STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between markers of socioeconomic position (years of full time education, access to a car or van, and occupational social class) and mid-range sleep quantity (6.5 to 8.5 hours). DATA SOURCE Office of National Statistics Omnibus Survey, May 1999. PARTICIPANTS 3000 households were randomly selected from the UK postcode address file and one person ...

Bu çal??mada Türkiye ile Singapur, Kore, Amerika ve Yeni Zelanda’n?n matematik ö?retim programlar?n?n istatistik ö?renme alan? aç?s?ndan kar??la?t?r?lmas? amaçlanm??t?r. kar??la?t?rmalarda GAISE (?statistik E?itiminde Ö?retim De?erlendirme için ?lkeler) raporunda ö?retimine yönelik tavsiye edilen istatistiksel süreç a?amalar? (problem durumunu belirleme, veri toplama, analizi sonuçlar? yorumlam...

This meta-analysis on 33 studies, including more than 2,000 Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classifications, presents distributions of AAI classifications in samples of nonclinical fathers and mothers, in adolescents, in samples from different cultures, and in clinical groups. Fathers, adolescents, and participants from different countries show about the same distribution of AAI classification...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of obesity and its association with socioeconomic factors and comorbidities in a population-based study. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were examined from 4,605 persons ages 60 and older that participated in the 2001 Mexican Health and Aging Study, conducted in rural and urban communities in Mexico. The prevalence of obesity (according to self-reported weigh...

OBJECTIVE To describe self-reported drug use by the elderly, evaluating the occurrence of polypharmacy and the influence of sociodemographic and health conditions on the use of medications. METHODS A cross-sectional study comprising a sample of 215 elderly was carried out in Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil, in 2001 and 2002. Data on the use of medications were collected using questionnaires fil...

OBJECTIVE To verify the association between the behavioral, biopsychological, and socioeconomic factors in overweight and obese students. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The sample involved 393 students from state and private schools in Florianópolis/SC, mean age of 9.9 ± 1.7, with 41% male subjects. A questionnaire adapted from Oliveira e cols. was applied in the interview; anthropometric information (...

Background Epidemiology in terms of diseases or patients Data on morbidity in Sweden are based on numbers of diagnoses, classified by the WHO system, the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) [1]. Registers of morbidity are administered by each county council. On national level registers are held by the National Board of Health and Welfare, but n...