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Anxiety is a source of concern to the clinicians as it is co morbid with other mental disorders, particularly depression and learning disabilities, and it causes low self-esteem. The aim of this research was to evaluate the prevalence of anxiety disorder amongst secondary school children in Port Harcourt. A two-staged stratified sampling method was used to select the schools. Structured questionnaire based on Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Teacher Rating Scale for anxiety and depression symptoms...

This paper focuses on issues of reproduction and the manufacturing of national/ethnic and religious identities in the deterritorialized space of the Moroccan immigrant diaspora. More specifically, this paper examines Moroccan immigrant children's language socialization into pan-Arabic and Islamic identities in relation to the teaching of the Arabic language to these younger generations of Moroccans, who have either already been born in Spain, or who immigrated to Spain with their parents...

African American college students face a number of race‐related stressors on predominantly White campuses. The African American Student Network is described as a potential humanistic counterspace to provide a sanctuary for these students when coping with racial microaggressions. The development and study of future humanistic interventions in this area is recommended.

We evaluated the effectiveness of a parent-based add-on component to a school-based intervention to prevent cigarette smoking among African American and Latino middle school youths.Mother-adolescent dyads (n=1386) were randomly assigned to 2 groups: (1) a school-based smoking-prevention intervention or (2) the same intervention with a parent-based add-on component called Raising Smoke-Free Kids. Mothers in the experimental condition received the parent add-on component. Mothers in the...

The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate elementary school teachers’ selfperceived beliefs regarding African-American English (AAE), and their professional preparedness to address linguistic needs of AA students in the classrooms. The findings revealed three central issues: (1) teachers had limited understanding of the linguistic features of AAE, (2) teachers believed they had limited pedagogical skills to address issues related to AAE, and (3) teachers indicated that teacher...

Doctoral education has become a contested term since the 1990s. Various factors, such as different concepts of knowledge, changes in university-industry-government relationships, the expansion in the numbers of doctoral graduates as well as diverse student population, global student mobility, accountability movement and government regulation, all have resulted in multiple research agendas and diversity of purposes and outcomes that candidates as well as policy makers expect of a doctorate....

This interview with former DuPont CEO and chairman, and current Bank of America chairman, Chad Holliday, describes how business and university education can support one another and collaborate to n...

This interview with former DuPont CEO and chairman, and current Bank of America chairman, Chad Holliday, describes how business and university education can support one another and collaborate to nurture understanding and performance in the area of sustainability. Recommendations are presented based on Mr. Holliday's insight gained through various leadership roles and in building relationships with over 50 universities around the world.

This study's primary purpose was to examine the relative contribution of social-behavioral predictors to reading and math skills. The study expands on Duncan et al.'s (2007) work by using longitudinal methodology from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K) databases, and by focusing on potential differences in patterns of early...

The objective of this study was to determine some common behavioural risk factors for intestinal helminthiasis in nursery and primary school children in Enugu.A cross-sectional survey on 460 children attending nursery and primary schools in Enugu was carried out in 2003 with a view to determine some behavioural risk factors for intestinal helminthiasis.This study was carried out in the research laboratory of the Federal Ministry of Health, National Arbovirus and Vector Research Centre,...

Introduction and objective: Aggressive periodontitis (AgP) is a type of periodontitis that causes rapid destruction of alveolar bone, especially in young ages. In Yemen, there is no previous study about aggressive periodontitis, so the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and related risk factors for aggressive periodontitis among school students in the city of Thamar. Material and methods: In this study, a two-stage sampling method was used. At first stage, a random sample of...

Objective To determine the relationship between depression and the subjective assessment of quality of life (QoL) in a sample of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) attending outpatient clinics at a regional university teaching hospital in Nigeria.Methods A cross-section of 200 patients were administered the depression module of the Schedule for the Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN) and the World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment - brief version (WHOQoL-Bref) over a...

jooste k. & jasper m. (2010) Journal of Nursing Management 18, 704–714A framework for recognition of prior learning within a Postgraduate Diploma of Nursing Management in South Africa Aims The present study focuses on the development of an initial framework to guide educators in nursing management in designing a portfolio for the recognition of prior learning for accreditation of competencies within a postgraduate diploma in South Africa. Background In South Africa, there is a unique...

Dysmenorrhea or the syndrome of painful menstruation is not life-threatening but it is most of the time debilitating and psychologically taxing for women. This first study aims to bring out epidemiological clinical and therapeutical aspects as well as social impacts attitudes awareness and knowledge of treatment in dysmenorrheic female students and adolescents in our environment (Southern Province of Rwanda). Moreover some menstrual characteristics were also looked for in the whole study...

The concentrations of major and trace elements and the isotopic compositions were measured in felsic lavas of the Bamenda Mountains, an extinct volcanic center of the West Cameroon Highlands (WCH), in order to assess the relative roles of mantle versus crustal magma sources in the evolution of silicic magmatic systems. These silicic volcanics are composed of benmoreites, trachytes and rhyolites associated with alkaline basaltic lavas and have characteristics of A-type magmas. Chemical...

<h3>Objective</h3> To test the effect of training residents in interpersonal and communication skills on women9s satisfaction with patient–doctor relationship in labour and delivery rooms. <h3>Design</h3> A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial. <h3>Setting</h3> Maternity wards in four teaching hospitals in Damascus and homes of participating women. <h3>Participants</h3> Women delivering in the hospitals under study, via vaginal delivery with living baby, who consent to participate in the...

Abstract The alluvial deposits near Gibala-Tell Tweini provide a unique record of environmental history and food availability estimates covering the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. The refined pollen-derived climatic proxy suggests that drier climatic conditions occurred in the Mediterranean belt of Syria from the late 13th/early 12th centuries BC to the 9th century BC. This period corresponds with the time frame of the Late Bronze Age collapse and the subsequent Dark Age. The abrupt...