BACKGROUND The Baqa'a refugee camp is the largest in Jordan, home to some 104,000 Palestine refugees. Barriers to accessing and consuming mental health services in Arab-refugees are well documented in the literature however few studies have been conducted hitherto to identify barriers for Palestine refugees with psychological problems residing in refugee camps in Jordan. AIM To identify the b...

in this paper, we introduce n-jordan homomorphisms and n-jordan *-homomorphisms and also investigate the hyers-ulam-rassiasstability of n-jordan *-homomorphisms on c*-algebras.

Eileen P. Clifford, Paul G. Wenthold, W. Carl Lineberger, G. Barney Ellison, Cun X. Wang, Joseph J. Grabowski, Fernando Vila and Kenneth D. Jordan a Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309–0215, USA b JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Bould...

The purpose of this study was to determine health-promoting behaviours of university nursing students in Jordan. This descriptive cross-sectional study used convenient sampling technique to recruit 167 undergraduate nursing students in Jordan. Data were collected by using an Arabic version of Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II. The study results revealed that the mean item score for total He...

INTRODUCTION Although water pipe tobacco smoking is common in Lebanon and Syria, prevalence in neighboring Jordan is uncertain. The purposes of this study were (a) to assess the prevalence of water pipe tobacco smoking among university students in Jordan and (b) to determine associations between sociodemographic variables and water pipe tobacco smoking in this population. METHODS A trained in...

In this paper, we propose an intelligent system that is used for monitoring the health conditions of patients. Monitoring the health condition of patients is a complex problem that involves different medical units and requires continuous monitoring especially in rural areas because of inadequate number of available specialized physicians. The proposed system will improve patient care and drive ...

1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Alia Military Hospital, Royal Medical Services, Amman, Jordan. Received: 04/05/03; accepted: 23/10/03 ABSTRACT The efficacy, safety and outcome of prostaglandin (PG)E2 was compared with Foley catheter for labour induction in grand multiparous women. At a hospital in Jordan, 147 women with Bishop score ≤ 5 were randomized to receive 3 mg PGE2 vagi...