OBJECTIVE Insofar as the factor structure of the Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI) among nonclinical participants is unclear (despite very wide use), the present study addressed the factor structure of five EDI subscales (Drive for Thinness, Bulimia, Perfectionism, Interpersonal Distrust, and Maturity Fears). METHOD Relatively large samples of non-patient women who participated in a cohort stu...

The present study adopted an intergenerational approach in examining the association between parental bonding and anorexia nervosa. Forty-three anorexic participants and 33 nonclinical comparison participants completed eating disorder questionnaires and the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI). The participant's parents also completed the PBI. The anorexic participants perceived both parents as le...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate alexithymia, dissociative experiences, and Internet addiction (IA) in a nonclinical sample of 312 undergraduate students, identifying predictive factors associated with the possible risk of developing IA. We found that alexithymics had more consistent dissociative experiences, lower self-esteem, and higher obsessive-compulsive symptoms than nonalexit...

Industry-wide, there is a trend toward making outcome evaluation a routine part of therapeutic services. Although various multidimensional assessments of outcome are valid and reliable, their methodological complexity, length of administration, and cost often render them infeasible for many service providers and settings. The present article describes the development and validation of an ultra-...

Despite the differences in organizational level and training of the new generation of family physicians general practice between the United Kingdom and Croatia shows many similarities. This article highlights some of these similarities and differences. It is written after a visit to the Family Medicine Department at School of Public Health "Andrija Stampar" and observations in various clinics i...

Considerations in rational designs of CPP-based transcutaneous delivery systems are described. Impact of design considerations of nonclinical and clinical results are presented in detail.

an adaptation of standard cognitive-behavioral therapy, for 26 mothers with depression. All mothers were concurrently receiving home visitation services from either a Healthy Families America (HFA) or Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) agency. Pretreatment and posttreatment assessments were conducted using the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD), the Beck Depression Inventory-II ...

M e t h o d s Data sources: MEDLINE (1980 to June 2005) and bibliographies of relevant studies. Study selection and assessment: English-language studies of any design that provided primary data on well-defined PPCs after noncardiothoracic surgery in adults. Excluded were studies with < 25 patients/group; that studied only nonclinical outcomes, identified PPCs by administrative data, or had outc...

OBJECTIVE In response to the current syphilis epidemic among men who have sex with men, the San Francisco Department of Public Health sought to increase syphilis testing by offering testing in nonclinical settings. GOAL The goal of this study was to collaborate with a community-based organization, Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc. (ISIS), to design an innovative, confidential, onl...

The authors explore borderline pathology on a continuum of functioning. Rorschach variables relating to (1) aggression, (2) dependency, (3) object relations, (4) defenses, and (5) boundary disturbance were measured across a nonclinical (NC) and two clinical (borderline patients without self-mutilative behavior = N-BPD, and borderline patients with self-mutilative behaviors = SM-BPD) groups. Res...