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PubMed1995

[Nuptiality of single persons in the Czech Republic, past and present].

"Nuptiality...of single persons in the Czech Republic can be distributed into 3 stages. During the first one specified by the period since World War II until the beginning of the sixties nuptiality...developed in accordance with the European trends.... The second stage started in the sixties and was completed in 1989.... In this stage...the Czech Republic's population started its differentiation of nuptial behaviour as compared to a series of developed countries, where at the turn of the seventies the intensity of single persons' nuptiality has declined while the average age at the first marriage has been increasing. Since 1992 the third stage has appeared in the Czech Republic characterized by declining intensity and growth of marriage age." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND RUS)

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PubMed2002

Does cognitive status moderate the health effects of single-person room transfers on nursing home residents?

PURPOSE: This study investigated whether cognitively impaired nursing home residents are particularly vulnerable to harmful effects during single-person, intrabuilding room transfers. DESIGN AND METHODS: A variation of a pretest-posttest experimental-comparison group design was used. Data on cognitive status, mortality, and seven morbidity outcome measures were abstracted from the Minimum Data Set Plus and were analyzed by means of event history analyses, controlling for covariates as well as baseline status of outcome variables. RESULTS: None of the Relocation x Cognitive Status interaction effects were significant at the Bonferroni corrected p value. IMPLICATIONS: These findings suggest that cognitive status may not moderate the health effects of single-person room transfers.

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PubMed1999

[The resources of the social network of single person households during acute illness. Basic data for home care planning in an influenza epidemic].

UNLABELLED: 230 single persons living in the city of Zurich, 60% aged 18-45, 10% 45-65 and 22% older than 64 years; 70% males were subject to an enquiry. The questioned persons mostly live in two-room-apartments, on average for 11 years, they are single for 8.5 years on average. Solely 5.4% have no living relatives but 32% see them only irregularly (same for all age groups) and 4% are not persistently in touch with friends or acquaintances. 36% were needing help in the past because of sickness or accident. They got it from neighbours (38%), friends, acquaintances (36%), family members (17%) and from home care organisations (9%). In case of a heavy wave of influenza only 14% would not help their neighbours, they would help an average of four neighbours but also they would surely not help four neighbours. The answering persons know 23 singles (= 10%) who presumably would not get any help and 20 (= 9%) who would decline help. 90% of the questioned persons believe, that they would get help by family members or friends, even if those live far away, but still 29% expect help from home care organisations, of the questioned over 64 years old even 52%. CONCLUSION: 10-30% of city singles need help in form of home care in case of an acute illness like heavy influenza.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2000

Short tandem repeat methodology for genotypic identification of single-person versus multi-person use of syringes.

OBJECTIVE: To develop laboratory methods to differentiate between single- versus multi-person use of syringes by injection drug users. METHODS: Forensic short tandem repeat (STR) genetic analysis was undertaken to cross-validate a test panel of trace blood contents from syringes representing single- versus multi-person syringe use. Laboratory-simulated scenarios of needle sharing generated 34 syringe washes that were blinded for evaluation. Polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify the polymorphic STR locus D6S502 from blood trace contents in used syringes. Alleles were sized and quantified using a commercial gene sequencer. A statistical algorithm was developed to determine the number of alleles present in the amplified DNA fragments. Syringes with more than two expected alleles were considered to represent multi-person syringe use. Sensitivity, specificity and the kappa coefficient were calculated. RESULTS: Allelic matrix-based analysis of alleles from the single STR successfully characterized single-use (n = 12) and multiple-use (n = 22) syringes with 68% sensitivity and 100% specificity upon re-analysis. The extent of agreement over and above chance (kappa = 0.6; P < 0.0001) indicated good agreement for differentiating single- versus multi-person syringe use. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that improved genotypic STR analysis of syringe material could be an adjunct to methods for validating self-reported needle sharing, conducting behavioral surveillance of needle-sharing behaviors, and evaluating interventions such as needle-exchange programs. Assays based on multiple STR loci will undoubtedly improve upon the promising results obtained from laboratory simulations of needle sharing.

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PubMed1993

[Specific therapeutic treatment of alcoholic single persons in clinical practice].

We analyzed the experience of authors treating alcoholics-singles and concluded that the observed group is homogenous only with regard to the fact that the subjects have not been married but rather heterogenous with regard to the sex, age, education, previous marital experience and attitudes toward the family. Discussed are problems of the assistants in the treatment, acceptance of the therapy group and the defeat of the heterogenousness.

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[Change in daily activities in the transition to retirement in single persons and couples].

Basic changes of daily activities during the period of transition to retirement according to the concept of the household approach are described with the help of results of empirical research. From the point of view of the household approach the transition to the phase of post-professional life is a sophisticated movement which is integrated in households, affects cycles of individual biographies and families just as individual and social structures in general and is linked with one or more changes of position and status from the dual pattern of job and freetime to the monistic private time schedule at the disposition of each household. The interpretations of the singles and couples questioned about their views of the period of transition to retirement are taken into account.

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PubMed1979

Laboratory-based surveillance of influenza virus in the United States during the winter of 1977--1978. II. Isolation of a mixture of A/Victoria- and A/USSR-like viruses from a single person during an epidemic in Wyoming, USA, January 1978.

At a time when outbreaks and sporadic cases of influenza caused a A/Victoria/3/75-like and A/Texas/1/77-like H3N2 strain of influenza were occurring in the Rocky Mountain region of the USA, about 60% of the students of a high school in Cheyenne, Wyoming, were involved in an outbreak of influenza-like illness. Six influenza A(H1N1) virus isolates were obtained from throat swabs collected from 12 of these students. Virus isolated from a seventh student, however, contained a mixture of H1 and H3 (A/Victoria/3/75-like) hemagglutinins and N1 and N2 neuraminidases, as shown by the ability to clone from the mixture viruses with antigenic components H1N1, H3N1, and H3N2. An antigenic hybrid virus with H3N1 composition was re-isolated from the original throat swab. The results show that one student was shedding a mixture of A/Victoria/3/75(H3N2)-like and A/USSR/90/77(H1N1)-like viruses at the time his throat swab was taken.

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