Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to M J Fuhrer.
The verbal activity of feumtale subjects undergoing differential classical conditioning was investigated through their verbal reports between conditioning trials and interviews with them after conditioning Condlitional differentiation, in galvanic skin responses occurred only in the group of subjects who accurately verbalized the stimulus contingencies.
As a component of Baylor College of Medicine study of the life status of people with spinal cord injury (SCI), this study determined the educational topics of interest to a cohort of 590 adults with SCI living in the community. Thirty-five items in nine topic areas were included in the inventory. Three topic areas--medical, sexuality, and wellness--are discussed in this article. Across the three topic areas, the five topics of greatest interest were exercise programs, testing of nerve and muscle function, bladder or kidney problems, pain, and sexuality issues. Information about smoking cessation and alcohol or drug abuse was of interest to very few participants. Ten grouping variables were analyzed and individual differences, such as educational level and whether an individual had paraplegia or quadriplegia, were found to account for differences in the topics of interest. The results of this study can be used in setting priorities for the development of educational activities and learning experiences for individuals with SCI living in the community.
Research regarding the subjective well-being (i.e., subjective quality of life as a whole) of persons with physical disabilities is considered from conceptual and methodologic perspectives. Relevant measurement scales, both single- and multiple-item, are reviewed, with special attention to measures-of-life satisfaction. Evidence about variables associated with subjective well-being is reviewed, based on studies of (1) people in general, (2) people with a variety of different disabling conditions and (3) persons with multiple sclerosis, stroke or spinal cord injury. Needed theoretic and empiric developments are discussed, including elaboration of the subjective aspects of impairments, disabilities and handicaps.
On August 29 to 31, 1994, a conference was conducted to develop recommendations for needed initiatives in medical rehabilitation outcomes research. Organized by the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research and cosponsored with the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the conference was entitled "An Agenda for Medical Rehabilitation Outcome Research." The resulting recommendations are presented in four areas: philosophic issues; strategy and design issues; measurement of disability and handicap; and measurement of quality-of-life and of health status.
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Although patient learning is widely acknowledged to be an integral part of many medical rehabilitation practices, it has been the subject of little systematic research. A workshop conducted August 18 to 19, 1997, was organized by the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health) and several co-sponsoring organizations to formulate recommendations concerning learning-oriented rehabilitation practices. The recommendations and their supporting rationale are summarized in the topic areas of motor learning and control, cognitive learning, recovery of functioning, generalization and transfer of training, and applications for patients with strokes, traumatic brain injury, amputations, and infants and children.
Problems encountered by a young, unmarried woman who, as a result of a spinal injury in an automobile accident, loses use of all four limbs and requires complex home health care services delivered by a network of health and social service agencies in a rural area of Kentucky. Economic, psychosocial, ethical, preventive, and medical aspects of health care are discussed.
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