Community control of hypertension at the worksite in a metallurgical factory: Results of 1-year follow-up

1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Fogari ◽  
L. Poletti ◽  
F. Tettamanti ◽  
M. Daglio ◽  
A. L. Zoppi
Keyword(s):  
Community Control ◽  
Metallurgical Factory

scholarly journals S20. LIFETIME PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT OFFSPRING OF PARENTS DIAGNOSED WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA OR BIPOLAR DISORDER

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S37-S38
Author(s):  
Elena De la Serna ◽  
Daniel Ilzarbe ◽  
Gisela Sugranyes ◽  
Inmaculada Baeza ◽  
Dolores Moreno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mood Disorders ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Global Functioning ◽  
Prodromal Symptoms ◽  
Axis I

Abstract Background Having one parent diagnosed with a severe mental disorder is considered one of the main risk factors for developing that disorder in adulthood and it also increases the risk of a wide range of mental disorders in the offspring from early childhood and adolescence. The aim of this study is to analyze the prevalence of several psychopathological diagnoses, the presence of prodromal symptoms and global functioning in schizophrenia offspring (SZoff) or bipolar offspring (BDoff) compared to community control offspring (CCoff) at baseline and 2-year follow-up. Methods 41 SZoff, 97 BDoff and 107 CCoff between 7 and 17 years were included. Clinical assessment consisted of a clinical evaluation using the following instruments: structured interview KSADS-PL or SCID-I, semi-structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes (SIPS) and the Children’s Global Assessment Scale (CGAS). To test between-group differences in DSM-IV diagnoses multilevel mixed-effect logistic regression models (categorical variables) or linear (continuous variables) regression models were conducted with group (SZoff, BDoff and CCoff), time (baseline or 2-year follow-up), interaction time x group, age, gender and socio-economic status as fixed variables. Results Significant differences between groups were found in any lifetime axis I disorder (F=8.720; p<0.001), mood disorders (F=4.774; p=0.009), anxiety disorders (F=4.368; p=0.013), ADHD (F=21.593; p<0.001), disruptive behavioral disorders (F=10.788; p<0.001) and comorbidity (F=5.588; P=0.004). Significant differences between groups were also found in the positive (F=6.088; p=0.003), negative (F=4.423; p=0.015), disorganized (F=3.866; p=0.024) and total (F=6.394; p= 0.002) sub-scales of the SOPS and CGAS (F=11.613;p<0.001). Interestingly, mood disorders were more prevalent in BDoff and disruptive disorders were more prevalent in SZoff. Prodromal symptoms were higher in SZoff compared to CCoff, while the BPoff group showed an intermediate pattern. Finally, global functioning was lower in the SZoff group compared to BDoff and CCoff. Discussion Screening patients’ children is clinically relevant since, as a group, they have an elevated risk of developing a psychiatric disorder and of experiencing their first symptoms during childhood and adolescence.

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LAW ON THE PROTECTION OF WITNESSES AND VICTIMS FOR THE LAW EXISTENCE OF PEOPLE IN GORONTALO CITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Weny Almoravid Dungga
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Professional Law ◽  
The Law

AbstractThe people's need of legal certainty is the responsibility of all parties to make it happen. Various cases raised in society require the law enforcement agencies to follow up and protect the witnesses and victims. Gorontalo city is inseparable with some legal cases taken place in urban communities that require contributions from law enforcement agencies, including universities. This study focuses on the implementation of law on the protection of witnesses and victims for the law existence to people in Gorontalo city that employed normative juridical method in which it is a law study aimed at finding out the norms and “das Sollen”. The result reveals that the implementation of law on the protection of witnesses and victims to people in Gorontalo city has not been effectively applied as resulted from the empirical factual review. Further, there are five important aspects that determine the existence of witness and victim protection agency, including 1) laws, 2) the witnesses’ and victims’ mental attitude, 3) professional law enforcement officers, 4) community control, 5) electronic media. Keywords: Protection, Witnesses, Victims

A COMMUNITY EPIDEMIC OF ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI O126:B16:NM GASTROENTERITIS ASSOCIATED WITH ASYMPTOMATIC RESPIRATORY INFECTION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
Marvin Boris ◽  
Berenice M. Thomason ◽  
Virginia D. Hines ◽  
Tom S. Montague ◽  
Thomas F. Sellers
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Fluorescent Antibody ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Enteropathogenic Escherichia Coli ◽  
Nonwhite Population ◽  
Follow Up Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Hospital ◽  
Clinic Population

