... oxidative stress; (4) inhibition of cancer cell proliferation and induction of apoptosis; (5) regulation of subcellular signaling pathways and modulation of transcription factors; and (6) inhibition of ... aspects of study design, performance, and analysis, with a focus on randomization of the study subjects, blinding of the investigators and study subjects, and the handling of dropouts and withdrawal ... detects DNA strand breaks and abasic sites, the genotoxicity of PhIP could be demonstrated only in the presence of hydroxyurea and 1-[beta-Darabinofuranosyl]cytosine, known inhibitors of DNA repair...
... long way to go, in relation to the challenges of unemployment, and in making transport and social services truly accessible The editors and authors of this book come from a variety of sectors in ... factor of race will add its impact to that of disabling environmental factors to result in a compounded outcome of disadvantage and inequality When considering a series of questions analysed together ... way of thinking about the problem, disabled people may be less likely to look to the traditional authority of medical and ‘caring’ professions for the solutions to their problemsand instead to...
... sports, social problems, crime, and introductory sociology It also will be of interest to scholars of the sociology of disability and sports, criminologists, life-story researchers, and professionals ... her?” he chanted Andto the tune of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” he sang, “Three strikes and you’re out at the old sex game.” Often my friends and I went to the mall to try to score as many ... basketball In the writing of the book, Melvin and I made a conscious decision to keep his story intact, to write the main part of the book as an autobiography, andto bracket the sociological...
... long way to go, in relation to the challenges of unemployment, and in making transport and social services truly accessible The editors and authors of this book come from a variety of sectors in ... factor of race will add its impact to that of disabling environmental factors to result in a compounded outcome of disadvantage and inequality When considering a series of questions analysed together ... way of thinking about the problem, disabled people may be less likely to look to the traditional authority of medical and ‘caring’ professions for the solutions to their problemsand instead to...
... translation of learned experiences (past or present) into basic behavioral repertoires and that biological factors come into play again to influence our ability to sense (recognize) and respond to current ... study of somatoform disorders including analysis of healthcare utilization and cost-effectiveness J Psychosom Res 2003;54:369–380 Hoffman NG, Olofsson O, Salen B, et al: Prevalence of abuse and ... fibromyalgia compared to workrelated muscular pain reported higher levels of trait anxiety and pain -related catastrophizing and low levels of abilities to control and reduce pain [Hallberg and Carlsson,...
... translation of learned experiences (past or present) into basic behavioral repertoires and that biological factors come into play again to influence our ability to sense (recognize) and respond to current ... study of somatoform disorders including analysis of healthcare utilization and cost-effectiveness J Psychosom Res 2003;54:369–380 Hoffman NG, Olofsson O, Salen B, et al: Prevalence of abuse and ... fibromyalgia compared to workrelated muscular pain reported higher levels of trait anxiety and pain -related catastrophizing and low levels of abilities to control and reduce pain [Hallberg and Carlsson,...
... Whitehead and colleagues (1994) studied the influence of childhood social learning on the adult illness behaviorof 383 women aged 20 Impact and Issues Relatedto Illness Behaviorto 40 years of age ... FNGNA, FPCN Associate Professor College of Nursing University of Texas, Arlington Arlington, Texas Victoria Schirm, PhD, RN Director of Nursing Research Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center ... refers to the pathophysiology of the condition, such as an alteration in structure and function Illness, on the other hand, is the human experience of symptoms and suffering, and refers to how...
... 20–27).13 To understand the degree to which peoples and nations around the world have come to respond to the U.N.’s programs andto adopt a vision of existence along the lines of the ICIDH, Ingstad and ... workings of modernity, nationalism, and history According to Lin, the expanding attention given to canji across parts of China is the product of long-standing, unequal relations between two sectors of ... worldwide of the biological and biomedical sciences, a set of patterned ways for conceiving ofand responding to normalcy and abnormality, health and pathology As I understand them, biobureaucracies today...
... results of the exploratory factor analyses This model consists of the correlated anxiety and depression factors, and allows items andto each load on both the anxiety and depression factors Item ... aOriginal two factors bTwo factors were correlated cThree factors consisting of all 14 items dThree factors were correlated Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... conducted to test the factor stability We posited that the factor pattern of the HADS was invariant between the outpatient and student groups and between the men and women This is on the basis of the...
... Learning and applying knowledge and Chapter General tasks and demands cover content primarily relatedto the ICF concept of activity, defined as 'execution of a task or action by an individual' [3] and ... used to compare the content of both generic and disease-specific instruments [9,10] The purpose of this study was to build on the work by Perenboom and Chorus [2] and examine the content of instruments ... yes KAP PARTS/M d3 to d9 d4 to d9 yes yes PM-PAC d3 to d9 yes† POPS P-Scale d3, d4, d6 to d9 d1, d3 to d9 yes no ROPP WHODAS II d3 to d9 d1, d3 to d9 yes no† environmental factors; health condition...
