The American Occupational Therapy Association's Centennial Vision articulates the strategic goals for the profession to be science driven and evidence based in major practice areas. In the practice area of productive aging, a previous review of research published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) found mostly basic research with far fewer effectiveness studies. The current ...

The number of qualitative research articles published in educational journals has increased substantially over the past number of years. Qualitative studies have contributed to our understanding of important educational issues, such as minority students’ reasons for following or abandoning teacher’s recommendations and student’s reasons for departing or persisting in school. Nonetheless, educat...

Background and Purpose: Upon immigration to the US, the Hmong people transition to a more industrialized society which places them at an increased risk for diabetes. Hmong Americans are at increasing risk for developing diabetes. This article scopes research literature on the prevalence of diabetes and factors affecting diabetes care in the Hmong population. Methods: The literature was systemat...

in the present study, an attempt is made to investigate the frequency and motives of using avoidance strategies by a group of iranian intermediate language learners through their own journal writing. the effect of gender on the use of avoidance strategies is to be investigated as well. thirty nine female and twenty three male learners enrolled in an english language spoken course in a private e...

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background: co-authorship is one of the most tangible forms of research collaboration. a co-authorship network is a social network in which the authors through participation in one or more publication through an indirect path have linked to each other. the present research using the social network analysis studied co-authorship network of 681 articles published in journal of research in medical...

Although studies of domestic violence have been conducted over the past twenty years, they have yet to take into account the ways in which ethnicity influences victims' attitudes and behaviors. For example, little research has been done on domestic violence within the Japanese American community. In addition to cultural differences and language barriers, other variables such as: vertical societ...