BACKGROUND The Avahan intervention promotes consistent (100%) condom use amongst men who have sex with men in southern India. We assessed how condom use varies with intervention exposure for men who have sex with men in Bangalore. METHODS Self-reported condom use and intervention exposure data were derived from a cross-sectional survey. Consistent condom use and condom use at last sex act wit...

OBJECTIVES An expectation of research is that participants should give fully informed consent. However, there is also a need to maximise recruitment to ensure representativeness. We explored the impact of passive or active parental consent on consent, completion rates and on dietary data quality in a survey among children aged 11-12 years. SETTING Six middle schools in North-East England. P...

BACKGROUND Studies on social capital and health outcomes have become common, but the relationship between neighborhood social capital and sleep duration by gender is still unclear. We examined the relationship between neighborhood social capital and sleep duration by gender in adults living in a rural community in Japan. METHOD We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 12,321 residents aged ≥2...

BACKGROUND This study examined the sociodemographic and perceived environmental factors associated with public bicycle use among Taiwanese urban adults. METHODS A random-digit-dialing telephone-based cross-sectional survey was administered to Taiwanese urban adults aged 20-64 years in 2015. Data on sociodemographic variables, perceived environmental factors (for attributes identified in the I...

We investigated cross-sectional associations of neighborhood deprivation, problems, safety, and cohesion with circulating levels of fibrinogen, interleukin-6, and C-reactive protein (n = 5370) and longitudinal associations with changes in IL-6 over a 3-4 year period (n = 946). In cross-sectional analyses, higher levels of neighborhood deprivation and problems were associated with higher levels ...

AIMS To describe and evaluate trends in the use of stimulant drugs over a 5-year period using an under-studied data collection method. DESIGN Repeated-measures cross-sectional survey. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Annual magazine-based survey targeting people who use stimulant drugs in dance contexts. MEASUREMENTS Life-time use prevalence (ever used), age of first use, current use prevalence (...

BACKGROUND Job-exposure matrices (JEMs) applicable to the general population are usually constructed by using only the expertise of specialists. AIMS To construct a population based JEM for chemical agents from data based on a sample of French workers for surveillance purposes. METHODS The SUMEX job-exposure matrix was constructed from data collected via a cross-sectional survey of a sample...

OBJECTIVE Induced abortion is widely practiced in China. However, the information on induced abortion is limited. A national cross-sectional survey was designed to determine the risk factors of induced abortion among Chinese women with one child. METHODS We sampled 16,881 Chinese women with one living child for the study. A structured questionnaire was used to collect induced abortion and rel...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate practice behaviours of Swedish physicians with regard to discussing the impact of cancer treatment on fertility with paediatric oncology patients and their parents, and to identify factors associated with such discussions. METHODS A cross-sectional survey study was conducted targeting all physicians in Sweden working in paediatric oncology ca...