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ZamZam Said Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To determine why girls in rural Somalia do not go to school, this study used an interview methodology grounded on phenomenology to gather qualitative data. The United Nations reports that elementary and secondary education levels are severely uneven in many countries, including Somalia. More than 40% of Africa's impoverished people will face…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Access to Education, Barriers
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Katherine Flannigan; Devon C. Edwards; Lisa Murphy; Jacqueline Pei – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) experience complex needs that often necessitate support from multiple systems. There is growing evidence that people with FASD may benefit from integrated service delivery (ISD), but little is known about ISD elements and processes for this population. Method: Using a multi-method…
Descriptors: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Delivery Systems, Rural Areas, Affordances
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Liliana Wagner; Tori Foster; Kemberlee Bonnet; Anna Kathleen Spitler; David Schlundt; Zachary Warren – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Accurate identification of autism is a pressing challenge for rural, medically underserved communities. Tele-assessment could address some barriers to care by increasing access to expert diagnosticians, but questions remain regarding how best to implement these approaches. To gather community input regarding rural families' perceptions and use of…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Family Attitudes, Evaluation Methods
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Adiv Gal – Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 2024
The article presents a SWOT analysis of a long-term outdoor environmental education program, on-going since 1996. In this program, the fifth-grade classes in a public elementary school in a rural region of northern Israel have been contributing to the conservation of the Lesser Kestrel, an endangered species. The program is based on outdoor…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Jaime Moreno-Chaparro; Eliana I. Parra Esquivel; Angy Lucia Santos Quintero; Laura Paez; Sandra Martinez Quinto; Bayron Esteven Rojas Barrios; Juan Felipe Samudio; Karol Madeline Romero Villareal – Child Care in Practice, 2025
In recent years, and especially due to COVID-19, a large number of telehealth interventions have been implemented. The large amount of information requires a differential analysis with an emphasis on rurality and the practice of parents/caregivers in the care and attention of children. The objectives of this study were to synthesize the available…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Rural Areas, Parents, Children
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Rabia Majeed; Javed Iqbal; Zahoor ul Haq; Muhammad Faisal Shahzad – Evaluation Review, 2025
Maternal mortality, largely stemming from complications during pregnancy and childbirth, impacts poor expecting women with limited healthcare access in rural Pakistan. Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs), commonly implemented in developing nations, are designed to improve the well-being of vulnerable populations by focusing on health and education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Access to Health Care, Empowerment
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Liezl Schlebusch; Nola Chambers; David Rosenstein; Petro Erasmus; Petrus J. de Vries – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Caring for children with developmental delays or disabilities places significant stress on caregivers, which is often exacerbated in low-resource settings. The World Health Organization developed a caregiver skills training for families of children with developmental delays or disabilities, which includes a three-session caregiver well-being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Caregivers, Well Being, Children
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Patricia M. Lanzon; Amanda M. Davis-Fritzley; Jodi A. Burns – Pennsylvania Teacher Educator, 2024
Using the Pennsylvania Department of Education Family/Community Standards, university professors from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford collaborated with multiple community clubs such as the Rotary and Kiwanis as well as local agencies including St. Bonaventure University on the development and implementation of a family literacy day event…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Family Literacy, School Community Programs, Community Organizations
Margaret Leighton; Anitha Martine; Julius Massaga; Emmanuel Bunzari – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This paper presents causal evidence on the impact of parenting practices on early child development. We exploit exogenous changes in nurturing care induced by a parent training intervention to estimate the impact of nurturing parenting practices on child outcomes. We find a large and significant impact measured at age two; in contrast, at age four…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Development, Young Children, Age Differences
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Elizabeth Luke; Nicholas Allis; Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization; Jefferson County Public Health Service; Lewis County Health System; North Country Initiative; Daniel Cameron; Leah Caldwell; Telisa Stewart – Health Education Journal, 2024
Background: Rural populations in the USA demonstrate a high degree of vaccine hesitancy, particularly surrounding COVID-19 vaccines. Objectives: Following the successful implementation of a COVID-19 vaccination campaign with a rural-based health system in New York state, the goal of this project was to develop a large community-academic…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, School Community Relationship, Health Promotion, Immunization Programs
Abdalla Straker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of the quantitative study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention by comparing the improvement in knowledge and attitudes of older adult and caregiver participants in South Carolina. Orangeburg County, a rural area in South Carolina, ranks 8th in the nation for Alzheimer's disease prevalence, according to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Knowledge Level, Attitudes, Older Adults
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Anni Liu; Guichuan Zhou – Youth & Society, 2025
With rapid development and modernization of today's society, the resource inequality between rural and urban areas has enlarged, especially regarding adolescents' mental health education. In order to provide alternative to adolescents with limited resources, this study targets test anxiety as example, aiming to explore the effectiveness of online…
Descriptors: Intervention, Electronic Learning, Metacognition, Test Anxiety
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Venessa Kelly; E. Brännlund – Irish Educational Studies, 2025
Increased scholarly and practitioner attention has been paid to community gardens and their potential impact on community building and sustainability, as well as a tool to combat the decline in physical and mental well-being connected to childhood obesity. Specifically, community gardens may play a role in on families' eating habits, and there is…
Descriptors: Gardening, Eating Habits, Community Programs, Parent Attitudes
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Tatevik Markosyan; Catherine Sanders; Alexa Lamm – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2024
New approaches are needed when working in rural communities to identify and communicate holistic evaluation impacts related to community-based health promotion efforts of Cooperative Extension. Specifically, there is a lack of recorded long-term programmatic impacts of these programs, including behavior changes related to consuming nutritious and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Health Promotion, Extension Education, Community Programs
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Viviane Frings-Hessami; Lisa Kruesi – Journal of Information Literacy, 2025
The issue of information literacy (IL) in contexts where people do not have easy access to libraries and to sources of information has not received much attention in IL research. In particular, rural areas in developing countries where there are no public libraries and travelling to town to access information is arduous and time-consuming need a…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Foreign Countries, Information Sources, Rural Areas
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