Innovations in the care of women during pregnancy and labor
...sions that sometimes arise when laboring women are perceived by nursing staff as trying to control professional practices in labor and delivery units. In Birth Plans: The Good, The Bad and The Future, Judith Lothian discusses the genesis of birth plans, once thought to improve the birthing experience, but ar...Mothers often have inaccurate perceptions of their children's body weight, study shows
... of overweight children was higher among women who perceived their children had good or excellent health status...dren was significantly less likely among women who perceived their children had fair or poor health status and whose weight was perceived as too low, according t...Perfectionist fathers can reinforce tendencies
...al body images. "Our analysis also suggested that perceived loss of personal control might lead to negative eating patterns," say the researchers. "If an individual feels out of control of his or her life, focusing on food intake may be one of the few arenas where he or she can assert personal control. The mo...Multiracial youth more likely to engage in violent behavior, substance abuse
...gton and the University of Chicago also found that perceived racial discrimination in school and in home neighborhoods puts adolescents at risk for these problems. However, the study suggests that a strong, positive ethnic identity can shield some multiracial youth from behavior problems. The study was publis...Neighborhood safety may play role in obesity
...search and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed perceived neighborhood safety and obesity in women with youn...with preschool children and found that mothers who perceived their neighborhoods to be safer had a lower body mass index (BMI) and were less likely to be obese, ...New research reveals Australians too busy for lunch
...e in their area. Nor were they worried about being perceived as slacking off at work if they take time out. One in five men who don't lunch (21%) think skipping lunch helps them lose weight compared to only 13% of women. Of the one in ten people who rarely eat lunch, more than half (55%) don't think it's impor...Results with newer bladeless LASIK equivalent to standard microkeratome LASIK
...first three months after surgery, yet the patients perceived no difference in vision after three months between their eyes treated with bladeless or microkeratome LASIK. Backscatter is haziness in the cornea that is usually invisible to the naked eye and is identified through testing in a physician's office. C...Social mealtimes boost wellbeing of nursing home residents
...high levels of loneliness and depression and a low perceived quality of life. Mealtimes in nursing homes provide an opportunity to integrate physical care with measures to improve quality of life. But in most nursing homes, meals are individually served on trays in a non-stimulating social environment. Researc...Lobular breast cancer can be managed as ductal cancer
...cal therapy, such as mastectomy. Therefore, ILC is perceived to be difficult to treat compared to IDC, though previous studies have suggested no significant difference in BCT success rates. To reconcile the concern regarding the use of BCT, due to the observation of more extensive disease on MRI in ILC patien...Young men with prostate cancer benefit from radiation therapy
... in prostate cancer, with younger age at diagnosis perceived to be associated with more aggressive disease and poorer prognosis. Consequently, physicians tend to recommend more aggressive treatments, such as radical prostatectomy, to younger patients, even those with local, non-metastatic disease. Older patien...Women attracted to men when they see interest in children refected in their faces
...h men had high on testosterone levels because they perceived the men as looking masculine. Although women said they were attracted to the men who tested high for testosterone, an important factor in their attraction to men for a long-term relationship was their perception of a man's affinity for children, even...Brain study yields insight into machinery of prejudice
...e active when people thought about those whom they perceived as either like or different from them. Other researchers had implicated the mPFC as central to making inferences about other's mental states. And there had been hints in other studies that one mPFC subregion--the ventral region--seemed to be more eng...How to cut energy waste in China, India, Brazil said crucial to forestalling climate change
...ized projects that inhibit implementation; High perceived risk by decision makers; and A lack of combined technical and financial skills at finance institutions, preventing accurate appraisal and structuring of potential efficiency projects. Energy saved: cheapest, easiest to produce "Cutting energy...Race and income converge to shape women's experiences with advanced breast cancer
...nced breast cancer." The study looked at how women perceived barriers to treatment and to symptom management by evaluating the experiences of 57 women with metastatic breast cancer. Based on self-reporting, women were categorized into four groups: eight low-income African-American women, eight high-income Afri...Unwanted sex appears common in some teen relationships
...ng partners who had a baby together, when a female perceived less sexual control with a partner, when condoms were not frequently used and when alcohol or marijuana were used by either partner. "The data cannot be used to assess causal associations of unwanted sex; rather, they point to the complex interperso...Telephone counseling improves lung transplant quality of life
...depression, and increased feelings of vitality and perceived social support," Blumenthal said. "Waiting for a transplant can be an extremely stressful time for patients. They are anxiously awaiting the call that an organ is available and worrying that they may not live long enough to undergo a transplant." The...Stevens Institute of Technology Roundtable
...the healthcare industry, 46 percent of respondents perceived the gap as widening, while only 25 percent of executives in the financial and IT industries viewed it so. Information security executives ranked current employees (59 percent) as the greatest threat to their organizations' security, followed by termi...Womens skin tone influences perception of beauty, health, age, sociobiologists find
... for mate selection and attractiveness, as well as perceived age," says lead researcher Dr. Karl Grammer, Found... - in study subject's skin and correlate them with perceived attractiveness. A non-invasive imaging technology called the SIAscope originally developed for earl...Challenge is in the eye of the beholder: A heavy burden can slant our world
...ance to the ground appears further when there is a perceived risk of injury. The author attributes this percept...f a hill steep hill, standing on a skateboard. The perceived risk of bodily injury led the participants standing on skateboards to estimate the slope of the hill...Studies of married couples, soccer and hockey teams focus on brain's response to stress
...e personality traits and document how participants perceived the quality and social support of their relationships. The preliminary analyses suggest that cortisol levels, which normally are elevated under stressful situations, were significantly lower in the oxytocin-treated couples than in the control group...