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D Pesut

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Group protocol to mitigate disaster stress and enhance social support in adolescents exposed to Hurricane Hugo.

Literature reports that cognitive understanding and social support can mitigate stress in both adults and adolescents. As a subcomponent of the Carolina Adolescent Health Project (CAHP), this research evaluated the efficacy of a Cognitive Social Support (CSS) group protocol designed to mitigate the disaster stress of adolescents who had been exposed seriously to Hurricane Hugo. A purposive sample of 259 students participated in and evaluated the CSS. This article reports the specific structure, content, process, rationale, and cost of the CSS. Evaluations indicated that 82% of the students evaluated the small-group component of the CSS as "very good" or "excellent," while 70% rated the large-group component as "very good" or "excellent."

Adolescent↗
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Self-efficacy in normal adolescents.

This descriptive study, one component of the Carolina Adolescent Health Project (CAHP), measured self-efficacy in a voluntary sample of 432 normal freshmen and sophomore urban high school students. Using Coppel's Self-Efficacy Scale (SES), which is based on Bandura's conceptualization of self-efficacy, the research also examined the effect of gender, race, socioeconomic status, and self-reported religiosity on self-efficacy. The teenagers in this sample had a moderately high degree of self-efficacy with a mean SES score of 45.37 (SES range = 13-65). A series of t tests and one-way and two-way analyses of variance indicated no significant difference in SES scores by race, gender, socioeconomic status, or religiosity. Findings did not support the investigators' original expectation that these demographic and psychosocial variables would affect self-efficacy. The study provides normative data for future comparative studies using the SES.

Adolescent↗
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[The clinical significance of finding Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the sputum].

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an ubiquitous microorganism, which is characterised with low virulence and moderately sensitive to antibiotics. Significance of identification of the bacteria in the sputum varies. In severe cases, exhausted by more simultaneous diseases, it can be manifested as a pathogenic agent. At the Institute of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis, UCC in Belgrade Pseudomonas was isolated in the sputum samples of 48 patients. The organism was apathogenic in 28 (59%) cases, in 17 (35%) cases it caused chronic suppuration, and in 3 (6%) pneumonia. No specific antipseudomonas therapy is needed in patients in good general condition, contrary to cases of manifested infection where two antibiotics, physical therapy and other measures are indicated. Basic disease determines prognosis of the infection course. Medical approach to this problem should be characterised by prevention of the infection occurrence.

Adult↗
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[Genetic factors in the predisposition for bronchogenic carcinoma].

Recent studies indicate the significance of the hereditary predisposition in bronchogenic carcinoma occurrence. Beside epidemiologic, the paper presents referrential data indicating individual differences in genetically controlled sensitivity to carcinogenic activity from the exterior environment. The latest opinion on the possible role of AHH enzymes (aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase) in the occurrence of malignant tumors of the respiratory organs has been presented. The results of HLA system investigations in patients with bronchogenic carcinoma, cytogenetic studies and latest investigations of activated oncogens have been presented as well.

Carcinoma, Bronchogenic↗