• In the present study, we sought to determine the prevalence, awareness, treatment rates and sociodemographic factors associated with hypertension in this community using an approach that integrates HIV and NCD testing. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Background: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and morbidity of neck pain with or without cervical rhizopathy, upper extremity motor deficit and/or thoracolumbar pain in elderly men. (lu.se)
  • In medical research, social science, and biology, a cross-sectional study (also known as a cross-sectional analysis, transverse study, prevalence study) is a type of observational study that analyzes data from a population, or a representative subset, at a specific point in time-that is, cross-sectional data. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unlike case-control studies, they can be used to describe, not only the odds ratio, but also absolute risks and relative risks from prevalences (sometimes called prevalence risk ratio, or PRR). (wikipedia.org)
  • In our study, we aimed to characterize the prevalence. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The objective of this study was to identify the prevalence and determinant factors of hookworm infection in urban and rural school-age children's. (ac.ir)
  • Background: The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in workers with trigger digit. (cdc.gov)
  • This study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of methicillin resistance Staphylococcus aureus among patients in two health facilities in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. (who.int)
  • METHODS: We did a population-based cross-sectional survey to determine the national prevalence of podoconiosis. (kemri-wellcome.org)
  • Our study provides a baseline measure of historic risk factor prevalence and potential geographical variation in healthcare provision, to support ongoing monitoring of HCV-related disease burden and the design of risk prevention measures. (gla.ac.uk)
  • The present study aimed at providing comprehensive epidemiological data about the prevalence of psychological and emotional problems in a representative sample of Iranian children and evaluates the major and common determinants of parents and family environment of these problems. (magiran.com)
  • study corroborates the literature on socio-demographic profile and infrequent prevalence of psychotic symptoms in the pre-transplant setting. (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and prevalence of domestic violence among women in Kersa district of Oromia region and identify the types, perpetuators and triggers for violence. (who.int)
  • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National School of Public Health of Spain, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. (bmj.com)
  • Full Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (tenured), Department of Public Health, The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), Hattiesburg, MS. (jsums.edu)
  • Division of Epidemiology Biostatistics, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa. (bvsalud.org)
  • Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire study of 3,000 community-dwelling older men with a mean age of 75.4 ± 3.2 years (range 69-81) to determine if they had experienced neck pain with or without cervical rhizopathy/upper extremity motor deficit/thoracolumbar pain (yes/no) during the preceding 12 months, and if so, morbidity with the condition (no/minor/moderate/severe). (lu.se)
  • Methods- This retrospective cross-sectional study was based on data retrieved from the Canadian Institute for Health Information for all patients diagnosed with subarachnoid hemorrhage in Canada. (researchgate.net)
  • METHODS: We searched bibliographic databases and grey literature for studies of any design relating to the topic. (kemri-wellcome.org)
  • RESULTS: Twenty-five studies (cross-sectional n = 12, qualitative n = 9 and mixed-methods n = 4) were included in this review. (kemri-wellcome.org)
  • METHODS: A cross-sectional study of a random sample of 570 medical students (first and fifth year) registered at the Damascus University Faculty of Medicine in 2006-2007. (who.int)
  • REVIEW METHODS: The search strategy was designed to retrieve cross sectional and prospective studies of the association between long working hours and alcohol use. (bris.ac.uk)
  • Clark, AB , Harvey, IM & Fowkes, FGR 2010, ' Epidemiology and risk factors for varicose veins among older people: cross-sectional population study in the UK ', Phlebology , vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 236-240. (uea.ac.uk)
  • Therefore, the present study aimed to assess as to whether previously reported risk factors of schizophrenia are specifically associated with SCZ-D and SCZ-ND. (elsevier.es)
  • 1998. Genetic and environmental risk factors for asthma: a cotwin-control study. (cdc.gov)
  • Diabetes and hypertension are highly prevalent risk factors for frail elders, this study provides specific detail about treatment intensity and surrogate outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • The current study provides comprehensive data about various psychological, emotional, and educational problems of Iranian children and new insights about family environment and parental interrelationship as key risk factors for the aforementioned problems in which may have implications for both clinical and preventive psychological health to improve individual educational and treatment efficacy and problem‑solving in problematic children. (magiran.com)
  • Cross-sectional studies are descriptive studies (neither longitudinal nor experimental). (wikipedia.org)
  • The study design was a descriptive cross-sectional study. (who.int)
  • A descriptive cross-sectional quantitative study among pregnant women in Jordan was conducted using an online questionnaire between November 2020 and January 2021. (frontiersin.org)
  • Cross-sectional descriptive study, sociodemographic questionnaire and Scale for Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS) were used. (bvsalud.org)
