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Soft Launching of Training Program in Primary Care with University Putra Malaysia in collaboration with Ministry of Health. Address by Datu Dr Mohd Taha Ariff, Director General of Health, Malaysia, 17 February 2001

Md Taha A

Family Physician, 2001;11:1-2.
Improving drug related problems in the work place

Md Hussain H

Family Physician, 1994;6:27-31.
Investigations in renal disease

Zaki Morad MZ

Family Practitioner, 1983;6:15-18.
Analisis ergonomik terhadap kesihatan dan keselamatan dalam kalangan pemandu teksi warga tua di Malaysia

Irwan Syah Md Yusoff

Jurnal Pengguna Malaysia - Malaysian Journal of Consumer, 2020;34(1):102-118.
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Menurut laporan yang dikeluarkan oleh Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM, 2016) dijangkakan penduduk Malaysia akan mengalami peningkatan daripada 28.6 juta kepada 38.6 juta pada tahun 2040. Sehubungan itu, profesion sebagai pemandu teksi merupakan pekerjaan profesional seperti pemandu bas, kereta api, traktor, forklift dan lain-lain lagi. Oleh itu, pelbagai faktor perlu diberikan perhatian bagi memastikan bahawa pemandu teksi warga tua boleh melakukan tugasan mereka dengan baik dan dalam keadaan kesihatan yang baik. Kajian ini memfokuskan kepada analisis ergonomik terhadap kesihatan dan keselamatan kalangan pemandu teksi warga tua di Malaysia. Kajian keratan rentas telah dijalankan dengan menggunakan soal selidik bersemuka. Kaedah persampelan bertujuan digunakan berdasarkan kriteria inklusif; umur 60 tahun dan ke atas, memandu sendiri teksi lebih daripada satu tahun, tiada kecacatan dan didaftarkan dengan Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat (SPAD). Sejumlah 443 responden mengambil bahagian dalam kajian ini. Perisian SPSS versi 2.0 digunakan untuk analsis data dan Khi Kuasa Dua. Postur pemanduan yang tidak baik kalangan pemandu teksi warga tua mampu mendatangkan ketidakselesaan dan menghasilkan masalah kesihatan berkaitan pada muskuloskeletal disorders (MSDs). Implikasi terhadap kesedaran yang rendah pada pendidikan tentang ergonomik mampu memberi kesan pada kualiti gaya hidup dan kesihatan kalangan pemandu teksi warga tua di Malaysia.
Fulltext Factors Associated with Quality of Life in Huntington’s Disease.

Najwa Hanim Md Rosli

IIUM Medical Journal Malaysia, 2019;18(102):7-0.
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Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited progressive neurodegenerative disorder which affects motor function, cognition and the psychological state of HD patients. Its triad of unique symptoms compared to other neurodegenerative disorders might give rise to a higher level of burden for their carers. The aim of this study was to explore factors associated with the quality of life in patients with HD. Materials and Method: Eighty-one HD patients and their carers participated in this study. Cognitive impairment was assessed with the Neuropsychiatry Unit Cognitive Assessment Tool (NUCOG), motor disturbances was scored using the Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS) motor scale, psychological status of both patient and carer were assessed using the Depression Anxiety Stress scale (DASS21), behavior of the patient was assessed using Revised Cambridge Behavioural Inventory (CBI-r) and patient's quality of life was assessed with WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. Results: Patients' psychological conditions, motor disturbances and behavior of the patient are correlated with low QOL in HD patient. Conclusion: Other than regular motor symptoms, psychological and behaviour of HD assessment should be assessed regularly to ensure the patients having good quality of life.
Fulltext To explore customer consciousness towards brand loyalty between Malaysian and international students

