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Prakash, Elapulli Sankaranarayanan – Advances in Physiology Education, 2015
This article arises from the author's experience helping medical students apply core biophysical principles toward understanding cardiovascular physiology. The purpose of the article is illustrate how the effect of an arterial stenosis on blood flow to tissue supplied exclusively by the stenosed artery should be assessed. This discussion was…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Physiology, Human Body, Heart Disorders
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Ezika, Ejiofor A. – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the impact of the use of case stories on promoting cardiovascular health (CVH) knowledge as well as determining the contextual application of CVH knowledge in an urban population in Nigeria. Design: Participatory action research. Setting: Urban setting in Nigeria. Method: Fifty participants…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Urban Areas, Clergy, Public Health
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Nordstrøm, Marianne; Paus, Benedicte; Retterstøl, Kjetil; Kolset, Svein O. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2016
Background: Risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) and association with abdominal obesity have not been extensively studied in genetic syndromes associated with intellectual disability. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in individuals aged 20-43 years with Williams syndrome (WS; n = 21), Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS; n =…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Diseases, Obesity, Heart Disorders
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Mikulik, Robert; Vondrácková, Lucie; Pokorná, Hana; Svobodová, Veronika; Grecu, Andreea Madalina; Vítovec, Jirí; Neumann, Jirí; Suchý, Ondrej – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of an innovative school stroke and heart attack educational programme for children. Design: Non-randomised controlled trial with intervention and control group conducted in set time periods. Results were compared among time periods in both groups and also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Health Education, Heart Disorders
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Rumrill, Phillip D., Jr.; Koch, Lynn C. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2019
Background: Many emerging disabilities that affect today's rehabilitation consumers are linked to lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, smoking, substance use, and obesity. Lifestyle-related disabilities have dramatically increased in incidence and prevalence over the past two decades. Rehabilitation counselors play an important role in…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Counseling, Life Style, Disabilities, Diabetes
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Dunn, Susan L.; Robbins, Lorraine B.; Smith, Sandi W.; Ranganathan, Rajiv; DeVon, Holli A.; Collins, Eileen G.; Hong, Hyokyoung G.; Tintle, Nathan L. – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objective: Hopelessness is present in 27% of patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD), can persist for 12 months and is associated with lack of physical activity (PA). No interventions have been tested to increase PA in IHD patients who report hopelessness. This study evaluated the feasibility of conducting a randomised controlled trial to…
Descriptors: Heart Disorders, Nurses, Psychological Patterns, Social Support Groups
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Lingard, L.; Sue-Chue-Lam, C.; Tait, G. R.; Bates, J.; Shadd, J.; Schulz, V.; Arnold, Malcolm; Burge, Fred; Burnett, Samuel; Harkness, Karen; Kimel, Gil; LaDonna, Kori; Lowery, Donna; Marshall, Denise; McDougall, Allan; McKelvie, Robert; Nimmon, Laura; Smith, Stuart; Strachan, Patricia; Ward, Donna – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Effective healthcare requires both competent individuals and competent teams. With this recognition, health professions education is grappling with how to factor team competence into training and assessment strategies. These efforts are impeded, however, by the absence of a sophisticated understanding of the "the relationship between"…
Descriptors: Health Services, Allied Health Occupations Education, Teamwork, Systems Approach
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Eckard, Nathalie; Nedlund, Ann-Charlotte; Janzon, Magnus; Levin, Lars-Åke – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2017
This paper explores the practice of evidence-based policy in a Swedish healthcare context. The study focused on how policymakers in the specific working group, the Priority-Setting Group (PSG), handled the various forms of evidence and values and their competing rationalities, when producing the Swedish National Guidelines for heart diseases that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Evidence Based Practice, Best Practices
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DeAngelis, Erik J.; McIntosh, Scott; Ahmed, Catherine D.; Block, Robert C. – Health Education Journal, 2018
Objective: To determine individual and group patient ideas and priorities regarding ways to enhance their own health care while providing a supportive environment including a clinical lipidologist and other medical experts. The intent was to transform these ideas and priorities into hypotheses for future research while enhancing current health…
Descriptors: Patients, Health Promotion, Qualitative Research, Physician Patient Relationship
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Abbott, Laurie S.; Slate, Elizabeth H.; Lemacks, Jennifer L. – Health Education Research, 2019
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of death among people living in the United States. Populations, especially minorities, living in the rural South are disproportionately affected by CVD and have greater CVD risk, morbidity and mortality. Culturally relevant cardiovascular health programs implemented in rural community settings can…
Descriptors: Heart Disorders, Death, At Risk Persons, Minority Groups
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Montelpare, William J.; McPherson, Moira N.; Boardman, Kimberly; Zerpa, Carlos E. – Journal of School Nursing, 2018
This study evaluated the level of change in students' knowledge of and attitudes toward healthy lifestyle behaviors and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) following implementation of a Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Module in Grade 5 science classes. Two classes of students (n[subscript 1] = 39) were identified as the intervention group…
Descriptors: Heart Disorders, Health Promotion, Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes
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Hoffman, Beth L.; Shensa, Ariel; Wessel, Charles; Hoffman, Robert; Primack, Brian A. – Health Education Research, 2017
Fictional medical television programs have long been a staple of television programming, and they remain popular today. We aimed to examine published literature assessing the influence of medical television programs on health outcomes. We conducted systematic literature searches in PubMed, PsychINFO and CINAHL. Selected studies had to be scholarly…
Descriptors: Fiction, Television, Medicine, Popular Culture
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Patel, Lina; Wolter-Warmerdam, Kristine; Hickey, Francis – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Introduction: Children and young adults with Down syndrome can demonstrate increased behavior problems compared to their typically developing peers through childhood and adolescence. This study aims to: (1) identify common patterns of behaviors in children and young adults with Down syndrome and (2) assess potential medical comorbidities that…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Comorbidity, Sleep, Anxiety
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Morales, Manuel; Friskics, Scott – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2019
By all appearances, Montana's Fort Belknap fits the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) definition of a food desert perfectly. There are no supermarkets on the 1,000-square-mile reservation. Most residents of this Indian reservation, especially those living on the southern end of the reservation, must drive long distances to buy…
Descriptors: Gardening, American Indians, Sustainability, Life Style
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Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal – Education Economics, 2015
We examine the education gradient in diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. We take into account diagnosed as well as undiagnosed cases and use methods accounting for the possibility of unmeasured factors that are correlated with education and drive both the likelihood of having illness and the propensity to be diagnosed. Data come from the…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Diabetes, Hypertension, Heart Disorders
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