BACKGROUND Mental health professionals observed booming in prevalence of obsessive compulsive symptoms among children and adolescents. Our epidemiological study aims at estimating the prevalence of obsessive symptoms and obsessive compulsive disorder among secondary school students and, as a secondary research objective, to assess religious attitudes among those patients. MATERIALS The study ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence, characteristics and risk factors for fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and partial FAS among schoolgoing children in Grade 1 in Northern Cape Province, South Africa. DESIGN A cross-sectional study using a two-tiered method for ascertainment of FAS/partial FAS cases, comprising: screening of growth parameters, diagnostic assessment for screen-positive children ...

Structural ConcreteVolume 23, Issue 3 p. 1297-1299 ISSUE INFORMATIONFree Access Information: Concrete 3/2022 First published: 29 June 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/suco.202270311AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use check box below share version article.I ha...

Objectives
 The purpose of this study is to evaluate the perceptions nurses about patient safety culture and include five hospitals which are in a province north east Turkey. 
 Methods
 research universe consists 1299 working different hospitals. It was used for sample selection study. data were collected by “Nurse Information Form” “Patient Safety Culture Scale”. In analysis Kol...

In order to assess the prevalence of skin diseases in dogs encountered in a first opinion university small animal clinic, 1299 Iranian domestic dogs presented from September 2007 through March 2011 to the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Veterinary Teaching Hospital, were examined. Dermatological disorders were noted in 17.00% (221/1299) of all the dogs examined. Pruritus was the most common pres...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the feasibility of testing for prostate cancer and the prevalence and characteristics of the disease in unselected young men. DESIGN Prospective cohort nested within a randomised controlled trial, with two years of follow-up. SETTING Eight general practices in a UK city. PARTICIPANTS 1299 unselected men aged 45-49. INTERVENTION Prostate biopsies for participants...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) has established a set of items related to study design and administrative information that should build the minimum set of data in a study register. A more comprehensive data set for registration is currently developed by the Ottawa Group. Since nothing is known about the attitudes of academic researchers towards prospective study registration, we ...