OBJECTIVE This study seeks to identify factors associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following Hurricane Ivan among a cohort of tertiary-level students in Jamaica. METHODS A 22-item, self-administered questionnaire was administered to a non-random sample. Using parametric and non-parametric analyses, the relationship between PTSD symptoms and several variables was examined. ...

More years ago than I care to admit, I spent many not-so-unpleasant hours standing on a street corner with one eye on the controller settings and the other on traffic, trying to optimize the controller settings by making minute adjustments to initial, extension, and maximum intervals. Even when I thought the settings could be no further improved, I worried that my “fine tuning” might not yield ...

BACKGROUND Research indicates that those who are worried about their health are more likely to change their in-appropriate behavioural-related risk factors. A national survey was undertaken to determine adults who correctly perceive and actually undertake in-appropriate behavioural-related risk factors (smoking, physical activity, alcohol intake, fruit and vegetable consumption, weight and psyc...

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