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comorbidities, biological factors, behavioral factors and medications. LIMITATIONS Current study has several limitations. First, dietary habits, which may vary in the recruited depression patients, were not assessed. Therefore, remaining confounding possibly subsists, since insufficient nutrition may affect BMD and ED as well [ref]. Second, owing to the cross-sectional design, one cannot conclude a causal relationship between ED and low BMD in depressive men, however, only association can…

The aim was to understand the extent of compliance towards obedience, particularly relating the notion of inflicting harm on another being under the instructions of an authority figure. An ecological application of the Nazis behaviour during WWII. Stanley Milgram an American social psychologist devised an experiment which operationalized obedience. The original intention to test the German population and correlate the results to the holocaust was abandoned due to fundamental ethical issues.…

authors went through and studied how trauma was exhibited in children under five, examining how young children re-experience their trauma, how they may avoid their trauma, have hyperarousal, and other features that are related to their trauma. A confounding aspect of the PTSD diagnosis is that the client/patient must verbally describe their experiences with trauma and their feelings and emotions. Preschool age children and toddlers would have a hard time saying anything about their trauma even…

There are a number of reasons why it is critically essential to conduct both a process evaluation and an impact evaluation to help provide insights as to why a particular project may have failed. For example, in the legal domain, legal systems normally operate through diverse legal processes some of which may include designation of the team responsible for creating laws, designating officials for applying the laws as well as the ones for enforcing it. According to many experts, the successful…

After graduating with a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling, I intend on attempting the National Counselor Exam to become a National Certified Counselor and become a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Florida. Subsequently, my focus will remain on social justice in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) community while maintaining a robust educational background in order to aid individuals who suffer with addiction. Thru the work at a local…

Besides organizational factors and limitations, researchers Park, Blegen, Spetz, Chapman, & De Groot conducted a mixed method research study in 2011 at forty-two UHC affiliated nonprofit teaching hospitals across the country. The researchers attempted to identify the relationship between low nurse staffing ratios on medical- surgical units with high patient turnover and patient outcomes (Park, Blegen, Spetz, Chapman, & De Groot, 2011). The relationship between staffing levels and the registered…

On top of this, I thought that there was a great lack of documentation on contextual problems that may have served as confounding factors to treatment efficacy. Going further, the researchers neglected to document the parenting style of each…

Investigation: The influence of birth order on personality Report Introduction Birth order is defined as an ordinal position of a child’s birth in relation to their siblings. A firstborn is a child who is born first within the family, and a later-born is a child born after the first child. Personality is defined as a pattern of thought, feelings or behaviour that makes an individual unique. The big 5 personality traits are five main domains or dimensions of personality used to represent human…

They have taken several precautions to make sure that the threats of confounding and lurking variables are minimized. However, the external validity of the overall experiment is rather low. Thus, the results of the experiment might not apply to real-life situations. This is caused by several things, the participants were shown…

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the nature nurture debate, to define both gender and sex and to successfully apply those concepts to the nature nurture debate. Furthermore, there will be a discussion and evaluation of the psychodynamic theory and the social learning theory. The nature nurture debate expresses viewpoints on human development. It centres around the relative contributions that genetic information or environmental influence have upon the human development. Naturists hold…