HIV prevention with positives and disclosure of HIV status: practice and views of Thai healthcare providers.

Objective: The present study provides information from health care providers about sexual practices of and preventive and disclosure counseling for People Living with HIVand AIDS (PLWHA).

Material And Method: A survey of health care providers attending HIV prevention workshops was undertaken using self-administered and anonymous questionnaires.

Results: Of 678 respondents, 72% were nurses.

Prevalence of low back pain among rice farmers in a rural community in Thailand.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of low back pain (LBP) among rice farmers in a rural community in Phitsanulok, Thailand.

Material And Method: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 283 rice farmers in Wangnamkhu subdistrict, Muang district, Phitsanulok province, a rural community in Lower Northern Thailand. Face-to-face interviews with a structured closed-end questionnaire were performed to collect information on the presence of LBP in lifetime, within the last 12 months prior to and at the time of the present study.

Comparison of physical fitness between rice farmers with and without chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: To compare physical fitness between rice farmers with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and a healthy control group.

Material And Method: Sixty-eight rice farmers with CLBP were matched according to age and sex with healthy farmers. All subjects underwent nine physical fitness tests for body composition, lifting capacity, static back extensor endurance, leg strength, static abdominal endurance, handgrip strength, hamstring flexibility, posterior leg and back muscles flexibility and abdominal flexibility.

Sexual practice among Thai HIV-infected patients: prevalence and risk factors for unprotected sex.

Positive prevention which focuses on prevention of HIV transmission from those already infected to those uninfected is an important issue for HIV prevention. A self-administered questionnaire on sexual practice survey of HIV-infected patients attending HIV clinics was undertaken. Of the 1160 patients, 53% knew their HIV status after being ill and 59% believed that they got infection from their regular sexual partner.