BACKGROUND We recently demonstrated that a targeted psychological intervention has quality of life, mood, and social intimacy benefits for patients awaiting lung transplantation. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of the patient's participation in treatment on caregiver functioning. DESIGN AND INTERVENTION Caregivers of patients participating in a randomized clinical trial designed to compare...

Emerging adulthood, the new period which is especially prevalent in the developed or industrialized countries during ages 18 to 29, is a new conceptualization proposed by Arnett. Intimacy is a superordinate concept which includes intimate interaction and intimate relationship. This study includes two proceses which are scale development and conduction of gender differences about markers of star...

The structure of mutualistic networks provides clues to processes shaping biodiversity [1-10]. Among them, interaction intimacy, the degree of biological association between partners, leads to differences in specialization patterns [4, 11] and might affect network organization [12]. Here, we investigated potential consequences of interaction intimacy for the structure and coevolution of mutuali...

abstract background: in the age of communication and media that families are rapidly driven towards using satellite channels and other media, considering family health in this regard is essential. a determinant of health is marital satisfaction. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between watching satellite channels and intimacy and marital satisfaction in isfahan, iran. m...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to develop a prediction model for suicide attempts in Korean adolescents. METHODS We conducted a decision tree analysis of 2,754 middle and high school students nationwide. We fixed suicide attempt as the dependent variable and eleven sociodemographic, intrapersonal, and extrapersonal variables as independent variables. RESULTS The rate of suicide attempts of the ...