Psychologists as part of a team, make important contributions for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. New Mexico and Louisiana in United States have recently granted prescribing privileges to psychologists who have successfully completed additional training. This study determined the opinions of conveniently selected university students in Islamabad on clinical psychologists being granted s...

This article develops an approach to contemporary governance as a communicative practice fundamentally organized by ‘‘graphic artifacts’’—materials such as files, maps, letters, reports, and office manuals. The empirical focus is the role of graphic artifacts in bureaucratic institutions in Islamabad, Pakistan. Departing from functionalist accounts of bureaucracy and from approaches to governme...

Objectives: The aims of the current study were to find the prevalence of Dental Anxiety amongst Pakistani University Students and to determine the differences in relation to gender, education and level of dental anxiety. Methods and Materials: A questionnaire consisting Dental Anxiety Scale and Dental Fear Scale describing anxiety-provoking stimuli was constructed and presented to 385 universit...

Wasim Muhammad1, Farzand Ali2 and Aamir Raheem2 Author Affiliations 1Institute of Paramedical Sciences, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan 2Faculty Management Riphah International Islamabad, Received: January 21, 2022 | Published: March 04, Corresponding author: Muhammad, Institute 19130, Pakhtunkhwa, DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2022.42.006739

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of self medication among Pakistanis in rural and urban settings. METHODS A door-to-door survey was carried out during June and July 2008 and 2009 after due verbal consent taken from the residents. The houses were randomly selected from ultra posh area, quarters of government employees, residents of Barani Training Institute, low socio-economic population in...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of microbiological contamination of water in different water filtration plants in Islamabad. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Water Filtration Plants (WFP) in different sectors of Islamabad, from April to September 2012. METHODOLOGY Water samples were collected in sterilized bottles according to the standard w...

BACKGROUND The assessment of dental anxiety among children will aid in dealing with management issues related to dental treatment. There is no study available from Pakistan on dental anxiety in children. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of dental anxiety in children attending a teaching dental hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on ...

An estimated 150-200 million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis C. Prevalence is higher in some countries in Asia and Africa. Only limited information about the epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection especially in females is available. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of anti-HCV antibodies and the possible factors for transmission in the female populati...

The prodigious campaign of Taliban has emerged as the gravest threat to political stability, social harmony, and economic growth of Pakistan while weakening the contemporary political, social and economic structure of the country. In this way, the combination of religious orthodox and Islamic militancy has emerged as one of the potential challenges for Islamabad. The growing Islamic vigilance i...

OBJECTIVE TBesides aging there are multiple factors involved in decreasing Bone Mineral Density. Knowing the burden of the diseaseand its related factors in our population can help better treat this. Therefore, our objective was to identify subjects with low Bone Mineral Density (BMD) and its risk factors in hospital visiting people in Islamabad. METHODS Descriptive cross sectional study was ...