Assertiveness

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Increasing patient participation in reproductive health consultations: an evaluation of "Smart Patient" coaching in Indonesia.

Paternalistic models of health care, social distance between patients and providers, and cultural norms discourage patients from playing an active role in health consultations. This study tested whether individual coaching can give family planning ...
Young Mi Kim, Fitri Putjuk, Endang Basuki, Adrienne Kols (Patient Educ Couns, 200306)
increasing-patient-participation-reproductive-health-consultations.asp

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Sexual harassment of nurses and nursing students.

BACKGROUND: Nursing has dealt with sexual harassment long before the term was coined during the 1970s. The current study investigated sexual harassment of nurses and nursing students in Israel following new legislation against sexual harassment in the ...
Gila Bronner, Chava Peretz, Mally Ehrenfeld (J Adv Nurs, 200306)
sexual-harassment-nurses-nursing-students.asp

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Self-help for bulimia nervosa: a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the effectiveness of unguided self-help as a first step in the treatment of bulimia nervosa. METHOD: A total of 85 women with bulimia nervosa who were on a waiting list for treatment at a hospital-based clinic ...
Jacqueline C Carter, Marion P Olmsted, Allan S Kaplan, Randi E McCabe, Jennifer S Mills, Annie Aimé (Am J Psychiatry, 200305)
self-help-bulimia-nervosa-randomized-controlled-trial.asp

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Gender moderates the relationship between testosterone and marital interaction.

Higher testosterone levels are related to assertiveness and dominance. Given the relevance of those behavioral correlates to spouses daily transactions, links between testosterone levels and marital interaction were explored among 92 newlywed couples. ...
Catherine L Cohan, Alan Booth, Douglas A Granger (J Fam Psychol, 200303)
gender-moderates-relationship-testosterone-marital-interaction.asp

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There is more to anger coping than "in" or "out".

There is growing dissatisfaction with a dichotomized "anger-in" versus "anger-out" view of anger coping. Three studies using student and community adultsamples revealed a broader understanding of the nature of anger coping styles and led to the ...
Wolfgang Linden, Brenda E Hogan, Thomas Rutledge, Anuradha Chawla, Joseph W Lenz, Debbie Leung (Emotion, 200303)
more-anger-coping-or-out.asp

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Client narratives: a theoretical perspective.

The role of subjective client narratives in health care represents a clinical and therapeutic tool, useful in complementing objective, scientific data. Of particular interest to mental health practitioners is the role narratives play as a therapeutic ...
Deborah Dysart Gale, Ann M Mitchell, Linda Garand, Susan Wesner (Issues Ment Health Nurs, 200301-02)
client-narratives-theoretical-perspective.asp

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Do patients talk differently to male and female physicians? A meta-analytic review.

A meta-analytic review was undertaken of seven observational studies which investigated the relation between physician gender and patient communication in medical visits. In five of the studies the physicians were in general practice, internal medicine, ...
Judith A Hall, Debra L Roter (Patient Educ Couns, 200212)
patients-talk-differently-male-female-physicians-meta-analytic-review.asp

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"They dont trust us; were just kids:" views about community from predominantly female inner city youth.

The cornerstones of health promotion are the concepts of empowerment and community participation. There has been little research, however, on how these concepts are actualized within a youth population and even less from a gender perspective. Girls are ...
Ruta Valaitis (Health Care Women Int, 200204-05)
don-t-trust-us-re-kids-views-community-predominantly-female-inner.asp

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Emotional expression and body dissatisfaction.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between emotional expression and body dissatisfaction in a sample of young women. METHOD: Participants were 141 female undergraduates. They were assessed for emotional expression, body ...
Jumi Hayaki, Michael A Friedman, Kelly D Brownell (Int J Eat Disord, 200201)
emotional-expression-body-dissatisfaction.asp