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INTRODUCTION: In a social context supportive of patient engagement throughout society, many scientific claims are in favour of developing patient engagement in medical education. However, few studies have objectively investigated current practices and the obstacles to patient engagement from the point of view of medica…

Agnew's general strain theory suggests that negative life experiences constitute stress that may lead to deviance, unless effective coping strategies are forthcoming. In the present study, the principles of general strain theory were employed to examine the age-varying effects of three types of victimization on drug-us…

Various serum proteins, like Human Serum Albumin (HSA) and others, are susceptible to glycation and the formation of Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs). Diabetes and other diseases are associated with AGE development. Recently, isoflavones have been studied for their therapeutic benefits. In the present study, we g…

Can teaching students about brain plasticity improve their grades? A recent large, national experiment (Yeager et al.) found that a brief growth mindset intervention improved lower-achieving adolescents' grades by 0.10 points. Debate about interpreting the study's findings illustrates the need to consider effect h…

Matching the trend seen among the major large rivers of the globe, the Amazon River and its tributaries are facing aquatic ecosystem disruption that is affecting freshwater habitats and their associated biodiversity, including trends for decline in fishery resources. The Amazon's aquatic ecosystems, linked natural reso…

In order to investigate the effect of a CO2 laser on dental tissues, 51 healthy human teeth were lased and prepared for macroscopic, histological and SEM examination using standardized methods. The alterations induced by the thermic shock varied according to the tissue's composition and the lasing's intensity. The effe…

Relying on the trait activation theory and socioanalytic theory, this study investigate conditions that activate or restrain a manager's dark triad, which can predict exploitative leadership. First, we examine the interacting effect of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy with deceptive situation cues at work.…

INTRODUCTION: This study's purpose was to ascertain the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in a pediatric population and their connection to other health history information. METHOD: Using health history data, a retrospective, descriptive study was undertaken with 1,028 children seen at a school-based,…

This research, using data from the Community Criminal Courts where a majority of elderly offenders are tried and sentenced, investigates the socio-economic profile of elderly offenders and the factors influencing their criminal motivation in Singapore. It revisits conceptualizations of offending in older age which unti…

This study examined the role of religious affiliations and frequency of religious service attendance-such as church, Bible studies, and temples-as well as religious heterogeneity between couples on intimate partner violence (IPV) among Korean immigrant women in the United States. Through a case-control design, this stu…

Reduction in rehospitalization is an outcome measure used to evaluate home care services, especially in Outcome Based Quality Management using OASIS data; however, practitioners and managers must carefully analyze the reasons patients return to the hospital. This study examines events leading to rehospitalization of pa…

B. Rind, P. Tromovitch, and R. Bauserman (1998) examined the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) by meta-analyzing studies of college students. The authors reported that effects "were neither pervasive nor typically intense" and that "men reacted much less negatively than women" (p. 22) and recommended va…

This paper helps to address a deficiency of gender-specific research into gambling. It focuses on gambling participation, gaming machine play, and problem gambling amongst 1,257 female respondents to a telephone survey of 3,000 members selected randomly from the membership lists of six of the largest clubs in Sydney, A…

OBJECTIVE: The highly contagious and deadlycoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused significant disruption in the small care sector of Pakistan. This study accordingly explores the perceptions and experiences of staff providing direct caregiving services to the elderly residents at three care homes during the tim…

Public health research frequently deals with sensitive topics. A growing body of evidence suggests that frontline researchers who elicit or process participant's traumatic experiences are themselves at risk of developing emotional distress or secondary trauma from daily immersion in these data. This both threatens a st…

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization has highlighted the importance of health promotion for health service providers in order to ensure sustainable working life for individuals involved in providing health services. Such sustainability begins when students are preparing to manage their own future health and welfar…

OBJECTIVE: Lower third molar removal provides a clinical model for studying analgesic drugs. The present study's aim was to compare the clinical efficacy of sublingual ketorolac and sublingual piroxicam in managing pain, trismus and swelling after lower third molar extraction in adult volunteers. STUDY DESIGN: In this…

CONTEXT: Kidney renal clear-cell carcinoma (KIRC) is a malignant tumor. At an early stage, KIRC patients may experience only mild fever and fatigue or even no symptoms, and these early nonspecific indications can delay treatment. Neurotransmitters and their receptors may be very useful in determining tumorigenesis and…

This study aimed to understand the repercussions of the dose of nursing intervention for professional practice. This is a theoretical reflection study that sought to answer: what are the repercussions of the dose of nursing intervention for professional practice? To answer this question, a corpus of selected texts was…