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Children's perspectives on the benefits and burdens of research participation

BACKGROUND: Participation in research is associated with benefits and burdens for individual research participants. Children living with a chronic illness are considered particularly vulnerable as they are already burdened with symptoms of their…

Psychological resilience, pain catastrophizing, and positive emotions: perspectives on comprehensive modeling of individual pain adaptation

Pain is a complex construct that contributes to profound physical and psychological dysfunction, particularly in individuals coping with chronic pain. The current paper builds upon previous research, describes a balanced conceptual model that…

Tags: 2013, Adaptation, Backlog, Catastrophization, Cognition, Current Pain and Headache Reports, Emotions, Female, Humans, Journal Article, Male, Models, Motivation, Pain, Pain Measurement, Psychological, Resilience, Sturgeon JA, Zautra AJ

A D2 antagonist enhances the rewarding and priming effects of a gambling episode in pathological gamblers.

Previous research indicated shared neurochemical substrates for gambling and psychostimulant reward. This suggests that dopamine substrates may directly govern the reinforcement process in pathological gambling. To investigate this issue, the present…

Challenges in using opioids to treat pain in persons with substance use disorders

Pain and substance abuse co-occur frequently, and each can make the other more difficult to treat. A knowledge of pain and its interrelationships with addiction enhances the addiction specialist's efficacy with many patients, both in the substance…

Retaining young people in a longitudinal sexual health survey: a trial of strategies to maintain participation

BACKGROUND: There is an increasing trend towards lower participation in questionnaire surveys. This reduces representativeness, increases costs and introduces particular challenges to longitudinal surveys, as researchers have to use complex…

Constructing a prospective model of psychosocial adaptation in young adolescents with spina bifida: an application of optimal data analysis

OBJECTIVE: To examine how individual- and family-level predictors in late childhood and preadolescence relate to psychosocial adaptation (i.e., scholastic success, social acceptance, and positive self-worth) in early adolescence. METHOD: This…

Positive aspects of caregiving: rounding out the caregiver experience

OBJECTIVES: To identify positive aspects of caregiving and examine how they are associated with caregiver outcomes. METHOD: This study used a national sample of caregivers derived from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (part 2). Two hundred and…

Mapping the journey of cancer patients through health care system. Part 1: developing the research question

This is the first in a series of articles relating results from research which constructed a complete history of interactions with the health care system from available data sources for all patients diagnosed in 1990 with primary breast, colorectal,…

The 2002 Schering Lecture. Children's cancer symptom experiences: keeping the spirit alive in children and their families

Despite the finding that each child and family experienced cancer in their own unique way, they all shared the need to maintain a sense of spirit. Just as the suffering united the families, so too did their sense of spirit. Talk of the spirit is not…

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