Report on the Iowa Veterans Home and the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs for the year ended June 30, 2010

Report on the Iowa Veterans Home and the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs for the year ended June 30, 2010

A quasi-randomized group trial of a brief alcohol intervention on risky single occasion drinking among secondary school students.

OBJECTIVES: To show the effectiveness of a brief group alcohol intervention. Aims of the intervention were to reduce the frequency of heavy drinking occasions, maximum number of drinks on an occasion and overall weekly consumption. METHODS: A cluster quasi-randomized control trial (intervention n = 338; control n = 330) among 16- to 18-year-old secondary school students in the Swiss Canton of Zürich. Groups homogeneous for heavy drinking occasions (5+/4+ drinks for men/women) consisted of those having medium risk (3-4) or high risk (5+) occasions in the past 30 days. Groups of 8-10 individuals received two 45-min sessions based on motivational interviewing techniques. RESULTS: Borderline significant beneficial effects (p < 0.10) on heavy drinking occasions and alcohol volume were found 6 months later for the medium-risk group only, but not for the high-risk group. None of the effects remained significant after Bonferroni corrections. CONCLUSIONS: Group intervention was ineffective for all at-risk users. The heaviest drinkers may need more intensive treatment. Alternative explanations were iatrogenic effects among the heaviest drinkers, assessment reactivity, or reduction of social desirability bias at follow-up through peer feedback.

Wiedereingliederung dank arbeitsmedizinischer Intervention

Unspezifische muskuloskelettale Beschwerden wie chronische Rücken- oder Nackenbeschwerden werden als multifaktoriell bedingt verstanden, wobei die Arbeit respektive die Arbeitsbedingungen einen mehr oder weniger bestimmenden Faktor darstellen. Es ist daher wesentlich, speziell auch im Hinblick auf die Wiedereingliederung, dass sowohl die Arbeit wie auch die Arbeitsbedingungen evaluiert werden. [Auteure]

Agency Fact Sheet, Department of Veterans' Home, FY2007

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¿Mereixen els mals de l'home contemporani un tractament "acrític" basat en la Saviesa Antiga?

L'objectiu d'aquest article és presentar una análisi crítica de l'assaig de Giovane Reale, Saggezza antica. Terapia per i mali dll'uomo d'oggi, complementant l'adhesió de l'autor italià al pensament grec més metafísic amb el recordatori de moltes més savieses gregues d'índole diferent que paga la pena de tenir en compte per aplicar, emprant les seves paraules, una teràpia correcta als mals de l'home contemporani.

Agency Fact Sheet, Department of Veterans' Home, FY2008

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Agency Fact Sheet, Department of Veterans Home, FY2009

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Agency Fact Sheet, Department of Veterans Home, FY2010

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Science, practice and patient needs: the work of the Plinius Maior Society.

The Plinius Maior Society is a European multinational, multidisciplinary group of clinicians and researchers in the alcoholism field, which strives for a comprehensive care concept in the management of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. The Society, using evidence-based medicine, has developed a set of protocols, in the forms of guidelines, flow-charts, leaflets and booklets, for use as tools in research on and treatment of alcohol dependence, with a view to standardize clinical research procedures and to bridge the gap between the alcoholism researcher, practitioner and patient. These protocols or tools have been subjected to a review process during their preparation, and further comments on their validity will be integrated in their updates. Seven protocols have so far been developed, two of which, 'Guidelines on Evaluation of Treatment of Alcohol Dependence' and 'Detection and Management of Patients with Psychiatric and Alcohol Use Disorders', are aimed at the clinical researcher and specialists, whereas three others [in the form of decision trees (flow-charts)] are aimed at the general practitioner and other primary health care providers. These are entitled 'Alcohol Risk Assessment and Intervention in Primary Care', 'Withdrawal from Alcohol at Home' and 'Brief Intervention in Patients with Alcohol-Related Problems'. The remaining two tools are booklets aimed at the patient, one to support initiatives for detection of drinking problems and primary intervention, namely 'Do you have this Problem? Discuss it with your Doctor!', and the other to assist the patient in relapse prevention after the early stages of treatment, namely 'On the Way to Recovery'. The protocols for the general practitioners and patients have so far been produced in seven European languages, and, as with the Guidelines, feedback from target users will be collected and incorporated in future updates. The Society continually seeks to consider areas of clinical importance for its work and, as it enters the new millennium, it hopes to address and make a significant contribution to the most pressing problem in the management of alcohol dependence, namely relapse.

Consumer Advisory Bulletin, Don’t Let a Contractor “Put the Fix in” on YOUR Home Repairs & Improvements!, April 2012

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Agency Fact Sheet, Department of Veterans Home, FY2011

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