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Showing 1 to 20 of 1889 for “"Psychosocial"”.
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Psychosocial Adjustment Following Stroke
Stroke is the third most common cause of death in Australia. To date, there has been extensive research conducted on the reactive consequences following the diagnosis of stroke. In contrast, there has been limited research effort directed at understanding how some stroke survivors manage to adjust …
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Stillbirth : a psychosocial crisis
This study is an investigation of the psychosocial trauma of stillbirth and the implications of that trauma for case management. Stillbirth is considered a crisis for parents that calls for immediate intervention and constructive management. It strains family coping mechanisms and can overwhelm …
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Psychosocial Stress and Addison's Disease
Die Psychoneuroimmunologie beschäftigt sich unter anderem mit der Frage, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen psychosozialer Stress krank macht. Humanstudien, die dieser Frage nachgehen, können dabei meist nur korrelative Zusammenhänge aufdecken. Um trotzdem Aussagen zu Mechanismen, …
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Psychosocial predictors of visceral adiposity
Psychosocial factors are thought to influence health through primarily direct physiological mechanisms or the alteration of health related behaviors. Three factors hypothesized to negatively impact health include arousal, life stress, and depressive symptomatology. One recent theorist suggests that …
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Psychosocial Adjustment Among Refugee Children
… contribute one of the major influences to their psychosocial adjustment. The purpose of this study was to assess the role that parental mental health, as measured by the Hopkins Symptom Checklist - 25 (HSCL-25) and parenting sense of competence as measured by the Parenting Sense of Competence …
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Psychosocial Effects on Academic Performance
<p>Research has shown that academic performance can be affected by many variables, such as parental involvement, family rules, family resources and homework. The present study focuses on these variables and their association with academic performance using 3,932 participants from the National …
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Psychosocial Predictors of Breast Awareness Behaviors
… behaviors, and how personal, theoretical, and psychosocial constructs influence engagement in these behaviors. Data from 626 women without a history of breast cancer were used to investigate associations between psychosocial variables (e.g., anxiety, body dissatisfaction, cancer fatalism; …
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Investigating UK renal psychosocial service provision
Background: Internationally, emerging evidence of psychosocial problems in patients with end-stage renal disease has led to increasing calls for collaborative renal care models that include psychosocial services. In the UK, there is a dearth of empirical studies and clear policies to guide the …
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Psychosocial pathways between adversity and psychosis
Meta-analytic evidence suggests that adverse experiences contribute to the development of psychosis, including paranoia and hearing voices. These adverse experiences include childhood trauma (such as physical, emotional and sexual abuse) as well as experiences such as neglect, social inequality and …
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Adaptive Narrative Interventions to Foster Psychosocial Wellbeing
Psychosocial wellbeing involves navigating interconnected mental, emotional, and social experiences across daily life. People manage negative thoughts, pursue goals, maintain relationships, and respond to responsibilities that shift over time. Digital tools such as text messaging systems and mobile …
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PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK FACTORS FOR CYCLICAL URBAN VIOLENCE
Violence is a pervasive public health issue that disproportionately affects certain populations, particularly young black males in urban settings. Though this population experiences higher rates of violent victimization and perpetration, race should not be analyzed as an isolated variable. The …
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CHRONIC OROPHARYNGEAL DYSPHAGIA: NUTRITIONAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPLICATIONS
La tesi di Dottorato concerne la disfagia orofaringea cronica in persone con tumore del distretto testa-collo (HNC) e malattie neurodegenerative. Obiettivo primario del Dottorato è stato l’indagine dell‘impatto della disfagia orofaringea cronica sullo stato nutrizionale e sulle dimensioni …
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The psychosocial impact of online problem gambling
… to the characteristics of internet gamblers, the psychosocial impact of internet gambling (e.g. problem gambling) and implications for public social policy. The overall aims of this thesis were to establish (i) what makes internet gambling potentially addictive, (ii) how is internet gambling …
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Behavioural and psychosocial factors associated with cyberbullying
… possess the same characteristic behaviours and psychosocial profiles as their traditional bullying counterparts. However in South Africa there is a paucity of research. The present study seeks to examine the behavioural and psychosocial factors associated with cyberbullying among Grade 8 to 10 …
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Cancer Center Regional Benchmarks for Psychosocial Care
… formulated and implemented standard 3.2 for Psychosocial Distress Screening. This standard requires that all accredited cancer centers evaluate psychosocial distress and provide appropriate triage and intervention for all cancer patients. Over the past decade, Loma Linda University Medical …
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Psychosocial and physiological assessments of orthognathic patients
Aims: The primary aim was to compare, in the RoI, generic oral health-related quality of life (OHIP14), condition-specific quality of life (OQLQ), the fear of negative evaluation (BFNES) and self-reported BMI of patients seeking surgical-orthodontic correction of their malocclusion versus those of …
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Neuropsychological and Psychosocial Predictors of Children's Depression
… symptoms. No sex differences were found for psychosocial predictors of aggressive symptoms; perceptions of maternal rejection, and self-blame and high PT regarding interparental conflict were associated with depressive symptoms for girls only. A second goal was to examine models integrating …
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Sustaining family child care providers' psychosocial wellness
This research project examined the psychosocial wellness of Family Child Care Providers (FCCPs) using a mixed methods approach.The two main goals of this study were to explore psychosocial influences upon FCC workforce participation and psychosocial influences upon professional development …
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