Emotional, coping factors and personality traits that influenced alcohol consumption in Romanian students during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional study.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, after 3 months from the installation of the state of emergency on the territory of Romania, data were collected from 677 students and master's students, to explore the problematic alcohol consumption (AC).

Methods: The evaluation was done with: Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales, Strategic Coping Approach Scale and The Freiburg Personality Inventory. The statistical methods used were linear regression with bootstrap procedure, Spearman's rank correlation, and the Mann-Whitney U test.

The Involvement of Age, Gender, and Personality Variables in Alcohol Consumption during the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Romanian University Students.

This study aimed to explore the age, gender, and personality variables involved in alcohol consumption (AC) at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania among 210 bachelor's and master's students aged between 19 and 25 years. The results of the Freiburg Personality Inventory-Revised and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test were examined using a logistic model and cluster analysis. The prevalence of problematic AC was relatively low (10.

Diagnosis and Psychotherapeutic Needs by Early Maladaptive Schemas in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is chronic and incurable. Imperious diarrhea, rectal bleeding, fatigue, and weight loss, the main manifestations, cause a decrease in the quality of the patient's personal and professional life. The objectives of this study were to identify a possible relationship between early maladaptive schemas and disease activity status using logistic regression, to identify the prevalence of early maladaptive schemes in patients and to propose a psychotherapeutic intervention plan.

Gender differences in sexual and reproductive health education in the family: a mixed methods study on Romanian young people.

Background: The family is one of the key factors that can contribute to reducing the negative consequences of high-risk sexual behavior. This study examines the influence of parents' communication with children on issues of sexuality on sexual behavior.

Methods: The study is based on a mixed research design.

Alcohol consumption and accentuated personality traits among young adults in Romania: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Alcohol consumption (AC) has negative social and economic consequences, affects health, and can create dependence. As dependence is particularly difficult to cure, prevention is important. This study aimed to identify the frequency, quantity, occasions, reasons, type of AC, and correlation with accentuated personality traits among young adults in Romania.

Evaluation of the psychoneurotic tendencies risk using the woodworth mathews personality inventory in non-institutionalized persons.

Introduction: Multiple factors of vulnerability may lead to development of abnormal social behaviour and to important psychiatric diseases. The psychopathological characteristics present at individual level can lead to a pattern of population groups that are subject to developing mental illness risks.

Material And Methods: Multidisciplinary study (2009-2011) to assessing the current situation of mental health and identifying population risk groups for developing psychiatric disorders in a non-institutionalised population.

Sexual behaviour and sexual and reproductive health education: a cross-sectional study in Romania.

Background: Up-to-date, genuine sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education programmes have been possible in Romania only since communism collapsed in 1990. Since 2006, Romania has had no national strategy in this field. Under current global circumstances (high labour mobility, internationally mixed marriages), issues previously considered solely national have become worldwide concerns.

Violence against women by male partners and against children within the family: prevalence, associated factors, and intergenerational transmission in Romania, a cross-sectional study.

Background: Domestic violence is a public health problem with negative consequences. We aimed to determine the prevalence of violence between parents and by parents against children, types of intimate partner violence against women, the intergenerational transmission of violence, and to identify a profile of beliefs and judgements regarding violent behaviour.

Methods: The data used for this article were sourced from three cross-sectional studies performed in Romania in 2009-2011.

Age at initiation of sexual life, protection at first intercourse and sources of information regarding sexual and reproductive health.

Objectives: this study is intended to determine: age at initiation of sexual life, protection at first intercourse and sources of information regarding sexual and reproductive health. The trends identified by this study can form the basis of public health programmes.

Material And Methods: between 2011 and 2012, 564 subjects, 18-35 years old, from urban and rural environment, have responded to a questionnaire with 96 items on family-related topics.

[Food intake--family income in a group of teenagers from Iaşi "Dimitrie Cantemir" High School].

Unlabelled: Food intake is influenced by a series of factors, including family, income, school and mass-media.

Material And Method: A group of 78 teenagers were investigated using a food intake questionary, correlating the results with family income.

Results: Our results show that the food intake is influenced more by family dietary habits rather than family income, with no significant differences between families with different socio-economic status.

[Smoking, alcohol consumption and pregnancy in a population of south-western Romania].

Unlabelled: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the amplitude of tobacco and alcohol consumption among two populations living in urban, respectively rural areas in the South-Western part of the country. The presence of the two risky behaviours during the pregnancy was also analysed.

Material And Method: A number of 1,200 people, men and women, aged 18-75 years, with different educational levels, living in urban and rural communities were asked to answer a questionnaire with 111 items regarding their knowledge and attitudes about the sexual-reproductive health; 11 items referred to tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking.

Evaluation of women knowledge and attitude regarding cervical cancer early detection.

At European level, Romania unfortunately comes first as far as mortality due to cervical cancer is concerned, mortality rate recording a continuous increase due to disease detection in advanced stages. In this context, we followed an assessment of women's cognitive and attitudinal fund in relation to early detection of cervical cancer, through the application of a questionnaire on a batch of 617 women with ages from 18 to 75-year-old, with various levels of education, residents of Craiova City and communes from Dolj County. Statistic processing of their answers indicates that 43.

[Fruit consumption in a group of teenagers from Iaşi].

Unlabelled: A goal for the national nutritional education program is represented by the increase of fruit consumption.

Material And Method: Using specially designed questionaries a group of 127 teenagers from two different Iaşi high schools provided date related to thei daily fruit intake.

Results: Almost 40% of the teenagers use fresh fruits as part of their breakfast and a greater number use them as snacks (57.

[Anthropological study on hearing deficit].

Unlabelled: Professional training of hearing impaired persons is conditioned by the stage of psychologic development and by educational level.

Material And Method: The study was carried out on a series of 142 children (87 girls and 55 boys) aged 12 to 17 years with hearing deficit from a special school for deaf.

Results: The distribution of these children according to their parents being deaf or not, skills, constitution, intensity of voice was analyzed.

[Physical development and health status in mentally disabled school children].

Unlabelled: Mentally disabled children represent about 3% from the children population.

Material And Method: 102 children with mental disabilities were investigated using physical and somatometric examination.

Results: The mental disabilities are associated with different diseases, in most cases correlated in intensity with de degree of mental disorder.

[The medical and social impact of the gross domestic product on the life expectancy and infantile mortality in Romania].

In this study we have analyzed the correlations between the GDP reported on every inhabitant and the life expectancy respective the infantile mortality rates. Analysis cover 11 countries, divided in four categories: three former countries members of EU (France, Italy, Sweden), three countries recently admitted (2004) in E.U.