Evidências de validade do Millon Behavioral Medicine Diagnostic: avaliação de indicadores de adesão ao tratamento em pacientes com hipertensão

Systemic Arterial Hypertension – SAH – is defined as the syndrome which its main feature is the presence of high tensional levels, associated with alterations of functional or structural levels in the organs that it strikes. Its specific causes are not very well bounded and have an asymptomatic character. Due to its chronicity it requires adherence to the treatment plan in a systematic and permanent manner, implicating in lifestyle changes, combined or not with the use of medication. The personality inventories have been largely used in the lineation of indicative traits of difficulties with the adherence to the treatment. In this sense, developed by Theodore Millon, the Millon Behavioural Medicine Diagnostic – MBMD is an instrument made from the consensus among healthcare professionals, aiming at identifying psychological factors that may compromise medical treatment so that they can be conducted in a way to enable a better adherence. Objective: evaluation of the evidence of validity of the Millon Behavioural Medicine Diagnostic – MBMD for a public of patients with hypertension, aiming at investigating the indicators implicated in the adherence or not to the anti-hypertensive treatment. Method: there was a group of 200 participants in a university hospital in the city of Natal/RN, males and females, ranging from 20 to 70 years old. An interview protocol was administered in order to obtain information about socio-demographic data, clinical history, healthcare habits and way of conducting treatment, and after, the administration of the MBMD followed. Results: by means of Factor Analysis it was verified that the organization proposed by the factors is favorable and it adjusts to the theory, allowing the visualization of other underlying constructs to the scales, with adequate adjustment indexes and satisfactory Cronbach’s alpha indicators. Besides, the MBMD revealed itself sensitive to the intragroup differences relative to the sex, age, schooling, marital status, profession, income, SAH history, diagnostic time, medication use, comorbidity presence, hyposodic diet, social support and adherence criteria variables. The utilization of such instrument in the evaluation of the adherence to the anti-hypertensive treatment show, therefore, indicators of validity.

Validade e confiabilidade da versão informatizada do inventário Million de estilos de personalidade

Currently, several psychological and non-psychological tests can be found in publishes without standardization on procedures set in different psychological areas, like intelligence, emotional states, attitudes, social skills, vocation, preferences and others. The computerized psychological testing is a extension of traditional testing psychological practices. However, it has own psychometrics qualities, either by its matching in a computerized environment or by the extension that can be developed in it. The current research, developed from a necessity to study process of validity and reliability on a computerized test, drew a methodological structure to provide parallel applications in numerous kinds of operational groups, evaluating the influences of the time and approach in the computerization process. This validity refers to normative values groups, reproducibility in computerized applications process and data processing. Not every psychological test can be computerized. Therefore, our need to find a good test, with quality and plausible properties to transform in computerized application, leaded us to use The Millon Personality Inventory, created by Theodore Millon. This Inventory assesses personality according to 12 bipolarities distributed in 24 factors, distributed in categories motivational styles, cognitive targets and interpersonal relations. This instrument doesn t diagnose pathological features, but test normal and non adaptive aspects in human personality, comparing with Theodore Millon theory of personality. In oder to support this research in a Brazilian context in psychological testing, we discuss the theme, evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of such practices. Also we discuss the current forms in computerization of psychological testing and the main specific criteria in this psychometric specialized area of knowledge. The test was on-line, hosted in the site http://www.planetapsi.com, during the years of 2007 and 2008, which was available a questionnaire to describe social characteristics before test. A report was generated from the data entry of each user. An application of this test was conducted in a linear way through a national coverage in all Brazil regions, getting 1508 applications. Were organized nine groups, reaching 180 applications in test and retest subject, where three periods of time and three forms of retests for studies of on-line tests were separated. Parallel to this, we organized multi-application session offline group, 20 subjects who received tests by email. The subjects of this study were generally distributed by the five Brazilian regions, and were noticed about the test via the Internet. The performance application in traditional and on-line tested groups subsidies us to conclude that on-line application provides significantly consistency in all criteria for validity studied and justifies its use. The on-line test results were related not only among themselves but were similar to those data of tests done on pencil and paper (0,82). The retests results demonstrated correlation, between 0,92 and, 1 while multisessions had a good correlation in these comparisons. Moreover, were assessed the adequacy of operational criteria used, such as security, the performance of users, the environmental characteristics, the organization of the database, operational costs and limitations in this on-line inventory. In all these five items, there were excellent performances, concluding, also, that it s possible a self-applied psychometric test. The results of this work are a guide to question and establish of methodologies studies for computerization psychological testing software in the country

