Personal comments by physicians distract from patient needs
... example, Beckman said. In subsequent visits, they asked about my mother. That was great until her health began to decline then I had to tell them she was not well. That frightened them. If I couldnt help my own mother, how could I help them" My disclosure did not work as well as I had hoped. Patients wa...Shoulder tapping -- Young males are most willing to purchase alcohol for underage youth
...y did not have their identification with them, and asked the adults to purchase a six-pack of beer for them. During wave one, requesters conducted 102 attempts, with the requester approaching the first adult entering the store alone. During wave two, requesters conducted 102 attempts, approaching the fir...New nutritional research: College students face obesity, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome
...logy Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., initially asked students to engage in a variety of health-indicator screenings like blood pressure and cholesterol to bring the class alive with interactivity. They soon realized, however, that the size of the class (525 students per semester enroll in the course; 4...Poor sleep hygiene in children associated with behavioral problems
...ent an overnight polysomnography, and parents were asked to complete the Children's Sleep Hygiene Scale (CSHS) and the Conners' Parent Rating Scales-Revised (CPRS-R). The results showed strong negative correlations between the CSHS overall sleep hygiene score and CPRS-R total externalizing behaviors. Th...Report calls for new directions, innovative approaches in testing chemicals for toxicity to humans
...icultural, commercial, and industrial chemicals -- asked the Research Council to develop a new approach and strategy for toxicity testing. The report recommends an approach that would take advantage of rapidly evolving scientific understanding of how genes, proteins, and small molecules interact to maint...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
... entering a federally funded hospital or clinic be asked whether they have a DPAHC or a document called an advance directive. Medical personnel will also sometimes discuss the issue with patients; however, they tend to employ abstract arguments or ask patients to imagine their future state of health, says ...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...ehaviors and physical activity. Students were also asked how many times they had attempted suicide, if they had experienced dating violence and if they had been sexually assaulted in the past 12 months. Females made up 51 percent of the students and those who responded were primarily not white (40.1 per...Bias in statin trials, failure to control malaria, and more
...ure Burkina Fasos national malaria control program asked the World Bank to finance an alternative treatment to chloroquine: a combination of pyrimethamine/sulfadoxine and amodiaquine, which is cheaper than ACT. But the World Bank refused. This request was rejected, say Kouyat and colleagues, with the arg...Female teen steroid use not limited to athletes
...e girls from around the country. The questionnaire asked about sports participation, anabolic steroid and drug use, and other illegal or unhealthy behaviors. Approximately 5 percent of participants reported prior or ongoing anabolic steroid use. In addition to greater substance use, young female steroid...E/Tablet technology may provide benefits to patients, researchers
...arch. "When you go to the doctor's office you're asked to fill out a medical history form each and every time, and some of that information -- like gender and what your grandma died of -- never changes," said Amy Abernethy, M.D., an oncologist and lead investigator on the study. "E/Tablets allow patient ...Decision aid tool could cut the number of Caesarean sections by 4000 a year
...n and emergency caesarean section. They were then asked to consider the value they attached to each possible outcome using a ratings system. From that the programme produced a recommended preferred option which the woman could print out and discuss with her midwife. Dr Montgomery and his colleagues fou...More rib fractures, but better survival rates
...25 pounds of force. The people in the study were asked to push on a bathroom scale as though they were performing CPR, and their force was recorded by the scale. "All we are trying to establish is how hard people are able to push in a simulated CPR situation," Geddes said. "You can't tell from the data h...JRRD releases single-topic issue on pain and pain management
..., and a third shows pictures of people in pain. We asked nursing home residents to rate their pain using all three scales. We wanted to know how the pain reported on one scale translated onto another scale. The 42,000 veterans who live in nursing homes and their families will benefit from this study. Co......rly marker of hardening of the arteries. They also asked participants to rate their quality of life. This treatment did not cause any side-effects. Dr Weaver says, "The results of our study show that treatment of people with this mild form of underactive thyroid condition leads to significant improvem...Dentists need more training in oral cancer detection
... risk assessment and counseling. For example, when asked which of several risk factors is least important, the most frequent answer was age -- which is actually an important factor, LeHew said. "Some dentists incorrectly identified tobacco or alcohol as the least important risk factor, when in fact they ...Personality changes may help detect form of dementia
...erviews, participants or their family members were asked about changes in personality, interests and drives. People with dementia with Lewy bodies were two times more likely to have passive personality traits at the time of the first evaluation than people with Alzheimer's disease. By the time of death, ...Choice is a key element in success for smokers who want to quit
...lliams said patients in the cessation program were asked about their willingness to and confidence in quitting, their history with tobacco, general medical history, and even their life aspirations. Smokers in the program were also encouraged to take part in developing a personalized quit plan by providing ...WFU to host international conference of physicists
...forts of Wake Forest people in this field, we were asked to host the conference," Williams explains. "We are pleased to have the opportunity to welcome top researchers from more than 25 nations to our campus for this prestigious gathering." ...Psychological bullying hits just as hard
..., a hostile school environment. Respondents were asked about their direct experience of being victims of ...ing"), and overt aggression. Respondents were also asked about their experience of witnessing both relational and overt aggression. Most of the research to...African-Americans perceive people with extreme health problems as less productive and valuable
...terviewers. During the interview, respondents were asked to place values on various states of health, such ...some problem, or extreme problem, and subjects are asked to check the level most descriptive of their current level of function or experience on each dimensi...