Festive medical myths.

Preventing Alcohol Abuse Through Social Networking Sites: A First Assessment of a Two-Year Ecological Approach

BACKGROUND Prevention strategies to reduce alcohol use/consumption among young people are crucial to reducing alcohol-related deaths and preventing disease. This paper focuses on the effectiveness of a social networking site (SNS) alcohol prevention program targeted toward young people. OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that the program would diminish the relation made by participants between alcohol...

Heroin. The myths and the facts

Habitat: a festive air, serious business.

Parental life satisfaction based on parenting myths

Parents' beliefs and attitudes about parenting have a significant effect on their life satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to assess the satisfaction with life in parents based on parental myths of Iranian parents. To examine the parental myths, two questionnaires of Seidi's parenting myth with 69 questions and Kansas family life satisfaction with 4 items were used. Inferential statisti...

Americans shooting themselves in the foot: the epidemiology of podiatric self-inflicted gunshot wounds in the United States.

OBJECTIVE To examine the epidemiology of Americans shooting themselves in the foot. DESIGN Data from the Firearm Injury Surveillance Study (1993-2010) collected using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System were examined. Non-fatal firearm-related injuries were recorded during patients' initial emergency department visits. SETTING United States hospital emergency departments, 199...