psychological and social factors influencing patients treatment selection for localised prostat

... consisted of 62 patients and 51 controls Of the 62 patients, 33 were males and 29 were females and of the 51 controls, 27 were males and 24 were females 5.2 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria Patients ... scales and cognitive tests administered in the study 41 Table 2: Details on age and education for patients and controls 43 Table 3: Injury characteristics and mean time from injury and ... same battery comprising of standardized tests and questionnaires measuring cognitive, psychological and social domains, personality and demographics was administered to patients approximately three...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:38

... represent a new therapeutic strategy for treatment of CLL patients [37] In CLL, TP53 is mutated in about 10% of patients at presentation and in 10% to 30% of patients with pretreated disease [38-40] ... [4], and it is more common among patients bearing other poor prognostic factors, such as UM IGHV, or ZAP-70 and CD38 expression [4,10,27,30] TP53 is a transcription factor activated by strand ... eventually influencing the clinical aggressiveness of the disease, are divided into "intrinsic factors" , mainly genomic alterations of CLL cells, and "extrinsic factors" , responsible for direct...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... of the study and data collection SPF and SPD participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis JAS, SPF and SPD drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved ... survey on alcohol and related conditions J Clin Psychiatry 2008, 69(7):1139-1149 44 Alaghehbandan R, Gates KD, MacDonald D: Suicide attempts and associated factors in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1998-2000 ... adolescents and young adults with suicidal behaviour Acta Psychiatr Scand 2001, 104(5):332-339 Joe S, Baser RE, Breeden G, Neighbors HW, Jackson JS: Prevalence of and risk factors for lifetime...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... Acknowledgements First and foremost, all praise is for Allah, Who enlightened us with faith and knowledge, and who is sufficient for us and has sheltered us I express my gratitude to the greatest and the wisest ... wonderful supervisor, Ron Poet, for providing me with assistance and direction whenever I needed it I am grateful for his support and unlimited cooperation in my research and for the leadership he provided ... 1.1.1 Hand-drawn images and culture familiarity Many scholars, for example, Sidis and Goodhart [23] and Russell [24], have comprehensively discussed the term “feeling of familiarity” and it seems...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 20:20

... Keith Andrews for providing factual information and advice and for allowing BMA staff to visit the Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney to discuss the practical dilemmas which arise with him and ... 9.3 16 Patients refusing medical treatment should have been offered information about the treatment proposed, the consequences of not having the treatment and any alternative forms of treatment ... as a form of medical treatment; and even if it is not strictly medical treatment, it must form part of the medical care of the patient ” Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Medical Treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

... sub-divisions Among these are land treatment, and natural and constructed wetland Information on natural system may be found in Refs 1, 4, 15–17, 23 and 24 POLAR REGIONS Waste handling in polar regions ... US Navy, US Air Force, and US Army in developing suitable systems for use in Greenland, Alaska and most recently in the Antarctic.29 Prime requirements for a system suitable for installation ... the venting stack Chemical and Biological Treatment Plants Wastewater treatment plants similar to those frequently used for land-base sewage treatment have been adopted for vessel use The mot successful...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 20:20

... solution under magnetic stirring The solution was stirred for about 15 and a blue precipitate was centrifuged and washed by water to pH=7 and by ethanol several times The product was dried at 500C ... (Petri Dish) and spraying method This colloidal solution was used as anti Pink Disease drug for rubber tree at low concentration (dose of resistance fungus of about 5-7ppm (Fig.6) and dose of ... agent, was dissolved in glycerine and heated with stirring in an oil bath at temperature reaction (180-2000C) Copper Oxalate was then added into the hot reaction medium and was heated until the color...

Ngày tải lên: 02/08/2015, 13:21

... services for the lower classes He further discussed that MFIs should offer flexible and customized lending services for the lower income groups rather than strict and uniform loan products for all ... is experiencing rapid progression in technology and human development for attaining high efficiencies and long term sustainability In its efforts for making the world a better place to live in, ... to their understanding of the borrowers’ behavior and support by the state authorities REFERENCES Anderson, C., L., Locker, L., & Nugent, R (2002) Microcredit, social capital, and common pool...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48

... controlled trials and has a weak evidence base It is unclear, therefore, which clubhouse elements are effective and which standards are necessary for success 175 Social factors as a basis for treatment ... McGurk, S R and Mueser, K T (2003) Cognitive functioning and employment in severe mental illness Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191, 789–98 177 Social factors as a basis for treatment ... and forming links with treatment services The growth of the socialfirm movement is aided by an advantageous legal framework for the businesses, policies favouring employment of the disabled and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... service, and so forth These factors strongly influence their selection of communication style [17] In sum, a number of social and contextual factors have been found to affect speech act performance ... act of criticizing, and for comparing criticizing behaviors by Vietnamese and American peoples Theoretical framework 2.1 Factors affecting speech act performance Successful performance of any speech ... sociopragmatic “whether to perform” and pragmalinguistic “how to perform” [9, 10] Sociopragmatic judgments involving contextual factors such as social power, distance, rights and obligations, purpose...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 11:20

