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In recent years there has been an increasing interest among researchers and practitioners to analyze what makes a firm attractive in the eyes of university students, and if individual differences such as personality traits have an impact on this general affect towards a particular or...
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PMID: 22059325
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The aim of the study was to describe how women with hirsutism experience their relationship with health care. Data were collected by tape-recorded individual interviews, which were analyzed by means of qualitative content analysis. The results showed that the relationship with health care, from the p...
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PMID: 21824045
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I and 20 (52%) were Germ cell tumor. Fifteen (39%) patients received initial chemotherapy after primary surgery. Three (8%) patients had recurrent. Thirty-eight (98%) patients retuned to a regular menstruation after treatment. Eight patients (20%) had a normal pregnancy. Of the respondents to the gi...
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PMID: 21894353
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We found that only ability EI was related to false belief understanding. Furthermore, regression analyses revealed that the understanding and managing branches of ability EI predicted unique variance in false belief understanding once controlling for age, language, and the other ability EI branches....
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PMID: 21848740
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We may all overcome an optimistic bias, but children under age 10 may struggle more to do so....
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PMID: 21848744
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We examined associations between both negative and positive affects and alcohol use in outpatient women diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD; n=74), a prototype of emotional dysregulation, as well as a psychiatric control group of women with current depressive disorder (major depressi...
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PMID: 21823761
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This review describes the fact that many elderly people enjoy an active sex life and examines the evidence against the general perception of an 'asexual' old age. It offers an overview of the evidence for healthcare professionals who had not previously considered the sexuality of the...
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PMID: 21778176
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Intranasal administration of dopamine (0.3; 3 and 30 microg/kg) on anxious behaviour of mice was studied using elevated plus-maze and open fields tests and the pinch-induced catalepsy on parallel bars test. Dopamine was introduced as nose drops or inhalation of nanoparticles of the c...
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PMID: 21961293
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Internet-delivered CBT has specific effects that cannot be attributed only to treatment credibility, expectancy of improvement, therapeutic alliance, or attention. Furthermore, a treatment based on exposure exercises specifically tailored for IBS may be a better treatment option than general stress a...
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PMID: 21537360
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In many areas of science, research questions imply the analysis of a set of coupled data blocks, with, for instance, each block being an experimental unit by variable matrix, and the variables being the same in all matrices. To obtain an overall picture of the mechanisms that play a role in the diffe...
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PMID: 21492133
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Pseudobulbar affect is characterized by uncontrollable, inappropriate laughing and/or crying that is either unrelated or out of proportion to the emotions felt by the patient and occurs in patients with neurological disorders, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis or traumat...
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PMID: 21476614
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Using actors in simulation provides opportunities for immersive, interactive, and reflective experiences to improve health care professionals' clinical expertise and practice. These experiences facilitate the development of enhanced critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills without...
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PMID: 21485978
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Relational health refers to interpersonal interactions that are growth-fostering or mutually empathic and empowering. Poor relational health increases an individual's risk for developing psychological distress. Alexithymia is the inability to recognize and express one's own internal emotional experie...
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PMID: 21486266
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We consider the limitations of these approaches and review more recent research that has focused on the heterogeneity of outcomes following aversive events. Using both traditional analytic tools and sophisticated latent trajectory modeling, this research has identified a set of prototypical outcome...
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PMID: 21091190
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Emotions can and do affect the way one perceives pain, both acute and chronic. Many factors unconsciously alter the intensity in which pain is perceived even though human beings all have the same anatomical structures to convey nociception to the central nervous system. Pain cannot be measured, only...
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PMID: 21661589
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This work examined the effect of sex on factor structure of a Chinese version of the 1989 COPE questionnaire with a sample of 617 Hong Kong adolescents (Mdn age = 14 yr.). Some scales had low internal consistency reliability for both sexes. Not all 15 scales could be identified as un...
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PMID: 21675566
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We introduce "GI distress" as a clinically relevant concept and explain how it may result from physical symptoms, cognitions, and emotions. The GI distress framework suggests that providers should divide GI physical symptoms into four categories: pain, gas/bloat, altered defecation, and foregut symp...
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PMID: 21378758
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It has been argued that emotion, pain and cognitive control are functionally segregated in distinct subdivisions of the cingulate cortex. However, recent observations encourage a fundamentally different view. Imaging studies demonstrate that negative affect, pain and cognitive contro...
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PMID: 21331082
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In this paper the formal and contentual structure of the outpatient art education programme for oncological patients is presented. The group intervention was comprised of 22 separate sessions. The course consisted of 3 phases. The first unit helped to foster mutual understanding and to learn various...
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PMID: 21448819
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Using data from a national survey of working Americans (Work, Stress, and Health Survey; N = 1,042), the authors examine the associations between boundary-spanning work demands and self-reported feelings of guilt and distress. The authors document gender differences in the emotional and mental health...
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PMID: 21362611
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Sociological research focuses on how poverty, family, and neighborhood dynamics shape children's problems, but knowledge about how school is related to children's mental health is underdeveloped, despite its central presence in children's lives. Using a social structure and personality-stress contagi...
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PMID: 21362609
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An experiment examined the effects of imagining contact with an illegal immigrant on attitudes towards illegal immigrants and subsequent effects of that attitude change on feelings about other groups (secondary transfer). Compared to a condition in which participants imagined negative contact with an...
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PMID: 21366619
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We determined a number of problems to which patients who underwent total laryngectomy often objected: the tracheostomy, being left without a voice and it being an aggressive, major surgery. Our objective was to assess the degree of anxiety and fears of the patient prior to total laryngectomy....
