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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (152)41 2010
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There is a paucity of British and international literature on the psychological, sociological and cultural correlates of breast health in ethnic minority women.
This two centre qualitative study was part of a larger study that aimed to examine the influence of culture on the lived experience of Paki...
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PMID: 20584625
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Nursing Times (106)10 2010
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (59)1 2010
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Anorectal malformations cause life long conditions, making it necessary to find ways of communicating the disability in the social context. Incontinence, regular enemas, genital reconstruction, catheterization and scares are just some of the common difficulties affected people have to live with. Int...
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PMID: 20229841
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This area needs more culturally sensitive and systematic research. Current studies suggest that the key protective element may be the presence of welcome support rather than the specific ritual....
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PMID: 20047722
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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (151)37 2009
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Community Practitioner (82)7 2009
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Orvosi Hetilap (150)25 2009
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We validated, adapted and calibrated two psychometric scales measuring fear of death and attitudes towards death. According to our findings, both the Neimeyer and Moore Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale and the Lester Attitude Toward Death Scale proved valid and suitable for measuring fear of dea...
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PMID: 19497841
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During the past 50 years, a consensus has been forming around Edward Westermarck's idea that incest avoidance results from an aversion that develops when individuals are brought up in propinquity. The argument here presented counters this emerging consensus. Reexamining the case of the Israeli kibbu...
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PMID: 19852254
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In the author's reading, Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night (1934) is a sustained investigation of the incest taboo and of the psychological pressures that can lead to its collapse in the clinical situation. This novel allows the reader privileged entry into the "case" of a clinical boundary violation...
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PMID: 19507451
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A review of the literature on traditional medical practices and beliefs in Papua New Guinea (PNG) was conducted in order to provide context and background information for the Department of Health's National Policy on Traditional Medicine for Papua New Guinea. The literature review examined accounts...
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PMID: 21125990
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British Journal of Nursing (18)22 2009
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In a bid to ensure UK adults know the facts when it comes to sexual health, the Department of Health and the Department for Children, Schools and Families, together with the National Chlamydia Screening Programme have launched the 'Sex. Worth Talking About' campaign. Jason Warriner and Lisa Power ex...
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PMID: 20081688
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EMBO Reports (9)10 2008
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Black women bear a disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS in North America. The purpose of this investigation was to explore Black Canadian women's perspectives on HIV risk and prevention. Four 90-minute focus groups (n=26) and six key informant interviews were conducted in Toronto with Black women of...
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PMID: 18677073
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We used published methodology to interpret the diversity of patients' verbal communications to the female interviewer.Results suggest that patients wish to find a relationship based on sympathy, empathy and trust. If incontinence is addressed, it is by doctors, not patients. Statements by patients s...
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PMID: 18695975
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Historia, Ciencias, Saude Manguinhos (15 Suppl) 2008
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The article identifies and studies male sexuality and affectivity as forbidden and imprisoned in Brazilian asylums in the first decades of the Republic. By analyzing psychiatric records from that era, it explores the notion that sexual and affective behavior had little to do with the construction of...
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PMID: 19397035
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Swearing is a subject largely ignored in academic circles but impossible to ignore in the workplace. Nurses encounter swearing from patients and their carers, staff and managers and use swearwords in communication with each other. Language is the major tool of the mental health nurse and swearing an...
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PMID: 18460082
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Patient education focused on the technical aspects of vaginal dilation with minimal content on psychosocial 6% (n=2) or sexual health components 44% (n=14). It was evident from the information leaflets reviewed and questionnaire responses that there was duplication of verbal and written information...
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PMID: 18339512
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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (150 Spec No 1) 2008
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The core category to emerge from the data was 'veiling sexualities'. This refers to participants' accounts of how they responded to the sexuality dimension of clients' lives. Participants' main concerns about sexuality were related to feelings of personal and professional vulnerability, due to a lac...
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PMID: 18426455
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Suicide related experiences were more often reported from the wider social network (relative, friends, acquaintances) than from family members. There is a significant accumulation of suicide related experiences when a related event was reported in the close family. The level of suicide related attit...
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PMID: 18157515
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Nursing Inquiry (15)1 2008
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We argue that the handover ritual contained certain prohibitions, yet allowed some expression of the prohibited knowledge in a disguised way. The prohibition concerned how the patient affected the nurse, that is, moved the nurse to love and hate the patient. We argue that this prohibition is express...
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PMID: 18271789
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The postal survey revealed only minor differences between GPs and specialists, both groups being equally in favour of a timely disclosure. For example, 70% of the GPs and 77% of the specialists strongly agreed that "patients with dementia should be informed early because of the possibility to plan t...
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PMID: 18065188
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People remember emotional and taboo words better than neutral words. It is well known that words that are processed at a deep (i.e., semantic) level are recalled better than words processed at a shallow (i.e., purely visual) level. To determine how depth of processing influences recall of emotional...
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PMID: 18437803
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Transcultural nursing is an essential aspect of healthcare today. The ever-increasing multicultural population in the United States poses a significant challenge to nurses providing individualized and holistic care to their patients. This requires nurses to recognize and appreciate cultural differen...
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PMID: 19172978
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Being diagnosed with a life-limiting condition is a traumatic event. The journey to the moment of death is usually only done once--so it is a time of fears and uncertainty. Sexuality is particularly vulnerable at this time. It may be difficult for both patient and partner to deal with the changes in...
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PMID: 18567674
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online (17 Suppl 3) 2008
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Incest is a taboo and a neglected social problem. Especially in the adolescent population, which is a very sensitive period of development, it becomes harder for the patients to share their secret with either legal or health authorities. Sometimes pregnancy becomes the only vehicle to uncover this s...
