PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To reveal the decision-making process in patients considering participation in cancer phase I clinical trials. DESIGN Grounded theory approach. SETTING Cancer center in a metropolitan area of Tokyo, Japan. PARTICIPANTS 25 patients with cancer, including individuals who ultimately declined to participate in a phase I trial. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Semistructured intervie...

The current research investigates whether moral obligation and perceived close vs. distant risks of high moderate risk collective actions are associated with willingness to participate in action the case Turkey. Two studies were conducted: one re-placed university students after July 15, 2016 coup d'état attempt (high-risk context; N? = 258) climate ...

We were conducting a pilot study in an area of the U.S. that had a large Hispanic population. I must emphasize that this was a “very” pilot project, funded entirely by our department. The data being gathered were extremely preliminary and would not benefit research participants in any way. In fact, it would probably be more correct to say that this was a “pre-pilot” study although it was approv...

In the United States, a generation and more has passed since widespread sustained political involvement by students in the affairs of the nation, such as the movement to oppose the war in Vietnam. Today’s students and post-doctoral fellows have no first-hand memory of broad, organized efforts to convince the government that represents them to shift its priorities significantly. This has present...

Hypertension is associated with neuroinflammation and increased sympathetic tone. Interference with neuroinflammation by an anti-inflammatory reagent or overexpression of interleukin-10 in the brain was found to attenuate hypertension. However, the cellular mechanism of neuroinflammation, as well as its impact on neurogenic regulation of blood pressure, is unclear. Here, we found that hypertens...

People have argued that the benefits of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing and counselling are so important that participants in HIV surveys must be given their HIV test results and that individuals who decline to receive their test results should be excluded from participation in such surveys.1–3 In early attempts at HIV surveillance, there were many logistical issues that complicated ...

The aim of this project was to evaluate the effect of intensive individual anti-smoking counselling among pregnant women from a Polish urban community with a large representation of socially underprivileged women. The study was conducted between 1 December 2000 and 31 December 2001. Out of 204 women who were asked to take part in a midwives-assisted program of educational counselling to stop sm...

In February and March 1998 I conducted a survey about Papanicolaou smear screening at the Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women (BCCW). At the time of the nursing intake interview, the admitting nurse asked every inmate being admitted to participate. Inmates who agreed to participate completed an anonymous written survey. Of the 136 inmates asked to participate, 100 (74%) completed the survey. ...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the study was to establish the prevalence of hypertension and to assess determinants of blood pressure with special reference to socioeconomic status in a rural south Indian community. DESIGN This was a door to door, cross sectional survey. SETTING A rural south Indian community, KV Kuppam panchayat, North Arcot District, Tamil Nadu. SUBJECTS The area has a tot...

Breastfeeding is considered an important strategy for survival in infancy. Consequently, strategies have been developed mainly directed towards health professionals. The scope of the study was to identify the frequency and duration of breastfeeding among professionals of a Family Health Program in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. It is a transversal descriptive study conducted between Se...