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Self Care Practices of Chemotherapy Patients

Cancer is one of the health problems today, which is perceived by public as frightening, anxiety, painful and untreatable disease that implies death. More than one half of patients diagnosed with cancer receive chemotherapy treatment which cause many side effects. Thus, the patients must assume major responsibility of their own care, and motivated to continue the regimen even when produces side effects. The study aimed to determine the side effects experienced by chemotherapy patients and describe self-care practices carried out by the patients to relieve the experienced side effects. This study design was cross sectional descriptive design conducted at Oncology Therapy Unit, Alexandria Main University Hospital. A convenient sample of 50 adult patients of both sexes were studied, 25 patients with colon cancer and 25 with breast cancer. Their age ranged from 23-63 years old. Two tools were used in the study to collect data. First tool was an interview schedule which included sociodemographic and health profile data. Second tool was Self- Care Practices Checklist included list of side effects of chemotherapy, patient's self-care practices and its outcomes carried out by the patients to relieve side effects of chemotherapy. The results of the study revealed that the main incidences of chemotherapy side effects were related to gastrointestinal system, neurological system and psychological status of patients. In conclusions, self-care practices performed by studied patients were insufficient to provide complete relief of the side effects due to inadequate information about the side effects of chemotherapy and how to manage it. It can be recommended that increase the number of qualified nurses at the chemotherapy in and outpatient clinics to provide the patient and family members with information regarding chemotherapy, its purpose, side effects and how to manage these side effects. (Abeer M. El-Shatby Moursy and Amna Yehyia Saad Ead. Self Care Practices of Chemotherapy Patients. Life Sci J 2014;11(4):212-222). (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com . 32
Vestibular Mechanisms in Health and Disease

This book contains the proceedings of the Sixth Extraordinary Meeting of the Barany Society, Imperial College, London, in September 1977, wherein distinguished scholars in vestibular research met to honor Robert Barany, Nobel laureate, after whom the society was named when founded in 1960. There were four main themes of the conference: (1) problems of head stability, (2) central control of vestibulo-oculomotor function, (3) positional nystagmus, and (4) signal processing in the evaluation of vestibular mechanisms. Free papers, covering other aspects of vestibular function of current interest, were also presented. The first section, "Primary Afterents," addresses the problem of head stability with a volume of work that shows the close relationships between the vestibular and proprioceptive systems at different levels within the CNS. The papers in neurophysiology concentrate on single cell responses within the vestibular system in assessing central control of vestibulo-ocular function. In subsequent chapters, human clinical experience with
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Faktor-faktor yang Berhubungan Dalam Pemberian ASI Eksklusif di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Godean II Sleman Yogyakarta

Tujuan:Untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan pemberian ASI Eksklusifdi Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Godean II Sleman, Yogyakarta. Metode:Metode Penelitian yaitu deskriptif analitik dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Populasinya yaitu 73 responden dengan teknik pengambilan sampel random sampling sehingga sampel yang digunakan 62 responden. Data yang diperoleh dengan menggunakan kuesioner dan dianalisis secara bivariat menggunakan uji Chi Square. Hasil:Variabel yang berhubungan secara signifikan terhadap pemberian ASI Eksklusif adalah umur (p value 0,022), pengetahuan (p value 0,008), pekerjaan (p=0,039) dan sumber informasi (p value 0,030) terdapat hubungan dalam pemberian ASI Eksklusif.
Cold pressor test as a predictor of the severity of hypertension.

: This report examines the cold pressor test (CPT) as it relates to the severity of hypertension. A total of 123 hypertensive patients were studied by physical examination, retinal funduscopy, chest roentgenogram, electrocardiogram, blood urea nitrogen measurement, and urinalysis. Causal and valid basal resting blood pressure determinations were made, followed by immersion of one hand in ice water for 2 minutes. All 21 patients with arteriosclerotic, 78 with essential, and 24 with renal hypertension had hyperreactive responses to the CPT (> 20/20 mm Hg) as compared with the normotensive subjects. The CPT-induced increase in diastolic pressure was significantly higher in hypertensives with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). CPT responses were also greater in hypertensives with higher degrees of retinopathy. These findings indicate that the diastolic rise on cold pressor testing can be used as a measure of severity of hypertension, especially in the presence of LVH and severe retinopathy. The CPT is inexpensive and noninvasive and can aid the clinician in managing the hypertensive patient. The CPT may also be useful as a predictor of complications of hypertension in selected individuals.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR BRAIN HEALTH AND FIGHTING DEMENTIA

Plasticity improves with physical activity as it supports brain cells to grow and live longer. Pictures of brains of people who exercise regularly show that important areas of the brain that are involved in memory and learning are larger than in those same areas of the brains of people who do very little exercise. This suggests that people who exercise have more brain cells and more connections, so their brains work better.
Critical Blowup for Systems of Semilinear Wave Equations in Low Space Dimensions