Sheak, Md Shabuddin

Trends in Undergraduate Research, 2020;3(1):29-35.
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In the age of modern competitive market force, where traditional marketing system is not enough to capture the loyalty from customers, and the increasing consciousness toward the brand making the marketer more concern to survive and the competition are becoming more difficult. So, customers are more conscious about their choice and giving more priority on the right product with right features, conditions, images and quality at the right price. The aim of this study is to explore customer consciousness toward brand loyalty between Malaysian and International Students. Quantitative research method is being used to evaluate the outcome of the research where total survey respondents were 197 (140 Malaysian and 57 International students) and the scope of the research is limited to the respondent of University Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan. The result of regression linear and Pearson Correlation showed that except price-consciousness, brand-consciousness, quality-consciousness and social-consciousness have positive significant relationship toward brand loyalty.
Fulltext Sāçaḳlīzāde's risālah waladiyyah: a treatise on the art of disputation for beginners

Md. Asham Ahmad

TAFHIM : IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World, 2020;13(2):1-27.
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Ādāb al-Baḥth wa al-Munāẓarah arose as a science in the Islamic world at the end of the 7th/13th century. It is a creative synthesis of logic and juridical dialectics, and was known during the classical period as jadal (dialectic), and in jurisprudence as ʿilm alkhilāf. The aim of a munāẓarah is to arrive at the truth by the means of a regulated disputation, in which a proposition and its proof can be cross-examined by the disputants. This article introduces Risālah Waladiyyah by Sāçaḳlīzāde (d. 1737/42), a manual of Ādāb al-Baḥth wa al-Munāẓarah for beginners.
Fulltext The effects of forearm position on handgrip strength

Ali Md Nadzalan

Jurnal Sains Sukan & Pendidikan Jasmani, 2013;2(1):2-9.
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This study was conducted to investigate i) while the shoulder was in 180° of flexion and the elbow extended, which of the forearm position (supination, pronation and neutral) can generate the greatest handgrip strength, ii) is there any correlation of the handgrip strength between the dominant hand (right hand) and non-dominant hand (left hand) in each forearm position, and iii) will the dominant hand possessed 10% higher handgrip strength than the non-dominant hand. 100 right handed sedentary active students age 22.20 years old (± 1.03), height 172.83 cm (± 6.37), body mass 68.87 (± 11.52) and grip position 3.77 (± 0.77) were recruited in this study. The result indicated that for both the dominant and non-dominant hand, when the shoulder is in 180˚ flexion of the body with the elbow extended, the greatest grip strength was obtained when the forearm was in neutral position followed by pronation and supination position. Post Hoc analysis showed that for both dominant hand and non-dominant hand, pronation and supination forearm position produced greater strength score compared to supination forearm position (p0.05). In all forearm position, participants were shown to produced significantly greater strength in their dominant hand and all the scores were more than 10% greater compared to when using non-dominant hand. Positive relationships were also found for the strength score between dominant hand and non-dominant hand. As the conclusion, different shoulder, elbow and forearm position can affect handgrip strength.
Fulltext Using mathematics to quantify subjective decisions: application of analytic hierarchy process to risk assessment

Rabihah Md. Sum

Journal of Advanced Research Design, 2018;44(1):7-19.
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Risk management requires human judgements, from risk identification, assessment to response. Although automated tools are useful in handling large amounts of data and in performing complex calculations rapidly, humans undertake the entire risk management process. They bring to the process their intuitions, insights, previous experiences and skills. Therefore, creating a rich source of information of risks faced by an organisation. Ignoring human factors may impoverish information and limit risk management to only measurable factors. This study contributes to the field of decision-making and risk assessment by investigating and discussing in detail how to quantify subjective judgements using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP is used to assess risk of an insurance company. It discusses how to do risk assessment by combining both intuition and analytic in the decision-making process. The study defines intuition as knowledge and experience, and analytic as the mathematics or quantitative analysis to derive the result. It demonstrates how Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) - a flexible multi-attribute or multi-criteria decision making tool, enables risk managers to use both intuition and analytic to do risk assessment. Risk assessment using AHP produces global priority weights representing the overall risk ranking of an insurance company. The study develops a risk assessment problem and uses AHP to organise and structure risks and sub-risks of the problem. It uses formative evaluation method with open-ended questionnaires to obtain feedbacks from risk managers on AHP. Three employees of a risk management department in a government agency assesses the risks using AHP. AHP strengths are easy to use and understand, improves risk assessment and useful for risk assessment problems that have scarce or no data. AHP limitation are the numbers and repetitiveness of the pairwise comparisons. The participants either ignore some of the pairwise questions or they answer randomly instead of deliberate judgements.
Fulltext The effectiveness of Dalcroze Music Approach in enhancing musical coordination skill among year 4 students in urban area

