Compliance with HIV treatment has been studied extensively. Following the introduction of tritherapy, its importance and implications have changed. Antiretroviral treatments entail taking up to 20 pills a day at set hours, for which there are often ...
Hintergrund: Die Kenntnisse der mechanischen Eigenschaften menschlicher Venen sind immer noch unvollständig. Sie spielen jedoch eine wichtige Rolle in einer Anzahl von physiologischen und pathologischen Situationen, wie z.B. bei der tiefen Venenthrombose (...
Hintergrund: Die Entwicklung der Atherosklerose umfasst funktionelle, strukturelle und physikomechanische Veränderungen der Gefäßwand. Eine frühzeitige diagnostische Erfassung dieser Indices in einem Untersuchungsgang und an einem gemeinsamen Stromgebiet ...
Abstract. Background: The objective of this prospective multicentre cohort study was to characterise the use of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and intermittent claudication (IC) symptoms in ...
Abstract.Background: Supervised exercise therapy (SET) is an effective option in the management of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Unfortunately, poor compliance remains prevalent. This study aimed to assess ...
Prevention of gambling addiction: Why measures of protection by gambling providers are insufficientAbstract.Background: With the amendment of the Gambling Treaty, a further expansion of the gambling market is ...
Zusammenfassung: Die meist invasive onkologische Diagnostik und Therapie von Karzinomerkrankungen stellt hohe Anforderungen an das Compliance- und Copingpotenzial betagter Patienten. Zum Herausfiltern von Einflussfaktoren wurde mittels der Transplant ...
Wegen ihrer psychophysiologischen und emotionalen Besonderheiten standen die Primären Dystonien viele Jahrzehnte lang im Spannungsfeld unterschiedlichster medizinischer und psychologischer Ätiologievorstellungen und Therapiestrategien. Inzwischen ist klar,...
Abstract.Introduction: Whether patients take their medication as prescribed is of increasing importance in adolescent psychiatry since both the number of efficacious pharmaceutical treatments and the rate of ...
Adolescents with Epilepsy: Psychosocial Adaptation and CopingAbstract: Adolescents with chronic diseases are challenged not only with general issues of this developmental phase but face many additional problems. The present article reviews issues of ...
Focussing Compliance Enhancement in SchizophreniaDeficits in adherence to treatment plan in schizophrenia in spite of availability of atypicals with lower rate of side effects persist as a severe risk for long term course of schizophrenia. Maladherence ...
Zusammenfassung.Hausaufgabenvereinbarungen stellen eine entscheidende Komponente in verschiedenen Psychotherapie-Ansätzen dar. Die Vergabe therapeutischer Aufgaben und deren Durchführung im Alltag beeinflussen den Therapieerfolg positiv. Es existieren zum ...
Improving treatment adherence in schizophrenia beyond educationAbstract. Maladherence is the most important factor in the prevention of neurotoxic and demoralizing relapses in schizophrenia. Empirical evidence is presented and organized in a conceptual ...
Der diaplazentare Transport von Vitamin K ist kaum messbar, die Muttermilch ist arm an Vitamin K und die intestinale Flora von Neugeborenen produziert praktisch kein Vitamin K. Deshalb weisen gesunde Neugeborene «physiologischerweise» tiefe Vitamin-K-...
Greater body fatness was found to be a risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer (BC); furthermore this factor appears to be associated with poor prognosis. These findings were tested by analyzing 1459 patients whose cases were recorded in the Basler ...
Age-appropriate medical care for adolescent patients encompasses a consultation style that is adapted to the developmental stage of the adolescent patient. Core elements of an age-appropriate consultation style include the possibility for the adolescent ...
Zusammenfassung. Mindestens 10% aller Kinder sind von einer chronischen Krankheit betroffen. Früher tödlich verlaufende Krankheiten (wie Diabetes, Krebs) erfordern heute vielfach ein lebenslanges Management. Die Verhaltensmedizin trug in den letzten 20 ...
Patient education with children: How to consider their individual illness and treatment conceptsAbstract. In patient education with chronic ill children the individual concepts of the participants should be included in order to supply information ...
Subjective theories on the causes of chronic back pain by patients in rehabilitationAbstract. The frequency of chronic diseases is increasing remarkably in the industrial nations. This results on the one hand from advances in medical treatment and ...
Satisfaction and compliance after a psychosomatic-psychotherapeutic consultation: A prospective field studyAbstract.Background: Although consultations at psychosomatic-psychotherapeutic outpatient units play an important role in meeting health care ...
Cortisol–a useful physiological parameter for work-related stress?The present study examines associations between job demands, job control, social work environment (cooperation/communication, social support, social stressors), and strain at work with ...
Efficacy of Canvassing in Executive Search: A Comparison of Some Compliance TechniquesAbstract. Social psychology has documented a large set of communication strategies aimed at changing a target person’s attitude or behavior toward ...
Self-concordance and sport participation: A cluster analytical differentiation of varying forms of maintainers and drop-outsAbstract. Two questions are examined: How can we conceptualize the continuous maintenance of physical exercise? And what is the ...
The influence of compliance on psychophysiological effects of an exercise-intervention in HIV-1-positive personsAbstract. The present study asks whether being compliant moderates the effect of an exercise-intervention on various aspects of quality of ...
Zusammenfassung.Theoretischer Hintergrund: Psychoedukation gilt als psychotherapeutische Basisintervention bei Schizophrenie. Die Frage, was die therapeutisch wirksamen Elemente der Psychoedukation sind, ist noch nicht hinreichend geklärt. Fragestellung: ...
Summary: We conducted a study to examine the reliability and validity of four dimensions of organizational commitment. Using two samples from various organizations in Belgium (Ns = 216 and 201), we investigated internalization, compliance, and affective ...
Summary: The Gudjonsson Compliance Scale (GCS), the COPE Scale, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale were administered to 212 men and 212 women. Multiple regression of the test scores showed that low self-esteem and denial coping were the best predictors ...
Research on emotion conducted so far has ignored situations where the subject experiences a certain emotion, but where the external stimulus that evoked and upholds this emotion suddenly disappears. This kind of situation, however, is relatively common in ...
This paper provides a description of the web version of the Exchange Test and reports on the results of its psychometric evaluation. The Exchange Test is a measure of working memory capacity which is demanding to the central executive and storage units of ...
Abstract. Although vaccines are among the most effective interventions used in fighting diseases, vaccination readiness varies substantially among individuals. Vaccination readiness is defined as a set of components that increase or ...
Abstract. From a social psychological perspective, the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated protective measures affected individuals’ social relations and basic psychological needs. We aim to identify sources of need frustration (stressors)...
Abstract. Exposure to right-wing media has been shown to be related to lower perceived threat from COVID-19, lower compliance with prophylactic measures against it, and higher incidence of infection and death. What features of right-wing ...
Abstract. Combining the strengths of defaults and transparency information is a potentially powerful way to induce policy compliance. Despite negative theoretical predictions, a recent line of research revealed that default nudges may ...
Abstract. While previous research discussed populism as a phenomenon of declining trust, we investigated the predictive value of populist attitudes for citizens’ trust, attitudes, and behaviors during the COVID-19 ...
Abstract: A growing volume of work suggests a positive impact of descriptive norms on health-protective behavior in the COVID-19 pandemic. However, past work has often been correlational and has rarely compared the effect of different ...