purpose: to determine the musculoskeletal complaints associated with using computer and its   ergonomic risks for office workers of a medical sciences university in tehran.   materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a background questionnaire was used   to determine individuals and computer use habits’ characteristics. a total number of 164 office   workers of aja university of med...

Introduction: To investigate the sociodemographic and morbidity profile of advanced dementia patients and sociodemographic data of their primary caregivers. Method: Data was obtained from 67 elderly recruited for an observational prospective study, through interviews performed with primary caregivers. For statistical analysis, the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS(r)) for Wind...

This study aims to analyze the effect of celebrity’s attractiveness, expertise, and trustworthiness on purchase intention in SiCepat Ekspress delivery service companies. The sampling method used is probability with purposive technique. took samples from 160 respondents JABODETABEK respondent had know that a company. Data processing uses Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). results th...

This study aims to success motivation and academic engagement of teenage students suffering from test anxiety. Quantitative methods will be employed in his investigation, broad research questions posed. Systematic random selection used choose participants, questionnaires collect data for the study. A sample 500 young individuals who are now enrolled educational institutions as responders. The c...

OBJECTIVES Our study aimed to determine the epidemiological characteristics and diagnostic and treatment protocols of primary vaginal carcinoma. Also, we compared the clinical and pathological features of primary vaginal carcinoma which intersect with cervical and vulvar carcinomas. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixteen patients with primary vaginal carcinoma, admitted to the Department of Gynecologic...

This study evaluated, in vitro, the antimicrobial activity and the anti-adherent property of xylitol (0.5, 2.5 and 5.0%, w/v) on two Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains (ATCC 9027 and clinical). The assay of antimicrobial activity was performed to determine a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and the adhesion test was performed, by which the parameters regarding, growth in the culture medium, n...

Aim: To analyze serum uric acid, urea, and creatinine levels in Oral Submucous Fibrosis patients and compare them with those of healthy controls. Materials and Methods: 40 OSMF patients and 20 controls had serum uric acid, urea and creatinine levels measured using spectrophotometer. The data obtained was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 19.0 (SPSS 19). Sta...

The stereotype logistic (SL) model is an alternative to the proportional odds (PO) model for ordinal response variables when the proportional odds assumption is violated. This model seems to be underutilized. One major reason is the constraint of current statistical software packages. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) cannot perform the SL regression analysis, and SAS does not ...