s:1850:"Background: Vulvovaginal candidiasis, bacterial vaginosis and trichomoniasis include at least 90% of infectious vaginitis. Midwives have a primary role in vaginal health, not only in proper assessment and management, but also in prevention through patient education. The aim of this study was determining the prevalence of Candidia sis and Tricomoniasis infections and sexual Health behavi...

The study attempts to understand the association of perceived gender role with youth sexual behavior using qualitative data such as focus group discussions (N=8), in-depth interviews (N=42), and free listing (N=50) of rural married youths from Orissa, India. Data collection was conducted during July 2006-April 2007. Atlas. ti and ANTHROPAC packages have been used for the analysis. Youths in gen...

The two general data analytic questions of subgroup mining (B2.2) deal with deviations and associations (C5.2.3, C5.2.4). A deviation pattern describes a deviating behavior (distribution) of a target variable in a subgroup. Target variable and behavior type are selected by the analyst for an individual mining task, the deviating subgroups are determined by the mining method. Deviation patterns ...

Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is deviation from bilateral symmetry in morphological traits with asymmetry values that are normally distributed with a mean of 0. FA is produced by genetic or environmental perturbations of developmental design and may play a role in human sexual selection. K. Grammer and R. Thornhill (1994) found that facial FA negatively covaries with observer ratings of attractive...

INTRODUCTION One of the most important factors in marital satisfaction is the satisfaction of a healthy sexual relationship between spouses. During pregnancy marital satisfaction may decrease due to sexual problems. Sexual counseling to pregnant women may reduce the complications of these problems at this time. This study aimed to investigate the effects of sexual counseling on marital satisfac...

BACKGROUND Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome is one of the major public health problems throughout the world. Nowadays, antiretroviral treatment (ART) is available in health institutions and HIV-positive individuals who are eligible for ART are taking it. But studies show reinfection of HIV is occurring in them for unknown reasons. PURPOSE This study aimed...

BACKGROUND Menopause represents the end of women reproductive career and it is at this time they begin to manifest morbidities such as urinary incontinence. AIM To document proximate determinants of sexual activity and urological morbidities of menopausal women. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a community survey conducted among 254 menopausal women Mokola in Ibadan, Nigeria in 2008. Responden...

OBJECTIVE The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important, available, and inexpensive diagnostic tool to assess cardiac symptoms. Few studies address the prevalence of ECG abnormalities or changes of a normal tracing in ECG in outpatients. Our objective was to evaluate ECGs of adult outpatients to determine whether changes from a normal tracing could disclose the patients' cardiovascular health sta...

As a tool for the identification of source mechanisms underlying the activity of single interneurons in the isolated crayfish abdominal cord, pulse trains from a sample of such neurons are statistically described (shape, mean, standard deviation, and serial correlation coefficient of interval distributions). These statistics were measured under four independent means of obtaining different aver...