Objective: To assess the level of awareness on breast cancer among women of reproductive age. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in OPD of Dhaka Medical College Hospital among the 175 respondents by face to face interview using pretested semi structured

Article history: Received 8 December 2011 Received in revised form 24 May 2012 Accepted 26 September 2012 Available online 6 October 2012

SUMMARY The Occupational Performance History Interview-Second Version (OPHI-II) is a semi-structured interview that gathers life history information. The interview data is used to score three rating scales and complete a narrative slope. Previous research has primarily examined the validity of the scales. This qualitative study sought to understand from the perspectives of therapists and client...

BACKGROUND/AIM Unusual responses to sensations can impact upon the daily activities for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Current understandings of these sensory experiences have been drawn from the proxy reports from parents/caregivers, standardised self-report questionnaires and autobiographical accounts. As sensory experiences are intensely personal, the first-hand accounts of peopl...

The current study explored the effects of talking on respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) during a semi-structured emotional interview (Adult Attachment Interview) using 76 female undergraduates. The effectiveness of 2 different methodological approaches (i.e. talking baseline or transfer function) was explored as respiratory control during talking tasks. RSA was collected during resting baseline...

DEFINITION Given a semi-structured data set D, a path query identifies nodes of interest by specifying the path lead to the nodes and the predicates associated with nodes along the path. The path is identified by specifying the labels of the nodes to be navigated and structural relationship (parent-child or ancestor-descendant) among the nodes. A predicate can be a path query itself, relative t...

This paper aims at investigating the integration of structured data into a semi-structured environment. In particular, it introduces the Cyclic Structure Converter (CSC) system that performs this task. In CSC, correspondence assertions and integration rules provide the adequate intelligence to reconcile the (possible) heterogeneous semantics relative to involved information sources. CSC has als...

I mproving resident selection is of utmost importance. Reviewing the plastic surgery and medical education literature provided information on the types of candidates that we have, those that are most likely to be successful, and what candidates are looking for in a program. It also revealed that >30% of programs have had attrition and >60% placed a resident on probation in the last 10 years, de...

self-disclosure, as communication of information about one's affects, behaviors, and cognitions, has been emphasized as one of the central issues of the psychotherapeutic process. verbal and nonverbal aspects of disclosure are important factors of psychotherapeutic communication, both for therapist and patient. this paper presents an account of the development and reliability of an observationa...