Older people--Mental health; Rural health; Urban health
Depression is one of the most prevalent psychiatric conditions experienced by older adults and represents a major public health concern. Rural/urban residence may affect the prevalence of depression as rural older adults differ from their urban...
This treatise is not intended to cover the whole field of Rural Sociology. It deals briefly with the more important phases of the subject. Perchance many important problems have been omitted which the reader will call to mind. This will go to show...
Middle school education--Case studies; Academic achievement--Kentucky; Home and school--Kentucky
This dissertation is a case study of 109 students and their parents from a small rural, middle school community in Western Kentucky. It seeks to determine the interrelationships between conservative Protestant Parent Values (Parent Rural Values and...
This phenomenological study investigated perceptions regarding the impact of the tenets of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) on the self-reported achievement and underachievement among adults who had been identified and served as gifted...
Stream riparian zones are ecotones between terrestrial and aquatic environments. Studying these areas in urban environments is important since they lie adjacent to stream water supplies. I conducted a study of riparian woody and groundcover...
Elementary school teachers--Kentucky; Mathematics--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Kentucky
This dissertation was a quantitative study with a sample of preservice elementary teachers from four universities in Kentucky. The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice elementary teachers' achievement goal orientations for learning...
Mentoring in nursing; Nurse administrators--Training of; Rural nursing; Rural hospitals
The aim of this study was to examine rural nurse managers' experiences with
mentoring once assuming their new management role. This research study used
qualitative methods to examine mentoring experiences in relatively new and
inexperienced nurse...
Christian leadership--Case studies; Rural churches--Kentucky; Clergy; School improvement programs; Educational leadership
This qualitative study sought to illuminate successful practices of a turnaround leader in a rural church that are applicable cross-contextually, so as to inform the leadership efforts of various organizations seeking to reproduce organizational...
High school athletes--Social conditions; Basketball--Social aspects; School sports--Social aspects
This study examined the relationship between high school boys' basketball and the social structure of a suburban, rural, and urban high school in the lower Midwest. These schools surround a metropolitan area of approximately one million people. The...
A car drives down a rural road which is lined with a post-and-wire fence. To the right a mailbox marks the entry to a property where a couple of people are sitting outside. To the left a utility pole and distant houses are visible among the bushes...
A fork or driveway on a rural road. A barbed wire fence runs on the left. This may be a different view of the road seen in ULPA 1982.01.700.p. Title supplied by cataloger.
Rural road with a large two-story brick and clapboard building on the left. Smaller houses are in the background. In the distance, a group of people stands in the middle of the road. Title supplied by cataloger.
Series of views of a rural residential dirt road intersecting with a paved street and at a railroad crossing. Men build a bridge on one portion of the road.Title supplied by cataloger.
