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Perceptions of caregivers about surgical children’s thirst

, 2015
Objective: to understand how caregivers experience surgical children’s fasting and how they realize their thirst in the perioperative period. Method: descriptive study of qualitative nature, carried out with 15 caregivers of children between 1 and 12 ...
Fonseca, Ligia Fahl, Martins, Pamela Rafaela, Campana, Mariana Campos, Lopes, Dolores Ferreira de Melo   +3 more
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on the Clinical Significance and Related Factors of Thirst and Xerostomia in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients

Kidney & Blood Pressure Research, 2013
Aims: To analyse the clinical significance and related factors of thirst and xerostomia and to find methods to alleviate thirst and xerostomia in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients.
Wei-Feng Fan, Qi Zhang, Li-Hong Luo, Jian-Ying Niu, Yong Gu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Giving and receiving help in three contexts as predictors of alcohol outcomes in a longitudinal study of sober living house residents

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Although peer support is central to the social model approach emphasized in sober living houses (SLHs), no longitudinal studies have examined helping among SLH residents. This longitudinal study examined benefits of helping in three contexts among SLH residents. Data were from 205 participants entering 28 SLHs across 2021–2023. Interviews were
Sarah E. Zemore, Elizabeth Mahoney, Meenakshi S. Subbaraman, Amy A. Mericle, Douglas L. Polcin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subjective level of thirst scale.

, 2021
Subjective level of thirst scale.
Michael A. Busseri (11719116), Caitlin E. V. Mahy (11719119), Katarina McKenzie (11719113), Tessa R. Mazachowsky (11719110)   +3 more
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Examining pathways by which socioeconomic instability in adolescence influence sexual health during emerging adulthood in an agricultural setting in California

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the longitudinal impact of socioeconomic instability on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living in an agricultural region and examines pathways including supportive family and social structures, decision making autonomy in romantic relationships ...
Marie C. D. Stoner, Erica N. Browne, Marissa Raymond‐Flesch, Mary Kate Shapley‐ Quinn, Nivedita L. Bhushan, Alondra Jaime‐Aguilar, Carmen Ramirez, Jessica Huante, Daisy Gallardo, Sue Napierala, Megan Comfort, Alexandra M. Minnis   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
wiley   +1 more source

Preoperative fasting in the day care patient population at a tertiary care, teaching institute: A prospective, cross-sectional study

CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research, 2018
Context: Patients are fasting for inappropriately long duration preoperatively despite the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) recommendations for liberal fasting guidelines.
Merlin Shalini Ruth, M S Josephine, Aparna Williams   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Redefining thirst: A conceptual four-compartment model characterising types of thirst, and their underlying mechanisms and interactions

, 2020
Currently, the conceptualisation of thirst is based nearly entirely on osmoregulation, with some acknowledgement of anticipatory-thirst, though with no testable mechanism. Such a model of thirst is unable to explain many thirst-related phenomena, such as
Harriet Carroll
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Parallels and Overlap: The Integration of Homeostatic Signals by Mesolimbic Dopamine Neurons

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018
Motivated behaviors are often initiated in response to perturbations of homeostasis. Indeed, animals and humans have fundamental drives to procure (appetitive behaviors) and eventually ingest (consummatory behaviors) substances based on deficits in body ...
Ted M. Hsu, James E. McCutcheon, Mitchell F. Roitman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source