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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Biobehavioral"”.
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Biobehavioral Correlates in Fibromyalgia
<p>Introduction: Fibromyalgia (FMS) is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by non-restorative sleep, and fatigue. Over 75% of individuals with FMS complain of poor sleep quality and fatigue. These have been ranked by patients with FMS as having great impact on quality of life. A literature review …
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Biobehavioral responses to immune skew and free fatty acids
A well-described set of biobehaviors and cognitive dysfunction emerge after stimulation of the immune system with pathogen-associated or danger-associated molecular patterns, and the endogenous cytokines elaborated in the immunologic response are key effectors (Dantzer et al., 2008). Just as an …
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The biobehavioral family model: Testing eudaimonic well-being as an additional mediator
… as an additional mediating variable in the Biobehavioral Family Model (BBFM; Wood, 1993). Data from a nationally representative sample of adults (N = 1255, Midlife in the United States II; Ryff et al., 2012) was used to test whether family emotional climate was associated with eudaimonic …
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Biobehavioral Relationships and Health Related Quality of Life in Persons with End Stage Renal Disease on Hemodialysis
The study of immune status and biobehavioral measures is limited in professional nursing. The purpose of the pre-pilot study was to describe levels of cytokines prior to, during, and after dialysis, examine changes in cytokine levels from immediate pre-dialysis to immediate post-dialysis, and to …
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Effects of a Trained Therapy Dog in Child-Centered Play Therapy on Children's Biobehavioral Measures of Anxiety
… would be effective in decreasing children's biobehavioral measurements of anxiety. Specifically, this study examined the effects of the presence of a trained therapy dog during one individual 30-minute play therapy session. The experimental group consisted of 26 children who received one …
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Two Efficacy Studies for Acute TMJ Related Headaches and Chronic Headaches
… at Arlington was to evaluate the efficacy of the Biobehavioral, Self-care, and Non-Intervention treatment groups on the presence and distress of the headache symptom related to acute temporomandibular joint disorder. The study consists of a cohort of 283 patients with acute TMD. Participants are …
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Comparing Distribution-Based and Anchor-Based Minimal Clinically Important Difference Values for Temporomandibular Disorder
… Low Risk/Non-intervention Group; High Risk/Biobehavioral Group; or High Risk/Self-Care Group. This study attempted to better understand and objectively quantify meaningful symptom relief by determining the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for temporomandibular joint disorder …
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Improving Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Team Rounding
… Bridges, PhD, RN, CCNS, FCCM, FAAN Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics Eeeseung Byun, PhD, RN Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics Interdisciplinary team (IDT) rounding is integral in providing patient-centered, high quality, safe, and efficient care. The University …
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Explicit Memory and Brain-Electrical Activity in 10-month-old Infants
… was to test specific hypotheses regarding the biobehavioral development of explicit memory during infancy and present a new approach to studying the behavioral and physiological expression of this system. This study, which was guided by hypothesized neural substrates of this memory system, is …
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Temperament among infants of diabetic and nondiabetic mothers
… to support the hypothesis that diabetic-related biobehavioral vulnerabilities and psychoendocrine mechanisms mediated temperament in 4-month-old infants. However, differences in discrete behaviors were present. Further studies are needed to determine whether differences of discrete behaviors …
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Antecedents and Functional Outcomes of Motivation to Expend Physical and Cognitive Effort in Early Psychosis
… the real-world. This dissertation administered a biobehavioral paradigm examining decisions to expend physical effort for reward and a novel, structurally parallel paradigm on cognitive effort to an early psychosis outpatient sample. The overall research objective was to understand the etiological …
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Systems Analysis and Improvement to Optimize the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission in Central Mozambique
… Committee: Associate Professor, Joachim Voss Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems <bold>Background</bold>: Despite significant increases in global health investment and the availability of low-cost, efficacious interventions designed to reduce mother to child HIV transmission in low and …
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Chronic Stress Promotes Tumor Growth Through Increased Bdnf Production and Neo-Innervation
… nervous system (SNS) in response to chronic biobehavioral stress results in high levels of catecholamines and persistent activation of adrenergic signaling, which promotes tumor growth and progression. However it is unknown how catecholamine levels within the tumor exceed systemic levels in …
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Bio-Behavioral Models for HIV Prevention
<italic>Background</italic>: In this dissertation, I model HIV transmission in two different populations: circular migrants in South Africa, and men who have sex with men (MSM) in Southern California. <italic>Objectives</italic>: One objective of the circular migrations (Chapter 2) project is to …