Saint Paul College

Cervical cancer remains a major public health issue, yet screening uptake is low due to limited awareness, misconceptions, and accessibility challenges. This study assessed the effectiveness of Healthy Living Education in improving knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) regarding cervical cancer screening among women attending the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Clinic at Government Headquarters Hospital, Cuddalore. A quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design was employed with 60 married women. Baseline KAP was measured using a structured questionnaire, followed by an interactive educational intervention focusing on cervical cancer risk factors, benefits of screening, and strategies to overcome barriers. Post-test assessments were conducted to evaluate changes in KAP, and data were analyzed using paired t-tests for effectiveness and chi-square tests for associations with demographic variables. Results indicated a significant increase in mean KAP scores post-intervention, reflecting improved awareness and willingness to undergo screening. Demographic factors such as age, education level, and prior screening experience were found to be significantly associated with post-test KAP levels. The findings demonstrate that Healthy Living Education is effective in enhancing women?s knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding cervical cancer screening. The study highlights the importance of sustained and repeated health education programs in improving screening uptake and reducing the burden of cervical cancer, while also emphasizing the need for future research to explore long-term behavioral changes and adherence to screening practices.

ABSTRACT Professional library and archives associations recognize the value of cultural competency skills in advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). This study analyzes a sample of nearly 500 archival job postings to gauge the degree to which job postings demonstrate the employers’ awareness of and commitment to cultural competency in their recruiting practices. The central finding is that only 7 percent of job ads in the sample included knowledge, skills, or abilities relating to cultural competency among the requirements for working in an archives-related position. Thus, the study strongly suggests that the value the archives profession places on cultural competency is rarely reflected in the qualifications candidates who wish to work in archives are expected to have. This problem is most evident in job ads for technical services positions, in the South and Midwest sections of the country, and in nonacademic employment sectors. The authors provide recommendations for hiring practices that further a hiring institution's commitment to DEIA through the adoption of cultural competency as a framework for recruitment and interviewing.

<p>This study examined the connection between religious identity and academic achievement in junior high school students. Recent research shows a strong link between religiosity and academic success. However, some research argues that this link is caused by familial and social factors, such as disparities in family capital levels among religious affiliations. Whether or not religious variables influence adolescent academic achievement may also depend on whether or not their parents and children share the same religious beliefs. It looked at the relationship between adolescents' religion, their parents' religiosity, and academic accomplishment in the context of family and community capital. According to the findings, family social capital is largely responsible for the relationship between students' religiosity and academic success, whereas the relationship between academic success and religious homogamy between parents and adolescents is unrelated to family and community social capital. Parents with high levels of religiosity and adolescents with low levels of religiosity are more likely to have low accomplishments.</p>

The issue surrounding social media addiction has become prevalent in recent timed due to the rise of technological advancements. Thus, this refers to instances in which individuals develop an overwhelming need to interact with these platforms. Furthermore, one’s personality traits can be defined to represent one’s distinctive pattern of thinking, emotion, and are relatively deduced from one’s pattern of habits. Hence, the present study employed the descriptive-correlational approach to describe and analyze college students’ profile in terms of the present variables, as well as their relationship with one another. Additionally, two hundred and fifty (250) students currently enrolled in colleges and universities in the Philippines were selected to answer the disseminated Google forms. By using the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) and the Mini International Item Pool (Mini IPIP), the goals were achieved. The findings taken from the Pearson Coefficient Correlation indicated that the respondents’ social media addiction was significantly related to their personality. Moreover, the findings of this study were examined and reviewed, and recommendations for future studies were made to build on the current body of knowledge.

Systematic archaeological excavations at the multicultural site of Foeni-S?la? in the Romanian Banat conducted during the first half of the 1990s uncovered evidence that the site was inhabited during the Early Neolithic, Copper, Bronze, Early Iron, Late Antique and Medieval Ages. This paper summarises the cultural history of the settlement at the site and describes the relevant deposits and material culture in each period.

Military moral injury is becoming more recognizable in the discourse surrounding the psychospiritual impacts of war and military service. This recognition derives from the tireless efforts of a bur...

Two contemporary effects of humans on aquatic ecosystems are increasing temperatures and increasing nutrient concentrations from fertilizers. The response of organisms to these perturbations has important implications for ecosystem processes. We examined the effects of phosphorus (P) supply and temperature on organismal carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus (C, N, and P) content, cell size and allocation into internal P pools in three strains of recently isolated bacteria (Agrobacterium sp., Flavobacterium sp., and Arthrobacter sp.). We manipulated resource C:P in chemostats and also manipulated temperatures from 10 to 30°C. Dilution rates were maintained for all the strains at ~25% of their temperature-specific maximum growth rate to simulate low growth rates in natural systems. Under these conditions, there were large effects of resource stoichiometry and temperature on biomass stoichiometry, element quotas, and cell size. Each strain was smaller when C-limited and larger when P-limited. Temperature had weak effects on morphology, little effect on C quotas, no effect on N quotas and biomass C:N, but had strong effects on P quotas, biomass N:P and C:P, and RNA. RNA content per cell increased with increasing temperature at most C:P supply ratios, but was more strongly affected by resource stoichiometry than temperature. Because we used a uniform relative growth rate across temperatures, these findings mean that there are important nutrient and temperature affects on biomass composition and stoichiometry that are independent of growth rate. Changes in biomass stoichiometry with temperature were greatest at low P availability, suggesting tighter coupling between temperature and biomass stoichiometry in oligotrophic ecosystems than in eutrophic systems. Because the C:P stoichiometry of biomass affects how bacteria assimilate and remineralize C, increased P availability could disrupt a negative feedback between biomass stoichiometry and C availability.

Texting while driving is morally equivalent to driving drunk. In this dialogue, I illustrate why moral arguments from analogy are a valuable part of moral reasoning by considering how texting while driving is, morally speaking, no different from drunk driving.1