Motivational interviewing to increase physical activity in long-term cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial

Article Abstract:

A randomized controlled trial was carried out on cancer survivors to evaluate whether motivational interviewing (MI) would in any way prove to help long-term survivors in increasing their participation in self-selected physical activities. It is concluded that the use of MI may increase physical activity in long-term cancer survivors may increase physical activity in long-term cancer survivors especially in persons with high self-efficacy for exercise.

Physiological aspects, Exercise, Cancer survivors, Clinical report

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United States Spanish short-form-36 health survey: scaling assumptions and reliability in elderly community-dwelling Mexican Americans

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted, with telephone survey in Spanish, to test the metric equivalence of the United States (US) Spanish Short-Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) in a group of elderly Mexican Americans. The study reveals that the SF-36 scale scores were lower in elderly Mexican American women then in elderly women in the general US population.

Aged, Elderly, Health surveys, Mexican Americans

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Effects of gender and preference for information and control on anxiety early after myocardial infarction

Article Abstract:

The relation of gender and preference for information and control to anxiety during the critical care period after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is examined. It was concluded that women showed greater anxiety than the men and that both men and women were similar at all levels of anxiety in their preference for information and control.

Science & research, Research, Risk factors, Behavior, Heart attack, Anxiety, Sex (Biology)

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