BACKGROUND Aquagenic pruritus (AP) occurs during or after contact of the skin with water such as occurs in bathing. METHODS This study aims to describe the prevalence of aquagenic pruritus in a young adult population and describe the circumstances of bathing.A Population-based cross sectional study involving administration of Questionnaires to young adult Nigerians on the occurrence of prurit...

The term ‘‘adherence’’ broadly refers to the relationship between patient behaviors and the recommendations of the healthcare team. Among adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology patients between the ages of 15 and 39 years, non-adherence is likely a factor in medical as well as psychosocial outcomes, both of which may be inferior among AYAs as compared to younger or older patients with cancer...

Due to advances in medicine, many young adults with complex chronic conditions are now able.to reach the age when they must transition from pediatric to adult care. But preparation for these transitions is often inadequate--for patients and their families, as well as for adult providers. As a result, many needs (clinical, psychosocial, and educational) may not be met, and patients and their fam...

Zatsiorsky et al. (in Contemporary Problems in Biomechanics, pp. 272-291, CRC Press, Massachusetts, 1990a) obtained, by means of a gamma-ray scanning technique, the relative body segment masses, center of mass (CM) positions, and radii of gyration for samples of college-aged Caucasian males and females. Although these data are the only available and comprehensive set of inertial parameters rega...

This research asked whether performance engendered by contextual control procedures would generalize to novel matching-to-sample stimulus arrangements. Two studies were conducted with young adult participants. In Study 1, participants first were trained to perform the contextually controlled conditional discrimination, X-AB, where the sample-comparison relations A1B1 and A2B2 were reinforced in...

Dustin and Auerbach7 considered that lymphocytes initially arose from the el)ithelium of the thymus anlage, while Maximow thought they were derived from associated mesenchymal cells.8 In the adult thymus, the lymphocytes would come chiefly from divisions of preexisting lymphocytes and occasionallv from reticular ceIls2,6,M ( which may he either epithelial or mesenchyrnalt’). In the course of ou...

This study examined the role of positive and negative appearance-based comments on body dissatisfaction and drive for muscularity among young adult males. The direct and moderating effect of self-esteem were also investigated; and BMI, age, and social desirability were included as covariates. The participants were 214 males aged between 18 and 30 years. More frequent negative comments were asso...

Physical activity is influenced by genetic factors whose expression may change with age. We employed an extension to the classical twin model that allows a modifier variable, age, to interact with the effects of the latent genetic and environmental factors. The model was applied to self-reported data from twins aged 19 to 50 from seven countries that collaborated in the GenomEUtwin project: Aus...

This study sought to analyze the structure of the young adult version of the Quality of Life Scale--QOLS--proposed by Soares in a sample of elderly women, considering more robust psychometric properties. To achieve this Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were conducted using AMOS GRAFICS (version 18.0). The sample was comprised of 143 women aged 67.45 ± 3....

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between two measures that can be used to examine quality life among pediatric burn survivors. DESIGN Prospective, correlational study. SETTING Acute and rehabilitation pediatric burn care facility. PARTICIPANTS Eighty young adult survivors of pediatric burns, who were 18-28 years of age, with burns of 30% or greater, and were at least 2 years after bu...