background: improvement of attitudes toward breast cancer positively affects the screening behaviors of women. imagery has been shown to have a positive impact on the screening behaviors of women. aim: this study aimed to investigate the effects of breast cancer screening training based on the systematic comprehensive health education and promotion (shep) model on the attitudes and breast self-...

background: chronic musculoskeletal pain is a worldwide health problem. anxiety and depression are common among patients suffering from chronic pain. self-management strategies are used to help patients manage the emotional distress associated with pain. aim: to evaluate the effects of cognitive pain self-management program (cpsmp) on depression, anxiety, and stress in women with chronic pain. ...

AIM To evaluate the effect of Audiovisual (AV) eyeglasses on pain and anxiety levels during restorative treatment in 5-8 year-olds Thai children. MATERIALS AND METHODS STUDY DESIGN Forty-two children with bilateral carious molars were recruited and randomly divided into 2 groups according to the sequence of AV eyeglasses used. Group I was a group which received treatment without wearing AV...

We designed a randomized, double blinded, 3-months controlled prospective clinical study to investigate effects of oral uridine on the ocular surface in dry eye patients. Twenty-seven patients who diagnosed as dry eye with lower than 5 mm of wetting in the Schirmer strip, with corneal epithelial erosion and who completely followed-up till 3 months were enrolled. Corneal-conjunctival fluorescein...

, 81 infliximab naive RA patients and 47 healthy subjects as controls. At the same time and apart from the purposes of that study, we also had done a pathergy test in those subjects who agreed to participate, with the aim of determining the effect of the pathergy phenomenon on the response of BS patients to the tuberculin test. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects. The study was appr...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the lower-density pancreatic parenchymal areas detected by a computed tomography (CT) study in patients with acute pancreatitis correspond to the necrotic portions of the gland or whether these changes may be reversal. MATERIAL AND METHODS The investigation covered 25 patients who had undergone or dynamic CT studies made at different time intervals. Two independ...

INTRODUCTION Most current root-end filling materials do not provide a perfect seal. Thus, a microscopic space is likely to exist in the interface between walls of the root-end cavity and filling material, which allows microorganisms and their products to penetrate. In addition to good sealing ability and biocompatibility, root-end filling materials should ideally have some antimicrobial activit...

PURPOSE To evaluate by in vivo laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) the morphologic changes in the meibomian glands (MGs) and the status of periglandular inflammation in contact lens wearers (CLWs) and to investigate the correlations between clinical and confocal findings. METHODS Twenty CLWs and 20 age- and sex-matched control subjects were consecutively enrolled. Each participant compl...

This paper explains the effect of a motion platform closed loop control comparing to the static condition for driving simulators on postural instability. The postural instabilities of the participants (N=18, 15 male and 3 female subjects) were measured as lateral displacements of subject body centre of pressure (YCP ) just before and after each driving session via a balance platform. After havi...

A new index for analysis of single-case research data was proposed, Tau-U, which combines nonoverlap between phases with trend from within the intervention phase. In addition, it provides the option of controlling undesirable Phase A trend. The derivation of Tau-U from Kendall's Rank Correlation and the Mann-Whitney U test between groups is demonstrated. The equivalence of trend and nonoverlap ...