AIM To investigate the marital status and fertility in long-term survivors of high-grade osteosarcoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS We surveyed the marital rate (number of married persons/total number of persons) in 46 long-term survivors of osteosarcoma who were treated in our hospital between 1976 and 2002. In addition, we examined the fertility rate (number of persons having offspring/number of ma...

Multidimensional Inventory Check List of Symptoms (SCL-90-r) is based on self-evaluation and it has been used for determination of level of: somatisation, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobias, paranoia and psychosis at persons which are exposed to long term emotional and physical stress. Our goal was to determine relations of physical...

This article analyses changes in marital status differences in mortality from approximately 1970 to 1995 among men and women aged 65-74 in ten developed countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England and Wales, Finland, France, Japan, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden). Data were obtained from the United Nations Demographic Yearbooks and national statistical sources. According to the results there h...

BACKGROUND Living arrangements have changed markedly in recent decades, so we wanted to provide an up-to-date assessment of mortality as a function of marital status and cohabitation status in a complete population. METHODS We studied mortality in a national cohort of 6.5 million Danes followed for 122.5 million person-years during 1982-2011, using continuously updated individual-level inform...

The article is dedicated to the peculiarities of legal regulation guaranteeing right convicts long-term visits. circle persons with whom convict may be granted visits has been investigated. A analysis provisions Part 1 Art. 110 Criminal Executive Code Ukraine completed. It was concluded that application term "spouses" in specified norm living as a family but are not married inadmissible since i...

this study was carried out to discover: 1) whether provision of medical care and social welfare affected the size of the family among laborers. 2) compare laborers family size with that of the total population of isfahan. 3) since social security receives its premium on the basis of salary rather than the number of dependents, then what is the cost of medical care for groups of single and marri...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of marital status on the risk of suicide, using a large nationally representative sample. A related objective was to investigate the association between marital status and suicide by sex. METHODS Cox proportional hazards regression models were applied to data from the National Longitudinal Mortality Study, based on the 1979-1989 fo...

OBJECTIVES Few studies have identified the distinctive aspects of singlehood that are distressing to older adults. The objectives of our study were: (a) to examine whether divorced, widowed, and never-married older adults differed in their experiences of single strain, an indicator of chronic stressors associated with being unmarried; and (b) to assess whether the marital status differences we ...