Participants and Procedure. The process is voluntary and non-binding. Each party may be represented by another person. At least one person – the party or the party’s representative – must be authorized to negotiate a settlement of the dispute. The parties are responsible for any fee or expense incurred by their respective representatives, subject to this being modified in any agreement that results from this mediation. The parties, and if they desire, their representatives are invited to attend mediation sessions. No one else may attend without the permission of the parties and the consent of the mediator. During the session, the mediator may have joint and separate meetings with the parties and their counsel. During a separate meeting, if a party informs the mediator that information is being conveyed to the mediator in confidence, the mediator will not disclose the information. If a party wishes to terminate its participation for any reason, it may do so by giving notice to the mediator and the other parties. The parties will continue to be bound by the confidentiality provisions of this agreement.
Participants and Procedure. In October 2010, students at six colleges in the Southeast were recruited to complete an online survey. A random sample of 5,000 students at each school (with the exclusion of two schools who had enrollment less than 5,000) were invited to complete the survey (n=24,055). Students received an e-mail containing a link to the consent form with the option of opting out. Students who consented to participate were directed to the online survey. To encourage participation, students received up to three e-mail invitations to participate. As an incentive for participation, all students who completed the survey received entry into a drawing for cash prizes of $1,000 (one prize), $500 (two prizes), and $250 (four prizes) at each participating school. A total of 4,840 (20.1%) students returned the online survey; the current analyses focused on 3,469 participants who had complete data. The Emory University Institutional Review Board approved this study, IRB# 00030631.
Participants and Procedure. The research sample consisted of 106 patients (100 women and 6 men1) with a DSM- IV eating disorder and 27 healthy female controls. All eligible patients who met criteria for an eating disorder according to the DSM-IV were sent the Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ) (Xxxxx, 1999) and the Bulimic Investigatory Test Edinburgh (BITE) (Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, 1987) and were asked in an accompanying letter to participate in the study. As stated above, the study encompassed all patients with a DSM-IV eating disorder, including patients with EDNOS. EDNOS patients represent the largest diagnostic category in 1 No differences in demographic characteristics, eating disorder symptoms and core beliefs were found between men and women. Men and women were also not different with regard to the association of severity of symptoms with core beliefs. eating disorders; furthermore, patients with EDNOS closely resemble patients with AN and BN (Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx, 2003). We hypothesized that patients with the same symptoms had the same underlying core beliefs. To investigate the first question of this study all 106 patients were subdivided into four DSM-IV categories. For example, we combined patients who met all four criteria of AN, with patients who lacked one criteria of AN, thus for example patients with a BMI between 17.5 and 20 or patients with only a mild fear of getting fat (see table 1 for all EDNOS criteria). Combining full-syndrome and their EDNOS equivalent led to the following group sizes: ANR-extended (N= 16; ANR (full): N=7 and EDNOS ANR: N=9); ANB/P-extended (N=31; ANBP (full): N=12 and EDNOS ANBP: N=19); BNP-extended (N= 23; BN (full): N=16 and EDNOS BN: N=7) and BED (N= 36). Table 1: EDNOS criteria EDNOS ANR EDNOS ANBP 3 out of 4 AN criteria and: BMI between 17.5 and 20 or (irregular) menstruation or mild disturbance of body image or mild fear of fatness EDNOS BN 2 out of 3 BN criteria and: binge eating or inadequate compensatory behaviours once a week or mild concern with body weight and shape BED See DSM-IV appendix B The healthy control group consisted of 27 subjects not suffering from eating disorders who were screened to exclude any present or past history of an eating disorder. Subjects were excluded from the control group if they had a score above 10 on the symptom scale of the BITE or a score above 5 on the severity scale of the BITE (Bulimic Investigatory Test Edinburgh)(Xxxxxxxxx et al., 1987).
Participants and Procedure. The process is voluntary and non-binding. Each party may be represented by another person. At least one person – the party or the party’s representative – must be authorized to negotiate a settlement of the dispute. The parties are responsible for any fee or expense incurred by their respective representatives, subject to this being modified in any agreement that results from this mediation. The parties, and if they desire, their representatives are invited to attend mediation sessions. No one else may attend without the permission of the parties and the consent of the mediator. During the session, the mediator may have joint and separate meetings with the parties and their counsel. During a separate meeting, unless otherwise agreed, if a party informs the mediator that information is being conveyed to the mediator in confidence, the mediator will not disclose the information.
