INTRODUCTION Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory illness characterized by polyarthritis of small and large joints which in the course of time may progress to disability. MATERIAL AND METHODS In our prospective study were included 951 patients (females 730, and males 221 respectively) with an average age 51.3 year old, diagnosed with RA in accordance with ACR-EULAR/2...

BACKGROUND Planning the educational programs and informing people regarding the prevention of widespread diseases like cancers is necessary. With regard to high mortality rate of gastric cancer, the present study was conducted to define the effect of education based on Health Belief Model on knowledge, attitude and nutritional practice of homemakers. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this intervention...

The purpose of the study was to assess the determinants of nutrition behaviors and body mass index and determine the impact of a nutrition education intervention (NEI) among Mauritian housewives. A pretest-posttest design was used assessing Nutrition Knowledge (NK), Nutrition Attitudes, Fruit and Vegetable Intake (FVI), body mass index (BMI). Two hundred Mauritian housewives were recruited. The...

Monotonous routines for housewives can cause boredom and stress, resulting in negative emotional feelings impact on disharmony the household. One way to reduce stress is by exercising. The purpose of this study was analyze effect night sports reducing levels housewives. used a one group pre-post test design experimental design. population all Sumberkepuh Village, Tanjunganom District, Nganjuk R...

Introduction: Housewives were a group susceptible to stress. Stress was one of the causes hypertension. who experienced stress had different levels religious spirituality. Spiritual religion factors that affected person's level, so it an impact on blood pressure. Methods: This research uses analytic correlation with cross-sectional approach. The location is in South Sulawesi sample size 246, na...

The study aims to increase community awareness at the household level about certain hygienic practices and water quality in order to develop an effective program that will target improving specific hygiene-related behavior. The study was carried out in two Palestinian villages and applies a quasi-experimental design where chemical and biological water quality analysis as well as residential beh...

BACKGROUND There is accumulating evidence that the type of work and environmental exposures in the working environment may have adverse effects on foetal development. AIM To compare the risk of low birth weight (LBW), small-for-gestational age (SGA) and pre-term delivery (PD) in broad categories of maternal occupation including farming and forestry; factory, mining and construction; office, n...

BACKGROUND Data regarding occupational contact dermatitis (OCD) and its effect on quality of life (QOL) in India are limited. OBJECTIVES/AIMS To evaluate patients with OCD and record the outcome of treatment. PATIENTS/MATERIALS/METHODS All patients with OCD were evaluated for severity of disease (by the use of physician global assessment) and its effect on QOL (by use of the Dermatology Lif...

OBJECTIVE This descriptive and cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the factors affecting cancer patients' quality of life. METHODS We collected data from 352 chemotherapy patients of an Outpatient Chemotherapy Unit in a state hospital. We included volunteered chemotherapy patients with a signed informed consent and at least 50 Karnofsky Performance Scale points. We gathered data...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the epidemiological profile and the operative complications of patients undergoing gynecological operations for benign diseases in a tertiary public hospital in the state of Roraima, Brazil. METHODS We conducted a retrospective survey through the analysis of 518 records of patients submitted to gynecological operations between January and June 2012. We included the three...