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Level-I Trauma Center Effects on Return-to-Work Outcomes
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Prada, Sergio I.; Salkever, David; MacKenzie, Ellen J. – Evaluation Review, 2012
Background: Injury is the leading cause of death for persons aged 1-44 years in the United States. Injuries have a substantial economic cost. For that reason, regional systems of trauma care in which the more acutely injured patients are transported to Level-I (L-I) trauma centers (TCs) has been widely advocated. However, the cost of TC care is…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Injuries, Patients, Probability
Participation in Counseling Programs: High-Risk Participants are Reluctant to Accept HIV-Prevention Counseling
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Earl, Allison; Albarracin, Dolores; Durantini, Marta R.; Gunnoe, Joann B.; Leeper, Josh; Levitt, Justin H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
HIV-prevention intervention effectiveness depends on understanding whether clients with highest need for HIV-prevention counseling accept it. With this objective, a field study with a high-risk community sample from the southeastern United States (N = 350) investigated whether initial knowledge about HIV, motivation to use condoms,…
Descriptors: Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Motivation, Counseling Effectiveness
Worldviews of Women: Comparisons between White American Clients, White American Counselors, and Chinese International Students.
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Ihle, Gail M. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1996
Results of a survey of the world view of female white clients, white counselors, and Chinese international students showed significant differences. Income was a significant predictor of world views for clients, while age and marital status contributed strongly to those of counselors. Among the Chinese students, the Taiwanese and the Mainland…
Descriptors: Age, Chinese, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Characteristics
Child Abuse and Neglect in Ontario: Incidence and Characteristics.
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Trocme, Nico; And Others – Child Welfare, 1995
Discusses the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS), which is based on a survey of child protection workers involved in 2,447 abuse and neglect investigations. OIS found an incidence rate of reported maltreatment of 21 per 1,000 children and a 27% substantiation rate. Includes comparisons with incidence rates for the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Encouraging Work, Reducing Poverty: The Impact of Work Incentive Programs.
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Berlin, Gordon L. – 2000
The Minnesota Family Investment Program, the Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project, and Milwaukee's New Hope Project are three antipoverty programs that were undertaken in the 1990s to end dependency on welfare by "making work pay." The impacts of all three programs were reviewed and compared to those of the Seattle/Denver Income Maintenance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Comparative Analysis, Employed Women
Targeting Employment Services (Kalamazoo, Michigan, April 29-May 1, 1999).
Eberts, Randall W., Ed.; O'Leary, Christopher J., Ed.; Wandner, Stephen A., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 13 papers on targeting employment services. The following papers are included: "Targeting Employment Services under the Workforce Investment Act" (Stephen A. Wandner); "Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation" (Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker, Daniel H. Klepinger);…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Services, Decision Making, Delivery Systems