This work aims at identifying the types of holiday experienced by families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). 35 families of ASD children and 25 control families of children with Down’s Syndrome (DS) living in Scotland took part in a small scale semi-qualitative study to explore their experiences on holiday. In both groups, a significant proportion of the families had not taken an...

Abstract Background Bisphosphonates provide effective treatment for osteoporosis. They accumulate a bone reservoir lasting 3 years and beyond. The 2021 NICE guidelines recommend medication review ‘drug holiday’ after 5 of oral bisphosphonate therapy low-fracture risk patients. Continuing high individuals is advised: age=/>75, previous hip or vertebral fracture, one more fractures during ...

BACKGROUND Seasonal distribution of blood donation hinders efforts to provide a safe and adequate blood supply leading to chronic and persistent shortages. This study examined whether holidays, geographical area and donation type (community versus replacement) has any impact on the fluctuation of donations. METHODS The numbers of blood donations from 2007 through 2010 in three Brazilian Retro...

Several plants are used for their decorative effect during winter holidays. This review explores the toxic reputation and proposed management for exposures to several of those, namely poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), English holly (Ilex aquifolium), American holly (Ilex opaca), bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara), Jerusalem cherry (Solanum pseudocapsicum), American mistletoe (Phoradendron seroti...

BACKGROUND Parents of chronically ill children are at risk for a lower Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). Insight in the dynamics of factors influencing parental HRQoL is necessary for development of interventions. Aim of the present study was to explore the influence of demographic and disease related factors on parental HRQoL, mediated by employment, income, leisure time, holiday and emo...

This paper examines the holiday effect on Nepalese stock market over an 11-year period. A regression-based approach has been used to ascertain presence of in market. The data also divided into 2 subgroups 5 years and 6 study how changed time. pre-holiday could not be identified, but this revealed a negative post-holiday with increasing intensity dependent consecutive holidays during full sample...

a r t i c l e i n f o A credible socioeconomic and environmental cost–benefit tool for tourism products has been lacking, despite many significant potential values, the huge impact of tourism products worldwide, and the increasingly successful application of such tools in other sectors. This paper describes development and trial of a prototype tool for holiday products that could determine the ...

BACKGROUND As service provision and patient behaviour varies by day, healthcare data used for public health surveillance can exhibit large day of the week effects. These regular effects are further complicated by the impact of public holidays. Real-time syndromic surveillance requires the daily analysis of a range of healthcare data sources, including family doctor consultations (called general...