Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-1353/1510076
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice Related to Pap Smear Test among Iranian Women
Fatemeh Mousavi, Parisa Shojaei and Hoda Aryan
Article Type: Original Research | First Published: August 24, 2018
The Pap smear is a reliable, inexpensive and effective screening test for cervical cancer; the second most common cancer among women worldwide. We aimed to determine women's knowledge, attitudes and practice towards Pap smear in women live at the northwest of Tehran city. This study, was carried out on 334 outpatient Iranian women in winter 2018. A questionnaire including demographic characteristics (10 questions), knowledge (10 questions), attitudes (5 questions) and practice (2 questions) towa...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/ijda-2017/1710002
Interventions for Mothers with Postpartum Depression: A Systematic Review
Linsu Thomas, Sailaxmi Gandhi and Jithin Thomas Parel
Article Type: Systematic Review | First Published: August 24, 2018
Women may go through a wide range of emotional experiences during pregnancy and the year following birth. In some cases it can result in depressive symptoms which need treatment and supportive interventions. Interventions like individual psychotherapy and counseling with an exploratory, participative approaches were most commonly practiced in low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries. The aim of this study is to investigate systematically the evidence surrounding the impact of such interventions o...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4010.1510021
Microalbuminuria among Newly Diagnosed Diabetic Patients at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda: A Cross Sectional Study
Muddu Martin, Mutebi Edrisa, Isaac SSinabulya, Kizito Samuel, Mulindwa Frank and Mondo Charles Kiiza
Article Type: Original Research Article | First Published: August 23, 2018
Microalbuminuria is an early marker of nephropathy, cardiovascular diseases and severe ocular morbidity in adults with diabetes mellitus. This subclinical condition is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Microalbuminuria precedes the development of overt diabetic nephropathy by 10-14 years. At this stage, one can reverse diabetic nephropathy or prevent its progression. Unfortunately, tests to detect microalbuminuria in diabetics are not routinely done in Uganda. This study sought to de...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/iaphcm-2017/1710009
Contextual Perspectives on Heroin Addiction and Recovery: Classic and Contemporary Theories
Sarah Callahan and Leonard A Jason
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: August 25, 2018
Drug use and recovery have received considerable attention from social scientists over the past few decades. Earlier theoretical explanations of drug abuse evaluated constructionist paradigms of stratification, labeling, and Marxist theories. However, many studies involving heroin use continue to focus on person-centered risk factors surrounding use and, to a lesser extent, recovery processes....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/ijtd-2017/1710005
Development of Vaccination against Fungal Disease: A Review Article
Gebrehiwet Tesfahuneygn and Gebremichael Gebreegziabher
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: August 25, 2018
Vaccines have been hailed as one of the greatest achievements in the public health during the past century. So far, the development of safe and efficacious vaccines has been a major barrier for other infectious agents including fungi, partly due to of our lack of knowledge about the mechanisms that underpin protective immunity....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4037.1510031
Death Acceptance through Otherness
Demian Halperin and Gabriel Schreiber
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: August 25, 2018
When the subject of death appears in the therapeutic context, dealing with it can be a complex task. Levinas proposed that there is no anxiety towards one's own death but rather that fear for death is fear for the Other's death, meaning that because of death's incomprehensibility, it can only be experienced when it happens to others....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3672/1410030
Durable Response with the Anti-Pd-L1 Monoclonal Antibody Avelumab in Non-Resectable Advanced Merkel Cell Carcinoma: Review of Literature
Daniel Ezekwudo, Richard Keidan, Bolanle Gbadamosi, Vonda K Douglas-Nikitin, Zhou Yu, Jeffrey Margolis, Michael Stender, Susanna Gaikazian and Ishmael Jaiyesimi
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: August 24, 2018
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an aggressive form of skin cancer mostly seen in fair-skinned individuals between the ages of 60-80 years, and is associated with a poor prognostic outcome. Approximately 1500 new cases of MCC are diagnosed in the United States every year with an annual incidence rate of 0.7 per 100,000 persons....