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Medications such as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) have become a mainstay of first line treatments for many common mental health illnesses from anxiety to dementia. If SSRIs are unsuccessful, there are a myriad of other classes and …

Background: A Physician Assistant (PA) degree is earned during a high-intensity, fast-paced, and academically challenging graduate-level program that can be anxiety-inducing for students. The exam schedule and amount of material can be overwhelming …

Background: Current medical practice offers limited options for the prevention of cognition degeneration in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). This research sought to determine the impact of aerobic exercise on the cognition of Alzheimer’s Dise…

Perioperative pain management utilizing opioids contributes to the opioid epidemic that has ravaged the United States causing a rise in death rates and a national financial burden. While multiple risk factors are responsible for the opioid use disor…

The United States has the highest reported number of pregnancy related deaths among highincome countries, and eight percent of these are related to hypertensive disorders such as preeclampsia and eclampsia. Preeclampsia is defined as new onset hype…

Background: Opioid use disorder (OUD) is defined as a chronic relapsing illness associated with the misuse of opioid medications or the use of illicitly obtained heroin. The epidemic of opioid, heroin, and synthetic OUD has caused the deaths of 450,…

Background: Spinal cord injuries (SCI) have a prevalence of 54 million people in the United States and cause significant distress for those affected. Current treatment options in clinical guidelines are not effective enough to notably decrease long-…

Suicide is a devastating public health problem, and few pharmacological treatments have been found to be effective for quickly reducing suicidal ideation (SI). Because antidepressants take four to six weeks to become effective, the only acute treatm…

The purpose of the study was to test holistic learning theory by relating non-cognitive skills to degree completion among undergraduate students in the United States in order to improve college success. The population (n=85,000) of the study was dra…

Background: In pediatric respiratory emergencies, the chest radiograph is the most used and favored diagnostic test by providers. Although not yet implemented in practice, point-of-care ultrasounds (POCUS) are becoming more favored in pediatric resp…

The purpose of this quantitative comparative study is to analyze the demographic and program choice data of students who completed a study abroad program in the United States over a 10+-year period and to determine the impacts of those factors. The …

The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental, correlational study is to compare three variables associated with doctoral degree completion to determine if there is a statistical significance between completion time, financial aid status, and e…