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Fear Of Prescription Drug Abuse Affects Pain Management
Millions of Americans with significant or chronic pain associated with their medical problems are being under-treated as physicians increasingly fail to provide comprehensive pain treatment – either due to inadequate training, personal biases or fear of prescription drug abuse…
Elderly Fear Medicare Cuts
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Senior citizens who receive home health care are worried what proposed Medicare cuts will mean for them. As Seth Doane reports, seniors are closely watching the Healthcare debate on Capitol Hill.
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Effects of episodic variations in web-based avian influenza education: influence of fear and humor on perception, comprehension, retention and behavior
In order to provide empirical evidence on the role of a web-based avian influenza (AI) education program for mass communication and also ultimately help young children learn and develop healthy behaviors against AI and all types of influenza, an education program with two episodic variations (i.e. fear and humor) has been developed and examined with 183 fifth-grade elementary students. A quasi-experimental design was employed to find potential differential effects on the context-specific risk perception, AI knowledge acquisition, retention and behavior. The study results reveal that the fear appealed AI web-based education program was much more effective than the humor-based program in improving risk perception and educating the students about healthy behaviors (i.e. against influenza infection). However, a significant behavior change or improvement of health practices was not apparent on the post-tests (i.e. 1 month after the treatment) in either episode of the program.
Helping Children And Teens Cope With Fear And Uncertainty Of Swine Flu
Children and teens need their parents help in coping with fear and uncertainty as 2009 H1NI virus (swine influenza A) spreads amid intense media coverage and school closings. Michele C. Thorne, Ph.D., Riley Hospital for Children clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine, advises parents to discuss transmission and treatment of swine flu with their teens and younger children.
Spotless Mind? Fear Memories In Humans Weakened With Beta-blocker Propranolol
Dutch scientists have successfully reduced the fear response. They weakened fear memories in human volunteers by administering the beta-blocker propranolol. Interestingly, the fear response did not return over the course of time. Until recently, it was assumed that a fearful memory could not be deleted. However, researchers have now demonstrated that changes can indeed be effected in the emotional memory of human beings.
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