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Observations are from international project whose objective was to study culture specific
representations of health. Sample comprised of 35 Bihari adults who participated in Focus group
discussions in camera. According to the common sense understanding, health enabled individuals
to perform all duties. Alternatively, healthy persons presented clinically normative picture of
mental and physical fitness. Health a holistic concept referred to harmonious functioning of mind
and body. Vegetarian food was good for mind and body, balanced non-vegetarian food had to be
consumed conditionally toxic, rotten food was unhealthy. Foods had hot, cold, heavy and light
potentials having implications for health.
5099.4 Nurses and nursing students social skills perception: A training propouse, Irasema Del
Pilar Castell Ruiz, Rubi Vargas, Margarita Munoz, Rosa Maria Tinajero, Maria Reyes,
Universidad De Sonora, Mexico
The general objective is to explore in proffesional nurses the social skills that consider that nurse
should posses and to compare with the nursing students abilities of the Sonora Univeristy in
México that consider that they posses. The instrument is a former crated quetionnarie was used,
based in Goldstein (1997) questionnarie. he/ she was requested the proffesional nurse and the
nursing student that marked of a total of 20 abilities the 10 more important skills that proffesional
nurse should posses and the nursing students have according to their perception. The results shows
that there its not significative diferences in both.
5100 ORAL
Health psychology
Chair: Cody Ding, USA
5100.1 Profiles of health risk behavior and their correlates among adolescents, Cody Ding,
University of Missouri--St. Louis, USA
During adolescence, young people begin to reach physical and sexual maturity, develop more
sophisticated reasoning abilities, and make important educational and occupational decisions that
will shape their adult careers. Such psychosocial changes provide an abundant opportunities for
young people to engage in health-risking behaviors that may negatively impact their health and
lives. This study sought to describe profiles of health risk behaviors among adolescents across US
and to describe how the individual differences in profiles are related to young people’s report on
family make-up, depression, and violence. The study’s findings are of crucial importance for the
development of intervention/prevention.
5100.2 Factors affecting employee propensity to utilise Employee Assistance Programmes: A
case study in a developing country, Rukhsana Jano, University of the Western Cape, South
Africa
Research indicates several factors govern the likelihood of employees supporting and utilising
Employee Assistance Programmes. This research compares two groups’ usage and / or non-usage
of an EAP facility in a service-orientated organisation. A survey design in which a
self-administered questionnaire was developed, was completed by 98 non-users and 50 users of
the EAP and the results compared. Preliminary findings indicate that confidentiality, trust and
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