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L A Reynolds

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PubMed1992

Adolescent coping behavior when confronted with a friend with AIDS.

The coping strategies employed by adolescents (n = 871) when presented with a hypothetical situation of a friend with AIDS were examined. Adolescents reported a wide range of imagined responses that were generally adaptive. Girls more than boys and distressed students more than nondistressed students were likely to endorse adaptive coping items. Comparison of the students with a separate sample (n = 472) that responded to a hypothetical situation of a suicidal peer revealed more distress in girls for the AIDS problem and more distress in boys for the suicide problem, contrary to expectations. Adolescents were more distressed and endorsed a wider variety of coping strategies in response to the AIDS scenario than to the suicide problem. Implications for care of adolescents dealing with these significant issues are discussed.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1991

HIV prevention for adolescents: utility of the Health Belief Model.

The Health Belief Model (HBM) has been applied to diverse sets of health behaviors. Research that suggests difficulties of the HBM in predicting future behaviors, especially HIV-related, is reviewed. Prominent features of adolescence that influence HIV-related risk behaviors are discussed including: cognitive immaturity, struggle for psychological autonomy, peer influences, and physical development. It is suggested that a model is needed to guide prevention efforts, and that these adolescent-specific factors need to be incorporated into any such model.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Assessing daily diabetes management by 24-hour recall interview: the validity of children's reports.

The current investigation examined the accuracy of diabetic children's 24-hr recall data by comparing the 7- to 12-year-old children's reports to direct observations of their behavior. Observers' data evidenced sufficient reliability to serve as an acceptable standard to which the children's 24-hr recall data could be compared. The children exhibited excellent agreement with the observers' data on all measures of the occurrence/nonoccurrence of events, including insulin injections, exercise periods, glucose tests, meal, type and amount of insulin injected. Although somewhat poorer reporters on some behaviors, differences were small. Children underreported most dietary behaviors and some exercise behaviors.

Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring↗
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Basic ocular pharmacotherapy.

1. There are certain unique features of pharmacotherapy as it relates to the eye. One is that we have the ability to apply a drug directly to the surface of the eye in the form of eyedrops. This has important ramifications in terms of pharmacokinetics, the distribution of drug throughout the ocular tissues. 2. Ocular pharmacokinetics is the study of the distribution of a drug over time. One of the principles of pharmacotherapy is that we want to maximize the amount of drug that reaches the site of action in a sufficient concentration to cause a beneficial therapeutic effect. 3. Ophthalmic nurses play an important role in patient education, because they spend time talking to patients about the proper way to use drugs.

Eye Diseases↗