OBJECTIVE To investigate whether worries about work are linked to people's own cortisol levels and their spouses' cortisol levels in everyday life and whether marital factors may moderate these links. Although research has shown that satisfying marriages can buffer the physiological effects of everyday stress, the specific mechanisms through which marriage influences the processing and transmis...

Hospitalisation and surgery are undoubtedly one of the most difficult experiences the children and their parents have to face. The lack of appropriately provided information about treatment and other hospitalization-related aspects increases anxiety and uncertainty. Besides showing sincere empathy, physicians working with paediatric patients should know the strategies to reduce perioperative st...

BACKGROUND Selecting appropriate controls for studies of genetic variation in case series is important. The two major candidates involve the use of blood donors or a random sample of the population. METHODS We compare and contrast the two different populations of controls for studies of genetic variation using data from parents enrolled in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (...

introduction and objective in addition to control of the disease, improvement of quality of life is important for treatment of the patients suffering from chronic diseases such as thalassemia. the aim of this study was to compare the children with thalassemia and their parents' point of view about the quality of life (qol). materials and methods in this descriptive study, a 90 thalassemia patie...

PURPOSE This is the 2nd article of a companion set (the 1st article being on language and independence). It presents research examining parental perspectives on aspects of impairment in their offspring involving families rearing children with specific language impairment (SLI). METHOD The same sample as that of the 1st study participated in this investigation: a total of 238 parents and their...