  • This single-centre study reported the frequency of haemoglobinopathies among 504 consecutive cases visiting Islamabad Diagnostic Centre for haemoglobin electrophoresis from July 2010 to February 2011. (who.int)
  • La présente étude monocentrique a étudié la fréquence des hémoglobinopathies chez 504 cas consécutifs en consultation au Centre diagnostique d'Islamabad pour une électrophorèse de l'hémoglobine entre juillet 2010 et février 2011. (who.int)
  • There are few population-based studies on hypertension epidemiology to guide public health strategies in sub-Saharan Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the epidemiology of periodontal status among dentate male adults in the general population of Jalore, Rajasthan using the Community Periodontal Index. (bvsalud.org)
  • The results indicate that the study population has more widespread and severe periodontal destruction than other populations. (bvsalud.org)
  • In medical research, cross-sectional studies differ from case-control studies in that they aim to provide data on the entire population under study, whereas case-control studies typically include only individuals who have developed a specific condition and compare them with a matched sample, often a tiny minority, of the rest of the population. (wikipedia.org)
  • Longitudinal studies differ from both in making a series of observations more than once on members of the study population over a period of time. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, in modern epidemiology it may be impossible to survey the entire population of interest, so cross-sectional studies often involve secondary analysis of data collected for another purpose. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study aimed to analyze impacts of long COVID on the general health and psychosocial well-being of the Pakistani population. (medrxiv.org)
  • Cross-sectional study, using cluster sampling, of the schoolchildren population of the Brazilian municipalities with Human Development Index - Municipal lower than the national average. (scielo.br)
  • Study population screening, selection, and matching. (annfammed.org)
  • These studies involved a wide range of population from various countries and areas. (springer.com)
  • Breastfeeding and asthma in young children: findings from a population-based study. (cdc.gov)
  • It will also introduce research designs including cross-sectional, ecological, cohort, case-control and intervention studies and introduce population health measures such as screening. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • RESULTS: Sixteen percent (n=440 742) of the study population was multimorbid. (lu.se)
  • A cross-sessional study was conducted at the outpatient of Bishoftu Hospital , Ethiopia from June 2019 to March 2020. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study explored physical health multimorbidity in people with clinical depression, subsyndromal depression and brief depressive episode across 43 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). (cambridge.org)
  • Whether multimorbidity is associated with VTE risk remains to be studied. (lu.se)
  • The association between multimorbidity and VTE suggests that future cohort studies where multimorbidity is used to predict VTE might be worthwhile. (lu.se)
  • Background and Purpose- The purpose of this study was to assess recent trends in the admission and mortality rates for subarachnoid hemorrhage in Canada. (researchgate.net)
  • The pooled maximum adjusted odds ratio for the association between long working hours and alcohol use was 1.11 (95% confidence interval 1.05 to 1.18) in the cross sectional analysis of published and unpublished data. (bris.ac.uk)
  • Department of Psychology and Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298-0205, USA. (who.int)
  • For this study, the participants were interviewed, and their responses were recorded on a questionnaire capturing information on demographics, COVID-19 status, duration of symptoms and long COVID symptoms. (medrxiv.org)
  • The In recent years, the international com- Study design and setting questionnaire addressed the women's munity has increasingly recognized A community-based, cross-sectional knowledge about domestic violence, violence against women as a significant study design was used. (who.int)
  • The oping countries experience higher rates study site was selected because it is part questionnaire was developed first in of violence than those in developed of the field research site of the Kersa English and was then translated back countries [1]. (who.int)
  • Objectives Studies on the health effects of aircraft and road traffic noise exposure suggest excess risks of hypertension, cardiovascular disease and the use of sedatives and hypnotics. (bmj.com)
  • This comparative cross-sectional study design was conducted in Bahir Dar and Mecha district, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia from Mar-May, 2014. (ac.ir)
  • The sponsor was involved in defining the initial research question but had no involvement in the study design, the extraction, analysis of data, the writing of the report, or the decision to submit the paper for publication. (bmj.com)
  • All authors contributed to the study design, analysis plan, and manuscript. (bmj.com)
  • Design: Data collected from Chinese industrial workers during a cross-sectional study were reanalyzed. (cdc.gov)
  • DESIGN: Cross sectional study. (bmj.com)
  • The present study was limited by its small sample size and cross-sectional design. (bmj.com)
  • It will equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand and critically appraise statistics in research literature.The course is not aimed at 'doers' of statistics, that is, students who are going to design their own studies to collect and analyse their own data. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data. (bris.ac.uk)
  • DESIGN: A nationwide extended cross-sectional hypothesis - generating family study between 1997 and 2015. (lu.se)
  • There are few cross-sectional studies that assess this relationship. (cdc.gov)
  • We performed a study to assess the factors affecting intravenous antibiotic treatment course of SSSS patients. (springer.com)
