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This research aimed to develop a Fetal Alcohol Behavior Scale (FABS) that describes the behavioral essence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol effects (FAE), regardless of age, race, sex, and 10. Using a reference sample of... more
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      PsychologyPsychometricsIntelligenceBehavior
The present study aimed to explore the psychometric properties of the Coach-Athlete Relationship Questionnaire (CART-Q) in the Chinese language. Based on the 3+1Cs of the coach-athlete relationship conceptual model (Jowett, 2007a), the... more
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      PsychologyCognitive SciencePsychometricsRisk Taking
Aqueous extract of valerian root (Valeriana offcinalis L.) improves sleep quality in man. PHARMAC. BIOCHEM. BEHAV. 17(l) 65-71, 1982.-The effect of an aqueous extract of valerian (Valeriana officinalis L.) root on subjectively rated sleep... more
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      PharmacologyCoffeeAgingMedicinal Plants
a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Alcohol Tobacco or Other Drugs Transtheoretical Model Stages of Change School Based Tailored Communications
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      PsychologyTreatment OutcomeAdolescentUrban Health
Objectives: The health effects of chronic low-dose radiation exposure remains a controversial question. Monitoring after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine suggested that chronic low-dose radiation exposure was not linked to cancer... more
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      Evolutionary BiologyNutrition and DieteticsAnthropologyFood
In recent years a number of studies have attempted to rank drugs by a single measure of harmfulness as the basis for decisions about scheduling and classification. These efforts are fundamentally flawed, both conceptually and... more
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      ViolenceAddictionSchedulingPublic Health
A controlled human subject study was conducted to analyze the possible breath-sampling differences between the standard automatic technique and three manual techniques. Subjects were dosed with vodka and orange juice and then tested... more
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      Analytical ChemistryAnalytical ToxicologyAlcohol DrinkingEthanol
Near-miss sleepy driving accidents-Powell et al Disclosure Statement This is not an industry supported study. The study was supported in part by the Sleep Education and Research Foundation a registered public nonprofit foundation. Drs.... more
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      RiskMedicineBiological SciencesNarcolepsy
, including 370 men engaged in sports in which weight-related performance classes are associated with weight cycling (boxers, weight lifters and wrestlers; further called as weight cyclers), and 834 matched control men with no athletic... more
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      EducationObesityBoxingPublic Health
The nature of the association between alcohol consumption and renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is not well understood, but there are indications of effect modification by gender. The authors report data from a populationbased case-control study... more
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      Life StyleDietMedicineBeer
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      SchizophreniaSuicideMedicineComorbidity
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      Alcohol DrinkingRisk factorsAgedGenotype
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      Cognitive ScienceDevelopmental PsychologyConsumptionGroup Dynamics
To determine (i) the extent to which recommended lifestyle healthy behaviors are adopted and the existence of positive attitudes to health; (ii) the relative influence of socio-demographic variables on multiple healthy lifestyle behaviors... more
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      Health BehaviorLife StylePhysical ActivityOlder people
To describe the frequency of alcohol consumption and beverage preferences in eight countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Design Cross-sectional. Setting Populations of Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,... more
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      AddictionAdolescentCommonwealth of Independent StatesAlcohol
The purpose of the study was to investigate the psycho-social factors such as self-esteem, stress, and family support that affect the depression in pregnant women. Methods: The participants were 149 pregnant women who were seen at the... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceHealth PsychologyPersonality
Objective: Research has shown associations between college women's alcohol and/or drug consumption and the risk of sexual assault, but few studies have measured the various means by which sexual assault is achieved. Participants: The... more
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      Risk TakingSexual AssaultAdolescentPrevention
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      PediatricsDomestic ViolenceSocial SupportPublic Health
Self-reported initial, early, and long-term drinking behaviors, experiences, and consequences were obtained from mate alcoholics completing inpatient treatment. Subjects were recruited and selected on the basis that they met VSM-III... more
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      PsychologySocial InteractionJuvenile DelinquencyDelinquency
Objective: Depression and insomnia are closely linked, yet our understanding of their prospective relationships remains limited. The aim of the current study was to investigate the directionality of association between depression and... more
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      EducationBehavior ModificationDepressionObesity
MOUNT, M.S.W.
