This article was submitted to HR by Douglas L. Beck, AuD, director of professional relations at Oticon Inc, Somerset, NJ; David P. Speidel, MS, director of audiology services, and Michelle Petrak, PhD, audiologist and product manager at Interacoustics, Eden Prairie, Minn. Correspondence can be addressed to [email protected] or Douglas Beck at Oticon Inc, 29 Schoolhouse Road, Somerset, NJ...

Depressive symptomatology was assessed in a sample of 246 male juvenile sex offenders using the Beck Depression Inventory. Of these participants, the racial composition was black = 147, Hispanic = 62, Caucasian = 34. Three adolescents elected not to identify their racial origin. Subjects were divided according to their self-reports of having been sexually or physically abused. The mean Beck sco...

BACKGROUND No standard oral assessment tools are available for determining frequency of oral care in critical care patients, and the method of providing oral care is controversial. OBJECTIVES To examine the effects of a systematic program of oral care on oral assessment scores in critically ill intubated and nonintubated, patients. METHODS Clinical data were collected 3 times during critica...

INTRODUCTION Depression during or shortly after hospitalization elevated two to three times the risk of mortality or nonfatal cardiac events, significantly increasing the morbidity and mortality of these patients. OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of revascularization on symptoms of depression in patients with coronary artery disease. METHODS A prospective cohort study of 57 patients of both s...

Adolf Beck, born in 1863 in Kraków (Poland), joined the Department of Physiology of the Jagiellonian University in 1889, to work directly under the prominent professor in physiology Napoleon Cybulski. Following his suggestion, Beck started studies on the electrical brain activity of animals. He recorded negative electrical potentials in several brain areas evoked by peripheral sensory impulses....

Emergent Team Roles in Organizational Meetings: Identifying Communication Patterns via Cluster Analysis Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Stephenson J. Beck & Simone Kauffeld To cite this article: Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Stephenson J. Beck & Simone Kauffeld (2016) Emergent Team Roles in Organizational Meetings: Identifying Communication Patterns via Cluster Analysis, Communication Studies, 67:1, 37-5...

Methods Subjects without known psychiatric diseases were consecutively recruited from pulmonary and allergy outpatient clinics at the third level hospitals. Diagnosis of asthma and AR was based on GINA and ARIA guideline, respectively. Only patients without asthma were chosen for AR group in order to compare with asthma. Depression and anxiety symptoms were evaluated using Beck Depression Inven...

s | 55 Psychopathology, self-esteem, and self-perceived stigma were also measured using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Beck Hopelessness Scale, and the Korean version of the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness scale (K-ISMI).