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Extension of the Life Table to Repeating and Changing Events

American Journal of Epidemiology, 1996
Estimation of cumulative and adjusted occurrence of life events and measures over time is often important in settings where study subjects have incomplete or different follow-up periods. Well-known methods to do this, such as the life table and age adjustment, exist for binary nonrecurrent events (i.e., death).
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Life events: the reliability of rating changes in routine and environment

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 1990
Alterations in routine and environment can affect clinical state in patients suffering from cognitive impairment. A method for rating life events for changes in routine and environment is described and found to be highly reliable even when used by inexperienced raters after brief training.
M W, Orrell, K, Bergman, N, Elton, J, O'Brien, P E, Bebbington   +4 more
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Life Change Events and Mental Illness: An Overview

Journal of Human Stress, 1979
The use of recent life change measurement in the lives of persons developing mental disorders parallels the measurement of risk factors by epidemiologists to understand disease distribution. Examples are given of these parallels, along with critical commentary on methodological issues in life changes research.
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Ankle fractures and employment: a life-changing event for patients

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2014
Ankle fractures, one of the most common types of orthopaedic injury, have been associated with reduced functional outcome and significant changes in long-term employment. Although information on unemployment following ankle fractures can be important in cases of financial compensation, no studies have investigated rates of short-term disability and ...
Rachel V, Thakore, Benjamin S, Hooe, Perrin, Considine, Vasanth, Sathiyakumar, Gerald, Onuoha, Julian K, Hinson, William T, Obremskey, Manish K, Sethi   +7 more
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An Examination of Life Events as Possible Antecedents to Change

Journal of Gerontology, 1982
The focus of this paper is on stress events as possible antecedents of stability and change in adulthood. At baseline the life span sample consisted of 52 high school seniors, 50 newlyweds, 54 middle-aged parents, and 60 persons facing retirement.
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Social network changes and life events across the life span: A meta-analysis.

Psychological Bulletin, 2013
For researchers and practitioners interested in social relationships, the question remains as to how large social networks typically are, and how their size and composition change across adulthood. On the basis of predictions of socioemotional selectivity theory and social convoy theory, we conducted a meta-analysis on age-related social network ...
Wrzus, Cornelia, Hänel, Martha, Wagner, Jenny, Neyer, Franz J.   +3 more
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A study of life events and changes in patronage preferences

Journal of Business Research, 2001
Abstract Retail patronage studies usually attempt to profile and understand loyal customers. This paper presents a study of changes in patronage preferences. Based on theory and research, it is proposed that changes in patronage preferences and development of patronage orientations are the result of life events that serve as markers of life ...
Lee, E. Lee, EueHun, Moschis, GP Moschis, GP, Mathur, A Mathur, A   +2 more
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A Comparison of the Scaling of Afro-Americans' Life-Change Events

Journal of Human Stress, 1977
Research using the Recent Life Change Questionnaire is being conducted with various ethnic, economic, and cultural groups. The findings of studies using comparable forms have indicated that economic conditions and cultural differences have a minimal effect upon the overall concordant rankings of most groups.
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Making Meaning of Life-Changing Events.

2021
Margaret Page, Laurinda Brown, Marion Donaldson, Janice Filer, Marian Liebmann, Marina Malthouse, Katrina Plumb, Artemi Sakellariadis, Jane Speedy, Andrew Walls   +9 more
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The nuclear incident in Chernobyl was a life-changing event

2013
Die Umwelttoxikologie — auch Okotoxikologie genannt — ist eine facherubergreifende Wissenschaft, die sich mit den systemischen und systematischen Auswirkungen von Stoffen auf die belebte Umwelt befasst. Dabei finden Methoden und Fragen der Biologie, Toxikologie, Umweltchemie und Okologie eine Anwendung.
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