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Social Augmentation to Self-Guided Electronic Delivery of the Life Enhancing Activities for Family caregivers – A Socially Enhanced, Online Intervention for Alzheimer’s Caregivers

Description:: The role of providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease can expose friends and family caregivers to significant stress over an extended period of time, resulting in a host of negative outcomes like increased depression and anxiety, and diminished quality of life. However, previous studies have found that...
Keyword:: psychological well-being, positive emotion, caregiving, online intervention, Alzheimer's disease, and eHealth
Subject:: Clinical psychology, Health sciences, and Psychology
Creator:: Kwok, Zhenting Ian
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16329 and etdadmin_upload_941336

Assessing the Physiology of Swallowing Impairment: Measuring the Measurement Method and Characterizing Diagnostic Impairment Profiles

Description:: Swallowing impairment or dysphagia has many possible causes with severe sequelae. One major mediator of the relationship between causes and sequelae is the physiologic impairment of the swallowing mechanism. Assessing the physiology of swallowing impairment is of great importance so that treatment can target physiology to mitigate sequelae. The assessment...
Keyword:: Measurement, Psychometrics, Phenotyping, Swallowing Impairment, MBSImP, and Dysphagia
Subject:: Physiology, Biostatistics, and Health sciences
Creator:: Clain, Alexander
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16644 and etdadmin_upload_998781

Characterizing and Modeling the Biological Effects of Internal Radionuclide Exposure in Beagle Dogs

Description:: The negative early and late health consequences from exposure to artificial sources of radiation are particularly apparent in victims of radiological emergencies who were diagnosed with cancer, radiation pneumonitis, among other conditions. The renaissance of nuclear energy, increased use of ionizing radiation in the medical field, and nuclear threats from...
Keyword:: Radiobiology, Ionizing Radiation, Radionuclides, and Radiation Biology
Subject:: Epidemiology, Biology, and Health sciences
Creator:: Copeland-Hardin, Letonia
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16738 and etdadmin_upload_1013192

Frictions to treatment decisions at the end of life

Description:: ``Hazy decisions: The effect of dementia on medical decision-making'' \\ I estimate the causal effect of having dementia on the course of treatment for unrelated diseases by leveraging differences in the relative time of onset of dementia and the other condition in a difference-in-differences event-study framework. To demonstrate this approach...
Keyword:: dementia, advance care planning, Alzheimer's disease, and medical procedure codes
Subject:: Economics, Health sciences, and Aging
Creator:: Paluszynska, Aleksandra Joanna
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_982106 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16498

Examining Associations Between Female Genital Mutilation and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Description:: The potential association between Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and the incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been a part of academic discourse for three decades. By considering the mixed reports on the association between FGM and HIV so far, this dissertation contributes to the current state of research by...
Keyword:: HIV, Female Genital Mutilation, and Medicalization
Subject:: Women's studies, Health sciences, and Public health
Creator:: Ibrahim Puri, Jessica
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16540 and etdadmin_upload_984696

Practitioners Navigating Context in Healthcare Quality Improvement

Description:: In this dissertation, I conducted 2 studies that resulted in 3 manuscripts. This dissertation consists of 6 chapters that include the 3 manuscripts. The overarching research question is How does context affect the work of quality improvement (QI) practitioners? To answer this larger research question, which is central to the...
Keyword:: Context, Quality Improvement, Scoping Review of Reviews, and Qualitative Research
Subject:: Health sciences
Creator:: Terwilliger, Iva Alyse
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_945966 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16355

Complex Exposures to Social Determinants of Health through Young Adulthood and Associations with Mid-life Cardiovascular Health and Events: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study

Description:: In the U.S., approximately 840,000 Americans die from cardiovascular disease (CVD) each year, and it is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The prevalence of CVD is on the rise and widespread disparities in CVD exist across economic, racial, and ethnic groups. In order to address the rising...
Keyword:: data science, informatics, machine learning, social determinants of health, and cardiovascular health
Subject:: Health sciences and Public health
Creator:: Zimmerman, Lindsay
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15739 and etdadmin_upload_844529

Mechanoacoustic Sensing at Suprasternal Notch

Description:: Advanced wireless soft electronics integrate a wireless power transfer circuit and a small battery. It is skin-compliant, and lightweight accommodating the complex motion of the body. These unique features of the device provide a continuous physiological measurement without discomfort and spatial constraints. Using the device, we can observe and track...
Keyword:: health monitoring, health data, wearable technology, sleep study, rehabilitation, and flexible electronics
Subject:: Materials Science, Health sciences, and Medicine
Creator:: Lee, Kun Hyuck Hyuck
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15329 and etdadmin_upload_770941

Metabolic determinants of cellular fitness dependent on mitochondrial reactive oxygen species

Description:: Mitochondria-derived reactive oxygen species (mROS) are required for the survival, proliferation, and metastasis of cancer cells. The mechanism by which mitochondrial metabolism regulates mROS levels to support cancer cells is not fully understood. To address this, we conducted a metabolism-focused CRISPR/Cas9 genetic screen and uncovered that loss of genes encoding...
Keyword:: Reactive oxygen species, Cancer, Mitochondria, and Metabolism
Subject:: Biology, Health sciences, and Medicine
Creator:: Kong, Hyewon
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_775698 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15362

The Intersection of Social Determinants of Health with Health Insurance and their Association with Mortality

