OBJECTIVE To investigate the relative influence of demographic, injury and psychological characteristics on the labor force status of people living with spinal cord injury. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SUBJECTS 459 persons who had experienced a traumatic spinal cord injury. All participants were patients of 1 of 2 specialist spinal cord injury services located in south-eastern Australia. ...

Forty three patients with unilateral traumatic amputations were reviewed as to the use of prostheses and employment consequences of the amputation. Seventeen of 19 below-elbow amputees, and 12 of 24 above-elbow amputees used their prostheses. Non-users compared to users of prostheses were characterized by: 1) Higher level of amputation 2) Non-dominant arm amputation and 3) Younger age at the ti...

There is increasing recognition that disadvantaged work and employment conditions over the life course, including psychosocial stress at work, have negative long-term effects on health at older ages. Yet, the question whether stress at work additionally influences the likelihood of participating in voluntary work during retirement still needs to be explored. This paper studies long-term influen...

INTRODUCTION To compare perinatal outcomes of interventions for prolonged second stage of labor. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective cohort study, in a single, university-affiliate, medical center (2007-2014). Eligibility: singleton gestations at term, diagnosed with prolonged second stage of labor and head station of S + 1 and lower. We compared perinatal outcomes of cesarean deliveries (CD)...

We are engaged in studying the process of human birth by developing a computer-based dynamic model that can be adapted to speciic birth scenarios. The individual characteristics of a given pregnant woman and fetus, embedded in their clinical measurements and CT and MRI images, are captured in the model. One can thereby predict adverse events that might happen during labor and delivery. Based on...

The extent of cumulative adverse childhood experiences such as war, family violence, child labor, and poverty were assessed in a sample of school children (122 girls, 165 boys) in Kabul, Afghanistan. Strong gender differences were found with respect to both the frequency of such experiences and the association of different types of stressors with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. B...

OBJECTIVES Labor induction in post-term pregnancy is considered as a conventional process of mothers' care. Shiatsu technique is one of the complementary methods which use for post-term pregnancy induction. Therefore, the researchers decided to examine the effect of Shiatsu technique on the induction of post-term pregnancy. MATERIALS & METHODS This is a randomized control trials which conduct...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a serious medical issue worldwide, because of its high prevalence, temporary disability and mortality rate. TBI is more common in young middle-aged, i.e. the most active labor market, social relations part population. damage to from an external mechanical force, leading or permanent impairments cognitive, physical, psychosocial functions, with altered state ...