Background: Diabetes is one of the major health issues worldwide and a challenge for health care providers. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the status of psychological adjustment and associated factors in patients with type 2 diabetes in Zanjan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on 350 patients with type 2 diabete...

background : social, occupational and emotional adjustment of oncology nurses were assessed and compared with other nurses in this study. subjects and methods: one hundred nurses including oncology nurses (n=50) and non-oncology nurses (n=50) participated in cross-sectional study conducted in shariati hospital. bell's adjustment inventory was used to measure social, emotional and occupational a...

Parents and adolescents often hold discrepant views about the family environment and these discrepancies may in turn influence adolescents' psychological adjustment. The current study examined how adolescent-parent perceptions of family routines and chaos, and their congruence and incongruence, relate to adolescents' self-reported psychological adjustment (depressive symptoms and perceived stre...

Adult (age 30) educational, economic, and social-emotional adjustment outcomes were investigated for participants in the Abecedarian Project, a randomized controlled trial of early childhood education for children from low-income families. Of the original 111 infants enrolled (98% African American), 101 took part in the age 30 follow-up. Primary indicators of educational level, economic status,...

Hooking up is defined as a physical encounter between two people who are not romantically committed. This study explored whether there were subgroups of young adults with unique reactions to hooking up (N = 879). Psychosocial predictor variables (gender, depression, loneliness, intoxication level, college adjustment, and hope for a committed relationship) were investigated along with emotional ...

Based on the physical randomization of completely randomized experiments, in a recent article in Statistics in Medicine, Rigdon and Hudgens propose two approaches to obtaining exact confidence intervals for the average causal effect on a binary outcome. They construct the first confidence interval by combining, with the Bonferroni adjustment, the prediction sets for treatment effects among trea...

This paper investigates the cross-occupation effect of offshorability on wage rates by examining the occupation switching behavior of workers previously employed in highly offshorable occupations. Instead of looking at the labor market for occupations that are traditionally vulnerable to import competition, we study the destination occupations for the workers displaced from import-competing sec...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Polypill and its role in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention has been extensively discussed and debated since the inception of the concept in 2003. This article reviews the subsequent accumulated research in this area. RECENT FINDINGS Several short and intermediate to long-term studies with different brands of polypills have analysed the impact of polypill in phase II an...