• This is largely a result of recognition that adolescents constitute large segments of developing countries' populations, that they are disproportionately affected by negative reproductive health outcomes and that services for adults are not responsive to the needs of adolescents. (guttmacher.org)
  • 6 Without such evidence, it has been difficult to convince policymakers that these programs are likely to improve the health outcomes of young people, or, at least, to do no harm. (guttmacher.org)
  • Evidence regarding the outcomes of such communication, along with their determinants, is however limited. (jmir.org)
  • The aim of this study was to test the impact of nonvisual information factors of video communication on 4 outcomes: trust, comprehension, intentions, and behavior. (jmir.org)
  • This study addresses the research gap regarding the effect of nonvisual information factors on communication outcomes. (jmir.org)
  • The aim of the study is to assess the effect of 3 aspects of the messenger (source) and the message (topic and call to action) on the outcomes (trust, comprehension, intentions, and behavior) of pandemic video communication. (jmir.org)
  • Retinoblastoma is a compelling disease model to illustrate the potential insights afforded in theory-informed approaches to improve outcomes that integrate public health and oncology perspectives, prioritizing both health service delivery and social efficacy for cure. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These nontraditional hazards may affect work and health outcomes directly, or through effects on health behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • The cumulative impacts of both traditional and nontraditional hazards on health-related outcomes among construction workers are largely unknown. (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: We conducted a survey among apprentice construction workers to identify relationships between work organization and environmental factors with five outcomes of economic relevance to employers: missed work due to work-related injury, missed work due to any pain or injury, self-reported workability, health-related productivity, and use of prescription medications for pain. (cdc.gov)
  • Multivariate Poisson regression models found associations between the outcomes of interest and multiple work factors, including job strain, safety behaviors of coworkers, and mandatory overtime. (cdc.gov)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Findings from this cross-sectional study suggest that work organization and environment factors influence health and work outcomes among young construction trade workers. (cdc.gov)
  • Future work with longitudinal data will examine the hypothesized paths between work factors, health behaviors, health outcomes, and work outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • The prevailing explanation in the scientific literature is the social stress model, which posits that social stressors - such as stigmatization and discrimination - faced by members of these subpopulations account for the disparity in mental health outcomes. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Studies show that while social stressors do contribute to the increased risk of poor mental health outcomes for these populations, they likely do not account for the entire disparity. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • We turn first to the evidence for the statistical links between sexual identities or behaviors and mental health outcomes. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • However, researchers can study the correlations between sexual behavior, attraction, or identity and mental health outcomes, though there may be - and often are found to be - differences between how sexual behavior, attraction, and identity relate to particular mental health outcomes. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • We used t-test and logistic regression models to explore the relationship between IPV domains and specific sexual risk behavior outcomes using SPSS 21. (safetylit.org)
  • We conclude that outreach and educational efforts to change safety behaviors regarding confined-space hazards should be strategically targeted for each region based on predicting factors. (cdc.gov)
  • A robust and growing body of research examines the relationships between sexuality or sexual behaviors and mental health status. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) and risky sexual behaviors are serious and overlapping public health problems that disproportionately affect drug-involved women. (safetylit.org)
  • Despite the fact that drug-using women experience extensive IPV, to date, no studies have investigated the association of IPV and risky sexual behaviors among drug-using women in Iran. (safetylit.org)
  • It can sometimes affect a person's behavior regarding his or her health, contributing to a delay in or neglect of measures that might prevent cancer. (cancer.gov)
  • If there are immediate health and safety concerns surrounding a person's behavior because of written or spoken threats, previous violence or abuse, violations of the law or university policy, or possession of firearms or other weapons, you should call the William & Mary Police Department by dialing 911 or (757) 221-4596. (wm.edu)
  • to a more patient-centered oral individuals, and the oral mucosa among other health delivery systems that focus on a person's functions, serves as a protective barrier against social, emotional and physical experience. (who.int)
  • Internet-based interventions used to prevent mental health disorders have several advantages. (jmir.org)
  • Interventions that adapt to indigenous traditions can be both acceptable to communities and associated with significant changes in young people's behavior. (guttmacher.org)
  • Reproductive health interventions targeted at adolescents are a relatively new phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the first programs having been established in the late 1970s. (guttmacher.org)
  • More recently, studies in Sub-Saharan Africa have focused on changes in knowledge and attitudes, and to a lesser extent, in behavior, related to youth programs-most of which are peer education interventions. (guttmacher.org)
