OBJECTIVE To quantify the prevalence of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) among medical students of King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) and to observe the association between anxiety and IBS. METHODS This cross-sectional observational study conducted during academic year 2015-2016 has used two self-administered, pre-validated questionnaires: Depression Anxiety Stress...

We first describe a number of inter-related issues that need to be considered by the researcher when comparing frequencies of linguistic features in two or more corpora. We then describe the chi-squared and log-likelihood tests used in previous research for the comparison of word frequencies. Our focus, in this paper, is on the issue of reliability of the statistical tests, and we describe simu...

Since the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in achieving academic excellence requires further research, the aims of this cross-sectional study were to assess EI and its associated factors and to determine any association between EI and academic performance among final-year dental students in Bengaluru, India. In 2015, 208 dental students from six dental colleges in Bengaluru were invited to p...

Social Adjustment and Academic Achievement of Female Children with Secure and Insecure Attachment Patterns E. Ghorbanian, M.A. T. PourEbrahim, Ph.D. P.S. Seyed Mousavi, Ph.D.   M. Habibi, Ph.D. This study was undertaken to compare social adjustment and academic achievement of female children with secure and insecure attachment patterns. The research type was descript...