Psycology

An interdisciplinary treatment plan is often required to allow restoration of function and aesthetics in the "mutilated dentition". Loss of teeth is associated with social and psycological impacts for the patient, however most often aesthetic requirements and financial constraints predominate in the treatment decision making. Historically, unfavourable occlusal contacts have been viewed as predisposing factors in the development of temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction (TMD). This linkage has now been refuted by many authors and it is understood that occlusion may be a co-factor only in TMD...

SESSION TITLE: Tobacco Cessation and Prevention PostersSESSION TYPE: Poster PresentationsPRESENTED ON: Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 01:15 PM - 02:15 PMPURPOSE: To analyze and validate 2 month treatment programs, as well as the real dose and time decided by the patient regarding what is recommended and its influence on the tobacco cessation rate. METHODS: A prospective study including all the patients who attended our tobacco cessation program during the last 6 months...

BACKGROUND: Onychomycosis is a major public health problem with a high incidence, associated morbidity and a long lasting treatment with anti-fungal agents. This study was carried out to know the clinico-mycological pattern of onychomycosis, which could help in the control of this infection. AIMS: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of various causative agents of onychomycosis and to study the clinical and mycological patterns of onychomycosis...

INTRODUCTION: This study focuses on sexual harassment, a form of psycological hazard that female registered nurses face throughout their day to day routine. The objective of this study is to find the prevalence of sexual harassment among female registered nurses working in government hospitals in Melaka, Malaysia and factors affecting them. METHODS: This is a cross sectional study conducted on 455 female registered nurses who have worked more than one year in the present 3 government hospitals in Melaka, Malaysia...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of depression, social supports and quality of sleep and quality of life on old women who were 60 years or older and postmenopause with coronary heart disease. METHODS: 125 old women with coronary heart disease completed questionnaires of Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ), Social Support Scale (SSRS) and Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS). Logistic regression analysis and Spearman correlation analysis were performed to evaluate the relationship between social-psycological factors and quality of life...

OBJECTIVE: Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common degenerative osteoarticular disease, is cause of pain and limitations in physical function with high disability that can conduct to a state of psycological stress, not always considered adequately, with negative impact on the quality of life. The mud and bath therapy can improve this aspect. However, these studies are insufficient. The objective of our research was to evaluate the impact of SPA therapy cycle on safety, efficacy and psychosocial disability in osteoarthritis...

INTRODUCTION: Alopecia areata usually presents as patchy, nonscarring hair loss. It seems to be an immune mediated disease, whereas genetic predisposition, environmental and psychological triggers may be involved in its aetiology. OBJECTIVES: To study the epidemiology, clinical aspects, associations, and treatment of alopecia areata in the paediatric population of Peadiatric Dermatology outpatients over a 9-year period. Some psychologic characteristics were also assessed...

A small subset of breast and ovarian cancers is related to the mutation of dominant susceptibility genes. The recent isolation of BRCA1 and BRCA2 has created great interest and expectations among members of families with a positive history for breast/ovarian cancer. We reviewed the literature to explore the clinical implications of genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations among high risk women. Both the value of the information provided by the test and the efficacy of the preventive and diagnostic measures presently available have been examined...

BACKGROUND/AIM: So far, studies of stress have shown that physicians are at a high risk of sickness from psychic and somatic disorders related to professional stress, that can lead to important disturbance of personal, familiar and professional functionating. The aim of this study was to investigate the doctors exposition level to professional stress, to compare stress level in general practitioners (GP) group with that in the group of psychiatrists and risk level for the apperance of burnout syndrome...

The author traces a 'psicoanalitical' history of disability, reconsidering Greek mythology as the necessary background to comprehend the psycological situation of the mothers of handicapped children: Ephestus as a prototype to reflect on disability, invalidity and childhood handicap.

Psychiatric reactions to disasters have not received sufficient attention because it is widely accepted that human beings can endure any kind of extreme stress.A disaster is the consequence of an extraordinary event that destroys goods, kills people, produces physical or psychological harm but, above all, which overcomes the adaptive possibilities of the social group. Disasters have strong political background and consequences. They shake the life of a community and bear with them a set of questions about safety, social organization and meaning of life...

Sport of high achievements is a complex combination of stressful factors affecting physical and psycological condition of a sportsman. Figure skating is a multicoordinational kind of sports. The analysis of the practical experience shows that movements undue in amplitude in the lumbar spinal column coupled with becoming too cold result in microtraumatization and origination of the pain syndrome in the loin. A 3-yr follow-up of 42 sportsmen-figureskaters of a top class athletic mastery was carried out to develop a system of prophylaxis and effective treatment of lumbar pains in sportsmen-figure skaters...

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The author analyses the correlation between work psychopathology, migration and the role of the occupational physician. Migration was studied and analysed by many clinical psychiatrists, occupational psychiatrists and sociologists, who tried to investigate the possible consequences produced by this event on the psychological equilibrium, on social life and on working activities. It is unquestionable, according to the actual knowledge, that a strict correlation exists between work and psyche, or among the uneasiness of the work, cultural belonging and a psychopathology of the work...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the utility of surgical treatment in patients with pectus excavatum (PE) or pectus carinatum (PC). Fifteen patients underwent surgical treatment because of their psycological and anatomical condition, more serious in 6 patients (5 with PE and 1 with PC). The degree of these chest wall deformities was evaluated as resulting from CT scan of the thorax, by the ratio between the transversal and the front/back diameters, according to Haller. The Authors recommend surgical operation in the post-puberal age up to 21 years because of good results obtained using Ravitch approach (only 1 case of partial relapse of PE), even though modified in PE cases with the application of flat steel prosthesis and in PC cases for uncutting the perichondral beds...

This article examines the available data on the health status of Puerto Rican women in the United States. Statistics on reproductive health, cancer and AIDS indicate that the health status of these women is lower than that of both their U.S. and island counterparts. Usually, the health of immigrants lies somewhere between that of the population of the country of origin, and that of the 'host' country. Puerto Rican women, however, deviate from this pattern. The health lag which U.S. Puerto Rican women are experiencing suggests that the social dislocation which accompanies migration has not diminished over time...

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PURPOSE: To validate the hypothesys that a psycological preparation for children who will undergo cardiac surgery may improve the outcome. METHODS: Sixty patients, with ages ranging between 3 and 10 years, submitted to heart surgery for treatment of congenital heart defects, were evaluated. They were divided in 2 groups: experimental and control. A questionnaire was designed for collecting data about psychological and clinical aspects of each patient. RESULTS: The following data was found to be of statistical significance: acceptance of peripheral vein puncture in the surgical group (chi 2 = 11...

Starting from experience gained as psychosomatic consultant at the Crown and Bridge Prosthetics Department of Zurich University Dental Institute, a description is given of the psycological aspects of the dentist-patient-relationship. This relationship is essentially determined by the patient (his personality, his ailment, his view of the ailment), the dentist (his personality, his comprehension of illness, his vocational motivation) and the interaction occuring between both. The relationship evolves simultaneously on different but closely interconnected levels...

As a result of mutilating operative procedures, aggressive cytotoxic chemotherapy and terminal stage of the disease, tumor patients face frequent visits to the tumor center. They are often hospitalized and thereby excluded from family and home. To enable cancer therapy and supportive care on an ambulatory basis, a team consisting of two physicians, two nurses and one psychologist was settled in our department in November 1986. The purpose of this team was to transfer several oncological treatment modalities from the hospital to the homes of the patients...