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The experimental study that follows was planned to determine the effectiveness of distraction on the pain level in school-age children as they underwent venipuncture. The study sample consisted of children between the ages of 7 and 12 years who underwent venipuncture at the Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey between February and May 2012. A total of 144 children were conveniently sampled and evenly randomized into two groups of 72 children each. The primary instrument used to test children’s pain level was the Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R).
Title: Suicide Risk May Rise for Some After Weight-Loss Surgery
Category: Health News
Created: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/8/2015 12:00:00 AM
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The Korean Journal of Pain
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Feeling like the target of discrimination may increase a person’s odds of harmful behaviors like smoking, eating fatty foods and getting less sleep, a study of African-Americans suggests. Researchers examined the connection between discrimination and these unhealthy habits among almost 5,000 African-American residents of the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area. “We conducted this particular analysis to understand the extent to which multiple measures of perceived discrimination were associated with types of behaviors that are known to be risk factors for cardiovascular disease in African-Americans,” lead study author Mario Sims, a researcher with the Jackson Heart Study and the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, said by email.