OBJECTIVE To screen for warning signs of dysgraphia in schoolchildren at the sixth grade of elementary school. METHOD This was a descriptive, exploratory, cross-sectional cohort study performed with 630 schoolchildren assessed through the (adapted) Analytical Dysgraphia Inventory, which recognizes difficulties in writing through the tracing the graphics. RESULTS A total of 22% (n=138) of th...

UNLABELLED Little is known about stroke patients' awareness about the warning signs of stroke and its therapeutic time window in Brazil. METHOD We interviewed consecutive patients with acute stroke admitted to a terciary public hospital in Brazil. Data collected included demographics, mode of arrival, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores and knowledge of stroke warning si...

OBJECTIVE This study was done to study the prevalence of cardiac manifestations of dengue fever in patients presenting to our hospital and to find out the correlation of cardiac manifestations to warning signs of dengue and severe dengue. METHODS The study was conducted at Sree Gokulam Medical College and Research Foundation, which is a tertiary care hospital, in the Department of Medicine in...

Warning signs have been widely applied to industrial production. As an important component of warning signs, warning signal words were mostly studied by using questionnaire. This study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to explore neural temporal features during the processing of warning signal words in human brain, and found that there were two stages involved in processing warning signal wo...

Permanent structures narrower than the existing pavement are recognized highway hazards. Information has been published to demon­ strate the seriousness of the hazard, but little has been done about the effectiveness of various types of warning signs and pavement markings used to safeguard such locations. This paper reports a study at a typical narrow highway bridge location on a two-lane pavem...

Studies of visual effects of road signs have shown that having dynamic imagery, and even better, animation, helps improve road signs as it increases a viewer’s attentiveness. However, currently existing animated imagery signs, which are usually digital billboards, have drawbacks including distraction caused by bright LED lights, large energy consumption, and expensiveness. To overcome the probl...

BACKGROUND Stroke is a leading cause of death and functional impairment. While older people are particularly vulnerable to stroke, research suggests that they have the poorest awareness of stroke warning signs and risk factors. This study examined knowledge of stroke warning signs and risk factors among community-dwelling older adults. METHODS Randomly selected community-dwelling older people...