Objective: To examine the association between anxious school refusal and truancy and psychiatric disorders in a community sample of children and adolescents using a descriptive rather than etiological definition of school refusal. Method: Data from eight annual waves of structured psychiatric interviews with 9to 16-year-olds and their parents from the Great Smoky Mountains Study were analyzed. ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to investigate potential reproductive effects of sodium borates on occupationally exposed male employees at a large mining and production facility in the Mojave Desert of California. METHODS The standardised birth ratio (SBR) was used to assess fertility of the male employees. Live births were the measured end point, and the rate of female to male offsp...

BACKGROUND The study was set up to assess the effect of recruitment methods on participation rate, response bias and cardiovascular risk factor estimates. METHODS Two random samples of men and women in Halifax County aged 25-74 were drawn from the same sampling frame. Their respective sizes were 1007 (NSHHS) and 3036 (MONICA) people. Recruitment by Nova Scotia Heart Health Survey (NSHHS) was ...

BACKGROUND When compared with the conventional surgical evacuation for the treatment of miscarriage, medical evacuation has been largely accepted as an effective and safe management. However, there is a lack of data on the long-term reproductive outcome of these two treatment modalities, which is crucial in patient counselling. The current study evaluates and compares the long-term fertility an...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In Andalusia there were no studies including a representative sample of children and adolescent population assessing growth and weight increase. Our objectives were to develop reference standards for weight, height and BMI for the Andalusian pediatric population, from 3 to 18 years of age for both genders, and to identify the final adult height in Andalusia. SUBJECTS...

The threat of so-called rapid or abrupt climate change has generated considerable public interest because of its potentially significant impacts. The collapse of the North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation or the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, for example, would have potentially catastrophic effects on temperatures and sea level, respectively. But how likely are such extreme climatic changes? Is it ...

RECENT surveys of drinking habits in both Great Britain (Stacey and Davies, 1970; Ritson, 1975; Kinder, 1977) and Ireland (Fitzpatrick, 1972; Irish Council of Churches, 1974) have indicated that, whereas the majority of teenagers drink in moderation and responsibly, the minority who drink heavily experience problems and are a major cause of concern. The work of Blaney and McKenzie (1979) on adu...

proposal for health human resources advanced over the past decade was a comprehensive “pan-Canadian” strategy for educating, recruiting, licensing and equipping doctors that was recommended by a blue-ribbon panel called Task Force Two in 2006. The comprehensive plan, A Physician Human Resource Strategy for Canada: Final Report, urged wholesale reforms in five areas related to physician supply —...

BACKGROUND Recruitment and retention of participants are critical to the success of a randomised controlled trial. Gaining the views of potential trial participants who decline to enter a trial and of trial participants who stop the trial treatment is important and can help to improve study processes. Limited research on these issues has been conducted on healthy individuals recruited for preve...

INTRODUCTION The successful recruitment and retention of participants is integral to the translation of research findings. We examined the recruitment and retention rates of racial/ethnic minority adolescents at a center involved in the National Institutes of Health Obesity Research for Behavioral Intervention Trials (ORBIT) initiative by the 3 recruitment strategies used: clinic, informatics, ...