This study examined how child restraint system (CRS) features contribute to CRS installation errors. Sixteen convertible CRS, selected to include a wide range of features, were used in volunteer testing with 32 subjects. Subjects were recruited based on their education level (high or low) and experience with installing CRS (none or experienced). Each subject was asked to perform four child rest...

UNLABELLED Accumulated evidence has shown that renin-angiotensin system has a pivotal role in stress responses. AIM to assess the participation of AT1 receptor in stress-induced modulation of motor activity, nociception and seizure susceptibility in male Wistar rats. MATERIAL AND METHODS AT1 receptor antagonist losartan was administered subcutaneously to rats for 10 days at a dose of 10 mg/...

Results of one year follow-up of children restraint system mandatory use in Italy are exposed: transgression are not pursued and a frequent traumatical pathology for the childhood takes place.

A point prevalence survey among 125 patients in two units of a rehabilitation facility showed that the physical restraint rate was 12.8% (n=16). The survey examined the reason(s) for restraint use, whether its use had been explained, consent obtained and documented, whether the restraint had been appropriately applied and patients monitored during the period when restraint was applied, and whet...

Studies indicate that various measures of dietary restraint show inconsistent relations to bulimic symptomatology. The present study tested the assertion that this is because the scales differ in the extent to which they reflect the success or failure of dietary efforts. This study also tested the competing hypothesis that criterion confounding of the Restraint Scale produced the inconsistent f...

This study sought to examine the complex interactive impact of major stress and minor stressors on the relation between dietary restraint and binge eating. Participants were 497 undergraduate females who completed an online questionnaire that included measures of binge eating (modified version of the bulimia scale of the Eating Disorder Inventory-2; EDI-2), major life stressors (the Social Read...

OBJECTIVE Recent research offers conflicting views of whether women high in dietary restraint are inspired or demoralized after viewing thin-ideal images. We conducted two studies to explore the impact of diet commercials featuring the thin-ideal image on snack food consumption. METHOD In Study 1, 91 high school women watched a sad movie interrupted with diet or neutral commercials. In Study ...