OBJECTIVE The goal of the present study was to assess the health-related quality of life of a group of family caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury from Guadalajara, Mexico. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ninety family caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury and 83 healthy controls completed the Short-Form 36, a self-report health-related quality of life measure composed o...

background: patients with spinal cord injury (sci) have a lower health related quality of life (hrqol) compared to both healthy controls and the normal population. the aim of this study was to compare hrqol between two groups of veteran and non-veteran sci patients. methods : all male paraplegic non-veterans who had sustained complete sci before 1988 and were residents of tehran province (iran)...

Citation for the original published paper (version of record): Peltzer, K., Phaswana-Mafuya, N., Arokiasamy, P., Biritwum, R., Yawson, A. et al. (2015) Prevalence, circumstances and consequences of non-fatal road traffic injuries and other bodily injuries among older people in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa. African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Preven...

context patients with hepatic dysfunction suffer from many problems and associated complications in organs other than the liver. therefore, it is very important to investigate the effects of different drugs in the treatment of these patients. due to the high consumption of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids), studying the effects of these drugs in patients with hepatic dysfunction is...

Citation: Galli G and Pazzaglia M (2015) Commentary on: " The body social: an enactive approach to the self. " A tool for merging bodily and social self in immobile individuals. A commentary on The body social: an enactive approach to the self The article by Miriam Kyselo titled " The body social: an enactive approach to the self " (Kyselo, 2014) raises a crucial issue and discusses how bodily ...

The purpose of this study was to identify factors that are predictive of, or associated with, high endorsement of postconcussion and posttraumatic stress symptoms following military-related traumatic brain injury (TBI). Participants were 1,600 U.S. service members (age: M = 27.1, SD = 7.1; 95.4% male) who had sustained a mild-to-moderate TBI and who had been evaluated by the Defense and Veteran...

Survival depends to some extent on the ability to detect salient signals and prepare an appropriate response even when attention is engaged elsewhere. Fearful body language is a salient signal of imminent danger, easily observable from a distance and indicating to the observer which adaptive action to prepare for. Here we investigated for the first time whether fearful body language modulates t...

Although dental phobia is classified under the heading of blood-injury phobia, studies show differences between the two conditions in terms of frequency of fainting and gender distribution. Anxiety sensitivity (AS), which refers to discomfort and negative attributions to bodily anxiety sensations, was useful in differentiating panic anxiety from other phobic anxieties. No study has compared den...