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Helping Behavior (0):
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Helping Behavior
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This study investigated whether peer-nominated prosocial and antisocial children have different perceptions of the motives underlying peers' prosocial actions. Eighty-seven children, aged 10-12 years old, completed peer-nomination measures of social behaviour. On the basis of numbers of social nomina...
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PMID: 21848737
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Psychological Reports (108)1 2011
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Although research has shown a general trend that people dressed in neat or professional clothes elicit more helping behavior from other people than when dressed in casual or sloppy clothes, no research has examined the effects of wearing a costume on helping behavior. In this experiment, confederates...
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PMID: 21526602
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Care Management Journals (12)2 2011
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As demographic patterns shift in the United States, helping professionals are likely to see more clients of color, including those who are first-generation immigrants. Additionally, given the aging of the American population, helping professionals are likely to encounter more elderly clients and thei...
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PMID: 21717845
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Revue de l'infirmiere ()166 2010
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Lower social class (or socioeconomic status) is associated with fewer resources, greater exposure to threat, and a reduced sense of personal control. Given these life circumstances, one might expect lower class individuals to engage in less prosocial behavior, prioritizing self-interest over the wel...
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PMID: 20649364
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We accordingly proposed that increasing the agency of fused persons by elevating autonomic arousal would amplify their tendency to endorse and actually enact pro-ingroup behavior. In 4 experiments, increasing autonomic arousal through physical exercise elevated heart rates and fusion-unrelated activ...
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PMID: 20649370
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The Queensland nurse (29)5 2010
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School nurse news (27)4 2010
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We examine simultaneously the reproductive constraints and fitness benefits underlying helping behaviour in a primitively eusocial paper wasp. We gave 31 helpers the opportunity to become egg-layers on their natal nests by removing nestmates. This allowed us to determine whether helpers are reproduc...
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PMID: 20129991
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British Journal of Social Psychology (49)Pt 2 2010
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It is theorized that many moral emotions are triggered when a mechanism for (parental) care is activated by perceived vulnerability, and changes in the care object's well-being are subsequently evaluated and causally attributed. Participants reported different moral emotions (tenderness, concern, sy...
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PMID: 20030963
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Epileptic Disorders (12)2 2010
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We describe the case of a dog, not previously trained for assistance work, showing complex seizure response behaviour. This is the first release of a home video recording of a dog reacting to its owner's seizure....
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PMID: 20472528
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We examined family member support and family-related barriers to self-care. We then identified patient characteristics associated with family support and family barriers and how each was associated with self-management adherence.
Cross-sectional survey of 439 patients with diabetes o...
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PMID: 20308348
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Chronic Illness (6)1 2010
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We examined family member support and family-related barriers to self-care. We then identified patient characteristics associated with family support and family barriers and how each was associated with self-management adherence.
Cross-sectional survey of 439 patients with diabetes o...
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PMID: 20308348
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We used the theory of other orientation to examine 2 mechanisms based on the norm of reciprocity: the obligation to reciprocate the benefits already received from another ("paying you back") and the expected reciprocity that one's actions will stimulate future benefits from another ("paying me forwa...
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PMID: 20230069
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Out of the 54 patients, 3 found art therapy "not helpful" ("childish," "just a chat," "not interesting"). The other 51 patients described their art therapy experience as "helpful." From patients' statements, three main groups emerged: (1) art therapy was perceived as generally helpful (e.g., "relaxi...
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PMID: 20163759
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Best practice criteria are inadequately included in behaviour support plans with little difference between pre- and post-Act plans. CONCLUSION: The results of this study indicate that disability support staff are ill equipped to undertake the complex assessments, planning, and implementation associa...
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PMID: 20121661
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Psychology and Aging (25)1 2010
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We examined emotion regulation (ER) in intergenerational helping relationships involving 77 older mother-adult daughter dyads. Participants' ER strategies (passive, proactive) and ER goals (self-oriented, other oriented) were considered as predictors of their own and their partners' satisfaction wit...
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PMID: 20230127
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Self-determination theory posits that the degree to which a prosocial act is volitional or autonomous predicts its effect on well-being and that psychological need satisfaction mediates this relation. Four studies tested the impact of autonomous and controlled motivation for helping others on well-b...
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PMID: 20085397
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The authors propose that gender differences in negotiations reflect women's contextually contingent impression management strategies. They argue that the same behavior, bargaining assertively, is construed as congruent with female gender roles in some contexts yet incongruent in other contexts. Furt...
