Empirical research into the sexuality of children goes back many decades and, in the past, it has been possible to interview children directly in both clinical and non-clinical settings (Bender & Blau, 1937; Sandfort, 1987). Retrospective surveys of childhood sexual experiences have also been conducted in college introductory courses in the social sciences (see, e.g., Rind, Bauserman, & Tromovi...

Nurse anesthesia programs across the country are frequently in search of better selection criteria and more efficient evaluation systems. The goal is to select qualified applicants who will successfully complete the program and represent the profession of nurse anesthesia. The primary method of assessing the quality of candidates' noncognitive attributes at the Oakland University Beaumont Progr...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To develop a short form of an interview schedule used successfully in previous national surveys of care for the dying, and to investigate the effect of administering it by post on response rate, response bias and on the nature of responses to questions. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING An inner London health authority. PARTICIPANTS Informants (person registerin...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to estimate fracture rates and fracture prevalence from fracture histories in normal postmenopausal women. DESIGN Apparently healthy postmenopausal women were recruited by advertising in the media. Fracture histories were obtained by personal interview in 1983 and again by interview or questionnaire in 1988. Fracture rates were calculated prospectively and retrospe...

objective: whilst many questions and doubts still remain, today the use of dental im-plants has gained an increasing popularity amongst patients as well as dentists. the aim of this study is to analyze the survival rate in using such implants over a 10 year period. materials and methods: in this study, 3050 iti implants placed in 1000 patients with the mean age of 49.5 years (54.4% males and 44...

purpose: to determine the indications for and surgical techniques of corneal transplantation at labbafinejad medical center (lmc) from 2004 to 2007. methods: in this descriptive study, records of 756 patients who had undergone corneal transplantation from october 2004 to october 2007 were reviewed. results: overall, 504 male (64.9%) and 272 female (35.1%) subjects with mean age of 41.29±21.25 (...

BACKGROUND In retrospective studies of dietary habits and breast cancer risk, recall bias is a concern since diet has been publicized as a cause of breast cancer. METHODS In a case-control study of diet and breast cancer risk nested within a cohort of women screened with mammography, we contrasted answers to a retrospective dietary interview with answers to a dietary questionnaire which was f...

objectives: the prospective and retrospective memory questionnaire (prmq) developed by smith (2000) and consists of a series of questions about memory weakness that can be encountered anyone in everyday life. the self-reported questionnaire has 16 items that assessing of prospective and retrospective memory problems in everyday life and the aim of the present research was to examine the investi...

background and objectives: there are a few studies on histopathologic type of oral lesions especially from iran. the aim of this study was to survey the oral lesions in babol, northern iran. methods: the histopathology records were retrospectively reviewed for all lesions of oral cavity and jaws, during the years 1990 to 2009. the data were collected from the archive of pathology and analyzed ...