Evaluation of the Single Leg Stance Test for an Annual Preventative Physical Therapy Visit and the Effect of Education on the Perceived Value of Test Results as a Health Indicator.

Background And Purpose: A preventative model of physical therapy (PT) care to promote activity and minimize mobility loss with aging is not routine. Performance testing and patient education are recommended to increase the perceived value of results to inform health decision-making. This study evaluated (1) the Single Leg Stance (SLS) test for an annual visit based on a priori criteria and (2) the effect of education on the perceived value of SLS and walking speed test results as health indicators.

Increased Endocrine Activity of Xenobiotic Chemicals as Mediated by Metabolic Activation.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is faced with long lists of chemicals that require hazard assessment. The present study is part of a larger effort to develop in vitro assays and quantitative structure-activity relationships applicable to untested chemicals on USEPA inventories through study of estrogen receptor (ER) binding and estrogen-mediated gene expression in fish. The present effort investigates metabolic activation of chemicals resulting in increased estrogenicity.

Improving Sleep Disturbance in Hospitalized Dementia Patients.

Problem: Sleep disturbance is common in hospitalized dementia patients. Consequences include adverse health outcomes and heavy social and economic costs. Education programs have improved dementia care and outcomes.

Implementation and evaluation of a psychoeducation program in an outpatient mental health center.

Background: Psychoeducation has been shown to improve patient attitudes toward medication.

Problem: A rural mental health agency did not provide a medication psychoeducation group. Medication nonadherence can lead to early psychiatric readmission.

Effect of Posterior Capsule Tightness and Humeral Retroversion on 5 Glenohumeral Joint Range of Motion Measurements: A Cadaveric Study.

Background: Altered glenohumeral joint range of motion can be caused by increased humeral retroversion (HR) and/or posterior capsule tightness (PCT). To make informed clinical decisions, it is vital to understand how HR and PCT alterations, individually and in combination, affect joint range of motion measurements.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of experimental tissue alterations on clinical range of motion measures.

Life events and personality predicting loneliness among centenarians: findings from the Georgia Centenarian Study.

Regarding the purpose of this study, the researchers analyzed the roles that both life events (life-time positive events and life-time negative events) and personality (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Trust, Competence, and Ideas) played in participants of the Georgia Centenarian Study. The researchers analyzed these variables to determine whether they predicted loneliness. Analyses indicated that life-time negative events significantly predicted loneliness.

Family history and adaptation among centenarians and octogenarians.

Background: The purpose of this study was to analyze various 'family history' variables (i.e. childhood health, financial situation while growing up, living with grandparents before age 17, and number of children) among participants of the Georgia Centenarian Study.