This study was a cross sectional descriptive study and consisted of three parts. Socio
demographic and some health information were collected during the first part using an
interviewer administered semi structured ...
This descriptive study was carried out with the objective of assesing the knowledge,
attitudes and practices of patients attendingthe medical clinic of National hospital in Sri
Lanka ,on drugs-prescribed to them and thir ...
It is a well-known fact that a higher prevalence of hepatitis B infection is seen among cancer
patients under going multiple invasive investigations and therapeutic procedures. Once
infected there is a higher chance of ...
Had a good knowledge while only 9.5A descriptive cross sectional study was done to study
the utilization pattern,reasons/indications for its use,determination of direct costs incurred
by the state and clinician's knowledge ...
This descriptive comparative study of a sample of 260 women aged 18 to 45 years, admitted
to Teaching Hospital, Jaffna with abortion (69 illegal 191 spontaneous abortions), during
the period of 1st of April 2002 to 31st ...
The objective of this study was to describe the provision of services and factors associated
with maternal and child health services in a war affected area. The study assessed the gap
between self reported data through ...
Component one of the study validated three selected scales of instrument, the Job Content
Questionnaire before its application in the main study to assess the prevalence of iso
strain and the main study to assess the ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the hypothesis of patients presenting with multiple
symptoms not in keeping with a known oraganic illness and/or repeated consultations, either
to the same or to a seperate medical ...
New in vivo method is presented to correct the non -linear, object shape-dependent spatial
distoration in MR images caused by magnetic susceptibility variation. This distoration
across the air/tissue interface before and ...
A cross-sectional descriptive study to determine the prevalence and some associated factors
of overweight. The total study population was 698. Non-response rate was 5.8 percent.
Students' weight was measured using an ...
This is a Hospital based exploratory type of case control study the following factors were
found to have association with LBW deliveries teenage mothers ( cases 18.2 , controls 5.3),
paternal education ( p 0.05), family ...
In component one, the level of food hygiene was described. For the first component, 123
school canteens were studied using an observational check list. The level of food hygiene
was satisfactory in 41.1 percent of canteens ...
This is a Prospective Cohort Study of Six hundred eleven women who underwent caesarean
section during a period of nine months (1st of March 2003 to 31st of November 2003) in the
above unit. Data was collected by an ...
The aim of this randomised single blind, controlled clinical trial is to determine, at the end
of 48 hours, whether Transdermal Nitroglycerin is more effective than placebo in the
treatment of preterm labour. Maternal ...
This study compares the modified hysterosalpingography (HSG) using paediatric 8-F Foley
catheter with the traditional Leech-Wilkinson metal cannula method during intility workup.The foley catheter method appers to cause ...
Information on this cross sectional descriptive study was gathered from 300 participants by
using self administered questioner. Knowledge, attitudes and practices assessed on
conception, sexually and contraception, STI ...
This is a hospital-based descriptive, cross-sectional study carried out in selected hospitals in
the Western Province. All four Central Ministry Hospitals with medical wards were
selected for the study. Four hospitals ...
A paucity of studies exists regarding human resource management in areas which are exposed to long term arm conflicts. This study explored some of the problems faced by the state health staff in conflict affected Vavuniya ...
Objective of the study in to determine the tretment seeking and anti-TB drug collecting
behaviour of new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis patients aged 15 years or more who are
treted at goverment medical institutions in ...