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Summer camps for juveniles with rheumatic disease are being offered increasingly as components of comprehensive treatment approaches, but the therapeutic value of these sessions is largely undetermined. This study attempted to judge the impact of a summer camping experience on two aspects of participants' psychosocial…

The present study reports on a comparative survey of the belief and action systems of graduates who had been intensively trained in one of three of the major models of family therapy: Bowenian, communications, and strategic. An analysis of the factor-analyzed assumptions (belief system) and style (action system) items…

In this study we test the hypothesis that children, suffering from acute lymphatic leukaemia (ALL) have more concentration problems, a lower intellectual capacity and more adjustment problems at school. The study deals only with those children whose ALL had been diagnosed at least three years before. Standardized tests…

This study was designed to assess the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36 (SF-36) assessed with opiate addicts in China. The sample was composed of 442 questionnaires from three regions in China, in 2004. The reliability of Chinese-version SF-36 was obtained using…

In children, as in adults, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), particularly erosive esophagitis, is now believed to be a chronic disease, probably requiring lifelong maintenance therapy. However, this assumption has not received adequate clinical testing, and the provocative article by Boccia et al. in this issue o…

OBJECTIVES: This study's objective was to assess participation and perceived benefits of abortion training among residents at programs with integrated early abortion care. INTERVENTION: We developed a collaborative early abortion training network. RESULTS: Residents at training sites had high participation (71%) and…

INTRODUCTION: Urinary incontinence is a debilitating condition often affecting women after pregnancy or significant weight change. Abdominoplasty is an aesthetic and functional operation often performed in an overlapping cohort. Functional benefits of abdominoplasty include improvements in back pain, urinary incontinen…

Satisfaction experienced in romantic relationships is a significant variable that can influence individuals’ physical and psychological well-being. Most studies examining relationship satisfaction have employed cross-sectional designs. The lack of longitudinal studies addressing this variable, which can have lon…

BACKGROUND: Rehabilomics, or the integration of rehabilitation with genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and other "-omics" fields, aims to promote personalized approaches to rehabilitation care. Cloud-based rehabilitation offers streamlined patient data management and sharing and could potentially play a significant ro…

BACKGROUND: Subgroup analyses in randomized trials examine whether effects of interventions differ between subgroups of study populations according to characteristics of patients or interventions. However, findings from subgroup analyses may be misleading, potentially resulting in suboptimal clinical and health decisio…

The recent article by Jiangpublished inreports substantial bidirectional associations between gallstone disease (GSD), non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and kidney stone disease (KSD), based on multicenter cross-sectional studies and a systematic review with meta-analysis. While the findings have the potential…

Objective This study is a literature review from 2010 to 2014 concerning the quality of evidence in clinical trials about microfracture in attempt to repair articular cartilage. We have decided to focus on microfracturing, since this seems to be the best documented technique. Interest in evaluation of publication quali…

A positive-deviance control-case life history study of injection drug users (IDUs) in New York City who had injected drugs for 8-15 years compared 21 IDUs who were antibody negative for both HIV and hepatitis C with 3 infected with both viruses and 11 infected with hepatitis C virus but not HIV. Eligible subjects were…

Many Mongolian people suffer from non-communicable chronic diseases. In order to plan preventive strategies against such diseases, we designed a community-based prospective cohort study of chronic diseases, called the Moncohort study, in Mongolia. This is the first nationwide large-scale cohort study of chronic disease…

There is a lack of guidance in the existing literature on the link between spirituality and psychology in the workplace. The present study seeks to emphasize the theoretical importance that workplace spirituality may contribute to the psychology literature. Specifically, the study aims to examine how Person-Organizatio…

As populations rise and many global health policies point towards community care, it is important that health care delivery meets demand. In Ireland, a study was undertaken on the level and context of missed care in community nursing. The study used a survey to identify the quantity of, and reasons for, missed care; a…

This descriptive study's purpose was to pilot a questionnaire with sub-scales in a population of 40 family members listed as power of attorney (POA) for residents and 40 employees of a long term care facility in rural southeastern Kansas. The non-random convenience sample was 49 participants resulting in a 61.25% parti…

There have been significant problems in the study of sports aggression, and they are linked to how aggression has been defined, measured, and analyzed. Following a review of the whole domain, this study aimed to construct a theoretically coherent and ecologically valid framework for research on processes underlying spo…

A national, random, postal survey (n = 298) of mentoring behaviour among New Zealand nurses was undertaken. The initial research problem was to seek an explanation for the apparent lack of mentoring in New Zealand nursing. However, as the study evolved the lack of agreement concerning the definition of mentoring became…

This study describes the operative and postoperative performance of 8-0 Polyglactin 910 in cataract surgery. The evaluation represents a clinical comparison of 7-0 Polyglactin 910 to the same suture in 8-0 size in 155 cataract surgical procedures. In 45 cases, 8-0 Polyglactin 910 was the sole wound closure material use…