Abstract We consider the Cauchy problem for systems of semilinear wave equations in two and three space dimensions with small initial data. Del Santo et al. [“Geometric Optics and Related Topics” (F. Colombini and N. Lerner, Eds.), Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, Vol. 32, pp. 117–140, Birkhauser, Boston, 1997] have studied the existence and nonexistence of global classical solutions of the Cauchy problem except for the critical case. In this paper we study the critical case, and we show the nonexistence of global classical solutions and also give the upper bounds of the life span.
Effect of peripartum supplementary feeding on postpartum reproduction of buffaloes and certain reproductive parameters of their male calves

The study was undertaken on Murrah buffaloes (n=25) to assess the effect of peripartum supplementary feeding of glucogenic precursor (Nutrocal) on physical and biochemical parameters affecting postpartum reproduction of buffaloes and certain reproductive parameters of their calves. The buffaloes were fed with Nutrocal @ 50gm/day/animal from 2 months prepartum to 2 months postpartum. The prepartum BCS and body weight gain was higher and postpartum BCS and body weight loss was lower in supplemented buffaloes as compared to unsupplemented ones. Back fat thickness remained higher both in prepartum and postpartum period in supplemented buffaloes as compared to unsupplemented ones. The plasma glucose and insulin concentrations were non-significantly (p>0.05) higher and plasma free fatty acids were non-significantly (p>0.05) lower in supplemented buffaloes as compared to unsupplemented ones. Five buffaloes in supplemented group exhibited overt estrus within 60 days postpartum as compared to one buffalo in unsupplemented group. Birth weight and growth rate of calves were nonsignificantly (p>0.05) higher in calves born to supplemented buffaloes as compared to calves born to unsupplemented buffaloes. The plasma glucose and insulin concentrations of one day old calves were nonsignificantly (p>0.05) higher in treatment group as compared control ones. LH release in response to GnRH in female calves and seminiferous tubule diameter in male calves at their two and four months of age, respectively, was significantly higher (p<0.05) in calves born to supplemented buffaloes as compared to calves born to unsupplemented buffaloes. LH peak reached earlier in treatment calves as compared to control calves (60 vs 135min). The average area under LH curve was also significantly (p<0.05) higher in treatment calves as compared to control calves (2165.57mIu/ml *min vs 1112.56mIU/ml*min). In conclusion, peripartum supplementation of glucogenic diet was beneficial to prevent loss in body condition postpartum for better reproductive efficiency in buffaloes and reproductive parameters in their calves.
Hand washing practices and techniques among health professionals in a tertiary hospital in Kano

Background: The simple act of hand washing has been proven to reduce the risk of acquiring hospital infection, especially with the current concern of Ebola viral disease. Hospital acquired infections have contributed significantly to overall mortality and morbidity and health care cost. They report that hand washing remains at an unacceptable low level in most medical environments, with large numbers of doctors and nurses routinely forgetting to wash their hands before touching patients. Transmission of health-care-associated infections often occurs via the contaminated hands of health care workers. Materials and Methods: It was a descriptive cross-sectional study carried out among randomly selected doctors and nurses in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano. The questionnaires were administered to the respondents during their ward rounds or clinic sessions. Results: One hundred and forty health professionals comprising 98 nurses and 42 doctors were studied. About 64.4% of them were aware of the World Health Organization (WHO) global hand washing day but only 15% stated the date correctly. About 99.3% of them believed that if hand washing is done correctly it can reduce the risk of infection. All (100%) of the health professionals use water and soap or hand rubs as agents of hand washing. About 93.6% were taught hand washing technique and 47% were aware of the five moments in hand washing but only 17% of them could list the five moments in hand washing. Only 25.7% health professionals knew the correct steps of hand washing ( χ 2 = 2.444, df = 2, P = 0.295). Ninety-one percent of the health professionals had seen posters on hand washing. Majority (72.1%) adhered to principles of hand washing ( χ 2 = 0.015, df = 1, P = 0.902) while 82.1% wash their hands before touching patients ( χ 2 = 2.841, df = 1, P = 0.092). However, most of them (95%) washed their hands after touching patients and 97% washed their hands after handling body fluids or secretions from patients. On the other hand, only 39% health professionals washed hands before wearing hand gloves ( χ 2 = 0.321, df = 1, P = 0.571) but 95% washed hands after removing the hand gloves. Ninety-nine percent washed their hands after visiting or using the restroom. Conclusion: This study underscores the need for continuous information and education of health professionals on the importance WHO global hand washing day. As doctors and nurses are important in the health care team, it is important to provide the appropriate knowledge and training regarding preventive practices of infectious diseases. Training and retraining of health professionals on correct steps of hand washing will encourage and remind them on the importance of washing hands before wearing gloves and before touching patients to reduce the risk of infection and cross infection.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SELF -MEDICATION PRACTICE AMONG MEDICAL & ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY IN NORTH INDIA.

