OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of unhealthy drinking patterns in community-dwelling older adults and its association with sociodemographic and health characteristics. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative survey data. SETTING The data source was the 2003 Access to Care file of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, which represents the continuously enrolled Me...

Introduction: Cognitive status of patients before Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) affects their activities of daily living. Evaluation of cognition status and its related factors can help caregivers to plan suitable care programs. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the patient’s cognition status and its related factors before CABG. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study...

BACKGROUND In this study, we sought to evaluate the influence of sociodemographic factors, ie, age, sex, socioeconomic status, maternal education, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status, on cognitive performance in school-aged HIV-infected Nigerian children. METHODS Sixty-nine HIV-positive children aged 6-15 years were matched with 69 HIV-negative control children for age and sex. The ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate inequalities in personal health conditions and in the utilization of healthcare services according in relation to the individual's status in the labor market. METHODS This study was based on 39,925 males aged 15 to 64 years living in 10 Brazilian metropolitan regions, who took part in the 1998 National Household Survey. They were classified as formal labor, informal l...

INTRODUCTION The recruitment of patients into clinical trials is often thought to be a selective process whereby non-biological variables such as education, occupation, family/social support, and socioeconomic status are often found to be predictive of patient volunteers. This paper considers whether the susceptibility of trials to recruit non-representative patient populations may impair the e...

PURPOSE The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of sociodemographic factors on quality of satisfaction towards denture treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred subjects (filling inclusion criteria) who were wearing a denture for at least two months were enrolled and divided into five groups on the basis of sociodemographic variables (age, gender, literacy level, socio-econo...

BACKGROUND The perception of barriers to exercise is an important correlate of exercise participation. However, only a limited number of studies-mostly from Western countries-have attempted to describe the perceptions of barriers to exercise in specific population groups. This study examined the associations between sociodemographic attributes and perceived barriers to exercise in Japanese adul...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND; The self-perception of weight appropriateness is an important component of eating and weight-loss behaviors. Self-perceived weight status, however, is not fully explained by objective weight status. OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of sociodemographic factors on Americans' perceptions of their weight appropriateness, controlling for objective weight status. DESIGN I...

This study explored a range of sociodemographic factors associated with disability among international immigrants in Chile, and compared them to the Chilean-born. Secondary data analysis of the Chilean population-based survey CASEN-2006 was conducted (268,873 participants). Main health outcomes: any disability and six different types of disability: visual, hearing, learning, physical, psychiatr...