Risk-Taking

Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also include the exhibiting of certain behaviors whose outcomes may present a risk to the individual or to those associated with him or her.

Gambling Research

Abstracts

- 1999 Muriel Driver Lectureship. Risk taking: an antidote to diffidence.

- 2001 USPHS/IDSA guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus.

- A comparison of the health status and behavioral risk factors among English-speaking Hispanics and non-Hispanic Blacks and Whites in Missouri. OBJECTIVES: The study objectives were to estimate the prevalence of chronic diseases and other health indicators for Hispanics in Missouri, and to compare...

- Acute myocardial infarction in the young. In space of 2 years our CCU admitted 38 patients under 40 years and the trend seems to be on the increase. The high prevalence of risk factors, the low...

- Adolescent and parent perceptions on youth participation in risk behavior research. OBJECTIVES: To assess and compare parent and adolescent views on the importance of risk behavior research and the need for parental consent and to identify...

- Adult and pediatric emergency department sexually transmitted disease and HIV screening: programmatic overview and outcomes. OBJECTIVES: To measure the prevalence of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among emergency department (ED) patients who...

- AIDS: focus on youth.

- Brief screening instruments for risky drinking in the outpatient psychiatry clinic. In this pilot study, we compared two brief screening instruments, the T-ACE (Tolerance, Annoyed, Cut down, Eye-opener) and the Alcohol Use Disorders...

- Childhood abuse history and risk behaviors among teen parents in a culturally rooted, couple-focused HIV prevention program. Pregnant and parenting adolescents living in inner cities are at risk for acquiring HIV through unprotected sexual activity. In addition to individual risk...

- Coping behavior in depressed patients: a longitudinal study. The relationship of coping behavior to outcome in depressed patients was examined. Subjects (n=105) with major depressive disorder (n=85), depressive...

- Cost analysis of obtaining postintervention results in a cohort of high-risk adolescent girls. BACKGROUND: Little information is available to guide researchers who must estimate the costs associated with obtaining postintervention survey data from...

- Counseling practices of primary-care physicians--North Carolina, 1991. Because 80% of the U.S. population visits a physician each year (1), physicians are an important source for health education. In particular, physicians have...

- Driving beliefs and behaviors of novice teen drivers and their parents: implications for teen driver crash risk. This project was a cross sectional survey of 739 matched family pairs of recently licensed teens and their parents. It was designed to assess the...

- Ethnic and gender differences in lifestyle risk factors in a bi-ethnic primary care sample: prevalence and clinical implications. OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate how simple screening methods can be used to define modifiable lifestyle risk factors in primary care settings and educate...

- Executive functions in the evaluation of accident risk of older drivers. The main objective of these studies was to analyse the difference in driving attitude and aptitude, between two groups of elderly male drivers (65 years or...

- Functional dissociation in frontal and striatal areas for processing of positive and negative reward information. Reward-seeking behavior depends critically on processing of positive and negative information at various stages such as reward anticipation, outcome...

- Harm avoidance and disability in old age. The relation of personality to disability in old age is not well understood. The authors examined the relation of harm avoidance, a trait indicating a...

- Health literacy and health risk behaviors among older adults. BACKGROUND: Limited health literacy is associated with poorer physical and mental health, although the causal pathways are not entirely clear. In this study,...

- HIV sero-prevalence and knowledge, behaviour and practices regarding HIV/AIDS in specific population groups in Ludhiana, Punjab. OBJECTIVES: To assess HIV serostatus, knowledge, behaviour and practices regarding HIV/AIDS among blood donors, pregnant women and the general population in...

- Homeless adolescent parents: HIV risk, family structure and individual problem behaviors. This study examined differences between homeless teenage fathers and mothers compared with nonparents. Overall, parents reported significantly more lifetime...

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