Participants and Procedure. We used the census sampling method and enrolled all patients who were transported to the hospital by emergency medical services (EMS) under the dispatch code of “acute allergic reaction”. This primary impression was made by the dispatch physician based on the reported history and clinical presentations. Dispatch physicians considered any new generalized skin rash, respiratory distress, cardiovascular compromise, gastrointestinal manifestations, or neurological deficits in patients suspicious to encountering a new trigger allergen like a drug as alarm signs and symptoms of acute allergic reactions. Although asthma has also an allergic base from a pathophysiologic point of view, cases suspicious to have asthma attacks are categorized separately under the code of “asthma attack” in the Iranian EMS dispatch system and were excluded from the study automatically. All patients were transferred by the ambulances with first-aid personnel on board (without any physicians or paramedics). We reviewed the medical records of patients and gathered the data about the demographic characteristics, stability/instability of patients’ xxxxx xxxxx in first prehospital assessment, use of epinephrine administration by EMS staff, the most probable cause of the allergic reaction, prehospital diagnosis (diagnoses documented on-call report by EMS staff) and final diagnosis (diagnosis documented on discharge summary form by hospital physicians). Documented diagnoses were categorized as urticaria, angioedema, anaphylaxis, drug allergy, gastrointestinal (GI) allergy, allergic reactions due to insect bites, and other types of allergic reactions. We excluded patients whose medical records were not comprehensive or reliable. Data Analysis Descriptive continuous numerical data are presented as a minimum, maximum, and mean (with standard deviation). Descriptive categorical variables are described as absolute and relative (percentage) frequencies. The agreement between prehospital and final diagnosis is evaluated by Xxxxx’x weighted Kappa coefficient. All data analyses are performed with SPSS version 18 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). RESULTS According to our inclusion criteria, 317 patients were eligible to enroll in the study. Medical records were not comprehensive in 17 cases. At last 300 patients were included and analyzed. The mean annual rate of transportation of patients with an acute allergic reaction to studied hospitals was 21.42 between 2008 and 2014. Basic characteristics- From 30...
Participants and Procedure. Second-generation Turkish immigrant mothers of 2-year-old children were recruited from the municipal registers of several cities and towns in the western and middle region of the Netherlands. Only second-generation Turkish immigrant mothers born in the Netherlands (with at least one of their parents born in Turkey) with a 2-year-old child (age 22 - 29 months) were selected to ensure the homogeneity of the sample and to control for confounding effects of ethnicity and migration. All correspondence was in the Turkish and the Dutch language. In total, 384 families were reached of whom 230 (60%) participated in this study by filling out questionnaires on child behavior problems and parenting practices. Unfortunately we were not able to collect any information on non-respondents. Only children for whom the primary parent was the mother (biological or otherwise) were eligible for the study. Of the 230 participating families, 155 families also participated in a videotaped 1-hour home visit during which mothers and children performed several tasks. Eight families were excluded from the group due to serious medical condition in child or mother, physical or mental disability in child or mother, lack of fluency in the Turkish and Dutch language, or interfering factors during a home-visit which made coding of videotaped interactions impossible. This resulted in a sample of 147 children and their mothers. The current study is an extension of the descriptive observational part of the SCRIPT study (Screening and Intervention of Problem behavior in Toddlerhood), with questionnaire and observational data of Dutch families with toddlers in the age range of 2 to 4 years. For a detailed description of the recruitment of Dutch participants and the procedures of the SCRIPT study we refer to Xxx Xxxxx et al. (2007). For the present paper, we used the SCRIPT pretest laboratory observations for 70 24-month-old children (M = 23.76, SD = 0.86, range = 22-26, 47 boys) with mothers born in the Netherlands. In the SCRIPT study, these observations were only carried out for children who scored above the 75th percentile on the CBCL- Externalizing Problems scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL/1½-5; Xxxxxxxxx & Rescorla, 2000) within their age group (scores ≥ 19). The selection of high scores on the CBCL has the advantage of increasing the likelihood of including families with extreme scores on the parenting behaviors under investigation. For this reason, and to be able to compare ou...
Participants and Procedure. In this study, we conducted secondary analyses of the “Longitudinal survey of the ethnic and political attitudes of the adult population in Hungary”. The face-to-face interviews were used. A national probability sample consisted of 844 people (aged 18 and more), of which 58.1 percent were females.
Participants and Procedure. The data were collected in the research project entitled “BOUNCE: Predicting effective adaptation to breast cancer to help women to bounce back” funded by Horizon 2020 as part of the innovation program. The data were collected in four major oncology centers in Finland, Israel, Italy and Portugal during the years 2019-2021. The research project included repeated assessment, using a time adjusted version of a battery of self-reported questionnaires, every three months from the breast cancer diagnosis, for a period of 18 months (with a total of 7 waves of assessment). The analyses reported here focused on part of the measures collected in the first five measurement waves: at the time of diagnosis (M0 or baseline), three months post-diagnosis (M3), six months post-diagnosis (M6), nine months post-diagnosis (M9), and twelve months post-diagnosis (M12). The inclusion criteria were: age 40 to 70 at the time of recruitment, a diagnosis of an invasive early or locally advanced operable breast cancer in stages І, ІІ and ІІІ, after surgery and before any systemic treatment such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, antiHER2 treatment or hormonal therapy. The research project received the approval of all ethical committees of the participating medical centers (Helsinki approvals for research on human subjects; Approval No R868/18- IEO916), and the protocol was registered in XxxxxxxxXxxxxx.xxx (Identifier number: NCT05095675). The participants were introduced to the research upon their first visit at the medical center by the treating oncologists followed by thorough explanations by the affiliated research assistants. The participants who consented to participate in the longitudinal study fill in research questionnaires through an internet platform (Noona platform or Qualtrics platform) or their printed version when the online version was not accessible. The total number of participants in the four-site study was 706 )Finland n = 225, Israel n = 151, Italy n = 190, Portugal n = 140). Additional data regarding 58 younger Pts were collected by XXXXXX, but these are not analysed in the models presented below. In the analyses reported here, different subsets of these data were used, according to the ways researchers decided to deal with missing data. The background socio-demographic and medical data of the participants are presented in Table 2. The N in this Table is 702, as used in the analyses in Section 3.2, which is representative of the whole sample.
