Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2024, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

The objective of this dissertation was to examine the burden and influence of food insecurity (FI) on disease condition among patients presenting with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms suggestive of Disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGB) and GI motility disorders. This project aimed to reduce the critical gap in understanding the relationship between FI and GI disease, as well as gain insight on unmet health-related social needs (HRSN) in the GI patient population. This work aligns with growing national policy efforts towards establishing robust Social Care systems as an approach to advancing health equity and the reducing national burden of disease. Chapter 1 reviews FI as a multifaceted and persistent social problem that is highly sensitive to the experience of other HRSN. It also explains the mechanisms through which FI influences health outcomes. The specific aims for this work were to (1) Describe the burden of FI and its relation to often co-occurring HRSN and GI symptom burden among patients presenting at a GI dysmotility clinic (Chapter 2). and (2) Examine the relationship between FI risk, GI symptom profile, and presence/risk of co-morbid conditions known to be exacerbated by FI and closely linked with development and worsening of GI symptoms including: T1/2 DM and risk of eating disorders (ED) and mental health (MH) conditions (Chapters 3 and 4). Key findings and implications for future research and clinical practice and social care programming are summarized in Chapter 5.

Committee: Jennifer Garner (Advisor); Amy Darragh (Advisor); Kristen Roberts (Committee Member); Subhankar Chakraborty (Committee Member) Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Health; Health Care; Health Sciences; Medicine; Mental Health; Nutrition; Public Health; Social Work

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 1941, History

Committee: John Schwarz (Advisor) Subjects: Gender Studies; History

Bachelor of Arts, Wittenberg University, 2022, Business

Spirituality in the workplace focuses on creating space for meaning, purpose, and interconnectedness within community. Evidence and research suggest spiritual values (i.e., mindfulness, compassion, transcendence, and meaningful work), through an enhancement of the motivation of the workforce, contribute to increases in productivity. Spirituality can be implemented through including spiritual values in policies, procedures, and business decisions. When evaluating an organizational success with executing spirituality efforts in a business, three themes can be seen throughout the organization: inclusivity, leadership, and implementation practices. This study will analyze the aspects of spirituality in Ouimet-Tomasso Corporation, a Canadian frozen food manufacturing company. It will define and research spirituality as a whole within an organization, the importance of inclusivity in spirituality efforts, leadership's impact on spirituality, and implementation practices. The case analysis will include a background of the company's spirituality philosophies and evaluate its spirituality effectiveness within inclusion of all the employees' backgrounds, leadership of the organization, and practices implemented to represent the values expressed.

Committee: Sunny Jeong (Advisor); Scott Dooley (Committee Member); Ross Jackson (Committee Member) Subjects: Business Administration; Business Community; Labor Relations; Management; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior; Spirituality

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2020, Public Policy and Management

Evictions are endemic in the United States, affecting as many as 1 in 19 tenant households each year (Desmond et al., 2016). This number is expected to increase in 2020, affecting between 9 million and 15 million households and disproportionately hurting minority and low-income communities (Cunningham, Boshart, & Hariharan, 2020; Kleiner, Yerardi, & Rebala, 2020; Merle, 2020; Warnock & Salviati, 2020). Evictions are a symptom of and a contributor to poverty, resulting in material loss, homelessness, and poor mental outcomes. In Evicted, Matthew Desmond, whose work on forced moves has created a foundation for academic research on evictions, writes, “If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished Black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor Black men were locked up. Poor Black women were locked out” (Desmond, 2016, p. 98) Though the line Desmond draws between eviction and incarceration is merely symbolic, there is evidence to support the idea that the connection is more than metaphorical. Consequences of eviction, such as financial strain, displacement, and depression have each, separately, been linked to criminal justice outcomes. Yet little prior research investigates the direct link between eviction and criminal justice outcomes, like incarceration. The essays that comprise this dissertation use quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the spatial association, causal effect, and tenant perception of the relationship between evictions and incarceration. The first essay uses aggregated, geocoded data on evictions and incarcerations that occurred in Franklin County, Ohio, home to the City of Columbus, between 2011 and 2017. Using a spatial regression model with first-order spatial lags and error terms and temporal fixed effects, I find that, ceteris paribus, a 10 percentage-point increase in the incarceration rate within a block group is associated with a 3.31 percentage-point increase in the eviction filing rat (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Stephanie Moulton Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Robert Greenbaum Ph.D. (Committee Member); Lauren Jones Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Public Administration; Public Policy

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, 2019, Journalism (Communication)

