Using 2003 Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) data for Medicare and Medicaid certified facilities (N = 14, 184) and multinomial logistic regression this study investigated if (1) psychosocial care quality was better in facilities where State requirements for qualified social services staffing exceeded Federal minimum regulations and (2) facility service environments are associate...

Psychosocial resources may serve as an important link to explain socioeconomic differences in health. Earlier studies have demonstrated that education, income and occupational status cannot be used interchangeably as indicators of a hypothetical latent social dimension. In the same manner, it is important to disentangle the effect of measuring different constructs of psychosocial resources. The...

BACKGROUND Chronic psychosocial stress and serum uric acid (SUA) level have been implicated in the etiology and cardiovascular events risk factors in hypertension. Studies have reported significant benefit of exercise in the overall management of hypertension. However, studies on the effect of exercise on psychosocial stress and SUA in the management of hypertension seem scanty. AIM The aim o...

BACKGROUND Limited evidence supports a possible association between a person's perception of their weight status and their quality of life (QoL). This study evaluates whether misperception around weight status is associated with QoL and the impact of gender on this association. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of Australian adults (n = 1,905 analysed) collected self-reported height and weight...

This study examines the relationship between psychosocial functioning and subjective experience in 193 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder according to Research Diagnostic Criteria. Psychosocial functioning was measured as work functioning, social functioning, living situation, symptomatology, and intrapsychic aspects of the deficit syndrome. Subjective experien...

OBJECTIVE Few studies have been published on the influence of psychotherapy on the physical and psychosocial course of Crohn's disease (CD). METHODS The present study, a prospective, randomized multicenter investigation conducted with 108 of 488 consecutive CD patients, was designed to investigate the influence of short-term psychodynamic therapy and relaxation in addition to a standardized g...