Objective: Early postpartum home visiting is universal in many Western countries. Studies from
developing countries on the effects of home visits are rare. In Syria, where the postpartum …

Background The cooperation of patients and their consent to involve medical students in their
care is vital to clinical education, but large numbers of students and lack of experience as …

Objectives To determine the effect of training residents in interpersonal and communication
skills on women’s satisfaction with doctor–woman relationship in labour and delivery rooms. …

Background Knowledge and awareness about osteoporosis and its related risk factors are
important contributors to osteoporosis preventive behavior. There is a need to assess the …

A longitudinal community-based study of the epidemiology of acute respiratory infections (ARI)
in children less than 5 years old was carried out in a low income peri-urban area of Syria. …

OBJECTIVE: The results on pregnancy outcomes of mothers afflicted with sickle cell trait are
still contradictory. This study aimed to examine the fetal and maternal outcomes among a …

… Hyam N. Bashour, associate professor in the Division of Statistics and Public Health/Damascus
University, Damascus, Syria, for her great help with the statistical analyses and preparing …

The results on pregnancy outcomes of mothers afflicted with sickle cell trait are still
contradictory. This study aimed to examine the fetal and maternal outcomes among a cohort of …

Objectives: To determine the effect of training residents in interpersonal and communication
skills on womenLs satisfaction with doctorbwoman relationship in labour and delivery rooms…

Background The maternal near-miss approach has been increasingly used as a tool to evaluate
and improve the quality of care in maternal health. We report findings from the formative …