Original Research

Effect of "Time Famine" on Women's Self-Care and Household Health Care. By Nancy Vuckovic, PhD

The author introduces her concept of "time famine" and ties together two elements of contemporary culture: time pressure and pill-taking. She finds evidence that one effect of time pressure is increased use of medicines.
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Psychiatric Disorders and Functional Disability in Patients with Fibromyalgia.
By A rne Beck, PhD; George Breth, MD; Rob Hays, MD; Colleen Miller, RNP

This study describes the prevalence of current psychiatric disorders and functional disability among a sample of patients attending a fibromyalgia group clinic in the Rheumatology Department at Kaiser Permanente Colorado.
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