PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between negative emotions and bio-behavioral risk factors among Korean immigrants at risk for type 2 diabetes (T2DM). METHODS Data were collected from 148 Korean immigrant adults who are "at risk" for T2DM as defined by having family history of T2DM in first-degree relatives, body mass index greater than 23, or history of gestat...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence of substance use, sexual behaviours, and suicidal ideation and attempts among adolescents in Guangzhou, China, and to explore the associations between these risk behaviours and demographics. STUDY DESIGN A two-stage stratified cluster sample design produced a representative sample of 12-19-year-old students in Grades 1-6 who attended public middle scho...

BACKGROUND Hopelessness is a strong predictor of suicide which is closely associated with PTSD in war veterans. Previous studies showed that if religious faith in war veterans was weakened it contributed to more extensive current use of mental health services. War trauma experience can weaken religious faith as well as strengthen it. It partly depends on religious coping which can be positive o...

Diagnosis and implant treatment planning in cases where hopeless teeth need to be extracted and immediately replaced with implants are more difficult and challenging than a standard multistage approach. Software and CAD/CAM technologies are becoming increasingly common to help clinicians in their practices. They use data from CT scans of the patient and of a radiographic guide for virtual impla...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of violence-related behaviours among adolescents and the factors associated with it. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional school survey conducted on 4500 adolescent students, using a structured questionnaire. Data were collected using the supervised self-administered questionnaire [a modified version of the Youth Ri...

Our aim for this study was to describe emotional abuse as it is experienced by women living with HIV and AIDS in Malawi. The study was conducted in the Lilongwe district in Malawi and used a descriptive phenomenological approach. Twelve women from two public health care clinics under the Lilongwe District Health Office were interviewed. Violating experiences that scarred the personhood and inhe...

On May 7 this year, a petition called “Help to protect Chinese doctors from violence”, launched by Chinese medical workers, appeared on the website of We The People, asking the American government for seeking the way to interfere the medical violence happened in China. This move was triggered by another violent incident in China against a dentist, who was ultimately stabbed to death. However, i...

Background Each year, 220 000 episodes of self-harm are managed by emergency departments in England, providing support to people at risk suicide. Aims To explore treatment departments, comparing perspectives patients, carers and practitioners. Method Focus groups semi-structured interviews with 79 explored experiences receiving/delivering care. Participants were patients (7 young people, 12 adu...

The themes of Lang Leav's poems are mostly about love, loss and loneliness. Her poetry is very well received by many also said to promote a toxic view love. This paper aims examine the love which we argue contain elements dark Dark divided into 'love as sad notion' hopeless infatuation'. A textual analysis done on selected using Frank Sibley's aesthetic theory objectivism (1959). reveals that '...

abstract introduction: at present, complementary and alternative medicine has brought hope for many hopeless patients. most cancerous patients who also use alternative medicine prefer this combination of alternative and conventional medicine since they are of the opinion that this combination is superior to either alone, which can be referred to as raising new hopes. methods: a literature revie...