OBJECTIVE To examine whether psychosocial factors play a more important role than biomedical risk factors in predicting adolescent adaptation to sickle cell disease (SCD); to determine whether psychosocial factors moderate the relationship between biomedical risk factors and adaptation. METHODS Ninety African American adolescents from the multisite Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease wer...

Objective: To examine whether psychosocial factors play a more important role than biomedical risk factors in predicting adolescent adaptation to sickle cell disease (SCD) ; to determine whether psychosocial factors moderate the relationship between biomedical risk factors and adaptation. Methods: Ninety African American adolescents from the multisite Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease we...

background: consideration of risk factors of cancer and their clinical consequences is important. the purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive role of psychosocial and demographical risk factors for odds ratio of suffering by of cancer. methods: in a case- control study, 335 included 163 patients with cancers (solid tumors) of those patients that attended to cancer institute hosp...

background: the present study is the one in which a wide range of socio-psychological risk factors were analyzed with a focus on patients with cardio vascular diseases (cvd) in kermanshah, iran. the aim of this study is to assess psycho-social risk factors status in patients with cvd in kermanshah. methods: in this survey 308 subjects (168 men and 140 women), who had been diagnosed as cvd patie...

conclusions as the results of this study show, different factors contribute to different driving behaviors and accidents. the broad scope of these factors links accidents to other social issues and damages. results the findings indicated that in the psychosocial model of driving behavior (including lapses, mistakes, and intentional violations) and accidents, psychological factors, depression (p...

Observational studies indicate that psychologic factors strongly influence the course of coronary artery disease (CAD). In this review, we examine new epidemiologic evidence for the association between psychosocial risk factors and CAD, identify pathologic mechanisms that may be responsible for this association, and describe a paradigm for studying positive psychologic factors that may act as a...

evaluation an etiological model with psychosocial and occupational risk factors has applied implication for therapeutic intervention. this research was aimed to investigate psychosocial and occupational risk factors of musculoskeletal pains among computer users in semnan province of iran . in this cross-sectional study, 324 computer users from governmental offices and private industrial/organiz...