This study was undertaken to determine the knowledge, attitude & practice of self medication among Medical & Engineering students of all the years of NIMS Medical & Engineering College, Jaipur, Rajasthan. This study was an anonymous, questionnaire-based, descriptive study. A self-developed, pre-validated questionnaire consisting of both open-ended and close-ended questions was filled by all year Medical & Engineering students. Data was reviewed, organized and summarized as counts and percentages and evaluated using the Chi-square test and p-value of <0.05 was considered tatistically significant. Out of total 316 students in medical and 346 in engineering, with an age range from 17-27 years. Out of these, 73.4% medical & 75.7% engineering students had taken self medication. The commonest indications for self-medication were headache & fever followed by cough/common cold. 37.4% of the engineering students didn’t feel the need to go to a doctor while minor illness (62.5%) among medical students and these were the most frequent reasons for resorting to self-medication and the main source of self medication was guardians (54.9%) while it was previous experience in 34.9% of medical students. Analgesics were the commonest drugs used followed by antimicrobials with 70.2% (medical), 52%(engineering) of the students completed the recommended course of antimicrobials. The practice of self-medication in our study was common and often inappropriate and this high
POLA KEJADIAN DAN DETERMINANBAYI DENGAN BERAT BADAN LAHIR RENDAH (BBLR) DI INDONESIA TAHUN 2013 (Pattern of Occurrence and Determinants of Baby with Low Birth Weight in Indonesia 2013)

Background: Low Birth Weight (LBW) is associated with neonatal mortality and morbidity, impaired growth and cognitive development, and chronic diseases later in life. LBW can also seriously affect the quality of future generations because it can slow the growth and development of children, and therefore contributes to a decrease of intelligence. Methods: This study is a secondary data analysis, the data source is the result of National Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) in 2013 with coverage of all provinces in Indonesia. The unit of analysis is the baby. The data were processed using descriptive analysis and logistic regression. Results: The percentage of low birth weight is 6.37% nationwide. Conclusion: Incidence of low birth weight is influenced by many factors the number of children, the occurrence of complications during pregnancy, low economic status and the baby girl. The most impact variable is the risk of complication during pregnancy reaches 2.74 times. Recommendation: It is needed improved efforts in handling Infants with low birth weight so that it will not result in death or impaired physical and mental growth and development of infants that affect on the quality of state human resources and increase the state burden.
The Prevalence of Risk Factors among Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

Results: Most cases were in the age group 41-60 years. The age at menarche in 76% of study population was at or below 13 years. The age of natural menopause was between 41-50 years. The average size of the tumor was 5.5 cm. Eighty percent of women reported breast-feeding their children. Sixty percent of the patients have never used oral contraceptive pills in their lives. Only 8 cases (9%) had positive family history of breast cancer. Fifteen percent had their first full term pregnancy above 35 years of age. Conclusion: In this study 53% of patients were between 41-60 years. The majority of patients were married and multiparous. Eighty percent of patients breast-fed their offspring more than one year and 60% never used oral contraceptive pills. The size of tumor at presentation was smaller among women with high level of education compared to those with low level of education.
Conception of undergraduate nursing students on the practice of health education on first aid

Objective: to present the conception of undergraduate nursing students participating in an integrated project on health education on first aid. Methods: qualitative research conducted at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina with five senior nursing students, participating in the project “Nursing in clinical and surgical urgent and emergency care. ” We applied semi-structured interviews with content analysis. Results: the following categories emerged: Health education as a facilitator for academic learning; Health education on first aid as a facilitator in the construction of teacher competence in future nurses; Feelings experienced by students when performing health education on first aid. Conclusion: participating in health education enables the consolidation of the teacher competence of nurses advocated by the National Curriculum Guidelines.
Rescue of motoneuron from brachial plexus nerve root avulsion induced cell death by Schwann cell derived neurotrophic factor

OBJECTIVE To study the protective effects of Schwann cell derived neurotrophic factor (SDNF) on motoneurons of spinal anterior horn from spinal root avulsion induced cell death. METHODS Twenty SD rats were made the animal model of C6.7 spinal root avulsion induced motoneuron degeneration, and SDNF was applied at the lesion site of spinal cord once a week. After three weeks, the C6.7 spinal region was dissected out for motoneuron count, morphological analysis and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) enzyme histochemistry. RESULTS 68.6% motoneurons of spinal anterior horn death were occurred after 3 weeks following surgery, the size of survivors was significantly atrophy and NOS positive neurons increased. However, in animals which received SDNF treatment, the death of motoneurons was significantly decreased, the atrophy of surviving motoneurons was prevented, and expression of NOS was inhibited. CONCLUSION SDNF can prevent the death of motoneurons following spinal root avulsion. Nitric oxide may play a role in these injury induced motoneuron death.
Timing of return to work after hernia repair: Recommendations based on a literature review

