Tarlac State University (TSU) is a multi-ethnic and multicultural institution with student population that predominated by the Kapampangan, Ilocano, Tagalog ethnolinguistic groups. This paper comparative study of ethnic national stereotypes self-stereotypes these three Using modified Katz Braly trait checklist, as well their uniformity index, this was able to: 1) compare contrast positivity ste...

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS— We analyzed 1,376 patients with diabetes who were >65 years of age and in the 1993 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. Morbidity measures were the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living, Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, overall health perception, Charlson Comorbidity Index score, and diabetic complications. Quality of care standards were glycosylated hemo...

BACKGROUND Late-life depression affects physical health and impedes recovery from physical disability. But whether milder symptoms that occur frequently in the general population increase the risk of developing a disability or decrease the likelihood of recovery remains unclear. OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of mild symptoms of depression, assessed by a reduced version (10 items, ranging fr...

OBJECTIVE To study the association between the main variables collected in the comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and mortality, in a clinical cohort of elderly people referred from primary care, following standardised criteria, to a geriatric unit. Design. Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Outpatient department of a geriatric unit of a hospital in Madrid, Spain. PARTICIPANTS A tota...

AIM To investigate the factors associated with the functional progress of hospitalized patients following an intensive care admission. METHODS Retrospective study including data from a cohort of 198 hospitalized patients following an intensive care admission and not requiring mechanical ventilation in a single tertiary referral hospital. A generalized linear model was used to identify the mai...