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Viewing fitspiration (fitness inspiration) has been found to increase body dissatisfaction and negative affect; however, minimal research has examined how body dissatisfaction and related variables differ based on intentionality of fitspiration exposure. This study's aim was to examine differences in levels of weight/s…

Community and school violence involve aggressive behaviors among youth and adults. Researchers have focused mostly on aggression among students without considering teachers as victims of violence. The study's purpose was to examine the consequences of community violence, school violence, and school climate on the level…

Gender-based violence (GBV) rates are high in Zimbabwe. Looking toward a partnership to prevent GBV in the Victoria Falls region, which lacks GBV prevention initiatives, the current study's aim was to learn about stakeholders' perceptions of GBV causes and their ideas for GBV prevention, and to gauge potential communit…

Examine the sociodemographic and gun possession factors associated with gun policy attitudes among undergraduates.Undergraduates at a west coast university ( = 1,474) completed a questionnaire with measures of country of birth, political ideology, gender identity, gun possession at one's own residence, fr…

OBJECTIVES: to understand how continuation of care for the preterm newborn in the health care network at the border. METHODS: the Grounded Theory was the methodological framework. Data were collected through 17 semi-structured interviews between July 2016 and March 2017. RESULTS: "Describing the structure and functio…

This study's purpose was to evaluate the unique contributions of self-, other-, and collective constructs in the efficacy-performance reciprocal relationship for athlete dyads involving low- and high-dependence roles. Data were obtained from 74 intact cheerleading pairs on self-, other-, and collective efficacy and sub…

BACKGROUND: Bullying remains a troubling problem in the nursing profession. Nursing students may encounter bullying behavior in clinical settings. However, they may not be adequately prepared to recognize and handle bullying behavior when it occurs. This study's purpose was to gain a greater understanding of nursing st…

OBJECTIVE: to analyze the action and coping plans related to the behavior of adhering to drug therapy, developed by coronary heart disease (CHD) outpatients, and to identify the barriers perceived to adopting this behavior. METHODS: the participants (n=59) were invited to formulate action plans and coping plans for th…

Traditional university and college students ages 18-24 are traversing an important period in their lives in which behavioral intervention is critical in reducing their risk of cancer in later years. The study's purpose was to determine the perceptions and level of knowledge about cancer of white, Hispanic, and black un…

Rates of substance use and maltreatment are alarmingly high among incarcerated women. Although the direct link between trauma and substance use has been established, less is known about potential mediators. Thus, we examined substance use coping as a mediator between trauma symptoms and substance use consequences among…

The recently published Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE) report, Maternal Obesity in the UK: Findings from a National Project, has provided new information on how often we are caring for women who have a body mass index (BMI) of 35 or more, who these women are, the complications and consequences associate…

In 2005, 60 health care workers were recruited through services that attract injecting drug users (IDUs) and asked to complete attitude measures regarding IDU clients. Mediation analyses indicated that conservative health care workers displayed more negative attitudes toward their IDU clients because they believe that…

The Type I error rates and powers of three recent tests for analyzing nonorthogonal factorial designs under departures from the assumptions of homogeneity and normality were evaluated using Monte Carlo simulation. Specifically, this work compared the performance of the modified Brown-Forsythe procedure, the generalizat…

The current study's experiments tested the hypothesis that limb movement frequency is a significant determinant of exercise hyperpnoea. To this end, 19 healthy participants walked on a treadmill, where work was varied sinusiodally by alterations in either treadmill speed or grade. Measured responses were fitted with si…

Recent policy in relation to clinical research proposals in the UK has distinguished between two types of review: scientific and ethical. This distinction has been formally enshrined in the recent changes to research ethics committee (REC) structure and operating procedures, introduced as the UK response to the EU Dire…

This study's primary aim was to evaluate factors that influence attitudes toward the insanity defense in a sample of 578 college undergraduates. In addition to a comprehensive demographics survey, participants completed the Insanity Defense Attitude Scale-Revised (IDAS-R) and the Attitude Toward the Death Penalty (ATDP…

Prostate cancer affects men and their loved ones; consequently, survivors and their wives can gain from social support throughout the illness experience. After observing meetings of a support group for prostate cancer survivors and their partners, the authors used the constant comparison method to draw conclusions abou…

Heat sterilization makes peritoneal dialysis (PD) solutions cytotoxic. Two compounds in the solutions, lactate and glucose, can be degraded by heat. This study's goal was to discover which of the compounds was responsible for the cytotoxicity. The influence of sterilization temperature on degradation of the compounds w…

Attitudes and perceptions about health, AIDS, and the need for AIDS education were explored among inmates in a women's prison in the southeastern U.S. Forty short-term inmates participated in a series of focus group interviews. A separate sample of sixteen women completed a 103-item questionnaire. Focus group participa…

Ophthalmoplethysmography (OPG) is a simple, noninvasive diagnostic test in which the cerebral hemispheric blood flow can be indirectly measured. Its use in head and neck surgery is invaluable because it enables the surgeon to predict preoperatively whether a patient will survive carotid artery resection. In a three-yea…