AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING

American Journal of Advances in Nursing Research

Preoperational anxiety is a universal reaction experienced by patients who are admitted to the hospital for surgery. No matter how major or minor an operation is, it tends to a degree of anxiety to every patient. We sought to investigate the effect of preoperative teaching in reducing preoperative anxiety among cardiac surgical patients. A total of 60 cardiac surgical patients were selected and...

[The Latin American Journal of Nursing celebrates its 15th anniversary].

American Journal of Psychology

Two kinds of perceptual priming (word identification and word fragment completion), as well as preference priming (that may rely on special affective mechanisms) were examined after participants either read or named the colors of words and nonwords at study. Participants named the colors of words more slowly than the colors of nonwords, indicating that lexical processing of the words occurred a...

American Journal of Epidemiology

We thank Dr. Stern (1) for his interest in our work (2). We agree that risk distribution curves are a valuable addition in the assessment of risk prediction models, particularly in the interpretation of reclassification measures. Two identical risk distribution curves that differ in location reflect models with different calibration, and 2 risk distribution curves that differ in dispersion refl...

American Journal of Insanity

This valuable Journal, the chief organ for the discussion of Psychological Opinion in America, is now in its thirty-fourth year of circulation, and therefore may claim to be the oldest journal devoted to mental science in that country. The number for January is replete with interesting matter. Dr. Gray, the Editor of the Journal, commences the Journal with a very able article on ? Pathological ...