Tag: "distrust" at medical news

Psychosocial Factors Associated With Higher Levels of Inflammatory Markers

... factors of depression and chronic stress. Cynical distrust was measured at a follow-up visit between 2002 and 2004. Blood samples obtained at the initial examination were analyzed for IL-6, C-reactive protein and fibrinogen, all markers for inflammation. The researchers found graded associations between al...

Skepticism is Bad for Your Health

...chers have now come up with a finding that cynical distrust can also elevate the risk of heart problems and suggest, “Our behavior and emotions directly affect our health.” During the study, about 7,000 men and women aged between 45 and 84 were asked to complete two sets of questionnaires. The first one wa...

Offenders Unlikely to Seek Help

...were a chaotic upbringing, a fear of diagnosis and distrust of the system. Overall, lack of trust emerged as the most prominent factor. Many of the participants did not feel that health professionals genuinely cared about them or had the ability to help with mental health problems. Others were reluctant to se...

NHS Inconvenienced by 110 major computer failures

...e is making things worse, not better, while sowing distrust and disillusionment across the health service." According to Mr Bacon ministers should respond by reducing the scope of their plans and giving local managers more freedom to buy computer systems subject to common standards. NLA...

Risk of Death Greater With Low Literacy Levels

... have to do with an already-existing high level of distrust of medical studies among African Americans. She cites the Tuskegee Study, in which the United States Public Health Service withheld syphilis treatment from a group of 399 African-American men for 40 years, from 1932 to 1972. "A history like that i...

Take it if you can - Tough Times in Life Churn out Greenhorns

...ay learn through repeated exposure to adversity to distrust their own judgment; a person might believe somethi... "This is because the person may have learned to distrust their actions, judgements and decisions due to the fact that the majority of the time their actions ...

Legalization Of Euthanasia Would Not Affect Patient’s Trus

... expressing that legalizing euthanasia would cause distrust by blurring the time-honored line between healing and harming. The researchers have expressed caution that it cannot be taken for granted that legalizing physician-assisted death would not undermine trust in physicians for most people. Furthermore,...

Repeated checking causes memory distrust

...owing from a recent study that demonstrated memory distrust results from repeated checking of a virtual computerized stove, researchers from the Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada asked 50 undergraduate students to repeatedly turn on, turn off and check either a real kitchen stov...

Intense Fight Against Polio In India Gets Results

...e drops might cause impotence later on in life and distrust against the government for focusing so much on a single disease - which has been eradicated from much of the globe. And Hapur in Ghaziabad district, adjoining New Delhi, perhaps epitomizes the struggle best. It remains one of the 12 polio-endemic ar...

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