Spiritual Intimacy, Marital Intimacy, and Physical/Psychological Well-Being: Spiritual Meaning as a Mediator.

Objective: Intimacy is an essential part of marital relationships, spiritual relationships, and is also a factor in well-being, but there is little research simultaneously examining the links among spiritual intimacy, marital intimacy, and well-being.

Methods: Structural equation modeling was used to examine associations among the latent variables-spiritual intimacy, marital intimacy, spiritual meaning, and well-being-in a cross-sectional study of 5,720 married adults aged 29-100 years ( = 58.88, = 12.

The patient-provider relationship and antenatal care uptake at two referral hospitals in Malawi: A qualitative study.

Background: Approximately 90% of Malawian women attend antenatal care at least once during their pregnancies; however, most mothers first present during months five and six and do not adhere to the World Health Organization's recommended four visits. The objective of this study was to explore the role the patient-provider relationship has on antenatal care uptake.

Methods: A qualitative study, consisting of interviews with 20 urban pregnant mothers and eight health workers, was conducted from September to December 2014.

The effects of simultaneous exercise and psychotherapy on depressive symptoms in inpatient, psychiatric older adults.

Context: Depression is the leading cause of early death, affecting 15% of Americans older than 65 y and costing $43 billion each year. The current mental health service system for seniors, particularly for the population hospitalized in acute inpatient psychiatric units, is fragmented because of poor funding and a shift to a transitory health care paradigm, leading to inadequate treatment modalities, questionable quality of care, and lack of research demonstrating the superiority of a particular treatment. These issues are likely to lead to a public health crisis in the coming years.

Generational differences in fast food intake among South-Asian Americans: results from a population-based survey.

The goal of this study was to evaluate the association between generational status and fast food consumption among South-Asian Americans. We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the California Health Interview Survey for 2007, 2009, and 2011. After adjusting for control variables, South-Asian Americans of the third generation or more had a fast food intake rate per week 2.

Using the theory of planned behavior to predict infant restraint use in Saudi Arabia.

Objectives: To determine whether the theory of planned behavior (TPB) predicted intent of child restraint system (CRS) use among pregnant women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

Methods: In this cross-sectional study conducted in Dallah Hospital, Riyadh, KSA during June-July 2013, 196 pregnant women completed surveys assessing their beliefs regarding CRS. Simultaneous observations were conducted among a different sample of 150 women to determine CRS usage at hospital discharge following maternity stay.

Social Determinants of Physical Activity Among Adult Asian-Americans: Results from a Population-Based Survey in California.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the key social determinants of physical activity among six Asian-American subgroups using public access 2007 California Health Interview Survey data. Physical activity was defined as meeting the American College of Sports Medicine recommendation of 450 metabolic equivalent-minutes per week. Factors positively associated with meeting physical activity recommendations included being bilingual among Chinese and Vietnamese, and increasing age for Chinese only.

Religious involvement and health-related behaviors among Black Seventh-Day Adventists in Canada.

Background: Most studies that involve Black Seventh-Day Adventists (SDAs) have been conducted in the United States. We sought to examine the association between religious involvement and lifestyle practices among Black SDAs in Canada.

Method: A convenience sample of 509 Black SDA church members 18 years and older completed a self-administered questionnaire, assessing religious involvement and seven lifestyle practices promoted by the SDA church: diet, physical activity, water intake, exposure to sunlight, alcohol use, caffeine and tobacco use, and rest.

Using the theory of planned behavior to explore attitudes and beliefs about dietary supplements among HIV-positive Black women.

Background: This cross-sectional study investigated whether the theory of planned behavior (TPB) constructs: attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control were related to intention of dietary supplements use among African-American women living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and/or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS).

Methods: A closed-ended questionnaire based on the TPB was utilized to explore the use of dietary supplements among a cohort of 153 HIV-positive African-American women.

Results: Overall, 45% of the respondents used dietary supplements to manage/control their HIV.

Exploring HIV-testing intentions in young Asian/Pacific Islander (API) women as it relates to acculturation, theory of gender and power (TGP), and the AIDS risk reduction model (ARRM).

While HIV rates are low for Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs), they have been increasing, especially for API women in the USA. We conducted a cross-sectional study with 299 young API women (18-24 years old) in the Inland Empire region of Southern California to better understand their intention for HIV testing and their perceptions about HIV/AIDS. Data analyses included descriptive statistics, bivariate exploration for model building and multivariate analyses to determine variables associated with HIV-testing intentions.

Building capacity for community disaster preparedness: a call for collaboration between public environmental health and emergency preparedness and response programs.

Partnerships among local public environmental health (EH), emergency preparedness and response (EPR) programs, and the communities they serve have great potential to build community environmental health emergency preparedness (EHEP) capacity. In the study described in this article, the beliefs and organizational practices pertaining to community EHEP outreach and capacity were explored through key informant (KI) interviews (N = 14) with a sample of governmental EH and EPR administrators and top-level managers from Riverside and San Bernardino counties in Southern California. The results indicate that KIs were highly confident in their workforces' efficacy, ability, willingness, and motivation to directly engage local communities in EHEP.

Provision of emergency contraception at student health centers in California community colleges.

Background: Approximately half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, with the highest rates reported among college-age women. The availability of emergency contraception (EC) pills can be an important component of efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy. Student health centers at community colleges can uniquely support student retention and academic achievement among college students by making EC available to reduce the rate of unintended pregnancy and prevent college drop-out.

Closing the gap in mammogram screening: an experimental intervention among low-income Hispanic women in community health clinics.

