Intrusive Thoughts and Images in Health Anxiety: Rates, Characteristics, and Responses.

Objectives: Intrusive thoughts and images in Health Anxiety are poorly understood. The current study aims to explore the rates and nature of health-related intrusive thoughts and images in people with and without Health Anxiety.

Design: We used a cross-sectional interview and survey design recruiting 82 participants (Health Anxiety: n = 37; control: n = 45).

Becoming JEDI Warriors in Physical Therapy Research: A Multifaceted Approach.

Unlabelled: The COVID-19 pandemic and recent incidents of social injustice exposed the systemic racism and discrimination in health care and clinical research that perpetuate systemic inequities. This perspective utilizes the acronym JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion) as a vision for addressing inequities in physical therapy research. The need to go beyond diversity and focus on inclusion, equity, and justice is emphasized to achieve transformation within physical therapy research.

Organic dry pea (Pisum sativum L.): A sustainable alternative pulse-based protein for human health.

Dry pea (Pisum sativum L.) is a cool-season food legume rich in protein (20-25%). With increasing health and ecosystem awareness, organic plant-based protein demand has increased; however, the protein quality of organic dry pea has not been well studied.

Situational Context and Perceived Threat Modulate Approachability Judgements to Emotional Faces.

Facial expressions of emotion play a key role in guiding social judgements, including deciding whether or not to approach another person. However, no research has examined how situational context modulates approachability judgements assigned to emotional faces, or the relationship between perceived threat and approachability judgements. Fifty-two participants provided approachability judgements to angry, disgusted, fearful, happy, neutral, and sad faces across three situational contexts: no context, when giving help, and when receiving help.

Postpericardiotomy syndrome in pediatric heart transplant recipients. Immunologic characteristics.

Clinical features of postpericardiotomy syndrome (PPS) occur in pediatric heart transplant recipients despite immunosuppression, which raises questions about the mechanism of PPS. We studied the clinical and immunologic characteristics of 15 pediatric heart transplant patients, ages 1.1 to 17.