Risk of occupational eye injury

Occupational eye injury is one of the common injuries occurring at work. This research used the matched pair case control esign to study 377 pairs of workers. The maximum likelihood estimate of the odds ratio was utilized to statistically evaluate the findings. The results indicated that young age [less than 25 years], inexperience at present work chronic illness, performing unusual tasks and failure to use safety goggles were significant risk factors for occupational eye injury

Mother's opinions of when to attend health centres for antenatal care

A case control study was carried out in 3 health centres in Dammam City during the period from may to august 1989. a number of 500 women matched age groups of late and early attenders for antenatal care was interviewed

Urinary calculi and pattern of fertility among women: a retrospective study

The aim of this study is to reveal the relationship between urolithiasis and pattern of fertility among women as indicated by the age at first pregnancy, the number of pregnancies and the use of contraceptive pills as well as to determine the lateralization of stone. The study was conducted on 250 female patients suffering from urinary stones and a similar number of control randomly selected from the same hospital. Data were obtained by an interviewing questionnaire. The study demonstrated that the mean number of pregnancies of cases is significantly higher than that of control [t = 3.5797]. However, history of pregnancy, the age at first pregnancy and the duration of use of contraceptive pills are not significantly related to urolithiasis [X[2] = 0.3415, 0.7688 and 1.5120 respectively]. Right side stone are more encountered in cases with history of pregnancy than those who have never been pregnant

Pattern of utilization of South Dammam health center in Saudi Arabia after improving the programme of primary health care

The aim of this study is to compare the pattern of utilization of South Dammam Health Center before and after improving the primary health care services. Analysis of monthly reports of the center was carried out. The results reveal that the average number of population served by the center is 19117. The study shows that one doctor serves 1911.7 population, one nurse serves 831.17, while the total number of population served by one health worker in all categories is 360.70. After programme improvement, there is a decrease in the average number of patient per day/ doctor/ nurse/ dentist, while the average numbers of stool, urine and Hb samples and X-ray films as well as the number of referred cases per day are increasing

Some biological and social factors affecting intellectual maturity of pupils aged six to less than 7 years

The "good enough draw a man" test was used to study the intellectual development of children aged six to less than seven years. The aim of this work was to find out whether the biological and socio-economic background of pupils affect their intellectual maturity. To fulfill this aim, the cross sectional study was used where 1724 pupils aged 6 to less than seven years of age were randomly collected from 12 primary schools chosen by the proportional allocation method from six educational zones of Alexandria during the scholastic year 1986-1897. Assessment of intelligence was carried out and data related to biological and socio-economic background were collected and data analyzed using the 0.05 level of significance. The results obtained have shown that sex and birth order had no effect on the pupils test score. In contrast living with parents as well as parents' education and occupation did affect pupil's performance. Mother's age was negatively correlated with pupils' standard score