OBJECTIVE To ascertain the prevalence of menstrual problems in adolescent girls and their health-seeking behaviour. DESIGN Questionnaire survey on menstruation, menstrual problems, medical consultation, and factors influencing girls seeking medical care. SETTING Secondary schools in the catchment area of a tertiary teaching hospital in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS A total of 5609 girls from 10...

Startle is a basic alerting reaction common to all mammals. A rapid reflex not amenable to voluntary control, it was studied extensively by Strauss in 1929 [1], and is the subject of a monograph by Landis and Hunt [2] and a more recent study by Gogan [3]. In the human adult, except for minor interpersonal variations, a stereotyped motor pattern is seen consisting of eye blinking facial grimacin...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to investigate anger in elderly patients with depressive disorders. METHODS The subjects included 216 elderly patients with depression and 198 controls. All subjects were assessed by the State and Trait Anger Inventory (STAXI), Aggression Questionnaire (AQ), Reaction Inventory (RI). RESULTS Elderly patients with depressive disorder showed lower levels of t...

When a risky decision involves both skill and chance, success or failure provides information about the decision maker’s skill. Using standard models from the principal—agent literature, we show that a concern for skill reputation can help explain the central prediction of prospect theory that people tend to overweight small probabilities and underweight large probabilities. When the odds of su...

INTRODUCTION A prolonged feeling of shame leads to particularly negative consequences and it accompanies, as well as triggers, any kind of stigma. AIM AS EMPIRICAL WORKS ON SHAME DUE TO STIGMATIZING DISEASES ARE SCARCE, THE AUTHORS AIMED TO INVESTIGATE THE FOLLOWING: 1) which diseases are perceived as the most embarrassing, and 2) what level of shame is attributed to the embarrassing diseases...