conclusions the findings indicate the lack of mutual understanding between health care providers and victims of sexual violence in relation to the expectations and priorities of victims. patients and methods this was a qualitative study based on the grounded theory method. the sample consisted of 23 health care providers and 10 victims of sexual violence. unstructured interviews and observation...

Psychological consequences of infertility issues, one of the problems is that infertile couples face and neglect of these adverse effects will follow. The most important of these psychological issues can be traced to marital intimacy. This study was a quasi-experimental with a pretest posttest design. The study population consisted of infertile couples who were referred to counseling center of ...

Many patients with bipolar disorder (BD) have difficulties in facial emotion recognition, which may also be impaired in maltreated children and in subjects who have a positive history of childhood traumatic experiences. Childhood trauma is reported with a high prevalence in BD and it is considered a risk factor for the disorder. As the relationship between facial emotion recognition and childho...

AIM Up to today, little attention and training has been paid, in the Italian dental field, to a dramatically widespread problem, childhood abuse and neglect (CAN). Our research fits into a current of thought on alerting physicians, not only paediatricians, to the problem of abused children. Violence is often part of neglect and carelessness toward children, and it often also concerns their pers...

Visual neglect is a relatively common deficit after brain damage, particularly strokes. Cancellation tests provide standard clinical measures of neglect severity and deficits in daily life. A recent single-case study introduced a new variation on standard cancellation. Instead of making a visible mark on each target found, the patient made invisible marks (recorded with carbon paper underneath,...