Aims and Objectives This study was conducted to assess knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding occupational blood exposure accidents (OBEA) among dental students at the end of the whole dental education program. Materials and Methods The survey was performed using a student self-administered questionnaire during July 2015 in the dental teaching hospital in Rabat. It was conducted on 117 ...

BACKGROUND Although the number of child laborers in Latin America is generally high, data on occupational hazards and injuries is insufficient. The objective of this study was therefore to determine the lifetime prevalence of and risk factors for occupational injuries among working students (10-17 years old) in Cusco Province. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted at five public night...

Needlestick Injuries Among French Medical Students Eric Rosenthal, MD, Christian Pradier, MD, Olivia Keita-Perse, MD, Joëlle Altare, MD, Pierre Dellamonica, MD, Jill-Patrice Cassuto, MD ALTHOUGH THE RISK OF HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) infection through occupational exposures to blood has received considerable attention, relatively few studies have addressed blood exposure accidents (BEAs...

Alcohol abuse continues to be an issue of major concern for the health and well-being of college students. Estimates are that over 80% of college students are involved in the campus "alcohol culture." Annually, close to 2000 students die in the United States due to alcohol-related accidents, with another 600,000 sustaining injury due to alcohol-related incidents (NIAAA, 2013). Students enrolled...

Suicide is more common among college students than many people realize. A recent survey of the causes of death of 209 Yale University students from 1920 to 1955 revealed the following most common causes of death: (i) accidents-43.8 per cent; (ii) suicide-12 per cent; (iii) heart and circulatory diseases-7.7 per cent; (iv) pneumonia-7.2 per cent; and (v) central nervous system infections-6.3 per...

awareness they gain from their surroundings. Recent statistics indicate that about 40 percent of road accident fatalities are pedestrians, 30 percent of which are under 18 years old. Based on the fact that almost two million Iranian students study in the vicinity of rural roads, this paper aims to develop a model for predicting the risk of students’ accidents near the aforementioned schools. Th...

conclusions accidents resulting in death, total disability, and partial disability impose a huge cost burden on society, whereas the employer will bear a relatively low cost. this is because of society’s health, treatment, and welfare systems available for treatment and rehabilitation of injured employees and their families. background occupational accidents represent one of the major problems ...

Although several cross-sectional surveys have shown that certain traits such as extraversion and neuroticism are related to emotion regulation, few studies have explored the nature of this relationship. The present study tried to explore the longitudinal relation between traits and emotion regulation strategies. The Interpersonal Self-Support Scale for Middle School Students (ISSS-MSS) and the ...