... and all positively worded items consistently loaded on one factor Internal consistency Cronbach's alpha was 0.89 for the 20-item scale, 0.90 for the 16-item negatively worded scale and 0.68 for ... 0.33 (p < 0.001) and -0.12 (p < 0.04) between ITAS-negative and PAID and WHO-5 respectively For the positively worded ITAS subscale, correlations were -0.21 (P < 0.001) with PAID and 0.13 (p < 0.025) ... insulin-naïve patients was about one standard deviation higher compared to insulin-treated patients (61.6 ± 12.8 vs 48.9 ± 11.2, p < 0.001) Insulin-naïve patients reported significantly higher scores for...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Gerber ML, Anderson M: Mental Health, social functioning, and disability in postwar Afghanistan JAMA 2004, 292:575-584 Ahern J, Galea S, Fernandez WG, Koci B, Waldman R, Vlahov D: Gender, social ... years old selected randomly from households in Kabul Province, Afghanistan Random sampling was conducted based on the list developed with the cooperation and supervision of the Expanded Programme ... society, and their marginal functioning in coping with severe traumatic experiences Table 4: Association between PTSD and material deprivation and support seeking behavior among women who did and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... bilirubin, and creatinine) were performed at baseline, weeks and 4, and every months thereafter for 18 months Blood triglycerides, total cholesterol, and glucose were measured at baseline and months and ... cell counts and plasma HIV-1 RNA load (< 500 c/mL and 50 c/mL) at months 12 and 18, serious adverse effects, the percentage of patients who discontinued the treatment, and adherence to treatment ... baseline social investigations indicated that most of the patients were underprivileged Seventeen patients (42%) had never been to school Forty-two percent of the patients were divorced or widowed, and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... usual practice (standard of care) and followed over time using standardized methods and forms to make possible a valid and reliable description of case-mix, pattern of care and outcomes Subjects ... recruitment and enrollment Subject evaluation and follow-up will be for months Study conduct and supervision In order to be able to conduct and monitor the progress of the trial for the patients' ... identified as necessary: information and education activities addressed to physicians, care givers and patients/ citizens, and prospective data collection to document patterns of care and outcomes Operationally,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... between self and proxy-reports was low Correlations were higher for Total Score and Psychosocial Health for the oldest age group (0.23 and 0.22 respectively) than for the other age groups For the ... Table presents means and percentage of scores at the floor and ceiling for self and proxy-report No ceiling effects were found for self or proxy-report PedsQL™ Total Scores and subscale scores ... 0 significant parent-child correlations were found for the oldest age group (7.5 to 8.5 years) for Total Score and Psychosocial Health, and for Physical Health scores in the youngest age group...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... these factors In the DE dimension, 11 factors were associated with behavioral functioning Higher associations were observed for non-adherent patients (-12.3 for patients who forgot their weekly treatment ... designed to characterize, to evaluate and to monitor the health status and the management of patients treated for diabetes and living in France Briefly, subjects were randomly selected from the national ... means and standard deviations for continuous variables, and as absolute and relative frequencies for categorical variables DHP-18 scores were presented as means and standard deviations Percent of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... and all positively worded items consistently loaded on one factor Internal consistency Cronbach's alpha was 0.89 for the 20-item scale, 0.90 for the 16-item negatively worded scale and 0.68 for ... 0.33 (p < 0.001) and -0.12 (p < 0.04) between ITAS-negative and PAID and WHO-5 respectively For the positively worded ITAS subscale, correlations were -0.21 (P < 0.001) with PAID and 0.13 (p < 0.025) ... insulin-naïve patients was about one standard deviation higher compared to insulin-treated patients (61.6 ± 12.8 vs 48.9 ± 11.2, p < 0.001) Insulin-naïve patients reported significantly higher scores for...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Bonferroni adjustment for each two samples categories (womac and transition scale), (womac and both transition scale and womac), (transition scale and both transition scale and womac) Factors found to ... conceived the study and supervised its design, execution, and analysis and participated in the drafting and critical review of the manuscript IH, FA and RA did data management and statistical analyses ... criterion to distinguish between improved and non-improved patients This method has the advantage of synthesizing information on the sensitivity and specificity for detecting improvement by an external...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... at local areas Mode and techniques applied in animal production are important factors Diseases are reduced significantly and more income is 113 Investigation of some social factors on the evolution ... Trach Source of AI and FMD information Local committee Commune No of farmers Table Role and responsibility of local authorities and veterinary services to disease prevention and control 314 390 ... of the most important factors It reduces mortality and promotes productivity As a general rule, animal health and hygiene are directly linked (Dao Ngoc Phong, 2001) Therefore, when farm animals...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20

... selfesteem between males and female patients for all psychiatric patients, and also when this sample is divided into depressed patients and non-depressed patients The female depressed patients have significantly ... relationship between selfesteem and several demographic and psychosocial factors in psychiatric patients This is the largest study to date in psychiatric patients and is unique in using more than ... MD and Weaver J Self-esteem and self-estimates of academic performance J Consul Clin Psychol 1973, 41:412-415 Sigall H and Gould R The effects of self-esteem and evaluator demandingness on effort...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23