OBJECTIVE To analyze meanings attributed to paternity by men who are fathers. STUDY DESIGN Study with a qualitative approach and gender-theory focus, performed in the city of João Pessoa, Northeastern Brazil, in 2003. A total of ten men, whose children had been cared for in the pediatric outpatient clinic of a university hospital, participated in the study. Information analyzed was obtained w...

background: this study was  designed in order to review the client's usage rate  of central library information facilities  at birjand university of medical sciences. materials & methods: this is a descriptive - analytical study that was conducted on all facualty members and free members through census method and on student and clerks through random systematic sampling. a questionnaire was...

this study investigated utilization of electronic learning facilities among agricultural students in michael okpara university of agriculture, umudike. one hundred and twenty (120) students undergoing training in different agricultural courses in the university were randomly selected. data were collected with a structured questionnaire and analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency ...

While Internet-based health-related offers for various disorders are increasing, little is known about the way patients with psychosomatic disorders use the Internet. We conducted a questionnaire survey in outpatient clinics at two university hospitals' Departments of Psychosomatic Medicine. Seventy-four percent of N = 274 patients had Internet home access and 60 percent of those patients repor...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE To explore the meanings assigned to the experience of receiving chemotherapy. DESIGN Descriptive exploratory. SETTING An oncology outpatient clinic in a university hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. SAMPLE Ten women with breast cancer who experienced chemotherapy for the first time. METHODS Semistructured interview using a grounded theory approach. FINDINGS Women ...

The study presented here estimates the total health care cost attributable to smoking induced cardiovascular disease in Tanzania. The study based on a survey conducted at a referral university hospital in Dar es Salaam in 2014. Assuming a 2% prevalence rate of cardiovascular disease and a population of 47.2 million, it was estimated that there are 943,800 cardiovascular patients in Tanzania. Th...

We present results from a hypothetical framed field experiment assessing whether risk preferences significantly differ across the health and financial domains when they are elicited through the same multiple price list paired-lottery method. We consider a sample of 300 patients attending outpatient clinics in a university hospital in Athens during the Greek financial crisis. Risk preferences in...

The aims of the present study were to describe cancer causes and risk perception, and to associate behaviors adopted for the prevention of tumors and cancer family history in individuals with suspect of hereditary cancer syndromes. A convenience sample of 51 individuals was selected from an oncogenetic counseling outpatient clinic in a university hospital in the countryside of the state of São ...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the primary and secondary therapeutic successes of different therapy schemes for the treatment of synechia of the labia in pre-pubertal girls. Materials and Methods: The treatment courses of 47 pre-pubertal girls who were treated between February 2007 and February 2013 in the special outpatient clinic for paediatric gynaecology of a department...