How the stories of ordinary people could give them more say over planning decisions
...e. And this can only be captured through sensitive interviewing at the location concerned. This sort of approach is also the best way to investigate the culture of a particular place and the way risks are interpreted locally, he says. Professor Pidgeon added: "A key aim of our project is to offer some insight int...Study links racial and ethnic gap in youth violence to social factors
...es by almost 3,000 males and females ages 8 to 25, interviewing these individuals up to three times from 1995 to 2002. In addition, the study analyzed data from police records, the U.S. Census, and a separate survey of more than 8,000 Chicago residents who were asked about the characteristics of their neighborhoo...Drinking and spousal abuse by male US Army soldiers
...t studies take more of a cross sectional approach, interviewing people who have already been accused of spousal abuse, and then looking at their drinking. Self reports of alcohol consumption at the time of the abuse event are likely unreliable; it's an emotional time, and some people may over or under report the...Employment reduces chronic drug use, UH professors find
... and hours during this first year were measured by interviewing participants quarterly, with employment among drug-users rising to approximately 39 percent. "We attribute this sharp increase in employment to the outreach and training of the local workforce board," Montoya said. "We have one of the best w...'Going through the motions' to better treat dementia
... Leibovici's team will compare current traditional interviewing methods to the results from the high-tech devices. For one week each month during the three-year study, patients will have their movements monitored inside their home as they go about their daily routines; they and their caregivers will also answer q...Examining motivational interviewing in drug abuse therapy
...the usefulness of a single session of motivational interviewing in drug abuse treatment showed that the single ses...ange before the individual was ready. Motivational interviewing is designed to strengthen a person's commitment to changing their behavior by focusing on such facto...The future of nursing; overcoming obstacles today for a better tomorrow
...in. Delegation in-services for RNs and behavioral interviewing skills workshops for clinical managers were established, as well as a review of job descriptions and department care delivery model philosophy. Fox Chase is not the only institution that underestimated the difficulty of implementing CNA positions in ...NHS trusts putting safety of pregnant doctors at risk
... ward, while another was left with no back up when interviewing a disturbed patient. With more women entering the medical profession, pregnant doctors will become more common, says the author. Guidelines that address the health and safety of pregnant workers are being inconsistently applied across the health pro...Kids exposed to violence have more behavioral problems
...ients from an urban pediatric primary care clinic, interviewing them and their mothers from January 1997 to February 1998. Children were asked if they had been victims of violence, had witnessed it directly or had heard reports of violence from other people or through the media. Purugganan used two questionnai...'Survival sex' and substance abuse may hinder HIV prevention efforts
...e wears off. "We need to develop some motivational interviewing skills and techniques which include the patient in the process to set achievable goals," Dr. McGowan said. "Rather than telling a patient to stop using drugs, you would ask, 'Do you think you can cut back on your drug use?'" Finally, the counseling ...New CDC-funded HIV program at UNC integrates treatment with prevention
...on rooms, the clinic has three rooms dedicated for interviewing or counseling. In addition, via a program funded by the U.S. DHHS's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a study is under way to determine if on-site addiction counseling and treatment have an impact on HIV interventions. "Treat...Looking at pesticide labels through multi-colored glasses
...dless of ethnicity. Smith-Jackson and Wogalter are interviewing Latino and European-American farm workers on the use of pesticides and precautionary behavior when working on farms. The farmers being interviewed are working at peanut and fruit farms in Giles County, Va., Wake County, N.C., and Orange County, N.C....Mexican-American stroke study shows differences
... survivors. The researchers obtained their data by interviewing 323 Mexican Americans and 340 non-Hispanic whites who had had strokes in Corpus Christi during the years 2000 and 2001. The effort was part of the BASIC study's overall approach of passive and active stroke surveillance in hospitals and nursing home...World-first study shows solo mothers choose donor insemination because they lack a partner
... this stage," she said. In the world's first study interviewing solo DI mothers, Dr Murray and her team compared 22 solo DI mothers with 36 married DI mothers with a child aged less than one year. As well as investigating the well-being of mothers and children, the team also wanted to find out why solo DI mother...Rush receives Magnet Award for excellence in nursing
...ves that Magnet status will impress nurses who are interviewing for jobs and have the luxury of choosing where to ...of recommended criteria for student nurses who are interviewing for their first jobs and the questions are similar to those addressed in the Magnet application, so ...New patient survey puts a human face on overcoming depression
...elves as not having achieved such remission. All interviewing occurred between Feb. 2 and 11, 2002, with adults selected on a national basis from lists of households where it was reported that a household member experienced depression between 12 and 48 months prior to the survey. Founded in 1946, RMR is one of...Study shows alcohol boosts death risk for boat passengers as well as operators
...l examiner data, investigators spent three summers interviewing and obtaining breath measurements from boaters across North Carolina and Maryland as part of their research. Before we did the study, we had a fairly good idea about the risk curve for drinking drivers on the road, but we had no idea about the risk f...Study discovers a way to keep infants safe from second-hand smoke
...tudy group received a 30-to 45-minute motivational interviewing session at their home with a health educator, and ... but received no personal counseling. Motivational interviewing is a style of counseling that emphasizes personal responsibility for decisions and changes, and help...Study Shows That Pediatricians Play Crucial Role In Violence Prevention
...m. The qualitative study was conducted by interviewing pediatricians,community leaders, and parents living or working in Los Angeles, Calif.Participants were asked if they felt clinicians had a role in violence primaryprevention, which was defined as preventing violent injury in children youngerthan 18 y......wish to discuss what has happened to them. Whilst interviewing the men, the researchers also found that over one in twenty (5.4 per cent) had been subjected to non-consensual sexual experiences as children and that this in turn was a significant predictor of a similar experience in adulthood. King et al comment...