Rendimento acadêmico e sua relação com os estilos de personalidade de estudantes universitários

One of the Psychology challenges, especially among the assessment and educational areas, is to understand and predict individual differences. In this context, this research aimed to verify the personality styles of students with high and low academic performance. The study included 236 university students from Petrolina-PE and Juazeiro-BA campus of the UNIVASF (Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco). They were uniformly distributed in four disciplines (medicine, psychology, administration and civil engineering), 10 students from each semester (five highest scores average students and five lowest scores average students) took place of the sample. The Millon Index Personality Styles (MIPS) was applied to analyze the personality/behavioral styles of the students. The MIPS is a 180 dichotomous (true/false) item scale. It was also developed and applied a questionnaire about the students characteristics and their academic information. Descriptive and central tendency statistics analysis (mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentage) were done to provide sample information. Then we performed a Mann-Whitney test in the overall sample and in each course and a factorial ANOVA. The results suggest that the university population is heterogeneous and there are significant differences (p <0.05) between the personality styles of students with high and low academic performance, when analyzing the overall sample and in courses of different areas of knowledge. Students of Medicine who have higher performance as personality styles prevalent the conformism and compliance, while students with lower income in this course, the styles are: innovation and discrepancy. Psychology students with higher income are more systematic and lower income students to score significantly on accommodation. The civil engineering students of the two groups differed only in personality style intuition, being such a style more characteristic of higher income students. Students of Management with higher yield stand out more in the style of the doubt and lower yields in these styles: individual, reflection and discrepancy. This study is correlational, but had an exploratory nature because there are no studies about this relationship in Brazil. Therefore, it provided a better understanding of the action characteristics of students with high and low academic performance. Further studies using the Big Five Personality Factors instruments are required because it is the most used model in understanding the influence of personality on students performance. This way, the relation between personality and academic performance will be better discussed. Otherwise, it will be possible to compare with the existing studies in the area

Theodore Herzl Centenary Coin

Obverse: silver 5 Lirot coin. Reverse: In the upper right portait of Theodore Herzl in rectangle with rounded corners. Below the emblem of the state of Israel.

Caracterización del fotoperiodismo y agromorfología de catorce variedades de sorgo millon (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench) en tres épocas de siembra en CNIA, Managua

