background: long distance truck drivers (ldtds) and their sexual health risk behaviors have been associated with greater prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (stis), hiv and hepatitis virus transmission. however, there is no information about iranian ldtds' high-risk behaviors. the aim of this investigation was to estimate the prevalence of high-risk behaviors in iranian ldtds. methods...

conclusions the results of this study suggested that parental monitoring and affiliation with deviant peers largely explained sexual risk taking among adolescents. therefore, prevention efforts aimed at reducing risky sex should compose of these factors. in fact, the results suggested that earlier prevention efforts may be warranted. results according to the results, about one-fifth of subjects...

OBJECTIVE Physical and psychological health indicators of mothers who gave birth to medically complex infants were examined to explore potential risk factors for the development of chronic conditions and to develop a scholarly base that supports the inclusion of maternal health in the scope of early intervention practice. METHOD Ten mothers completed the Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorde...

CONTEXT Physical violence is an important health problem, and low maternal education is a significant risk for the development of chronic physical aggression (PA). We hypothesized that nonmaternal care (NMC) services could prevent the development of childhood PA problems, depending on the age at which the services are initiated. Method Children who followed a trajectory of atypically frequent P...

BACKGROUND Although neonatal infections cause a significant proportion of deaths in the first week of life, little is known about the burden of neonatal disease originating from maternal infection or colonization globally. This paper describes the prevalence of vertical transmission--the percentage of newborns with neonatal infection among newborns exposed to maternal infection. METHODS We se...

Prior research has identified reduced reward-related brain activation as a promising endophenotype for the early identification of adolescents with major depressive disorder (MDD). However, it is unclear whether reduced reward-related brain activation constitutes a true vulnerability for MDD. One way of studying vulnerability is through a high-risk design. Therefore, the aim of the current stud...

OBJECTIVE To examine the risk factors of malnutrition among children whose mothers are infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). METHODS Multilevel logistic regression models applied to Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data collected during 2003-2008 from 18 countries in SSA, where the DHS included HIV test data for adults of reproductive age. RESULTS Across countries in SSA, the ri...

BACKGROUND Small for gestational age (SGA) infants are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality. We sought to identify risk factors associated with SGA and examined the potential for reducing the proportion of infants with SGA at a population level. METHODS Birth and hospital records were linked for births occurring in 2007-2010 in New South Wales, Australia. The analysis was stratified i...