BACKGROUND In order to assess the status of drug abuse and likely addiction among university students, a descriptive study was designed. METHODS 1200 subjects among the students of three universities in Zanjan were selected by stratified random sampling and their demographic information and history of substance abuse including hookah, cigarette, codeine, ibuprofen, alcohol, diazepam, tramadol...

conclusions because 66% of students were anti-hav antibody negative and they will work as health care workers in future, our study suggest vaccinating all students accepted at aja university of medical sciences. results of total 270 students, 30 were female. their age ranged between 18 and 30 years old with the mean age of 20.58 years and just 34% of students had positive level of anti-hav anti...

BACKGROUND The age at menarche in the Thai population has not been determined since 1997. This study recruited adolescents in Bangkok Metropolis to determine the age at menarche and its associations with health and socioeconomic status. METHODS This cross-sectional study used a two-step stratified sampling strategy to recruit 1,020 female students, aged 10-16 years, from schools in Dusit dist...

OBJECTIVE To assess the average age of menarche in Pakistani girls from different socioeconomic backgrounds. METHODOLOGY This was a cross sectional study design carried out on female students studying in different schools of Karachi in 2014. Girls aged 10-14 years age were included. Schools from all three socio economic strata were selected through random sampling technique from a list of sch...

The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of epilepsy among students of the Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University. This cross sectional epidemiological study was performed on 4762 of 19,988 Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University students in the academic year 2007-2008. Participants that answered "epilepsy" to the question "Do you have any disease diagnosed by a doctor?" in a questionnaire i...

Study sample Power calculations were not used to determine the sample size. A total of 154 patients entered the randomisation phase, and 147 began the study. 29 patients were assigned to the conventional group with a mean (SD) age of 39.7 (19) years, 57 patients were assigned to the Y system group with a mean (SD) age of 43.2 (21.3) years, and 61 patients to the twin bag group with a mean (SD) ...

SUMMARY In order to evaluate psychomotor activity and intelligent quotient in schoolchildren of iodine deficient region, 95 children from Kiga and 103 from Keshar villages and 73 from Razi school in Tehran were studied. In Kiga there is moderately severe iodine deficiency with retarded physical growth and decreased thyroid function. These students had more errors in Bender-Gestalt (BG) test an...