Low back-pain among school-teachers in Southern Tunisia: prevalence and predictors.

Objectives: In the professional environment, low back pain (LBP) is a multifactorial symptomatology, despite scientific and technological advances in the design and the arrangement of increasingly ergonomic workstations. Teachers are not exempt from this risk, due to prolonged sitting or standing. In light of this, this study aimed to estimate LBP prevalence among teachers in Southern Tunisia and to identify their determinants.

Prevalence and Factors Affecting Willingness to Accept or Refuse Vaccination against COVID-19 among Healthcare Professionals in Southern Tunisia.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread throughout the world causing serious morbidity and mortality. Health care professionals (HCP) are on the front line in the face of this pandemic and are identified as priorities for COVID-19 vaccination. This study aimed to estimate the acceptability rate of the COVID-19 vaccination among HCP and to identify their predisposing factors.

Adverse effects of personnel protective equipment among first line COVID-19 healthcare professionals: A survey in Southern Tunisia.

Background: Health care professionals (HCP) were obliged to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) during pandemic in order to minimize the risk of transmission of the emerging virus. The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of adverse effects related to the wear of PPE among HCP and to determinate their predictive factors.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study including a representative sample of 300 randomized HCP at Hedi Chaker University Hospital Sfax, Tunisia, during the period August-September 2021.

Update on urogenital tuberculosis in Southern Tunisia: a review of a 26-year period.

Introduction: Tuberculosis affects commonly the lungs, but any other organs can be affected as well. Urogenital tuberculosis is usually misdiagnosed. In this perspective, we aimed to give an update on the epidemiological, clinical and evolutionary features of urogenital tuberculosis in Southern Tunisia.

Metabolic syndrome and physical activity measured by pedometer among adolescents.

Aim: To describe the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and to study the association of physical activity measured by pedometer with the metabolic syndrome components, in a sample of overweight and obese adolescents from Sfax City.

Methods: This study concerned 51 obese and overweight adolescents (28 girls and 23 boys), between the ages of 15 and 18 years, recruited by the unit of obesity and metabolic syndrome department of endocrinology, Hedi Chaker Hospital, University of Sfax, between december 2012 and october 2013. Metabolic syndrome was defined with the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) criteria.

The Management of Depressed Patients by the Tunisian General Practitioners: A Critical Trans-sectional Study.

Under-diagnosed and under-treated, depression has a pejorative prognosis. The general practitioners (GP) represent the most often consulted healthcare professionals by depressed patients. The aim was to describe how the Tunisian GPs manage the depressed patients and to note the difficulties they encounter in order to suggest corrective measures.

Congenital heart disease in 37,294 births in Tunisia: birth prevalence and mortality rate.

Aim: To investigate the previously unknown birth incidence, treatment, and mortality of children with congenital heart disease in Tunisia.

Methods: We undertook a retrospective review of medical records of all patients who were born in 2010 and 2011, and were diagnosed in Sfax (Tunisia) with congenital heart defect.

Results: Among 37,294 births, 255 children were detected to have congenital heart disease, yielding a birth incidence of 6.

[The six minute walk test: which predictive values to apply for Tunisian subjects aged between 40 and 80 years?].

Aim: To establish predictive values for the six minutes walk test (6MWT) specific to subjects old more than 40 years from Tunisian population and to compare them with the other pre-established reference equations.

Methods: 155 voluntary Tunisian subjects, including 75 women, from 40 to 80 years old, sedentaries, no smokers, and without acute or chronic pathologies carried 2 TM6m in a hospital corridor on a way of 30 meters length according to the American Thoracic Society recommendations. Covered distance, heart rate and level of dyspnea were given during each 6MWT.