SYLVIA SMITH
Biographic Data
| ID | 5541394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | SYLVIA SMITH |
| GIVEN NAMES | SYLVIA |
| FAMILY NAME | SMITH |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence in a Migrant Farmworker Community in Baja California, México
Optimistic Bias in Cancer Risk Perception
Results are presented from a pilot study in which risk perceptions for developing cancer in samples of American and British adults were compared. 61 American and 43 British people estimated the likelihood of cancer happening to themselves and the average person. As a group, participants tended to judge their personal likelihood of developing cancer as less than the average, supporting the presence of an optimistic bias. However, compared to the A…
A Nurse Rehabilitatorʼs Impact on Patients with Myocardial Infarction
A nurse rehabilitator, supplementing routine physician/nursing coronary care unit (CCU) care, was found to be effective in increasing the return to work rate (p less than .05) and decreasing smoking (p less than .05) in a randomized trial of 102 patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI). These outcomes were thought to be due to the nurse rehabilitator's efforts in increasing patient knowledge of heart disease (p less than .01) and individual…
Opportunities for guidance in physical education
No prominent works on this page.
Opportunities for guidance in physical education
A Nurse Rehabilitatorʼs Impact on Patients with Myocardial Infarction
A nurse rehabilitator, supplementing routine physician/nursing coronary care unit (CCU) care, was found to be effective in increasing the return to work rate (p less than .05) and decreasing smoking (p less than .05) in a randomized trial of 102 patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI). These outcomes were thought to be due to the nurse rehabilitator's efforts in increasing patient knowledge of heart disease (p less than .01) and individual…
Optimistic Bias in Cancer Risk Perception
Results are presented from a pilot study in which risk perceptions for developing cancer in samples of American and British adults were compared. 61 American and 43 British people estimated the likelihood of cancer happening to themselves and the average person. As a group, participants tended to judge their personal likelihood of developing cancer as less than the average, supporting the presence of an optimistic bias. However, compared to the A…
Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence in a Migrant Farmworker Community in Baja California, México
Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Alcohol (1 work) · Alcohol abuse (1 work) · Alcohol consumption (1 work) · Cancer (1 work)