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PMID: 21353188
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Cardiovascular reactivity to stress is most commonly studied in the laboratory. Laboratory stressors may have limited ecological validity due to the many constraints, operating in controlled environments. This paper will focus on paradigms that involve the measurement of cardiovascul...
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PMID: 20561941
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To explore relevant between human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection and college students' neurobehaviors.
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PMID: 21789857
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Our objective is to determine the clinical severity of psoriasis and its impact on QoL in patients treated with phototherapy, traditional systemic therapy and biological therapy....
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PMID: 21317856
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We subjected 60 students (37 females, 23 males) to an impression-formation task, viewing portraits together with brief positive vs. negative behavior descriptions, followed by a 3-min cold pressor stress test or a non-stressful control procedure. The next day, novel and old portraits were paired wit...
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PMID: 21298099
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Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways in which many cells play a role, in particular mast cells, eosinophils, neutrophils, T-lymphocytes and epithelial cells. In susceptible individuals this inflammation causes recurrent episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightne...
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PMID: 21626767
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The literature about the surgical treatment of the urologic patient shows an increased attention to the outcome measures related to the quality of life and satisfaction of the treated subject. In this context, a crucial position must be attributed to the quality of the relationships among all the sub...
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PMID: 21452162
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In a general paediatric department, nurses may have to care for children suffering from severe life-threatening illnesses. When supporting the child and his/her parents, sometimes until the end of life, they must learn to manage their emotions and adopt a position which is both sympa...
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PMID: 21702202
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Although the concept of a cycle of violence presumes that the transmission of violence is expressed directly across generations, the role of the overall quality of the parent-child relationship may ultimately be more influential in later parenting behavior. This study investigated whether mothers' po...
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PMID: 21780538
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The study involved 20 teachers of medical institutions who gave consent to be examined for emotional burnout syndrome (EBS). Diagnosis of moderate EBS was confirmed by relevant clinical tests and analysis of pedagogical communication style in 30% of the participants. The pedagogical style of teachers...
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PMID: 21395095
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The quantitative determination a number of endogenous steroids and their metabolites in urine of healthy volunteers by means of gas chromatography - mass spectrometry was performed. The dynamic of steroid profile of healthy individuals as well as possible ranges of several endogenous steroid paramete...
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PMID: 21950090
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I present the findings of a study aimed at developing an in-depth understanding of how engagement in occupation influences young adults' ability to effectively manage diabetes and, conversely, how their diabetes self-management strategies shape their occupational participation. The qualitative inter...
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PMID: 21834462
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The current study explored predictors of burnout and engagement in 1st-year college students. The theory of conservation of resources was used to create a path model for burnout and engagement. Specifically, the theory suggests that perceptions of demands mediate the relationship between resources an...
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PMID: 21560805
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This study investigates the differences in physiological, cognitive, and emotional responses to existing emotional antialcohol abuse advertisements (fear vs. humor appeal) between high and low sensation seekers. A 2 (Message Type) x 2 (Sensation-Seeking Tendency) x 4 (Message Repetition) mixed-model...
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PMID: 21449245
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Theatre team leader Lisa Evans has written a manual detailing best practice and protocol when retrieving donated tissue and organs.
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PMID: 21563535
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Marte Meo is a low-intensity programme of counselling parents and other persons significantly involved with children which aims to foster parenting capacity and facilitate child development. The article describes a preliminary pilot study with the aim of identifying variables for the future evaluatio...
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PMID: 21751531
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I want to focus on this underrepresented domain and place it in the centre of the therapeutic-pedagogic interest. The OPD-2 is currently the most sophisticated raster of psychic structure and so I use it for my theoretic frame of reference. The specific criteria are described to work out the concret...
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PMID: 21425636
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Compared with controls, patients with OCD showed increased ventral striatal activation in the no-loss minus loss outcome contrast and a significant positive correlation between the ventral striatal activation and compulsion symptom severity. In addition, patients with OCD showed increased activat...
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PMID: 21175552
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We have reviewed the evidence for this model, which may have important implications for clinical practice.
The article is based on literature identified through a non-systematic search in PubMed.
Although limited research was carried out in this topic earlier, studies are currently emerging. Persons...
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PMID: 21139659
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The assessment of quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer is dependent on many variables.
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PMID: 21112569
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Ménière's disease (MD) is a chronic disorder of the inner ear affecting health-related quality of life in 85% of patients. Although different studies have evaluated the impact of MD on quality of life, sexual health has not been investigated in these patients. The aim of this study was to assess se...
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PMID: 21112573
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We assessed whether an additional patient visit after a FB would improve patient satisfaction.
The study patients were randomly assigned to a control and post-visit groups. The physicians who were scheduled to perform the FB visited the study patients. The control group had one visit before the FB a...
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PMID: 21179277
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Prospective studies on the clinical progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its relationship to caregiver burden are needed to improve illness management and use of resources.
This national, multicenter, observational study evaluated 1235 moderate to severe AD patients under routine care in Spai...
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PMID: 20849672
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Debriefing fosters clinical decision making, critical thinking, and clinical judgment.
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PMID: 21117547
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We investigated the effects of emotional cues and the fairness of a social partner on the ability to infer other peoples' intentions in a virtual social exchange. 30 BPD patients and 30 nonpatients were asked to play a multiround trust game with four virtual trustees. The trustees varied in regard t...
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PMID: 21129781
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