Health Education

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Effects of a videotape information intervention for spouses on spouse distress and patient recovery from surgery.

Shortly before hospital release, the spouses of 226 male and 70 female coronary artery bypass graft patients were randomly assigned to view an optimistically slanted information tape, a tape that featured coping with more ups and downs, or no tape at ...
Heike I M Mahler, James A Kulik (Health Psychol, 200209)
effects-videotape-information-intervention-spouses-spouse-distress.asp

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Balancing breastfeeding and paid employment: a project targeting employers, women and workplaces.

Since breastfeeding is acknowledged as the best nutrition for young babies, it needs to be protected, supported and promoted. This includes enabling mothers to continue breastfeeding even when they return to work. This paper describes a project that ...
Ellen McIntyre, Dino Pisaniello, Richie Gun, Carola Sanders, David Frith (Health Promot Int, 200209)
balancing-breastfeeding-paid-employment-project-targeting-employers.asp

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Adolescent care: reducing risk and promoting resilience.

In summary adolescence is a crucial period in the chronology of health. Most lifelong health choices are decided at this stage and clinicians can help adolescents make healthy choices to ensure a safe, secure future. They also develop skills for the rest ...
R Patrick McManus (Prim Care, 200209)
adolescent-care-reducing-risk-promoting-resilience.asp

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Philip Morris changes its name, but not its harmful practices.

After spending more than $250 million on an advertising campaign to improve its name and reputation, Philip Morris has abruptly shifted course and decided instead to change its corporate name-to The Altria Group, ...
M L Myers (Tob Control, 200209)
philip-morris-changes-name-not-harmful-practices.asp

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Changing levels of quiet in an intensive care nursery.

OBJECTIVES: To document low sound levels, the range and pattern of levels, and the relative effects of operational (staff and equipment generated) and facility (building generated) noise on the acoustic environment of a level III nursery. STUDY DESIGN: A ...
M Kathleen Philbin, Lincoln Gray (J Perinatol, 200209)
changing-levels-quiet-intensive-care-nursery.asp

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The effects of training parents in functional behavior assessment on problem identification, problem analysis, and intervention design.

In this study, parents were trained in four sessions to identify problems, conduct a functional assessment, and design an appropriate intervention based on the function of the problem behavior. First, parents were trained to operationally define problem ...
Stephanie L McNeill, T Steuart Watson, Carlen Henington, Caroline Meeks (Behav Modif, 200209)
effects-training-parents-functional-behavior-assessment-problem.asp

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Evaluation of the impact of current antismoking advice in the UK on women with planned pregnancies.

Smoking during pregnancy (active or passive) is associated with increased health risks to the unborn child. Current policy on antismoking advice for pregnant women in the United Kingdom is based essentially on written information by means of leaflets ...
G Acharya, E Jauniaux, Leena Sathia, M Griffin, H Morgan (J Obstet Gynaecol, 200209)
evaluation-impact-current-antismoking-advice-uk-women-planned.asp

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Continuation and compliance of contraceptive use.

Choosing a method of contraception is an important decision as regards user satisfaction, continuation of use and compliance. The issues of continuation of and compliance with contraceptive use are presented. The continuation rate of a method of ...
B Pinter (Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care, 200209)
continuation-compliance-contraceptive-use.asp

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Peer education of tobacco issues in Hungarian communities of Roma and socially disadvantaged children.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this demonstration program was to examine the effectiveness of peer education in disseminating tobacco related information and influencing knowledge, attitudes and beliefs related to smoking in socially disadvantaged youth ...
T Szilágyi (Cent Eur J Public Health, 200209)
peer-education-tobacco-issues-hungarian-communities-roma-socially.asp

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Information consumerism on the World Wide Web: implications for dermatologists and patients.

The World Wide Web (WWW) is continuing to grow exponentially both in terms of numbers of users and numbers of web pages. There is a trend toward the increasing use of the WWW for medical educational purposes, both among physicians and patients alike. The ...
Robin L Travers (Semin Cutan Med Surg, 200209)
information-consumerism-world-wide-web-implications-dermatologists.asp