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Cardiac rehabilitation staff views about discussing sexual issues with coronary heart disease patients: A national survey in Ireland
(Elsevier, 2011)Background: While a healthy sexual life is regarded as an important aspect of quality of life, sexual counselling from healthcare providers for cardiac patients has received little attention in the literature. Aim: To ... -
Challenging behaviors
(Springer, Cham, 2016-02-04)One of the most common co-occurring problems with autism is challenging behaviors. Many methods have been developed to address this topic such as scales for identifying CB. Other measures have been designed to assess ... -
Childhood fussy/picky eating behaviours: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-01-03)Fussy/picky eating behaviours are common across childhood. Recent reviews of the fussy eating literature focus on quantitative research and do not adequately account for familiesâ subjective experiences, perceptions and ... -
Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH) study: protocol for a feasibility study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019-08-22)Introduction Childhood obesity is a public health challenge. There is evidence for associations between parentsâ feeding behaviours and childhood obesity risk. Primary care provides a unique opportunity for delivery of ... -
Closure of salient regions determines search for a collinear target configuration
(Psychonomic Society, 2007-01)Grouping operations offer an effective mechanism by which to structure complex visual scenes. Among the various principles that support element integration, closure may be regarded as a main factor in shape extraction. In ... -
The co-occurrence of autism spectrum disorder and cerebral palsy and associated comorbid conditions in children and adolescents
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-12-16)Background Comorbidity is the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in the same person. Aim This study investigated the frequency of comorbid conditions, in children and adolescents, with autism spectrum disorder ... -
Collective intelligence design and a new politics of system change
(Liguori Editore, 2017)While internet technologies may support an emergent wisdom of the crowd and new enhanced forms of political engagement, iterative design of technology is needed to better support our collective intelligence and collective ... -
Commonly prescribed anti-depressants: What clinicians need to know
(The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI), 2011-10)According to two Cochrane collaboration reviews (Moncrieff, Wessely, & Hardy, 2004; Turner, Mathews, Linardatos, Tell, & Rosenthal, 2008), the efficacy of modern antidepressants has yet to be conclusively demonstrated ... -
Comorbid feeding and gastrointestinal symptoms, challenging behavior, sensory issues, adaptive functioning and quality of life in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-04)Aim Children and adolescents diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often demonstrate difficulties with feeding. The goal of the current study was to investigate co-occurring issues that often accompany feeding ... -
Comorbid psychopathology in Autism Spectrum Disorder
(Springer Verlag, 2014-02-19)Matson and Nebel-Schwalm (Research in Developmental Disabilities 28(4) 341-352, 2007) conducted an overview of comorbid psychopathology with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children. The purpose of the current paper is ... -
Comorbid psychopathology, challenging behavior, sensory issues, adaptive behavior and quality of life in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-03-12)Aim: Comorbid psychopathology refers to having a diagnosis of two or more co-occurring psychological disorders. The current study investigated the differences between children and adolescents with no-mild, moderate and ... -
Comorbidity in autism spectrum disorder: A literature review
(Elsevier, 2013-10-16)Comorbidity is defined as the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in the same person (Matson & Nebel-Schwalm, 2007). The current study provides a review of the literature on comorbidity, in relation to comorbid psychiatric ... -
Comparing temporal event-coding in patients with first episode psychosis and chronic schizophrenia
(Elsevier, 2008-06)Cognitive impairments are a core feature of schizophrenia. It has been suggested that the underlying cause of the cognitive deficits in schizophrenia is an impaired ability to sequence mental activity in time. Various ... -
Comparison of an online mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention with online pain management psychoeducation: A randomized controlled pilot study.
(2015-01-07)This study tested the effectiveness of a computerised mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention compared to computerized pain management psychoeducation in a randomized study. -
Comparison of behavioral intervention and sensory-integration therapy in the treatment of challenging behavior
(Springer, 2010-12-14)The objective of the current study was to compare the effects of sensory-integration therapy (SIT) and a behavioral intervention on rates of challenging behavior (including self-injurious behavior) in four children diagnosed ... -
Comparison of behavioral intervention and sensory-integration therapy in the treatment of self-injurious behavior.
(Elsevier, 2009)The current study investigates the comparative effects of sensory-integration therapy and behavioral interventions on rates of self-injurious behaviour (SIB) in a nine-year-old boy with a diagnosis of autism. A functional ... -
A comparison of video modeling and pivotal response training to teach pretend play skills to children with autism Spectrum disorder
(Elsevier, 2010-11-20)This study aimed to directly compare the effectiveness of Pivotal Response Training (PRT) and Video Modeling (VM) in the acquisition and generalization of scripted play verbalizations and actions as well as the use of ... -
Complex comorbid presentations are associated with harmful behavior problems among children and adolescents with cerebral palsy
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-07)Aim Frequency and relationship between gastrointestinal symptoms, sleep problems, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, behavior problems and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms, and predictors of behavior problems ... -
The computation of shape orientation in search for Kanizsa figures
(Pion Ltd, 2009-01-29)Previous studies of visual search for illusory figures have provided equivocal results, with efficient search for Kanizsa squares (eg Davis and Driver, 1994 Nature 371 291-293) contrasting with inefficient search for Kanizsa ... -
Computerised working memory‐based cognitive remediation therapy does not affect Reading the Mind in The Eyes test performance or neural activity during a Facial Emotion Recognition test in psychosis
(Wiley, 2018-05-27)Working memory-based cognitive remediation therapy (CT) for psychosis has recently been associated with broad improvements in performance on untrained tasks measuring working memory, episodic memory and IQ, and changes in ...