BACKGROUND Preeclampsia is a frequent obstetric complication which affects the mother`s and the fetus's health and can be life threatening. It also has an impact on psychological outcomes. There may be protective variables such as resilience shielding against psychosocial distress in women experiencing these pregnancy complications. The aim of this study was to examine differences in resilience...

Introduction: This study aimed to provide initial validation of the Stress Numerical Rating Scale-11 (SNRS-11) The validation is based on 3 different studies: Study A compared the SNRS-11 with the Pain Numerical Rating Scale-11 (PNRS-11), Spielberger’s State Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAI-C-S), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and Children’s Somatization Inventory (CSI) in 73 adolescents tha...

INTRODUCTION Rib fractures are a common injury presenting to major trauma centres and community hospitals. Aside from the acute impact of rib fracture injury, longer-term morbidity of pain, disability and deformity have been described. Despite this, the mainstay of management for the vast majority of rib fracture injuries remains supportive only with analgesia and where required respiratory sup...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, outcome assessment related to orthopedic surgeries has increasingly focused on patient-reported questionnaires. The Oxford Hip Score (OHS), self-administered questionnaire, is a reliable, valid, and responsive instrument for assessing hip in patients undergoing Arthroplasty. METHODS The study involved 105 adult Persian-speaking patients admitted for primary Total...

Weight has been shown to increase following total hip arthroplasty (THA). It is also reported that the preoperative weight does not correlate to the outcome of the surgery. Body mass index (BMI) is regarded as a better tool for analysis. However, only a few studies have analysed BMI, BMI change or its correlation to the outcome. We present a retrospective study of 78 consecutive patients underg...

To see whether there are any lipoprotein abnormalities in diabetic patients without hyperlipidemia, lipoprotein composition was examined in 75 strictly normolipidemic diabetic patients. Their plasma cholesterol (chol) and triglyceride (TG) were limited to less than 6.0 and less than 1.7 mM, respectively. Body-weight- and age-adjusted normolipidemic healthy subjects served as the control group. ...

Health literacy (HL) sets on the ability and motivation of individuals to appraise, understand, access, utilise information in ways that promote maintain good health. Poorer health outcomes incurs higher healthcare expenditures can be cause limited HL. Sabah public facilities conducted a cross-sectional study between February October 2020. A 12-item Short-Form Literacy Survey (HLS-SF12) compris...

While the Internet of Things continues to grow, LoRaWAN standard is generating special interest due its open-source nature, ultralow-power consumption and long-range connectivity. Recent works have explored challenges implementing LoRaWAN, with scalability being considered one major bottlenecks imposed by Aloha-based medium access control (MAC) layer. Despite much on-going research on schedulin...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article reviews the literature regarding the safety and efficacy of the use of a pulsed CO2 laser for the treatment of vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA). RECENT FINDINGS Prospective observational studies have demonstrated histological changes after the use of pulsed CO2 laser vaginally in atrophic conditions. Increased collagen and extracellular matrix production has been repo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the results of total hip arthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis and to identify predictors of poor functional outcome. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective observational study in patients operated on in 2006 with total hip arthroplasty in 4 hospitals in Guipúzcoa, followed up for 1 year. OUTCOME VARIABLES pain, physical function, complications, mortality, quality o...