Children's descriptions of fractal shapes.

Elementary-school students (N = 359), who had not been introduced to fractal geometry, examined and described the shape of three fractal sets, i.e., batter-fried chicken, popcorn, and curly leaf lettuce.

Grief, depression, and coping in women undergoing infertility treatment.

Objective: To identify the levels of grief and depression and the coping mechanisms of women with infertility problems who participated in in vitro fertilization (IVF) or ovulation-induction medication.

Methods: Pretest and post-test data were obtained from 50 IVF and 50 ovulation-induction medication patients receiving treatment at two urban infertility centers.

Results: Both groups of women experienced measurable levels of grief and depression before, during, and after treatment.

Stress inoculation education and counseling with patients on hemodialysis.

A single-subject experimental design with multiple, repeated measures was used to investigate the effects of the cognitive-behavioral intervention of stress inoculation education (SIE) and counseling on anxiety, depression, psychosocial adjustment to illness, and perception of hemodialysis stressors. Two intervening variables, interpersonal support and control, were assessed to determine their influence on the dependent variables. The analyzed data suggested that SIE and counseling were effective in decreasing some problems for all study patients.

Adult inpatient alcoholics: physical exercise as a treatment intervention.

This study examined the usefulness of physical exercise as a treatment intervention to decrease depression and anxiety in adult inpatient alcoholics while increasing aerobic capacity and self-concept. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, the Self-Rating Depression Scale and the Astrand-Rhyming bicycle-ergometer were administered to a treatment and a control group on admission to and again at discharge from a 28-day inpatient treatment program. Control group data were gathered prior to initiating the exercise program.