OBJECTIVE To determine the independent and cumulative contributions of diabetes and other life stresses on depression and anxiety in Latino and European-American (EA) patients with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 75 Latino and 113 EA patients with type 2 diabetes, recruited from managed care settings, were assessed regarding three groups of potential stresses: demographics (a...

The handling of conflicts of interest in the area of healthcare products and technology has become a major issue for all of those involved in healthcare. Round Table N°4 at the Giens Workshops 2011 has put forward concrete proposals to clarify and optimise the handling of conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest cannot be defined by the indiv...

We extend previous work on Delegation Logic (DL) [11, 12], a tractable and practically implementable logic-based language for authorization in large-scale, open, distributed systems. We expressively generalize the previous version of DL (called D1LP) to have nonmonotonic expressive features, including negation-as-failure, classical negation, and prioritized conflict handling. The resulting form...

Objectives: Violence is a widespread problem that occurs all over the word among all ages, genders, races, educational level and socio- economic groups.  The aim of this study was to investigate modeling of different processes that could account for the link between experiencing spouse abuse in women and psychology, psychopathology, social and demographic factors. Methods: Data were gathere...

OBJECTIVES Assess mental health outcomes among women raising children from sexual violence-related pregnancies (SVRPs) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and stigma toward and acceptance of women and their children. DESIGN Participants were recruited using respondent-driven sampling. SETTING Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012. PARTICIPANTS 757 adult women raising children f...

BACKGROUND The technologies currently available to detect the presence of foetal genetic abnormalities are complex, and undergoing prenatal diagnostic testing can have wide-ranging repercussions. Before individuals can decide with certainty whether or not to take these tests, they first need to grasp the many psychosocial and clinical dimensions of prenatal genetic testing. OBJECTIVE To test ...