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Violence towards Aboriginal People: Consulting with Aboriginal Community Members to Develop Culturally Safe Victim Service
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of Aboriginal people when they accessed victim services in order to determine if the services were culturally safe for them. Several themes emerged which included: ...
Parents of Children with Autism: The Stigma and Emotion Work Associated with Navigating, Advocating, and Managing Autism
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
This study analyzes the experiences of stigmatization and emotion work through the interview responses of eight parents of children with autism. Developing from Goffman’s theories of direct stigma and associative stigma ...
Agency and Empowerment in the Childbirth Process: The Effect of Medicalization on Women's Decision Making
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Over the past decade, rates of caesarean section births and other interventions in
childbirth have increased substantially. With increased medicalization of childbirth, it is often
viewed as an illness requiring treatment ...
Exploring the Gendered Efficacy of Photovoice Methodology
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This study set out to measure the gendered efficacy of the participatory action research method of photovoice. This study utilized secondary analysis, imagery analysis, and qualitative research methods to analyze both ...
Inheritance Patterns and Strategies: Process for Intergenerational Farmland Transfer in Southeastern North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
In this project, I conducted interviews with members of farm families in order to understand the process of intergenerational farmland transfer. Focusing on southeastern North Dakota, I paid particular attention to the ...
Exploring the Gendered Differences within the Service Industry
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
For this study, I sought to understand the demands women face in their everyday lives and how these demands may impact how differing genders perform their jobs in the service industry. I utilized qualitative research methods ...
Skills, Knowledge and Values of Community Health Needs Assessment Managers
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Nonprofit hospital systems must complete a community health needs assessment (CHNA). In healthcare there is a lack of consensus on what skills, knowledge and values are important for the person managing CHNA departments, ...
Aging and Object-Based Inhibition of Return
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Inhibition of return (IOR) is a cognitive mechanism to bias attention from returning to previously engaged items. While aging models have proposed deficits within select inhibitory domains, older adults have demonstrated ...
Nature Versus Technology: Which is More Appealing to Youth Ages 11-14?
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Recent studies show playtime for youth has shifted from playing outdoors to being connected to a screen-based device. This study examines the amount of time youth ages 11-14 are spending in nature versus the amount of time ...
Proposed Nonparametric Tests for the Umbrella Alternative in a Mixed Design for Both Known and Unknown Peak
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
In several situations, and among various treatment effects, researchers might test for an umbrella alternative. The need for an umbrella alternative arises in the evaluation of the reaction to drug dosage. For instance, ...