The dental health maintenance behavior of the Indonesian people in brushing their children's teeth directly is still deficient. Brushing your correctly and adequately one factor avoiding oral diseases such as caries. Therefore, it necessary to emphasize that information early childhood needed. This study aimed analyze effect before after counseling using simulation peer teaching methods on toot...

Background: The incidence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency in Iran is estimated at 10-14.9%.  The donor blood in blood banks is not screened routinely for this enzyme deficiency and such blood may be used for neonatal exchange transfusion.Objective: To study the effect of G-6-PD deficient blood in neonatal exchange blood transfusion.Methods: In a prospective study, serum...

At percent, Zn stress tolerance using novel genetic resources is an important mitigation strategy for plant breeding. In this study, thirty-five durum wheat genotypes with different growth habits were evaluated under normal (non-stress) and Zn deficient stress during the 2014-15 cropping season. A total of ten Zn stress tolerance indices including stress tolerance index (STI), relative zinc-def...

Background: Yazd has important potential role in treatment of infertility and promotion of sexual health in south of Iran. Long term usefulness of reversible contraceptives (LTURC) is the most cost-effective contraceptives between women. This study aimed to assess the reproductive aged women's knowledge, attitudes, and factors associated with use of LTURC. Materials and Methods: This cross...

BACKGROUND Health Care Waste (HCW) is considered as the second dangerous waste in the World that needs to be properly disposed by trained health care staff. Good knowledge, positive attitude and safe practices of medical staff is very imperative while managing this infectious waste. This assessment has been conducted to determine the situation and KAP of infectious waste management in health ca...

This paper examines how Jordanian banks use the Customer Knowledge process to support Customer Knowledge Acquisition (CKA) and how they foster it. The empirical study is based on a sample of the data collected from 165 respondents, drawn randomly from six banks. The results showed that the six selected factors (Need for Customer Knowledge, Identify Source of Customer Knowledge, Verify Source of...

BACKGROUND This study examined ethnic differences in ageing perceptions of migrant Turkish and native Dutch elders residing in Rotterdam, and explored whether such differences could be attributed to culture or resources (personal, physical, economic and/or social). METHODS This study was based on combined data from two research projects focusing on the health and well-being of community-dwell...

OBJECTIVE To assess the awareness and attitude towards AIDS and PLHA in slum dwellers of Chennai, an Indian metropolis by KAP (Knowledge, Attitude, Practice) study. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted in a representative sample of 650 subjects (400 females and 250 females), aged 15-45 years, by means of a questionnaire in the local dialect Tamil. RESULTS The overall literacy rate ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the effectiveness of 2 system-level multifaceted quality improvement approaches to enhancing the secondary prevention of domestic violence (DV) in health maintenance organization (HMO) primary care settings. STUDY DESIGN A "2 new interventions" pre/post design that compared a basic implementation strategy using current staff levels with an augmented basic strategy that a...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the patterns of sexual activity during pregnancy and explored all beliefs related to coitus during pregnancy in women with the objective of promoting awareness and assisting health care providers in understanding and dispelling fears/misconceptions prevalent in our culture. METHODS A cross-sectional, KAP (Knowledge, Attitude, Practice) study was conducted using quest...