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Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) acts as an agonist of the GABAreceptor, where GHB induces a depressant effect in the central nervous system. Besides its therapeutic application, GHB is also used as a date rape drug. However, the detection of GHB ingestion proves to be difficult due to its narrow detection window. The a…

Nursing students are going to be professionals in the near future, and as carers, it will be essential for them to behave in a way that will allow them to have a positive influence on the health of others as well as their own health. The objective of this study was to evaluate the lifestyles of first-year nursing stude…

The Pinhole Surgical Technique (PST) was first described in The International Journal of Periodon-tics & Restorative Dentistry in October 2012 in a case series involving 43 patients with 121 recession defects. Follow-up data were included for 37 patients with 85 Miller Class I and II recession defects over an average p…

Meta-analysts rely on the availability of data from previously conducted studies. That is, they rely on primary study authors to register their outcome data, either in a study's text or on publicly available websites, and report the results of their work, either again in a study's text or on publicly accessible data re…

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…

BACKGROUND: The early involvement of many actors including health professionals is identified in neuroethics and neurogovernance discussions as crucial in constructing conversations around awareness, reaction, and knowledge development pertaining to the ethical, legal, and societal consequences of neuroscientific or ne…

A low-level blood-borne virus infection exists among Hungary's injecting drug users (IDUs). Assessing the relationship between risk perception and risk behaviors is necessary in order to predict future drug-injecting trends. During 1999 -and 2000, 197 IDUs were interviewed in Budapest using the Risk Assessment Question…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This study's objective was to learn what student applicants to family practice residency programs in 2002 understood about National Resident Matching Program guideline violations, whether they experienced violations, and how they were affected by perceived violations. METHODS: We used qualit…

INTRODUCTION: Recently, dual trigger was proposed in an attempt to improve in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle outcomes in poor and normo-responder patients (PR and NR, respectively). The study's aim was to compare cycle outcomes of dual trigger versus human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) trigger in NRs and POSEIDON group…

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: Many studies have already reported on the relationship between exercise habits and health among schoolchildren. However, few have examined social and/or family factors as determinants of exercise habits. METHODS: This study's participants included 1721 schoolchildren aged between 6 and 13 who were involved…

Holden et al. (2025) conducted a Delphi study to establish consensus on how to define, identify, and assess dyslexia, with the definitional component primarily reported by Carroll et al. (2025). Although Holden et al. aim to provide guidance for practitioners, we have concerns about the study's methodolo…

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…

This study explores the context-dependent nature of perceptions of group variability by examining how ingroup and outgroup ratings are affected by asking participants (N = 237) to rate these groups either on their own or together. In key respects, it replicates the design utilized by Haslam, Oakes, Turner, and McGarty…

An ethnographic study of boys in residential treatment reports on a small subsample of older adolescents diagnosed with conduct disorder. Attachment theory and research inform the basis for analysis of the study's observations. Findings indicate that conduct-disordered out-of-home care drifters display exceptionally cl…

How do you prepare the nursing staff for the implementation of a new phase I drug protocol? It is the nursing educator who assists the staff nurses to competently and confidently learn to provide direct care and support to patients in clinical trials. Preparation of the nursing staff involves an analysis of the propose…