Overactive Bladder Symptoms in Female Health Profession Students: Bladder Diary Characteristics and Impact of Symptoms on Health-Related Quality of Life.

Introduction: There is limited information on overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms, their association with bladder irritants, or the effect of OAB on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in young women. We evaluated these issues in a group of young female health profession students.

Methods: All female students (n = 964) attending a university in the Pacific Northwest were recruited via email or an in-person informational meeting to participate in this descriptive cross-sectional study.

Preparing physical therapy students for the role of clinical educator: a case study report.

Objective: The purpose of this case report was to describe an innovative model for transforming physical therapist students into clinical instructors with the use of a pro bono clinic. This model may assist other academic programs in creating effective approaches to transition entry-level students into future quality clinical instructors.

Participants: Third year physical therapist students served as clinical instructors for second year students.

A survey of current physical therapy practices in wound care.

Few standardized treatment protocols are available to guide physical therapists through the rapidly changing area of wound care. To assess current physical therapy practices and to determine relationships between specific demographic data and evaluation/intervention techniques utilized in wound care, a questionnaire was developed that used a Likert scale (1 to 5) for responses, offering choices from "always" to "never." The questionnaire was sent to physical therapists at 170 clinical sites used by the University of Mary Program in Physical Therapy in Bismarck, ND.

Mapping susceptibility loci for alcohol consumption using number of grams of alcohol consumed per day as a phenotype measure.

Background: There is substantial evidence for a significant genetic component to the risk for alcoholism. However, susceptibility loci or genes for alcohol dependence remain largely unknown. To identify susceptibility loci for alcohol dependence, we selected 329 extended families from the Framingham Heart Study population in which at least one family member reported alcohol consumption during the interview in 1970-1971, and performed genome-wide linkage analyses using various analytical methods.

The incidence of Campylobacter spp. on processed turkey from processing plants in the midwestern United States.

Aim: The primary aim of this study was to determine the incidence of Campylobacter spp. on turkey, presented for processing at participating production plants located in the midwest region of the United States.

Methods And Results: The two participating plants were visited on a monthly basis for a period of 1 year.