نتایج جستجو برای: prevalence studies
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OBJECTIVE To examine the association between household food insecurity score and Z-scores of childhood nutritional status indicators. DESIGN Population-based, cross-sectional survey, Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2011. SETTING A nationally representative sample of 11 085 households selected by a two-stage, stratified cluster sampling design to interview eligible men and women. SUBJE...
BACKGROUND A lack of advanced healthcare information systems and validated scientific cohorts in Nicaragua makes it difficult to estimate disease prevalences and other public health statistics. Although there is concern of an "epidemic" of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in this country, statistics regarding its magnitude are derived from only a small number of non-representative studies. Budgetar...
Decisions in healthcare should be based on information obtained according to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). An increasing number of systematic reviews are published which summarize the results of prevalence studies. Interpretation of the results of these reviews should be accompanied by an appraisal of the methodological quality of the included data and studies. The critical a...
OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of Wuchereria bancrofti infection in an area designated for filariasis control trial. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey. SETTING Three villages in Kinango location, Kwale district, Coast Province, Kenya. SUBJECTS/PARTICIPANTS Oral informed consent to participate was obtained from adults and parents or guardians of children below fifteen years of age. ...
BACKGROUND Normative misperceptions have been widely documented for alcohol use among U.S. college students. There is less research on other substances or European cultural contexts. This study explores which factors are associated with alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use misperceptions among French college students, focusing on substance use. METHODS 12 classes of second-year college students ...
OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and predictors of good knowledge, appropriate attitude and appropriate protective practices regarding respiratory symptoms among textile workers, and to determine the association of knowledge, attitude and practices with respiratory symptoms. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009 and comprised male workers from 15 textile mills in and a...
Very little is known about the potential relationship between welfare state regimes and oral health. This study assessed the oral health of adults in a range of European countries clustered by welfare regimes according to Ferrera's typology and the complementary Eastern type. We analysed data from Eurobarometer wave 72.3, a cross-sectional survey of 31 European countries carried out in 2009. We...
A cross-sectional survey of the seroprevalence of brucellosis in sheep, goats and cattle in Kosovo was made in January 2001. A total of 12,000 serum samples, from 7941 cattle, 3548 sheep and 511 goats, were screened using the Rose Bengal test. Doubtful and positive results were further tested with competitive and indirect ELISAS. The overall serological prevalences derived from the samples posi...
OBJECTIVE To describe the third wave of the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), completed in 2012, and present preliminary results. MATERIALS AND METHODS Descriptive analyses by gender and age group of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, health conditions and health behaviors, as well as social support and life satisfaction measures are presented. In addition, external validatio...
Because of the high prevalence of tobacco use in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, public health officials in many of these countries have designated as a priority the prevention of smoking initiation among youth. In 1995, a nationally representative survey in the Republic of Hungary documented that 35.8% of 16-year-old students in that country had smoked cigarettes during the preceding ...
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