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Increasing Awareness of the Role of Breast Density as an Independent Risk Factor for Breast Cancer: A Pilot Study
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in the United States (U.S.), affecting one in every eight women (American Cancer Society, 2017). Dense breast tissue can mask or hide breast cancer, ...
Assessing Postpartum Depression in the Refugee Population in a Primary Care Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Mental health is an area lacking emphasis in the United States healthcare systems. Many patients have suffered due to the decrease in focus and resources required to help individuals struggling with mental disorders ...
Assessing Reliability of Highly Reliable Products Using Accelerated Degradation Test Design, Modeling, and Bayesian Inference
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The accelerated degradation test methods have proven to be a very effective approach to quickly evaluate the reliability of highly reliable products. However, the modeling of accelerated degradation test data to estimate ...
Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Collaboration with Public Health and Primary Care to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Rural North Dakota Community
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in the nation (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2017a). Recommendations are to screen adults, ages 50-75 years (United States ...
Understanding Provider Knowledge and Awareness About Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Unplanned pregnancies have individual, familial, and societal consequences and continue to occur in the United States with over two million women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy each year (GI, 2016). Long-acting ...
Diabetes Self-Management Education Service at a Rural Minnesota Health Clinic
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
In 2015, there were an estimated 30.3 million Americans living with diabetes, and 95% of them were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017b). Patients living in rural America ...
Addressing Advance Directive in Rural Primary Care North Dakota: Implementing a Tool for Healthcare Providers
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Advance directives are legal documents developed as a tool to allow patients to express their wishes and allow healthcare providers to educate and converse with their patients on disease prognosis and management. Advance ...
Three Essays on Waterborne Transportation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
This dissertation introduces three different topics on waterborne transportation. River transportation is a very important alternative for freight shipments in some countries. A significant portion of United States ...
Development and Implementation of an Evidence-Based Buprenorphine-Naloxone Medication Assisted Treatment Program in a Primary Care Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Opioid abuse is one of the most significant drug-related public health threats in the United States (U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, 2016). Approximately 115 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose in the United ...
Designing Bio-Ink for Extrusion Based Bio-Printing Process
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Tissue regeneration using in-vitro scaffold becomes a vital mean to mimic the in-vivo counterpart due to the insufficiency of animal models to predict the applicability of drug and other physiological behavior. Three-dimensional ...