Este trabajo tiene los objetivos de determinar la mejor fecha de siembra de los sorgos fotosensibles a travez de caracteristicas morfologicas, fisiologicas y de rendimiento; evaluar el comportamiemto de las variedades de sorgo millon según la fecha de siembra; y determinar el rendimiento de grano y biomasa en las tres fechas de siembra. Se desarrollo en el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuaria en el periodo comprendido de mayo 2003 a enero 2004. El diseño experimental fue parcelas divididas con 4 repeticiones,colocando en la parcela grande las tres fechas de siembra y en la parcela pequeña las variedades de srgo millon. A los resultados de las variables se aplico un análisis de varianza (ANDEVA) y separacion de medias de Tukey con ∝= 0.05 respectivamente. Los resutados reflejan que para el factor fecha de siembra (FS) se encontró diferencias estadísticas significativas en las variables morfológicas evaluadas (ahijamiento, número de hojas, altura de planta, longitud de panoja), a excepción de la variable excerción de panoja que no fue afectada por la fecha de siembra. La III FS (2 septiembre) presentó el mayor ahijamiento y longitud de panoja con un valor de 1.64 hijos/planta y 26.93 cm, respectivamente: La I FS (30 de mayo) presentó el mayor número de hoja final con valor de 38.20 hojas. La mayor altura de planta se presentó en la II FS (4 de julio) con valor de 471cm. Las variables de características fisiológicas (Fecha despliegue de hoja bandera, Fecha a 50 % floración) fueron afectadas por el factor FS. La II FS (4 de julio). El Despliegue de hoja bandera y floración más precoz presentándose el 9 y 17 noviembre, respectivamente. Las variables de rendimiento afectadas por el factor fecha de siembra fueron únicamente peso de mil granos, peso de guate y rendimiento de guate. En la II FS se presentó el mayor peso de 1000 granos, peso de guate y rendimiento de guate con valores de 28 g, 2867.6 g y 30,587.4 kg/ha, respectivamente. Las variables daños por Contharina sorghicola y senescencia foliar presentaron diferencias numéricas según análisis descriptivo. En la III FS (2 septiembre) se presentó el mayor daño causado por Contharina sorghicola con 55.71 % y el menor daño se presentó en la II fecha de siembra con 21.72 %: En III FS se presentó una menor senescencia foliar al contrario la I FS (30 de mayo) que presentó mayor senescencia. Para el factor variedad las variables morfológicas fueron afectadas significativamente. El mayor ahijamiento se presentó en la variedad 2 con valor de 3.55 hijos/planta. La variedad 12 presentó el mayor número de hojas con valor de 40 hojas/planta. La variedad 13 presentó una mayor altura y longitud de panoja con valores de 541.8 cm y 39.25 cm, respectivamente. En la variedad3 se presentó una mayor.con un valor de 9 cm. En las variables de fisiología las afectadas significativamente por el factor variedad. La variedad 5 fue la más tardía en florecer y en desplegar hoja bandera, al contrario las variedades africanas 14 y 12 que presentaron una floración y un despliegue bandera más precoz.Las variedades millón de Nicaragua altamente fotoperiódicas (Kp = 1) entre la fecha de siembra de mayo y julio, al contrario las variedades africanas 5 y G1581 son menos fotoperiódicas (Kp<1). Entre la fecha de siembra mayo y septiembre las variedades millón estopa negra. Las variables de rendimiento fueron afectadas por el factor variedad. El mayor peso de grano, de mil granos y rendimiento se presentó en la variedad 14 con valores de 650.3 g, 53.75g y 3,468 kg/ha, respectivamente. La variedad 5 presentó el menor peso y rendimiento de materia seca con 4,450g y 47,467 kg/ha. Las variedades que presentaron vigor excelente fueron la 9 (escala 1), 6 que presentó buen vigor (escala 2). La variedad que no fue afectada por la mosquita Contharina sorghicola, así como las variedades africanas únicamente.

Wanted - Leaders! : a study of Negro development / Theodore DuBose Bratton.

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[Book Review] Vardah Shiloh, Millon 'Ivri-'Arami-'Aššuri bs-Lahag Yihude Zaxo (A New Neo-Aramaic Dictionary: Jewish Dialect of Zakho). Volume I: 'alef—nun\ Volume II: samex-tav. V. Shilo (16 Ben-Gamla Street), Jerusalem 1995. Pp. xiv + 488 (Vol. I); 489-963 (Vol. II). (Modern Hebrew, Zakho Jewish Neo-Aramaic).

Review of: Vardah Shiloh, Millon 'Ivri-'Arami-'Aššuri bs-Lahag Yihude Zaxo (A New Neo-Aramaic Dictionary: Jewish Dialect of Zakho). Volume I: 'alef—nun\ Volume II: samex-tav. V. Shilo (16 Ben-Gamla Street), Jerusalem 1995. Pp. xiv + 488 (Vol. I); 489-963 (Vol. II). (Modern Hebrew, Zakho Jewish Neo-Aramaic). Hbk.

