Predictors of Abortion Attitudes in Medical Students After the Reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Background On June 24, 2022, the United States (U.S.) Supreme Court ruled in that the Constitution does not grant women the right to abortion.

Medical Students' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Beliefs about Medical Cannabis: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Background There has been increased attention given to understanding the uses of medical cannabis (MC) for symptom management of various medical conditions. Physicians receive minimal training in medical school and rely mostly on anecdotal evidence; by proxy, medical students generally do receive formal training in MC. It is unknown how medical students perceive MC, including its efficacy, appropriateness in medicine, its possible adverse effects, and its value for patients.

Exploratory Factor Analysis of Medical Students' Perceptions of Medical Cannabis Scale.

Background There are few published research articles investigating medical students' perceptions of medical cannabis (MC), including their attitudes toward its efficacy and appropriateness in medicine, concerns for potential adverse effects, and their willingness to prescribe it to patients (in future practice). This research investigated the factor structure of a tool to assess medical students' perceptions of MC for the purpose of curriculum enhancement. Methods Using a voluntary electronic survey, quantitative data were collected between January and March 2022 from 526 medical students enrolled in a large medical school in Florida, United States.

Predictors of Medical Students' Perceptions About Medical Cannabis.

Background: There has been a recent uptick in interest regarding the therapeutic properties of cannabis. Evidence exists to support the role of medical cannabis (MC) in chronic illness management for conditions such as posttraumatic stress, pain, and cancer. The majority of physicians in the United States report not knowing how to prescribe or answer questions about MC and receive minimal education about it during training.

Medical Students' Confidence in Their Abilities and Barriers to Conducting Research: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Background Medical students' confidence in their ability to conduct research has been speculated to be a significant factor influencing the engagement of research, yet their confidence may remain low. Moreover, it is unclear what barriers exist to high engagement in research before graduation. Hence, the objective of this study was to investigate medical students' attitudes, confidence, and perceived barriers regarding conducting research.

The role of self-efficacy, flexibility, and gender in pharmacy students' health information technology readiness.

Introduction: Pharmacy students' characteristics and attitudes towards health information technology (HIT) may influence their willingness to learn, adopt, and utilize technology in healthcare settings. Future pharmacists will play a key role in the successful implementation of HIT, yet their technology readiness is not well understood. The goal of this study was to understand pharmacy students' attitudes regarding HIT and identify personal characteristics and psychosocial factors that predict their readiness to use HIT in future clinical practice.

Assumptions about Frailty and the Tenacity of Ageism among Care Professionals.

Health, mental health, and pastoral care professionals encourage individuals to care for themselves in order to age successfully. Younger persons who live with long-term physical or mental health challenges are perceived as disabled or health-challenged. When older persons possess long-term physical or psychiatric challenges the older individual is perceived as frail or with deficits.

Predictors of Osteopathic Medical Students' Readiness to Use Health Information Technology.

Context: The advent of health information technology (HIT) tools can affect the practice of modern medicine in many ways, ideally by improving quality of care and efficiency and reducing medical errors. Future physicians will play a key role in the successful implementation of HIT. However, osteopathic medical students' willingness to learn, adopt, and use technology in a health care setting is not well understood.

The Taboo of Retirement for Diocesan Catholic Priests.

This paper considers Catholic priests in the USA and their freedom to retire, the constraints that may restrain them from retirement, and the financial and psychological variables that impact them in ministry and in future retirement. Implications for pastoral care and counseling are considered.

Identification of musculoskeletal disorders in medically underserved regions of South America and Vietnam.

Context: Musculoskeletal disorders have been implicated as the leading cause of disability throughout the world, representing a high percentage of the disease burden in many nations. Anecdotal evidence suggests that musculoskeletal pain has become increasingly pervasive, especially among rural populations of developing countries.

Objective: To characterize specific musculoskeletal disorders in medically underserved regions where these issues have not yet been thoroughly examined.

Development of a culturally appropriate computer-delivered tailored Internet-based health literacy intervention for Spanish-dominant Hispanics living with HIV.

Background: Low health literacy is associated with poor medication adherence in persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can lead to poor health outcomes. As linguistic minorities, Spanish-dominant Hispanics (SDH) face challenges such as difficulties in obtaining and understanding accurate information about HIV and its treatment. Traditional health educational methods (e.

