Mark G Haviland

..To develop a non-condition-specific scale to capture biases, emotions, and expectations generated by medical condition descriptors...

..These findings are consistent with reports of continuing racial/ethnic disparities in both coverage and care. Programs to improve quality of care must specifically address these well-documented, severe, and persistent disparities...

..Although satisfaction ratings, generally, were high and depression effects were small, the authors nevertheless recommend efforts to improve access and quality of mental health care...

..This study of differences in health care experiences by race and ethnicity was the first to use nationally representative data...

..Both instruments can be recommended for alexithymia studies requiring observer ratings...

..We recommend that researchers investigate the relationship between stress and fibromyalgia in concert with genetic and biomarker studies...

..e. charges) for patients in the United States from 1999 to 2007; to determine factors associated with variation in costs of FM and non-FM hospitalisations; and to investigate hospital procedures associated with FM hospitalisations...

..To calculate binge drinking rates among California adults and describe the characteristics of female and male binge drinkers...

..The authors compare trends in the salaries of physician faculty in academic departments of psychiatry with those of physician faculty in all academic clinical science departments from 1980-2006...

..To compare the effects of learning about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) via live observation to learning via an instructional videotape...

..To evaluate the relationship between self-reported mental health and binge drinking, as well as health status, sociodemographic, social support, economic resource, and health care access indicators to antihypertension medication adherence...

..Our findings suggest that maltreated youth are at disproportionate risk for PIU, and their capacities to regulate and process emotion are important targets for prevention and therapeutic intervention...

..Curricular interventions to foster more positive attitudes toward such patients and their treatment can have lasting effects on clinical practice. The nature and duration of such interventions, however, requires clarification...

..Student mistreatment in medical school is a persistent problem with both known and unexplored consequences [corrected]...

..To identify correlates of perceived pain-related restrictions in a community sample of women with fibromyalgia...

..Serious mental illness often is associated with an increased risk of diabetes and sub-optimal diabetes care...

..e., free and total T3) and psychological symptoms (i.e., depression, general distress, and PTSD)--one of "shutting down" (vs. "activation") in the face of trauma...

..The CAQ-AP and the CAQ-PP appear to be useful for evaluating alexithymic and psychopathic features in public figures...

..These findings suggest that a "one-size-fits-all approach" with regard to policies and practices aimed at reducing mental health disparities will not be effective for all racial/ethnic groups...

..Our objectives were to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Observer Alexithymia Scale (OAS) in eating disorder patients, alexithymia severity across diagnostic subgroups, and correspondence among three alexithymia measures...

..The OAS-C appears to be a reliable and valid observer-rated alexithymia measure. We recommend that researchers collect both self- and observer-rated alexithymia data and, when possible, obtain observer reports from more than one person...

..Importantly, too, OAS total scores correlated 0.31 with (self-report) 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) scores. The OAS-F appears to be a psychometrically sound observer-rated alexithymia measure...

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