Medical and Biomedical Researches

Knowing too much: using private knowledge to predict how one is viewed by others.

June 28th, 2008
Knowing too much: using private knowledge to predict how one is viewed by others. People have more information about themselves than others do, and this fundamental asymmetry can help to explain why individuals have difficulty accurately intuiting how they appear to other people. Determining how one ...

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Health-engagement control strategies and 2-year changes in older adults’ physical health.

June 28th, 2008
Health-engagement control strategies and 2-year changes in older adults\' physical health. This study examined the associations between older adults\' daily physical symptoms (e.g., chest pain or difficulty breathing) and 2-year changes in chronic health problems (e.g., cardiovascular disease or cancer) and in functional problems (e.g., difficulty ...

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The face of bimodal bilingualism: grammatical markers in american sign language are produced when bi

June 28th, 2008
The face of bimodal bilingualism: grammatical markers in american sign language are produced when bilinguals speak to english monolinguals. Bimodal bilinguals, fluent in a signed and a spoken language, provide unique insight into the nature of syntactic integration and language control. We investigated whether bimodal bilinguals ...

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Misery is not miserly: sad and self-focused individuals spend more.

June 28th, 2008
Misery is not miserly: sad and self-focused individuals spend more. Misery is not miserly: Sadness increases the amount of money that decision makers give up to acquire a commodity. The present research investigated when and why the misery-is-not-miserly effect occurs. Drawing on William James\'s concept of ...

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A very low response rate in an on-line survey of medical practitioners.

June 28th, 2008
A very low response rate in an on-line survey of medical practitioners. Objective: To report on the response rate achieved in a survey of medical practitioners and discuss the reasons for it. Method: An on-line (internet-based) survey of all 609 registered pharmacotherapy prescribers in Victoria and ...

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Data dictionaries - what do they have to do with public health?

June 28th, 2008
Data dictionaries - what do they have to do with public health? While various types of technologies continue to diffuse throughout the health and welfare sectors, there is one in particular that is ubiquitous - the electronic database. Large databases are generally designed by information technology ...

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A review of Australian health privacy regulation regarding the use and disclosure of identified data

June 28th, 2008
A review of Australian health privacy regulation regarding the use and disclosure of identified data to conduct data linkage. Objective: To review Australian legislation about privacy, focusing on provisions within the regulations to conduct health research using identified data and lobby for regulatory change in the ...

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Hospital admissions in the National Health Survey and hospital separations in the National Hospital

June 28th, 2008
Hospital admissions in the National Health Survey and hospital separations in the National Hospital Morbidity Dataset: What is the difference? Objective: To compare the National Health Survey (NHS) derived estimates of hospital admissions with the number of hospital separations registered in the National Hospital Morbidity Dataset ...

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Establishment of a surveillance system (utilising Midwifes Data Collection Systems) for monitoring t

June 28th, 2008
Establishment of a surveillance system (utilising Midwifes Data Collection Systems) for monitoring the impact of hepatitis B vaccination on the population prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Australia. Objective: To examine how routine hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) testing of antenatal women (as identified ...

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Recent trends in risky alcohol consumption and related harm among young people in Victoria, Australi

June 28th, 2008
Recent trends in risky alcohol consumption and related harm among young people in Victoria, Australia. Objective: To examine recent trends in the proportion of young people who drink at risky levels and the rate of alcohol-related harms experienced by young people in Victoria, Australia. Methods: The ...

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Food advertising and self-regulation: A view from the trenches.

June 28th, 2008
Food advertising and self-regulation: A view from the trenches. Objective: This study assessed the logic of arguments advanced when the New Zealand advertising self-regulation complaints board adjudicated a complaint about a food product; in addition, it compared these arguments and the complainant\'s experience of the process ...

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Disparities in edentulism and tooth loss between Māori and non-Māori New Zealand women.

June 28th, 2008
Disparities in edentulism and tooth loss between Māori and non-Māori New Zealand women. Objectives: Tooth loss and edentulism are important negative health outcomes; however, there is little current information about the prevalence of these conditions among adults in New Zealand (NZ). This study describes the dentate ...

