OBJECTIVES Empathy and empathic response are receiving greater attention in pain research as investigators acknowledge that other forms of interaction may impact the pain process. The purpose of this study was to examine validation and invalidation as forms of empathic and nonempathic responses in chronic pain couples. METHODS Participants were 92 couples in which at least one spouse reported...

background; reproduction is an important population concept throughout the world, and demographists consider it among four main life events. given iran's population growth policy, this study was conducted to assess the tendency to pregnancy in women in zanjan. method; from among health centers in five geographical districts in zanjan (north, south, east, west, and center), one was randomly...

The objective of this study was to examine the association of women's cancer screenings with both personal and spouses' smoking status, as well as with the broader context of household smoking, in a United States national-level sample of women aged 42-75 years. Data were from the 1994 National Health Interview Survey Health Promotion Supplement. The sample included 1586 women who reported they ...

This study examined spouse correlations in a 9 of 93 married couples with respect to 16 interpersonal dimensions using three different data sources: self-report, spouse ratings, and independent interviewer-observer ratings. Results across all three sources supported the previously obtained low positive correlations between spouses. Partial correlations using age and hierarchical multiple regres...

BACKGROUND The caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) play a key role in their management. Half of them are spouses. This involvement may alter their own health, leading to exhaustion and depression. Since 2010, general practitioners (GPs) have been invited in France to offer an annual specific medical support to spouse caregivers. The aims of this study were to understand their e...

BACKGROUND The Health and Retirement Study is a national sample of Americans older than 50 years and their spouses. The present study evaluated cross-sectional and longitudinal data from January 2000 through December 2006. The objective of the study was to evaluate the roles of spouse-rated vs self-rated health as predictors of all-cause mortality among adults older than 50 years. METHODS A t...