  • An important part of tackling this challenge is knowledge of the value of health itself together with the more easily measured costs and benefits of health interventions, such as medical expenses and changes in productivity. (springer.com)
  • Policies that affect individuals' body weight alter individual well-being, which is likely to weigh heavily in many cost-benefit or cost-utility analyses, leaving studies that exclude or miscalculate benefits of health interventions severely biased. (springer.com)
  • Interventions that emphasize positive social support to counteract negative cultural influence, as well as interventions to reduce structural barriers, would both be particularly effective to increase mental health treatment-seeking behavior. (emory.edu)
  • Complementary and integrative health nonpharmacologic mind and body interventions are commonly being used by doctors of chiropractic, osteopathic physicians, and physical therapists to alleviate and manage pain in adults [ 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Additionally, a goal of the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health is to improve complementary and integrative interventions' efficacy for alleviating pain by identifying their mechanisms of action [ 18 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • 4 Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, many policymakers fear that discussing family life or sex education will encourage young people to experiment with sex and may increase risky sexual behavior. (guttmacher.org)
  • CONCLUSION: The findings revealed that in Iran drug-involved women experience high rates of IPV and that IPV is associated with increased risky sexual behavior. (safetylit.org)
  • Overall, this review highlights recent breakthroughs in cognitive mapping, model-based analysis of behavior/risky decision-making, patterns of drug taking, relapse, and neuromarker discovery, and showcases the benefits of novel modeling techniques, across both preclinical and clinical data. (bvsalud.org)
  • Modification of the Theory of Planned Behavior shows that subjective norms are a powerful predictor of mental health treatment-seeking behavior within this general population. (emory.edu)
  • Research has shown that the social determinants related to worse psychological responses to the pandemic include being female, age, previous mental health diagnosis, lower income, racial and ethnic disparities, poor subjective and objective health status, and being a healthcare worker ( 10 - 13 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Path analysis suggested that health-risk behaviors completely mediated the effect of perfectionism on subjective happiness. (bvsalud.org)
  • High levels of perfectionism were associated with high levels of health-risk behaviors, and high levels of addictive behaviors were associated with low levels of subjective happiness. (bvsalud.org)
  • With $2.3 million from the National Institutes of Health, Emory University psychological scientist Rohan Palmer is searching for the genetic influences that leave some individuals particularly vulnerable to addiction. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Lerman C, Kash K, Stefanek M: Younger women at increased risk for breast cancer: perceived risk, psychological well-being, and surveillance behavior. (cancer.gov)
  • The modified Integrated-Change Model [ 4 , 5 ] highlights how the 4 dimensions of health communication outcome (emotion, awareness, motivation, and action) are influenced by both factors related to the communication (eg, design of message and choice of source) and factors inherent in the receiver (eg, biological and psychological factors). (jmir.org)
  • As we showed in Part One , explaining the exact biological and psychological origins of sexual desires and behaviors is a difficult scientific task, one that has not yet been and may never be satisfactorily completed. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Business, education, government/military, health care and technology all benefit from understanding the psychological impacts of living in a digitally connected world. (nsu.edu)
  • One of the major problems with adolescent reproductive health programs in the developing world has been the lack of rigorous evaluation of their impact on young people's knowledge, attitudes and behavior. (guttmacher.org)
  • The result can assist agricultur al safety and health professionals in targeting agricultur al producers' social networks to address human factors such as worker attitudes and/ or lack of skills or knowledge that effect hazard perceptions of confined spaces in agricultur e. (cdc.gov)
  • Currently, there are limited studies exploring this specific demographic and their attitudes towards mental health. (emory.edu)
  • The aim of this study was to find out whether data gathered before and during/after the lockdown among in-patients with major depression differ with regard to psychosocial health, physical activity and related attitudes and to establish whether baseline data have been affected by the lockdown. (frontiersin.org)
  • mental component of health-related quality of life, p = 0.64), self-reported physical activity ( p = 0.16) and explicit as well as implicit attitudes toward physical activity ( p = 0.94). (frontiersin.org)
  • Study the influence of digital technology on our attitudes, behaviors, beliefs and interactions in the cutting-edge field of cyberpsychology. (nsu.edu)
  • A community sample of 480 adult residents of Panama completed a survey that included sociodemographic questions, COVID-19 related questions (e.g., health concerns regarding the virus, knowledge and behaviors in biosafety) and scales of stress, anxiety, depression, prosocial behavior, resilience, perceived social support, and insomnia. (frontiersin.org)
  • Major depression is a psychiatric disease associated with physical inactivity, which in turn affects mental and physical health. (frontiersin.org)
  • Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric disease that affects 10-15% of people worldwide at least once in their lifetime ( Lépine and Briley, 2011 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • The first half of this part discusses the associations of sexual identities or behaviors with psychiatric disorders (such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and adjustment disorders), suicide, and intimate partner violence. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Videos have been an important medium for providing health and risk communication to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. (jmir.org)