Inguinal hernia repair is the most common elective surgery performed by general surgeons. The duration of convalescence has been controversial and poorly studied. Pre- vious recommendations have been based on retrospective, observation- al studies and largely on tradition. In this study, a review of the bio- mechanical studies on recovery from hernia surgery was undertaken. Based on this review in dividually tai- lored recommendations were made considering each patient's usual vocational activity rather than a one- size-fits-all approach.
Proto--Planetary Nebulae. II. The Shock-heated Bipolar Nebulae GL 618 and M2-56

Long-slit CCD spectroscopy has been used to study the two peculiar, very low ionization protoplanetary nebulae, GL 618 and M2-56, comparing the results obtained with observed Herbig-Haro (HH) objects' spectra as well as with theoretical shock-model calculations from the literature. It is found that the spectra of low-excitation HH objects match the spectra of GL 618 and M2-56; in addition, the shock models indicate the presence of shock velocities in the 40-100 km/sec range, which is again congruent with low excitation HH object results. 37 refs.
Pretreatment Aspartate Aminotransferase-to-Alanine Aminotransferase (De Ritis) Ratio Predicts the Prognosis of Nonmetastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Background The pretreatment aspartate aminotransferase-to-alanine aminotransferase (De Ritis) ratio is reportedly valuable in prognosis prediction of various malignancies. However, its value in the prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has not yet been reported. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of the De Ritis ratio on the survival outcomes of patients with nonmetastatic NPC. Methods We retrospectively reviewed the medical data of 1023 patients with nonmetastatic NPC admitted between 2009 and 2013 at a single center. The Fine and Gray competing risk regression model was used to analyze the associations between the De Ritis ratio and the survival outcomes of cancer-specific survival (CSS) and progression-free survival (PFS) by using the subdistribution hazard ratio (SHR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) as size effects. The Cox proportional hazard model was used to evaluate the correlation between the De Ritis ratio and overall survival (OS) by using hazard ratio (HR) and 95% CI as size effects. Results Patients were divided into two groups in accordance with the pretreatment De Ritis ratio by using an optimal cutoff value of 1.65. Compared with the patients with low De Ritis ratio (< 1.65), those with elevated De Ritis ratio (≥ 1.65) had poorer prognosis with regard to CSS, PFS, and OS. Notably, multivariate analyses showed that high De Ritis ratio was independently associated with poor CSS (SHR = 1.64, 95% CI: 1.25–2.16), PFS (SHR = 1.69, 95% CI: 1.30–2.19), and OS (HR = 1.81, 95% CI: 1.39–2.40). Conclusion Pretreatment De Ritis ratio can be an independent prognostic predictor for patients with nonmetastatic NPC.
miR-214-3p inhibits epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and metastasis of endometrial cancer cells by targeting TWIST1

Background Substantive studies have described the ectopic microRNAs as a determinant of the pathogenesis of endometrial cancer (EC). miR-214-3p has been reported to be significantly downregulated in EC tissues, and its overexpression has been shown to inhibit the proliferation, migration, and invasion of EC cells. Our study sought to explore the molecular mechanism underlying the inhibitory effect of miR-214-3p on metastasis of EC cells. Methods The expressions of miR-214-3p and TWIST1 in EC tissues and cells were detected by quantitative real-time PCR. Cell migration, invasion, and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) were measured by transwell and Western blot analyses, respectively. The interaction between miR-214-3p and TWIST1 was confirmed by luciferase reporter assay. Xenograft tumor assay was performed to verify the role and underlying mechanism of miR-214-3p in EC in vivo. Results miR-214-3p was downregulated and TWIST1 was upregulated in EC tissues and cells. miR-214-3p was negatively correlated with TWIST1 expression in EC tissues. Overexpression of miR-214-3p suppressed migration, invasion, and EMT in EC cells. TWIST1 was identified as a target of miR-214-3p in EC cells, and its overexpression significantly restored the inhibitory effects of miR-214-3p on cell migration, invasion, and EMT while its knockdown remarkably abolished miR-214-3p inhibitor-mediated promotion of progression of EC cells. Additionally, addition of miR-214-3p inhibited tumor growth by regulating EMT in vivo. Conclusion miR-214-3p suppressed the EMT and metastasis of EC cells by targeting TWIST1, providing a novel biomarker for treatment of EC.