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OBJECTIVE: To determine the level of adherence to treatment in patients applying to dental organizations of different forms of ownership. MATERIAL AND METHODS: 1.067 patients of both sexes and various ages who applied to public and private dental organizations of Moscow, Omsk, and Tyumen have been surveyed using the Questionnaire for Quantitative Assessment of Adherence to Treatment (KOP-25), which allows to obtain a quantitative evaluation of the level of adherence to drug treatment, medical support, lifestyle modification, and characterize the level of integral adherence to treatment in patients. Basing on a point rating system of assessment of the responses of the interviewed patients, integrative and structural indicators have been calculated using special formulas. The level of up to 50% has been interpreted as «low¼, from 51 to 75% as «medium¼, over 75% as «high¼. RESULTS: Patients applying to state and privately owned dental organizations have an insufficient level of adherence to treatment (50% medium and 37.4% low), 12.6% of the respondents show high adherence to treatment; adherence to treatment is higher in women, with the highest shown in the group of over 60 years old, independently of the form of ownership of the medical organizations; the interviewed men of all age groups are more inclined to apply for treatment to private medical organizations; all interviewed patients are the least ready for lifestyle modification, women are the most prone to using medication, and the least inclined to treatment are young patients interviewed when applying to public medical organizations. CONCLUSION: Individual treatment adherence assessment allows creating optimal treatment plans with treatment volume most acceptable for patients.
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Surveys and Questionnaires , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , MoscowABSTRACT
In shallow water areas of open Lake Baikal, filamentous green alga of the genus Spirogyra grows abundantly. Together with alga of the genus Ulothrix, it forms algal mats. According to our observations from 2010 to 2013, the spawning habitat conditions for the yellowfin sculpin Cottocomephorus grewingkii (Dybowski, 1874) (Cottidae) proved to be significantly disturbed in the littoral zone of Listvennichnyi Bay (southern Baikal), which, in turn, reduced the number of egg layings. With a 100% projective cover of the floor and a high density of green filamentous algae, the shallow-water stony substrate becomes completely inaccessible for spawning of the August population.
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Fishes/physiology , Reproduction/physiology , Spirogyra/growth & development , Animals , Female , Lakes , Male , Seasons , SiberiaABSTRACT
Data on metagenomic analysis of the microbial community of the intestine of the Comephorus dybowski are presented for the first time. It was established that the bacterial community is characterized by a significant species diversity. In its composition 301 phylotypes (OTU) belonging to 23 phyla (out of which six are candidate, including the Thermobaculum, Gracilibacteria, Candidatus Saccharibacteria, TM6, Latescibacteria, and Parcubacteria) were detected. It was demonstrated that species richness estimated by means of the non-parametric ACE and Chao1 criteria was 568 and 504, respectively; and the species diversity by the Shannon index was 4.05. The analysis ofunique peculiarities of the C. dybowski ecology and biology allows us to explain some of the data obtained on the intestinal microbiome of this specie.
