submitted by armadillo 1 year and 8 months ago - Topic: Pharmacology
Research has shown that personality traits associated with impulsivity influence alcohol use during emerging adulthood, yet relatively few studies have examined how distinct facets of impulsivity are associated with alcohol use and abuse. We examine the influence of impulsivity traits on four pat...
submitted by fenliy 1 year and 7 months ago - Topic: Pharmacology
The current pilot study examined the roles of two cognitive factors--positive alcohol expectancies of social anxiety reduction and drink refusal self-efficacy relevant to social situations--in mediating greater reduction in alcohol behaviors by the Brief Intervention for Socially Anxious Drinkers...
submitted by 10098232 1 year and 4 months ago - Topic: Pharmacology
The authors examined the relationship between global sleep quality and alcohol risk, including the extent to which global sleep quality moderated the relationship between alcohol use and drinking-related consequences. Global sleep quality was measured using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQ...
submitted by GavyRyker 2 months ago - Topic: Pharmacology
In daily life, complexity results from countless factors. Culture, environment, social and economic status and physical ability all contribute, and all complicate managing ill health. Pharmacists bear witness to many of these complexities and increasingly must care for what have come to be known ...
submitted by loeloempix 2 months ago - Topic: Pharmacology
Studies of the relationship between childhood maltreatment and alcohol dependence have not controlled comprehensively for potential confounding by co-occurring maltreatments and other childhood trauma, or determined whether parental history of alcohol disorders operates synergistically with gende...
submitted by shamonmotthiwt 1 year and 11 months ago - Topic: Pharmacology
Impulsivity is associated with alcohol use and related problems, yet limited research has examined the different facets of impulsivity with these outcomes. This study aimed to examine whether sensation seeking, positive urgency, and negative urgency, as separate constructs, would differentially p...
submitted by mffrietos 1 year and 7 months ago - Topic: Pharmacology
Depressive symptoms in college students have been associated with a number of indices of hazardous drinking. Investigators have utilized a variety of experimental paradigms to better understand the cognitive-motivational mechanisms that may underlie this association. Implicit cognition studies ha...
submitted by JalenKob 1 year and 3 months ago - Topic: Pharmacology
Negative drinking consequences in college students have been well studied, but emerging evidence points to a role for positive drinking consequences in predicting alcohol related problems. Positive drinking consequences appear to be distinct from other drinking constructs such as drinking expecta...
submitted by RonFin 4 months ago - Topic: Pharmacology
To assess age variation in correlates of drinking cessation. Prospective study of a U.S. general population sample. Face-to-face household interviews. Past-year ≥monthly drinkers interviewed at baseline and 3-year follow-up (n=14,885). Baseline values and selected changes over follow-up in alco...
submitted by bettsnirvana 2 months ago - Topic: Pharmacology
The race concordance hypothesis suggests that matching patients and health providers on the basis of race improve communication and patients' perceptions of health care, thereby encouraging patients to seek and utilize health care. However, few studies have examined the direct impact of race conc...
