appalachia
... of rural social work, the general notion that this practice area is, in fact, distinctive is widely accepted (Daley, ...the rural/urban dichotomy due to the lack of consistent discerning characteristics ...
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Adapting and implementing evidence-based cancer education interventions in rural Appalachia: real world experiences and challenges
... in Appalachia or other rural communities; the findings are solely based on the documentation and experiences of the 13 West Virginia community partners who received the small cancer education ...
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Follow-up analysis of federal process of care data reported from three acute care hospitals in rural Appalachia
... small rural hospitals where the full range of services evaluated by the national Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services template was not routinely available, some data cells were left empty ...
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Developing a coordinated school health approach to child obesity prevention in rural Appalachia: results of focus groups with teachers, parents, and students
... The current study was qualitative and exploratory in nature. Limitations included the small sample size and collecting data in only one rural school setting. There was also potential for bias in those who were ...
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Knowledge and perceptions of tobacco-related media in rural Appalachia
... of rural Appalachian natives, a population with smoking rates higher than the national average and who are disproportionately affected by tobacco-related and other ...
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Music in the Mountains: Music’s Relation to Emotion for Individuals in Central Appalachia, Caitin Baummer
... in Appalachia. It is my conviction that individuals living in rural Appalachia should not be generalized due to their place of residence, stereotyped for their economic status, or recognized solely ...
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Indoor Air Quality in Central Appalachia Homes Impacted by Wood and Coal Use
... Though the high prevalence of biomass fuel use in the developing world is widely known, the use of burning biomass for cooking and heating in the developed world is under-recognized. Combustion materials including coal ...
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Social Support And Social Networks Among LGBT Older Adults In Rural Southern Appalachia
... in rural Appalachia have less access to formal support systems ...of rural Southern Appalachia is characterized by widespread poverty, and values of kinship or familism, neighborliness, mutual ...
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Seeking Care at Free Episodic Health Care Clinics in Appalachia
... What is added by this report? The current study provides qualitative insight into the perspectives of people in rural Appalachia who seek healthcare services at free episodic health care clinics, a common ...
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Breastfeeding prevalence and distribution in the USA and Appalachia by rural and urban setting
... This research indicates the significant impact of medical home, FPLs, insurance availability and living in rural Appalachia on breastfeeding rates. Other determinants also exist. Of the limited research ...
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Financial Literacy in Local At-Risk Appalachia
... of rural at-risk Appalachians, and though we did not receive enough responses to justify a significant result, our results suggest that further research could find a significant difference between the financial ...
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