Mental Health

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Predictors of vulnerability to reduced body image satisfaction and psychological wellbeing in response to exposure to idealized female media images in adolescent girls.

Predictors of change in body satisfaction, depressed mood, anxiety and anger, were examined following exposure to idealized female advertising images in Grades 7 and 10 girls. Stable body dissatisfaction, physical appearance comparison tendency, ...
Sarah J Durkin, Susan J Paxton (J Psychosom Res, 200211)
predictors-vulnerability-reduced-body-image-satisfaction.asp

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Preconscious processing of body image cues. Impact on body percept and concept.

OBJECTIVE: There is considerable evidence that body image is an elastic construct, which can be influenced by environmental and internal factors. The present study used a visual subliminal processing paradigm, with the aim of determining the impact of ...
Glenn Waller, Juliette Barnes (J Psychosom Res, 200211)
preconscious-processing-body-image-cues-impact-body-percept-concept.asp

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Inter and intra individual variations in physicians verbal behaviour during primary care consultations.

It is well established that most medical interviews in primary care are characterised by a scarcity of patient-centred interventions and a predominance of doctor-centred behaviours. Less information is available on the intra- and inter-individual ...
Lidia Del Piccolo, Mariangela Mazzi, Anna Saltini, Christa Zimmermann (Soc Sci Med, 200211)
inter-intra-individual-variations-physicians-verbal-behaviour-primary.asp

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A gerontological cohort study of aged twins: the Osaka University Aged Twin Registry.

We describe subject recruitment and research results from the Osaka University Aged Twin Registry (OUATR). The research focus of OUATR is the genetic and environmental contributions to physical-cognitive-mental aging which we examined in Japanese twins ...
Kazuo Hayakawa, Tadahiko Shimizu, Kenji Kato, Miyuki Onoi, Yoko Kobayashi (Twin Res, 200210)
gerontological-cohort-study-aged-twins-osaka-university-aged-twin.asp

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Narrative mediation of conventional and new "mental health" paradigms: reading the stories of immigrant Iranian women.

The potential of storytelling to effect change and produce new knowledge is being recognized across disciplines. Two conditions are necessary to realize these goals: first, reading of stories must be contextualized to include larger social and political ...
Parin Dossa (Med Anthropol Q, 200209)
narrative-mediation-conventional-new-mental-health-paradigms-reading.asp

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The relationships between physical activity, health status and psychological well-being of fertility-aged women.

The purpose of this investigation was to measure the association between leisure time physical activity and health status, mental health and depression. The participants were women aged 18-45. The data were collected using questionnaires that were mailed ...
Merike Kull (Scand J Med Sci Sports, 200208)
relationships-physical-activity-health-status-psychological-well.asp

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A program to educate school nurses about mental health interventions.

Concerned with the increasing incidence of mental health problems in children and adolescents and the impact of these problems on students school success and predisposition to self- and other-directed violence, the Multnomah Education Service District ...
Janis Hootman, Gail M Houck, Mary Catherine King (J Sch Nurs, 200208)
program-educate-school-nurses-mental-health-interventions.asp

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Learner-centred education in end-of-life care improved well being in home care staff: a prospective controlled study.

The aim of this controlled study was to evaluate a 1-year learner-centred educational project in end-of-life care for home care staff in a rural district of Sweden. Another rural district in the same region served as a control area. A 20-item ...
Hans Thulesius, Christer Petersson, Kerstin Petersson, Anders Håkansson (Palliat Med, 200207)
learner-centred-education-end-life-care-improved-well-home-care-staff.asp

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Development and validation of an instrument to measure perceived neighbourhood quality in Taiwan.

STUDY OBJECTIVE:s: Social epidemiologists have hypothesised that neighbourhood quality may exert an important contextual influence on mental and physical health. However, validated instruments do not exist for measuring neighbourhood quality in Taiwan. A ...
M-J Yang, M-S Yang, C-H Shih, I Kawachi (J Epidemiol Community Health, 200207)
development-validation-instrument-measure-perceived-neighbourhood.asp

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Why older adults with light care needs enter and remain in nursing homes.

Many patients in nursing homes receive limited services. In 1996, approximately 17% of the 1.6 million nursing home residents received assistance with two or less activities of daily living (ADL). This descriptive study addressed this issue by ...
Victoria T Grando, David Mehr, Lori Popejoy, Meridean Maas, Marilyn Rantz, Deidre D Wipke-Tevis, Reghnald Westhoff (J Gerontol Nurs, 200207)
why-older-adults-light-care-needs-enter-remain-nursing-homes.asp