This study worked to determine the amount of attention users of mobile application devices dedicate to opt-in privacy policies. As the average user is often faced with a variety of motivations and distractions when determining whether to download an application, this study created an experimental setting in which certain participants were told that they would have to justify their decision to download with a sample of their peers upon reviewing typical opt-in privacy policies, while others faced a time restraint when making a decision to download. Based on the academic literature, this study hypothesized that 1) When faced with a time restraint, participants would be less likely to download an application than those who did not face a time restraint; 2) Participants who were asked to justify the basis of their decision would be less likely to download an application than those who were not asked to justify their decision; 3) Participants who faced a time restraint and who were not asked to consider the basis of their decisions prior to download would be more likely to download an application than those in other experimental conditions; 4) Participants who did not face a time restraint and who were asked to consider the basis of their decision prior to download would be less likely to download an application than those in other experimental conditions; and 5) Participants who scored higher on a self-efficacy scale would be more likely to download applications than those who scored lower. It also questioned how the various factors outlined in this study (motivation, opportunity, and self-efficacy) worked together to affect the decision-making process. The results of this study help to show that while motivation and opportunity has often been shown to play a role in decision-making processes, age, experience, and self- efficacy may play a larger part in the access mobile application users are willing to provide to third-party developers than was previously consid (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Hans Meyer Dr. (Advisor) Subjects: Journalism

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1991, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Social Work

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1991, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: American Studies

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1980, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Sociology

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1978, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: History

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1975, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Political Science

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1974, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Health Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1971, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: History

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2016, Spanish and Portuguese

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the interrelated dynamics that have developed since the end of the civil war, and which are linked to the crisis of insecurity in El Salvador. This investigation examines discourses, and written and visual representations related to the processes of financial capitalism as they are manifest in contemporary El Salvador (including the expansion of free trade and economic scarcity), and related to current insecurity and the expansion of zero tolerance policing. In addition, it provides statistical data to contextualize these analyses. Further, it documents several rumors related to insecurity that have circulated in El Salvador in recent years. From there, this dissertation discusses the loss of basic constitutional and human rights post-democratization. This loss of rights is the result of a state of exception, in that it simultaneously violates the law, and is ordered and authorized by the state. In tracing the interconnected dimensions between financial capitalism, economic scarcity and violence, this research contributes to ongoing conversations among journalists and academics regarding the epidemic of insecurity, and the agents that benefit. This dissertation does not point to a singular origin or point of unity that has produced the epidemic. Rather, the discourses and representations documented seek to contribute to a mapping of the political, economic and social transformations that have developed since 1992.

Committee: Ana Del Sarto (Advisor); Katherine Borland (Committee Member); Maurice Stevens (Committee Member); Abril Trigo (Committee Member); Fernando Unzueta (Committee Member) Subjects: Latin American Studies

MA, Kent State University, 2007, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Sociology and Criminology

This study examines the relationship between structural occupational conditions and psychological and attitudinal outcomes of work. Specifically, it addresses how structural conditions that determine how a worker must present him/herself to clients/customers affect conditions of self-esteem, mastery, locus of control, and job satisfaction for workers while on the job. Existing research in the social psychology of work does not address this relationship alone. This study defines this relationship by drawing on concepts from the three major perspectives within the social psychology of work: social structure and personality, symbolic interactionism, and psychological social psychology. Data was collected via a web-based computer adaptive survey. Of the 21,988 Kent State University students solicited to participate in the study, 1,280 individuals responded. This study also reveals how patterns of interaction, facilitated by structural occupational conditions, between workers and clients/customers affect workers' psychological and attitudinal outcomes.

Committee: Richard Serpe (Advisor) Subjects:

Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 1992, Social Welfare

This study examines the interrelationships and their location among a set of social conditions across the inner city neighborhoods in a northern industrial city over the decade of the 1980s. Specifically, it addresses the questions of whether there has been a change in the structure of neighborhood social conditions and how that change occurred over time. It extends the current literature to provide an understanding of the dynamic changes of neighborhood structure. A multivariate-structural approach is used to analyze the occurrence rates of ten social conditions between 1980 and 1989. Results of the analysis showed that the internal structure of the neighborhood social conditions had indeed changed over time. In the early 1980s, the occurrence of social conditions varied along three dimensions of difficulties related to adolescents, families and children, and crimes. By the late 1980s, these social conditions had become highly interconnected and could not be differentiated by the earlier structure. Three new dimensions, including the substantial difficulties to the families, children, teenagers, and young adults as a single dimension, together with safety and infant death, have emerged. The increasing family disruption and the involvement of d elinquent behaviors with drug activities appeared to be the major driving forces for such a structural change. The quality of life in inner city neighborhoods is worsening due to the increasing interdependence of these devastating conditions. Social conditions were not evenly distributed. In the early 1980s, five areas: stable, urban village, anomie, family breakup, and extreme-outlier were classified by the different problems that each area had encountered. By the late 1980s, four other areas were identified: stable, transitory, distressed, and extreme-outlier. They were differentiated by the overall deterioration levels of the social conditions. Although most neighborhoods have witnessed a decline in social conditions, some (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Claudia Coulton (Advisor) Subjects: