Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the intermediate and high schools in the Riyadh region, Saudi Arabia. The Arabic version of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Children (ISAAC) questionnaire tool was distributed to 568 students in the rural area and 556 students in the urban area. The factors such as lifetime, 12 months, and the severity prevalenc...

Value creation is considered as key to collaborative customer-supplier relationships. Despite the growing body of research, more knowledge is needed about the construct of relationship value and its operationalization. The present paper provides a definition of relationship value and develops a scale for measuring the concept in business-to-business markets. Findings from a cross-sectional surv...

Background. Family history of diabetes (FHD) and lifestyle are associated with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), but little is known about the FHD diet interactions. We aimed to analyze the interactions of FHD and lifestyle factors in Chinese T2DM onset. Methods. This was a cross-sectional survey in central urban China (n = 1234 patients with T2DM and n = 8615 non-T2DM subjects). The biological interacti...

AIMS To assess parental attitudes towards type 1 diabetes clinical trials (T1DCTs) and factors that impact willingness to enroll their children with and without diabetes. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of parents of children with type 1 diabetes was administered at an academic clinic and a diabetes educational event. RESULTS Survey response rate was 36%. Of 166 participating parents, 76% ...

p eople’s business credit program (kur) has been launched to alleviate poverty through provision of micro financing to micro entrepreneurs in indonesia this study aims to estimate the impact of kur program using cross-sectional data and propensity score matching technique (psm). the survey was conducted on 332 household entrepreneurs, consisting of 155 kur receivers and 177 non-kur receivers. r...

The Correlates of Work in a Post-AFDC World: The Results from a Longitudinal State-Level Analysis Much of the research that has followed welfare reform and new policies such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has focused on identifying the variations in how different states have put the new policy into practice. Less is known however, about how this new policy affects the abi...

The paper analyzes the effect of economic incentives in the AFDC program on the employment of AFDC mothers. Multiple regression analysis is applied to cross-sectional aggregate state program data for 1967. Our estimates indicate that the level of guarantees, tax rates and set-asides affect AFDC employment rates in the direction predicted by economic theory. Short of a drastic reduction in guara...

How to cite this article: Hailu E, Mariam WH, Belachew T, Birhanu Z. Selfcare practice and glycaemic control amongst adults with diabetes at the Jimma University Specialized Hospital in south-west Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2012;4(1), Art. #311, 6 pages. http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/phcfm.v4i1.311 Background: The main goal in diabetes care is to improve the ...

BACKGROUND Aboriginal peoples in Canada (First Nations, Metis and Inuit) are experiencing an epidemic of diabetes and its complications but little is known about the influence of factors attributed to colonization. The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible role of discrimination, residential school attendance and cultural disruption on diabetes occurrence among First Nations adu...

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