... mental aspect of QoL went through the mediator of pain, and over 72% of the effect was direct When depression was the mediator, depressive symptoms accentuated the negative effects of pain on physical ... The Journal of nervous and mental disease 2006, 194(4):241-248 Boelen PA, Prigerson HG: The influence of symptoms of prolonged grief disorder, depression, and anxiety on quality of life among ... prevalence of chronic pain, fatigue, and insomnia in the general population of Hong Kong Final report to the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau, Government of the Hong Kong Wong et al Health and Quality of...
... depression and anxiety It is not a tool to diagnose mood disorders but it has proofed to be a reliable, valid and responsive instrument to assess the severity of symptoms of mood disorders.[10] ... investigators want to detect To find a difference of 1.5 points at a significance level of 0.05 and with a power of 80% and assuming a SD of points as observed in our study, investigators need to enroll ... between the anchors (CRQ and Feeling Thermometer) and the HADS domain and total score We decided to use linear Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008,...
... network and take part in fewer public activities, which could contribute to the development of depressive symptoms Fultz and Herzog [17] found that the involuntary loss of urine leads to despair and ... Embarrassment and I-QOL-Total) Berglund et al [7] describe diminished social integration and loneliness as a result of it This may contribute to the development of anxiety or depressive symptoms and reduce ... selfassessment and consists of 27 items to be rated on a fivepoint-Likert scale Each question of the inventory is scored from (worst possible QOL) to (best possible QOL) In addition to an overall...
... is now mandatory to improve public facilities able to offer valid emotional and financial support, and help informal caregivers to tolerate the burden of caring, increasing the quality of the ... quality of life of the informal caregivers is closely correlated with the severity of the behavioural disorders andto the duration of the disease Most of the subjects interviewed had to change ... Of those interviewed, 29% claim to be unable to accept the situation and wish to abandon their home Mean values of MMSE, ADL and IADL of the patients and CBI of the caregivers are outlined in...
... of Body Structure and Function, Activities, and Participation The second part covers contextual factors and includes the components of Environmental Factors and Personal Factors The World Health ... Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care to Dr Davis and by the Dr Jal Tata Research Award from the London district of the Ontario Physiotherapy Association to Ravi Rastogi 20 21 The study ... Due to the nature of the surgery it is Table 4: Importance levels for patient concerns linked to ICF* Participation and Environmental Factors components: pre-operatively (pre-op) and two, four and...
... Psychological distress The Dutch Version of the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) was used to assess psychological distress The SCL-90 is a multidimensional state measure of psychopathology and consists of eight ... psychological profiles of patients with fibromyalgia and other pain syndromes (CRPS and CLBP) are presented in Table Since the distribution of scores for the total score of psychological distress including ... fibromyalgia as relatedto the quality of life of patients in other chronic conditions is presented in Table Results of quality of life of patients participating in the current study seem to be in accordance...
... statin use history, height and weight and fasting lipid profile laboratory values: HDL, LDL, triglycerides, total cholesterol and cholesterol to HDL ratio The exclusion criteria consisted of: any relapse ... factor and disease duration and lipid profile variable of interest The CE-LV, T2-LV and T1-LV data were normalized by cube-root transformation to reduce skew The cuberoot-transformed T2-LV and ... statin use and a lipid profile variable of interest (either HDL, LDL, triglycerides, total cholesterol or cholesterol to HDL ratio) as predictor variables The difference between MSSS at Weinstock-Guttman...
... freedom to express andto seek information, etc.) and economic, social and cultural rights (e.g., the right to the highest attainable standard of health; the right to equal pay for work of equal value; ... toand drafted or contributed to all parts of the manuscript, as well as revising and editing the entire manuscript LU undertook research relevant toand drafted or contributed to all parts of ... and analysis to the discussion of the links between disability and HIV, and reviewed and commented on the entire manuscript All the authors were involved in conceiving of the study and read and...
... Matonhodze G: Disability and HIV & AIDS; A participatory rapid assessment of the vulnerability, impact, and coping mechanisms of Parents of Disabled Children Bulawayo Zimbabwe Parents of Handicapped ... Sexuality and sexual health Needs of young people with physical disabilities Roles of parents and schools Cape Town: University of the Western Cape Physiotherapy Department; 2006 Wazakili M, Mpofu ... 361:1401-1402 Zimbabwe Parents of Handicapped Children: Disability and HIV & AIDS A participatory rapid assessment of the vulnerability, impact and coping mechanisms of Parents of Disabled Children Bulawayo...
... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2005, 3:82 Background Anxiety and depression are major factors impacting patient's quality of life, and the associated symptoms (inability to concentrate, loss of ... fundamental factor structure of the HADS comprises not two, but three factors and indeed, that the three-factor structure offers a superior fit to clinical data than the two factor (anxiety and depression ... authors to question the dimensionality of the scale Razavi, Delvaux, Farvacques and Robaye [10] recommended totalling the two subscales to create a total score of generalised psychological distress...