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This letter addresses important considerations for enhancing the research on the gender gap in deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease. While acknowledging the commendable efforts of the study's authors, we highlight several areas that warrant further attention to maximize the research's yield and applicab…

Existing studies have failed to adequately determine the combined effects of attachment and filial obligation as motives for adult children's caregiving behavior. This study's aim was to clarify the effects of these motives on caregiving and subsequent feelings of burden. In a path analysis of data from 78 daughters ca…

BACKGROUND: Understanding more about the unseen side of our responses to visual stimuli offers a powerful new tool for transportation planning. Traditional transportation planning tends to focus on the mobility of vehicles rather than on opportunities to encourage sustainable transport modes, like walking. METHODS: Us…

Optimized retrieval of test results is important to patient care and patient safety. The time during which a physician is retrieving results is a vital aspect of the diagnostic process since it is when the preliminary diagnosis is confirmed or the differential is adjusted. Better characterization of the time spent whil…

Religion and spiritual traditions entail vast wisdom and knowledge which have proved their productivity in achieving criminal rehabilitation, crime desistance, and crime prevention. Unfortunately, the literature on their role is relatively scarce and was not, until recently, regarded as part of mainstream criminology.…

PURPOSE: To determine whether industry affiliation influences the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) studying the use of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) for the treatment of patellar or Achilles tendinopathy. METHODS: The PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane, and MEDLINE databases were searched in July 2023 for RCTs invest…

BACKGROUND: Human rights are an important part of nursing practice. Despite its importance for professional development and practice, few studies have focused on how to include a human rights perspective in nursing education. One area proven to be particularly challenging is the right to food for older people in nursin…

The international community has set ambitious goals (Millennium Development Goals) to improve health in developing countries by 2015. Effective and often cheap interventions exist to achieve these goals. In the mainland of Tanzania, one of the poorest countries of the world, we explored the human resources challenges o…

An emerging literature on human-perpetrated violence suggests that seemingly apparent random acts of violence may indeed have important embedded temporal patterns. This study reviews this literature and presents the temporal findings of a fifteen-year study of patient assaults on staff in health care settings. Temporal…

The paper aims to empirically assess the effects of technological spillovers on economic growth and to examine the roles of host country absorptive capacity. The empirical analysis was carried out at the country level on a panel of five Asian countries covering the period from 1972 to 2018. As the variable of interest…

This study's findings show how power and job satisfaction are perceived by home health nurses. It has important implications for managers and can be used in recruiting nurses.

Replication is an essential requirement for scientific discovery. The current study aims to generalize and replicate 10 propositions made in previous Twitter studies using a representative dataset. Our findings suggest 6 out of 10 propositions could not be replicated due to the variations of data collection, analytic s…

PURPOSE: This study's purpose was to determine the attitudes of students studying in various fields related to health services towards gender roles and intimate partner violence. DESIGN AND METHODS: The descriptive study sample was composed of 441 volunteer students. The data were collected by the Intimate P…

In recent years, a wide range of generic and domain-specific maturity models have been developed in order to improve organizational design and learning of healthcare organizations. While many of these studies describe methods on how to measure dedicated aspects of a healthcare organization's "maturity," little evidence…

The present study examined the relationship between different forms of childhood trauma and eating psychopathology using a multiple mediation model that included emotion dysregulation and dissociation as hypothesised mediators. 142 female undergraduate psychology students studying at two British Universities participat…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to investigate whether there was any relationship between some DNA N-methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) polymorphisms and susceptibility to idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL) in ISSHL patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We investigated 90 patients diagnosed with ISSHL…

Though much effort is often put into designing psychological studies, the measurement model and scoring approach employed are often an afterthought, especially when short survey scales are used (Flake & Fried, 2020). One possible reason that measurement gets downplayed is that there is generally little understanding of…

Guided by vulnerability and precarity frameworks, we investigated the career trajectories of paid domestic cleaning (PDC) workers in Switzerland with two specific aims: (a) investigate the accumulation of vulnerabilities through former educational, life, and work experiences and (b) explore the career decisions and vol…