Background: Nursing students, like other healthcare workers, are prone to needlestick injuries. Over the years, studies have been conducted regarding needlestick injuries. However, its prevalence among Filipino nursing students’ is still not known. Also, nursing students’ intention to report needlestick injuries in the Philippines has not been explored. Purpose: The purpose of this researc…
Family Planning Information, Education, Communication (FP IEC) takes an important role in improving achievement of prevalence of Family Planning participation. However, contraceptive use prevalence in Indonesia within the last decade (2002-2012) did not significantly increase, although many FP IEC activities had been performed. This study aimed to determine socioeconomic demographic factors rel…
Background and objectves: Obesty s accepted as ndependent rsk factors for many dseases In this context, ths study was conducted to determne the prevalence of chronc physcal dseases n obese women. Methods: The sample of ths descrptve and cross-sectonally study conssted of 108 women patents who hosptalzed wth a chronc physcal dseases n a unversty's publc hosptal, BMI was 30≥ kg/m2, had a suffce…
Aims/Introduction: We examined secular trends in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and prediabetes in community-dwelling Japanese subjects. Materials and Methods: A total of 2,490 subjects in 1988 and 2,852 subjects in 2002 aged 40–79 years underwent a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test, and their glucose tolerance status was defined by the 1998 World Health Organization criteria. Results: The …