Findings are addressed concerning the reliability of reporting on drug dealing and drug use. Reports provided in retrospective life history interviews are compared with reports gathered and summarized from eight prospective weekly interviews. Most subjects reporting involvement in drug dealing during the weekly interviews, also reported involvement in this behavior during the life history repor...

Adel Sedra received the B.Sc. degree from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1964, and M.A.Sc. Ph.D. degrees University of Toronto, Canada, 1968 1969, respectively, all electrical engineering.

OBJECTIVE This article presents a case report of a child with poor sensory processing and describes the disorders impact on the child's occupational behavior and the changes in occupational performance during 10 months of occupational therapy using a sensory integrative approach (OT-SI). METHOD Retrospective chart review of assessment data and analysis of parent interview data are reviewed. P...

BACKGROUND The UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) and its four subtests are currently used by 24 Medical and Dental Schools in the UK for admissions. This longitudinal study examines the predictive validity of UKCAT for final performance in the undergraduate medical degree programme at one Medical School and compares this with the predictive validity of the selection measures available pre-UKCAT...

OBJECTIVE Ideally, life course data are collected prospectively through an ongoing longitudinal study. We report adaptive multimethod fieldwork procedures that gathered life history data by mail survey and telephone interview, comparable with the face-to-face methods employed in the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA). DESIGN The Australian Life Histories and Health (LHH) Survey was a...

this study on abortion was carried out at farah maternity hospital on the basis of : 1) the total admission recorded between 1960-1967 and 2) an interview questionnaire on 1009 women who had been referred for complications of termination of pregnancy, induced or spontaneous , between october 1968 and march 1969.there was an increase of 33.2% in admission for deliveries and 28.6% for abortions. ...

The authors conducted a study of women's ability to recall diet during a past pregnancy. For a prospective study, women completed self-administered food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) before and during pregnancy (1989-1992). These women, mostly White and well-educated, were contacted 3-7 years later (1996-1997) for a retrospective dietary assessment performed by either telephone interview (n =...

BACKGROUND Conflicting evidence exists on causes of vulnerability to post-natal depression. We investigated genetic and environmental influences on variation in post-natal depressive symptoms (PNDS) following first live birth, and sources of covariation with the personality trait Neuroticism and lifetime major depression occurring post-natally (DEP-PN) and at other times (DEP-XPN) to test for s...