Habits
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Effect of the tympanostomy tube on postoperative retraction of the soft posterior meatal wall caused by habitual sniffing.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: To evaluate the effect of the tympanostomy tube (TT) on postoperative retraction of the soft posterior meatal wall caused by habitual sniffing following ear surgery, including a mastoidectomy and soft-wall reconstruction of ... Read more...

Bed-sharing at 3 months and breast-feeding at 1 year in southern Brazil.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between bedsharing at age 3 months and breastfeeding (BF) at age 12 months. STUDY DESIGN: Almost all children born in Pelotas, Brazil in 2004 (99.2%) were enrolled in a cohort study. At birth, age 3 months, ... Read more...

Showering habits: time, steps, and products used after brain injury.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: This pilot study describes the showering habits of people with brain injury (BI) compared with those of people without BI (WBI). METHOD: The showering habits of 10 people with BI and 10 people WBI were measured and compared. A videotaped ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Habits'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Effect of the tympanostomy tube on postoperative retraction of the soft posterior meatal wall caused by habitual sniffing. 29 Sep 2009
• Bed-sharing at 3 months and breast-feeding at 1 year in southern Brazil. 29 Sep 2009
• Showering habits: time, steps, and products used after brain injury. 30 Aug 2009
• Developing healthy sun habits for life: challenges and opportunities. 30 Aug 2009
• Health practices of Canadian physicians. 30 Jul 2009
• Daily physical activity and macronutrient distribution of low-calorie diets jointly affect body fat reduction in obese women. 30 Jul 2009
• Chronic stress causes frontostriatal reorganization and affects decision-making. 29 Jul 2009
• Current understanding of risk factors for ovarian cancer. 13 Jul 2009
• [Psychosocial factors associated with domestic water consumption in a semidesert region] 29 Jun 2009
• Stress prompts habit behavior in humans. Jun 2009
• Benefits of napping in healthy adults: impact of nap length, time of day, age, and experience with napping. 30 May 2009
• Medication adherence in successful kidney transplant recipients. 30 May 2009
• When chewing gum is more than just a bad habit. 28 May 2009
• Repetition errors in habitual prospective memory: elimination of age differences via complex actions or appropriate resource allocation. 26 May 2009
• Adolescent soft drink consumption, television viewing and habit strength. Investigating clustering effects in the Theory of Planned Behaviour. 18 May 2009
• Induction of habits in rats by a forced-choice procedure in T-maze and the effect of pre-test free exploration. 2 May 2009
• A nightly bedtime routine: impact on sleep in young children and maternal mood. 29 Apr 2009
• Associative theories of goal-directed behaviour: a case for animal-human translational models. 5 Apr 2009
• Body mass index determines sunbathing habits: implications on vitamin D levels. 30 Mar 2009
• [Relationship between dysfunctions and parafunctional oral habits, and temporomandibular disorders in children and teenagers] 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Habits'

Definition: Acquired or learned responses which are regularly manifested.

Descriptor UI: D006184

Alternative terms: Habits; Habit; Habit Disturbances; Habit Disturbance;

Tree Number: F01.145.466;

Online Note: use HABITS to search HABIT 1966-68

History Note: 69; was HABIT 1963-68

Technical Notes: no qualif; do not use for "drug habit" ( = SUBSTANCE ABUSE or SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE) nor for "smoking habit" ( = SMOKING or TOBACCO USE DISORDER)