Placebo analgesia refers to a reduction in pain after a placebo treatment has been provided. Fear of pain has been shown reduce placebo analgesic response. The present study investigated if experimentally induced fear of pain reduces the efficacy of a placebo intervention on pain. A balanced within-group design (n = 45) with a natural history, a placebo, and a placebo+fear condition was employed. ...

Telemedicine networks, which deliver humanitarian services, sometimes need to share expertise to find particular experts in other networks. It has been suggested that a mechanism for sharing expertise between networks (a ‘clearing house’) might be useful. To propose a mechanism for implementing the clearing house concept for sharing expertise, and to confirm its feasibility in terms of acceptability ...

The risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and subsequently dementia, increases with age. Early detection requires a comprehensive clinical examination, which is time consuming and expensive; a face-to-face examination can also be problematic for people living in rural areas which may result in unequal access to services. Telephone-based screening may provide a feasible method of ...

Bakgrunn: Denne oppgaven omhandler fedrenes erfaringer med å delta i fysioterapioppfølging til eget barn med Cerebral Parese, samt om hva fedrene legger vekt på i samarbeidet med fysioterapeut, og hva slags veiledning de ønsker fra fysioterapeuten. Det er dokumentert at alle foreldre til barn med Cerebral Parese, uansett type og grad av funksjonshemming, har utfordringer og trenger støtte fra ...

Replicating in-lab experiments online can ensure scientific progress when physical contact is discouraged, like during the covid-19 pandemic. In this thesis, we replicated the results from Boayue et al. (2021) in-lab Mind Wandering (MW) experiment online. The task uses the Finger-Tapping Random Sequence Generation Task, a sustained attention task, equating MW with Task Unrelated Thoughts (TUTs). In ...

Older employees are not only confronted with subtle negative stereotypes about cognitive decline, but they also tend to internalize these negative stereotypes (i.e., they agree with the idea that intellectual performance declines in old age and they feel affected by this decline). Previous research has shown that internalizing negative age stereotypes has detrimental effects on work-related outcomes. ...

Background: Research on perceived school safety has been largely limited to studies conducted in Western countries and there has been a lack of large-scale cross-national studies on the topic.<p> <p>Methods: The present study examined the occurrence of adolescents who felt unsafe at school and the associated factors of perceived school safety in 13 Asian and European countries. The data were based ...

Formål: Formålet med oppgaven er å gi en oversikt over fellesfaktorer, etiologiske og symptomtiske, mellom spiseforstyrrelse og selvskading. Vi har hatt et spesielt fokus på impulsive og tvangspregete trekk. Materiale og metode: Litteraturen som danner grunnlaget for oppgaven har i hovedsak blitt funnet via ikke-systematiske litteratursøk i den medisinske databasen PubMed. Resultater: ...

Introduction - The consequences of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) on female genital self-image are not known.<p> <p>Aim - To assess whether women with and without FGM/C differed with regard to female genital self-image.<p> <p>Methods - A survey was administered to a group of women attending the King Abdulaziz University Hospital obstetrics and gynecology clinic from December 2016 ...

Serotonin plays an important role in adult female sexual behavior, however little is known about the influence of serotonin during early development on sexual functioning in adulthood. During early development, serotonin acts as neurotrophic factor, while it functions as a modulatory neurotransmitter in adulthood. The occurrence of serotonin release, could thus have different effects on behavioral ...