Factors influencing home modification of stroke patients.

Background: Home modification for stroke victims is often necessary to prevent falls and enable them to have a better quality of life. Up-to-date relationship between personal factors and home modifications in post-stroke patients has not been investigated.

Objective: To identify significant personal factors influencing the requirement for home modification in post-stroke patients.

The response pattern of intravitreal triamcinolone injection for non-AMD macular edema.

Objective: To determine the pattern of functional and anatomical responses after intravitreal triamcinolone (IVTA) for macular edema in diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, uveitis, and macular telangiectasia.

Material And Method: A Retrospective interventional study was carried out between January 2004 and July 2006. Thirty-eight eyes from 36 patients who had undergone an IVTA injection for macular edema from etiologies other than age-related macular degeneration (non-AMD macular edema) were included in the present study.

Prevalence and associated factors of passive smoking in Thai infants.

Background: Passive smoking or exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is associated with an increased risk of several respiratory illnesses for infants.

Objective: To assess the prevalence and the associated factors of ETS exposure in Thai infants.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey based on interviews with parents of infants aged 1 year old, conducted during October 2001-August 2003, under the Prospective Cohort study of Thai Children.

Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among infants in southern Thailand: a study of urinary cotinine.

We performed a survey to assess the exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in 1-year-old infants in Thailand. Of the 725 infants, it was reported that 73.3% had household smoking and 40.

Night waking in Thai infants at 3 months of age: association between parental practices and infant sleep.

Background And Purpose: Night waking is common among infants and can create sleep deficit in both parents and infants. Sleep practices are influenced by cultural variations which may affect the prevalence and associated factors of frequent night waking. Our objective was to determine whether differences in parental practices related to infant sleep are associated with frequent night waking in Thai infants.