  • Public health officials, health care professionals, and policy makers have used videos to communicate pandemic-related content to large parts of the population. (jmir.org)
  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated restrictions on mental health is being studied. (frontiersin.org)
  • 60%) reported being negatively affected by the pandemic. (frontiersin.org)
  • In addition to traditional hazards for workplace injury and illness, other threats to health and well-being may occur from work organization and work environment factors, including irregular employment, long commutes, long work hours, and employer policies regarding health and safety. (cdc.gov)
  • Multivariate analysis was used to assess whether the project was associated with changes in young people's sexual initiation, safer-sex behavior and discussion of reproductive health issues with adults. (guttmacher.org)
  • The 36-month project was associated with considerable changes in young people's sexual and reproductive health-related behavior, but behavior change differed by gender. (guttmacher.org)
  • Down syndrome) are based on manipulation of behaviors, with much less, or no emphasis on the child's affective experiences or on use of interactions/relationships. (behavior.net)
  • The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent adherence in an Internet-based intervention can be predicted by motivational and volitional factors outlined in the health action process approach (HAPA). (jmir.org)
  • Intentions and behavior appear to be affected to a small extent by the 3 factors tested in this study. (jmir.org)
  • however, no critical synthesis yet exists regarding the extent and strength of these relationships. (mdpi.com)
  • Matthews' research accomplishments have included seminal work on childhood antecedents of coronary heart disease risk, women's health and menopause, and the effects of socioeconomic status on health. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • and may prevent long-term health problems, such as coronary heart disease, cancer, and stroke. (cdc.gov)
  • Trust was positively influenced by an expert source (2.5%), whereas a nonexpert source instead had a positive effect on the proxy for behavior (5.7%) compared with the expert source. (jmir.org)
  • Despite a societal mind shift to educating the public on the prevention of health risk behaviour, behavioural change is not progressing at the rate needed to influence health risk behaviour positively. (researchgate.net)
  • Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975 (World Health Organization, 2021 ) and in Europe one in three school-aged children, and almost 60% of the adult population, are now living with overweight or obesity (WHO European Regional Obesity Report, 2022 ). (springer.com)
  • As we will see, social stressors such as harassment and stigma likely explain some but not all of the elevated mental health risks for these populations. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • These limitations have led researchers to focus largely on non-monetary measures such as health-related quality of life (HRQoL). (springer.com)
  • Postpartum depression leads to increased costs of medical care, inappropriate medical care, child abuse and neglect, discontinuation of breastfeeding, and family dysfunction and adversely affects early brain development. (aap.org)
  • State chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics, working with state Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) and maternal and child health programs, can increase awareness of the need for perinatal depression screening in the obstetric and pediatric periodicity of care schedules and ensure payment. (aap.org)
  • Maternal and paternal depression affect the whole family. (aap.org)
  • Stalking and threats affect victims' mental health, including increased depression, PTSD, and panic attacks. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Self-perceived health status and self-perceived social support were negatively associated with depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. (frontiersin.org)
  • Compared to the general population, non-heterosexual and transgender subpopulations have higher rates of mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, and suicide, as well as behavioral and social problems such as substance abuse and intimate partner violence. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Four main themes emerged: mental health understanding, positive support systems, negative influence of cultural values, and structural barriers. (emory.edu)
  • These themes all contribute to institutional and attitudinal barriers that may be related to low mental health service use. (emory.edu)
  • Given that barriers to appropriate and timely diagnosis and treatment represent main contributors to mortality in children with retinoblastoma in resource-limited settings such as certain areas in Africa, an important priority is to overcome barriers to cure that may be predominantly socially influenced, alongside health delivery-based improvements. (biomedcentral.com)
  • While Stages of Change models have been effectively utilized in cancer screening programs within settings of economic and cultural barriers, this application of health behavior theory has been limited to cancer screening rather than a comprehensive framework for treatment completion. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Social stress is typically the most frequent type of stressor that people experience in their daily lives and affects people more intensely than other types of stressors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Future directions for research should include examining the effect of migration year on acculturative stress experiences, as well as gathering more accurate prevalence data for this demographic. (emory.edu)
  • Psychosocial health was measured with questionnaires pertaining to stress, sleep and health-related quality of life. (frontiersin.org)
  • Although the findings suggested that improvements in condom use increased among those who had been in contact with peer educators, it was not clear whether a selection effect influenced this result. (guttmacher.org)
