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741 A synthesis of what we know about the use of physical restraints and seclusion with patients in psychiatric and acute care settings: 2003 update Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, January 3, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine
742 Empowerment implementation: enhancing fidelity and adaptation in a psycho-educational intervention Health Promotion International, January 3, 2013 Continuing Medical Education
743 Improved nutrition - a pathway to resilience Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, January 2, 2013
744 Enhanced care for depression Current Opinion in Psychiatry, January 2, 2013
745 Staff engagement as a target for managing work environments in psychiatric hospitals: implications for workforce stability and quality of care Journal of Clinical Nursing, January 2, 2013
746 Anxiety and depression in australian chronic hepatitis C outpatients: prevalence and predictors Australasian Psychiatry, January 2, 2013 Review Article
747 Hepatitis C among patients with mental illness in Brazil: an analysis of associated factors General Hospital Psychiatry, January 2, 2013 Review Article
748 Psychometric testing of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy Health Profession Students' version with Australian paramedic students Nursing & Health Sciences, January 2, 2013
749 Factors associated with suicidal ideation: the role of context Journal of Public Health, January 2, 2013 Review Article
750 Measuring illuminance and investigating methods for its quantification among elderly people living at home in Japan to study the relationship between illuminance and physical and mental health Geriatrics and Gerontology International, January 2, 2013 Review Article
751 Resilience and child well-being - public policy implications Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, January 2, 2013
752 Promoting scholarship during child and adolescent psychiatry residency Academic Psychiatry, January 2, 2013
753 The impact of alcohol on Alzheimers disease: A systematic review Aging and Mental Health, January 2, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine
754 A wish to know but not always tell - couples living with dementia talk about disclosure preferences Aging and Mental Health, January 2, 2013
755 Social capital as a resource for mental well-being in older people: A systematic review Aging and Mental Health, January 2, 2013
756 Does aging make employees more resilient to job stress? Age as a moderator in the job stressor-well-being relationship in three Finnish occupational samples Aging and Mental Health, January 2, 2013
757 Violence Exposure as a Predictor of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among Children of Substance Abusers Journal of Pediatric Nursing, January 2, 2013 Review Article
758 Negative affect, delinquency, and alcohol use among rural and urban african-american adolescents: a brief report Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, January 2, 2013 Review Article
759 Optimism and pessimism as predictors of alcohol use trajectories in adolescence Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, January 2, 2013 Review Article
760 Substance use in adolescence and early adulthood: which best predicts violence in early adulthood? Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, January 2, 2013
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health conducted a study involving 96,008 women in the Nurse’s Health Study II with 18 years of follow up, which demonstrated a strikingly strong association with non-fatal cardiovascular disease. There were 2463 participants with psoriasis and 1,709,069 person-years of follow up. There were 713 cases of non-fatal cardiovascular disease (HR=1.55). The HRs for myocardial infarction and stroke were 1.70 and 1.45, respectively. For women with psoriatic arthritis, the HR was 3.47. For women < 40 years of age and psoriasis > 9 years, the HRs were 3.26 and 3.09, respectively.
Read the article summaryAs reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, two cytokine genes (IL-2RA and TNF/LTA) which have been implicated in autoimmune diseases are associated with severe alopecia areata. The study involved 768 patients with alopecia areata and 658 controls, and 26 cytokine genes were genotyped.
Read the article summaryAs reported in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and based on participants in the Nurses’ Health Study, Women’s Health Study, Health Professionals’ Follow-up Study, and Physicians’ Health Study II, total testosterone (RR = 0.62) and SHBG levels (RR = 0.65), and the estradiol:testosterone ratio (RR = 2.63) are associated with colorectal cancer risk in men. An inverse association exists between the estradiol:testosterone ratio (RR = 0.43) and colorectal cancer risk in women.
Read the article summary1 Depressive Symptomatology as a Risk Factor for Falls in Older People: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, April 26, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine Review Article
2 Stress among parents of infants with neural tube defect and its associated factors International Journal of Nursing Practice, April 26, 2013
3 Receipt of Psychosocial Care Among Cancer Survivors in the United States Journal of Clinical Oncology, April 26, 2013
4 Relationship between student nurses' self-efficacy and psychomotor skills competence International Journal of Nursing Practice, April 26, 2013
5 Associations between active commuting and physical and mental wellbeing Preventive Medicine, April 26, 2013
6 Family burden, family health and personal mental health BMC Public Health, March 22, 2013 Free full text Review Article
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