Mothers accused and abused: addressing complex psychological needs

Traffic Signal Systems: Addressing Diverse Technologies and Complex User Needs

In the next millennium, traffic signal systems will need to address many issues, spanning a broad range of technical, social, and political boundaries. With the increase in urbanization and traffic congestion comes a greater demand to operate our roadway systems with maximum efficiency. As traffic volume continues to increase, roadway capacity will increase at a slower rate. New technology, suc...

Physical and psychological symptoms in emotionally abused and non-abused women.

BACKGROUND This brief report compares emotionally abused and non-abused female family practice patients on physical and emotional symptoms, alcohol use problems, and social support problems. METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of data from a cross-sectional, multicenter study of victimization of family practice patients. Forty-seven adult women meeting criteria for emotional abuse (with...

Abused boys, battered mothers, and male involvement in teen pregnancy.

BACKGROUND The relationship between boyhood exposure to physical abuse, sexual abuse, or to a battered mother and subsequent risk of impregnating a teenage girl has not previously been examined. METHODS In a retrospective cohort study set in a primary care clinic for adult members of a large health maintenance organization, questionnaire responses from 4127 men were analyzed. Respondents prov...

physical and psychological needs of mothers staying with their hospitalized child

a field study that measured the fulfillment of physical and psychological needs of mothers staying with their hospitalized child was conducted in ooromieh hospitals during 1993.   a total of 100 mothers whose children were hospitalized took part in this study. the tool was close-ended questionnaire prepared in two parts.   1 the first part focused on demographic data and the second part questio...

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