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If delivered at elevated intensity, ultrasound potentiates enzymatic clot dissolution; however, an elevated acoustic intensity damages vascular wall and favors reocclusion. This study's aim was to investigate whether exposure to high-frequency, low-intensity ultrasound - generated by a diagnostic scanner -enhances enzy…

The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), as one of the most frequently employed measures of emotion regulation (ER), has increasingly been used in numerous researches and applications. However, the structures derived from previous factor-analytic studies have a high degree of inconsistency. In the current s…

In this article, the ability to comprehend and repeat short stories was measured in selected children with learning difficulties. Performances were compared in 3 listening conditions, in which stories were heard either in the left ear, in the right ear, or in both ears simultaneously. Although the underlying mechanisms…

BACKGROUND: Evidence from the literature indicates that besides its benefits, e-prescribing also generates new types of unintended medication errors that have the potential to harm patient safety. Analyzing both the benefits and risks of e-prescribing can give health care organizations a better understanding of the imp…

BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of multiple innovative recruitment strategies for enrolling Black/African American participants to the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) is described. The study's focus is diet and breast, prostate and colon cancer. METHODS: Promotions centered on trust, relationship building and incentive…

Community coalitions have become popular vehicles for promoting health. Which factors make coalitions effective, however, is unclear. The study's aim was to identify coalition-building factors related to indicators of coalition effectiveness through a review of the empirical literature. Published articles from 1980 to…

OBJECTIVES: This study investigates burnout and subjective well-being among the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) workforce, considering recent events such as thedecision, the maternal mortality crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: An anonymous web-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted among 313 MCH profess…

OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether the association between illness-related diabetes social support (IRDSS) and glycemic control among middle-aged and older adults is different for men and women. METHOD: This cross-sectional analysis included 914 adults with diabetes who completed the Health and Retirement Study's…

BACKGROUND: As the use of bedside emergency ultrasound (US) increases, so does the need for effective US education. OBJECTIVES: To determine 1) what pathology can be reliably simulated and identified by US in human cadavers, and 2) feasibility of using cadavers to improve the comfort of emergency medicine (EM) residen…

Competing stimulus assessments (CSAs) are designed to identify stimuli that reduce challenging behavior through competition with its maintaining reinforcers. Recently, Haddock and Hagopian (2020) found that over 92% of CSAs described in published studies identified at least one high-competition stimulus (i.e., a stimul…

This review examined relationships between nurse unit managers' leadership and patient safety and quality of care outcomes in hospital settings. Employing four databases (CINAHL, Embase, PubMed, and Web of Science) and ancestry searches, we identified 14 English-language, peer-reviewed, primary studies that examined su…

AIM: The study's aim was to determine whether medical doctors' expectancy that alcohol use reduces tension predicts the extent of their hazardous drinking and whether this effect is mediated by drinking to cope. METHODS: A group of Norwegian medical doctors' (n = 288) alcohol use was followed for 6 years. The expectan…

Accelerated nonenzymatic glycation in diabetes, resulting in Amadori-modified proteins and the later-developing advanced glycation end-products, has been mechanistically linked to the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. Recent focus on putative AGE-induced pathophysiology has shifted attention from the possible role…

Much of biomedical research is observational. The reporting of such research is often inadequate, which hampers the assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and of a study's generalizability. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Initiative developed recommendations on what…

BACKGROUND: COVID-19, the economic and the political crises happening in Lebanon, have enforced social distancing and isolation, causing severe psychological states. However, these psychological consequences have highlighted the aim behind the interactions between humans and animals. In this study, we aimed to investig…

Two-phase designs in epidemiological studies of autism prevalence introduce methodological complications that can severely limit the precision of resulting estimates. If the assumptions used to derive the prevalence estimate are invalid or if the uncertainty surrounding these assumptions is not properly accounted for i…

A 2003 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association documented that mortality rates from common surgical procedures were significantly lower in hospitals employing more staff nurses prepared at the baccalaureate level. In this report, that study's authors review case studies of 6 hospitals that demonstrat…

A growing number of studies have tested the relationship between personal resources (e.g. emotional intelligence) and indicators of occupational well-being, including work engagement. However, few have examined health-related factors moderating or mediating the pathway from emotional intelligence to work engagement. A…

This research identifies the underlying drivers impacting on health consumers' social media usage and acceptance behaviours using technology acceptance model (TAM) as the theoretical lens. A cross-sectional survey of 265 health consumers was conducted through a mall intercept technique. Participants in the survey were…

This study's aim is to establish a new sensory sweetness definition and conversion method for five sugars. A "closed-type" question based on triangle test and paired comparison was used for sensory evaluation. The absolute threshold and nine sensory difference threshold values were determined and used to generate a swe…