Consumer choice as experienced in the user-choice food pantry environment: motivations and situational influences on food selection.

Objective: While scholarship has investigated how to provide more healthy food options in choice pantry environments, research has just begun to investigate how pantry users go about making decisions regarding food items when the ability to choose is present. The present analysis sought to investigate the factors prohibiting and inhibiting food decision making in choice pantries from the perspective of frequent pantry users.

Design: Six focus group interviews were conducted with visitors to choice food pantries, to discuss the decision-making process involved in food selection during choice pantry visits.

Liposomal bupivacaine efficacy for postoperative pain following posterior vaginal surgery: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Background: Effective postoperative pain management is a crucial component of recovery following surgery. Narcotics are a cornerstone of postoperative analgesia, but can require a redosing requirement, encompass a lengthy list of side effects and adverse reaction risks, as well as carry a dependency potential. The national focus on decreasing opioid use has directly impacted postoperative pain management.

Sacral Neuromodulation for the Treatment of Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder.

Background: Patients affected with persistent genital arousal disorder report unprovoked, excessive, and unremitting genital arousal unrelated to sexual desire. Those afflicted experience severe physical and psychological distress with significant feelings of shame, guilt, and frustration. Definitive treatment options for this disorder are limited.

The Health Belief Model as an explanatory framework in communication research: exploring parallel, serial, and moderated mediation.

The Health Belief Model (HBM) posits that messages will achieve optimal behavior change if they successfully target perceived barriers, benefits, self-efficacy, and threat. While the model seems to be an ideal explanatory framework for communication research, theoretical limitations have limited its use in the field. Notably, variable ordering is currently undefined in the HBM.

The cancer information overload (CIO) scale: establishing predictive and discriminant validity.

Objective: Survey data suggests that approximately three-fourths of adults are overwhelmed by cancer information - a construct we label cancer information overload (CIO). A significant limitation of existing research is that it relies on a single-item measure. The objective of the current study is to develop and validate a multi-item measure of CIO.

Usability study of a novel, self-lighted, disposable speculum: military applications.

Study Design: Data collected from a postutilization questionnaire were used to evaluate the usability of the OfficeSPEC disposable vaginal speculum, specifically the effectiveness, efficiency, and acceptability, in clinical, hospital, and austere environments.

Results: Usability data analysis showed the OfficeSPEC speculum had an effectiveness rating of 4.6/5, efficiency rating of 4.

The prostaglandin E₂ type 4 receptor participates in the response to acute oxidant stress in airway epithelial cells.

Oxidative stress is implicated in the pathogenesis of many inflammatory pulmonary diseases, including cystic fibrosis (CF). Delineating how oxidative stress stimulates CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in airway epithelial cells is useful, both to increase the understanding of airways host defense and suggest therapeutic approaches to reduce the oxidant stress burden in the CF lung. Using the airway epithelial cell line Calu-3, we investigated the hypothesis that hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂), which stimulates anion efflux through CFTR, does so via the production of prostaglandin E₂ (PGE₂).

Sources of uncertainty: experiences of Alzheimer's disease.

Uncertainty is an inherent part of most illness experiences and Alzheimer's disease in particular is fraught with uncertainties, especially for the family. In an investigation of sources of uncertainty, 33 adult children with a parent diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease were interviewed. Participants described medical, personal, and social sources of uncertainty related to their parent's diagnosis.

Volume regulation in the human airway epithelial cell line Calu-3.

Cells regulate their volume in response to changes in the osmolarity of both their extracellular and their intracellular environments. We investigated the ability of the human airway epithelial cell line Calu-3 to respond to changes in extracellular osmolarity. Although switching Calu-3 cells from an isosmotic to a hyperosmotic environment resulted in cell shrinkage, there was no compensatory mechanism for the cells to return to their original volume.