A 15-month surveillance was conducted at a metropolitan hospital for detection of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EEC). Of the 383 admissions, 151 cases of gastroenteritis (39.6%) were due to EEC as determined by the fluorescent antibody (FA) method. During the late summer of 1962, the O126:B16:NM strain was unusually prevalent, having been detected in 39 of the 82 cases (47.5%) of EEC enteritis. Epidemiologically, the outbreak was localized in three geographically distinct areas. Age and race specific rates for infants hospitalized with O126:B16:NM enteritis from these areas were 73.2, 54.5, and 118.2 per 1,000 population. Age and race specific attack per 1,000 population for all gastroenteritis in the clinic population and hospitalized patients were 177.2 and 30.3, respectively, with 31.7% due to EEC. In the nonwhite population, 0-3 months of age, 13% of the infants were hospitalized for gastroenteritis of which 53% was caused by EEC. In three selected hospital populations, 6 of 270 surveyed infants were asymptomatically infected with EEC, an incidence of 2.2%. In a community investigation, 50% of index households had one or more asymptomatic pharyngeal carriers of strain O126:B16:NM, while next-door neighbor households and distant community control households had pharyngeal carrier rates of 33 and 0% respectively. Intestinal carriage rates in these three groups were 18%, 3%, and 0%, respectively. Follow-up studies in pharyngeally infected neighbor households in which no members were intestinal carriers of EEC revealed on subsequent examinations six previously uninfected individuals became infected in four of five households examined. This implies a respiratory transmission of EEC.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

Brief summary of Kleť photographic search programme for minor planets

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 189-192
Author(s):  
J. Tichá ◽  
M. Tichý ◽  
Z. Moravec
Keyword(s):  
Ccd Camera ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Main Belt

AbstractA long-term photographic search programme for minor planets was begun at the Kleť Observatory at the end of seventies using a 0.63-m Maksutov telescope, but with insufficient respect for long-arc follow-up astrometry. More than two thousand provisional designations were given to new Kleť discoveries. Since 1993 targeted follow-up astrometry of Kleť candidates has been performed with a 0.57-m reflector equipped with a CCD camera, and reliable orbits for many previous Kleť discoveries have been determined. The photographic programme results in more than 350 numbered minor planets credited to Kleť, one of the world's most prolific discovery sites. Nearly 50 per cent of them were numbered as a consequence of CCD follow-up observations since 1994.This brief summary describes the results of this Kleť photographic minor planet survey between 1977 and 1996. The majority of the Kleť photographic discoveries are main belt asteroids, but two Amor type asteroids and one Trojan have been found.

Intranuclear Crystals in Regenerating Canine Kidneys

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 412-413
Author(s):  
D.G. Osborne ◽  
L.J. McCormack ◽  
M.O. Magnusson ◽  
W.S. Kiser
Keyword(s):  
Epithelial Cell ◽  
Epithelial Cells ◽  
Tubular Epithelial Cell ◽  
Tubular Epithelial Cells ◽  
Cell Nuclei ◽  
Crystalline Structures ◽  
Small Crystals ◽  
Membrane Bound

During a project in which regenerative changes were studied in autotransplanted canine kidneys, intranuclear crystals were seen in a small number of tubular epithelial cells. These crystalline structures were seen in the control specimens and also in regenerating specimens; the main differences being in size and number of them. The control specimens showed a few tubular epithelial cell nuclei almost completely occupied by large crystals that were not membrane bound. Subsequent follow-up biopsies of the same kidneys contained similar intranuclear crystals but of a much smaller size. Some of these nuclei contained several small crystals. The small crystals occurred at one week following transplantation and were seen even four weeks following transplantation. As time passed, the small crystals appeared to fuse to form larger crystals.

