This thesis focuses on the experience of voice hearing and effects on mental health and wellbeing. It is composed of two separate papers: a systematic literature review and an empirical paper.
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Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a highly prevalent chronic disease and one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States (US) and in West Virginia (WV), a mostly rural Appalachian state. West Virginia has the highest prevalence of diabetes …
This thesis studies the temporal profile of the impact of systemic banking crises on suicide rates using a panel from 53 countries between 1980 and 2016. A methodology developed by Oscar Jordà in 2005, the Local Projections, was used to measure this impact.
This study sought to examine how graduates of the "at-risk youth" category experience their selfhood years after they populated this category. The sample comprised adults who had been removed from their homes in their youth by court order or at the local welfare department's rec…
A conservação dos carnívoros é considerada prioritária devido à importância destes para os ecossistemas e à ameaça séria de extinção que enfrentam em todo o mundo. Jaguares (Panthera onca) e pumas (Puma concolor), os maiores felinos do Brasil e das Américas, estão em declínio de…
The First World War marked the end of the era of empires, followed by postwar accords which divided up territory into newly formed states. As a result of this new order, numerous ethnic groups found themselves under new regimes with new set of rolls. The research in hand seek to…
La spiritualité peut avoir plusieurs impacts positifs sur la santé mentale et physique des individus (Koenig, 2008), être un élément central dans le processus de rétablissement (Holloway et Moss, 2010; Lietz et Hodge, 2013) et constituer un important mécanisme d’adaptation face …
This work attempts to determine the exchange rate policy objectives of monetary authorities in emerging markets and analyze the instruments used to achieve them. The introductory chapter discusses a wide range of issues related to exchange rate policy, exchange rate regimes, and…
There is a high prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms (MSS) among manual material handling (MMH) workers. However, limited investigations have been undertaken among one large group of workers using a particular MMH method called traditional posterior load carriage (PLC). Such l…
This dissertation examines an unexplored issue in the international relations literature: how do leading global powers respond to changes in the distribution of capabilities between minor powers in peripheral regions? In particular, do they accommodate or oppose rising regional …
This work addresses questions about why the United States did not get involved in intervention efforts during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. To answer this, the work will analyze the history of Rwanda leading up to and through the genocide and changes in American policy towards Afri…
Due to nutrition transition, the prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing significantly worldwide especially in affluent developing countries such as Kuwait. Obesity is associated with adverse chronic health conditions and financial burdens which provides an incentive for p…
This study proposes that Iraq's democracy and stability turmoil since 2003 can be well elucidated by concentrating on the link between internal and external challenges that military intervention has introduced in the country. The source of that link is the emerging external secu…
Military intervention forces use a variety of techniques to achieve success in counterinsurgency operations. One technique recently put into more widespread practice by military units in Iraq and Afghanistan is key leader engagement. Key leader engagements are meetings that memb…
This thesis project illustrates the way developments in the 1990s almost resulted in a complete revamp of the humanitarian system, if only the new ideas of military humanitarianism established during the post-Cold War period had not fallen short because of some major deficiencie…
Millions of villagers in Bangladesh drink water which exceeds the Bangladesh arsenic (As) standard of 50 micrograms per liter. Exposure to elevated levels of inorganic As (As) is associated with cancers of the skin, bladder, and lung, developmental effects, cardiovascular diseas…
On December 26, 2004, a catastrophic tsunami struck the Indian Ocean just off the coast of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. This thesis will explore land tenure reform as an international intervention in Aceh, Indonesia, located on the island of Sumatra. Using a comparative ana…
This comparative study examines the various forms of British intervention in Egypt and Iraq during World War II, and the nature of Britain's informal empire in the Middle East. The focus is on the British Embassies which served as the local point of contact between Britain and t…
Road traffic injuries (RTIs) have reached epidemic proportions worldwide and will become the third leading cause of all Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost by the year 2020 unless prompt intervention is carried out. To address this growing burden, an intervention using v…