Category Archives: Open Access Journal Articles

Sustaining Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology in Low-Resource Practices

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged abstract-, assistance, center, ehr, health, methods, priority, regional, regional-extension, results on 01/29/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

The Society for Implementation Research Collaboration Instrument Review Project: a methodology to promote rigorous evaluation

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/28/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Modeling time-to-cure from severe acute malnutrition: application of various parametric frailty models

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/28/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Estranged Wife, Other Man’s Beloved: Perspectives of Filipino Women Involved in Extramarital Relationships

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged affair, analysis, emerged-as-the, filipino, perspectives, reasons-behind, standpoints, that-negatively, their, triggering, women on 01/28/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Association between duration of use of pharmacotherapy and smoking cessation: findings from a national survey

Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/28/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

An Early Look at Rates of Uninsured Safety Net Clinic Visits After the Affordable Care Act

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged abstract-, affordable, december, january, methods, ms-, overall, results, these, uninsured, united states on 01/28/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Functional Trajectories in the Year Before Hospice

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged abstract-, association, differs-greatly, life, march, results, short, years-or-older on 01/28/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Future Orientation and School Bullying Among Adolescents in Rural China: The Mediating Role of School Bonding

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged abstractthis, educational, future, membership, olweus, psychological, revised-olweus, southwest, southwest-china on 01/28/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Development of a tool for defining and identifying the dying patient in hospital: Criteria for Screening and Triaging to Appropriate aLternative care (CriSTAL)

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged building, clinical, group, hospital, sydney, university, wales, western on 01/27/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Profiling physical activity motivation based on self-determination theory: a cluster analysis approach

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/27/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Biological, psychological and social processes that explain celebrities’ influence on patients’ health-related behaviors

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/27/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Engaging Employees in Interpreting Survey Results: Using PathMAP(R) as a Tool to Drive Understanding and Change

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/27/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Broken Windows and Collective Efficacy: Do They Affect Fear of Crime?

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/27/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward ADHD Among Teachers: Insights From a Caribbean Nation

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/27/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Liver cirrhosis mortality in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis

Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/26/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Barriers and facilitators to implementation of the Liverpool Care Pathway in the Netherlands: a qualitative study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged during, during-the-interviews, dutch, furthermore, interview, king, objectives, organisation, study on 01/26/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Showing Leadership by Not Showing Your Face: An Anonymous Leadership Effect

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged abstract-, based-on-the, followership, greater-degree-, leadership, predicted-that, provide-support, social, support, these, would-be-leader on 01/26/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Student loan debt: a deeper look

Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/26/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Does interprofessional simulation increase self-efficacy: a comparative study

Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/26/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Assessing the application of non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia in German nursing homes: feasibility and content validity of the dementia care questionnaire (DemCare-Q)

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged application, data-on-the, following, germany, instrument, interventions, methods, people, practicability, questionnaire, since on 01/25/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Community health workers of Afghanistan: a qualitative study of a national program

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged basic-package, case, chw, community, country, health, intervention, national-public, ottawa, program, university, women on 01/25/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Supporting health promotion practitioners to undertake evaluation for program development

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/25/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Educating women about congenital cytomegalovirus: assessment of health education materials through a web-based survey

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged african, background, caucasian, centers, cmv, conclusions, control, health, methods, participants, women on 01/25/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Involvement of low- and middle-income countries in randomized controlled trial publications in oncology

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged breast, breast-health, conclusion, data-on-author, english, health, initiative, interventions, lmc, logistic, methods, world bank on 01/25/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Changes in costs and effects after the implementation of disease management programs in the Netherlands: variability and determinants

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged changes, conclusions, cvr, diseases, finally, healthcare, objectives, pacic, study on 01/25/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

A new methodology for assessing health policy and systems research and analysis capacity in African universities

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged africa, analysis, background, consortium, count, field, focus-on-both, hpsr, king, results, third, unit on 01/25/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Measurement of attacks and interferences with health care in conflict: validation of an incident reporting tool for attacks on and interferences with health care in eastern Burma

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, burma, completed, conflict, count, eastern, human, reporting, results, revisions, victims on 01/24/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

A concept in flux: questioning accountability in the context of global health cooperation

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged accountability, actors, aids, background, changes, changing, currently, global, ms-, policy, power, private on 01/24/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Anal incontinence, urinary incontinence and sexual problems in primiparous women: A comparison between women with episiotomy only and women with episiotomy and obstetric anal sphincter injury

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged among, and-sexual, associated-with, background, characteristics, comparing-women, conclusion, lately, mean, methods, obstetric, with-protective on 01/24/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Does South Korea have hidden female smokers: discrepancies in smoking rates between self-reports and urinary cotinine level

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/24/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

A scoping review of training and deployment policies for human resources for health for maternal, newborn, and child health in rural Africa

