Young teens see pregnancy as a way to enhance relationships
...y were unprepared to raise a child. Overall, those surveyed cited more disadvantages than advantages to teen pregnancy. However, Hispanic teens cited positive aspects of pregnancy in terms of how it enhanced connections with others, including the perception that a baby would bring them closer to their boyfrie...Parents of teens more likely than parents of younger children to store firearms unsafely
...es at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, surveyed 392 parents nationwide who had firearms in their homes in the spring of 2004. Respondents were asked about their attitudes and beliefs surrounding firearms, their ownership and storage practices and demographic information about themselves and other...Tailored HIV-prevention program effective for Latino youth
...xual health education messages. Participants were surveyed before and immediately after completing the intervention and again three, six and twelve months later. At the end of the study, participants in the HIV intervention group were significantly less likely to report having sex at all in the previous th......e of Child Health and The University of Liverpool, surveyed the weights of 50,000 three-year-olds from the Wirral (where BMI has been rising for 16 years) from 1988 to 2003. They found that mean BMI rose by 0.7 kg/m2 while mean height fell by 0.5cm. Over the same period the weight-height correlation rose fr...Diagnosis and referrals for kidney disease fall well short of need, Johns Hopkins study shows
...ould." In the study, the Hopkins group asked the surveyed physicians to evaluate the medical files of a simulated patient being treated by a primary-care doctor and suffering from progressive CKD. CKD is a growing epidemic, affecting an estimated 10 million Americans. The medical "record" contained clues t...Healthcare providers react more positively to men than women who reveal they're gay
...s from Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, surveyed 2,269 lesbian, gay and bisexual people to discover...he people who care for them. Participants were surveyed in 2004 having been recruited through mainstream and lesbian, gay and bisexual media and venues. 84 ...Study identifies best online learning approaches for cancer patients
... services were used. Additionally, women were also surveyed before the study began and four months after receiving the system to determine how certain patterns of use behavior contributed to improved learning outcomes. The analysis revealed that greater use of information services and interactive services bot......elphia, Phoenix, and Toronto, Ontario. Sheridan surveyed residents 65 and older in each of the four regions about their perception of heat vulnerability, their knowledge of options for dealing with the weather, and why they did or did not take action to avoid negative health outcomes during the heat emerge...What leads to obesity in rural communities?
...rson is obese, overweight or normal weight. Those surveyed also answered questions about access to recreation facilities and other localities, transportation and safety, aesthetics and food choices in their community. The study quantified how residents perceive their environment. Personal behaviors, such a...Link between income and happiness is mainly an illusion
...reatly exaggerated and mostly an illusion. People surveyed about their own happiness and that of others with ...riences. Their 2004 study using this method, which surveyed 909 employed women in Texas, provided evidence that higher income played a relatively small role in ...Oral conditions, dental caries worldwide
... caries. (Turkey) Even though the dental students surveyed were highly motivated, their oral health did not reach satisfactory levels. (United Arab Emirates). There is an inverse relationship between rural and urban locales with respect to decayed/missing/filled scores, with urban teen smokers accounting f...Smoking and obesity may increase the risk of erectile dysfunction
...e professor of epidemiology and nutrition at HSPH, surveyed 22,086 healthy subjects between the ages of 40 and 75 from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study who reported good or very good erectile function and no major chronic disease before 1986. Among the participants, 17.7 percent (3,905) reported new o...Abstinence messages not enough for HIV prevention in Zambia
...behaviors. Overall, nearly 50 percent of the women surveyed had not initiated sex. Of those who had, only one in four reported using a condom the first time they had sex. Overall, religious affiliation did not affect either the age of first sex or use of a condom during the first sexual event. However, women...Concentrated animal feeding operations near schools may pose asthma risk
... of asthma among kids in rural areas." Researchers surveyed the parents of kindergarten through fifth-grade students attending two Iowa elementary schools to compare the prevalence of asthma among students. The "study" school was located a half-mile from a CAFO in northeast Iowa; the "control" school was in e...Common asthma inhaler causing deaths, researchers assert
...ti-inflammatory drug by itself. Of the 19 studies surveyed in the meta-analysis, the largest -- the Salmeterol Multicenter Asthma Research Trial with 26,000 participants -- reported a fourfold increased risk for asthma-related deaths and a twofold increase in life-threatening asthma events in patients using ...Careers of elderly deserve better: ANU study
...ed no dementia training. Over 87 per cent of those surveyed reported the facility provided no ongoing training in mental illness and over 60 per cent reported they received no ongoing training in dementia care. "These units are where the most profoundly impaired elderly people live those who suffer from mode...Hispanic 3-year-olds more likely to be obese than black or white children
....S. hospitals between 1998 and 2000. Mothers were surveyed in the hospital after giving birth and again one and three years later, answering questions about their ethnic background, education level, income and access to food. The three-year survey was an in-home interview, during which researchers also meas...Women leaders call for global action on osteoporosis
...ed a huge deniability of personal risk most women surveyed had heard about osteoporosis but a staggering 85% did not feel that they would be affected. Osteoporosis is one of the world's most prevalent and debilitating chronic diseases, affecting one out of three women over 50 worldwide, more than breast canc...Sharing clinical trial results strongly favored by participants
...r so that patients understand them." Most of those surveyed initially received the results by mail or from the media, and 25 percent said they might have preferred having the findings offered before they decided whether or not they wanted to see them. Yet only four percent said they would have declined the re...Public needs to heighten awareness of dangers of elevated TVs that are larger, heavier
...ed to be the first in which researchers personally surveyed parents about the circumstances surrounding their child's injuries.The study calls for manufacturers to make available or include an inexpensive furniture securing device such as a strap, and to add labels warning of the potential danger of units top...