Objectives Smoking is a significant public health issue in Bangladesh. The purpose of this study was to examine peer smoking and smoking-related beliefs among college students in Bangladesh. Methods College students at two universities in Dhaka, Bangladesh participated in a self-administered survey in May and June 2017. Results First, being a current or former smoker is associated with lowe...

Models of affective behavior are critical for the development of training systems that are designed to exercise social interactions. Potential applications include various security-oriented operations such as police interrogation, airport security, border crossings, and military peacekeeping. Aside from speech, humans also communicate through vocalizations and inflections as well as with body l...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to determine the sleepiness-related factors associated with road traffic accidents. METHODS A population based case-control study was conducted in 2 French agglomerations. 272 road accident cases hospitalized in emergency units and 272 control drivers matched by time of day and randomly stopped by police forces were included in the study. Odds ratios were calcula...

OBJECTIVE To explore the prevalence and determinants of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among flood victims. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2014 among individuals who had experienced the 1998 floods and had been diagnosed with PTSD in 1999 in Hunan, China. Cluster sampling was used to select subjects from the areas that had been surveyed in 1999. PTSD was di...

The aim of this study was to analyze nurses' professional burnout and health complaints and the relationship between the two components. METHODS The anonymous survey included 94 neonatal intensive care nurses from two centers of perinatology. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) was used to evaluate professional burnout; it consisted of 3 components, Emotional Exhaust...

Abstract The aim of our performed study was to identify if the age, gender and Body Mass Index (BMI) can modify the personality profiles established by applying Freiburg Personality Inventory in a teenager’s population to a specific age group (15-18 years). As material we used a sample of 2908 teenagers, homogenous and statistical representative. The Freiburg questionnaire was administered indi...