objectives: the present research was carried out to investigate the role of psychological structures particularly dysfunctional attitudes with its consequence depression in incidence and severity of coronary heart disease. method: in this research 30 patients (28 males and 2 females) suffering from myocardial infarction and 30 nonpatient individuals (28 males and 2 females) after matching were ...

OBJECTIVE To explore undergraduate medical students' attitudes towards and opinions about leadership and management education. DESIGN Between 2009 and 2012 we conducted a qualitative study comprising five focus group discussions, each devoted to one of the five domains in the Medical Leadership Competency Framework, (Personal Qualities, Working with Others, Managing Services, Improving Servic...

the purpose of this study was to compare various direct techniques of measuring attitudes toward risk. the equally likely certainty equivalent with a purely hypothetical risky prospect (elce-ph), the equally likely certainty equivalent with a hypothetical but realistic risky prospect (elce-r) and probability of winning demanded (pwd) models were used to elicit the risk attitude of a sample ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of smoke alarm use among families with children and to identify household factors that predict the absence of a smoke alarm. DESIGN Cross sectional analysis of data collected in the September and November 1995 Omnibus Survey, conducted by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in the UK. SUBJECTS A random sample of British households. Interviews ...

Background: Not much is known about correlates of HIV-related self-stigma among female sex workers. Using the theory of planned behavior in the Malaysian context, this study investigated the relationships of HIV knowledge, attitudes towards HIV, attitudes towards people living with HIV, perceived social support, self-esteem, and age with HIV-related self-stigma, also how much of the variance in...

BACKGROUND Chagas disease, transmitted domestically by triatomine bugs, is the most important vector-borne disease in Latin America. The association between triatomine infestation and housing characteristics was investigated based on a standardized survey in 41 971 houses in 15 Departments in Colombia. METHODS Multivariate logistic regression was used to test for associations of two highly co...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation in the relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and anxiety sensitivity among students of the islamic azad university of hamadan. the research method was correlation. the statistical population of this study consisted of all the university students from among which 200 students (120 females, 80 ma...