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Shalvi, Eldar, and Bereby-Meyer (2012) found across two studies (= 72 for each) that time pressure increased cheating. These findings suggest that dishonesty comes naturally, whereas honesty requires overcoming the initial tendency to cheat. Although the study's results were statistically significant, a Bayesian reanal…

PURPOSE: This study's purpose was to determine preschool-age children's social perceptions and self-perceptions regarding altered dental esthetics. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out involving 431 four- to five-year-olds. The participants were shown four photographs of children with incisors exhibiting d…

Telepsychology offers the potential to reach rural and underserved children and families with mental health concerns. The current study evaluated the effects of using videoconferencing technology to deliver an evidence-based parenting program, the Group Triple P Positive Parenting Program (Group Triple P; Turner, Marki…

A common form of social regulation of an individual's health behavior is social control. The contextual model of social control assumes that higher relationship quality goes along with more beneficial effects of social control on health behavior. This study examined potential differential moderating effects of differen…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Continuing medical education (CME) is essential for improving the quality of care in primary health care settings. This study's objective was to determine how the characteristics of family physicians influenced the effectiveness of a multifaceted CME intervention to improve the management of…

INTRODUCTION: Knowing the barriers substance dependents come across when seeking treatment has medical and public health implications. The study's aim was to formulate hypothesis on psychological and social and familiar variables forming subjective barriers to early treatment. METHODS: A qualitative exploratory study…

We monitored 11 patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) who entered nursing homes over a 5-year period and assessed chronicity of nursing home care, mortality, and hallucinatory status. Two years after the original study's close, none of these patients had ever been discharged from the nursing homes and all wer…

Studies have reported many wheelchair problems faced by the institutionalized elderly. Because knowledge is limited regarding seat comfort in general and for the nursing home population in particular, we elected to investigate seat comfort in order to gain insight needed to solve seat discomfort problems. This study's…

OBJECTIVE: Patients admitted to the trauma intensive care unit (TICU) often require bedside imaging procedures such as radiographs, fluoroscopic placement of enteral feeding tubes, and insertion of vena cava filters. The potential for scattered radiation exposure is a concern to healthcare workers. Our study's purpose…

BACKGROUND: Language disorder and associated vocabulary difficulties can persist into adolescence, and can impact on long-term life outcomes. Previous reviews have shown that a variety of intervention techniques can successfully enhance students' vocabulary skills; however, none has investigated vocabulary intervention…

BACKGROUND: Traditional methodologies for identifying and recruiting controls in epidemiologic case-control studies, such as random digit dialing or neighborhood walk, suffer from declining response rates. Here, we revisit the feasibility and comparability of using alternative sources of controls, specifically friend a…

OBJECTIVE: We aim to systematically review the bariatric surgery literature with regards to adequacy of patient follow-up, meeting the McMaster criteria of ≥80% follow-up. BACKGROUND: Loss to follow-up is a major concern and can potentially bias the outcome and interpretation of a study. The quality of follow-u…

This study provides a method for analyzing the drought-vulnerability index (DVI) from a multidimensional perspective that includes biophysical and social aspects, considering the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) assessment. The proposed method generates the "exposure index (EI)", "sensitivity index (S…

Metaphor, as widely known, is a figure of speech where a word or phrase is used to describe an object, action, or event to which it cannot be applied exactly. Metaphors are often used figuratively to enable clarity or emphasize the similarities between the two things in a frame. In the current study, we aimed to invest…

A barrier in outcomes and effectiveness research is the ability to characterize the interventions under review. This has been the case especially in rehabilitation in which interventions are commonly multidisciplinary, customized to the patient, and lack standardization in definition and measurement. This commentary de…

STUDY DESIGN: The Boeing prospective study was reviewed. The Boeing prospective study, comprising two articles, was a large field study that explored why workers would or would not report occupational back pain problems. OBJECTIVES: The most immediate objective was to determine the extent to which conclusions drawn fr…

The aim of the Saga Challenge Antihypertensive Study (S-CATS), a single-arm, prospective and multi-center trial, was to evaluate the effectiveness of combined antihypertensive treatment with losartan and hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ). Enrolled in the study were a total of 161 patients with hypertension, who in spite of tr…

Organized youth programs provide a context where adolescents experience strong emotions and may develop new ways of thinking about and dealing with emotions. The current study examined youth's reports of positive and negative emotions arising during the course of their work in different types of project-based programs;…

Humans often favour ingroup members over others, a bias that drives discrimination and intergroup conflicts. Hostile relations between groups and homogeneity within groups may affect such ingroup bias. In an experiment with members of three natural groups in Ethiopia, we vary intergroup relations (neutral versus enmity…

Competition theory and niche theory suggest that two morphologically similar species may coexist by reducing the overlap of at least one dimension of their ecological niche. The medium and small Neotropical felids are an interesting group of carnivore species for studying intraguild competition. Due to differences in s…