Md Jais Ismail

Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017;2(1):54-65.
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This study is designed in qualitative form which focuses on musical coordination skill that is sing and
clapping rhythm simultaneously in meter . The researcher used one of music teaching method which
is Dalcroze Approach as an intervention in this study. Dalcroze Approach is a method which relates
musical concepts with movement. Research sample is among Year 4 students aged 10 years old from
different sex and race. Data have been collected through observation and interview. A comprehension
exam is conducted as a supplementary data collection. Findings show the students have achieved good
result in music coordination skill after the implementation of the Dalcroze Approach. Observation
revealed that all the students have increase their coordination skill in singing and clapping the rhythm simultaneously. Interview which is conducted on students found 60 percent of them are very confident
to do the skill as well. The result of comprehension exam shows 73 percent of students score A which
can be described as excellent. Researcher wish to have further study in developing the music
coordination skill by improving the intervention of the study.
Message from Chairman Organising Committee of Convention 77

Md Din A

Family Practitioner, 1977;2:5-6.
Social and cultural aspects of health. Our inherited philosophy

Md Nasir H

Family Practitioner, 1981;4<I> </I>:39-42.
Management of urethral discharge in the male

Md Noh I

Family Practitioner, 1986;9:19-22.
Psychosocial issues in an adolescent with diabetes mellitus

Sherina MS, Shiran MS

Family Physician, 2003;12:17-18.
Research Notes. 4. How to write a research proposal?

Sherina MS

Family Physician, 2005;13:30-32.
Fulltext Current Drugs with Potential for Treatment of COVID-19: A Literature Review

Md Insiat Islam Rabby

J Pharm Pharm Sci, 2020;23(1):58-64.
PMID: 32251618 DOI: 10.18433/jpps31002

PURPOSE: SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in China in December 2019 and rapidly spread worldwide. No vaccine or approved drug is available to eradicate the virus, however, some drugs that are indicated for other afflictions seems to be potentially beneficial to treat the infection albeit without unequivocal evidence. The aim of this article is to review the published background on the effectiveness of these drugs against COVID-19 Methods: A thorough literature search was conducted on recently published studies which have published between January 1 to March 25, 2020. PubMed, Google Scholar and Science Direct databases were searched Results: A total 22 articles were found eligible. 8 discuss about treatment outcomes from their applied drugs during treatment of COVID-19 patients, 4 report laboratory tests, one report animal trial and other 9 articles discuss recommendations and suggestions based on the treatment process and clinical outcomes of other diseases such as malaria, ebola, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). The data and/or recommendations are categorized in 4 classes: (a) anti-viral and anti-inflammatory drugs, (b) anti-malaria drugs, (c) traditional Chinese drugs and (d) other treatments/drugs.
CONCLUSION: All examined treatments, although potentiality effective against COVID-19, need either appropriate drug development or clinical trial to be suitable for clinical use.
Fulltext Sudden hearing loss after an explosion

Irfan M, Md Daud MK

Malays Fam Physician, 2013;8(3):51-3.
PMID: 25893062 MyJurnal
Government support, employee structure and organisational digital innovation: Evidence from China

Xia Y, Md Johar MG

Heliyon, 2024 Aug 30;10(16):e36399.
PMID: 39253266 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e36399

