A rating scale for drug-induced akathisia has been derived that incorporates diagnostic criteria for pseudoakathisia, and mild, moderate, and severe akathisia. It comprises items for rating the observable, restless movements which characterise the condition, the subjective awareness of restlessness, and any distress associated with the akathisia. In addition, there is an item for rating global ...

BACKGROUND Lifestyle behaviours are usually formed during youth or young adulthood which makes college students a particularly vulnerable group that easily can adopt unhealthy lifestyle behaviour. AIM The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the influence of socio-demographic factors on Swedish university students' lifestyle behaviours and self-rated health. METHOD Data were col...

Lower subjective socioeconomic status (SSS) and higher personal relative deprivation (PRD) relate to poorer health. Both constructs concern people's perceived relative social position, but they differ in their emphasis on the reference groups people use to determine their comparative disadvantage (national population vs. similar others) and the importance of resentment that may arise from such ...

Residents of socioeconomically deprived areas perceive their neighbourhood as less conducive to healthy behaviours than residents of more affluent areas. Whether these unfavourable perceptions are based on objective neighbourhood features or other factors is poorly understood. We examined individual and contextual correlates of socioeconomic inequalities in neighbourhood perceptions across five...

This study examined the effect of passengers' active head-tilt and eyes-open/eyes-closed conditions on the severity of motion sickness in the lateral acceleration environment of cars. In the centrifugal head-tilt condition, participants intentionally tilted their heads towards the centrifugal force, whereas in the centripetal head-tilt condition, the participants tilted their heads against the ...

auditors play a critical role in any company. the managers of such departments should manage subordinates so well in order to obtain good results. for this condition to happen, at first the managers’ motivations should be recognized and be satisfied, otherwise neither managers, nor subordinates practice auditing in prefect condition. the results of this study show some high rating areas of inte...

Monounireducible nonhomogeneous semiMarkov processes are defined and investigated. The monounireducible topological structure is a sufficient condition that guarantees the absorption of the semi-Markov process in a state of the process. This situation is of fundamental importance in the modelling of credit rating migrations because permits the derivation of the distribution function of the time...

ACR Appropriateness Criteria 1 Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip—Child American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria Clinical Condition: Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip—Child Variant 1: Patient younger than 4–6 months of age, positive physical findings (Ortolani or Barlow maneuvers). Radiologic Procedure Rating Comments RRL* US hips 8 This procedure is preferably used in patien...

David M. Schneider, Ayana B. Martins, Eduardo do Carmo, and Marcus A.M. de Aguiar 1 Instituto de F́ısica ‘Gleb Wataghin’, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Unicamp 13083-859, Campinas, SP, Brasil Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3 Universidade Federal da Integração Latino Americana, 85867-970, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brazil. Abstract We study the ...