A low rate of mammogram screening exists among low-income Hispanic women. To address this disparity, an experimental intervention containing audiovisual and written media was conducted using the health belief model as a framework. The purpose of this study was to determine if low-income Hispanic women, more than 40 years of age, who received targeted cancer prevention education (n = 105) had a significantly greater perceived threat of breast cancer, greater benefits and lower barriers to screening, and stronger intentions to obtain mammograms compared to a control group (n = 105).

Small incision preperiosteal midface lift for correction of lower eyelid retraction.

Purpose: Postblepharoplasty lower eyelid retraction is often due to scarring of the middle lamellae and/or vertical shortening of the anterior lamellae. Traditional reconstructive techniques involve a transconjunctival incision combined with a spacer graft. Other techniques involve a subperiosteal midface dissection or limited preperiosteal dissection.

Postpartum follow-up: can psychosocial support reduce newborn readmissions?

Purpose: To determine whether there was a relationship between postpartum psychosocial support from healthcare providers and the rate of normal newborn readmissions (NNRs), and whether there was a cost benefit to justify an intervention.

Study Design And Methods: Data were abstracted for all normal newborn births from 1999 to 2006 (N = 14,786) at a community hospital in southern California at three different time periods: (1) at baseline prior to any intervention (1999-2000), (2) the 4 years during the comprehensive psychosocial support intervention (2001-2004), and (3) the 2 years during a limited psychosocial support intervention (2004-2006). A cost-benefit analysis was performed to analyze whether the financial benefits from the intervention matched or exceeded the costs for NNRs.

Partner communication and HIV testing among US Chinese college students.

Objectives: To explore the role of partner communication and relationship status on HIV testing among Chinese/Chinese American college students in northern California.

Methods: We used a cross-sectional study design to conduct focus groups and an online or paper-pencil questionnaire (N = 230).

Results: The majority (60%) of respondents were in committed partnerships, with 21% in casual partnerships.

Acculturation and gender: influence on healthy dietary outcomes for Latino adolescents in California.

Objective: Examine acculturation and gender on intention to eat a healthful diet among Latino adolescents using the Theory of Planned Behavior.

Design: Secondary analysis of data set and condensed version of the Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (SASH).

Setting: Data collected from 34 randomly selected high schools in San Bernardino, CA.

Health beliefs and the prevention of hypertension in a black population living in London.

In the United Kingdom, the morbidity and mortality associated with hypertension is much higher in Blacks than in Whites. We studied a convenience sample of 312 persons aged 25-79 years from 17 predominantly Black Seventh-Day Adventist churches across London by using the health belief model to examine their beliefs about the prevention of hypertension. A questionnaire was used to collect demographic and anthropometric data, lifestyle practices, and perceptions toward hypertension by using the health belief model constructs of susceptibility, severity, benefits, barriers, and self-efficacy.

Gender differences in perceptions of weight and body image and comparison to recommended weight among adult Bermudians.

The objective of this study was to determine adult Bermudians' perceptions of ideal weight, overweight, and body image and to decide if a discrepancy exists between their perceptions and World Health Organization standards. A cross-sectional survey of body weight perceptions was administered to 462 men (n = 207) and women (n = 255), 18-65 years of age and various body weights, living on the Island of Bermuda. Additionally, measurement of height, and weight was collected.

"The stork lift": a circumoccipital extended neck-lift.

Background: The goal of the lower face- and neck-lift is restoration of a sharp cervicomental angle. However, standard cervical rhytidectomy for the patient with extensive excess skin of the neck often leaves the patient with objectionable vertical or diagonal skin folds of the lateral neck, a large hair-step deformity, or both. To remove extensive excess skin of the neck and to avoid vertical/diagonal folds and a stepped hairline, the authors "walk" the excess skin posteriorly along the hairline, often from ear to ear along the inferior posterior hairline.

Biplanar temple lift for lateral brow ptosis: comparison with uniplanar dissection technique.

Background: The amount of lift achievable in the temple region has been limited by traditional uniplanar dissection techniques. A biplanar temple-lifting technique (BTL), involving a biplanar dissection both deep and superficial to the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) of the temporal region, is described. This study compares the amount of temporal lifting that can be achieved using a uniplanar dissection with that achieved using a biplanar dissection.

Full-thickness eyelid penetration during cosmetic blepharopigmentation causing eye injury.

Purpose: This paper aims to present a case of iatrogenic injury to the globe during cosmetic eyelid blepharopigmentation (tattooing).

Design/methods: Observational case report.

Results: A 46-year-old Asian female presented with chemosis and injection of the conjunctiva one day following cosmetic blepharopigmentation.

Developing healthy kids in healthy communities: eight evidence-based strategies for preventing high-risk behaviour.

Australian youth engage in behaviour that threatens their health and wellbeing. National surveys report that about a third of young Australians have tried an illicit drug. High rates of substance use and risky sexual behaviour among young Australians suggest that effective prevention efforts based on empirical evidence need to be expanded.

Multipurpose conical orbital implant in evisceration.

Purpose: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the porous polyethylene multipurpose conical orbital implant for use in evisceration.

Methods: A retrospective review of 31 eyes that underwent evisceration and received the multipurpose conical orbital implant. The orbits were evaluated at 1 week, 1 month, and 6 months after final prosthetic fitting for implant exposure, superior sulcus deformity, and prosthetic motility.

Retinal vein thrombosis as the presenting symptom of essential thrombocythemia.

Visual loss resulting from retinal vascular disorders can be the presenting sign of serious systemic disease. Associations between retinal vein thrombosis and other systemic disorders have been well documented, but a comprehensive literature search failed to reveal any report of essential thrombocythemia as a cause of central retinal vein thrombosis. We describe the first young female patient with symptomatic visual loss due to central retinal vein thrombosis as her presenting symptom of essential thrombocythemia.