Digital innovation activities are data-driven, and the process of organizational digital innovation is inevitably influenced by their key participants, employees, as well as changes in the social institutional environment. How government support and employee structure impact organisational digital innovation was examined in this study. Since digital innovation activities are data-driven, the mediating role of data flows within digital innovation ecosystems was explored. A quantitative research design was employed, and data were collected by a survey from 299 firms in China. Results of structural equation modelling using SPSS and AMOS reveal that government support for enterprises in terms of policies and services, as well as the employee structure within enterprises, have a direct impact on organisational digital innovation. Data flows within digital innovation ecosystems mediate the relationship between government support and organisational digital innovation activities. Our findings provided evidence for theories of digital innovation ecosystems and employee-driven digital innovation. The results and conclusions in this study can provide reference for enterprises to achieve digital innovation breakthroughs, and for policymakers to formulate digital-related policies and regulations.
Fulltext Reproductive number of coronavirus: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on global level evidence

Billah MA, Miah MM, Khan MN

PLoS One, 2020;15(11):e0242128.
PMID: 33175914 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242128

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) is now a global concern because of its higher transmission capacity and associated adverse consequences including death. The reproductive number of coronavirus provides an estimate of the possible extent of the transmission. This study aims to provide a summary reproductive number of coronavirus based on available global level evidence.
METHODS: A total of three databases were searched on September 15, 2020: PubMed, Web of Science, and Science Direct. The searches were conducted using a pre-specified search strategy to record studies reported the reproductive number of coronavirus from its inception in December 2019. It includes keywords of coronavirus and its reproductive number, which were combined using the Boolean operators (AND, OR). Based on the included studies, we estimated a summary reproductive number by using the meta-analysis. We used narrative synthesis to explain the results of the studies where the reproductive number was reported, however, were not possible to include in the meta-analysis because of the lack of data (mostly due to confidence interval was not reported).
RESULTS: Total of 42 studies included in this review whereas 29 of them were included in the meta-analysis. The estimated summary reproductive number was 2.87 (95% CI, 2.39-3.44). We found evidence of very high heterogeneity (99.5%) of the reproductive number reported in the included studies. Our sub-group analysis was found the significant variations of reproductive number across the country for which it was estimated, method and model that were used to estimate the reproductive number, number of case that was considered to estimate the reproductive number, and the type of reproductive number that was estimated. The highest reproductive number was reported for the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship in Japan (14.8). In the country-level, the higher reproductive number was reported for France (R, 6.32, 95% CI, 5.72-6.99) following Germany (R, 6.07, 95% CI, 5.51-6.69) and Spain (R, 3.56, 95% CI, 1.62-7.82). The higher reproductive number was reported if it was estimated by using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method (MCMC) method and the Epidemic curve model. We also reported significant heterogeneity of the type of reproductive number- a high-value reported if it was the time-dependent reproductive number.
CONCLUSION: The estimated summary reproductive number indicates an exponential increase of coronavirus infection in the coming days. Comprehensive policies and programs are important to reduce new infections as well as the associated adverse consequences including death.
Stress Symptoms Among Adolescent: A Study from Islamic Perspective

Sham FM

J Relig Health, 2015 Aug;54(4):1278-85.
PMID: 24807209 DOI: 10.1007/s10943-014-9866-7

Rapid social changes in current times which can be quite abrupt present a challenge to adolescent life. Adolescents who are unable to adapt themselves experience stress which may affect their health. Psychological issues of adolescents require attention because the long-term consequence is worse than the short-term effects, namely, there will be a group of people within society who live under stress. Stressed people show symptoms such as being aggressive, prone to rebel, uncontrollable anger, depression, mental disorders and health problems. Early recognition of adolescent stress symptoms is vital. Pursuant to this, a study is conducted among adolescents in Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia for the purpose of determining whether they experience stress or otherwise, based on stress symptoms in terms of psychology, physiology and social behaviour. An analysis is conducted on 403 respondents who comprise of male and female adolescents aged 16-17 years. The required data are gathered through questionnaire and structured interview. Analysis is based on descriptive statistical method and is explained in a table in terms of frequency, percentage and mode. Research results show that adolescents do experience stress and that the majority of them exhibit psychological stress symptoms.

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