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This study contributes to the current gap in the literature on drinking behaviors among Mexican American youth by exploring the role of family relationships as a mediator against alcohol use. This is a secondary analysis of data from a nationally representative study on Adolescent Health (ADD Health) collected in 1995…

This study aims to understand the way that AI chatbot interaction affects customers' purchasing decisions. This is achieved through testing the dual mediating effects of customer digital intimacy and psychological ownership on this relationship. The study utilized a quasi-experimental design to test the causal relation…

The Authors pay attention to small tattoo removal by means of the utilization of the CO2 laser. Moreover, the Authors emphasize the drawback of double treatment which, usually, the patient suffers in tattoo removal by CO2 laser. Then, the pressure of the Authors is small sized tattoo removal in only one sitting achievi…

Screenings for the early detection of breast cancer greatly improve survival odds. Studies of minority groups have shown lower attendance of screenings; however, these studies seldom focused on religious minorities. This study examines perceptions of cancer and cancer screening among healthy ultraorthodox women in orde…

Over a 38 month period, 264 patients were admitted for management of burns at the Emergency referral hospital in the resource-poor West African country of Sierra Leone. 244 charts and records were available for review, and 196 met the study's inclusion criteria. For the first 27 months, 158 patients were treated with t…

The Gambling Task (GT) has demonstrated sensitivity to a type of decision-making that differentiates individuals manifesting substance use disorders from those without such disorders. However, studies have not yet compared the GT performance of "heavy smokers" to the performance of never-smokers. In the present study,…

The aim of the present study was to explore the factors associated with veterinary students' study success. All veterinary students who began their studies at the University of Helsinki in 2005 participated in this qualitative longitudinal study (N=52). The data consisted of assignments that the students completed at t…

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…

M. Bilen, M.D.M. Fonkou, T.T. Nguyen, M. Richez, Z. Daoud, P-E. Fournier, D. Raoult, and F. Cadoret, "Miniphocibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., A New Species Isolated from the Human Gut and Its Taxono-Genomics Description," Microbiology Open 8, no. 5 (2019): e00735, https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.735. This Expres…

Studies that seek to understand and improve health care systems benefit from qualitative methods that employ theory to add depth, complexity, and context to analysis. Theories used in health research typically emerge from social science, but these can be inadequate for studying complex health systems. Mental health reh…

Based on recent computed tomography (CT) studies that have suggested the presence of distinct structural abnormalities in the brains of chronic schizophrenics, the authors evaluated 23 chronic schizophrenics and 23 controls by CT, using linear and area lateral ventricular measures, sulcal and Sylvian fissure widths and…

Hopefulness is believed to be a significant element in the human response to illness, but its clinical impact has not been documented due to conceptual and operational difficulties. This article generates a definition of hopefulness from well and ill adolescents. The study's conceptual orientation included the beliefs…

Antibiotic resistance is an urgent global health crisis that requires effective communication strategies to encourage public engagement in preventive behaviors. The current study explores the impact of multimodal design features, including threat agency (human. bacteria), nominalized forms (antibiotic misuse. antibioti…

Anatomy students studying dissected anatomical specimens were subjected to either a loosely-guided, self-directed learning environment or a strictly-guided, preformatted gross anatomy laboratory session. The current study's guiding questions were: (1) do strictly-guided gross anatomy laboratory sessions lead to higher…

OBJECTIVE: Estimate the magnitude of the association between population mobility, measured by net migration rate (NMR), and HIV prevalence in Central America and Mexico. METHODS: Using time series models, based on public information from UNAIDS, UNDP, ECLAC, and the World Bank for the period 1990-2009, this associatio…

As well as protecting the rights of participants, a study's ethics must encompass the quality of its execution. As such, international standards have been established for studies involving human subjects. The objective of this review is to evaluate the usefulness of the Guide to Good Clinical Practice and "study monito…

The Etiology, Risk Factors and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) cohort in the study's Fortaleza, Brazil, catchment area has a population of approximately 82 300 inhabitants. Most of the households (87%) have access to clean water, 98% hav…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this article is to explore factors influencing career deciding amongst pharmacy students and graduates in the U.K. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: Group interviews were used to devise a topic guide for five subsequent focus groups with pharmacy students and graduates. Focus groups were tape-record…