BACKGROUND Over the last two decades, the need for a longer-term perspective to stroke management has become increasingly recognised. This paper reports a component of a larger project aimed at developing a systematic, primary care-based service for stroke aftercare. AIM To identify the types and prevalence of longer-term problems experienced by stroke patients and their carers in the United ...

This paper deals with the mental health as a predictor of emotional competence of school lecturers of Himachal Pradesh. Mental health and emotional problems can have a profound impact on all aspects of teaching at all levels. These problems may also have negative impact on academic performance, retention and learning rates. The present study is a wonderful effort of the researcher in trying to ...

BACKGROUND Little evidence is available on factors associated with persistence and change of psychopathology, and little is known about the predictive value of factors regarding change once problem behaviours exist. This study aims to evaluate change in level of scores of empirically derived problem patterns and to study factors that influence this change for children and adolescents referred t...

OBJECTIVE This study assessed the prevalence of general medical problems, stress or emotional problems, and alcohol problems reported by members of the armed forces of the United Kingdom after deployment in Iraq or Afghanistan. The study also identified types of help seeking and factors associated with help seeking. METHODS A total of 4,725 military personnel who were deployed to Iraq, Afghan...

The Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 (PSC-17) is a brief form of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist that is designed to screen for behavioral health problems in primary care settings. It has been proposed to have three subscales: externalizing, internalizing, and attention problems. In the context of developing a behavioral health screening program in an inner-city primary care practice, we evaluate...

We had a success rate of treating low, self-assessed, global quality of life (measured by QOL1: How would you assess the quality of your life now?) with clinical holistic medicine of 56.4% (95% CI: 42.3-69.7%) and calculated from this the Number Needed to Treat (NNT) as 1.43-2.36. We found that during treatment, (in average 20 sessions of psychodynamic psychotherapy complemented with bodywork a...

BACKGROUND Validated questionnaires can support the identification of psychosocial problems by the Preventive Child Health Care (PCH) system. This study assesses the validity and added value of four scoring methods used with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) for the identification of psychosocial problems among children aged 7-12 by the PCH. METHODS We included 711 (of 814) c...

background: solid waste management has emerged as an important human and environmental health issue. municipal solid waste workers (mswws) are potentially exposed to a variety of occupational biohazards and safety risks. the aim of this study was to describe health practices and safety measures adopted by workers in the main municipal company in alexandria (egypt) as well as the pattern of the ...

health problems and sudden death is common among athletes. the main purpose of this study was, investigating number of risk factors that related to heart disease and injuring duration of exercise for champions. the samples were comprised of 50 sport teachers and 63 competitive athletes that were selected from candidates being ready fornational championship. burn out, anxiety, hostility and ange...