Electron Microscopy of Human Gallstones

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 296-297
Author(s):  
C. Wolpers ◽  
R. Blaschke
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Bile Pigment ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Triclinic Crystal System ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Infra Red ◽  
Main Components

Scanning microscopy was used to study the surface of human gallstones and the surface of fractures. The specimens were obtained by operation, washed with water, dried at room temperature and shadowcasted with carbon and aluminum. Most of the specimens belong to patients from a series of X-ray follow-up study, examined during the last twenty years. So it was possible to evaluate approximately the age of these gallstones and to get information on the intensity of growing and solving.Cholesterol, a group of bile pigment substances and different salts of calcium, are the main components of human gallstones. By X-ray diffraction technique, infra-red spectroscopy and by chemical analysis it was demonstrated that all three components can be found in any gallstone. In the presence of water cholesterol crystallizes in pane-like plates of the triclinic crystal system.

Articulatory Intervention for the Visually Impaired

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
Cheri L. Florance ◽  
Judith O’Keefe
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
School Students ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Paired Stimuli ◽  
Visually Handicapped ◽  
Parent Program

A modification of the Paired-Stimuli Parent Program (Florance, 1977) was adapted for the treatment of articulatory errors of visually handicapped children. Blind high school students served as clinical aides. A discussion of treatment methodology, and the results of administrating the program to 32 children, including a two-year follow-up evaluation to measure permanence of behavior change, is presented.

What Does Evidence-Based Practice Mean to You? A Follow-Up Study Examining School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists' Perspectives on Evidence-Based Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 688-704
Author(s):  
Katrina Fulcher-Rood ◽  
Anny Castilla-Earls ◽  
Jeff Higginbotham
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Clinical Expertise ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
School Based ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Ebp Implementation

Purpose The current investigation is a follow-up from a previous study examining child language diagnostic decision making in school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs). The purpose of this study was to examine the SLPs' perspectives regarding the use of evidence-based practice (EBP) in their clinical work. Method Semistructured phone interviews were conducted with 25 school-based SLPs who previously participated in an earlier study by Fulcher-Rood et al. 2018). SLPs were asked questions regarding their definition of EBP, the value of research evidence, contexts in which they implement scientific literature in clinical practice, and the barriers to implementing EBP. Results SLPs' definitions of EBP differed from current definitions, in that SLPs only included the use of research findings. SLPs seem to discuss EBP as it relates to treatment and not assessment. Reported barriers to EBP implementation were insufficient time, limited funding, and restrictions from their employment setting. SLPs found it difficult to translate research findings to clinical practice. SLPs implemented external research evidence when they did not have enough clinical expertise regarding a specific client or when they needed scientific evidence to support a strategy they used. Conclusions SLPs appear to use EBP for specific reasons and not for every clinical decision they make. In addition, SLPs rely on EBP for treatment decisions and not for assessment decisions. Educational systems potentially present other challenges that need to be considered for EBP implementation. Considerations for implementation science and the research-to-practice gap are discussed.

The Link Between Verbal Short-Term Memory and Anomia Treatment Gains

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1039-1052
Author(s):  
Reva M. Zimmerman ◽  
JoAnn P. Silkes ◽  
Diane L. Kendall ◽  
Irene Minkina
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Treatment Success ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Treatment Gains ◽  
Post Hoc

Purpose A significant relationship between verbal short-term memory (STM) and language performance in people with aphasia has been found across studies. However, very few studies have examined the predictive value of verbal STM in treatment outcomes. This study aims to determine if verbal STM can be used as a predictor of treatment success. Method Retrospective data from 25 people with aphasia in a larger randomized controlled trial of phonomotor treatment were analyzed. Digit and word spans from immediately pretreatment were run in multiple linear regression models to determine whether they predict magnitude of change from pre- to posttreatment and follow-up naming accuracy. Pretreatment, immediately posttreatment, and 3 months posttreatment digit and word span scores were compared to determine if they changed following a novel treatment approach. Results Verbal STM, as measured by digit and word spans, did not predict magnitude of change in naming accuracy from pre- to posttreatment nor from pretreatment to 3 months posttreatment. Furthermore, digit and word spans did not change from pre- to posttreatment or from pretreatment to 3 months posttreatment in the overall analysis. A post hoc analysis revealed that only the less impaired group showed significant changes in word span scores from pretreatment to 3 months posttreatment. Discussion The results suggest that digit and word spans do not predict treatment gains. In a less severe subsample of participants, digit and word span scores can change following phonomotor treatment; however, the overall results suggest that span scores may not change significantly. The implications of these findings are discussed within the broader purview of theoretical and empirical associations between aphasic language and verbal STM processing.

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