Compliance with oral HRT in postmenopausal women in clinical trials--meta analysis.

Objective: To assess compliance with oral hormone replacement therapy (HRT) over time in postmenopausal women in clinical trials and to examine aspects of study conduct (e.g. randomized vs.

Dental hygienists' knowledge, opinions, and practices related to oral and pharyngeal cancer risk assessment.

Methods: A pre-tested, validated 62-item survey was mailed to a 1% national random sample of licensed dental hygienists, (n = 960). Four complete mailings of the instrument resulted in a 74.4% percent return rate of which 65% percent were usable (n = 464).

Predictors of improvement in health-related quality of life among elderly patients with depression.

Background: Depression is the most prevalent disabling psychiatric syndrome of aging and may lead to important decrements in the elderly depressed patient's health-related quality of life (HRQL). The goal of this study was to determine whether severity of chronic illness at admission, severity of depressive symptoms at admission, or living alone before admission was associated with lack of improvement in HRQL at 3 months postdischarge among elderly depressed inpatients.

Methods: Subjects were 100 consecutive patients admitted to a 26-bed inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit from 1994 through 1997, who were residing in the community and were not demented.

Caries preventive knowledge and practices among dental hygienists.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge, opinions, and practices of dental hygienists in the areas of dental caries etiology and prevention.

Methods: A pretested, validated 35-question survey instrument was mailed to a one percent national, stratified random sample of dental hygienists in the United States (n = 960) in October 1996. Four complete mailings of the instrument resulted in a 67% response rate, of which 77% were useable (n = 498).

Religious training and religiosity in psychiatry residency programs.

The authors present the results of a survey that inquired into the religious life of 121 residents from 5 psychiatric residency programs. In addition, the study sought to explore the didactic and supervision experience of the residents regarding religious issues. The authors' results show that this group of residents appears to be more religious than what has been reported before in prior studies of psychiatrists' religious beliefs.