CONTEXT The use of complementary/alternative medicine has been little studied in Brazil. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of complementary/alternative medicine use among a group of Brazilian cancer patients and correlate these findings with the patients' quality of life. TYPE OF STUDY Descriptive. SETTING Oncology Institute of the Faculdade de Medicina d...

Research indicates that praying for others may offset the effects of stress on self-rated health and psychological well-being. The purpose of the current study is to extend this literature by seeing whether praying for others moderates the effects of exposure to lifetime trauma on a key marker of inflammation: C-reactive protein. The data come from a recent nationwide survey of adults of all ag...

by Coralie Emile Halls, Ph.D. Washington State University

The prestige of Turkish drama series in the world cinema is considered worthy appreciation. Every that presented can grab attention audience. It because some elements such as theme, genre, storyline, and setting. One dramas have caught public Sultan Abdul Hamid II. This study aims to describe illocutionary speech well meaning utterances contained this series. qualitative descriptive research. d...

AIMS This exploratory trial examines the feasibility of implementing a social norms marketing campaign to reduce student drinking in universities in Wales, and evaluating it using cluster randomised trial methodology. METHODS Fifty residence halls in 4 universities in Wales were randomly assigned to intervention or control arms. Web and paper surveys were distributed to students within these ...