Browsing Center for Medicine, Health, and Society Honors Theses by Issue Date
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(Elizabeth G. Gilbert, 2014-04)
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(Hannah Packman, 2014-04-07)
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(2016-04-22)Mental health issues, particularly anxiety and depression, have risen nationally in frequency and severity among college students. The Vanderbilt University Psychological & Counseling Center (PCC) has also experienced this ...
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(2016-04-29)The purpose of this study is to determine if hospital ownership has an effect on economic factors and quality outcomes related to inpatient substance abuse treatment. The study examines these factors through analyzing the ...
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(2016-04-29)The purpose of this study is to determine if hospital ownership has an effect on economic factors and quality outcomes related to inpatient substance abuse treatment. The study examines these factors through analyzing ...
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(2020)At the beginning of the 20th century, technological innovations in the ability to mass-produce rolled cigarettes resulted in the creation of a multi-billion-dollar industry in the United States. As the popularity of ...
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(2020)Children and the families of children with advanced cancer are at an increased risk of experiencing stress and anxiety, and this can be especially heightened during hospital visits. While there is extensive literature on ...
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(2021)This study traces the history of punishment and prison healthcare in the United States from public execution and torture in the town square to formal incarceration as we know it now. Through exploration of the most recent ...
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(2021)The impact of art therapy, specifically painting and studying painted works on patient coping, recovery, and healing is not highly researched and professionals commonly regard art therapy as only beneficial to an emotional ...
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(2021)The purpose of this study was to investigate agenda-setting activity relevant to maternal mortality by using social media data. The study ultimately sought to determine what subset(s) of social media users dominate ...
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(2021)Since the COVID-19 pandemic officially began in March 2020, risks and rates of domestic violence (DV) have unilaterally risen across the globe in correspondence with lockdown procedures. Aside from administering a singular ...
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(2021)The issues that disproportionately affect Black students at Vanderbilt University are broad, and they are many. Social media discussions, Campus Climate Surveys, and student-organized petitions have all called on University ...
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(2021-04)Type 2 diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes) varies significantly in prevalence and morbidity among minority groups in the U.S. (“Prevalence of Diagnosed Diabetes” 2020). In particular, individuals considered to be of Hispanic ...
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(2021-04)Methods: To pursue my research goals, I asked 32 participants to complete an online questionnaire on REDCap. I used the EPDS (Cox, 1987) and Pandemic Stress (Kujawa, 2020) measures in addition to my own qualitative questioning ...
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(2021-04)Background: The rate of new cervical cancer cases and cervical cancer deaths in the United States has declined in the last fifty years due to the widespread use of cervical cancer screenings known as Papanicolaou (Pap) ...
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(2021-04)Importance: Although prior research has documented higher rates of incarceration among sexual minorities, little research has examined the intersections of the justice-involved and sexual minority populations. Research is ...