Evaluating self-esteem modifications after a Life Skills-Based Education intervention.

Background: A satisfactory level of self-esteem has been recognized as crucial factor contributing to healthy lifestyle, especially among children and adolescents. We performed an analysis of the impact of Life-Skills Based Education (LSBE) in a cohort of pupils in a Primary School of Sondrio (Northern Italy) and we made a comparison with a control group in a Primary school of the same province where no intervention was performed.

Methods: Changes in levels of self-esteem were assessed through Italian version of the Multidimensional Self-concept Test of Bruce Bracken - T.

Conflict of interest between professional medical societies and industry: a cross-sectional study of Italian medical societies' websites.

Objective: To describe how Italian medical societies interact with pharmaceutical and medical device industries through an analysis of the information available on their websites.

Design: Cross sectional study.

Setting: Italy.

Influence of Hospitalization upon Diagnosis on the Risk of Tuberculosis Clustering.

Setting: Culture-positive tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed in the metropolitan area of Milan (Italy) over a 5-year period (1995-1999).

Objective: To assess the impact of short-course hospitalization upon diagnosis on the overall risk of TB clustering.

Design: Restriction fragment length polymorphism profiles with a similarity of 100% defined a cluster.

REXIC Project: Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study of Documentation of Informed Consent for Research Biobanking in A Public Research and Teaching Hospital.

Background: The Center for Transfusion Medicine, Cell Therapy and Cryobiology, Milan, Northern Italy, is the headquarter of the POLI-MI biobank. It co-ordinates the biobank activities of the Fondazione Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico of Milan. Such activities require specific safeguarding of donors' rights and protection of sensitive and genetic data.