This study examined the prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness, as measured by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), in a cohort of adult psychiatric patients. A total of 300 psychiatric outpatients and an additional 300 healthy controls completed the ESS. Excessive sleepiness was defined by a score of > or =10. The prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness was higher in the psychiatric grou...

Endoscopy was used to determine the prevalence of subclinical gastroduodenal ulceration in 30 Dachshunds undergoing decompressive surgery for acute intervertebral disc prolapse. The endoscopy was performed on the day of admission and on the 3rd or 4th day after surgery. Three regions of the stomach (cardia, corpus and pylorus) and the proximal duodenum were visually inspected and biopsy samples...

Little work has been done on prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the rural area of Gandhinagar. This paper reports the prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus of Raysan Village, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. The community based study was conducted by home to home survey through interviewing and communication technique. Specific data collection form was prepared for taking demograph...

Self-medication has been identified as a prevalent practice in Nigeria it provides ready low-cost alternative low-income countries. The current study aims to assess the influence of knowledge and experience COVID-19 symptoms on self-medication behaviour cross-section Nigerian undergraduates. Three hundred fifty-six university undergraduates across 31 universities was conducted during outbreak b...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to determine the perceptions of European physicians, nurses, and pharmacists about the extent of nonadherence by patients in their country relative to their perception of nonadherence by their own patients, and to investigate the occurrence of optimistic bias about medication adherence. The study explored a key cognitive bias for prevalence and likel...

BACKGROUND The study aims to compare cross-national prevalence of psychotropic medication use in youth. METHODS A population-based analysis of psychotropic medication use based on administrative claims data for the year 2000 was undertaken for insured enrollees from 3 countries in relation to age group (0-4, 5-9, 10-14, and 15-19), gender, drug subclass pattern and concomitant use. The data i...

Background: Self-medication is a growing public health concern in developing and developed countries. Objective: This study was designed to assess the prevalence of self-medication practice among undergraduate science students determine its concomitant factors. Methods: conducted May 2021 studying at Catholic University Health Allied Sciences (CUHAS) Mwanza, Tanzania. An analytical cross-sectio...

BACKGROUND Self-care practices for patients with hypertension include adherence to medication, use of blood pressure self-monitoring and use of complementary and alternative therapies (CAM) The prevalence of CAM use and blood pressure self-monitoring have not been described in a UK secondary care population of patients with hypertension and their impact on adherence to medication has not been d...