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@#Numerous health issues can arise from improper domestic waste management. Uncollected wastes provide food and breeding sites for insect, bird and rodent which can expose the community to vector borne disease. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the community awareness towards domestic waste management. This study is a cross-sectional study conducted at Bandar Baru Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia. The questionnaire consists of five sections with a total of 57 questions. The questionnaire consists of four parts: Socio-demographic, knowledge, attitude and practice. The data were analysed using SPSS version 22.0. T-test, ANOVA test, Chi-squared test were used according to the type of variables and significance level will be taken at 95% or p-value of less than 0.05. A total of 355 respondents participated in this study. The mean age was 40.52 ±14.94. The majority of them were male (52.1%), Malay (71.0%), married (71.3%), with secondary educational (81%) and employed (41.1%). The majority of respondents mentioned that inappropriate waste management can cause dengue fever and leptospirosis (98.0%, 97.2%; respectively). Property type, education, occupation, ethnicity, religions and household income were significant influenced the knowledge of the participants towards domestic waste management. For attitude, gender, education, ethnicity, religion and income significantly influenced the attitude of the participants towards domestic waste management. For practice, ethnicity, religion and occupation were significantly influenced the practice of the participants towards domestic waste management. In conclusion, the community has moderate awareness of domestic waste management. Awareness of waste management should also be taught in school so that the next generation of people will have a better understanding and eventually have better practice in domestic waste management. It is also hoped that a carefully thought-out strategy can be developed to further improve the community awareness towards domestic waste management which will shed a new light on tackling this issue.
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Waste Management , Health , Knowledge , AttitudeABSTRACT
@#The objective of this study is to explore physician’s perception toward clinical pharmacy services and role of clinical pharmacists in governmental hospitals at Al-Qassim region. An observational cross-sectional survey was conducted. Results: 150 males and 39 females participated giving 75.5% (189 of 250) response rate. Physicians perceptions were found to be high (equal or more than 90% of frequency) in some clinical pharmacy services such as patients’ education and counselling, monitoring of patients’ responses to drug therapy including toxicity/side effects and provision of drug information to healthcare professionals. The physicians showed low perception (less than 76%) in the taking of patients’ medication history on admission, by clinical pharmacists. Conclusion: Physicians’ perception toward clinical pharmacy services and the role of clinical pharmacists was not found to be completely favourable. The reason of this mixed responses and to the accommodating feelings of clinical pharmacy services in clinical setting appear to relate to the state of infrastructure and environments of hospitals. The infrastructure and environments of hospitals need to be updated for an improved accommodation clinical pharmacy services.
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Patient Care , Physicians , Perception , Saudi ArabiaABSTRACT
Understanding current perceptions of medical students regarding learning pharmacology and understanding pharmacology's important role in both clinical practice and research may be helpful in improving the teaching of this discipline. This study was conducted to evaluate medical students' opinions toward pharmacology. One hundred fifty medical students, randomly selected from the Management and Sciences University [MSU] in Malaysia, completed a self-administered questionnaire that inquired concerning their views toward learning pharmacology. The majority [75.3%], of the participants were female and [68%] were Malays whose parents were nonmedical professionals [88.7-95.3%]. The average percentage of respondents agreeing to participate [47.15 +/- 11.69] was highly significant [p < 0.0001] compared with the average percentage of respondents that disagreed [9.97 +/- 3.15]. The percentage of students that considered pharmacology as a favoured subject and a choice for post-graduate studies was significantly lower [p < 0.05] compared with the percentage that did not, although the students that agreed were less than 30% of the total participants. The study found that the general perceptions of students regarding the study of pharmacology were positive. Nevertheless, the study also exposed the need for concerted efforts to make learning pharmacology an interesting experience and to identify priority areas for such improvements
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Humans , Male , Female , Students, Medical , Perception , Learning , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
Les auteurs rapportent un cas d'ascite chyleuse chez un nouveau-ne de 3 semaines. L'evolution sous nutrition parenterale puis alimentation enterale elementaire excluant les triglycerides a chaine longue a ete malheureusement defavorable au 37eme jour de vie dans un tableau de choc septique. Une revue de la litterature a permis de souligner le caractere en regle idiopathique de l'ascite chyleuse du nouveau-ne; et la necessite d'une nutrition parenterale ou enterale comportant des triglycerides a chaine moyenne : seul gage d'une evolution habituellement favorable