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Mackert, Michael; Whitten, Pamela – Journal of School Health, 2007
Background: Telemedicine, the provision of healthcare at a distance via telecommunication technology, has been used to address a wide range of health concerns in a variety of settings. Given the challenges schools face in keeping students healthy, telemedicine could be viewed as a mechanism to provide healthcare services directly to students in…
Descriptors: Physicians, School Nurses, School Health Services, Teleworking
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Johnson, Erica K.; Dow, Christian; Lynch, Ruth T.; Hermann, Bruce P. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2006
Measurement of clinically significant change is critical for rehabilitation research because it can enhance the credibility of rehabilitation efforts and guide evidence-based practices. The practical appeal of clinically significant change is that it can bridge research and clinical practice by focusing on individual rather than group differences.…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation, Clinical Psychology, Statistical Significance, Measurement Techniques
Redland, Alice R. – 1983
The purpose of this study was to identify relations between nurses' interaction styles and patient care interventions (PCI) that occurred after nurse-doctor interactions. A nonparticipant observer recorded interactions of 48 female registered nurses with physicians. Transcripts were coded and assigned to one of five theoretical nurse interaction…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Communication Research, Interaction, Interaction Process Analysis
Clair, Jeffrey Michael; Hashimoto, Shige – 1985
Although death and the circumstances surrounding it are inevitable for all people, open discussions of this subject are considered morbid and thus taboo. The fear of death, however, greatly affects the care administered to dying patients in a health care setting by professionals, family, and friends. A mail survey was administered to 247…
Descriptors: Adults, Allied Health Personnel, Attitudes, Clergy
Chi, Peter S. K. – 1984
During the summer of 1982, 218 randomly-selected migrant farmworkers in Wayne County, New York were interviewed to determine the significant factors affecting use of health services among migrant farmworkers. Three groups were identified: immigrants, recent migrants, and long-term migrants. Medical utilization patterns, use of community medical…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Delivery Systems
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Dekker, Jeroen J. H. – History of Education, 1996
Examines the conflicting approaches, legal, medical, and educational, to the treatment of deprived and retarded children in the Netherlands around 1900. Although initially in competition, the educational and medical fields soon began a cooperative relationship defined by symbiotic philosophies and institutions. Discusses the development of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Development