Teen weight control behavior may reflect mothers' attitudes on weight
...ercent of girls and 3.7 percent of boys accurately perceived that their weight was important to their mother. E...he past year. "Although few adolescents accurately perceived that their weight was important to their mother, adolescent boys and adolescent girls who accurately...Feeling good is good enough for a man
...r the men, body image improvements were related to perceived changes in their bodies. For the women, body image improvements were related to perceived and real changes in their bodies. An illuminating side bar to the study is that all the participants...Nov/Dec 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...better satisfaction with being a physician, better perceived quality of the care they provide, greater ability to achieve professional goals, and lesser intention to leave the practice. Given the trend toward more physicians working as employees of large health care organizations, these findings have important...Teen daughters of parents with HIV have higher childbearing rate
... of emotional or psychiatric disturbances, and who perceived their family's financial status as poor or very poor. According to the authors, 585,000 to 750,000 children in the United States have a parent with HIV and almost half of these children are adolescents. Characteristics of adolescents of parents with...Parents' impressions of neighborhood safety linked to children's weight
...ikely to be overweight than those in neighborhoods perceived as safe, according to a study in the January issue...re divided into quartiles, with the first quartile perceived as the least safe and the fourth as safest. Their children's height and weight were measured in the...Study: Exercise helps speed wound healing in older adults
...esearchers determine how stressful the respondents perceived their lives to be. At the end of the study, the re...rcise helps wounds heal." There were no changes in perceived stress in either group but none of the adults in this study reported any significant distress in the...Antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy are the best treatment options for depression
...ntidepressants have tilted the balance of publicly perceived risk against them, but both their effectiveness and their ready availability make them the likely choice for most patients." In an accompanying editorial The Lancet comments: "Depression affects around one in six people in the USA at some time in the...Pay cuts lead to worker insomnia, but supervisor training helps
...lved what is known as "interactional justice" the perceived fairness of the treatment people receive from authority figures such as supervisors, Greenberg said. Greenberg trained the supervisors on such skills as how to treat others with politeness, dignity and respect, how to show emotional support, and how ...Study finds nerve damage in previously mysterious chronic pain syndrome
...a light touch or slight heat was more likely to be perceived as painful in the affected areas of CRPS-I patients than in the unaffected areas, also indicating abnormal neural function. "The fact that CRPS-I now has an identified cause takes it out of the realm of so-called 'psychosomatic illness.' One of the g...You don't say: Patient-doctor nonverbal communication says a lot
...ients who felt their physician was not empathetic, perceived their visit to be two minutes shortly than it actually was." This study and the Regenstrief Conference where it was presented developed from the Regenstrief Institute's focus on relationship-centered care. "The mutual influence of patients on physic...Memory problems at menopause: Nothing to forget about
...something going on. And perhaps knowing that their perceived problems with memory do not suggest early dementia might alleviate their concerns and actually improve their functioning it's one less thing to worry about."...JRRD special issue on hearing and hearing loss
...simple and complex signals. Some recent studies of perceived hearing disability are also reviewed. Research findings from this series of studies suggest that the older person's problems in processing rapid acoustic information and information with disruption in speech rhythms may be important to address in the...Diabetes can lead to gum disease in childhood; onset is younger than previously recognized
... and a co-author of the paper. "This was due to a perceived lack of need, so clearly it's important that physicians and dentists and their patients with diabetes learn that they need to focus extra attention on oral health." Oral health screenings are offered to all pediatric patients between the ages of 6 an...Study finds some people in pain unlikely to seek treatment
... such as poor previous experiences with pain care, perceived lack of effective treatments, and barriers to health care; lack of medical insurance, for example. The importance of pain management has gained increasing recognition in the last decade. In 1995, the American Pain Society declared pain to be the fift...Electroconvulsive therapy improves quality of life for at least six months
...commended that ECT be restricted in use because of perceived gaps in knowledge regarding it effects of health-related quality of life," McCall said. He noted that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in the United Kingdom recommended limits on ECT, pending more information, especially on the impact o...Great (taste) expectations: Study shows brain anticipates taste, shifts gears
... to experience would be less bitter, the taste was perceived as such, and the regions of the brain that code tastes were activated less. "When the subject sees the warning signal, portions of the brain activated by the misleading cue predict the decreased brain response to the awful taste," Nitschke says. What...Humans ignore motion and other cues in favor of a fictional stable world
...entation of the world--that is, the world as it is perceived to exist independent of head and eye movements....Policy changes in poultry industry could reduce worker injuries, report suggests
...mmitment to safety was moderate. But, when workers perceived the commitment to safety as low, there was an increased risk of respiratory symptoms and occupational illnesses or injury. "The study suggests that modifications in management practice and changes in how poultry processing jobs are designed and perfo...HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate
... to turn to substance use and sex work to fill the perceived void all contributing factors that can lead to increased vulnerability to HIV infection. Although homosexual/bisexual men continue to be the groups most affected by HIV/AIDS in the border region, needle sharing among injection drug users leads to ...Classic illusion sheds new light on the neural site of tactile perception
...ivered to the first and third points, but subjects perceived that the second point had also been stimulated by virtue of the illusions created by the timing of the pulses. Blankenburg et al. looked for brain regions that showed similar increases in neuronal activity during the real and illusory rabbit con...