http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—No mother wants to see her child hospitalized, but how she copes with it could impact the child's anxiety level, a recent study by a University of Alabama researcher found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-importance-coping-skills-hospital.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:20:04 EST news281786378 HIV patients who participated in an intervention that helped them identify barriers to taking their drugs properly and develop customized coping strategies took a significantly greater amount of their prescribed doses than those receiving standard care, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The results, published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine, may point to a new strategy to improve adherence to medications for many other conditions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-personalized-barriers-hiv-drug-adherence.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:57:23 EST news278683034 While part of everyday life, stress seems to intensify around the holidays and into the new year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-stressed.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:24:40 EST news277367052 Low-income teenagers who have supportive role models and engage in adaptive strategies have lower levels of a marker for cardiovascular risk than low-income teens without such resources, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-role-coping-health-poor-teens.html Health Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:07 EST news275163960 An Indiana University study in the Journal of Child Neurology proposes an innovative treatment for developmental coordination disorder, a potentially debilitating neurological disorder in which the development of a child's fine or gross motor skills, or both, is impaired. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-unique-treatment-children-developmental-disorder.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:26:14 EST news273129960 Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, a University of Missouri public health expert has identified factors that will help parents, medical professionals and educators recognize teens at risk for self injury and suicide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-esearcher-factors-parents-professionals-teens.html Health Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:31:39 EST news268583477 Positive social relationships in childhood and adolescence are key to adult well-being, according to Associate Professor Craig Olsson from Deakin University and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia, and his colleagues. In contrast, academic achievement appears to have little effect on adult well-being. The exploratory work, looking at the child and adolescent origins of well-being in adulthood, is published online in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-early-relationships-brainpower-key-adult.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:41:27 EST news263130065 Investigators from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center report research findings that may shed light on influences on obesity during adulthood. Appearing in the journal Pediatrics, the study found an association of severity of sexual and physical abuse during childhood and adolescence with obesity during adulthood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-abuse-childhood-contribute-obesity-adulthood.html Pediatrics Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:03:56 EST news260445830 Over the last decade, Dr. Benjamin Van Voorhees has been trying to find the best way to teach coping strategies to adolescents who are at risk of suffering from severe depression. The idea is to help them keep depression at bay so that it doesn't become a debilitating part of their lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-vaccination-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:10:01 EST news257766986 Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer can experience cognitive declines, such as decreased verbal fluency or loss of memory and attention. Often experienced by patients undergoing chemotherapy, the declines have become known as "chemo brain." However, a health psychologist at the University of Missouri says "chemo brain" isn't always to blame. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-stress-contributes-cognitive-declines-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:09:14 EST news253372146 Veterans are almost twice as likely as the general public to have chronic illnesses, such as diabetes and heart failure. Therefore, veterans may require more assistance from informal caregivers, especially as outpatient treatment becomes more common. A University of Missouri researcher evaluated strain and satisfaction among informal caregivers of veterans with chronic illnesses. The findings show that more than one third of veterans' caregivers report high levels of strain as a result of taking care of their relatives; yet, on average, caregivers also report being satisfied with their caregiving responsibilities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-caregivers-veterans-chronic-illnesses-stressed.html Health Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:01 EST news250428895 A study led by the University of Kentucky researcher Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles found that hospice family caregivers are "second order patients" themselves and require their own unique care needs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-hospice-caregivers-routine-interventions.html Health Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:26:54 EST news241882007 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Mona Loutfy of the University of Toronto, Canada and colleagues report their study examining experiences of stigma and coping strategies among HIV-positive women in Ontario, Canada. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-stigma-hiv-positive-women-complex-overlapping.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:26:14 EST news241205156 Lindsay Sewall has spent the last three years studying a feared and misunderstood segment of the population: Psychopaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-psychopaths-treatment.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:49:31 EST news238408748 Using incense or lighting a candle may seem like good ways to let go of racial stress, but a recent study found that might not be the case in terms of racial tension among women. In fact, some coping strategies employed by African-American women may actually increase their stress instead of alleviate it, according to a recent study from Psychology of Women Quarterly. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-african-american-women-stress-compounded.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:39:08 EST news229682329