  • This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge and risk perception of basic food safety and handling among pregnant women in Jordan amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (frontiersin.org)
  • In the 18 studies with individual participant data it was possible to assess the European Union Working Time Directive, which recommends an upper limit of 48 hours a week. (bris.ac.uk)
  • Many studies done in other countries have showed that progression of infection to active disease is more rapid among women in childbearing age (25 to 34 y/o) and men above 40 y/o. (hindawi.com)
  • Despite being at high risk of exposure, study participants were appropriately protected and did not contract infection or develop protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2. (bmj.com)
  • Epidemiology and Infection , 151, e59. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Cross-sectional studies involve data collected at a defined time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cross-sectional data cannot be used to infer causality because temporality is not known. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cross-sectional studies may involve special data collection, including questions about the past, but they often rely on data originally collected for other purposes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The use of routinely collected data allows large cross-sectional studies to be made at little or no expense. (wikipedia.org)
  • A natural progression has been suggested from cheap cross-sectional studies of routinely collected data which suggest hypotheses, to case-control studies testing them more specifically, then to cohort studies and trials which cost much more and take much longer, but may give stronger evidence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cross-sectional studies using data originally collected for other purposes are often unable to include data on confounding factors, other variables that affect the relationship between the putative cause and effect. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most case-control studies collect specifically designed data on all participants, including data fields designed to allow the hypothesis of interest to be tested. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cross-sectional studies can contain individual-level data (one record per individual, for example, in national health surveys). (wikipedia.org)
  • Cross-sectional analysis combining nurse survey data with discharge abstracts. (nih.gov)
  • In addition, JH-C initiated the study, obtained ethical approval, supervised the data extraction and is the study guarantor. (bmj.com)
  • We aimed to fill this data gap by doing a nationwide community-based study to estimate the number of cases throughout Rwanda. (kemri-wellcome.org)
  • Cross-sectional, community-based data on 190 593 individuals from 43 LMICs recruited via the World Health Survey were analysed. (cambridge.org)
  • DATA SOURCES: A systematic search of PubMed and Embase databases in April 2014 for published studies, supplemented with manual searches. (bris.ac.uk)
  • Unpublished individual participant data were obtained from 27 additional studies. (bris.ac.uk)
  • According to an epidemiological study, the overall incidence of SSSS increased by 47.1% during 2010 and 2014, and the number of admissions for SSSS during the period reached 6143 in the United States. (springer.com)
  • However, few studies evaluated air pollution effect on plasma glucose indices, in addition to diabetes and prediabetes incidence in developing countries. (magiran.com)
  • STUDY OBJECTIVE: To identify the main determinants of self assessed health among community dwelling elderly. (bmj.com)
  • With regard to prevalent diseases, a cohort study conducted in Sweden, with the objective of assessing the association between breastfeeding and hospitalizations for infectious diseases in children up to four years of age, revealed that the risk of hospitalizations for infectious diseases decreased with EBF duration. (bvs.br)
  • In economics, cross-sectional studies typically involve the use of cross-sectional regression, in order to sort out the existence and magnitude of causal effects of one independent variable upon a dependent variable of interest at a given point in time. (wikipedia.org)
  • I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. (medrxiv.org)
  • resistant S. aureus (VRSA) in clinical samples The study was approved by the Health Ethics impacted negatively on the efficacy of vancomycin Committee of the State Ministry of Health and the 6 leading to treatment failures. (who.int)
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary--epidemiology. (who.int)
  • To coincide with the Joint Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology ( ISES-ISEE 2018 ), Environmental Health has published this collection to highlight top accessed articles in line with the conference theme: Addressing complex local and global issues in environmental exposure and epidemiology - Selected articles for ISES-ISEE 2018. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (1999-2018) were included in this cross-sectional study. (frontiersin.org)
  • From 1142 retrieved records, fifteen observational studies (thirteen cross-sectional studies and two longitudinal studies) and eight intervention studies (six randomized controlled trials and two non-randomized trials) were included for further analysis. (springer.com)
  • However, a limitation of these studies is that they have combined work pace and physical work demands in one exposure measure, making it difficult to identify the specific factors associated with occupational accidents, which is critical for evidence-based prevention of occupational accidents. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Studies have found that it occurs in all in a house-to-house survey conducted considered severe, the main perpetu- geographic regions, countries, cultures in Kersa district, East Hrarge, Oromia ators as well as trigger factors for vio- and socioeconomic classes, with some region on 858 women of reproductive lence and reporting to the legal system surveys showing that women in devel- age from January to February 2008. (who.int)
