The role of gender and sexual experience in predicting adolescent condom use intentions using the theory of planned behaviour.

Objectives: To examine how the prediction of condom-related cognitions, intentions, and behaviour amongst adolescents may differ according to gender and sexual experience within a theory of planned behaviour (TPB) framework.

Methods: Adolescents (N = 306) completed questionnaires about sexual experience, condom use, TPB variables, perceived risk, and safe sex knowledge.

Results: Significant differences in TPB variables, perceived risk, and knowledge were found; males and sexually experienced participants were generally less positive about condom use.

Anxiety and depression in polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Our aim was to assess differences in anxiety and depression between women with and without (controls) polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Methods: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of published literature comparing women with PCOS to control groups on anxiety and depression. Electronic databases were searched up to 17 December 2010.

Testosterone and mood dysfunction in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome compared to subfertile controls.

Women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) have been found to suffer from fertility problems and mood dysfunction. To control for any effect of fertility problems, the present study compared mood dysfunction in women with PCOS to non-PCOS women with fertility problems. Seventy-six women with PCOS and 49 subfertile controls reported their anxiety, depression and aggression levels, and the relationship between mood and testosterone (T) was assessed.

The influence of medical and psychological interventions on women's distress after miscarriage.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the impact of medical and psychological interventions on women's distress after early miscarriage.

Methods: This was a prospective study of women attending for a routine scan at 10-14 weeks of gestation and found to have a missed miscarriage. An intervention group of 66 women had medical investigations to ascertain the cause of miscarriage, and at 5 weeks after the scan, they all had a medical consultation to discuss the results of the investigations.