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PMID: 20085399
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We review answers from evolutionary theory, sociology, and economics. Sometimes in direct conflict with each other, these accounts of grandparental investment exist side-by-side, with little or no theoretical integration. They all account for some of the data, and none account for all of it. We call...
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PMID: 20377929
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Examination of the theory base for bereavement and loss is currently just beginning for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). Yet, as life spans increase for individuals with ID, these adults experience more and more loss and bereavement events. Practitioners, especially grief counselors, are...
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PMID: 20712142
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We have administered standard questionnaires to randomly selected patients to assess patient satisfaction when assessing Vision Center Services. We used the Chi-square ( P <0.05) to explore differences in satisfaction of patients with Vision Center services located in the large village (s) and small...
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PMID: 20689196
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Although some third-year residents reach the targeted rate of success quickly, we believe that close supervision is useful to control progress along the learning curve for individuals who need more help....
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PMID: 20196518
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In 1996 international declaration was created and it consider a violence as one of the main problems of public health. Report of World Health Organization explain problem of the violence by the ecological model. It helps in distinguish factors which influence on behavior and rises a risk to be a per...
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PMID: 20976956
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Journal of Social Psychology (150)1 2010
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We examined whether acculturative stress was associated with prosocial tendencies in a sample of 148 Mexican American college students (M age = 23.05 years; 99 women). Participants completed measures of acculturative stress, sympathy, and prosocial tendencies. The relations between acculturative str...
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PMID: 20196528
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NeuroRehabilitation (27)1 2010
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To describe and compare caregivers' and patients' helpfulness and goal attainment ratings of the Brain Injury Family Intervention (BIFI), and qualitatively evaluate their perceptions of most important things learned.
76 caregivers and 76 patients with acquired brain injury participated in the BIFI,...
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PMID: 20634598
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Revue de l'infirmiere ()157 2010
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BMC Psychiatry (10) 2010
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There are a number of actions which may be useful for members of the public when they encounter someone who has experienced a traumatic event, and it is possible that these actions may help prevent the development of some mental health problems in the future. Positive social support, a strong theme...
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PMID: 20565918
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BMC Psychiatry (10) 2010
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Mental Health First Aid training has positive effects on teachers' mental health knowledge, attitudes, confidence and some aspects of their behaviour. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ACTRN12608000561381....
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PMID: 20576158
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Plastic Surgical Nursing (30)1 2010
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Autologous reconstruction-building a "breast" from the patient's own tissues-poses multiple challenges. Find out how to help her overcome them.
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PMID: 20220500
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Perceptual and Motor Skills (109)3 2009
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To test the effect of women's hair color on the frequency of offering help, male (n = 1,508) and female (n = 892) French motorists were tested in a hitchhiking situation. Five 20- to 22- yr.-old female confederates wore a wig with blonde, brown, or black hair. Each confederate was instructed to stan...
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PMID: 20178293
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Paediatric nursing (21)10 2009
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Young people attracted to people of their own sex are at risk of bullying and discrimination. It is often difficult for them to find support. Either emotionally or in relation to their health needs. This article explores a model to aid nurses in understanding the process individuals go through befor...
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PMID: 20050445
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Journal of Social Psychology (149)6 2009
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This study examined variables belonging to the family environment that explain the sense of family coherence among husbands (n = 133) and wives (n = 133) in Israel. Specifically, the explanatory variables tested were spousal power relations (as expressed in equality in the division of household labo...
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PMID: 20099564
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Agreeableness is central to the 5-factor model conceptualization of dependency. However, 4 meta-analyses of the relationship of agreeableness with dependency have failed to identify a consistent relationship. It was the hypothesis of the current study that these findings might be due in part to an e...
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PMID: 19947788
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The implications of the findings are discussed in relation to clinical practice, staff recruitment, and training....
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PMID: 19860579
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American Psychologist (64)8 2009
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Prosocial behavior consists of behaviors regarded as beneficial to others, including helping, sharing, comforting, guiding, rescuing, and defending others. Although women and men are similar in engaging in extensive prosocial behavior, they are different in their emphasis on particular classes of th...
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PMID: 19899859
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This paper explored public willingness to act when exposed to cases of intimate partner violence against women, by analyzing the influence of perceived severity and personal responsibility on two types of responses: mediating and reporting to the police. Results (N = 419) yielded main effects of per...
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PMID: 19899665
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These results highlight the importance of circular models describing motivational interconnections between values and personal goals.
