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BACKGROUNDS: Resiliency has attracted a growing interest in paediatric rehabilitation as a key capacity for disabled children and their families to thrive. This study aimed to identify measures used to assess resiliency of disabled children/youth and their families and critically appraise the current use of resiliency…

AIMS: This article reports the study of a group of United Kingdom health visitors' interactions with their changing practice context, focusing on role identity and influences on its stability. BACKGROUND: United Kingdom policies have urged health visitors to refocus their role as key public health nurses. Reduced role…

INTRODUCTION: The measure of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data in electronic health records (EHR) has been critical for addressing health disparities and inequalities, especially for HIV care. Given that gender and sexual minorities (eg, transgender, men who have sex with men and intersex) are key grou…

AIM: Complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS-I) is a specific type of persistent pain which is often caused by fracture and surgery. There is no effective curative therapy available. However some studies have indicated that Vitamin C (VC) can reduce the incidence of CRPS-I. This study's objective is to investigate…

It has been reported that patients undergoing orthodontic treatment present a high risk of caries. Recently, an immediate chair-side test was proposed, displaying the intra-oral lactic acid production of cariogenic bacteria. The aim of this 12-month follow-up prospective cohort study was to evaluate the association bet…

The longer-term ecosystem impacts associated with a beach nourishment project conducted in 2014 were studied on an ocean beach on the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on North Carolina's Outer Banks. The unique nature of the project is tied to the study's duration, which spans nine years, and the venue, a national w…

BACKGROUND: Electronic cigarettes (ECIGs) aerosolize liquids often containing flavorants for inhalation. Few studies have examined the role of flavors in ECIG use. This study's purpose was to examine reasons for flavored ECIG use using a mixed-method approach, concept mapping (CM). METHODS: Forty-six past 30-day adult…

BACKGROUND: The treatment evidence base for gaming disorder (GD) has grown steadily over the past two decades. A systematic review by King et al. (2017) of 30 studies reported that GD treatment studies tended to favor psychotherapy approaches, but the research was limited by poor reporting standards as assessed by the…

There are no standard choices on antifungal drugs for talaromycosis due to various factors, and related studies are also limited. This study summarizes and analyzes efficacy of different antifungal drugs for patients with talaromycosis, which can provide more reference evidence for drugs' choices in practice. We conduc…

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is the first-line diagnostic procedure for investigating obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB). Different re-bleeding rates following index VCE have been reported among Western and Eastern studies. METHODS: We conducted a comprehensive literature search to identify s…

OBJECTIVE: To compare the strength of the evidence provided by the epidemiological literature on the association between alcohol consumption and the risk of six cancers (oral cavity, oesophagus, colorectum, liver, larynx, breast), hypertension, cerebrovascular diseases, gastric and duodenal ulcer, liver cirrhosis and o…

Climate variability in the Niamey region presents a dual-faceted challenge. Yet most studies focus on broader farming systems. This study investigated the climate change perceptions and adaptation strategies developed by urban pearl millet farmers in Niamey Commune V, an area often overlooked in agricultural studies. U…

This paper describes the PID Evaluation and Clinical Health Study (PEACH), a multicenter, randomized clinical trial designed to compare treatment with outpatient and inpatient antimicrobial regimens among women with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PEACH is the first trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effec…

BACKGROUND: China's National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL) has become the primary route for drug reimbursement in China. More recently, the authority has made pharmacoeconomic evaluation an integral part of the application for NRDL inclusion. The underlying financial conflict of interests (FCOI) of pharmacoeconomic ev…

OBJECTIVE: The study's purpose was to describe the range of knowledge pertaining to the Bobath concept/NDT in adult neurological rehabilitation, synthesize the findings, identify knowledge gaps and develop empirically based recommendations for future research. This article explores the conceptual literature. METHODS:…

Mortality and other long-term outcomes of COPD from epidemiological studies of cohorts based on the general population are still rare. In contrast, data from follow-ups of patients from hospitals and general practices are more common and demonstrate often a 5-year mortality of about 50% and even higher. The aim was to…

Hookah (water pipe) smoking, an old method of tobacco smoking, is regaining widespread popularity all over the world. Although the research in this field is still deficient, it has been proven for its harmful effect on human's health by increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease, infection and lung, oral and bladder…

BACKGROUND: Thyroid nodules (TNs) are prevalent, particularly in women and older adults, yet only a minority are malignant. Clinical decisions on biopsy and follow-up are complicated by selective use of fine-needle aspiration cytology, indeterminate results, and efforts to limit unnecessary procedures. We systematicall…

PURPOSE: This study aimed to conduct a systematic review of the recent research output to present more evidence of the current clinical applications of wearable sensors to determine the change and the recovery in gait function pre- and post-total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS: A systematic search of the PubMed, Sci…

BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive colorectal resection (MICR) is associated with persistently elevated plasma VEGF levels that may stimulate angiogenesis in residual tumor foci. Placenta growth factor (PlGF) stimulates neovascularization in tumors by modulating VEGF's effects. This study's purpose was to determine the imp…