To evaluate the association of nursing home abuse reported by employees in Iowa licensed nursing homes with nursing home characteristics, inspection results, nursing staff hours, and census demographics.
Determine nursing home characteristics related to adherence to use of a hip protector (HP) to prevent fracture; also describe adherence and related resident characteristics.
Results: Negative effects of prenatal PCB and dioxin exposure on cognitive and motor abilities were seen when parental and home characteristics were less optimal.
To identify perceived barriers to communication between hospital and nursing home at the time of patient transfer and examine associations between perceived barriers and hospital and nursing home characteristics.
The authors measured the awareness of the dental home concept among pediatric dentists (PDs) and general practice dentists (GPs) in Ohio and determined whether they included dental home characteristics for children 5 years and younger into their practices.
The interrelations for student and home characteristics with 'Students' Attitude Toward Reading' remain nearly stable.
The main changes occur when we control for age and mother's characteristics as well as when home characteristics are added for men (Table 3).
The results of the multi-group regression model with student and home characteristics show gender differences in Students' Attitude Toward Reading in all four countries (Table 6).
Compared to the model with only student and home characteristics, the explained variance (R2) is higher for all models when considering classroom and school characteristics.
Two of the most influencing factors with regard to home characteristics are the number of books at home and the amount of time students spent on reading outside school.
Our results reveal the importance of individual student and home characteristics for promoting students' reading attitudes, particularly the number of books at home and the amount of reading outside school.
