PURPOSE To examine risk-taking behaviors and HIV self-disclosure among vertically HIV-infected adolescents in northern Thailand. METHODS A quantitative survey was conducted from 2007 to 2008 at 2 pediatric HIV clinics in northern Thailand among vertically HIV-infected adolescents aged > or =13 years, with disclosed HIV status. The survey assessed sociodemographics, substance use, sexual behav...

Using the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) national data from 1990 to 2015, we propose a method to identify potentially homosexual borrowers without requiring any self-disclosure on sexual orientation. Augmenting the HMDA data with the classical 1990 Boston Fed data and Fannie Mae Loan Performance data, we test whether their perceived homosexual status affects the approval, cost, and perform...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB) residents towards Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM). METHODS This cross sectional study was conducted on all OMSB residents through a self-administered online questionnaire between October 2012 and March 2013. An electronic survey was designed to identify and determine residents' knowledge and...

BACKGROUND A returning dilemma for families with multiple births is whether twins should share the same, or a parallel classroom, or in other words, whether they should be separated at school or not. This study investigated the effects of sharing a classroom during primary school on cognitive achievement in twins. METHOD Subjects were 839 monozygotic and 1164 dizygotic twin pairs who were reg...

INTRODUCTION Individuals with intellectual disabilities are rarely targeted by the current human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) response, thereby reducing their access to HIV information and services. Currently, little is known about the HIV knowledge and sexual practices of young Nigerians with intellectual disabilities. Thus, this study sought to compare the HIV knowledge and sexual practices o...

The editorial comment of last December’s issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal pointed to our paper in that same issue, in which Dutch cardiologists’ knowledge about the effects of cardiovascular agents on sexual function was evaluated (1, 2). Our previous work had already shown that 42 % of cardiologists indicated a need for training to increase their knowledge about sexual function in patien...