OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of education and economic status of parents on obesity in children. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2006 among school children in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A representative sample of 1243 (542 male and 701 female) children aged 6-16 years were contacted using multistage cluster sampling strategy. Social and demographic variables were collected usin...

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence and correlates of the use of sunless tanning products among US adolescents and their association with UV radiation exposure behaviors, including indoor tanning, sunburn experiences, and use of sunscreen while outdoors. DESIGN Telephone-based, random-digit-dialed, cross-sectional survey conducted from July 1 through October 30, 2004. SETTING Telephone-acc...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of attitudes toward secondhand smoke among young people. METHODS Three hundred nonsmokers and 300 smokers (smoked a cigarette in last 30 days) 14 through 22 years of age in the United States were surveyed with random-digit dialing. The results of this cross-sectional survey were analyzed using logistic regression to determine predictors of nonsmoking and intent ...

Smoking among Malaysian adolescents remains a public health concern despite concerted efforts in tobacco control. The aims of this study were to examine the prevalence and determinants of current-smoking status in young adolescents. This cross sectional study used the first round of the Malaysian Health and Adolescents Research Team's prospective cohort study. It was conducted in three States o...

This paper analyzes supply and demand side characteristics of (voluntary) Red Cross services in Austria. Empirical results are presented based on a CV study on people’s willingness to pay for the maintenance of emergency treatment after injury, transportation services and disaster relief activities. A comparison of aggregated willingness to pay measures with actual cost of the Red Cross system ...

CONTEXT Physicians depend on the medical literature to keep current with clinical information. Little is known about residents' ability to understand statistical methods or how to appropriately interpret research outcomes. OBJECTIVE To evaluate residents' understanding of biostatistics and interpretation of research results. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Multiprogram cross-sectional sur...

BACKGROUND In Ethiopia, 94% of births take place at home unattended by trained persons. The government introduced an innovative strategy, Health Services Extension Program in 2003. Clean and safe delivery service is a component of maternal and child healthcare package of the program. However, little is known about the status of uptake of the service. This study thus aimed to assess utilization ...

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread introduction of active learning strategies to engage students across modern medical curricula, student attendance and attendance monitoring remain a challenging issue for medical educators. In addition, there is little published evidence available to medical educators regarding the use of attendance monitoring systems. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ...

Study was conducted to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of mothers attending a south Indian hospital towards breastfeeding. This cross sectional study was conducted on mothers of children, attending outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital, SRM Medical College, Tamil Nadu. They were administered a pre-designed questionnaire of twenty questions related to breastfeeding. A to...

OBJECTIVE The global threat of an influenza pandemic continues to grow and thus universities have begun emergency preparedness planning. This study examined stakeholder's knowledge, risk-perception, and willingness to volunteer. DESIGN AND SAMPLE The design of this study is a cross-sectional survey. Questionnaires were sent to 1,512 nursing students and were returned by 484, yielding a respon...