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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"chronicity"”.
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Coping, daily hassles, and perfectionism: chronicity in binge eating in female university students
Binge eating is an eating disorder that is chronic and has a high relapse rate. The literature suggests a need to separately examine variables that maintain the disorder and variables that initiate this disorder. This study examined the relationship between problem-focused coping, emotion-focused …
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Dosage, Severity, Frequency, and Chronicity Effects of Adversity Exposure on Children's Grammar Abilities
… feature predictors of dosage, frequency, chronicity, and severity were created. General linear models were conducted to examine whether the adversity feature predictors interacted with specific language impairment status to predict grammar performance. Overall, the sample performed …
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Kidney tissue characterization using magnetic resonance in HIV infected individuals undergoing kidney biopsy
… study was to compare the kidney biopsy Sethi chronicity score and MRI findings. METHODS: This was a prospective pilot study, conducted at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town and the Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre (CUBIC). People with HIV (PWH) >18 years with a clinical indication for …
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The genetic basis of persistence and recovery in stuttering
… of stuttering with reference to recovery and chronicity in children. Past research has provided evidence of a genetic factor in the transmission of susceptibility to stuttering, but factors governing persistence and recovery have not been as yet identified.
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A Comparison of Personality Characteristics in Trigeminal Neuralgia and Atypical Facial Pain Using
… group were analysed. RESULT: Pain intensity and chronicity were more severe and longer in trigeminal neuralgia group than atypical facial pain. However, some MMPI profiles such as hypochondriasis and hysteria were significantly elevated in atypical facial pain. Pain intensity and duration did not …
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Effects of Restraint Stress on Sleep in the Mouse.
… would vary as a function of the intensity and chronicity of stressor exposure. A repeated measure (i.e., chronicity) design crossed with three levels of stressor intensity was employed in order to test this hypothesis. Forty-eight male random-bred Swiss mice weighing between 25 and 35 …
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Correlations Between Biopsychosocial Variables and Low Back Pain
… questionnaires assessing their pain experience (chronicity and intensity), comorbidities, and causal attributions about disease onset. Significant relationships were found beween chronic back pain and higher age, lower education, and higher depression scale scores. Higher intensity back pain was …
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Precipitating and prophylactic factors contributing to posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology in maltreated children
… interview. It was hypothesized that (1) chronicity and severity of abuse amplify PTSD risk when a child has limited support networks, ineffective coping, external locus of control, affect dysregulation, and a dysfunctional family; (2) key family and victim characteristics would help to …
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Adaptive resources and helpseeking among Black Americans: A stress and coping approach
… networks to helpseeking choices. In some cases, chronicity-resource-helpseeking interactions revealed stronger resource-helpseeking relationships under conditions of chronic role strain. Limitations of sample survey data are discussed, along with the theoretical and practical implications of the …
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Investigation Of Emotional Numbing And Other Potential Risk Factors Of Chronic Ptsd In Veterans
… potential risk factors contributing to the chronicity of posttraumatic stress disorder. Participants consisted of 70 EKU students as well as veterans from Eastern Kentucky. Students and veterans voluntarily took an online survey and students received credit in their summer psychology …
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Cognitive and Psychophysiological Investigation of Chronic Pain
… similar to a mood state and that the chronicity of the condition may maintain it as a current concern. Specifically, it was hypothesized that chronic pain patients would not show any differences in reaction time and accuracy when making lexical decisions about pain-related, neutral, …
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Μελέτη του προβλήματος των αναγκαστικών νοσηλειών αρρένων ασθενών στο Κ.Θ.Ψ.Π.Τ. και προτάσεις για την αντιμετώπισή του
… for a two year follow-up period. The chronicity of the mental disorder as well as the duration of the hospitalization were found to have a significant correlation with the "dangerousness" criteria of the compulsory admissions and readmissions. The results of the study and similar …
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A discourse analysis of recovery stories
… challenging traditional psychiatric ideas of chronicity, the recovery approach has become a central guiding vision within mental health services. This thesis comprises two parts. The first part applies a genealogical method to conduct a genealogical analysis of the recovery approach through …
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Prevalence and individual risk factors associated with non-specific low back pain among secondary school adolescents in Harare, Zimbabwe
… with adverse consequences such as long-term chronicity into adulthood, reduced health-related quality of life, and school absenteeism. In-spite of such evidence, no studies have been conducted in Zimbabwe to investigate the subjective presence of NSLBP symptoms among school-aged adolescents …
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Development and validation of a new scale for the assessment of psychopathy
… take into account its two-facet structure, its chronicity, its association with criminality, and its association with deceitfulness. A review of the five most popular assessment procedures currently in use indicated that none of them was completely satisfactory; the Hare Psychopathy …
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Trauma, Dissociation, and Traumatic Stress at a Trauma Center Serving Low-Income Children and Adolescents
… particular attention given to different types, chronicity, multiple exposures, and severity of trauma. Dissociation was investigated as a mediator, or mechanism of the relationships among trauma and posttraumatic stress symptoms, internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Moderators included …
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Return to Duty Readiness Questionnaire
… model to address pain-related disability and chronicity from a multidimensional pain neuroscience approach. While several fear avoidance measurement tools exist, one that addresses the complexity of the Army environment requires further development and validation. Preliminary development of an …
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T-cell Dysfunction by HCV Core Protein Involves PD-1/PD-L1 Signaling.
… understanding of how the virus establishes chronicity in the majority of the people it infects. Recent reports suggest that the interaction of a negative co-stimulatory pathway mediated by PD-1 and PDL-1 is associated with persistent viral infection. The role, if any, that PD-1/PDL-1 has in …
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Clinico-pathological features of repeat renal biopsies in patients with lupus nephritis at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
… done to guide treatment or to establish disease chronicity. Their value is not clear from available literature. There is also no available data in Africa to guide clinicians. Methods: This was a retrospective study of patients undergoing a repeat renal biopsy between January 2003 and December …
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A psychosocial treatment intervention for recurrent genital herpes: an investigation of psychoneuroimmunology
… Intervention was effective in reducing the chronicity of recurrent HSV infections as well as facilitating adjustment to the disease . Results were discussed according to psychoneuroimmunologic theory.
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