Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5734/1510135

Adherence of Dentists to the Instructions of Health Regulations during COVID-19 Pandemic

Mervat Khoury Absawi, DMD, Kholoud Fahoum, BDS, Sarnat Haim, DMD, MSc, Daniel Oren, DMD, Fares Kablan, DMD and Samer Srouji, DMD, PhD

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: September 30, 2021

large percentage of medical personnel including dentists, acquired COVID-19 while treating patients. Worldwide health regulatory authorities have devised and distributed guidelines and information for dental staff, to prevent transmission of the virus. This study aimed to assess the degree of dentist adherence to these recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey was completed by 144 dentists; it was found that dentist adherence to all of the recommendations was 69.83%. Many dentists...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-3634/1410150

Screening of Diabetic Patients for Frailty with the Frail Scale: A Comparison with the Fried’s Phenotype Criteria in Saudi Arabia

Sadiq Ahmed Al-Ali, Qasem Mohammed AlJabr, Zainab Tariq Alramadhan, Zainab Algharrash, Alhawraa Jassim Ahmad Alyousif, Aroob Nassir Alessa and Hassan Ali AlButayan

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 03, 2021

Frailty is a serious health issue that is associated with the decline of muscle and nerve functions. Several conditions have been associated with frailty, such as dementia, cancer, and diabetes. The aim of the study is to evaluate the prevalence of frailty in Saudi diabetic patients and assess the association between diabetes and frailty. Also, to investigate if the FRAIL scale is an adequate tool to identify frail patients to pre-frail and healthy patients. Seventy-eight participants were divid...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4059/1710027

The Rise of Anxiety Disorders: Islamic Understanding of Anxiety and Muslim Scholar’s Suggestions to Cope with Distress and Achieve Happiness

Deniz Ecem Şen

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: October 04, 2021

This paper has examined the concept of anxiety, its rise in recent decades, and the relationship between anxiety and religion. To illustrate a unique approach to this emerging problem, we have investigated the Islamic understanding of anxiety and various Muslim scholar’s approach to the term. Since over-thinking and anxiety are universal problems that concern nearly all human beings, this particular subject has been examined by Muslim scholars ranging from Al-Ghazali to Belhî. They tried to s...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3419/1410160

A Novel Transcriptional Score Predicting the Benefit of Anti- EGFR Antibodies for RAS Wild-Type Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: An In Silico Study

Huan Huang, He Xiao, Qin Zhang, Jian Li, Yunfei Ye, Rong He and Xueqin Yang

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 08, 2021

There is still an urgent need for precise biomarkers for predicting the clinical outcome of anti-EGFR antibody treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer. We hypothesized that transcriptome signatures might act as a more effective biomarker beyond RAS mutations and anatomic sites. This study was undertaken to develop a transcriptional score predictive of benefit of anti-EGFR antibodies for RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer. The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) dataset GSE5851 was used to d...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-2951/1410239

The Incidence and Risk Factors Associated with Stroke among Patients Who Attended the Medical Ward of Mettu Karl Referral Hospital, South Western, Ethiopia: A Prospective Observational Study

Gudisa Bereda and Gemechis Bereda

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 04, 2021

Stroke as a clinical syndrome typified by “rapidly developing clinical signs of focal or global disturbance of cerebral function, lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death, with no apparent cause apart that of vascular origin. Stroke is a major cause of death and disability in many countries. If left untreated, stroke is a debilitating disease that can lead to death. To ascertain the incidence and risk factors associated with stroke among patients who attended the medical ward of Mettu Ka...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5742/1510078

Vaginal Erosion of the TVT Band: Bimodal Management Including the Contribution of Coelioscopy

Messian GALLOUO, Bogdan PARIANU, Saleh Abdelkerim NEDJIM, Hissein HAGGUIR, Amine MOATAZ, Mohamed DAKIR, Adil DEBBAGH, Rachid ABOUTAIEB and Abdelkader TALAL

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 06, 2021

It’s about a 63-year-old patient who had benefited of a tension-free vaginal tape for stress incontinence at the age of 41. The procedure resulted in vaginal wall erosion revealed by repeated urinary tract infections, suspected by a digital per-rectal examination and confirmed by under-valve examination. The total removal of the strip was performed vaginally and laparoscopically. The post-operative course was simple. The sub-urethral sling (SUB) is a commonly used therapeutic device in urology...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4512/1710065

The Effects of the Internet on Celebrification and Mental Health: From Britney Spears to the Vatican

Cameron J Sabet

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 09, 2021

Though superficially secular, celebrification is an intrinsically religious phenomenon. Though celebrities fashion mighty podiums out of public personas of otherness, these platforms of deification can also quickly become their public gallows. Cyclical religious themes like idolization, impersonation, sacrifice, and redemption shape the career arcs and mental health of many high-profile figures because society craves drama. Therefore, this analysis will explore how digital media mediates and exp...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4512/1710064

The Ethics of Physician-Assisted Suicides (PAS) through Kantian, Aristotelian, Jewish, and Christian Liberationist Frameworks

Cameron J Sabet

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 06, 2021

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) defines the term physician-assisted suicide “as a physician providing, at the patient’s request, a prescription for a lethal dose of medication that the patient can self-administer by ingestion, with the explicit intention of ending life”. Although physicianassisted suicide has historically not been within the domains of standard medical practice, in recent years it has emerged as both an “explicit and covert practice across...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2643-4512/1710063

Sexual Abuse: Social Inequality and Poverty

Indira Ravena Pereira Alves Fernandes Macêdo, Francisco Afonso Tavares Junior, Jullianny Ribeiro Macedo, Alinne Farias Tavares, José Renato Ferreira Teixeira and Modesto Leite Rolim Neto

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: October 04, 2021

Sexual violence is a very big social and health issue, it sets up also as a gender and race problem, as it affects mainly girls and black girls; in addition, the crime is committed more than 90% of times by males. Sexual abuse is a harmful, humiliating, and traumatic experience to the physical and mental health of men and women with immediate and late consequences. A systematic literature search was performed according to guidelines in the PRISMA statement. Searches were conducted in PubMed. Key...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510166

Occupational Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids among Health Care Workers at Hospitals of Aksum Town, Tigray, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Ayehu Kassaw and Biniyam Demisse

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: September 30, 2021

Health care workers face a daily risk of occupational exposure to blood and body fluids that makes susceptible them for pathogens at working areas. The most common pathogens are related with viruses like Hepatitis B, C and Human Immuno-deficiency Virus and bacteria’s that are causing infections with chronic problems to even disabilities and deaths. Facility based cross-sectional study was conducted from April 21 to May 21, 2019. A total of 219 participants were selected for the study using sim...