The objective of this randomized comparative study was to provide preliminary data of comparative effectiveness of Thai traditional massage (TTM) and Chinese acupuncture for the treatment of myofascial back pain in young military personnel. Eighteen Thai military personnel, aged ranging from 20-40 years were randomly divided into TTM and acupuncture groups. Each group received 5 sessions of mas...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to develop a cross-culturally adapted Thai version of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK) and investigate its reliability and validity among patients with knee osteoarthritis. METHODS The TSK was translated into Thai language and culturally adapted in line with the international standards. The Thai TSK questionnaire was then tested for internal consistenc...

The study focused on Thai Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the North Region of Thailand. In particular, the need to adopt Electronic Business (E-Business) by Thai SMEs is motivated by the intent to remain competitive. The aims of this study are:(1) to provide a current status of Thai SMEs and EBusiness; (2) to identify inhibitors; and (3) to report drivers for Thai SMEs in E-Business adop...

This paper discusses a Thai corpus, TaLAPi, fully annotated with word segmentation (WS), part-of-speech (POS) and named entity (NE) information with the aim to provide a high-quality and sufficiently large corpus for real-life implementation of Thai language processing tools. The corpus contains 2,720 articles (1,043,471words) from the entertainment and lifestyle (NE&L) domain and 5,489 article...

Onscreen English fonts have a critical role in communicating information. Although there has been research into the legibility of these fonts, no study has yet explored font legibility in the context of ethnicity across font types. The present study attempts to fill this void. 402 Thai and non-Thai participants completed questionnaires that displayed texts using serif, sans serif and script fon...

While the history of education1 in Thailand has been a productive area of research for numerous authors, particularly in its relationship to nationalism and modernization, it remains only a partial history. For this history has primarily documented the evolution and "progress" of Thai men's education as if it could represent the experiences of Thai women as well. This is indeed not the case. In...

The rise of artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum along the Thai-Cambodian border is an urgent public health threat. We conducted an employer-based survey of migrant workers in two provinces in Thailand along the Thai-Cambodian border to explore socio-economic conditions, bednet ownership, and parasite prevalence among migrant workers. Five thousand three hundred seventy-one migrant worke...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of the Thai version of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU), when compared to the diagnoses made by delirium experts. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted in both surgical intensive care and subintensive care units in Thailand between February-June 2011. ...

BACKGROUND The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) has been translated to many languages and has been used in many countries as a screening instrument for bipolar disorder. The main objective of this study was to evaluate validity of the Thai version of the MDQ as a screening instrument for bipolar disorder in a psychiatric outpatient sample, and to determine its optimum question #1 item threshol...

BACKGROUND There are few studies analyzed concurrently the prevalence and genotypes of Helicobacter pylori infection with the ancestor origins from different ethnics, especially with including minority groups. We recruited a total of 289 patients in MaeSot, Thailand (154 Thai, 14 Thai-Chinese, 29 Karen and 92 Hmong ethnics). The virulence genes and genealogy of the strains were determined by PC...