In this study, no empirical evidence was found for the notion that most patients recover memories of childhood sexual abuse because their therapist had suggested to them that they were abused as children. Instead, our data seem to suggest that memory recovery is a spontaneous phenomenon, triggered by abuse-related stimuli. The issue of traumatic versus ordinary memories was investigated by comp...

objective: to study maternal and neonatal outcomes, the nulliparous women submitted to a training program in third trimester. materials and methods: this randomized controlled trial was carried out on 64 nulliparous pregnant women divided into two groups according to their participation including; training group; n=34 or not; n=34. the program consisted of 8 meetings (between the 28 th and the ...

objective: the aim of this study was performed to determine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on psychological flexibility in obese women in isfahan, iran. materials and methods: this was a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test trial with follow-up. the study population was all of the obese women in isfahan in 2014 (bmi≥30).the sample of study was selected by convenience s...

OBJECTIVE To describe physical activity, sedentary behaviors and sleep duration in toddlers' participants of the WIC program in Puerto Rico and assess its association with excessive weight. METHODS This was a cross-sectional analysis of data gathered in the follow-up visit (12 months later) of a longitudinal study among toddlers 12-36 months old participants of the WIC program. In this follow...

OBJECTIVE To assess the evidence for the acceptability and effectiveness of screening women for domestic violence in healthcare settings. DESIGN Systematic review of published quantitative studies. SESRCH STRATEGY: Three electronic databases (Medline, Embase, and CINAHL) were searched for articles published in the English language up to February 2001. INCLUDED STUDIES Surveys that elicited ...

This article describes the development and preliminary validation of a brief questionnaire that assesses exposure to a broad range of potentially traumatic events. Items were generated from multiple sources of information. Events were described in behaviorally descriptive terms, consistent with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV posttraumatic stress disorder stressor crite...

Previous research on anger and childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is largely cross-sectional and retrospective. In this study, we prospectively examined the consequences of expressing anger among sexually abused women in contexts of either voluntarily disclosing or not disclosing a previous abuse episode (n 94). All CSA survivors in the study had documented histories of CSA. These participants and a ...

Telephones are intimate partner abuse (IPA) victims’ easiest and quickest access to help (i.e., 911 calls), support, and court case information.1 A considerable amount of anecdotal research points to cases where victims’ telephones have been damaged or broken, stolen, and even used as weapons by their abusers.2 To a far lesser extent, research has indicated that some IPA offenders break, take, ...

in this article generational attitudes towards gender issue in three generation young, middle age, and elders have been studied and the objective is to answer following questions: 1. are there differences in attitudes towards women between generations? 2. are the attitudes’ differences between rural and urban communities similar? 3. do men and women have different attitudes toward women? analys...