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BACKGROUND: The Turnaway Study is designed to prospectively study the outcomes of women who sought-but did not all obtain-abortions. This design permits more accurate inferences about the health consequences of abortion for women, but requires the recruitment of a large number of women from remote health care facilitie…

In a retrospective assessment of employee exposure to acrylonitrile (AN) for an epidemiological study, investigators from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) evaluated the feasibility of using historic acrylonitrile air samples without modification.…

ObjectiveThe study's aim was to better understand how persons, diagnosed with dementia while still working, strived to make sense of and come to terms with their changing everyday lives during the process of exiting work life.MethodsThe study has an explorative, longitudinal design, following five persons who developed…

Animal stings are environmental hazards that threaten millions annually and cause a significant socioeconomic impact. Snakebite envenoming affects 2.7 million people globally every year, mostly the poorest and rural communities, with approximately 27,000 annual cases in Brazil. This study's objective is to identify the…

BACKGROUNDS: This study aimed to examine the individual and combined effects of serum BDNF (sBDNF) levels and alcohol consumption status, assessed shortly after a physical injury, on the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) over two years. METHODS: Participants were consecutively recruited from a traum…

The researchers examined the efficacy of integrating interactive media-based cognitive behaviour in conjunction with art and music therapy for treating generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) in children abducted in Nigeria. A randomised control trial was carried out using three randomly selected secondary schools in Northe…

This qualitative study adopts a phenomenological and symbolic interactionist approach to comprehensively explore substance abuse among street children in Lilongwe, Malawi. The research aims to uncover the complex sociocultural, economic, and environmental determinants influencing substance abuse within this marginalize…

BACKGROUND: Childhood vaccination is widely recognized as the most effective means to prevent various diseases. However, a considerable amount of children still miss out on their vaccination schedules. Therefore, this study explores the reasons for defaulting from the expanded program on immunization in district Swat,…

Errors in the design, the conduct, the data collection process, and the analysis of a randomized trial have the potential to affect not only the safety of the patients in the trial, but also, through the introduction of bias, the safety of future patients. Trial monitoring, defined broadly to include methods of oversig…

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the ovarian response in different phases of the menstrual cycle in breast cancer women candidates for fertility preservation. DESIGN: A retrospective study was carried out, including women with breast cancer undergoing oocyte cryopreservation at the Fertility Preser…

Migration and the fishing environment heighten fishers' risk of engaging in risky behaviors, such as substance abuse, engagement with multiple sexual partners, and unprotected sexual activity. This qualitative study examines risky behaviors and the factors contributing to these behaviors among fishers in Elmina, Ghana,…

BACKGROUND: The growing emphasis on sustainability in recent years has been largely driven by the pressing challenges of climate change. In this context, healthy diet literacy represents a critical approach to promoting the sustainability of the food system, which has far-reaching implications for both public and envir…

This letter to the editor examines recent work by Nelson et al. regarding the clinical and logistical determinants of operative timing, surgical approach, and hospital admission in 242 pediatric supracondylar humerus fractures. While acknowledging the study's insights into resource allocation, the author raises several…

Workers, especially those involved in occupations with high carbon footprints, are more susceptible to the growing risks associated with the climate transition as a result of the urgent need to transition to a low-carbon economy. Here we trace the occupational carbon footprints along global value chains and estimate th…

This paper investigates the impact of digital inclusive financial development on local government expenditure incentives at the income level. It does so by constructing a multi-level government Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model that incorporates the financial sector. By employing empirical methods tha…

The study's aim is to explore the experiences of nursing home residents and their next of kin related to interacting with volunteers in daily life and when the resident's death is imminent. Qualitative data consisted of 130 hours of participant observations in three nursing homes and 13 interviews with five reside…

This study's purpose was to explore how palliative care nurses' views on death and time perspectives are related to their terminal care attitudes. A questionnaire survey-consisting of the Death Attitude Inventory, Experiential Time Perspective Scale, and the Japanese version of the Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the…

The European Foot and Ankle Society (EFAS) score is a recently developed foot and ankle patient-reported outcome measure. It has been developed and partly validated in seven languages. This study's aim was to investigate the measurement properties of the Dutch version of the EFAS score. Subscales of the Dutch EFAS scor…

The study's aim was to document the rates of declared and hidden erectile dysfunction (ED) at urology outpatient clinic while attempting to develop a method to encourage patients to talk about ED. A total of 506 patients, all of whom underwent the same procedure by the same clinician with a standard algorithm, were pro…

Because of increased electronic health record use, many organizations are hiring medical scribes as a way to alleviate provider burnout and increase clinical efficiency. The providers and scribes have unique relationships and thus, this study's purpose was to examine the scribe-provider interaction/relationship through…