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Awareness on oral cancer among patients attending dental school clinics in Brazil

2019

Background Oral cancer is considered a public health problem worldwide. Dental schools may play an important role in educating patients about oral cancer. This study aimed at evaluating the knowledge of patients attending clinics at two dental schools in Brazil. Material and Methods From March 2017 to April 2017, 251 patients who were attending clinics at two dental schools in Recife, Brazil, were included in the study. Patients were contacted in the waiting rooms of the clinic. Each participant completed a self-administered questionnaire, which consists of 21 questions, including socio-demographic and specific information on the disease. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, and…

Tooth avulsion accidents due to urgent and emergency orotracheal intubation

2020

Background Intubation is necessary during critical situations to reduce the risk of death. In Brazil, a need exists to determine the prevalence of tooth avulsions in emergency and urgent care. The objective of this study was to identify the causes of orotracheal intubation (OTI), the number of tooth avulsions, and the avulsed teeth that result from urgent and emergency intubation. Material and Methods The sample consisted of 116 patients (total group) in intensive care units (ICUs) distributed across Group 1 (G1), which was composed of 71 patients from an urgent-care hospital, and Group 2 (G2), which was composed of 45 patients from an emergency hospital. Clinical examinations showed dental…

Validation of the Brief Perceived Positive Lockdown Impact Scale PPLIS-4

2022

Background: Although research showed that positive aspects of the lockdown were perceived during the pandemic, there are no tools to test the positive impact of mandatory social isolation on life. The present study aims to validate a newly developed, brief, four-item perceived positive lockdown impact scale (PPLIS-4). Methods: A cross-sectional online survey study was formed among 4370 adults in three samples: Sample 1 consisted of university students from Poland and Ukraine, Sample 2 consisted of Polish university students under 26 (emerging adults), and Sample 3 consisted of Polish and Ukrainian adults above 25 (non-emerging adults). The standardized questionnaire was used for criterion v…

The short‐term effect of levocetirizine on quality of life, stress, and depression in itchy psoriasis patients

2019

Stability of habitual physical activity and sport participation: a longitudinal tracking study

2007

Although one of the most important aims of physical education and public sport policy is to encourage life-long habitual physical activity, very little is known of the stability or tracking of physical activity. As a part of a larger research project called Cardiovascular Risks in Young Finns, the purpose of the study reported here was to investigate the stability (tracking) of leisure-time physical activity and sport participation at intervals of 3, 6, 9 and 12 years from age 9 to 30. The subjects, chosen by stratified random sample, represent five geographical areas of the country and eight gender-age cohorts (9, 12, 15 and 18 years old in 1980). Physical activity and sport participation …

Endovascular treatment of head and neck arteriovenous malformations: long-term angiographic and quality of life results.

2016

AimTo present the long-term angiographic and subjective results of patients with head and neck arteriovenous malformations (HNAVMs) after endovascular treatment.MethodsWe retrospectively analyzed the medical files of 14 patients with HNAVM who were treated between 2000 and 2014. The treatment of choice was a transarterial superselective microcatheter-based approach followed by embolization using liquid embolic agents. The patients were asked to answer a quality of life questionnaire about the following symptoms before and after treatment: pain, functional impairment, cosmetic deformity, impairment in daily life, and bleeding.ResultsComplete or >90% closure of the AVM was achieved in 6 of…

Percutaneous treatment of uterine fibroleiomyomas: Analysis of complications and quality of life after embolization

2001

Purpose. To determine the rate complications and the quality of life of patients submitted to uterine artery embolization for the treatment of uterine fibroids. Material and method. Thirty-two women, aged 32-52yrs underwent bilateral embolization of the uterine artery. The patients were affected by menorrhagia (100%) associated with: anaemia in 9 cases, intense menstrual pain in 10 and pressure symptoms in 3. The embolization procedure consisted of selective catheterization of the uterine arteries and injection of embolic particles (PVA). A questionnaire was administered to 27 patients over a period of 4-16 months to evaluate the patients' quality of life after the treatment. Results. The p…

Psychological and hormonal features of smokers at risk to gain weight after smoking cessation--results of a multicenter study.

2011

Preclinical and clinical data suggest modulating effects of appetite-regulating hormones and stress perception on food intake. Nicotine intake also interferes with regulation of body weight. Especially following smoking cessation gaining weight is a common but only partially understood consequence. The aim of this study was to examine the interaction between smoking habits, the appetite regulating hormone leptin, negative affectivity, and stress vulnerability on eating behavior in a clinical case-control study under standardized conditions. In a large population-based study sample, we compared leptin and cortisol plasma concentrations (radioimmunoassay) between current tobacco smokers with …

Multilevel Models in the Explanation of the Relationship between Safety Climate and Safe Behavior

2013

AbstractThis study examines the relationships between components of organizational safety climate, including employee attitudes to organizational safety issues; perceptions of the physical working environment, and evaluations of worker engagement with safety issues; and relates these to self-reported levels of safety behavior. It attempts to explore the relationships between these variables in 1189 workers across 78 work groups in a large transportation organization. Evaluations of safety climate, the working environment and worker engagement, as well as safe behaviors, were collected using a self report questionnaire. The multilevel analysis showed that both levels of evaluation (the work …

On methods of access to the structure of social representations: the example of Europe.

2012

espanolEl objetivo de este estudio es identificar la logica detras de una serie de metodos estadisticos utilizados para revelar la estructura de las representaciones sociales. Se solicito a un numero de sujetos (n = 317) responder a la pregunta siguiente: �Para cada categoria de europeo, por favor indique con que otros europeos le gustaria tener contacto�. Los resultados de los analisis de similitud nos llevan a la conclusion de que existe un sesgo etnocentrico, y revelan el factor central de la representacion. La representacion obtenida por el analisis factorial de correspondencias se parece mas a la realidad actual y nos permite entender las divisiones que han estructurado Europa y perman…