Al Mawlawi, Zainab(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020-06)
With the advent of universal newborn hearing screening, the advancement of technology and amplification systems, particularly with the development of the cochlear implant, as well as other developments in the outlook on ...
McKenzie, J. Rowen(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020-06)
Responsive behaviours are commonly expressed by persons living with dementia
(PLWD) in long-term care (LTC) as a way of communicating an unmet need. One
commonly reported unmet need amongst PLWD is the need for daytime ...
Polegato, Jillian(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020-04)
The purpose of this research was to explore elementary school children’s experiences of agency and participation in decision-making at school to add to the discourse surrounding children’s participation rights in Canada. ...
Mason, Stephanie M.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020)
This work is a wide-ranging exploration into the ways adults can be supported to learn informally through material object interactions in public places. In keeping with my methodological lens of arts-informed research, I ...
Muyini, Jubran(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020-05)
thesis uses discourse analysis and shows the ways in which definitions of bullying are socially constructed. Analyzing four parent guides from four different Canadian provinces, the thesis explores how prevalent bullying ...
Corbett, Lesley Erin(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2001-10)
The use of a food safety program in a healthcare foodservice operation is instrumental in safeguarding the health and welfare of patients, their families and staff from foodbome illness. The Hazard Analysis Critical Control ...
Clark, Jennifer L.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2001-08)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the biopsychosocial factors that
influence youth smoking behavior. Sixty-four high school students completed surveys
for one phase of the study. Thirty-six other students ...
Clare, Lauren(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2001-09)
The purpose of this study was to determine whether knowing a second language
would be related to having greater phonological and word awareness skills than their
monolingual peers. Three groups of kindergarten children, ...
Brann-Barrett, Mary-Tanya(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2001-01)
Breastfeeding is a form of life sustaining work that only women can perform. It is
learning and doing that exist within the lifeworld. Much of the work done by women in the
homeplace and in their roles as mothers is ...
Bernard, Candace(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2001-03)
This thesis explores multiple oppression based on race, class, and gender in
relation to the school experiences of African Nova Scotians. An Africentric paradigm
guides this exploratory, qualitative study. It attempts ...
O’Rielly, Tanya(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006-04)
This qualitative research examined the perceptions of eight youth care workers
regarding self-harm in youth. The types of self-harm encountered, the differences in self-
harm between typically developing youth and youth ...
Zayed, Samia(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020-03)
The education system in Libya faces significant challenges in various aspects, but at the core are outdated notions of curriculum, teaching, and learning. While it is important to have qualified teachers, who use a variety ...
Kervin, Emily K.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020-04)
Understandings of quality of life in nursing homes often include the importance of
homelikeness but not necessarily from the resident’s perspective. This research explored
nursing home physical design and its role in ...
Kissoon, Gail(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006-09)
Many professions, whether implicitly or explicitly, claim a higher status than they
afford to child and youth care practitioners (Beker, 1976; VanderVen, 1991). However,
child and youth care practitioners have also ...
Gillis, Jenny(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2007-04)
The question of which skills children should possess upon entrance into the public school
system has been a topic of much debate for decades (Elkind, 2006; Katz, 1996). Due to beliefs
and values held by many individuals ...
Hasiuk, Maria(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006-11)
For a number of years, it has been proposed that the scope of school
psychological services be expanded beyond assessment to include other activities such as
consultation, prevention, and research. Despite school ...
Frost, Elizabeth A.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006-09)
The experience of trauma is higher in individuals with concurrent disorders than in
the general population, yet little attention to trauma is given in making a clinical
diagnosis for mental illness. This study involved ...
Faulkner, Colleen(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006-09)
A study was conducted to investigate the influence of body esteem, nutritional status, nutritional intake, and eating attitudes on adherence to dietary therapy and enzymes in adolescents and young adults with cystic fibrosis. ...
Gillies, Anne E.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2019-12)
The Role of Family Councils in Long Term Care Facilities in Nova Scotia
‘Family councils’ (FCs) composed of family members of people living in long-term care
(LTC) facilities are meant to exist throughout Nova Scotia ...
Smith, Marla(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2019-12)
Introduction: Research suggests that early childhood is a sensitive and influential period in a child’s development. Experiencing stressful experiences during this developmental phase can cause unfavourable outcomes for ...