  • This study used thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews to yield findings about mental health treatment-seeking behaviors. (emory.edu)
  • Administration of LVVA-SM had a short-term, remote antinociceptive effect similar to clinical findings. (hindawi.com)
  • Our findings suggest positive changes in health care seeking behavior of women and families with respect to MNH. (plos.org)
  • Shalleys research focuses on how a variety of social and contextual factors affect individuals and teams creativity. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Because dietary factors 'contribute substantially to the burden of preventable illness and premature death in the United States,' the national health promotion and disease prevention objectives encourage schools to provide nutrition education from preschool through 12th grade (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Three factors were included in the creation of the videos: the topic (exponential growth, handwashing, and burden of pandemics on the health care system), the source (expert and nonexpert), and a call to action (present or absent). (jmir.org)
  • Results suggested that factors affect hazard perceptions differently by region. (cdc.gov)
  • This qualitative study seeks to close this gap by examining the factors that influence mental health treatment-seeking behaviors among immigrant South Asian American women between the ages of 45 and 65. (emory.edu)
  • Review individual, family, and environmental factors that predict health-risk behavior among children and to propose parent-child communication processes as a mechanism to mediate them. (researchgate.net)
  • and facilitate discussion about factors that lead to involvement in health-risk behaviors. (researchgate.net)
  • After comparing MNH service utilization, the two areas were compared using a logistic regression model, to identify the association of different factors with the intervention after controlling for socio-demographic, economic factors and distance of the MWRA residence to a health care facility. (plos.org)
  • Apart from socioeconomic factors, evidence suggests that utilization of these services also depends on timely awareness of health care needs, service availability and accessibility, quality of care, and attitude of facility staff towards clients [2] - [7] . (plos.org)
  • Some, but not all, of these disorders are risk factors for suicide or may influence other types of violent behavior. (wm.edu)
  • They affect al age groups to varying degrees and METHODOLOGY sociodemographic factors are wel known to STUDY DESIGN AND LOCATION contribute to the prevalence of diseases. (who.int)
  • School health programs can help children and adolescents attain full educational potential and good health by providing them with the skills, social support, and environmental reinforcement they need to adopt long-term, healthy eating behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • However, data on the prevalence of mental health disorders in this population is outdated and often only available as disaggregated data for all Asian Americans. (emory.edu)
  • To assess changes in said population regarding psychosocial health and physical activity patterns over time, longitudinal data are needed. (frontiersin.org)
  • A promising method to calculate the monetary value of health and other goods that do not have a revealed market price, and thus facilitate efficiency comparisons between health care and other uses of resources, is the compensating income variation (CIV) method. (springer.com)
  • She is the recipient of a 25th anniversary APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for her groundbreaking research in health psychology. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • These guidelines are based on a synthesis of research, theory, and current practice and are consistent with the principles of the national health education standards (29), the opportunity-to-learn standards for health education (29), the position papers of leading voluntary organizations involved in child nutrition (30), and the national action plan to improve the American diet (31). (cdc.gov)
  • A quasi-experimental research design was used to measure behavioral changes associated with a culturally consistent reproductive health program for young people in Kenya. (guttmacher.org)
  • Research on previous epidemics, such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), documented that these measures are associated with an increase in mental health-related distress ( 2 , 3 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • In March 2020, Swiss state authorities temporarily legislated a lockdown to contain the Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), which influenced health, behavior and research. (frontiersin.org)
  • More research is needed to understand the causes of and potential solutions for these important clinical and public health issues. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • The method is firmly rooted in economic theory (Hicks, 1939 ) and has been used to estimate the monetary value of various non-market goods, although economists have only recently started using it for health-related conditions. (springer.com)
  • These themes were then used to modify the Theory of Planned Behavior to apply to mental health treatment-seeking behaviors in South Asian American women. (emory.edu)
  • These recommendations complement CDC guidelines for school health programs to prevent the spread of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (4), to prevent tobacco use and addiction (5), and to promote physical activity (6). (cdc.gov)
  • Nonetheless, multivariable analysis controlling for confounders such as socioeconomic status revealed that utilization of antenatal care services at health centers and TT vaccination during pregnancy are significantly associated with the intervention. (plos.org)
  • As part of the mid-term evaluation of a Women's Health Care Project, a study was conducted to compare the utilization of maternal and neonatal health (MNH) services in two areas with different levels of service in Punjab, Pakistan. (plos.org)
  • This study was funded by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Islamabad as part of evaluation of the Women's Reproductive Health Care Project. (plos.org)
