melamine is a new risk of urinary stones. gansu province is a heavily affected area and has large population and underdeveloped economy. we hypothesized that number of family members and family income may play significant roles in the formation of urinary stones. a case-control study was performed among 190 infants. results showed that the case group had less numbers of family members than the ...

1 Springer Indian J Gastroenterol 2009(May–June):28(3):115–119 B had lower QoL scores as compared to the general population. In our study, the control subjects were family members of patients. Qol can be influenced by many factors such as socioeconomic factors, life style, social support and self-help, individual cultural heritage, and religion. With selection of close family members of HBV pat...

This study examined the prevalence of perceived stress and depressive symptoms in cancer survivors and their family members compared with subjects without cancer and without family members with cancer. The subjects of this cross-sectional study were adults ≥19 years old who participated in the 2012 Korea Community Health Survey. Stress and depressive symptoms in cancer survivors and their famil...

Background: Considering the crucial role of healthy communication and adherence to the ethical principles of workplace, this study aims to investigate the association between workaholism and occupational ethics with the mediating role of work-family conflict among the medical staff members of health centers in Bojnourd County. Material and Methods: This is a descriptive-correlational study. Th...

BACKGROUND Health care discourse is replete with references to building partnerships between formal and informal care systems of support, particularly in community and home based health care. Little work has been done to examine the relationship between home health care workers and family caregivers of older clients. The purpose of this study is to examine home support workers' (HSWs) perceptio...

PURPOSE A population-based study was conducted in order to examine the characteristics of family members of cancer patients in comparison with the general population and also to evaluate the psychosocial impact of cancer patients on their family members. MATERIALS AND METHODS From the Fourth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (KNHANES IV) (2007-2009) dataset, we identifie...