En este artículo presentaremos la validación del Cuestionario Psicosocial de Copenhague (COPSOQ). La adaptación cultural se realizó sobre versión larga COPSOQII -ISTAS21. implementó una muestra aleatoria 200 casos, representativa conglomerado Ciudad Buenos Aires, Avellaneda, Morón y Vicente López. Se procedió a realizar análisis consistencia interna con Alpha Cronbach constructo través factoria...

Background Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune multi-systemic disease with predominant affection of connective tissue resulting in progressive fibrosis the skin and internal organs. Monitoring measures functioning disability crucial during follow up to identify quality life impairment. Objectives To assess influence functional impairment on SSc patients. Methods A cross- sectional study w...

Introduction Occupational exposure to organic solvents remains a real risk for exposed employees, particularly in mental health and quality of life. Objectives - To evaluate the life employees research professional extra-professional determinants this Methods This is descriptive cross-sectional study that compared 196 with 64 non-exposed from same socio-professional environment. The investigati...

STUDY DESIGN Randomized clinical trial comparing two interventions in employees sick-listed 3 to 16 weeks because of low back pain (LBP). OBJECTIVE To compare 1-year return to work (RTW), pain, disability and physical and mental health dimensions in subjects offered a hospital-based multidisciplinary intervention or a brief intervention. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Previous studies in sick-l...

PURPOSE To report the midterm results of mechanochemical ablation (MOCA) for treating great saphenous vein (GSV) insufficiency. METHODS In a 1-year period, 85 consecutive patients (median age 51.4 years; 71 women) undergoing MOCA with polidocanol in 104 limbs were enrolled in a prospective registry. The patients were evaluated at baseline and during follow-up (4 weeks and 1, 2, and 3 years) u...

BACKGROUND ACDF has been considered as the gold standard in the treatment of single level cervical disk protrusion. However, it may cause adjacent level degeneration due to regional biomechanical changes. TDR has been applied with satisfactory results for over a decade, but there is no consensus if TDR is safer and more efficient than ACDF. The current study was carried out to compare the effic...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The clinical impact of nocturnal desaturation on health related quality of life (HRQL) and sleep in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been little studied. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and clinical impact of nocturnal desaturation in a typical outpatient population with COPD. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between 2002 and 2005, consecutive pati...

approach (4). In 2002, Foley and Lefkowitz enhanced the same concept by means of the implementation of a minimally invasive TLIF (MI-TLIF) with the goal to reduce tissue damages, at the same time achieving both neural decompression and adequate interbody fusion (2). █ INTRODUCTION Minimally invasive surgery has gained popularity over the last decades. In 1982, Harms and Rolinger developed the t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients often have protein-energy wasting, poor health-related quality of life (QoL), and high premature death rates, whereas African-American MHD patients have greater survival than non-African-American patients. We hypothesized that poor QoL scores and their nutritional correlates have a bearing on racial survival disparities of MHD pa...

CONTEXT Studies suggest that yoga is effective for moderate to severe chronic low back pain (cLBP) in diverse predominantly lower socioeconomic status populations. However, little is known about factors associated with benefit from the yoga intervention. OBJECTIVE Identify factors at baseline independently associated with greater efficacy among participants in a study of yoga for cLBP. DESI...