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CONTEXT: With the technological developments and advancement of scientific knowledge in the field of health, healthcare professionals are now expected to identify strategies for the use of complementary therapies and to guide healthy and ill individuals in their correct and effective use. Acupressure-a simple, effectiv…

Selecting an appropriate outcome measure is a critical step in designing valid and useful clinical trials and outcome studies. This selection process needs to extend beyond examining basic psychometric properties to consider additional features of instruments that may affect their validity and utility for the study's p…

BACKGROUND: Developmental victimology theory suggests that developmental features of risk and impact stemming from various types of victimization depend on the age of the child or adolescent. OBJECTIVE: A next step is studying the developmental victimization trajectories of individuals involved in sexual crimes by foc…

Acetaminophen (APAP) overdose causes liver injury, but in some cases it is associated also with renal impairment. While several studies exist in relation to acetaminophen nephrotoxicity, no reports have been published describing intracellular changes related to APAP nephrotoxicity in vitro. Because proximal tubular cel…

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: The use of personal devices for work purposes (Bring-your-own-device) has increased in hospitals, as it facilitates productivity and mobility for clinicians. However, owing to increased risk of leaking patient information, and heavy reliance of patient data privacy on user actions, BYOD is a major…

Information about suicidal behavior in Nepal is limited. According to official records, suicide rates were high until the year 2000 and declined thereafter. Official records are considered unreliable and a gross undercounting of suicide cases, particularly female cases. Suicide research in Nepal has been mostly epidemi…

Energy drinks gained popularity after the launch of Red Bull in 1997. Different brands are now available and young adults mainly consume these drinks. This study assesses the knowledge, attitude, and perception of energy drink consumption among university students in Jordan. A validated online survey was used to collec…

It is widely believed that a subset of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is able to capture the majority of the information for genotype-phenotype association studies that is contained in the complete compliment of genetic variations. The question remains, how does one select that particular subset of SNPs in orde…

Motivation wields a tangible impact on students' academic functioning. Among the theoretical frameworks used to explain students' motivation to learn, Eccles et al.'s expectancy-value theory (1983) is one of the most influential. It has been used to investigate students' competence- and value-related beliefs and how th…

AIM: To explore nurse managers' perceived importance of competencies for their current job at different levels and the associated factors. BACKGROUND: Little work to date has explored the perceived importance of competencies in nursing leadership and management or considered the related factors in the Taiwan healthcar…

In this phase I pharmacokinetic study of ABI-007, which was published in the May 1, 2002, issue of Clinical Cancer Research, Ibrahim and colleagues provided the framework needed for subsequent studies to confirm the benefits of ABI-007 over solvent-based formulations. Since the study's publication, experiments have hig…

Inherent to understanding an orthopaedic study is a fundamental knowledge of the study's design principles and statistics. Statistics, in part, allow a researcher to sample a portion of the population and use probability to decide whether the findings from the sample are likely to apply to the whole population. Althoug…

OBJECTIVE: The study's aim was to explore academic entitlement among pharmacy students in different pharmacy colleges in the Arab World and assess associated factors. METHODS: This study design was a cross-sectional survey. Data were collected using a self-administered electronic questionnaire posted across pharmacy c…

AIM: This study aimed to explore the perception of nursing students regarding their engagement in digital learning environments. DESIGN: At one of universities in Saudi Arabia, a qualitative descriptive study design was used among nursing students from various academic levels. METHODS: Data were collected using focus…

BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer is a heterogeneous disease that leads to metabolic disorders due to multiple upstream genetic and molecular changes and interactions. The development of new therapies, especially herbal medicines, has received much global attention.is a medicinal plant. Its gum is used in healing known ail…

BACKGROUND: Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are a significant symptom of various psychological conditions, often stigmatized and misunderstood. Moving beyond traditional psychological, psychotherapeutic and psychiatric approaches, recent research shifts focus on understanding AVHs through community perspectives a…

Through the Human Microbiome Project, research on human-associated microbiomes has been conducted in various fields. New sequencing techniques such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) have enabled the inclusion of a wide range of features of the microbiome. These advancements have a…

Religion and spiritual traditions entail vast wisdom and knowledge which have proved their productivity in achieving criminal rehabilitation, crime desistance, and crime prevention. Unfortunately, the literature on their role is relatively scarce and was not, until recently, regarded as part of mainstream criminology.…

BACKGROUND: Today's complexities and diversity in the clinical setting have revealed the need to pay attention to strengthening critical thinking (CT) skills. The present study aimed to evaluate and compare CT skills in the residents of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional stud…

Furosemide is a commonly used diuretic for the treatment of edema. The pharmacokinetics of furosemide in neonates as they mature remains poorly understood. Microsampling assays facilitate research in pediatric populations.We developed and validated a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the qu…