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/24/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

The economic burden of diabetes in India: a review of the literature

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged based-on-income, disease, healthcare, income, india-methods, literature, major, methods, results, there on 01/23/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Prevalence and correlates of intimate partner violence towards female students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged descriptive, gent, ibadan, interventions, nigeria, postgraduate, students, study, victims, violence on 01/23/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Relationship satisfaction in lesbian and heterosexual couples before and after assisted reproduction: a longitudinal follow-up study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, lesbian, number, participants, pearson, relationships, research, smirnov, sweden, swedish, whitney on 01/23/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

A Dyadic Action Control Trial in Overweight and Obese Couples (DYACTIC)

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/23/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Cross-sector collaborations in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander childhood disability: a systematic integrative review and theory-based synthesis

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/23/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): the inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged and-non-health, decision-makers, develop-through, disease, equity-criteria, expert, gps, guidance, health-care, living, priority-setting, social on 01/22/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Obstetric care providers assessing psychosocial risk factors during pregnancy: Validation of a short screening tool – the KINDEX Spanish version

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/22/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Spatial clustering of physical activity and obesity in relation to built environment factors among older women in three U.S. states

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/22/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Female sex worker’s participation in the community mobilization process: two distinct forms of participations and associated contextual factors

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/22/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Breast cancer risk perceptions of Turkish women attending primary care: a cross-sectional study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged among-the-women, answered-by-624, background, breast, early, methods, phcc, questionnaire, there, with-the-result, women on 01/22/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Graphic representation of the burden of suffering in dizziness patients

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/21/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Do the Washington Panel recommendations hold for Europe: investigating the relation between quality of life versus work-status, absenteeism and presenteeism

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged according, compared, count, cross-sectional, european, health, health-related, qaly, west, west-european, work on 01/21/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Adapting to the health impacts of climate change in a sustainable manner

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged and-reinforced-, climate change, driven-by-local, health, health-systems, more-effective, ms-, pacific, pacific-island, respecting, social on 01/21/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Lesbians’ attitudes and practices of cervical cancer screening: a qualitative study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, cervical, friends, interviews, literature, main, misconceptions, south, study on 01/21/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

A randomized effectiveness trial of individual child social skills training: six-month follow-up

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/21/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Community health workers programme in Luanda, Angola: an evaluation of the implementation process

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/21/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Health systems and policy research evidence in health policy making in Israel: what are researchers’ practices in transferring knowledge to policy makers?

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, century, conclusions, engagement, ensuring, israel, israel-health, knowledge, kte, researchers, survey, work on 01/21/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Development assistance for health given to Nepal by China and India: a comparative study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, building-health, conclusion, during-60-years, india, make-the-dah, methods, nepal, results on 01/20/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Social support: an important factor for quality of life in women with hirsutism

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/20/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

The validation of Fibit ZipTM physical activity monitor as a measure of free-living physical activity

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged actigraph, conclusions, free, given, number, physical, utility, validity, yamax on 01/20/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Importance of remission and residual somatic symptoms in health-related quality of life among outpatients with major depressive disorder: a cross-sectional study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, conclusion, depression, enjoyment, hamilton, les, life, non-remitted, quality, questionnaire, rating-scale, satisfaction on 01/20/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Differences in health care utilisation between elderly from ethnic minorities and ethnic Dutch elderly

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/20/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

The longitudinal exercise trend among older Swedes aged 53-84 years – a 16-year follow-up study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/20/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Normative data and clinically significant effect sizes for single-item numerical linear analogue self-assessment (LASA) scales

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/19/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Impact of hospital mergers on staff job satisfaction: a quantitative study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, competition, conclusion, exposition, health-other, propensity, research, statistics, study, year on 01/19/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Risk factors for incidence and persistence of disability in chronic major depression and alcohol use disorders: longitudinal analyses of a population-based study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/19/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Payday, ponchos, and promotions: a qualitative analysis of perspectives from non-governmental organization programme managers on community health worker motivation and incentives

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, group, individuals, national-level-, nature, prescriptive, programme, referral-at-the, second on 01/19/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Duration of residence and psychotropic drug use in recently settled refugees in Sweden – a register-based study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/19/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

What is the Role of Social Work in China? A Multi-Dimensional Analysis

Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/18/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Mixed-method study of a conceptual model of evidence-based intervention sustainment across multiple public-sector service settings

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, cbo, document, document-review, ebi, from-the-time, service-systems, stakeholders, state, states, study, united states on 01/18/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Impact of an Online Medical Internet Site on Knowledge and Practice of Health Care Providers: A Mixed Methods Study of the Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Evidence Project

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/18/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Competency to Proceed Pro Se is Not a Higher Standard than Competency to Stand Trial

Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/18/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Nonconsensual withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in prolonged disorders of consciousness: authoritarianism and trustworthiness in medicine

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged agitation, canh, death, finally, general, however, liverpool, liverpool-care, london, medical, pdoc, public on 01/18/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Stepping stones and creating futures intervention: shortened interrupted time series evaluation of a behavioural and structural health promotion and violence prevention intervention for young people in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/18/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Levetiracetam improves disinhibitory behavior in nonconvulsive status epilepticus

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged and-abnormal, background, conclusion, current, dementia-add-on, effective-and, epileptic-male, infectious, moreover, ncse, possibility on 01/18/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Gender differences on effectiveness of a school-based physical activity intervention for reducing cardiometabolic risk: a cluster randomized trial

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/18/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Moderators of the longitudinal relationship between the perceived physical environment and outside play in children: the KOALA birth cohort study

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged accessibility, birth, child, objectives, play-at-age, relationship, season, that-the-impact, these-analyses- on 01/17/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

A core outcome set for clinical trials on non-specific low back pain: study protocol for the development of a core domain set

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/17/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Breast cancer risk reduction – is it feasible to initiate a randomised controlled trial of a lifestyle intervention programme (ActWell) within a national breast screening programme?

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/17/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Consumer Participation in Quality Improvements for Chronic Disease Care: Development and Evaluation of an Interactive Patient-Centered Survey to Identify Preferred Service Initiatives

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/17/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Road to better health and integration: a Delphi study on health service models for Hong Kong migrants

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged among-the-panel, conclusion, consequently, current, focus, mainland, march-april, private, service on 01/17/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Depression and attempted suicide under pregabalin therapy

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged chronic-pain, disorders-and, male-with, originally, pregabalin-has, rare, therefore-largely, which-even on 01/17/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Multidimensional poverty and health: evidence from a nationwide survey in Japan

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged associated-with, current, individuals, introduction, justify-without, meanwhile, such-as-income, unions, were-associated on 01/16/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Pathogenic Versus Healthy Biofilms: A Metaphor for Academic Mobbing

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The context of violent disagreements between parents: a qualitative analysis from parents’ reports

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/16/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Annotated bibliography on participatory consultations to help aid the inclusion of marginalized perspectives in setting policy agendas

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged after, author, bibliography, distinctions, frameworks-that, health, implementation, king, look-at-the, research, second on 01/16/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Informed consent in the psychosis prodrome: ethical, procedural and cultural considerations

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged and-decisional, and-individuals, early-detection, empirical, however-ongoing, individuals, international, process, research, review-provides, with-psychosis on 01/16/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Social inequalities in young children’s sports participation and outdoor play

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, background-with, child, family-sep, outdoor-play, results, sep, study, when-the-child on 01/16/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Characteristics associated with willingness to participate in a randomized controlled behavioral clinical trial using home-based personal computers and a webcam

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/15/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Gender, smoking and tobacco reduction and cessation: a scoping review

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/15/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Relationship Between Social Support and Body Mass Index Among Overweight and Obese African American Women in the Rural Deep South, 2011–2013

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/15/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

A school-based intervention improves physical fitness in Ecuadorian adolescents: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged background, conclusions, ecuador-trial, explored-if-the, individual-and, proportion, recommendations, the-proportion, with-the-change on 01/15/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Discourse on medicine: meditative and calculative approaches to ethics from an international perspective

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged and-meditative, china, heidegger, japan, korea, physicians-from, qualitative, results-suggest, seven-countries, typically-were, used-as-the, whose-patients on 01/15/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

A Frailty Instrument for primary care for those aged 75 years or more: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, a longitudinal population-based cohort study (SHARE-FI75+)

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles Tagged delicious, department, dublin, europe, health, institute, instrument, ireland, king, medicine, share, university on 01/14/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Therapeutic Affordances of Social Media: Emergent Themes From a Global Online Survey of People With Chronic Pain

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/14/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Social Distancing of Depressive and Panic Disorders in an International Sample of Social Work Students

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The Impact of a State-Sponsored Mass Media Campaign on Use of Telephone Quitline and Web-Based Cessation Services

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/14/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Retaining Critical Therapeutic Elements of Behavioral Interventions Translated For Delivery via the Internet: Recommendations and an Example Using Pain Coping Skills Training

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/14/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

A comparison of cognitive-behavioral couple therapy and lidocaine in the treatment of provoked vestibulodynia: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/14/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Illnesses and Deaths Among Persons Attending an Electronic Dance-Music Festival — New York City, 2013

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/13/2015 | Link to this post on IFP

Improving Children’s Menus in Community Restaurants: Best Food for Families, Infants, and Toddlers (Best Food FITS) Intervention, South Central Texas, 2010–2014

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Posted in Open Access Journal Articles on 01/13/2015 | Link to this post on IFP