According to the study, the most common reason for not following recommendations was physicians' lack of confidence in following the guidelines. The study reviewed 120 physicians' surveys and scientific papers in which doctors reported then biggest obstacles of knowledge, attitudes and behavior that prevent them from following the medical guidelines for specific diseases.
The study hopes to help physicians and patients make the best decisions about health care. Cabana said this study should not act as the basis for new guidelines, but should highlight implications for guideline developers to follow.
-Two-thirds of teens and young adults in the U.S. say they feel stressed at least once a week, according to a University study.
Psychologist Harold Stevenson's study of more than 8,000 high school students and students in their early 20s also found that only one-third of Japanese teens and young adults say they feel stress at least once a week. And less than 10 percent of the Japanese high school students said they feel stress every day.
The study, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Grant Foundation, is part of a series of studies conducted during the past 18 years to examine cross-national differences in academic achievement.
Stevenson said that American students experience greater amounts of stress because of unclear goals provided by their families and society. In contrast, Stevenson notes, Japanese students have less stress because they know parental and societal expectations.
American students were more likely to report aggressive and anxious behavior, according to the study. They were also more likely to say they feel like hitting another person, destroying something or getting into a serious argument with other students.
-The University's School of Information recently launched a new Website for children. The site, called Orca Search, provides middle school students with an opportunity to develop research tools while learning about killer whales.
Kids follow five steps to become "Orca Searchers." Through this program, kids use web links to learn how to collect information about killer whales and create their own research logs.
-Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have shed more light on a theory that there is evidence of life in a Mars meteorite. In 1996, NASA scientists found similarities between shapes in a Mars meteorite and pictures taken of hot springs minerals on Earth by UT geology Prof. Robert Folk.
Folk said his theories that the shapes in the pictures, which he called nanobacteria, might be organic, was rejected because of their size. But recent research notes that smaller sizes of life might be possible.
- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Risa Berrin.
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