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COPE: Evaluation of a School-Based Intervention to Improve the Overall Mental Health, Resiliency, and Social-Emotional Development of Rural North Dakota Adolescent Youth
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Approximately one in every four to five adolescent youth are affected by anxiety or depression yet fewer than 25% of adolescent youth are getting the mental health treatment they need (Foy, 2010). Without the ability to ...
Colorectal Cancer: Improving Screening Compliance with the Utilization of FIT-DNA (Cologuard)
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States (U.S.), but with the appropriate screening processes, this staggering fact can change (CDC, 2018). Routine CRC screening is one of ...
Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and aspirin is a well-known medication strongly associated with CVD prevention. Aspirin has undeniable benefits in the role of ...
Evacuation Trees with Contraflow and Divergence Considerations
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
In this thesis, we investigate how to evacuate people using the available road transportation network efficiently. To successfully do that, we need to design evacuation model that is fast, safe, and seamless. We enable the ...
Experimental Study of the Temperature Profile of a Gaussian Type Heat Distribution
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
In research aimed at studying the laser microwelding of thermoplastic materials, two theoretical heat flow models were studied by Dr. Grewell. In the surface temperature profile based on the Gaussian type distributed heat ...
Improving Stroke Care and Patient Outcomes in a Rural Minnesota Hospital
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Approximately 795,000 Americans suffer from a stroke each year which results in about 25% of these patients dying, and 15–30% remain permanently disabled. The direct and indirect costs of stroke care exceed $73 billion ...
Stress Levels of Nurses in Oncology Outpatient Units
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The purpose of the research was to identify stress levels of outpatient oncology nurses, to investigate stressful factors of nurses at the workplace, to identify differences in stress levels among nurses’ demographic ...
An Assessment of Psychological Distress and Resilience among Nurse Practitioner Students
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Medical doctors and medical students experience increased prevalence of depression, anxiety, suicidality, suicide, stress, and burnout when compared to the general public. Along with suffering from increased rates of ...
Multiresponse Optimization Methodology Considering Related Quality Characteristics
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Engineering problems often involve many conflicting quality characteristics that must be optimized simultaneously. Engineers are required to select suitable design parameter values which provide better trade-off among all ...
A Data Analysis of the Predictive Risks for Readmission of Patients with Depression Post-Myocardial Infarction
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Depression is prevalent in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Past studies have found that one in five patients experience depression post-myocardial infarction (MI) (Osler et al., 2016; Thombs et al., 2006). ...