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INTRODUCTION: Audition is essential for communication, and it is vital for the normal cognitive development of children. Hence, if a child has a hearing impairment, it would significantly impact the child's speech and language development, competence, and emotional wellness. Most children with hearing impairment are ad…

INTRODUCTION: There has been an increased emphasis on understanding suicidal thoughts and behaviors as they occur in real-time, resulting in a proliferation of studies utilizing intensive time sampling methods. Given the continued growth in this area, there is a need to synthesize the feasibility of these methods in ca…

OBJECTIVE: This study's aims were to explore the views of special constables in the London metropolitan police force concerning their obligations and skills as first aiders. BACKGROUND: The metropolitan police force provides police officers to act as first responders to emergency calls made by the public. Special cons…

To increase enrollment in baccalaureate nursing programs, various admission strategies have been used, including rolling admission policies and multiple admissions during an academic year. However, it is not known how these admission practices affect student preparedness for, or success within, the nursing major. The p…

OBJECTIVE: This study identifies self-reported factors facilitating initiation of cocaine and heroin among young problem users in Amsterdam to enable interventions to be targeted at issues personally relevant for this population. METHOD: A qualitative study using in-depth interviews to obtain retrospective drug use hi…

PURPOSE: To demonstrate intranodal thoracic duct embolization (TDE) for treating chyle leaks following thoracic surgery and the feasibility of applying lower-limb intermittent pneumatic compression devices during TDE. METHODS: Between December 2017 and October 2020, 12 consecutive TDEs for post-operative chyle leaks w…

Hyperlipidemia is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease globally, but there is still much mystery surrounding the topic of lipid regulation. Many studies have attempted to assess the underlying genetic basis of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) metabolism. Recently, multiple genome-wide association studies id…

AIM: The recent increase in sports participation in children and adolescents has resulted in the increase of sport-related injuries and the need for rehabilitation. The purposes of this study were to review studies involving rehabilitation of pediatric musculoskeletal sport-related injuries to determine the study desig…

STUDY DESIGN: This was a case series with intervention performed by masked investigators. OBJECTIVES: To determine values for normal subjects on quantified needle electromyography of the paraspinal muscles compared with a previous sample of patients with clear evidence of radiculopathy. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Di…

Previous studies have indicated that human gender and canine sex influences human-dog interactions. However, the majority of studies have considered the interaction when dogs were off-leash and the behavioural interactions when dogs are walked on a leash have not been addressed. This study investigated human-dog intera…

Holden et al. (2025) conducted a Delphi study to establish consensus on how to define, identify, and assess dyslexia, with the definitional component primarily reported by Carroll et al. (2025). Although Holden et al. aim to provide guidance for practitioners, we have concerns about the study's methodolo…

The study's objective is to examine the role of healthcare privacy officers, including their personal and organizational knowledge, and the facilities where they work. A survey was conducted of privacy officers that are members of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). This resulted in 123 resp…

This study tested recall of proper names versus other details of a crime in incidental learning conditions designed to parallel recall when an "earwitness" reports what he or she overheard from someone discussing a crime. Participants heard an audio recording of someone discussing details of a crime he had committed, a…

This study focuses on the management of chronic depression at the general practitioner's office and the collaboration between general practitioner (GP)-psychiatrist. Our study's highlights two different situations: patients able to verbalize their psychological suffering and who can be directly referred to the psychiat…

This study investigated whether subgroups of faith-based treatment clients displaying similar religious experiences and treatment performance can be theoretically specified and empirically identified. Highlighting the volitional dimension of the change process, four subgroups (i.e., non-Christians, baseline Christians,…

In the late 1990s, there was a marked increase in Sweden in long-term sickness absence with mental diagnoses. In the extensive research on burnout, little attention has been paid to the link with sickness absence. Our aim in this study was to discover what caused burnout, or such severe stress that it led to long-term…

Thyroid function in early pregnancy has been reported to be slightly different from that in second or third trimester. We assessed thyroid function before and after induced abortion in normal pregnant women. A significant increase in serum Free T4 and a decrease in serum TSH were observed before abortion and these chan…

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The study's objective was to determine whether social isolation serves as a mediator in the cross-sectional relationship between food insecurity, both as a short-term and longer-term situation, with resource use and depressive symptoms as outcomes. METHODS: This cross-sectional design study util…

Low vegetable intake continues to be a health concern, and strategies to increase vegetable intake have resulted in only small increases. One strategy that has received less attention is the use of seasonings. This study's objective was to determine the impact of seasoning on vegetable selection, liking, and intent to…

BACKGROUND: School closures as a means of containing the spread of disease have received considerable attention from the public health community. Although they have been implemented during previous pandemics, the epidemiological and economic effects of the closure of individual schools remain unclear. METHODOLOGY: Thi…