BACKGROUND Violence against healthcare workers in Palestinian hospitals is common. However, this issue is under researched and little evidence exists. The aim of this study was to assess the incidence, magnitude, consequences and possible risk factors for workplace violence against nurses and physicians working in public Palestinian hospitals. METHODS A cross-sectional approach was employed. ...

BACKGROUND This study explored with a false memory paradigm whether (1) depressed patients revealed more false memories and (2) whether more negative false than positive false recognition existed in subjects with depressive disorders. METHODS Thirty-two patients suffering from a major depressive episode (DSM-IV criteria), and 30 age- and education-matched normal control subjects participated ...

The neural correlates of the processes involved in cueing memory retrieval were investigated using ERPs to unstudied (new) items in a yes/no recognition test (direct memory task) and a semantic judgement task (indirect memory task). Subjects encoded either pictures or auditory words and were tested on visual words. We replicated previous findings that ERPs to correct rejections of new items in ...

Young children respond to their interlocutors more slowly than adults do, and their timing skills tend to break down further as more speakers join the conversation (Lieberman and Garvey, 1977; Garvey and Berninger, 1981; Dunn and Shatz, 1989; Smith, 2010). In learning to time their utterances in an adult-like way, children must firmly grasp timing conventions, the ability to project turn-end bo...

Group decisions must often obey exogenous constraints. While in a preference aggregation problem constraints are modelled by restricting the set of feasible alternatives, this paper addresses the modelling of constraints when aggregating individual yes/no judgments on interconnected propositions. For example, court judgments in breach-of-contract cases should respect the constraint that action ...

The concepts of minimal clinically important improvement (MCII) and patient acceptable symptomatic state (PASS) could help in interpreting results of trials involving patient-reported outcomes by translating the response at the group level (change in mean scores) into more clinically meaningful information by addressing the patient level as "therapeutic success (yes/no)." The aims of the specia...

Schizophrenia patients are often impaired in their memory for emotional events compared with healthy subjects. Investigations of the neural correlates of emotional memory in schizophrenia patients are scarce in the literature. The present study aimed to compare cerebral activations in schizophrenia patients and healthy controls during memory retrieval of emotional images that varied in both val...

This assessment of the quality of the evidence to support a specific answer was selected for 2 reasons: 1) The form is designed to be used in multiple institutions, and it is unknown if and when an individual curriculum would teach a specific level-of-evidence rating system; and 2) when searching for an answer to a question it is important to consider the totality of the evidence and not just t...

The headscarf conceals hair and other external features of a head (such as the ears). It therefore may have implications for the way in which such faces are perceived. Images of faces with hair (H) or alternatively, covered by a headscarf (HS) were used in three experiments. In Experiment 1 participants saw both H and HS faces in a yes/no recognition task in which the external features either r...

OBJECTIVES The research sought to determine the publication types cited most often in public health as well as the most heavily cited journal titles. METHODS From a pool of 33,449 citations in 934 articles published in the 2003-2005 issues of American Journal of Public Health, 2 random samples were drawn: one (n = 1,034) from the total set of citations and one (n = 1,016) from the citations t...