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This study examines how parents of family and nonfamily abducted children cope with stress due to the disappearance of their child. The results show that all parents experience distress, regardless of whether it was a family or nonfamily abduction. Associated with parental distress are factors such as prior family stre…

The ethnonursing study's purpose was to explore the subculture of homeless adults residing in one shelter, with discovery of their meanings and experiences of care, or lack of care. Leininger's theory of culture care was used to identify, analyze, and discuss the cultural care patterns. The findings included themes tha…

This study's aim is the investigation of short-term visual person recognition in 8- and 10-year-olds and adults, within the part-whole paradigm introduced by. Natural unfamiliar whole persons were contrasted with natural unfamiliar faces to test for differences between person processing and face processing. Two experim…

This article reports on an ongoing exploratory study of the quality of obstetrical and gynaecological care for an ethnic pluriform patient population in two non-academic city hospitals in the Netherlands. A bird's eye view is given of the study's background, goals and methodology, followed by a few preliminary results…

The Family-of-Origin Scale (FOS), a 40-item, ten-subscale measure of family processes, exhibits promise for assessing adolescents' perceptions of family health. While initial research has suggested that the instrument demonstrates factorial validity, the reliability of the FOS for adolescents has not been established.…

OBJECTIVE: This study intended to reveal the effectiveness of Antenatal Care (ANC) and Postnatal care (PNC) services on infant mortality in 24 developing countries by utilizing the recent Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data. DESIGN: This study utilized the most recent DHS data from 2013 to 2019 of 24 different de…

Behavioral genetic analyses have not demonstrated robust, unique, genetic correlates of hippocampal subregion volume. Genetic differentiation of hippocampal longitudinal axis subregion volume has not yet been investigated in population-based samples, although this has been demonstrated in rodent and post-mortem human t…

Emergency department (ED) nurses practice in environments that are highly charged and unpredictable in nature and can precipitate conflict between the necessary prescribed actions and the individual's sense of what is morally the right thing to do. As a consequence of multiple moral dilemmas, ED staff nurses are at ris…

Rickettsia typhi is the causal agent of murine typhus; a worldwide zoonotic and vector-borne infectious disease, commonly associated with the presence of domestic and wild rodents. Human cases of murine typhus in the state of Yucatán are frequent. However, there is no evidence of the presence of Rickettsia typhi i…

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To review qualitative and quantitative research studies measuring religious and spiritual variables published in American oncology nursing journals from 1990-1999 and the types of measures used. DATA SOURCES: All research studies published from 1990-1999 in Oncology Nursing Forum, Cancer Nursing, a…

BACKGROUND: Cord blood units (CBUs) that are ineligible for licensure due to incomplete compliance with FDA recommendations may be used for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation under urgent medical need and an Investigational Drug Application. The largest reason for CBU donor ineligibility is Zika virus (ZIKV) risk.…

The development of diagnostic tests that predict the progression of latent tuberculosis infection to active disease is pivotal for the eradication of tuberculosis. As an initial step to achieve this goal, our study's aim was to identify biomarkers that differentiate active from latent tuberculosis infection. We compare…

BACKGROUND: Much controversy exists concerning the manifestations, therapy, and response to treatment of syphilis in patients coinfected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of HIV infection on the serologic response to treatment of patients with syphilis. METHODS: Sixty-four H…

Obstetric violence is a product of medical institutions' failure to prioritize women-centric reproductive care. Through interviews with local activists and leaders in Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as analysis of primary and secondary sources, we find that women-centric reproductive care is hindered by three barriers that are…

Throughout the decades, the ethical debate on 'slow code' has traversed a spectrum. Most have condemned it as deceptive, while others argued for its usefulness in balancing clinician integrity and family wishes in an otherwise emotionally complex dilemma, albeit desperately and imperfectly. The study by Sprengholz, "Pu…

While this study sheds light on the valuable clinical outcomes regarding the use of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) in managing traumatic hemopericardium, I would like to emphasize a few critical areas that would improve the study's findings.

This study's aim was to understand nurses' caring experiences during the recent pandemic in the United States. Using an interpretive phenomenological approach, 15 participants provided the meaning of the care they provided. Five major themes were interpreted:;andThe study results have implications for psychiatric-menta…

Measurement is a fundamental but often overlooked component of research design and scientific inquiry. In quantitative study designs, the data that are collected, the statistical analyses conducted, and the conclusions drawn from those analyses all hinge on the validity, reliability, and appropriateness of measurements…

This study's findings regarding the risk of miscarriage may mean it's time to forego fluconazole in favor of topical azoles as first-line treatment.

The event-related potentials (ERP) of eight young healthy volunteers were recorded during wakefulness and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep using an auditory discrimination task. REM sleep was classified into phasic and tonic periods according to the presence or absence of REM. In wakefulness, deviant stimuli elicited a P…