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The Native American Health Center provides substance use and mental health services for urban American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIs/ANs) utilizing a culturally based holistic system of care (HSOC). Substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery services emphasize traditional AI/AN healing practices alongside evid…

Noninjecting heroin users (NIHU) that were 16-30 years old were street recruited in Chicago between 2002 and 2005 to examine factors associated with having ever injected. Participants completed computerized self-administered interviews and provided specimens for HIV and hepatitis serotesting. Of 689 NIHU, 51.2% were no…

The Acceptance of Interpersonal Violence Scale (AIV) is a self-report inventory assessing beliefs about violence toward women. This study's purpose was to test the multidimensionality of the AIV. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted on half a sample of 772 male participants and confirmatory factor analysis (…

The so-called "sense of coherence" (SOC) is the central idea of Antonovsky's concept of salutogenesis. The structure and the meaning of SOC for a person's ability to cope with stress are discussed as well as the overall health-promoting effect of SOC. At the end of the study's first part the question of proving the SOC…

Opinions of 789 community adults were individually assessed, using a video-clip of an actual armed robbery and other measures, to determine whether attitudes toward the culpability and appropriate punishment of young offenders were linked to offenders' age, race, and physical appearance. Three major findings emerged: (…

PURPOSE: Self-declaration of personal values has been suggested as a means of identifying students with greater predilection for future primary care careers. While statistically significant differences have been demonstrated, absolute differences between those interested in primary care and those interested in speciali…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the factors relating to bleeding secondary to endoscopic sinus surgery. METHOD: 193 patients suffered from nasal polyps, chronic sinusitis and underwent endoscopic sinus surgery between May 1995 and February 2001 were analyzed. These patients's state of operation affairs tallies with this stu…

The study's objective was to analyze "virtual" home care visits that utilize telemedicine technology and to investigate the type and quality of interaction between provider and patient. The setting was the TeleHomeCare Project which provides TV-based videoconferencing. Patients are receiving standard home care services…

Each year 1 in 160 people in the United States suffers from acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Of these more than 1.5 million cases annually, 500,000 end in fatalities. This study's purpose was to describe and evaluate the role hospital characteristics play in rates of mortality caused by AMI in acute-care California h…

The study's purpose was to examine attitudes, knowledge, and self-reported practices of osteopathic family physicians regarding obesity. A survey was developed and administered to osteopathic family physicians. Respondents were predominantly male (76%), and their mean age was 44.6 years. Most had been in practice for f…

BACKGROUND: Increasing numbers of health care organizations are adopting Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) principles. This study's objective was to evaluate the attitudes toward and acceptance of CQI by a family practice residency program's providers and staff after 3 years' experience with the process. METHODS: O…

The ability of subjects to alter their responses on the Rorschach and self-report measures to fake the symptoms of combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was investigated. Subjects were 40 White male undergraduates, randomly assigned to either a control or role-informed malingerer group, and 20 White Vietn…

That psychosocial problems are extant in epilepsy is evidenced by a suicide rate among epileptic persons five times that of the general population and an unemployment rate estimated to be more than twice that of the population as a whole. External perceptions of control secondary to repeated episodes of seizure activit…

Serum phosphate (S-P) and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) were monitored for 10 days after severe burn trauma in 16 patients treated with total parenteral nutrition, including supplementation with 25-75 mmol phosphate daily. Phosphate metabolism was previously shown to be disturbed in patients with severe burns, and h…

In contrast to ST-elevation myocardial infarction treatment, there is no clear definition for when and which patient to discharge. Our study's main goal was to test the hypothesis that an early discharge strategy (within 48 to 56 hours) in patients with successful primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI)…

High levels of serum uric acid are associated with hypertension in observational studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of uric acid gene variants with blood pressure. We studied 5791 participants aged ≥55 years from the Rotterdam Study. Thirty gene variants identified for serum uric a…

B. Sun, M. Chen, C. Hawks, P. J. Hornsby, and X. Wang, "Tumorigenic Study on Hepatocytes Coexpressing SV40 With Ras," Molecular Carcinogenesis 45 no. 4 (2006): 213-219, https://doi.org/10.1002/mc.20137. The above article, published online on 19 September 2005 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) has been re…

INTRODUCTION: Academic support in the form of formal, peer-led study groups was initiated at a four-year college of pharmacy utilizing paid group facilitators and a student program coordinator under the direction of the Associate Dean for Student Affairs. This study's purpose was to assess the first year of this progra…

INTRODUCTION: The arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in Thailand has supported the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among health care workers (HCWs) in Thailand before and after vaccines' availability and investigated factors (both enablers and barriers) affecting their dec…

Workers, especially those involved in occupations with high carbon footprints, are more susceptible to the growing risks associated with the climate transition as a result of the urgent need to transition to a low-carbon economy. Here we trace the occupational carbon footprints along global value chains and estimate th…