Browsing by Subject "Educational Status"
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Alcohol and drug use disorders among adults in emergency department settings in the United States.
(Annals of emergency medicine, 2012-08)Improving identification and treatment for substance use disorders is a national priority, but data about various drug use disorders encountered in emergency departments (EDs) are lacking. We examine past-year substance ... -
Alcohol use disorders and the use of treatment services among college-age young adults.
(Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 2007-02)OBJECTIVES:This study examined the utilization of and the perceived need for alcohol treatment services among college-age young adults (18-22 years) according to their educational status: full-time college students, part-time ... -
Body image and body satisfaction differ by race in overweight postpartum mothers.
(J Womens Health (Larchmt), 2010-02)BACKGROUND: Body image (BI) and body satisfaction may be important in understanding weight loss behaviors, particularly during the postpartum period. We assessed these constructs among African American and white overweight ... -
Can this patient read and understand written health information?
(JAMA, 2010-07)<h4>Context</h4>Patients with limited literacy are at higher risk for poor health outcomes; however, physicians' perceptions are inaccurate for identifying these patients.<h4>Objective</h4>To systematically review the accuracy ... -
Credit scores, cardiovascular disease risk, and human capital.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014-12-02)Credit scores are the most widely used instruments to assess whether or not a person is a financial risk. Credit scoring has been so successful that it has expanded beyond lending and into our everyday lives, even to inform ... -
Diagnostic performance of short portable mental status questionnaire for screening dementia among patients attending cognitive assessment clinics in Singapore.
(Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2013-07)<h4>Introduction</h4>The Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ) is a brief cognitive screening instrument, which is easy to use by a healthcare worker with little training. However, the validity of this instrument ... -
Do specialty courts achieve better outcomes for children in foster care than general courts?
(Eval Rev, 2013-02)OBJECTIVE: This study assessed the effects of unified family and drug treatment courts (DTCs) on the resolution of cases involving foster care children and the resulting effects on school performance. METHOD: The first analytic ... -
Effect of socioeconomic status as measured by education level on survival in breast cancer clinical trials.
(Psychooncology, 2013-02)OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to investigate the effect of socioeconomic status, as measured by education, on the survival of breast cancer patients treated on 10 studies conducted by the Cancer and Leukemia Group B. METHODS: ... -
Evaluating the Distribution, Quality, and Educational Value of Videos Related to Shoulder Instability Exercises on the Social Media Platform TikTok.
(Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews, 2023-06)<h4>Background</h4>Because of the lack of scientific oversight, the quality, applicability, and consistency of healthcare-related TikTok videos have become a focus of research exploration. The orthopaedic surgery literature ... -
Gender, educational and ethnic differences in active life expectancy among older Singaporeans.
(Geriatrics & gerontology international, 2016-04)<h4>Aim</h4>The aim of the present study was to compute total life expectancy (TLE), active life expectancy (ALE) and inactive life expectancy among older Singaporeans by gender, education and ethnicity.<h4>Methods</h4>Data ... -
Infant and Toddler Child-Care Quality and Stability in Relation to Proximal and Distal Academic and Social Outcomes.
(Child development, 2020-11)This study considered the quality and stability of infant and toddler nonparental child care from 6 to 36 months in relation to language, social, and academic skills measured proximally at 36 months and distally at kindergarten. ... -
Influence of encoding difficulty, word frequency, and phonological regularity on age differences in word naming.
(Experimental aging research, 2011-05)It is presently unclear as to why older adults take longer than younger adults to recognize visually presented words. To examine this issue in more detail, the authors conducted two word-naming studies (Experiment 1: 20 ... -
Intergenerational effects of parental substance-related convictions and adult drug treatment court participation on children's school performance.
(Am J Orthopsychiatry, 2015-09)This study examined the intergenerational effects of parental conviction of a substance-related charge on children's academic performance and, conditional on a conviction, whether completion of an adult drug treatment court ... -
Men's knowledge and attitudes about cervical cancer screening in Kenya.
(BMC Womens Health, 2014-11-22)BACKGROUND: A number of studies have identified male involvement as an important factor affecting reproductive health outcomes, particularly in the areas of family planning, antenatal care, and HIV care. As access to cervical ... -
Prevalence, components, and correlates of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among elderly Muscovites.
(Arch Gerontol Geriatr, 2012-09)The goal of this study is to estimate the prevalence of MetS, together with its components and correlates, among elderly Russians. Our population-based sample included randomly selected residents of Moscow aged 55 and older: ... -
Projection of young-old and old-old with functional disability: does accounting for the changing educational composition of the elderly population make a difference?
(PloS one, 2015-01)This study compares projections, up to year 2040, of young-old (aged 60-79) and old-old (aged 80+) with functional disability in Singapore with and without accounting for the changing educational composition of the Singaporean ... -
Risk communication in clinical trials: a cognitive experiment and a survey.
(BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 2010-09-27)BACKGROUND: A Royal Statistical Society Working Party recently recommended that "Greater use should be made of numerical, as opposed to verbal, descriptions of risk" in first-in-man clinical trials. This echoed the view ... -
The association between socioeconomic status and disability after stroke: findings from the Adherence eValuation After Ischemic stroke Longitudinal (AVAIL) registry.
(BMC Public Health, 2014-03-26)BACKGROUND: Stroke is the leading cause of disability among adults in the United States. The association of patients' pre-event socioeconomic status (SES) with post-stroke disability is not well understood. We examined the ... -
The effect of the home environment on physical activity and dietary intake in preschool children.
(Int J Obes (Lond), 2013-10)BACKGROUND: The effects of the home environment on child health behaviors related to obesity are unclear. PURPOSE: To examine the role of the home physical activity (PA) and food environment on corresponding outcomes in ... -
The epidemiology of at-risk and binge drinking among middle-aged and elderly community adults: National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
(The American journal of psychiatry, 2009-10)The purpose of this article was to estimate the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of at-risk alcohol use (especially binge drinking) among middle-aged and elderly persons in the United States and to compare at-risk ...
