The aim of the study was to compare professional competence of nurses who completed different bridging programmes. Forty professional nurses from two different bridging programmes participated in the study. The newly qualified registered nurses were all from the province of Kwazulu- Natal working in various hospitals. The researcher utilized Slater Nursing Competencies Rating Scale. The instrum...

background: none of the contraceptive methods are fully side-effect free. one of the side effects that commonly causes discontinuation is mood changes and depression. the present study aimed to compare the depression between contraceptive methods including low-dose estrogen (ld) combined pills, condom and intrauterine devices (iud). materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 216 women w...

introduction: menopause is one of the critical stages in a woman’s life that can influence their health during middle age. takeing into account the prevalence of depression as a psychological problem during menopausal period, this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of depression and its relative factors in different stages of menopause in women residing in kermanshah city, 2003. ma...

BACKGROUND More research is needed on views of using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to screen recent mothers for this condition. AIM To examine healthcare professionals' and mothers' views of using this tool. METHOD Findings of two qualitative studies on screening for postnatal depression were compared to provide an overview. RESULTS There were differences in views within and be...

Inbreeding generally results in deleterious shifts in mean fitness. If the fitness response to increasing inbreeding coefficient is non-linear, this suggests a contribution of epistasis to inbreeding depression. In a cross-breeding experiment, Salathe & Ebert (2003. J. Evol. Biol. 16: 976-985) tested and found the presence of this non-linearity in Daphnia magna. They argue that epistatic intera...

A PERSON tempted to kill himself may need one, two or all three of the following kinds of help: medical treatment, non-medical counselling, non-professional befriending. In many cases, e.g. endogenous depression, the life cannot be saved without the first of these; yet the most important of these is the last. If two kinds of help are needed, befriending is one of them. If only one kind of help ...

Divorce is a common stressful event associated with both increased rates of depression and mortality. Given evidence of significant individual differences in depression following major life stressors, we examined if heterogeneous depression responses confer differential risk for mortality. Data from a population based longitudinal study was utilized to identify individuals who experienced divor...

Dennis C-L, Creedy D. Psychosocial and psychological interventions for preventing postpartum depression. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2004;(4):CD001134. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...