BACKGROUND There is limited research about IPV against women and associated factors in Sub-Saharan Africa, not least Mozambique. The objective of this study was to examine the occurrence, severity, chronicity and "predictors" of IPV against women in Maputo City (Mozambique). METHODS Data were collected during a 12 month-period (consecutive cases, with each woman seen only once) from 1,442 wom...

BACKGROUND Childhood trauma is linked to adult depression and might be a risk factor for a more chronic course of depression. However, the link between childhood trauma and chronicity of depression has not been investigated using a large and representative sample in which other depression characteristics, such as severity, age at onset, and comorbid psychopathology, were taken into account. M...

INTRODUCTION The Instrumento de Evaluación de Modelos de Atención ante la Cronicidad/Assessment of Readiness for Chronicity in Health Care Organisations instrument was developed to implement the conceptual framework of the Chronic Care Model in the Spanish national health system. It has been used to assess readiness to tackle chronicity in health care organisations. In this study, we use self-a...

Background: Hand function is an important aspect of most the activities daily living. There are many conditions that cause direct impact on hand but few musculoskeletal conations indirectly influence often ignored in rehabilitation. Objective: The aims this study were to analyse among lateral epicondylitis (LE) patients and identify various parameters (Age, dominance, pain, range motion (ROM), ...

By 2025, more than 500 M people worldwide will suffer from diabetes; 125 M will develop foot ulcer(s) and 20 M will undergo an amputation, creating a major health problem. Understanding how these wounds become chronic will provide insights to reverse chronicity. We hypothesized that oxidative stress (OS) in wounds is a critical component for generation of chronicity. We used the db/db mouse mod...

Background. Chronic low back pain (LBP) accounts for the majority of the disability and costs for LBP. However, the definition of chronicity is unclear. Aim. To elicit practitioners’ definitions of chronic LBP patients, both in general and in the patients they were treating; to assess the most common characteristics of these practitioners’ chronic LBP patients; and to assess the stability of ch...

OBJECTIVE To identify patterns of noncephalic pain comorbidity in people with episodic migraine (EM; <15 headache-days per month) and chronic migraine (CM; ≥15 headache-days per month) and to examine whether the presence of noncephalic pain is an indicator for the 3-month onset or persistence of CM. METHODS Data from the Chronic Migraine Epidemiology and Outcomes (CaMEO) Study, a prospective,...

Background & Objectives: Chronicity of lupus nephritis (LN) should be considered for interaction of cell mediated immunity (CMI) and dendritic cells in glomeruli and tubulointerstitial areas. In this study establishment of immunohistopathological changes of dendritic cells and other immune effector cells in lupus nephritis comparing with non-lupus nephritis was performed. Materials & Methods: ...