scholarly journals A qualitative study on the psychological experiences of late adolescent and early adulthood depressed women who experienced Medication and Counseling

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 463-487
Author(s):  
Park Kyung Eun
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Psychological Experiences

scholarly journals Cut-off limits of the GH response to GHRH plus arginine test and IGF-I levels for the diagnosis of GH deficiency in late adolescents and young adults

2007 ◽  
Vol 157 (6) ◽  
pp. 701-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ginevra Corneli ◽  
Carolina Di Somma ◽  
Flavia Prodam ◽  
Jaele Bellone ◽  
Simonetta Bellone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Gh Deficiency ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Pituitary Hormone ◽  
Late Adolescents ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Operating Characteristics ◽  
Roc Curve Analysis ◽  
Igf I

ObjectiveTo define the appropriate diagnostic cut-off limits for the GH response to GHRH+arginine (ARG) test and IGF-I levels, using receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis, in late adolescents and young adults.Design and methodsWe studied 152 patients with childhood-onset organic hypothalamic–pituitary disease (85 males, age (mean±s.e.m.): 19.2±0.2 years) and 201 normal adolescents as controls (96 males, age: 20.7±0.2 years). Patients were divided into three subgroups on the basis of the number of the other pituitary hormone deficits, excluding GH deficiency (GHD): subgroup A consisted of 35 panhypopituitary patients (17 males, age: 21.2±0.4 years), subgroup B consisted of 18 patients with only one or with no more than two pituitary hormone deficits (7 males, age: 20.2±0.9 years); and subgroup C consisted of 99 patients without any known hormonal pituitary deficits (60 males, age: 18.2±0.2 years). Both patients and controls were lean (body mass index, BMI<25 kg/m2). Patients in subgroup A were assumed to be GHD, whereas in patients belonging to subgroups B and C the presence of GHD had to be verified.ResultsFor the GHRH+ARG test, the best pair of highest sensitivity (Se; 100%) and specificity (Sp; 97%) was found choosing a peak GH of 19.0 μg/l. For IGF-I levels, the best pair of highest Se (96.6%) and Sp (74.6%) was found using a cut-off point of 160 μg/l (SDS: −1.3). Assuming 19.0 μg/l to be the cut-off point established for GHRH+ARG test, 72.2% of patients in subgroup B and 39.4% in subgroup C were defined as GHD. In patients belonging to group B and C and with a peak GH response <19 μg/l to the test, IGF-I levels were lower than 160 μg/l (or less than 1.3 SDS) in 68.7 and 41.6% of patients respectively predicting severe GHD in 85.7% of panhypopituitary patients (subgroup A).ConclusionsIn late adolescent and early adulthood patients, a GH cut-off limit using the GHRH+ARG test lower than 19.0 μg/l is able to discriminate patients with a suspicion of GHD and does not vary from infancy to early adulthood.

I tell my mother that … sometimes he didn’t love us–Young adults’ experiences of childhood in refugee families: A qualitative approach

Childhood ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-235
Author(s):  
Jennifer Drummond Johansen ◽  
Sverre Varvin
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Refugee Families ◽  
The Relationship

In addition to managing dual cultural identities, children of refugees face the potential burden of living with caregivers struggling in the aftermath of trauma, loss, and adversity. Using an ecological and transactional understanding of child development, this qualitative study explored the subjective experiences of young adults who grew up in a refugee family in Norway. Findings show that parental suffering have affected their daily life and development in different ways. This article elucidates how children of refugees have experienced the relationship with their parents through childhood, adolescence, and into early adulthood, and how they have managed and negotiated developmental tasks, and explored patterns of strategies developed to regulate feelings of relational distress.

Psychological experiences of patients with chronic pain: A qualitative study

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Barekatain ◽  
Hasan Labbaf ◽  
SeyedAkbar Nilipour Tabatabayi ◽  
Samaneh Talaei
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Psychological Experiences

Psychological Experiences of the Guatemalan Civil War and postwar Violence on a Kaqchikel Community:An Exploratory Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Priscilla Dass-Brailsford ◽  
Dipana Jain ◽  
Ana Alicia Cóbar ◽  
Maria Cecilia Arriaza ◽  
Maria del Pilar Grazioso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Psychological Experiences ◽  
Guatemalan Civil War

scholarly journals Lasting associations between early-childhood temperament and late-adolescent reward-circuitry response to peer feedback

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda E. Guyer ◽  
Brenda Benson ◽  
Victoria R. Choate ◽  
Yair Bar-Haim ◽  
Koraly Perez-Edgar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Neural Response ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Imaging Data ◽  
Social Signals ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
Late Adolescent

AbstractBehavioral inhibition, a temperament identifiable in infancy, is associated with heightened withdrawal from social encounters. Prior studies raise particular interest in the striatum, which responds uniquely to monetary gains in behaviorally inhibited children followed into adolescence. Although behavioral manifestations of inhibition are expressed primarily in the social domain, it remains unclear whether observed striatal alterations to monetary incentives also extend to social contexts. In the current study, imaging data were acquired from 39 participants (17 males, 22 females; ages 16–18 years) characterized since infancy on measures of behavioral inhibition. A social evaluation task was used to assess neural response to anticipation and receipt of positive and negative feedback from novel peers, classified by participants as being of high or low interest. As with monetary rewards, striatal response patterns differed during both anticipation and receipt of social reward between behaviorally inhibited and noninhibited adolescents. The current results, when combined with prior findings, suggest that early-life temperament predicts altered striatal response in both social and nonsocial contexts and provide support for continuity between temperament measured in early childhood and neural response to social signals measured in late adolescence and early adulthood.

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