To determine which clinical (health status) and nonclinical (demographic) factors may affect perceptions of quality of life in children with spina bifida and their parents.
Bonder et al. observed that 'Culture, individual experience and personality may affect perceptions and behaviours to self-care and health practices' (7).
Communication may affect perceptions of fair process for intensive care unit bed allocation decisions through its impact on the publicity condition of accountability for reasonableness.
Consistent with its mandate, UNICEF has comparative advantages to take a lead on peacebuilding, however it must consider the implications of how this may affect perceptions and how peacebuilding relates to other priority areas.
It concluded that "numerical presentation of risk as opposed to simple risk categories (e.g. high, moderate, low) appears to lead to more accurate risk perceptions", but "there is conflicting evidence regarding whether [different] numerical presentation formats may affect perceptions or emotions" [ 12].
[ 2] The discrepancy between poor health behaviours and positive self-perceptions of health in Quebec, as well as the surprising results from the Atlantic provinces, raises the possibility that other components beyond traditional socio-demographic factors, such as social, cultural, political and environmental contexts, may affect perceptions of health.
Finally, variables that predict A1C may indirectly affect perceptions of control through their influence on A1C.
In women with a history of CSA, early sexual trauma may affect their perception of sex (Barlow, 1986) and also their perception of their sexual self.
An F.D.A. panel said patients should be warned that the treatment "may affect depth perception," which could be a driving hazard.
