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OBJECTIVE: The importance of online counselling for many areas of health care has been increasing over the last years. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic research on the quality and specifics of the therapeutic intervention. METHODS: n = 1056 responses written by online counsellors between 12&#x…

Traditionally, the addiction literature has focused on white drug users and less attention has been given to users from ethnic minority groups. More recently, research investigating ethnic group differences in drug use and associated problem behaviors has emerged. This paper contributes to the growing research base by…

We studied multisegmental coordination and stride characteristics in nine participants while walking and running on a treadmill. The study's main aim was to evaluate the coordination patterns of walking and running and their variance as a function of locomotion speed, with a specific focus on gait transitions and accom…

Women in United States Welfare Transition Programs (WTPs) have high rates of chronic health problems that might present significant barriers to obtaining and/or maintaining employment. Inadequate, standardized health screening in WTPs across the United States contributes to the problem of achieving self-sufficiency for…

Occupational therapy practitioners are among the professionals who provide services to children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), embracing both leadership and supportive roles in service delivery. The study's primary aims were as follows: (1) to identify, evaluate, and synthesize the research literature…

The Youth Access to Alcohol (YATA) project was implemented in 2002 by the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC) in thirty communities in New Zealand, with the aim of reducing the harm experienced by young people as a result of alcohol misuse in New Zealand through reducing the supply of alcohol by adults to yo…

Haitian immigrants represent one of the largest foreign-born groups in Florida. Limited information is available on the health care issues that they face. This study's objective was to identify and evaluate the sources of and barriers to health care coverage for the Haitian immigrant community of Miami-Dade County, Flo…

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Rapid maxillary expansion not only has local effects on the midpalatal suture and the maxillary region, but also on deep anatomical structures of the viscero- and neurocranium. This study's aim was to analyze the distribution pattern of stresses on the juvenile and adult sphenoid by the finite eleme…

Measures used in the selection of international dental students to a U.S. D.D.S. program were examined to identify the grouping that most effectively and efficiently predicted academic performance and clinical competency. Archival records from the International Dental Program (IDP) at Loma Linda University provided dat…

Despite efforts to promote traditional medicine, allopathic practitioners often look with distrust at traditional practices. Shamans in particular are often regarded with ambivalence and have been considered mentally ill people. We tested the hypothesis that shamanism is an expression of psychopathology. In the Bhutane…

The decreased ability to remove free radicals from organism is one of the factors which furthers the development of neoplastic process. Enzymes and substrates which can remove free radicals from organism from antioxidant barrier. The appreciation of some elements of antioxidant organism barrier in children with neoplas…

An investigation of children with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) was conducted using a new instrument, the Kiddie-Infant Descriptive Instrument for Emotional States (KIDIES). The KIDIES rates several affective and behavioral dimensions based on facial, vocal, gestural, and postural cues. The study's goals were…

A telephone survey was conducted, contacting 51 designated state EMS offices, to determine the extent of use of intraosseous (IO) infusions in prehospital pediatric emergency care nationally and to identify common means of promoting IO adoption, training EMS personnel, and monitoring intraosseous field use. Less than h…

In 1985, we began a 4-year evaluation of the effects of the diagnosis related groups-based prospective payment system on quality of care for hospitalized Medicare patients. This article provides an overview of the study's background, aims, design, and methods. We used a clinically detailed review of the medical record…

BACKGROUND: Hand injuries pose challenges due to complexity and aesthetic-functional concerns. Dorsum of hand injuries are difficult to treat due to thin skin cover and increased propensity to exposure of underlying structures. Perforator-based flaps can provide better outcomes with minimal donor site morbidity. This s…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We demonstrate the application of a Bayesian approach to a recent negative clinical trial result. A Bayesian analysis of such a trial can provide a more useful interpretation of results and can incorporate previous evidence. METHODS: This was a secondary analysis of the efficacy and safety results of…

This study introduces a novel application of Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) to examine COVID-19 mortality trends across Nordic welfare states, addressing a significant gap in pandemic analysis. While existing literature has extensively compared Nordic COVID-19 responses through traditional epidemiological metrics, no…

Online teachers are an under-researched population, but their perspectives are crucial to the successful implementation of online education. A fully online section of an established face-to-face (F2F) two-semester undergraduate anatomy course with a prosection laboratory commenced in 2012 at The University of Western O…

INTRODUCTION: The hemophilia caregiver impact (HCI) measure is a 36-item self-report tool that has documented reliability and validity in a large cross-sectional study, but its longitudinal construct validity is unknown. This study's objective was to evaluate the responsiveness of the HCI to clinically important change…

Volunteering can play an important role in active aging. The resource theory of volunteering posits that volunteerism depends on human, social, and cultural capital. Benefits of volunteering have been documented at the micro-, meso-, and macrolevels, positively affecting individual older people as well as their local c…