[Predictive validity of a brief scale to assess subjective prognosis of work capacity (SPE Scale) in a cohort of LVA insured patients with severe back pain or functional complaints relating to internal medicine].

被引量：13 发表：2003

Cardiovascular risk factors in an Iranian urban population: Tehran lipid and glucose study (phase 1).

被引量：191 发表：2002

[Hospitalizations due to hepatitis A, B and C in Austria 1996-1998].

:The aim of this study is to analyse the data of all Austrian in-patients who had been hospitalized between 1996 and 1998 with the main diagnosis "viral hepatitis" (according to ICD 9), in order to present data for epidemiological as well as health-economical considerations. The data used stem from the "Minimum Basic Data Set" (MBDS) which contains medical as well as demographical recordings of every in-patient treated in an Austrian public hospital. Hepatitis A: Values of the standardized hospitalization rate (SHR) ranged from 2.6/100,000 (1998) to 4.7/100,000 (1997). On age classes, the highest values regularly were observed in school-children (7-13/100,000 per year). Significant differences between males and females were not revealed. Among the Austrian federal states, Vienna was found to jut out (6.8/100,000 per year), probably due to its high proportion of immigrants from high-endemic regions. Hepatitis B: Values of SHR were found to be stable with about 3/100,000 per year. On age classes, rates increased rapidly in adolescents, reached the peak in young adults (aged 20 to 29 years: 5/100,000 per year) and, then, decreased slowly. Males were slightly, but not significantly, more affected than females. Interestingly, a respectable number of young children (aged 0 to 4 years) were hospitalized in 1997 and 1998 (1998: 4.4/100,000). Comparing the Austrian federal states, Vorarlberg (6.4/10,000 per year) and Vienna (4.5/100,000 per year) yielded the highest values of SHR. Hepatitis C: In the years observed, values of SHR were ascending successively from 6/100,000 (1996) to 9.7/100,000 (1998). On age classes, the highest risk of hospitalization was found for adults aged between 35 and 74 years (10-20/100,000 per year). Among the Austrian federal states, values of SHR differed considerably; Salzburg (15.1/10,000 per year) and Kärnten (Carinthia) (12.1/100,000 per year) were found to yield the highest values.

被引量：- 发表：2000

A survey of institutional influenza vaccination in Switzerland.

:In June 1998, a questionnaire was sent to evaluate the influenza vaccination practices in Switzerland: 429 health care institutions were to assess the level of influenza vaccination and the coverage of specific groups; each institution was required to specify whether vaccination coverage was known precisely (based on recorded data) or estimated. The response rate was 42.4%. Among institutions which responded, the mean accurate vaccination coverage rate for all patients was 40% and the estimated rate was 29%; these rates were slightly higher for people older than 65 years. For the entire staff, the accurate vaccination rate was 16% (14% estimated) whilst for the medical staff, the mean coverage was higher at 30% (measured) and 16% (estimated). The mean vaccination rate for patients and residents was 59% in the French speaking region of Switzerland, 54% in the Italian speaking canton, but only 37% in the German speaking region. The same ranking was found for vaccination coverage of medical staff: 21% in the French speaking region, 15% in the Italian speaking canton, and 13% in German speaking areas. These results suggest that cultural differences could play an important role in the attitudes and behaviour of the population regarding influenza vaccination programmes among the linguistic regions in Switzerland.

被引量：1 发表：2000

[Differential learning effects in preventive drug education by peer group members].

:In the drug prevention programme studied here, peers were acting as teachers for their colleagues. We focused on the contribution of student characteristics and of teaching quality to the gain in knowledge about drugs. 165 8th- and 9th-graders in eight classes answered a questionnaire three times: before, immediately after and five months after the intervention. There was a significant increase in knowledge immediately after the intervention (mean m = 6.2) and after five months (m = 6.1) compared to the score before (m = 4.5). Furthermore, non-German speaking students of the "Sekundarschule" (higher level) learned the most, non-German speaking students of the "Realschule" (lower level) learned nothing at all. We found a positive association between teaching quality as assessed by each class and knowledge gain in the same class. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that five months after the intervention student characteristics explained an important part of the variance in knowledge gain (25% of the total variance), while teaching quality explained another 5%. Consequently, these characteristics can serve as predictors of knowledge gain in such programmes.

被引量：- 发表：2000