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Showing 1 to 20 of 3179 for “"Illness"”.
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Role conflict, uncertainty in illness, and illness-related communication avoidance: College students facing familial chronic illness
… international Asian vs. domestic students) and illness status (i.e., having a family member with a chronic illness vs. not having a family member with a chronic illness). The study also examined the associations between overall college student adjustment and the family and illness-related …
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Penalties for Foodborne Illness: Jury Decisions and Awards in Foodborne Illness Lawsuits
… success and payouts in jury settled foodborne illness (FBI) lawsuits. Given the risk to firms in terms of potentially large payouts, future litigation, and lost reputation, the results may provide economic incentives for food firms and others in the supply chain to produce safer and better …
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Successful Aging with Illness
… of life and contribute to their physical health. Illness and disease are frequent components of aging; however, ‘successful aging’ research normally excludes people with illness. Older people living with illness, even life threatening illness, often self-report a good quality of life and continue …
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Effects of Illness Type and Empathy Induction On Illness-Related Stigma in Undergraduate Students
… would decrease stigma toward populations with illness. One hundred and seventy-nine participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: 1) sexually transmitted infections (STIs), 2) mental illness, or 3) cancer. Participants were primed with either a high-empathy prompt or …
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Dracula: Infection, Disease and Illness
… anxiety and fear of contagion, disease, and illness. It explores how the Count and vampirism metaphorically stand for disease and three different and conflicting disease theories, the three Victorian theories of infection — contagionism, miasmatism, and the germ theory — and how Bram Stoker …
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Preadolescents' attitudes toward mental illness
… preadolescents' current attitudes toward mental illness and to determine the effectiveness of an educational intervention on attitudes toward mental illness. The subjects were all sixth grade students in an integrated suburban intermediate school. All students in the study (n = 141) completed the …
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Disease and Illness in Medieval Ireland
… various aspects of the medical system, and illness/disease for the medieval period (5th-12th centuries) in Ireland. On examining three archival source-types (hagiographical material, annals, medico-legal law texts), it became clear that there were different perspectives on health and healing …
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Critical Illness in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies
… 1) characterizes the epidemiology of critical illness after a new diagnosis of hematologic malignancy in a large population-based cohort in Ontario, Canada; 2) evaluates the effectiveness of different noninvasive oxygenation strategies for reducing the receipt of invasive mechanical ventilation …
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Health anxiety and perceived vulnerability to illness
… of the study was that perceived vulnerability to illness, fear of bodily sensations and changes, and dysfunctional attitudes toward illness are the major components of health anxiety. University students (N=161) completed a questionnaire package with measures of health anxiety (including the …
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Childhood Chronic Illness: Impact on Well Siblings
<p>Chronic illness incidence is escalating in our society. Chronic conditions and illnesses affect not only the individual but the entire family. Health care research has shown interest toward this topic. The familial response to a childhood chronic condition has been studied by a variety of …
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Illness and injury in the offshore workforce.
… mid 1970's. In the current study the pattern of illness and injury in the offshore workforce of the UK Oil and Gas Industry is examined using data collected from 1,538 medical evacuations over a two year period from the offshore installations of ten major offshore operating companies. A …
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Circulating proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans during critical illness
… release is a general consequence of critical illness that probably has limited value as a marker in clinical practice.
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ILLNESS AND ADIPOSITY IN CHILDHOOD
… theories concerning an association between illness and adiposity in childhood. The first theory posits that increased illness is the result of high adiposity. The second theory, "infectobesity", posits that increased adiposity is virus-induced. Although an association between infection and …
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