PURPOSE Motivational interviewing (MI) is a patient-centered approach focusing on building intrinsic motivation for change. This paper presents a meta-analysis of parent-involved MI to improve pediatric health behavior and health outcomes. METHODS Study inclusion criteria: (1) examined modifiable pediatric health behaviors (< 18 years old); (2) used MI or motivational enhancement; (3) conduct...

INTRODUCTION Our objective was to analyze the effect of spironolactone on cardiac remodeling after experimental myocardial infarction (MI), assessed by matricellular proteins levels, cardiac collagen amount and distribution, myocardial tissue metalloproteinase inhibitor-1 (TIMP-1) concentration, myocyte hypertrophy, left ventricular architecture, and in vitro and in vivo cardiac function. MET...

This research is aimed at examining high school students’ attitudes towards e-learning. Also, the current study investigated effects of online learning on general English. To achieve these objectives, Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was administered to 73 students, and 50 them who were intermediate level selected as participants. Then, participants randomly divided into two groups: one exper...

CONTEXT In the developing world, drinking water is an important route for transmission of diarrheal disease, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children. OBJECTIVES In Field Trial 1 (FT1) and Field Trial 2 (FT2), the effectiveness of the behavior change approach known as motivational interviewing (MI) was compared to the standard practice of health education alone in initiating and...

BACKGROUND Whether mechanical restraint of the left ventricle (LV) can influence remodeling after myocardial infarction (MI) remains poorly understood. This study surgically placed a cardiac support device (CSD) over the entire LV and examined LV and myocyte geometry and function after MI. METHODS AND RESULTS Post-MI sheep (35 to 45 kg; MI size, 23+/-2%) were randomized to placement of the Co...

BACKGROUND We examined the effects of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells (BMDMNCs) on preventing viable myocardium damage from myocardial infarction (MI) in a rat MI model. METHODS AND RESULTS Saline (group 1) or BMDMNCs (group 2) were implanted into the infarct area (IA) of 1-week-old anterior wall MI Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats. Twenty SD rats without MI served as the controls (group 3). Th...

BACKGROUND Although clinical diabetes mellitus is obviously a high risk factor for myocardial infarction (MI), in experimental studies disagreement exists about the sensitivity to ischemic injury of an infarcted myocardium. Recently, our group demonstrated that diabetic animals presented better cardiac function recovery and cellular resistance to ischemic injury than nondiabetics. In the presen...

BACKGROUND There were few studies on the relation between the body surface distribution of high- and low-frequency components within the QRS complex and ventricular tachycardia (VT). METHODS AND RESULTS Eighty-seven signal-averaged ECGs were obtained from 30 normal subjects (N group) and 30 patients with previous anterior myocardial infarction (MI) with VT (MI-VT[+] group, n = 10) or without ...

A thiol-specific electroactive cross-linker, N-(2-ethyl-ferrocene)maleimide (Fc-Mi), has been used to tag surfaceconfined peptides containing cysteine residues or oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) whose 3’ ends have been modified with thiol groups. The peptides studied herein include both the oxidized and reduced forms of glutathione and a hexapeptide. Cyclic voltammograms (CVs) of the Fc-Mi groups ...