BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Malnutrition, pain, and insomnia are common adverse effects of early dental caries among 3-6-year-old children. To increase our understanding of the dental caries status which will help in the control and prevention of it, this study aimed to assess the trend of dental caries, Severe Early Childhood Caries (S-ECC) and its related factors among 3-6-year-old children duri...

OBJECTIVE One of the basic issues in clinical studies is to receive the informed consent; that is to say, all the activities applied in patient's involvement in the information, decision-making, ability and volunteering in diagnosis, cure and care. In as much as most cancer patients require information about their individual needs, the present study is conducted to determine the perceived infor...

Methods & Materials: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 315 pregnant women who were in the last trimester. Participants were randomly recruited from an outpatient clinic of a state hospital in Çanakkale, Turkey, between March and May 2012. Data were collected using a socio-demographic information form and CRF information questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and chi-square te...

Objectives: The use of herbal medicine is one the most widely used methods complementary around world. Studies have shown that elderly a variety medicines and believe these products are harmless due to being natural. This study aims evaluate amount prescribed by physicians for in Iran. Methods & Materials: secondary analysis with cross-sectional design. population consist paper prescription...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Hospital-acquired infection (HAI) is one of the common problems and difficulties faced by hospitals in all countries around the world. Since nurses are part of the healthcare team that plays a unique role in the control of hospital infection, this study is conducted to analyze the knowledge and practice of healthcare personnel about standard precautions for hospital infe...

INTRODUCTION Health care managers and personnel should be aware and literate of health information system in order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness in their organization. Since accurate, appropriate, precise, timely, valid information and interpretation of information is required and is the basis for policy planning and decision making in various levels of the organization. This stu...

OBJECTIVE This study was to assess liver involvement in multiple myeloma with the aid of liver function tests. MATERIALS AND METHODS A hospital based retrospective study was undertaken using data retrieved of multiple myeloma from the register maintained in the Department of Biochemistry of the Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal between 1st January, 2007 and 28th February, 2012. We col...

Fear of childbirth is an important and prevalent problem during pregnancy and delivery. Self-efficacy of childbirth is one of the factors playing an important role in the fear of delivery. This study aimed to determine the relationship between the fear and self-efficacy of childbirth during labor in primipara women. This descriptive and analytical study was conducted on 100 primipara women in O...

Introduction IBM SPSS Statistics Server is robust, powerful analytical software that seamlessly scales from handling the analytical needs of a single department to hundreds of users across the enterprise. It provides all of the features of IBM SPSS Statistics, plus capabilities that deliver faster performance, more efficient processing of large datasets and enhanced security in enterprise deplo...