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      EducationQuality of lifeRisk TakingAdolescent Health
Measures of PTSD and comorbidity were obtained at intake and 9-month follow-up. Measures also included potential mediators of therapeutic alliance, social support, problematic/undermining relationships and fear of emotion. Path analyses... more
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      PsychologyAngerMental HealthFear
Background-Environmental factors appear to interact with a functional polymorphism (MAOA-LPR) in the promoter region of the monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) in determining some forms of antisocial behavior. However, how MAOA-LPR modulates... more
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      GeneticsPsychologyViolenceConsumption
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      Brief PsychotherapyAddictionPrimary Health CareTreatment Outcome
We investigated colour vision impairment in 45 male workers occupationally exposed to toluene (mean value of toluene concentration in ambient air = 119.96 ppm) and in 53 controls. Colour vision was evaluated by Lanthony-D-15 desaturated... more
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      Colour VisionNonparametric StatisticsOccupational MedicineToxicity
Motivation in context of addiction therapy seems to play a very important role for the beginning and continuation of the therapy. Considering the fact that the whole structure of motivation of addicted person is dominated by the motives... more
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      PsychologyIndividualityAnxietyAlcohol
H. pylori-infected patients were randomly assigned to undergo twice daily treatment with esomeprazole 40 mg (n = 100) or pantoprazole 40 mg (n = 100) combined with clarithromycin 500 mg and amoxicillin 1 g for 1 wk (ECA and PCA groups,... more
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      Treatment OutcomeEnzyme InhibitorsHelicobacter pyloriMultivariate Analysis
The effectiveness of personalized-feedback interventions to reduce problem drinking has been evaluated in several RCTs and systematic reviews. A meta-analysis was performed to examine the overall effectiveness of brief, single-session... more
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      Primary CareEducationStudentsEffect size
Stomach cancer is not common in Thailand but the life styles of the Thai population are changing to become more Western so that information for planning control programme of stomach cancer is necessary. The highest incidence rates of this... more
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      Life StyleThailandSmokingAlcohol Drinking
Although socioeconomic status is a major contributing factor to health disparities, the mechanisms through which socioeconomic status influences health remain unclear. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate an a priori... more
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      Health BehaviorObesityHealth DisparitiesPhysical Activity
Objective The aim was to examine risk factors for ovarian borderline tumors overall, and according to histological subtype (serous vs. mucinous), in a large Danish population-based case-control study. Methods Ovarian borderline cases and... more
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      Life StyleDenmarkPregnancySmoking
From a sample of 1,956 adolescent delinquents referred to us by the court for physical, psychological, psychiatric, educational, and social examinations, 71 delinquents convicted of homicide were matched with 71 nonviolent delinquents by... more
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      PsychologyClinical PsychologyCognitive ScienceViolence
Background In this study the effect is assessed of (repeated) well-care visits and freely accessible consultation hours at secondary schools on the prevalence of adolescent healthcompromising behaviour and later obesity.
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      Program EvaluationHealth PromotionHealth BehaviorObesity
P revious studies indicate that people respond defensively to threatening health information, especially when the information challenges self-relevant goals. The authors investigated whether reduced acceptance of self-relevant health risk... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceHealth PromotionEvidence Based Medicine
This randomized controlled trial evaluated the efficacy of a brief intervention designed to reduce the harmful consequences of heavy drinking among high-risk college students. Students screened for risk while in their senior year of high... more
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      PsychologyHealth EducationNatural HistoryTreatment Outcome
This study examined the associations of pretreatment and posttreatment depressive symptoms with drinking outcomes in the year following treatment in Project MATCH (Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Heterogeneity), a multisite... more
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      PsychologyDepressionTreatment OutcomeAlcohol Drinking
The purpose was to examine cigarette smoking, use of snus, alcohol, and performance-enhancing illicit drugs among adolescent elite athletes and controls, and possible gender and sport group differences. First-year students at 16 Norwegian... more
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      AdolescentSportsNorwayStudents
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      PsychologyAnxiety DisordersAdolescentComorbidity
There is limited information about African American students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the areas of health behavior, health knowledge, and attitudes. To fill this gap, a comprehensive examination of... more
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      Health BehaviorDomestic ViolenceHealth CareSocial Perception
In order to assess the interaction between alcohol intake, tobacco smoking and coffee consumption in determining the risk of liver cirrhosis we carried out a hospital-based case-control study involving 115 patients at their first... more
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      CoffeeLife StyleTobaccoItaly
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      PsychologyPolicyAdolescentMedicine
Background Few prospective data are available to evaluate potential risk factors of subarachnoid hemorrhage among the Japanese, although several prospective studies conducted in the United States and in Europe have shown a positive... more
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      PsychologyJapanMedicineMultivariate Analysis
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      Life StyleCox RegressionEuropeAlcohol Drinking
To assess the prevalence of sex work and its associations with substance use among female bar/spa workers in the Philippines (N = 498), workers from 54 bar or spa venues in Metro Manila (2009-2010) were surveyed on demographics,... more
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      Research MethodologyBehaviorPhilippinesDeveloping Countries
Background: Public awareness-raising campaigns targeting alcohol use during pregnancy are an important part of preventing prenatal alcohol exposure and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Despite this, there is little evidence on what... more
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      Health PromotionHealth BehaviorSocial MarketingAdolescent
Background: Little is known about the consequences of excessive alcohol ingestion in patients with type 1 diabetes. Aim: To examine the metabolic effects of acute ingestion of liberal amounts of alcohol in patients with type 1 diabetes.... more
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      AdolescentEnglandWineBlood Glucose
The clinical course of alcoholism has been described as a series of distinct, alcohol-related life events that occur in an orderly sequence. However, whether that sequence differs, depending on ethnicity and country of origin, is less... more
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      PsychologyAlcoholismAlcohol DrinkingTrinidad and Tobago
Previous research has shown that alcohol consumption can lead to momentary changes in the self-concept (e.g., Steele & Josephs, 1990). In two studies (n ϭ 150), we examined whether the implicit activation of alcohol expectancies (i.e.,... more
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      PsychologyCultureAdolescentSocial behavior
This study assesses whether severity of physical partner aggression is associated with alcohol consumption at the time of the incident, and whether the relationship between drinking and aggression severity is the same for men and women... more
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      CriminologyDomestic ViolenceAdolescentPrevention