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for Endeavors Vol. 6 Issue 2, Winter 1989
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Researchers in the UNC Health Services Research Center are conducting projects on health promotion among the elderly. They hope to determine whether coverage of selected preventive health services might reduce the cost of disease treatment, and if routine medical screening can reduce risk behavior and improve the quality of life for elderly participants in the program.
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26240
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UNC researcher Diane Davis is studying behavioral development patterns in premature infants. She is trying to identify the premature infants who are at risk for developing long-term problems, so that better health interventions can be put into place.
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26241
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Dr. Laurel Archer Copp, Dean of the UNC School of Nursing, focuses her research on patients’ responses to pain. She characterized pain according to the patients’ perceptions, and has defined more than thirty pain coping strategies utilized by patients.
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26242
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Dr. Margarete Sandelowski, associate professor in the School of Nursing, seeks to understand the transition experienced by couples who overcome infertility. She is studying the types of obstacles couples face and how they confront problem of infertility.
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26243
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Dr. Barbara Germino and Dr. Sandra Funk, associate professors in the School of Nursing, are studying the impact of cancer on family members. They are developing a research instrument and a clinical assessment index that will help evaluate the concerns of cancer patients and their family members.
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26244
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Dr. Nancy Milio, professor of nursing and professor health policy, spent a month interviewing Norwegian officials as a basis for an analysis of the success of a comprehensive government farm-food-nutrition policy. The policy brings food supply into line with a national dietary pattern, and could be successful in the United States.
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Lorna Harris, assistant professor in the UNC School of Nursing, is studying consumers’ thoughts about possible sanctions for substance abuse. In a recent study, she asked consumers’ opinions about substance abuse among health care providers, job performance, and drug testing. She hopes her findings can be used to develop employee drug abuse policies.
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