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OddSocks at the Melbourne Fringe Festival: A methods paper for using an arts installation in promoti

June 28th, 2008
OddSocks at the Melbourne Fringe Festival: A methods paper for using an arts installation in promoting public health. Installation art involves using everyday objects and spaces in an unusual way to gain attention and encourage interaction. While arts-based projects have the ability to inform and provoke ...

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Rating access to health care: Are there differences according to geographical region?

June 28th, 2008
Rating access to health care: Are there differences according to geographical region? Objective: To report on satisfaction with access to health care in Queensland focussing on regional differences. Methods: A sub-sample of 4440 respondents with no history of cancer from the Queensland Cancer Risk Study who ...

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A comparison of Australian families’ expenditure on active and screen-based recreation using the AB

June 28th, 2008
A comparison of Australian families\' expenditure on active and screen-based recreation using the ABS Household Expenditure Survey 2003/04. Objective: This study aimed to investigate how much households with dependent children spend on active recreation (physical activity) compared with screen-based (sedentary) recreation, according to their household socioeconomic ...

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Changing patterns in women seeking terminations of pregnancy: A trend analysis of data from one serv

June 28th, 2008
Changing patterns in women seeking terminations of pregnancy: A trend analysis of data from one service provider 1996-2006. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess emerging trends in five characteristics: age, first ever pregnancy, contraception at time of conception, contraception choices post-operatively and referral ...

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Immunisation attitudes, knowledge and practices of health professionals in regional NSW.

June 28th, 2008
Immunisation attitudes, knowledge and practices of health professionals in regional NSW. Objective: This study investigated the immunisation knowledge, attitudes and practices among health professionals in two regional Area Health Services of NSW with low and high immunisation rates. It also compared these factors between the areas ...

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Trends in infant/child mortality and life expectancy in Indigenous populations in Yunnan Province, C

June 28th, 2008
Trends in infant/child mortality and life expectancy in Indigenous populations in Yunnan Province, China. Objective: The 2000 Census in China registered 55 groups of Indigenous population, including 104.49 million people, making up 8.1% of China\'s total population. Yunnan Province, located in Southwest China, is the only ...

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The association of infant feeding with parent-reported infections and hospitalisations in the West A

June 28th, 2008
The association of infant feeding with parent-reported infections and hospitalisations in the West Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey. Objective: To examine infant feeding associations with parent-reported infections and hospitalisations in Western Australian Aboriginal infants and children. Method: Families in Western Australia with children under 18 years ...

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Nursing care in the chronic phase of COPD: a call for innovative disciplinary research.

June 28th, 2008
Nursing care in the chronic phase of COPD: a call for innovative disciplinary research. Aim. The literature on nursing care in nurse clinics that focus on chronic management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is analysed and synthesised with the purpose of advancing research of practice ...

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Community nursing services for postdischarge chronically ill patients.

June 28th, 2008
Community nursing services for postdischarge chronically ill patients. Objective. To examine community nursing services for patients with cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and other general medical conditions, making the transition from hospital to home. Design. The original study design was a randomised controlled trial. This study ...

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People with heart failure and home health care resource use and outcomes.

June 28th, 2008
People with heart failure and home health care resource use and outcomes. Aims and objectives. Patients with heart failure represent a common patient population in home health care, yet little is known about their outcomes. Background. Patients with heart failure, regardless of site of care, experience ...

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The Stroke Self-Efficacy Questionnaire: measuring individual confidence in functional performance af

June 28th, 2008
The Stroke Self-Efficacy Questionnaire: measuring individual confidence in functional performance after stroke. Aims and objectives. The aim was to develop a questionnaire for use by practitioners working in stroke care to measure self-efficacy judgements in specific domains of functioning relevant to individuals following stroke. Background. The ...

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Isolation, motivation and balance: living with type 1 or cystic fibrosis-related diabetes.

June 28th, 2008
Isolation, motivation and balance: living with type 1 or cystic fibrosis-related diabetes. Aims and objectives. To explore patients\' responses to developing and managing cystic fibrosis-related diabetes and to contrast their views with those of individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Background. The incidence of diabetes among ...

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Exploring supportive care for individuals affected by Huntington disease and their family caregivers

June 28th, 2008
Exploring supportive care for individuals affected by Huntington disease and their family caregivers in a community setting. Aim. The aim of this research was to identify the needs and coping strategies of individuals with Huntington disease and their family members/carers and to ascertain the extent to ...

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