Talking to the family.

Activity, talking time, and spontaneous agreement in disturbed and normal family interaction.

Disturbed and normal family triads were compared in their time spent talking during family discussions, number of action units initiated during these discussions, and agreements over questionnaire items independently completed prior to discussion. Normal family systems manifested significantly longer discussion times, and the individual family members could be more clearly differentiated from e...

You Might Transmit COVID-19 Only Via Talking; A Speech Therapy Perspective

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was identified in late 2019 and has gradually spread to all countries. Following the outspread of this virus as a community-acquired disease, many researchers have been trying to identify various factors involved in the transmission of the virus, as well as the ways to prevent its transmission from person to person. For example, researchers have found tha...

Beyond Talking: We Need Effective Measures to Tackle Systemic Corruption and the Power That Allows It to Persist in Health Systems; A Response to Recent Commentaries

The Dark Side of Consumer–Brand Relationship: Do Ideal Self-Congruence, Brand Attachment and Personality Factors Affect Negative Consumer Behaviors?

The present study aims to investigate the effect of ideal self-congruence, brand attachment and some personality factors on the negative behaviors of consumers such as compulsive buying, anti-brand actions, and trash talking. The research population was comprised of customers of four IT service brands including Samsung, HP, Sony, and Apple in Iran. Structural equation modeling approach and PLS ...

Stuttering severity and educational attainment.

PURPOSE This study investigated the relationship between self-reported stuttering severity ratings and educational attainment. METHOD Participants were 147 adults seeking treatment for stuttering. At pretreatment assessment, each participant reported the highest educational level they had attained and rated their typical and worst stuttering severity on a 9-point scale for a range of speaking...

Diversity goals in medicine: it's time to stop talking and start walking.