Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
...dmitted to an improvement in many aspects of their marital relationship and describe an increased closeness with their partner. The five men who withdrew from the course did so for a variety of reasons: two had domestic/childminding problems, the female partner of one died, one had an irretrievable breakdown...Sexual revolution and teenagers is explored in ASAs magazine, Contexts
...and not merely as a means for reproduction or even marital intimacy. Teenagers living in this culture are struggling to create new norms that work for them in the 21st century....Childhood sexual abuse proves top predictor for HIV infection in women
...IV-negative partner of similar ethnicity, age, and marital and socioeconomic status. Over two years, the researchers interviewed each woman in person every six months about her sexual behavior and disease management and tested her for new sexually transmitted diseases. Of the total women surveyed, UCLA resea...Non-traditional roles may boost risk of heart disease and death
...ed included income, education, number of children, marital status, employment and housewife/husband status, work changes, promotions, bringing work home, housework strain and achieving desired income. They found that men who considered themselves househusbands most of their adult years had an 82 percent hi...Substance abuse increases in New York City in aftermath of September 11th
...or ethnic groups. Demographic factors such as age, marital status, and income seemed to play a more critical ..., household income (less than $20,000 a year), and marital status (divorced, separated, or widowed)....Studies often ignore domestic violence committed by women
...therwise. For example, one study found that 86% of marital aggression was reported as reciprocal between husbands and wives. Another found that female-to-male violence was reported to be higher than male-to-female. Such reporting bias ignores many thousands of male victims and alienates those who demand a mo...Married couples at risk of same disease
...ttingham set out to determine whether people whose marital partners suffered with a certain condition such as depression, high blood pressure or asthma were at increased risk of suffering from the same disease. Over 8,000 married couples aged between 30 and 74 years of age took part in the study. After adjus...UW-Madison leads $26 million study on aging
...estions will focus on personal background, such as marital status, ethnicity, education and income; social factors, such as support networks, family ties and social participation; psychological factors, such as personality, coping strategies and goal orientations; and health behaviors, such as substance abus...New study estimates 85 newborn killed or left to die per year by parents, usually their mother
...e women were married. Half were unmarried, and the marital status of the remainder was unknown. "Another surprise was that 35 percent of the women or girls identified had other children, and another was that almost a quarter were known to have received at least some prenatal care," she said. "Their average a...Racial differences in pain treatment found
...the team found that even after correcting for age, marital status, education level and pain duration, blacks had greater levels of pain, depression, disability and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder than whites. All four measures of pain and its effects on mental and physical functioning were much h...Physicians' emotional responses to patients' deaths increase with care length, says Pitt
... hospitals. They examined how training level, sex, marital status and duration of care predicted outcomes such as doctors' experiences, emotional reactions and use of coping resources. As is usually the case in a teaching hospital, most physicians (82 percent) had not known the patient before the final hospi...Anxiety hits women harder after heart attack
...onnected to geography, to demographic factors like marital status and education or to medical condition, according to a report published in the July issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. Anxiety -- the emotional response to a threat -- may be an expected and common psychological reaction to a heart attack, but it...Childhood leukemia survivors not receiving radiation have same life expectancy as general population
...t of their treatment have survival, employment and marital rates comparable to those of the general populatio...general population. In addition, females had lower marital rates, according to Ching-Hon Pui, M.D., director of the Leukemia/Lymphoma division at St. Jude. Pui...Educational attainment may predict drinking outcomes following alcohol treatment
...a difference in our findings. Things like gender, marital status, income levels, other psychiatric illnesses they might have had, severity of the drinking problem, age of onset of the drinking problem, family history, and parental income levels. However, despite searching for factors that might affect our ...The risk of intimate partner violence varies by ethnicity
...d per week in average standard drinks, approval of marital aggression, and male-to-female and female-to-male partner violence at baseline. "We found higher rates of partner violence in ethnic minority groups," said Craig A. Field, a professor at The University of Texas Houston School of Public Health, Dallas...New study suggests menopause not linked to memory decline
...sychosocial predictors such as depression, stress, marital status, work, activity level, smoking status, overall health and obesity. SWAN is an NIA-sponsored study of the natural history of the menopausal transition in a cohort of about 3,300 women from five ethnic groups who are assessed annually....Gay, lesbian couples can teach heterosexuals how to improve relationships
... Bloomington, Ind. It was matched in terms of age, marital satisfaction, education and income to the homosexual couples and consisted of 20 happy and 20 unhappy couples. The researchers also collected data for 12 years on the relationships of the homosexual couples. By then eight couples (20 percent) one ...Common drug, given promptly, reduces incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, small study finds
... were 21 to 30 years old), gender, employment, and marital status, degree of exposure, physical injury, or level of terror at the time of the assault or accident. All were medically screened, were free of cardiovascular complications from their exposure, and otherwise in good physical health. No one was enro...Childhood obesity and behavior problems linked
...rs relating to the obesity status, smoking habits, marital status, education and depression score of a child's mother, "After all of these were accounted for, we saw a clear independent association," says Lumeng. "Children with behavioral problems were three times as likely to be overweight at the same time......heir social relationships. The questions included marital status, the number of close friends and family members, and the extent of religious and social club participation. In 1988, the potential importance of inflammatory markers in heart disease had not been fully recognized, nor did today's highly sensi...