Regular performance of medication reviews is prominent among methods that have been advocated to reduce the extent and seriousness of drug-related problems, such as adverse drug reactions, drug-disease interactions, drug-drug interactions, drug ineffectiveness and cost ineffectiveness. Several screening tools have been developed to guide practising healthcare professionals and researchers in re...

This study examines the relationships between alexithymia and psychological characteristics and behaviors that are commonly associated with eating disorders. The 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) were administered to a group of 48 female patients with anorexia nervosa, a matched comparison group of 30 normal women, and an unmatched comparison gro...

Objective. The aim of this study is to analyse associations between eating behaviour and psychological dysfunctions in treatment-seeking obese patients and identify parameters for the development of diagnostic tools with regard to eating and psychological disorders. Design and Methods. Cross-sectional data were analysed from 138 obese women. Bulimic Investigatory Test of Edinburgh and Eating Di...

Does it Work? This question has been asked for many years about different corrections programs. In particular, the effectiveness of community supervision of offenders who are placed on parole, probation and community based orders has been questioned. Numerous studies in the seventies and eighties pointed to the ineffectiveness of supervision. Various researchers suggested that it does not matte...

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is associated with a range of physical and psychological symptoms that at times are perplexing for young people and their families to understand. For clinicians and patients, understanding the patient’s psychological impairment can impact treatment engagement and outcome. The aim of this study was to explore the psychological profile of adolescent females with AN, includin...

The cone electroretinogram has been examined at different levels of ganzfeld adaptation in normals and subjects with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). As light adaptation increases, the amplitude and time course (measured as b-wave implicit time) of the cone ERG decrease in both normal and RP subjects. The same level of light adaptation, however, decreases the amplitude and the implicit time more in n...

INTRODUCTION The review had the aim of investigating factors enabling or discouraging the uptake of smoking cessation services by pregnant women smokers. METHODS The literature was searched for papers relating to the delivery of services to pregnant or recently pregnant women who smoke. No restrictions were placed on study design. A qualitative synthesis strategy was adopted to analyze the in...

BACKGROUND A combined family study and recovered study design was utilized to examine several hypothesized relationships between personality and bulimia nervosa (BN). METHODS We studied 47 women with a lifetime history of DSM-III-R BN (31 currently ill and 16 recovered), 44 matched control women (CW) with no history of an eating disorder (ED), and their first-degree female relatives (N = 89 a...