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Background: Awareness of common eye diseases particularly impaired vision and their prevention and treatment can play an important role in encouraging people to seek timely eye care and can therefore help in reducing the burden of visual impairment
Objective: This cross sectional observational study was carried out to assess the level of awareness and knowledge about the problem of poor vision among Saudi students in Hail University
Methods: A standardized questionnaire was randomly distributed to students aged 18-24 years of both sexes. A total of 1484 subjects agreed to participate, answered the questionnaire and were involved in the study
Results: Findings showed that1330 students considered poor vision to be a problem. Most of them considered elders the most susceptible age group followed by teenagers. More than half of the students did not know which gender is more affected by poor vision. More than one-third [37.5%] of them considered poor vision as a genetic disorder. Others reported errors of refraction, cataract and senility [10.6%, 8.4% and 6.55%respectively]. However, 28.3% of the students did not know exactly the predisposing causes of poor vision. Two-thirds of the study population thought that poor vision could be prevented. Regular periodic examination of the eyes and prevention of the predisposing factors were recommended [31.3% and 32.7% respectively] as the best methods to prevent poor vision. There was significant association between the level of awareness and knowledge of the students about poor vision and the gender, type and level of education
Conclusion: The detected levels of knowledge is still not the optimum especially among female students, non-scientific colleges and in the earlier levels of university education. This emphasizes the need to involve such students in a proper eye health education program. This will help increasing the awareness of the community at large
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The world's population is aging and the number of people who are >/= 60 years old increased worldwide. The elderly population is susceptible to various benign and malignant diseases. Gastrointestinal diseases are among the common health problems that affect the elderly
Aim of the study: to identify the pattern of gastrointestinal diseases among elderly patients in Arar city [KSA] and the relation with gender in the study population
Subjects and methods: a cross sectional study was conducted in five randomly selected primary healthcare centers in Arar city [KSA], from September 2016 to March 2017. It included 118 elderly patients. A questionnaire was designed for data collection about socio-demographic variables, smoking, BMI, chronic diseases and types of gastrointestinal diseases among participants
Results: findings showed that all participants suffered from dental problems and 24.6% had gum problems. Other diseases affected various proportions of the studied elderly population including loss of appetite, gastric regurgitation, chronic constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic colitis, peptic and duodenal ulceration, liver cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, cholecystitis, gall stones, pills, anal fissure and GIT tumors. Statistically significant differences were found between males and females regarding having piles, gall stones and anorexia. On contrary, all other GIT diseases showed insignificant differences between males and females
Conclusion: different types of GIT diseases were found among the participants with varying rates. Significant gender differences were observed in some diseases [piles, gall stones and loss of appetite] while most of the studied GIT diseases showed insignificant differences between both sexes
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Humans , Male , Female , Middle Aged , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Aged , Gender Identity , Cross-Sectional StudiesABSTRACT
Background: social media is becoming progressively used for improving health literacy and health promotion
Objectives: this study aimed to find out the magnitude of use of social media among people of Saudi Arabia and how far they were used to send health education messages
Methods: this study was a cross sectional study was conducted on convenient sample of participants using survey monkey software. The collected surveys over one month were entered into PC computer using SPSS software
Results: it was found that the majority of participants used one sort of social media or another. Also it was found that Instagram, WhatsApp and SMS were the most preferred media. There were age and gender differences. More than 50% of the participants received health promotion messages and they thought that it was a good idea
Methods: A Cross sectional study was conducted on convenient sample of participants using survey monkey software. The collected surveys over one month were entered into pc computer using SPSS software. Results: it was found that the majority of participants uses one sort of social media or another. Also it was found that Instagram, WhatsApp and SMS were the most preferred media. There were age and gender differences. More than 50% of the participants received health promotion messages and they thought it was a good idea
Conclusion: it's a good opportunity to use these preferred social media to send health education messages to the target population
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Background: The role of ureteroscopy has dramatically evolved over the past twenty years driven by profound enhancement in various factors and assisting techniques such as the ureteroscope size, deflection capabilities, video-imaging, and in lithotripsy [stone breakage] with the advent of holmium laser, however, the stone size plays a critical role in determining outcomes and operative approach
Aim of the work: we conducted a systematic review of the literature to look at the safety and efficacy of flexible utereroscopy and laser lithotripsy intervention in patients with stone disease; particularly those with stones larger than 2 cm
Methods: A systematic search was performed in the scientific database particularly MEDLINE [2000-2017], EMBASE [2000- 2017], Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL [2000-2017], Google Scholar, and individual urologic journals
Results: The search yielded eight studies involving 392 patients, [390 renal units] were reportedly treated with FURSL
The mean operative time was 80.7 minutes [26-215 min]
The mean stone-free rate was 91.2% [77%-96.7%], with an average of 1.6 procedures per patient. The mean stone size was 2.5 cm except for one most recent study which reported stones size less than 0.5 cm. An overall complication rate was 8.1%. Major complications developed in 21 [4.2%] patients and minor complications developed in 19 [3.9%] patients
Conclusion: Flexible Ureteroscopy and Laser Lithotripsy intervention has proven to be not only a less invasive treatment but also a successful with a low complication and stone free rate [SFR] for renal calci larger than 2 cm. FURSL may represent an alternative therapy to standard percutaneous nephrolithotomy [PCNL] with satisfactory efficacy and low morbidity