Health Education

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Child safety seat knowledge among postpartum mothers in an urban setting.

BACKGROUND: To help direct future educational efforts, this study was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitudes relating to child safety seat use in an urban postpartum population. METHODS: An oral survey was administered to postpartum patients at ...
Adam J Spanier, Donald Mercante, Brian M Barkemeyer (South Med J, 200209)
child-safety-seat-knowledge-postpartum-mothers-urban-setting.asp

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Roots and wings: a pilot of a mind-body-spirit program.

The overwhelming supply and demand for holistic health information and services suggest the need for integrative medical centers to offer experientially based educational programs. Seventeen individuals participated in a pilot of a 12-week ...
Karen L Lawson, Karen J Horneffer (J Holist Nurs, 200209)
roots-wings-pilot-mind-body-spirit-program.asp

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Coparenting and the transition to parenthood: a framework for prevention.

The way that parents work together in their roles as parents, the coparenting relationship, has been linked to parental adjustment, parenting, and child outcomes. The coparenting relationship offers a potentially modifiable, circumscribed risk factor ...
Mark E Feinberg (Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev, 200209)
coparenting-transition-parenthood-framework-prevention.asp

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The trend in public attitudes in the Czech Republic towards persons with epilepsy.

This study evaluates trends in public familiarity with and attitudes towards people with epilepsy over a 16-year time-period. A survey exploring the Czech publics attitudes towards and knowledge of epilepsy used a modified version of a questionnaire ...
I Novotná, I Rektor (Eur J Neurol, 200209)
trend-public-attitudes-czech-republic-towards-persons-epilepsy.asp

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Online patient information.

Information appropriate for patients with skin diseases is readily available on the Internet. Patients primarily seek disease-related information, but may also search for a dermatologist, shop for skin care products, or look to a consumer organization ...
Amanda Oakley (Semin Cutan Med Surg, 200209)
online-patient-information.asp

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Dietary and physical activity patterns of 8- to 10-year-old urban schoolchildren in Manila, Philippines.

This report is the second part of a study on the nutrition of urban schoolchildren in the city of Manila; the first part was on nutritional status. The primary purpose of the study was to gather data that will assist authorities in planning and ...
Rodolfo F Florentino, Gracia M Villavieja, Ruby D Laña (Food Nutr Bull, 200209)
dietary-physical-activity-patterns--year-old-urban-schoolchildren.asp

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Reducing tobacco use: what works in the population?

One-half of those who have ever smoked cigarettes are currently former smokers. This cessation coincided with a forty-year effort to educate and inform smokers about the risks of smoking. This paper examines the effects of several tobacco control ...
David M Burns (J Dent Educ, 200209)
reducing-tobacco-works-population.asp

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Attitudes towards contraceptive pill use in two different populations in Thrace, Greece.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the differentiation in attitudes towards contraceptive pill use in two different populations in Thrace, Greece. A retrospective study on representatives of the two major religious subgroups in Thrace: 127 Orthodox Christians and ...
G Galazios, K Dafopoulos, N Koutlaki, V Liberis, P Tsikouras, P Anastasiadis (Eur J Contracept Reprod Health Care, 200209)
attitudes-towards-contraceptive-pill-two-different-populations-thrace.asp

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Determinants of optimal breast-feeding in peri-urban Guatemala City, Guatemala.

OBJECTIVE: This survey was conducted to identify factors affecting early initiation of breast-feeding and exclusive breast-feeding among mothers in peri-urban Guatemala City, Guatemala. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In early November 1999 a census was begun in ...
Kirk Dearden, Mekibib Altaye, Irma De Maza, Maritza De Oliva, Maryanne Stone-Jimenez, Ardythe L Morrow, Barton R Burkhalter (Rev Panam Salud Publica, 200209)
determinants-optimal-breast-feeding-peri-urban-guatemala-city.asp

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Use of quasi-least squares to adjust for two levels of correlation.

This article considers data with two levels of association. Our motivating example is an international intervention trial with repeated observations on subjects who reside within geographically defined clusters. To account for the potential correlation ...
Justine Shults, Ardythe L Morrow (Biometrics, 200209)
quasi-least-squares-adjust-two-levels-correlation.asp