OBJECTIVE To examine the relation of children's pain severity, perceived pain threat, and passive coping to maternal worry and family activities. METHODS We assessed pain severity, perceived threat (conceptualized as beliefs about pain seriousness and coping ability), and coping strategies in 130 patients with chronic abdominal pain. Mothers rated the impact of the child's health on maternal ...

Social class is a robust predictor of health, with risk for disease and mortality increasing towards the lower end of the socioeconomic (SES) spectrum. While certain psychological characteristics, such as high sense of control, can protect low-SES individuals from adverse health outcomes, very few studies have investigated the biological mechanisms underlying these relationships. In this study,...

Emerging evidence suggests that perceived injustice is a risk factor for poor recovery outcomes in individuals with whiplash injuries. The present study examined the relative contributions of treatment-related reductions in pain severity, depressive symptoms, and disability in the prediction of reductions in perceived injustice in individuals with whiplash injury. The study sample consisted of ...

BACKGROUND In many clinical, teaching, and research situations it would be useful to have graded scales of the urgency or other subjective properties for clinical situations that can arise during anaesthesia. Such a scale could serve as a reference point for the appropriate mapping of the urgency in audible alarms or visual warnings, provide a basis for training of graduated difficulty during a...

Two studies investigated the phenomenon of obsessive relational intrusion (ORI), defined as repeated and unwanted pursuit and invasion of one's sense of physical or symbolic privacy by another person, either stranger or acquaintance, who desires and/or presumes an intimate relationship. In Study 1, we sought to identify the incidence of a broad range of relationally intrusive behaviors, to iden...

Cyberbullying is a ubiquitous topic when considering young people and internet and communication technologies (ICTs). For interventional purposes, it is essential to take into account the perspective of adolescents. This is the reason why our main focus is (1) investigating the role of different criteria in the perceived severity of cyberbullying incidents, and (2) examining the differences bet...

BACKGROUND Studying medicine is perceived to be stressful, and a high level of stress may have a negative effect on cognitive functioning and mental health of the students. OBJECTIVES In this study, we assessed perceived stress and its severity, sources and determinants. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, we assessed the perceived stress and its severity, sources and demogr...

background: injuries are the first leading but predictable, avoidable and preventable cause of death among under five-year children worldwide. the present study aimed to identify the factors associated with mothers' beliefs and practices concerning injury prevention in under five-year children . methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from august to october 2011 in hamadan county, the...

background: reducing blood pressure through diet decreases the possibility of heart attacks, and lowering blood cholesterol can reduce the risk of coronary artery disease. the aim of the present study was to examine the effects of education based on the health belief model on the dietary behavior of patients following coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg) at the heart surgery department o...