Research the study shown that in the year 1993,poisonign patients constitute 0.7 of hospital
admissions. Majority were between 15 to 44 years. A variety of substances found in urban
households were used to as poisonous ...
A descriptive cross-sectional study to determine the pattern of in-patient morbidity of noncommunicable diseases and demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the patients
and to estimate the economic burden of ...
The main objective of this study was to determine the impact of an education programme on
the control and prevention of soil- transmitted nematode infections among school children.
This study has shown that, the education ...
The need for an overall plan for controlling the occurrence of ARI in Kadugannawa MOH
area is stressed. There is a need to educate the mothers and public health midwives to
identify mild, moderate and severe forms of ARI ...
To determine the presence and the extent of cefuroxime resistance among / Neisseria
gonorrhoeae isolates a~ the central STD laboratory in Colombo during the period August
2004 - October2004. The agarl dilution method was ...
This case book is a reflection of some of the clinical and academic experience achieved in a
four year period of postgraduate training in dental surgery. The latter part of the book ( case
number 26-40 ) represents the ...
The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence, bacteriological aetiology and
antibiotic susceptibility pattern of asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy, to find the
correlation of the microscopic examination ...
The cluster sampling method was used and the data was collected throughout 14 Public
Health Midwife ( PHM) areas out of the 28 such areas in Kelaniya, where an interviewer
administered questionnaire was used Pre-testing ...
To study the health risk behaviors and associated factors in adolescent. cross-sectional study
design was used. The study was conducted among the grade 11 students attending schools in
MOH area Dompe. Prevalence of current ...
The study consisted of three components. Component one validated the International
physical activity questionnaire (Interviewer Administered -Long form ) (IP AQ- IA(L),
component two developed a lifestyle intervention ...
Non-adherence by patients to prescribed medications has significant financial consequences.
Increasing patient knowledge on drug therapy is said to improve compliance. To design and
implement new interventions and to ...
A cross sectional study was carried out using 459 pregnant women in their second trimester
during the study period, An interviewer administrated questionnaire was used to collect the
information on socio-demographic data, ...
This study was designed to compare obstetric outcomes in a cohort of 128 pregnant women
with first trimester .threatened miscarriage and 256 asymptomatic, age, BMI and paritymatched controls who admitted to antenatal ward ...
One hundred fire-fighters were selected by first stratifying according to the duration of
service and then randomly selecting proportionate numbers from each category. Controls
were group matched for age and smoking ...
The subject of this study (N=405) were patients who sought psychiatric treatment at the
Department of psychological medicine at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka over a period
of 3 months. Traditional practitioners are ...
Among the low birth weight babies delivered during the survey period, there was a female
sex preponderance. Among the variables associated, the effects of sex and ethnicity had no
significant impact. The following variables ...
A prospective cohort study carried out on all women, registering antenatal clinic,
professorial unit; De Soysa Maternity Hospital for the duration of six months, by the aid of
questionnaire to develop customized growth ...
The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of tinea capitis among
prepubertal school children in Galle Municipal area to determine clinical types of tinea
capitis and there causative agents, and also ...
This is a descriptive cross-sectional study utilization patterns and assess selected aspects of
quality of care of accident service of Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital (LRH) Colombo.
Majority of victims were males ...
This was a hospital based descriptive study to assess the magnitude of bypass and to identify
the factors influencing this phenomenon. This was conducted at the GH Kurunegala from 6
th to the 27 th of July 1993. The ...