For some children, this vicarious knowledge of parental worry induced sadness and self-blame for imposing worry upon family members.
Thus, instead of merely informing the patients of their diagnosis, clinicians should enhance patients' knowledge of this disease and thereby reduce undue worry and concern over the glaucoma diagnosis, 34 and help them to establish appropriate habits.
In this study, we assessed whether social support was independently associated with knowledge of, worry about, and attitudes toward AIDS and SARS in a representative sample of persons living in the New York City metropolitan area.
We assessed respondents' knowledge of, worry about, and attitudes toward AIDS and SARS (Table 1).
Finally, for a cross-sectional analysis, it is difficult to establish temporality between levels of social support and knowledge of, worry about, and attitudes toward AIDS and SARS.
We assessed whether social support was associated with knowledge of, worry about, and attitudes towards AIDS and severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Second, social support is a multidimensional construct; specific dimensions may differentially influence knowledge of, worry about, and stigmatizing attitudes toward EIDs.
Data regarding knowledge of, worry about, and attitudes toward AIDS and SARS were collected among a randomly selected subset of participants in the second cohort follow-up.
There was only one exception: whether patients were seen at clinics or hospitals significantly affected the knowledge of what patients worry about most regarding their health.
We described sociodemographic characteristics and level of social support of the respondents and created multivariable models predicting knowledge of, worry about, and stigmatizing attitudes toward AIDS and SARS, including covariates thought to potentially confound the relationship between social support and each outcome.
He is aware of this worry.
