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BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact worldwide. This study sought to assess the pandemic's psychological impact on the Israeli public. METHODS: Using mixed methods we assessed Israeli adults during the COVID-19 outbreak. In the quantitative study, participants (N=1407) completed an online batter…

Pregnancy rates after vasectomy reversal vary among different reporting surgeons. To study those patients who are most likely to achieve pregnancy after vasectomy reversal, and to eliminate the effect of variations in surgical technique and operative findings on surgical outcome, the pregnancy rate after vasectomy reve…

In recent years, global forced migration due to conflict, violence, and persecution has increased dramatically, affecting numerous countries, with Türkiye being particularly impacted. Despite global trends showing a significant decline in positive attitudes toward refugees, the limited existing literature on racis…

The aim of this study was to investigate the potential impact of guided imagery (GI) on attentional control and cognitive performance and to explore the relationship between guided imagery, stress reduction, alpha brainwave activity, and attentional control using common cognitive performance tests. Executive function w…

A rural settlement environment improvement programme is a livelihood project involving the vital interests of farmers. However, whether farmers should take the main responsibility for improving the rural settlement environment is an open issue. This study constructs an evaluation index system for farmers' participation…

BACKGROUND: As the demand for qualified nurses increases, nursing education prepares students for the complex healthcare setting. Nursing education focuses on academic success measures, including licensure examination passage, graduation rates, and grade point average. Though these outcomes are important, they fail to…

Breast cancer is a severe illness that often has fatal consequences. Adherence to the recommendations for breast cancer surveillance is poorly practiced among African American women. The study aimed to identify barriers to preventative screening for breast cancer among African American women (AAW) using a qualitative r…

PURPOSE: The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) program is currently poorly implemented by healthcare workers. Furthermore, several inhibiting and supporting factors for this implementation have been discovered to influence healthcare workers' perception of the program. This study aims to investigate the perception…

BACKGROUND: MLS curricula often focus on factual theory and skills-based competencies. Evolving practitioners also need professional reflection skills to continually improve. The problem giving rise to the need for this intervention was that learners were not reflecting on their practicum experiences beyond thinking of…

Today, organizations face risky legal and financial consequences stemming from a single sexual harassment event. The purpose of this study was to verify that the sexual harassment, as perceived by female employees, significantly affects their levels of psychological distress and workplace deviant behavior to investigat…

BACKGROUND: Suicide cases have psychological, socio-economic and cultural aspects, and such cases may have catastrophic impacts in societies due to their outcomes. PURPOSE: This study was aimed to reflect the effect of psychological, behavioral, socio-demographic and economic determinants on suicide. METHODS: The Ord…

The current study applied Structural Equation Modelling to analyse the relationship among pitch, loudness, tempo and timbre and their relationship with perceived sound quality. Twenty-eight auditory signals of horn, indicator, door open warning and parking sensor were collected from 11 car brands. Twenty-one experience…

The goal of this study was to investigate the differences in physical fitness in relation to urban or rural living environment and between two countries: Italy and Croatia. Over 14,000 students were tested during physical education (PE) lessons. Croatian students were taller and heavier than Italian students, with wome…

The authors of the current article developed and investigated the psychometric properties of a Korean version of the Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool-Short Form (BCAT-SF-K) to better understand cognitive functioning of Korean American nursing home residents. In Step I, normative values were established for the BCAT-SF-K…

Poisonings are the leading cause of adult injury death in the United States. Over 12 weeks in 2011, 143 key informant interviews were conducted using a structured interview guide in three study sites in New England. This analysis focuses on the 24 interviews with emergency department providers, substance use treatment…

This study asked whether, among the three largest American racial/ethnic minorities, presence/absence of current substance-use disorder is explained to any degree by social status and discrimination. It examined interaction effects involving discrimination and social status, exploring whether social-status factors are…

It is known that carcinogenesis by low-dose radiation will start from DNA damage by ionising radiation. After the long time period, these very small effects will appear on a cellular scale by accumulation of various intracellular biological responses and finally grow to the tumour with clonal expansion of cancer cell.…

This paper argues against considering incidental findings (IFs) as potential benefits of research when assessing the social value of proposed research, determining the appropriateness of a study's risk/benefit ratio, and identifying and disclosing the risks and benefits of participation during informed consent. The pos…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This study explores youth and parent agreement about conversations on specific topics related to sexual risk behavior and youth-parent relationship. The study's objective was to determine if the amount of agreement was associated with youth sexual behavior. METHODS: Data were collected using…

OBJECTIVE: To identify the effect of the provider company (PC) of reference on drug prescriptions in nursing homes. METHODS: We performed a descriptive study of all ambulatory prescriptions invoiced by the Catalan Health Service from 106 nursing homes in a health region in 2001. The PCs were grouped into private (n =…