BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus type-2 (DMT-2), the most common endocrine disease in the world, is a major global public health-related issue. Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common non-communicable diseases globally, and there is substantial evidence that it is epidemic in many low- and middle-income countries. It is widely recognized that physical activity is important in preventing and tre...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate patient-perceived benefits from receiving Reiki at a cancer infusion center. METHODS During a 6-month period, adults at a university hospital receiving Reiki through volunteer services were invited to complete a survey asking about perceived changes after Reiki. Changes in pain, mood, distress, sleep, and appetite were rated on a 5-point scale from no benefit to great be...

BACKGROUND We sought to assess self-rated importance of the medical interview to clinical practice and competence in physician-patient communication among new internal medicine faculty at an academic medical center. METHODS Since 2001, new internal medicine faculty at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (Rochester, Minnesota) have completed a survey on physician-patient communication. The sur...

Self-assessment handicap scales are gaining recognition as objective measures of audiologic intervention, including benefit derived from hearing aid use. A short form of the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE-S) comprised of 10 items (5 emotional and 5 social/situational) was administered to 91 new hearing aid users prior to and 3 weeks following hearing aid provision. A significa...

one of the factors influencing the athletes’ performance in critical situations is their awareness of the strategies entailing mental skills. one such skill is self-talk that has been identified as an effective mental training tool in controlling human beings’ behaviors. this study aims to examine the perceived positive and negative effects of self-talk on the athletes’ performance. data were c...

OBJECTIVE More than half of the pacemaker systems now being implanted can be rate adaptively paced. Our objective was to determine which patients benefit from rate-adaptive pacing in terms of improvement in maximum performance and aerobic capacity. METHODS Thirty patients with implanted accelerometer-driven, rate-adaptive pacemakers underwent a standardized, ergospirometrically and maximally ...

of a thesis at the University of Miami. Thesis supervised by Professor Michael H. Antoni. No. of pages in text (68) HIV+ men who have sex with men (MSM) in ethnic minority groups have significantly poorer psychosocial and health-related outcomes as compared with HIV+ individuals in majority groups (e.g. white, heterosexual). The current study seeks to examine a positive psychological pattern fo...