BACKGROUND Refugees have been shown to present high prevalence rates of trauma-related mental disorders. Despite their psychological impairment, they are expected to meet high functional requirements in terms of social integration into, and financial independence from, the host society. METHODS This cross-sectional study examined the relationship of mental health problems, post-migration livi...

Background During the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a worldwide increase in use of digital technology. Many people with learning disabilities have learned new skills, taken part online activities, and kept touch family friends using video calls. However, experiences participation or nonparticipation for profound multiple (PMLD) is less understood. Method Between December 2020 August 2021, c...

Research on Accessible Digital Musical Instruments (ADMIs) has highlighted the need for participatory design methods, i.e., to actively include users as co-designers and informants in process. However, very little work explored how pre-verbal children with Profound Multiple Disabilities (PMLD) can be involved such processes. In this paper, we apply in-depth qualitative mixed methodologies a cas...

Introduction Myelin-sensitive quantitative MRI techniques are of growing interest in pediatric research. Amongst childhood leukoencephalopathies, hypomyelinating disorders constitute a large single category [1]. We studied five patients with defined hypomyelinating leukodystrophies using magnetization transfer (MT) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) providing parameter maps related to myelinati...

introduction: behcet's disease is a chronic disease with multisystem involvement characterized clinically by oral and genital aphthae, cutaneous lesions and ophthalmologic, neurologic and gastrointestinal manifestation. nervous system involvement occurs in 5.3 – 30% of patients, mostly in brain stem and basal ganglia. the common manifestations are pyramidal signs, central nervous plegia, p...

prolonged cough occurs in a large proportion of the 2 million pilgrims who participate in the annual hajj in saudi arabia. there is no unique cause for pilgrims’ respiratory involvement, but several studies suggest a high incidence of influenza as a cause of the disease. to determine influenza vaccine efficacy against respiratory disease in pilgrims, we conducted two similar cohort studies on 5...

kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute febrile systemic vasculitis of childhood characterized by elevated levels of inflammatory mediators at the acute stage. high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (ivig) is well accepted as a conventional therapy for kd. the aim of the present study was to determine the expression level of toll like receptors (tlrs) and their corresponding signaling mediators in pbmc...

introduction: dyspepsia, gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) and irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) are the most common gastrointestinal diseases. their prevalence is 18-30%, 25-30% and 10-15% in western communities and 8-14%, 3-7% and 3-5% in eastern countries, respectively. there is no adequate data about their prevalence in our country. the aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of ...