The present study has been carried out to assess the smoking habit among medical students and its relationship to demographic, social and psychological characteristics. Prevalence of smoking was found to be 30.79% in 854 students who responded to the questionnaire adequately. Smoking habit was more common among student who were married hailed from rural areas and the intensity of smoking increa...

This study used multiple elicitation question modes and group discussions to value psycho-social considerations associated with public perceptions of health risks. Values for saving 100 statistical lives in six different policy contexts varied by +/- 50%, largely due to psycho-social considerations of choice and control. A "currency effect" was found: value of life differentials were smaller wh...

BACKGROUND Orthognathic surgery is a branch of maxillofacial surgery. It carries out the treatment of the facial skeleton asymmetries and deformities. The patients who ask for this surgery are often young people who usually refer symptoms related to dental malocclusion, difficulty eating and temporo-mandibular pain. These physical symptoms are often accompanied by psychological symptoms trigger...

a- the goal of this survey is to negotiate the causes of inereasment of psycho-social problems in the adolescence field. we have purposed to evaluate and calegortize 95 persons who were self - refered or refrnal from legal system to crisis - intervention of welfare organization. these persons were classified into three groups through neurologic - psychologic - psychiatric approach: 1- adolescen...

INTRODUCTION Little is presently known about determinants of cardiac illness perceptions, especially regarding psycho-social factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS Questionnaire study among 97 consecutively recruited inpatients (72.2% male; mean age 60.6 years) with acute coronary syndrome. We examined the role of socio-demographic, illness-related and psycho-social factors (Multidimensional Scale of ...

There is no such a thing as psychiatry without a social component. If the XIXth Century has been mostly dedicated to clinical descriptions and classification, if the XXth Century has been mostly therapeutic (psychotherapies, psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry), it is highly probable that the XXIst Century will be mostly oriented towards psycho-social psychiatry and mental health. Rese...

Nearly 2.5 million Americans currently reside in nursing homes and assisted living facilities in the United States, accounting for approximately 5% of persons 65 years and older.The aging of the “Baby Boomer” generation is expected to lead to an exponential growth in the need for some form of long-term care (LTC) for this segment of the population within the next 25 years. In light of these sob...

A smog of ignorance, fear, myth, and superstition surrounds the problem of leprosy. This often reduces the chances for early diagnosis and treatment of the disease, and frequently affects the patient’s own mental attitude so as to sharply restrict his chances for ever resuming a useful, creative life. The present article describes these psycho-social implications and cites a number of ways in w...