  • This study may contribute to a better utilisation and interpretation of self ratings in research and in general practice. (bmj.com)
  • In this blog post, Dr Louise Hull, an implementation research lead, discusses the development of a new resource to help improve the reporting of implementation studies. (equator-network.org)
  • Epidemiology is the discipline underpinning both effective public health practice and research into the causes, control and prevention of disease. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • The journal is oriented to the study of mental illnesses, their pathological processes, and their psychosocial consequences and aims to disseminate scientific advances in all fields related to illness and mental health. (elsevier.es)
  • Only four studies (16%) included patients as participants. (kemri-wellcome.org)
  • These study participants were provided with appropriate personal protective equipment to deliver healthcare to patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 and were involved in aerosol generating procedures. (bmj.com)
  • Results The average age of study participants was 35.8 years and 68.1% (286/420) were women. (bmj.com)
  • All 420 study participants had direct contact with patients with covid-19 and performed at least one aerosol generating procedure. (bmj.com)
  • During the deployment period in Wuhan, none of the study participants reported covid-19 related symptoms. (bmj.com)
  • A total of 45,023 participants were included in this study, representing 191 million residents in the United States. (frontiersin.org)
  • RESULTS: Cross sectional analysis was based on 61 studies representing 333,693 participants from 14 countries. (bris.ac.uk)
  • Prospective analysis was based on 20 studies representing 100,602 participants from nine countries. (bris.ac.uk)
  • This was a cross sectional hospital- vancomycin as the drug of choice in the treatment of based study involving 300 patients of all ages with 6 infections caused by MRSA. (who.int)
  • This study aimed to characterize the common CRDs, along with their lung function and possible determinants in symptomatic patients attending Bishoftu General Hospital , Ethiopia . (bvsalud.org)
  • Equity issues rarely addressed in the development of COVID-19 formal recommendations and good practice statements: a cross-sectional study. (bvsalud.org)
  • Journal of Happiness Studies, 14 (2), 475-499. (springer.com)
  • The epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children is a cross‑sectional study was conducted on 786 families and their 800 children during 2019-2021 in Isfahan, Iran. (magiran.com)
  • This is a major advantage over other forms of epidemiological study. (wikipedia.org)
  • Recently, a study using 16S rRNA sequencing in 15 patients with primary endodontic infections with and without a sinus tract to the oral cavity revealed Propionibacterium acnes as the most prevalent isolate recovered from lesions with an intraoral communication. (medscape.com)
  • They are moderately expensive, and are not suitable for the study of rare diseases. (wikipedia.org)
  • Out of 212 patients enrolled in this study 62% were male and the mean age was about 50 years old. (hindawi.com)
  • Inflammation plays a pivotal role in hypertension, as a large number of studies have already demonstrated that systemic inflammation levels of patients with hypertension are elevated, which are closely associated with arterial stiffness ( 4 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Mes projets de recherche sont en lien avec la pharmacoépidémiologie, et particulièrement l'évaluation de la prescription/déprescription, de l'utilisation et des effets des médicaments en pratique clinique dans le but d'optimiser et d'individualiser le traitement chez les patients atteints de maladies chroniques, et en particulier chez les personnes âgées. (uclouvain.be)
  • Electrophysiologic studies are useful for assessing peripheral nerve, muscle, dorsal column, and corticospinal tract involvement in patients with HSP. (medscape.com)
  • A study by Schüle et al of 608 patients with HSP found that the ability to walk unassisted was maintained by these patients for a median 22 years' disease duration but that independent walking ability was maintained longer by patients who had early onset disease. (medscape.com)
  • A total of 3828 first‑degree relatives of patients with T2D who were prediabetes or had normal glucose tolerance (NGT) were enrolled in this study. (magiran.com)
  • This study shows a high burden of abnormal lung function in patients attending clinics because of CRDs symptoms. (bvsalud.org)
  • The NHANES used the method of "stratified multistage probability sampling," and this study is a weight analysis following the NHANES analytic guidance. (frontiersin.org)
  • Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting. (equator-network.org)
  • This study aimed to examine the relationship between physical activity and happiness through systematically reviewing the existing literature. (springer.com)
  • All the observational studies reported positive associations between physical activity and happiness. (springer.com)
  • Mediation effects were examined in two studies indicating the positive relationship between physical activity and happiness might be mediated by health and social functioning. (springer.com)
  • The study provides support for continuing efforts towards early detection and characterization of haemoglobinopathies to control the affected births in Pakistan. (who.int)
  • This study investigated the association between exposure to common air pollutants and the changes plasma glucose indices over time. (magiran.com)
  • Moreover, in a recent retrospective study, researchers revealed that assessing systemic inflammation helped in predicting the risk of hypertension ( 7 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • The study shows that trachoma is a significant public health problem in Brazil, contradicting the belief that the disease had been controlled in the country. (scielo.br)
  • A sample of 1270 Danish male construction workers above 50 years of age was included in the present study. (biomedcentral.com)