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PMID: 18983738
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Taboos surrounding the end of life and death slowly diminish. People talk more and more about when and how they want or do not want to die, and of what will become of their body after their passing. General practitioners usually accompany their patients in illness and health, but also when death com...
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PMID: 18561835
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Patient Education and Counseling (69)1-3 2007
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"Transcending unspoken boundaries and taboos, a prerequisite for learning" was the essence of the entire material and was identified from two categories: "A didactic design facilitates the transition to examiner" and "Interactive support enables creative learning of interpersonal and palpation skill...
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PMID: 17714908
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In recent years, investigators have indicated that the psychotherapy process is of considerable importance in the context of interracial psychotherapy. Despite the interest in the area, minimal research has examined how racial difference impacts the psychotherapy process. This study examines the liv...
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PMID: 17535548
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We illustrate how the continued existence of unique forest habitats in the Androy region is directly dependent on informal institutions, taboos, regulating human behavior. Qualitative interviews to map and analyze the social mechanisms underlying forest protection have been combined with vegetation...
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PMID: 18240685
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Memory & Cognition (35)8 2007
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We compared taboo, nonthreatening negative-affect, and neutral words across three experiments. As compared with neutral words, taboo words led to longer color-naming times and better memory in both within- and between-subjects designs. Color naming of negative-emotion nontaboo words was slower than...
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PMID: 18265607
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The author of this study aims to explore people's perceptions of the cause of illnesses in the Democratic Republic of Congo using qualitative methods, namely case studies and focus group discussions, to gather data from participants. He identifies seven main categories of causes of illnesses and des...
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PMID: 17968044
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A total of 131 cases and 262 controls were included. The prevalence of malnutrition was higher in cases than in controls (22.1% vs. 9.2%, p = 0.0006). Social factors were significantly different between cases and controls. Feeding difficulties were more frequent and health status was worse in cases....
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PMID: 17565592
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Journal of Clinical Nursing (16)10 2007
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The women's experiences of living with UI are presented in terms of two interlaced themes of being in a vulnerable situation and striving for adjustment. Being in a vulnerable situation means that the women had no control over UI and experienced powerlessness. The sub-themes in this case were living...
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PMID: 17880483
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Literature suggests that communication is a protective factor against high-risk sexual behavior. This study assessed the impact of a fourth-grade communication-centered life skills program on attitudes, norms, self-efficacy, behaviors, and intentions toward communication about difficult subjects. Pa...
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PMID: 17967111
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Luo women are believed to acquire contagious cultural impurity after the death of their husbands that is perceived as dangerous to other people. To neutralise this impure state, a sexual cleansing rite is observed. In the indigenous setting, the ritual was observed by a brother-in-la...
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PMID: 18071612
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Taiwan-born mothers' perceptions of sexual health affect their Taiwanese American girls' sexual perceptions. Taiwanese American girls grow up balancing two different cultural influences (Taiwanese and American) while living in the majority society. The process of balancing two different cultures is...
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PMID: 17641111
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Extended durations of postpartum non-susceptibility (PPNS) comprising lactational amenorrhoea and associated taboos on sex have been a central component of traditional reproductive regimes in sub-Saharan Africa. In situations of rising contraceptive prevalence this paper draws on data from the Demog...
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PMID: 16959060
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Psychiatry Research (151)3 2007
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The purpose of this report was to improve upon earlier factor analyses of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptom categories by minimizing the heterogeneity in the aggressive obsessions category. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted on data from 293 adults with primary OCD. The resulting...
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PMID: 17368563
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British Journal of Social Psychology (46)Pt 2 2007
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We postulate that there are two representations that serve to organize these relationships between human beings and animals: a domestic and a wild one. If the domestic animal is an index of human culture, the wild animal is an index of nature which man considers himself to share with the animal. Wit...
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PMID: 17565782
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The purpose of the study was to explore gender differences in knowledge and attitudes towards menstruation among Taiwanese adolescents. This study was a secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional comparison study conducted in Taiwan. A total of 287 female and 269 male students at a junior high sch...
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PMID: 17470187
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We report a series of experiments carried out with Palestinian and Israeli participants showing that violent opposition to compromise over issues considered sacred is (i) increased by offering material incentives to compromise but (ii) decreased when the adversary makes symbolic compromises over the...
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PMID: 17460042
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Public health studies advocate the education of women, especially mothers, stating that educated mothers are highly likely to pass on their education to their children, as well as enforce in their homes healthy practices thereby protecting entire families from disease. Whereas this is usually true i...
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PMID: 17258368
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Should face transplants be undertaken? This article examines the ethical problems involved from the perspective of the recipient, looking particularly at the question of identity, the donor and the donor's family, and the disfigured community and society more generally. Concern is expressed that ful...
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PMID: 17264192
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Gastroenterology Nursing (30)4 2007
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Flatus problems are not uncommon among gastroenterological clients and those in other care settings. Yet what clients and nurses do productively about those problems in regard to their actions and interactions and why they do so has not previously been the focus of research. Holistic health manageme...
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PMID: 17724401
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This article explores shame issues for Latino children who have been sexually abused and their families. Latino cultural concerns around shame that are associated with sexual abuse include: attributions for the abuse, fatalism, virginity, sexual taboos, predictions of a shameful future, revictimizat...
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PMID: 17255077
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The topic under study permeates, as an ideology, the women's lives. The myths and taboos are related to health/disease: postpartum hygiene; protection of the newborn's integrity; menses; alternatives for a solution of health problems; and gender issues, the conducts the women follow to avoid becomin...
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PMID: 17477166
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Krankenpflege. Soins infirmiers (100)12 2007
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