Description:: Social factors are a major contributor to deaths in the US. The literature suggests that socioeconomic status and other social and environmental factors influence an individual’s mortality. These factors encompass six domains that comprise factors such as poverty, unemployment, poor access to healthy food, limited access to health care, limited...
Keyword:: Social Determinants of Health, Hospitalization, Mortality, Health Insurance, and Emergency Department
Subject:: Health sciences, Health care management, and Public health
Creator:: Wang, Andrew C
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15384 and etdadmin_upload_780174

Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy eligibility expansion on the epidemiology of HIV-associated Kaposi Sarcoma in Nigeria

Description:: Abstract Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is the most common cancer associated with human immunodeficiency virus/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) infection worldwide and it is the most prevalent cancer in some countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART), led to dramatic declines in KS morbidity and mortality,...
Keyword:: HIV, Kaposi Sarcoma, opportunistic infections, antiretroviral therapy, Nigeria, and sub-Saharan Africa
Subject:: Health sciences
Creator:: Akanbi, Maxwell Oluwole
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_742578 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15096

Quantifying Clinical Relationships and Patient Care Activities to Predict Patient Outcomes: An Edge-Weighted Multilayer Network Approach

Description:: The application of formal multilayer networks (MLNs)—networks which contain multiple types of relationships, data types, or other additional features of complexity and connectivity—has recently become popular in many fields. Areas of study ranging from social science to biology have utilized MLNs to explore, describe, and analyze interconnected complex systems. MLNs...
Keyword:: Hospital Operations, Intracranial Hemorrhage, Patient Outcomes, Teamwork, Electronic Health Record Data, and Networks
Subject:: Information science, Health sciences, and Health care management
Creator:: Chandler, Ariel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/28/2020
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_713264 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14964

Redox Homeostasis In the Skin: Peroxiredoxin 1 Promotes the Stability of a Pro-Differentiation Cadherin Desmoglein 1

Description:: Desmosomes, complex structures found at intercellular junctions, are important for the development, structural integrity, and immune barrier of the skin. Extracellular components of the desmosome connect neighboring cells and intracellular interactions amongst cadherin, armadillo, and plakin proteins anchor the desmosome to intermediate filaments. Beyond their canonical role as “spot welds”...
Subject:: Health sciences and Cellular biology
Creator:: Lee, Sherry
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/28/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_572406 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14076

Positive Psychological Constructs and Physiological Outcomes in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study

Description:: Women living with human immunodeficiency virus (WLWH) have unique health challenges. Understanding psychological strengths that help WLWH manage their disease and improve health outcomes could reduce disease burden. Although spirituality, a multidimensional construct that includes a search for meaning and purpose, connection with a higher dimension, and experiences and feelings...
Keyword:: biopsychology, HIV, women's health, spirituality, positive affect, and program development
Subject:: Social psychology, Health sciences, and Psychology
Creator:: Bassett, Sarah Margaret Ray
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14769 and etdadmin_upload_679594

A Mixed Methods Study of Cognitive Flexibility in Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Description:: Introduction: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder of gut-brain interaction associated with reduced quality of life, increased rates of depression and anxiety, and high economic burden to society and the individual. Current behavioral interventions, which target well-known symptom exacerbating factors such as catastrophizing and gastrointestinal- specific anxiety, have demonstrated...
Keyword:: health psychology, IBS, Irritable bowel syndrome, gastrointestinal disorders, cognitive flexibility, and psychological flexibility
Subject:: Health sciences and Psychology
Creator:: Bedell, Alyse R
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14699 and etdadmin_upload_666937

Improving Health Outcomes Through Collaboration: Impact Assessment on Managing Metabolic Syndrome in the Austin Community of Chicago

Description:: Reducing the high incidence of metabolic syndrome especially among older people living in low income communities is a goal of the health system. Residents of the Austin community of Chicago suffer from a heavy burden of health issues related to metabolic syndrome leading to disproportionally higher morbidity and mortality rates...
Keyword:: Hypertension, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Reducing Health Disparities, Asset-Based Community Development, Metabolic Syndrom, and Applied Medical Anthropology
Subject:: Health sciences, Health care management, and Cultural anthropology
Creator:: Diamond, Michael W.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_613946 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14387

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Social Augmentation to Self-Guided Electronic Delivery of the Life Enhancing Activities for Family caregivers – A Socially Enhanced, Online Intervention for Alzheimer’s Caregivers

Assessing the Physiology of Swallowing Impairment: Measuring the Measurement Method and Characterizing Diagnostic Impairment Profiles

Characterizing and Modeling the Biological Effects of Internal Radionuclide Exposure in Beagle Dogs

Frictions to treatment decisions at the end of life

Examining Associations Between Female Genital Mutilation and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Practitioners Navigating Context in Healthcare Quality Improvement

Complex Exposures to Social Determinants of Health through Young Adulthood and Associations with Mid-life Cardiovascular Health and Events: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study

Mechanoacoustic Sensing at Suprasternal Notch

Metabolic determinants of cellular fitness dependent on mitochondrial reactive oxygen species

The Intersection of Social Determinants of Health with Health Insurance and their Association with Mortality

Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy eligibility expansion on the epidemiology of HIV-associated Kaposi Sarcoma in Nigeria

Quantifying Clinical Relationships and Patient Care Activities to Predict Patient Outcomes: An Edge-Weighted Multilayer Network Approach

Redox Homeostasis In the Skin: Peroxiredoxin 1 Promotes the Stability of a Pro-Differentiation Cadherin Desmoglein 1

Positive Psychological Constructs and Physiological Outcomes in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study

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