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Direct linkKa'opua, Lana Sue I.; Diaz, Tressa P.; Park, Soon H.; Bowen, Talita; Patrick, Kevin; Tamang, Suresh; Braun, Kathryn L. – American Journal of Health Education, 2014
Background: The incidence of non-AIDS-defining cancers has increased significantly among persons living with HIV (PLHIV). Screening education is recommended. Purpose: Social learning, minority stress, and cultural safety theories informed this pilot to assess the feasibility of a colorectal cancer screening intervention targeted to PLHIV, with…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Cancer, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Hawaiians
Higgins, Christina; Furukawa, Gavin – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2012
This article analyzes four Hollywood films set in Hawai'i to shed light on how particular languages and language varieties "style" (Auer 2007; Coupland 2007) Local/Hawaiian and mainland U.S. characters as certain kinds of people. Through an analysis of films featuring "haole" ("white, outsider") male protagonists who…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Films, Language Variation, Indigenous Knowledge
McCulloch, Donald S.; Savage, Alexandra; Schmal, Liz – Christian Higher Education, 2013
Impressions of admission officers toward homeschooled applicants were examined. Specifically, this study sought to ascertain whether the perceptions of admission officers adhered to the common stereotype that homeschoolers are brighter and yet socially less well-adjusted than average. The responses of 121 admission officers were analyzed across…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admissions Officers, Administrator Attitudes, Church Related Colleges
Koroki, Jan; Chesney-Lind, Meda – 1985
Findings of in-depth interviews with ten delinquent girls in Hawaii are presented and analyzed in this report. The girls interviewed were participants in a short-term residential treatment program or students at an alternative school for boys and girls who have been adjudicated and who have had school difficulties. Following a brief introduction,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Delinquency, Delinquency Causes
Cunanan, Vanessa L.; Guerrero, Anthony P. S.; Minamoto, Linda Y. – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2006
Despite tremendous heterogeneity in culture, native language, values, socioeconomic status and a steadily growing presence in the United States, Asian Americans are viewed as a monolithic group under the model minority stereotype. Using the focus group approach with youth, young professionals, key/community leaders, and parent participants, the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Diversity, Focus Groups, Filipino Americans, Asian American Students
MacGugan, Kirk W. – 1980
The study described in this report was conducted to investigate cultural differences in attitudes toward the handicapped and their presence in postsecondary institutions in Hawaii among faculty with Eastern and Western cultural backgrounds. Chapter I discusses the background and significance of the study, citing the multi-cultural make-up of…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Attitudes toward Disabilities, Community Colleges, Cultural Differences
