This paper describes a case note and interview study of a cross sectional sample comprised of all children seen and confirmed as being sexually abused between June 1985 and December 1990 by the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Team of Kuala Lumpur General Hospital. A total of 101 cases, which represented 18.2% of all child abuse cases, were seen together with their accompanying adults. Information about ethnicity, socioeconomic status, family constellation relationship of perpetrator to the child, and reported psychosocial factors that could have contributed towards the abuse were recorded. The Indian ethnicity group was found to be overrepresented. The mean age of children was 6-8 years, SD 4.1, with age ranging 1.5-16 years. Forty-one and one-half percent were in the age range 5-9 years. Among the important associated psychosocial factors found were the absence of another adult at home, unemployment, and history of drug abuse among the perpetrators.
The Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (later known as The Crown - Crisp Experiential Index) was used on medical students of the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. It was found that Year II medical students scored the highest; the female students scored higher than male students in all classes. The female students were more anxious, phobic, obsessional, hypochondriacal and depressive than male students.
Six cases of children of divorced parents are discussed. Their presentations are described and other relevant findings are mentioned. It is interesting to note that in the majority of the cases, the caretakers had difficulties in looking after the children and hence brought them to seek treatment.
Study site: Psychiatric clinic, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
The asymmetric unit of the title complex, [Pd(C15H13FNO)2], contains one half of the mol-ecule with the Pd(II) cation lying on an inversion centre and is coordinated by the bidentate Schiff base anion. The geometry around the cationic Pd(II) centre is distorted square planar, chelated by the imine N- and phenolate O-donor atoms of the two Schiff base ligands. The N- and O-donor atoms of the two ligands are mutually trans, with Pd-N and Pd-O bond lengths of 2.028 (2) and 1.9770 (18) Å, respectively. The fluoro-phenyl ring is tilted away from the coordination plane and makes a dihedral angle of 66.2 (2)° with the phenolate ring. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked into chains along the [101] direction by weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. Weak π-π inter-actions with centroid-centroid distances of 4.079 (2) Å stack the mol-ecules along c.
Eighty-six children diagnosed as child abuse and/or neglect were admitted to the Paediatric wards of the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur during 1985 and 1986. Of these cases, 62 were of physical abuse, six of sexual abuse, one case of both physical and sexual abuse and 17 of neglect. There were 25 boys and 61 girls. Thirty-four of these children were Malays, 16 Chinese, 26 Indians, three mixed and seven illegal immigrants. Twenty-one were below the age of one year, 24 from one to four years, 25 from five to nine years and 16 were ten years and above. The abusers were mainly close members of the family. Of these children, 24 were sent back to their parents and 11 to their relatives home. Twenty-seven were taken into care by the Ministry of Social Welfare and the remaining seven children who were illegal immigrants, were deported with their parents. Only one child was successfully fostered. Eleven children were taken away from the hospital by their parents or guardians without the knowledge of the health staff. There were five deaths in the series.
This paper provided the dataset obtained from spectroscopic, crystallography and DFT of a new compound namely 1,2-bis[N,N'-6-(4-pyridylmethylamido)pyridyl-2-carboxyamido]butane. This compound is prepared from the reaction between N-6-[(4-pyridylmethylamino)carbonyl]-pyridine-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester with butane-1,4-diamine. The preparation of this compound is modified from the method described in our article [1]. In this work, we present data characterization of 1,2-bis[N,N'-6-(4-pyridylmethylamido)pyridyl-2-carboxyamido]butane from Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1 H NMR), NOESY NMR, 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (13C NMR), and elemental analysis (CHNS). The structure of this molecule is also analysed by X-ray crystallography and DFT studies. A single-crystal X-ray diffraction investigation was carried out by using Bruker SMART Apex II Duo CCD area-detector diffractometers with MoKα radiation (wavelength of λ = 0.71073 Å). The optimized energy was indicated with GaussView 5.0 and Gaussian 16 software package programme.
Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is increasingly being diagnosed in children. However, there is no prevalence study done in Malaysia. The study objective was to evaluate the prevalence of SDB symptoms based on parental reports and associated risk factors among Malay school children aged 6 to 10 years old in a primary school using a translated University Michigan Paediatric Sleep Questionnaire (Malay UM-PSQ). The children whose parents responded to the questionnaire and consented were examined, documenting height, weight, skin fold thickness, neck and abdominal circumference, tonsillar size, nostril examination and presence of micrognathia or retrognathia. There were 550 respondents. The prevalence of parental report of SDB symptoms was 14.9 % (95 % CI 11.9, 17.9). Two hundred and eighty-five (51.8%) school children were males with mean age of 8.5 years (SD 1.1). The associated risk factors for SDB symptoms are male, obesity, large neck and waist circumference, positive history of asthma, history of recurrent tonsillitis, enlarged tonsil (> 4+) and enlarged nasal turbinate. Multivariate analysis showed that male gender is the only significant independent risk factor of SDB symptoms
Aim: The biggest cause of cancer deaths globally was lung cancer. New cancer fighting drugs are needed due to the rising number of cancer patients and cancer cells' treatment resistance.Results: Two Cu(II) complexes, synthesized from ligands based on 2-aminomethyl benzimidazole and salicylaldehyde derivatives, were designed and evaluated for their effectiveness against A549 lung cancer. The compounds were subjected to computational calculation using Density Functional Theory (DFT) to gather information on their reactivity. Furthermore, molecular docking are utilized to simulate the interaction between the compound and the MPP-9 protein. The synthesis of the ligands and their Cu(II) metal complexes are efficient and straightforward. The complexation between copper atom and the ligand are in 1:1 ratio. The MTT assay of the compounds against A549 lung carcinoma reveals that the both Cu(II) complexes good cytotoxicity activity, in comparison to their respective ligands. The low HOMO-LUMO band gap based on the DFT calculation predicts the high reactivity of the compounds. Furthermore, the low binding energy and the numbers of interactions of the Cu(II) complexes with MMP-9 protein binding site coincide with the antiproliferative activity tested in vitro.Conclusion: The cytotoxicity studies performed for Cu(L1Br) are promising, indicating a good candidate for a future drug.