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PubMed1993

Support groups address residents' personal development.

Graduate medical education traditionally has emphasized the teaching of biomedical knowledge and technical skills. However, physicians-in-training also need opportunities to explore their emotional reactions that occur during the process of patient care and medical training. The promotion of personal growth and self-awareness should be important components of graduate medical education. Easily implemented, a resident support group is one forum that addresses this obvious gap in medical education. This article reviews the goals and structure of support groups, with the hope that more training programs will implement them.

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PubMed1998

Stature prediction equations for elderly non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Mexican-American persons developed from NHANES III data.

OBJECTIVE: To develop new, nationally representative equations to predict stature for racial/ethnic groups of the elderly population in the United States. DESIGN: Anthropometric data for stature, knee height, and sitting height for adults aged 60 years or older were collected from a sample of persons in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994), a national probability sample of the US population. SUBJECTS: A gender- and racial/ethnic-stratified sample of 4,750 persons from the US population (1,369 non-Hispanic white men, 1,472 non-Hispanic white women, 474 non-Hispanic black men, 481 non-Hispanic black women, 497 Mexican-American men, 457 Mexican-American women) aged 60 years or older participated in this study. STATISTICAL ANALYSES: Sampling weights were used to adjust the individual data to account for unequal probabilities of selection, nonresponse, and coverage errors so that all individual data used in these analyses represented national probability estimates. Regression analysis was performed to predict stature in each gender and ethnic group, and the results were cross-validated. RESULTS: Stature prediction models using knee height and age and sitting height and age were evaluated for each gender and racial/ethnic group. The equations with knee height and age were selected on the basis of root mean square error and pure errors in cross-validation and on the accuracy and validity of measures of knee height over sitting height. Results of these regressions, including regression coefficients, standard errors of the coefficients, multiple correlation coefficients, root mean square error, and the standard error for the individual for the final equations, are presented. CONCLUSIONS: New stature prediction equations using knee height and age are presented for non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black and Mexican-American elderly persons from current nationally representative data. These equations should be applied when a measure of stature cannot be obtained, for example, for persons with amputations of the leg, or with spinal curvature or who are confined to bed. Predicted stature values are acceptable surrogates in nutritional indexes.

Age Factors↗
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[Simple schizophrenia: personality development or a condition?].

The term simple schizophrenia was firstly used in the early twentieth century to designate a formal variety of schizophrenia. Without a precise definition the concept progressively looses its clinical significance as a subtype of schizophrenia and becomes paradoxically the representation of the pure fundamental disorder. The intersection of three clinical psychopathology categories psychoses, endogenity and process has historically determined the meaning of simple schizophrenia. The recent exclusion of the term simple schizophrenia from the diagnostic manuals and its taxonomical realignment as a personality disorder are the result of the nosological approach. The review of the concept of simple schizophrenia allow us to question the viability of a unique definition of clinical objects and to point out the configurating effect of theory on psychiatric taxonomy.

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PubMed1994

Building morale through personal development.

Once general practitioners have established themselves as principals it may seem there is little else to work for. Lack of stimulation may lead to demoralisation, and it is essential that they have other ways to continue to develop their careers. Meeting other doctors to discuss cases and problems and postgraduate education often help but many doctors want to take on extra roles. The options available include undergraduate teacher, tutor for postgraduate education, and participation in medical audit advisory groups, local medical committees, or royal college faculties. Some general practitioners work part time to allow them to fit in these activities. It may also be possible to obtain extended study leave or a sabbatical to broaden experience. Others even more practice to provide new challenges.

Career Choice↗
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Final report of the Bawnmore Personal Development Programme: staff attitudes and sexuality programme development in an Irish service organisation for people with mental handicap.

In this paper, issues on sexuality and mental handicap are reviewed, and recognition of the growing importance of sex education to integration is noted. The development of a sex education programme and staff training provided within a service organisation, with some involvement from other services within an Irish setting, are described, and their evaluation is reported. Attitudes towards involvement prove of particular interest, and factors influencing continuation or discontinuation are identified. The need for attitude change among staff and administration towards the priority given to sex education is highlighted, and a need for structural change in staffing arrangements to facilitate such education is indicated. Failure to recognise sexuality as a research issue in evaluating the success of integration efforts is noted, and such research is recommended as a top priority for the future.

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PubMed1998

Adolescents' perceptions of communication with parents relative to specific aspects of relationships with parents and personal development.

Adolescents' views of communication with their parents are examined in relation to measures of family satisfaction, adolescent decision-making and disagreement with parents (Study I), and to measures of self-esteem, well-being and coping (Study II). The results provide some support for the psychometric qualities of the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale (PACS) and suggest that good family communication is associated with satisfaction with the family and with lack of disagreement between adolescents and parents. They also indicate a positive association between family communication and adolescent self-esteem, certain aspects of adolescent well-being and type of coping strategy employed.

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[Effect of psychotherapeutic interventions on weight reduction and personality development of a 13-year-old boy with Prader-Willi syndrome].

A 12.10-year old boy (actual weight 88.8 kg, actual height 131.2 cm; 228% overweight) with Prader-Willi-syndrome achieved, after repeated ineffective therapy attempts over a period of 10 years, a weight reduction of 11.8 kg (185% overweight) during a 9-week in-patient treatment. In the following out-patient phase of therapy a further weight reduction of 20 kg (109% overweight) was achieved over a period of 16 months. Apart from the usual modes of action of therapy (reduced energy intake, physical exercise, behaviour modification), family therapeutic and special education interventions were used. These achieved an improvement of the patient's self-esteem, an increase in his competence to act and in his autonomy concerning his diet management, as well as a positive experience of his own abilities and social acceptance by other children and the stabilisation of the dysfunctional family system. It may be assumed that this therapeutic success is dependent on consequent compliance with the system model.

Adolescent↗