["Mental Health in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities. Protective and Risk Factors for Depression and Anxiety" - a Cross-sectional Study].

There are not many studies investigating mental health of individuals with intellectual disability. The aim of this study is to provide data on depression and anxiety in individuals with intellectual disability. In a cross-sectional study, we assessed women and men with intellectual disability (18-65 years) with a standardized instrument with 2 divisions (division 1: variables "residence", "self-determination capabilities", "violence experiences", division 2: variables "depression" and "anxiety" with the Patient Health Questionaire-4).

[Psychological Well-being of Highly-sensitive Persons in Transition to Parenthood - A Cross-sectional Study].

Background: Well-being of highly sensitive people in the transformation period to parenthood is of increasing concern. This study examines whether the transformation period to parenthood has a higher effect on the psychological well-being (PWB) of highly sensitive people than on not highly sensitive people.

Method: A cross-sectional study was undertaken of parents (n=614), highly sensitive (n=440) and not highly sensitive (n=174), at the transition to parenthood.

Prolonged hospital and community-based listeriosis outbreak caused by ready-to-eat scalded sausages.

Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne bacterial pathogen. Immunocompromised patients are at higher risk of developing invasive listeriosis with high fatality rates. After notification of two patients with Listeria that had stayed in the same hospital (hospital A) before the onset of infection, we began an investigation to ascertain the extent of the outbreak, identify its source and prevent further infections.

[Asbestos in indoor areas].

In 1994 the FRG will probably be the first country with a complete ban on asbestos. But it will take until the next century before all the buildings are free from asbestos contamination. The Public Health Services is urged to keep a close watch on asbestos removal operations.