Students

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Barriers to higher education for individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

To study barriers to higher education, this qualitative study explored the college experiences of 35 people with psychiatric disabilities. Academic performance was related to psychiatric symptoms which subsequently led to college attrition. However, many ...
Deborah Megivern, Sue Pellerito, Carol Mowbray (Psychiatr Rehabil J, 2003WINTER)
barriers-higher-education-individuals-psychiatric-disabilities.asp

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Talking to high school students about a career in nursing: a "how we did it" story.

The nursing shortage is deepening in the United States. This requires strategies that will reach yet untapped sources of potential students and increase interest in students that are not yet committed to a career path. Targeting middle school and early ...
Ruth Davidhizar, Jo Lynn Reimer (J Pract Nurs, 2003SUMMER)
talking-high-school-students-career-nursing-story.asp

3.

Korean adolescents "examination hell" and their use of free time.

A 15-year-old girls daily life is a vivid testimony to the hardships the Korean high school student is faced with. She leaves home for school at 7 A. M., taking two lunch bags, one for supper, with her. After regular classes end at 5 P.M., she attends ...
Meery Lee (New Dir Child Adolesc Dev, 2003SPRING)
korean-adolescents-examination-hell-free-time.asp

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Teaching the principles of health management to first year veterinary students.

A course called Health Management 1 was created as part of a new DVM curriculum at the Ontario Veterinary College. This full year course was designed to introduce students to basic concepts of health management, integrating the disciplines of ...
Todd Duffield, Kerry Lissemore, David Sandals (J Vet Med Educ, 2003SPRING)
teaching-principles-health-management-first-year-veterinary-students.asp

5.

African American college womens suicide buffers.

African American women have lower suicide rates than other women and men in the United States They may possess suicide buffers including social support, religiosity, negative attitudes regarding suicide acceptability, and African American culture. To ...
Michelle S Marion, Lillian M Range (Suicide Life Threat Behav, 2003SPRING)
african-american-college-women-s-suicide-buffers.asp

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Motivations and attitudes affecting high school students choice of foreign language.

There are some foreign languages that enjoy great status in the United States, while other foreign languages are rarely represented at the high school level. The present study explored the following questions: Why do students choose to take a particular ...
Jody Stewart-Strobelt, Huabin Chen (Adolescence, 2003SPRING)
motivations-attitudes-affecting-high-school-students-choice-foreign.asp

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Self-reported delinquency among Albertas youth: findings from a survey of 2,001 junior and senior high school students.

This article draws on data from a 1999 survey on youth victimization, crime and delinquency in Alberta conducted by the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family in collaboration with researchers from the University of Alberta. The survey ...
Jeanette T Gomes, Lorne D Bertrand, Joanne J Paetsch, Joseph P Hornick (Adolescence, 2003SPRING)
self-reported-delinquency-alberta-s-youth-findings-survey--junior.asp

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Sporting activity and drug use: Alcohol, cigarette and cannabis use among elite student athletes.

AIMS: To study the relationship between sporting activity and alcohol, cigarette and cannabis use among adolescents and young adults, by focusing on elite student athletes (ESAs). DESIGN, SETTING, SUBJECTS: Cross-sectional survey (Spring 2002), in a ...
Patrick Peretti-Watel, Valérie Guagliardo, Pierre Verger, Jacques Pruvost, Patrick Mignon, Yolande Obadia (Addiction, 200309)
sporting-activity-drug-alcohol-cigarette-cannabis-elite-student.asp

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Betel nut chewing and related factors in adolescent students in Taiwan.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of betel nut chewing and related factors among adolescent students in general, manufacturing, commercial, agricultural and medical technology schools in Taiwan. To make suggestions regarding how health authorities ...
Su-Chen Wang, Chi-Cheng Tsai, Shun-Te Huang, Yu-Jue Hong (Public Health, 200309)
betel-nut-chewing-related-factors-adolescent-students-taiwan.asp

10.

Get on the bus.

When we think about transportation for children, we automatically think of school buses. However, the principles discussed in this article also pertain to children who ride in private vehicles such as the family van. The process of providing appropriate ...
Jean M Zimmerman (Rehab Manag, 200308-09)
get-bus.asp