Condom use, disclosure, and risk for unprotected sex in HIV-negative midlife and older men who have sex with men.

Sexual risk behaviors account for most HIV infections in men who have sex with men (MSM), and the risk of exposure from each sexual encounter increases with age. The focus of this study was to investigate which behaviors in midlife and older MSM influence their sexual risk/protection. Cross-sectional data were collected from a community-based sample of 802 MSM aged 40 years and older from community venues (e.

Pastoral care professionals in health and mental health care: recognizing classic and newer versions of ageism.

Pastoral care professionals are cognizant of many forms of prejudice and discrimination in society and health care environments. Ageism is perhaps the least likely to be challenged as prejudice or discrimination. Ageist perception is suspicious of the health and cognitive ability of older persons; without consideration of emotional, spiritual, or social abilities.

Psychosocial predictors of self-esteem in a multiethnic sample of women over 50 at risk for HIV.

Self-esteem is linked to high-risk behaviors in other populations but has not been examined in women aged 50 and older. This study explored how self-esteem is related to variables that can influence high-risk sexual behaviors in women over 50. A multiethnic community-based sample of 572 women aged 50 and older completed an anonymous questionnaire on sexual behaviors, sociodemographic characteristics, and psychosocial measures relevant to midlife and older women.

Perceptions of intimate partner violence, age, and self-enhancement bias.

Educational programs in human service professions such as social work, criminal justice, psychology, and public administration stress the importance of recognizing domestic/intimate partner violence as well as elder abuse. Students' abilities to recognize domestic violence in older couples have not been well-investigated. In this study, three vignettes were developed (Pat and Lee at age 75, Pat and Lee at age 30, Imagine yourself with Lee at age 75) in which intimate partner violence was perpetrated by the character Lee.

HIV-related stigma in midlife and older women.

HIV-related stigma has been identified as a barrier to HIV testing and prevention efforts internationally and nationally. Although the prevalence of HIV/AIDS is rapidly increasing in women aged 50 and older, little is known about the HIV-stigmatizing behaviors in this underserved population. In this exploratory analysis we investigated the influence of self esteem, sensation seeking, self silencing, and sexual assertiveness on the HIV-stigmatizing behaviors in 572 women aged 50 to 93.

Perceptions of elders' substance abuse and resilience.

Human service students' (social work, criminal justice, public administration, psychology) were surveyed (N = 242). Their perceptions about older persons' resilience and recovery from substance abuse were investigated. Overall, respondents did not agree that treating older persons for a substance abuse problem was wasteful of resources or older people do not benefit from treatment.

Theory-based policy development for HIV prevention in racial/ethnic minority midlife and older women.

In 2008, there were more than a million persons with HIV/AIDS in the United States. The CDC (2007) estimates that 15% of persons with HIV/AIDS are over age 50. At greater risk are women of color.

When I'm 75 years old: perceptions of social work students.

Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work students (N=183) responded to items investigating their beliefs about what they would be like when they were age 75. From 27 items a principle component analysis identified seven factor variables that investigated perceptions of health concerns, health-related vulnerability, importance of spiritual/religious belief, social worth, cognitive capacity, fitness, and being old. Respondents believed that at age 75 they would have many health concerns, would be fit, have social worth, and would be somewhat religious/spiritual.

Social work students' perceptions about incompetence in elders.

Graduate and undergraduate social work students (N = 172) were surveyed to investigate their perceptions concerning memory impairment in elders. Approximately 70% of those surveyed did not strongly disagree with the perception that all elders are memory impaired. In further analysis, significant correlations were found to exist between this variable and several other variables, including perceptions of elders' behaviors (r = .

Investigating the factor structure of an instrument to measure attitudes and preparedness to work with elders with Alzheimer's disease.

This study investigated the factor structure of an instrument to measure attitudes and preparedness of social work students to work with memory-impaired elders. Exploratory statistical procedures to reduce data through principle component analysis identified three factors with eigenvalues greater than 1.0 and a cumulative variance of 65.

Measuring preparedness to address patient preferences at the end of life.

This study investigated the factor structure of an instrument to measure preparedness perception among Florida licensed clinical social workers for work with elders 'end-of-life care. In a principle component analysis with varimax rotation, three factors were identified with eigenvalues greater than 1.0 and a cumulative variance of 66.