CONTEXT Chronic pain is common in Western societies. Self-rated health is an important indicator of morbidity and mortality, but little is known about the relation between chronic pain and self-rated health in the general population. OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between chronic pain and self-rated health. DESIGN, SETTING, AND POPULATION A questionnaire survey carried out during the ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to analyze the influence of selected lifestyle factors on self-rated health status in working age population. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study population derived from the national Polish representative WOBASZ study. The sample consisted of 1222 randomly selected residents of two Polish districts, aged 20-64 years (52.3% women and 47.7% men). We analyzed four...

Department of Pedodontics, Thai Moogambikai Dental college and hospital, Chennai Abstract Background: Extreme dental fear is a universal problem among children. The dental condition of patients with dental fear is generally worse than the condition of those without dental fear. The aim of the study was to assess the intensity of dental fear in children using Wong-Baker faces pain scale. Materia...

Cerebral hemispheric lateralization and personality traits were evaluated in 154 undergraduate and nonclinical volunteers. Personality ratings did not differ significantly between groups defined on the basis of hand, eye, or ear preference.

This study looked at the individual difference correlates of self-rated character strengths and virtues. In all, 280 adults completed a short 24-item measure of strengths, a short personality measure of the Big Five traits and a fluid intelligence test. The Cronbach alphas for the six higher order virtues were satisfactory but factor analysis did not confirm the a priori classification yielding...

BACKGROUND Self-rated health and the factors that influence it have never been described in Singapore before. This paper presents a descriptive study of self-rated health in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 6236 persons. METHODS As part of the National Health Surveillance Survey 2001, 6236 subjects aged 18 years and above were interviewed in the homes of participants by t...

In order to alleviate problems such as large fluctuations in grid load caused by the high proportion of renewable energy, circulating fluidized bed (CFB) power plants undertake task rated regulation. This study discussed combustion characteristics a 100 KW CFB boiler during operation process varying loads and analyzes characteristics, regulation rate emissions variation law high- low-rated inte...