Prevalence and Associated Factors of Dental Caries among Primary School Children in South-East Nigeria.

Objectives: The study aimed to identify the prevalence and associated factors of dental caries in primary school children.

Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 657 primary school children from South East, Nigeria. Data on age, sex, birth rank, dental visits, oral hygiene status, and enamel defects were collected.

A Primary Care Provider's Guide to Social Justice, the Right to Care, and the Barriers to Access After Spinal Cord Injury.

People living with spinal cord injury (SCI) face numerous barriers to primary care. This article identifies these barriers as social justice issues to emphasize their significance and the inequality of primary care received by people with SCI. Primary care providers have a responsibility to provide equal and accessible care to all patients and to remediate any obstacles to care.

Attraction Versus Action in Pedophilic Desire: The Role of Personality Traits and Childhood Experience.

Objective: Comparison of pedophilic individuals who do and do not refrain from sexually engaging with children may offer critically important information regarding the differential contributors to pedophilic attraction versus behavior. This study compared 5 traits that are potentially contributory to pedophilic attraction or behavior in both minor-attracted persons (MAPs) who refrain from sexually engaging with minors (nonacting MAPs) and those who have acted on pedophilic attractions and subsequently entered the criminal justice system (forensic MAPs).

Methods: Subjects included 195 nonacting MAPs, 50 forensic MAPs, and 60 healthy controls.

Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Obese Singaporeans: a Preliminary Study.

Background: Obesity is a major component of metabolic syndrome and an independent risk factor for various chronic diseases. It is also closely associated with mental illness, and the interaction is complex and multifactorial. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among obese Singaporeans.

Comparison of Self-Identified Minor-Attracted Persons Who Have and Have Not Successfully Refrained From Sexual Activity With Children.

The present study compares community-based minor-attracted persons (MAPs) with and without histories of sexual activity with children. MAP actors (N = 342) were significantly older than non-actors (N = 223), with longer duration of pedophilic attraction, more antisocial traits, greater attraction to boys, greater difficulty controlling their attraction, and more positive attitudes toward adult-child sexual activity. Additionally, more MAP actors reported prior mental health treatment, nonsexual offenses, and childhood sexual and nonsexual abuse.

Health Care and Human Trafficking: We are Seeing the Unseen.

Objectives: This study aimed to build the evidence base around human trafficking (HT) and health in the U.S. by employing a quantitative approach to exploring the notion that health care providers encounter this population.

The two-week rule for suspected colorectal cancer: patient experience and psychological impact.

Purpose: There has been considerable interest in the "two-week rule" referral pathway efficacy for patients with suspected colorectal cancer. This study aims to explore the psychological impact on these patients.

Design/methodology/approach: Consecutive patients referred for urgent investigations under the "two-week rule" were invited to take part in semi-structured interviews using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).

High frequency of false positive IgM immunoblots for Borrelia burgdorferi in clinical practice.

Although it is known that two-tier serologic testing for Lyme disease may be associated with false positive results on the IgM immunoblot, this problem has never been systematically studied in the clinical practice setting. In a retrospective investigation of patients referred to the private adult practice of an Infectious Diseases physician for possible for Lyme disease, 50 of 182 patients (27.5%, 95% CI: 21.

Herb-drug interaction between the extract of Hibiscus sabdariffa L. and hydrochlorothiazide in experimental animals.

Decoctions of Hibiscus sabdariffa L. (Family Malvaceae) are very popular for the preparation of homemade refreshing drinks and are also used medicinally for a variety of ailments. Particularly remarkable are the various scientific reports supporting diuretic and antihypertensive potentials.

Pattern of head and neck malignant tumours in a Nigerian teaching hospital--a ten year review.

Background: In Nigeria record of incidence and pattern of Head and Neck malignancies is scanty. In our Hospital, there had been no prior published report on this subject.

Objective: To study the pattern of occurrence of Head and Neck malignancies treated in Obafemi Awolowo university Hospitals Complex, Ile Ife, Nigeria.