Prevalence and factors associated with active cybersexuality among teenagers between 15 and 17 years old: a cross sectional study in Normandy, France.

Objective: Teenagers use the Internet to obtain and exchange information in multiple fields, including about taboo subjects such as sexuality. Our objectives were to determine the prevalence and vulnerability factors related to active cybersexuality among teenagers aged between 15 and 17 years in western Normandy.

Material And Methods: This was an observational, cross-sectional, multicenter study integrated into sexual education classes for teenagers between 15 and 17 years old.

Surgical site infection associated with the use of bovine serum albumine-glutaraldehyde surgical adhesive (BioGlue) in cranial surgery: a case-control study.

Purpose: To enhance the water tightness of dura mater closure in cranial surgery, an organic glue called BioGlue was used in our neurosurgical department between January 2006 and June 2007. During this period of time, we noticed an important increase in the surgical site infection (SSI) incidence. We conducted a case-control study to identify risk factors for these infections.

Mood disorders and urban/rural settings: comparisons between two French regions.

Background: A review of the main large-scale mental health surveys does not give full support to the idea of urbanicity as a risk factor in mood disorders. Lack of agreement between findings can be attributed, at least in part, to heterogeneous operationalisation of urbanicity, as different ways to define urban and rural areas are likely to lead to different morbidity rates and to have an effect on the respective weight of other risk factors.

Methods: A total of 2,638 subjects sampled from two French regions (Basse-Normandie and Ile-de-France) were interviewed using face-to-face parts of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview covering demographic and certain life event questions.

[Epidemiology of childhood asthma in the department of Calvados].

A survey was conducted in 1707 sixth grade school children in the Calvados department of France. A self-administered questionnaire was filled out by the children in the presence of a school nurse. The cumulative prevalence of asthma was 14.