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PMID: 19785487
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This voluntary, anonymous questionnaire survey was performed to assess the willingness of Basic Life Support (BLS) participants to perform bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). A total of 55 dental students and 73 school teachers were assessed on their willingness to perform bystander CPR a...
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PMID: 20527268
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British Journal of Social Psychology (48)Pt 3 2009
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Crowd behaviour in emergencies has previously been explained in terms of either 'mass panic' or strength of pre-existing social bonds. The present paper reports results from a study comparing high- versus low-identification emergency mass emergency survivors to test the interlinked claims (1) that s...
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PMID: 18789185
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British Journal of Social Psychology (48)Pt 3 2009
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Three experiments (N=370) investigated the effects of social categorization on the experience of empathy. In Experiment 1, university students reported their empathy for, and intentions to help, a student who described a distressful experience. As predicted, participants reported stronger empathy an...
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PMID: 19000358
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Cultural impacts on health experiences and behaviours are profound in the area of reproductive health and family planning. Explored through interviews with family planning healthcare professionals, this paper evaluates their experiences in providing family planning and reproductive healthcare to immi...
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PMID: 19242836
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British Journal of Psychology (100)Pt 3 2009
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These results suggest that human infants are naturally altruistic, and as ontogeny proceeds and they must deal more independently with a wider range of social contexts, socialization and feedback from social interactions with others become important mediators of these initial altruistic tendencies....
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PMID: 19063815
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British Journal of Psychology (100)Pt 3 2009
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This article is a commentary on 'The roots of human altruism' (Warneken & Tomasello, 2009).
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PMID: 19450383
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British Journal of Psychology (100)Pt 3 2009
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I argue that selective pressures in human evolution have favoured sociability, which could lead to aggression or altruism, depending on context and the nature of the rearing environment. Any social behaviour shown in infancy may have multiple functions, at phylogenetic, ontogenetic and episodic leve...
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PMID: 19467174
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Psychological Reports (105)1 2009
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Thirteen therapists (8 women, 5 men; M age = 29.1 yr., SD = 6.3; M counseling experience 2.7 yr., SD = 6.3, range = 1 semester to 8 yr.) received training in the cognitive-experiential model of dream work through a didactic-experiential workshop, individual feedback, and practice. All participants b...
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PMID: 19810436
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Clinical instruction experience can vary significantly based on the needs of the organization and the individual characteristics of instructors and students. Clinical instructors may encounter difficulties in their relationships with students, such as personality conflicts, differences in style and...
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PMID: 19681530
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Prevention professionals should incorporate students, friends, and parents in interventions that provide knowledge and helping strategies for alcohol poisoning symptoms. In addition, prevention efforts regarding alcohol poisoning should focus on heavy drinkers, as they are most likely to be in situa...
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PMID: 19538920
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This was a cross-sectional study carried out on 462 pregnant women attending antenatal care in Ibadan, Nigeria. The study's aims were to assess the level of participation of Nigerian men in pregnancy and birth, the attitude of the women and likely targets for improved care delivery. Three hundred an...
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PMID: 19302728
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Effective academic advising is a dynamic process that facilitates student development, making it a significant investment in students and the academic institutions they attend. It is important to ask what constitutes good academic advising, beginning with an understanding of the nature of the adviso...
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PMID: 19634260
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Primary Dental Care (16)3 2009
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This paper reviews a range of tools that a mentor may use to facilitate the mentoring process. In particular, six 'Master Tools' are highlighted and discussed. Some tools represent mentor qualities and attitudes whereas others represent particular strategies, especially asking questions, which may b...
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PMID: 19566986
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The practising midwife (12)6 2009
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Nursing Management (40)6 2009
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On the basis of the assumption that Latino Americans use a simpático self-schema more than White Americans do, the authors predicted that the effects of this difference would be evident in the participants' self-concepts and social behavior. As predicted, Studies 1 and 2 revealed that Latino part...
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PMID: 19379033
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These findings indicate that training and support should be aimed at helping nursing staff, particularly unqualified staff working in inpatient settings where self-harm is frequent, feel more positive and less concerned about working with patients who self-harm. Such needs of unqualified nursing sta...
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PMID: 19393121
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As life expectancy for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) increases, these individuals will have greater need for competent and compassionate oral health care. Unfortunately, PLWHA face many significant barriers to receiving adequate oral health care, due in part to the fear of being stigmatized or...
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PMID: 19339430
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