BACKGROUND Cancer often progresses very rapidly and either leads to various complications or patients eventually die of the disease. One of important consequences of cancer is depression which can increase the morbidity and mortality in non-treated cases. Religious coping is the use of religious beliefs or practices to reduce distress and deal with problems in life. This study aimed to determin...

Differences in the effectiveness of diverse healthcare providers to promote health behavior change and successful diabetes self-care have received little attention. Because training in naturopathic medicine (NM) emphasizes a patient-centered approach, health promotion, and routine use of clinical counseling on wellness and prevention, naturopathic physicians (NDs) may be particularly well-prepa...

Individuals with Hoarding Disorder (HD)-a dangerous problem and public health concern-are often ambivalent about treatment. Furthermore, family members of those with HD report high levels of distress and often attempt to intervene unsuccessfully. The current study reports outcome data from a pilot study of a new training package-designed exclusively for empowering family members to address a lo...

We all experience feelings related to our uncertainty about the future, such as hopefulness, anxiety, and suspense. Psychologists have long recognized the importance of these anticipatory emotions, with anxiety theory being one of the most dynamic Želds of psychological research. Economists, in contrast, have paid little attention to the anticipatory emotions, and what attention has been paid h...

This study examines the relationship between economic resources, psychosocial well-being, and educational preferences of AIDS-orphaned children in southern Uganda. We use baseline data from a sample of 1410 AIDS-orphaned children (defined as children who have lost one or both biological parents to AIDS) enrolled in the Bridges to the Future study, a National Institute of Child Health and Human ...

It is an extremely commonplace event for a psychotherapy patient to be involved with some form of individual psychotherapy while also being engaged in couples or family therapy. Equally, if not more frequently, patients will be involved serially in systemic and individual treatments, with either type of psychotherapy leading logically and necessarily to the other. These therapies are at times c...

Ten years after the uprising in Syria, millions of its citizens remain displaced and uncertain about their fate. Throughout that period, media coverage ensuing civil war played a major role informing Syrians contributed to altering levels fear anxiety country’s future survival prospects. This study examined legacy media, online interpersonal communication increasing or reducing uncertainty amon...

At the start of year, world was thrown into disarray by a pandemic. The first months 2020 COVID-19 or Corona Virus, which originally appeared in China last December 2019, quickly traveled to Philippines. Locally it had its case on March 7, 2020. While learning must continue throughout epidemic, mindset shift is required for an effective distant experience. Lecturers are gradually adapting remot...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the lived experience and the associated meaning of approaching death among older adults with advanced cancer. RESEARCH APPROACH A phenomenologic inquiry. SETTING Urban cancer center. PARTICIPANTS 5 individuals diagnosed with advanced cancer who were 65 years or older. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH A series of semistructured interviews were tape-recorded, transcribe...

BACKGROUND Use of communication theories in the development of pictorial health warning labels (graphic warning labels) for cigarette packaging might enhance labels' impact on motivation to quit, but research has been limited, particularly among low socioeconomic status (SES) populations in the U.S. This qualitative study explored perceptions of theory-based graphic warning labels and their rol...