The COVID-19 pandemic created chaos and communication challenges in Emergency Departments worldwide. As the primary entry point for COVID-19 patients, emergency departments found themselves on the frontline of a rapidly ...

The purpose of this research is to examine the nature of parent-child interactions for elementary-aged children (K-4th grade) who have complex communication needs and are learning to use speech generating devices. Data ...

This dissertation examines how American Protestant missionaries in China understood and reacted to the Communist seizure of power in 1949. By studying the personal letters of missionaries, the communications of mission ...

How are characteristics of communities associated with the degree to which systems of care (SOC) are implemented within them? This study uses multiple regression with a stratified random sample (n=225) of U.S. counties to ...

Inadequate child physical growth and cognitive development share common individual-level risk factors. Less understood is how outcomes co-cluster at the community level and to what extent certain community-level characteristics ...

In partnership with Yakima Neighborhood Health Services (YNHS), a non-profit organization, this capstone project sought to understand the cultural competence skills among employees, the possible impact of race, gender, and ...

In the broad field of community research (CR), epistemic justice is often considered to be an issue at the community level. That is, the more empowering methodologies are used, the more CR should contribute to epistemic ...