Evaluating the Effectiveness of Childbirth Preparation Courses on Women's Self-Efficacy among Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Religious Women in Israel.

This study examined the effectiveness of a birth preparation course on coping with childbirth among primigravid ultra-orthodox Jewish women in Israel. In total, 130 ultra-orthodox 25-35-week primigravid women were divided into a study ( = 100, participated in birth preparation courses) and a control ( = 30, did not participate in the courses) group. A questionnaire was delivered three times: T-before the course/delivery, T-two-three days after delivery, and T-a month after delivery.

Do disabilities impede the use of information and communication technologies? Findings of a repeated cross-sectional study - 2003-2015.

Background: The current research focuses on trends of Internet adoption and digital uses among people with disabilities over a thirteen-year period.

Methods: The study is based on data elicited from a repeated cross-sectional study collected by means of Annual Social Surveys conducted by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics between 2003 and 2015. The sample included 95,145 respondents, among them 22,290 respondents with disabilities.

[Varicose veins and chronic venous insufficiency--minor disorder or disease? A critical review of the literature].

The controversial question of the incidence and significance of varicoses and chronic venous insufficiency is analysed by a critical review of epidemiological studies. It is seen that many of the results which initially appear to diverge are attributable to different, in part unsatisfactory epidemiological methods; e.g.

[Varices, a true disease?].

There is little agreement on the real prevalence and significance of varices of the lower limbs. The discrepancies between the data produced by the various studies are attributable to several factors, of which the most important has to be the absence of any definition of the forms and types of varices. In the Basle study there has been an attempt to classify into two groups, "disorder" and "disease", according to the severity of the clinical picture.

[The fate of the patient with deep vein thrombosis].

Late results in 278 consecutive patients with unilateral deep vein thrombosis treated with streptokinase or heparin/dicoumarol were analysed as to mortality rate, recurrent thrombo-embolism and incidence of postthrombotic syndrome (PTS). The five-year mortality rate was three times as high as that of the age-matched population. The overall mortality rate was 16%, more than half the patients dying of tumour, males largely of gastric or bronchial carcinoma, females of urogenital carcinoma.

[Overview: varicosis (author's transl)].

The prevalence and sociomedical importance of peripheral venous diseases and peripheral venous disorders are discussed on the basis of a prospective epidemiologic field study (Basle Study) among 4529 apparently healthy workers and clerks of the Basle pharmaceutical industry. Prevalence: Pulmonary embolism was reported in 2% phlebitis in 10%. Varicose veins were present in 56% and signs of chronic venous insufficiency in 16%, respectively.

Treatment of deep vein thrombosis with streptokinase.

From September 1962 to May 1972 145 patients with acute or subacute deep vein thrombosis confirmed by phlebography were treated with streptokinase. During the same period 42 patients considered unfit for thrombolytic therapy were treated with herapin and oral anticoagulants. The results, assessed by repeat phlebography, in 93 of the patients treated with streptokinase were compared with those in 42 patients treated with heparin.