  • Franklin White is President at Pacific Health & Development Sciences Inc. This firm is engaged primarily in third party monitoring and evaluation of donor funded health development projects. (plos.org)
  • Karen Matthews, renowned for her many contributions to the formation and growth of health psychology, helped set the stage for expansion of the field through her editorship of Health Psychology, advisory roles at National Heart Blood Institute, and through her participation in the landmark National Working Group on Education and Training in Health Psychology. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • At the University of Pittsburgh, she initiated an innovative Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine training program that provided multidisciplinary training to many individuals who later became leaders in the health psychology field. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Studies on the South Asian diaspora in other countries suggest that middle aged women, in particular, are especially at risk for mental health distress. (emory.edu)
  • South Asian American women between the ages of 45 and 65 were recruited to participate in hour-long in-depth interviews discussing their experiences and opinions to better understand their viewpoint of mental health. (emory.edu)
  • within the country the ratio is even higher in remote, rural and underdeveloped areas, largely due to non-availability and low utilization of maternal health services. (plos.org)
  • Collectively, these data reveal a specific neural circuit that regulates impulsivity and provide evidence of a novel function for MCH on behavior. (nature.com)
  • Shalley has also studied group behavior and found that having a lot of personal ties and a diverse social network makes individuals more creative when they are working with others, increasing the teams overall creativity. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • A wide range of polices relating to body weight are justified as a means of fixing market failures such as imperfect information, negative externalities including higher medical cost, irrational behavior, and unanticipated variation in social norms regarding body shape (Philipson, 2001 ). (springer.com)
  • Secondly, to design a health risk behaviour prevention program which adequately equips senior primary school children with the necessary life skills to alter risk behaviour engagement. (researchgate.net)
  • Although the meals served by school food service programs are an important part of a school health program, this report does not provide specific recommendations related to purchasing and preparing food for school meals. (cdc.gov)
  • There is an important distinction between patients' expressed preferences and their actual behavior when it comes to making payments. (hfma.org)
  • Although it's important to communicate with patients based on their expressed preference, as indicated above, it's perhaps even more important to follow up based on their behavior. (hfma.org)
  • INTRODUCTION focus on diseases only (such as caries, periodontitis, Oral health is important to the quality of life of al gingivitis et cetera. (who.int)
  • The purpose of this study was to assess how selected variables affect the confined-space hazard perceptions of farm ers in Utah. (cdc.gov)
  • Norfolk State University is one of the first institutions of higher education in the U.S. to study the ways the digital world affects human behavior and is internationally recognized within the larger cyberpsychology community. (nsu.edu)
  • The material on this site is for informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment provided by a qualified health care provider. (behavior.net)
  • This system would have a positive effect on the health and well-being of the infant and family. (aap.org)
  • Given the decline in behavior by other groups at high school games, the updated " Sportsmanship" course reiterates the critical importance of positive behaviors by everyone - parents, coaches, students, officials and others. (ohsaa.org)
  • With the growing concerns about how bad behavior is affecting recruiting and retention of officials, we felt this course needed to be updated to include some strong messaging in this regard. (ohsaa.org)
  • Because diet influences the potential for learning as well as health, an objective of the first national education goal is that children 'receive the nutrition and health care needed to arrive at school with healthy minds and bodies' (3). (cdc.gov)
  • 3 Few of these programs provide sexual and reproductive health services, perhaps because of discomfort with addressing the needs of unmarried, sexually active adolescents. (guttmacher.org)
  • Information was collected on MWRA knowledge regarding danger signs during pregnancy, delivery, postnatal periods, and MNH care seeking behavior. (plos.org)
  • Better planning was, in turn, associated with higher levels of maintenance self-efficacy, and the latter significantly affected treatment adherence via planning. (jmir.org)
  • The antinociceptive effects of a single LVVA-SM treatment on rat nociceptive behavior during the commonly used formalin test were investigated. (hindawi.com)
  • Most treatment models for mental health problems in children with Developmental Disabilities (DDs) including Autism or Intellectual Disability (e.g. (behavior.net)
  • Body weight is also known to affect individuals' self-esteem and interpersonal relationships, including romantic ones. (springer.com)
  • Soc Work Health Care 19 (2): 45-65, 1993. (cancer.gov)
  • Efficient resource allocation is a challenge within any health-care system. (springer.com)
  • Furthermore, allocation of resources requires efficiency comparisons not only within health-care systems but also between health care and other uses of resources. (springer.com)
  • The limitations further restrict efficiency evaluations to cost-effectiveness analyses that focus on prioritization within health-care systems rather than cost-benefit analyses that compare health care and other uses of resources. (springer.com)
  • While a health delivery-based approach has been a historic focus of retinoblastoma treatments globally and is essential to quality care, this is necessary but not adequate. (biomedcentral.com)