Predicci??n del rendimiento acad??mico en alumnos de ESO y Bachillerato mediante el Inventario Cl??nico para Adolescentes de Millon (escala MACI)

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Ideología, cultura y política exterior estadounidense hacia América Latina: un estudio en torno a los mitos y estereotipos durante el gobierno de Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

Este trabajo es un estudio de factores de carácter político, ideológico y cultural que intervinieron y aún se dejan notar en la relación Estados Unidos y América Latina. TEMA: IDEOLOGÍA, CULTURA Y POLÍTICA EXTERIOR ESTADOUNIDENSE HACIA AMÉRICA LATINA: UN ESTUDIO EN TORNO A LOS MITOS Y ESTEREOTIPOS DURANTE EL GOBIERNO DE THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1901-1909) El desarrollo de la presente investigación parte de la figura de Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919), como modo de proyectarse al análisis de toda una época para explicar la relación existente entre la ideología estadounidense y su política exterior hacia América Latina durante el gobierno de Teddy Roosevelt (1901 – 1909) quien por un azar en la historia llego a ser presidente de los Estados Unidos debido a la inesperada muerte del presidente Mackinley. Roosevelt ocupó una posición histórica única en el enfoque de los Estados Unidos a las Relaciones Internacionales. Como señala Kissinger, ningún otro presidente definió tan cabalmente el papel mundial de los Estados Unidos por su interés nacional, ni identificó tan completamente el interés nacional con el equilibrio de poder. Nuestro objetivo es centrarnos en la relación existente entre mitos, estereotipos y política exterior estadounidense frente a América Latina, a partir del estudio del personaje ya mencionado. En ningún momento pretendemos afirmar que el curso de los asuntos internacionales ha sido inevitable o bien determinado por un hombre o por fuerzas sobre las cuales este hombre no ha ejercido control, más bien pretendemos hacer notar la interrelación entre los actores y las fuerzas a través de los mitos y estereotipos que se han ido forjando en los actores.

Tradução e adaptação da escala de dependência de substâncias do Millon Clinical Multiaxial III para o Brasil

Millon describes the normal personality by means of adaptation styles that are effective in normal environments and personality disorders such as unadapted operating styles. To operacionalize his theoretical model, Millon has built several instruments, including the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III (MCMI-III), wich consists of a self report inventory composed by 175 true or false response items, containing four verification scales, and others scales wich evaluates 14 personality patterns and 10 clinical syndromes. The Substance Dependence scale (T) is placed along with Clinical Syndromes scales. This research is justified by the lack of a Brazilian instrument to assess personality psychopathological aspects, and aims to translate and semantically adapt the MCMI-III to the Brazilian context, checking validity elements of the Substance Dependence scale, and developing a computer application for assisting the evaluation of assessment results. To this intent, 2.588 individuals data was collected, male and female, aged between 18 and 85 years, characterized as belonging to a clinical or non-clinical group, who took part in the survey via the internet or in person. Respondents completed the MCMI-III, a socio-demographic questionnaire and a subgroup also answered to the Goldberg General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Besides descriptive statistics, we performed the analysis using the Student t test, principal components analysis and internal consistency. Despite difficulties related to translating very specific English terms, the assessment by judges, experts on Millon´s theory, and the back translation, attested the adequacy of the Brazilian version. Factorial analysis indicated the grouping of translated T scale items into three factors (social activities prejudice, lack of impulse control, and oppositional behavior), by presenting a single item on a fourth factor (apparently related to seeking pleasurable stimuli). The Cronbach alpha for this set of items was 0,82, indicating an acceptable scale reliability. The data analysis resulted in distinction of scores between clinical and non-clinical groups and between men and women; the relationship between high scores on the scale T and the other scales; scores of drug users according to the declared used substance; and the relationship between high scores on T and the verification of disorder or risk on GHQ mental health factor, indicating the instrument´s adequate sensistivity in identifying psychopathologies and the relationship between the different disorders or psychopathological personality patterns. Although further studies are necessary to develop the scores transformation factors, the computerized correction tool was adequate.