The Life-Long Mortality Risks Of World War II Experiences.

OBJECTIVE: This longitudinal study of American veterans investigated the mortality risks of five World War II military experiences (i.e., combat exposure) and their variation among veterans in the post-war years.

Uncertainty, symptoms, and quality of life in persons with chronic hepatitis C.

Background: Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is the most common blood-borne infection in the United States, but little is known about illness uncertainty in these patients.

Objective: The authors examined the constructs of illness uncertainty.

Method: In this cross-sectional study, Mishel's Uncertainty in Illness Scale was used to examine these constructs (ambiguity, complexity, inconsistency, unpredictability) and their relationships with fatigue, pain, depressive symptoms, comorbidity, and quality of life (QOL) in 126 CHC patients undergoing a watchful-waiting protocol.

Effect of physical activity guidelines on physical function in older adults.

Objectives: To determine whether elderly people who meet national guidelines have higher physical function (PF) scores than those who do not and the effect on functional trajectory when physical activity (PA) levels change from above to below this threshold, or vice versa.

Design: Pooled data.

Setting: Two 6-month randomized controlled trials aimed at increasing PA in adults.

Community-based service use by elders with dementia and their caregivers: a latent class analysis.

Background: With the increase in the number of older adults with dementia, research efforts have focused on increasing community-based support service (CBSS) use to improve older adult and caregiver outcomes. However, the research on factors that may explain CBSS use has been focused on individual characteristics, and how the care recipient and caregiver as a pair influence CBSS use has not been accounted for.

Objective: To classify care recipients with dementia and their caregivers who shared similar patterns of CBSS use and to identify predictors of class membership.

Regularity of preventive foot care in persons with diabetes: results from the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the regularity of preventive care for persons with diabetes in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study to identify associated demographic, lifestyle, and disease-related factors. Among 1,972 persons with diabetes, 1,459 (74%) answered questions related to preventive foot care. The final sample included 1,312 persons with known diabetes, but without a self-reported history of foot ulcer.