Older Primary Care Patients’ Attitudes and Willingness to Screen for Dementia by Nicole R. Fowler, Anthony J. Perkins, Hilary A. Turchan, Amie Frame, Patrick Monahan, Sujuan Gao, Malaz A. Boustani

“…Participants who know someone with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) were less likely to refuse screening. …”
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Raising a thousand Tutu voices: Reflections on the Truth to Power exhibition

“…The example and the courage of the poet and journalist, Antjie Krog, who covered the TRC hearings and who is still speaking poetry to power as a public intellectual, are used to reflect on the author’s own culpability and that of other White Afrikaans-speaking South Africans and their involvement in the TRC process. …”
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Association of Self-Reported Weight Change and Quality of Life, and Exercise and Weight Management Behaviors Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The SHIELD Study by Susan Grandy, Kathleen M. Fox, Debbra D. Bazata

“…For all nine aspects of daily life, a significantly greater proportion of respondents who reported losing weight reported improved well-being (12%–44%) compared with respondents who reported gaining weight (P<0.0001). …”
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Factors of employment of graduates of higher educational institutions in Guinea by A. Traore, N. V. Kazantseva

“…Using SPSS software, we have obtained the following results: the higher the level of education, the greater the chances of finding a job; personal initiative gives a better chance of finding a job than any other method of finding a job; men have an advantage over women in terms of employment opportunities; married people are luckier than single people; those who have had a previous job are also more likely to find a job than those who have not had; graduates who have lived abroad are more likely to find a job than those who have not lived abroad.…”
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‘We’re All Mad Here’: Alienation, Madness, and Crafting Tom Waits by Nadia López-Peláez Akalay

“… Tom Waits, through his poetry, his poetic and public personae, has become the father of the desperate failures of society, those who lay down and fill the background with disillusionment. …”
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Enhancement of students’ mathematical connection through Knisley mathematics learning model assisted by GeoGebra by Atina Rahmah Ichtiari, Dahlia Fisher, Taufik Rahman, Siti Ainor Mohd Yatim

“…This study aims to determine whether the increase in the mathematical connections of students who receive the Knisley mathematics learning model is higher than students who receive conventional learning models. …”
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Comparison of Childhood Traumatic Experience and Attachment Styles among Patients in Suicide Attempts with Drugs and the Healthy Control Group by Sinay Onen, Ahmet Inel, Bilgen Bicer Kanat, Ibrahim Taymur, Ersin Budak, Suna Eraybay

“…Method: The study involved 76 people who had attempted suicide with drugs and 84 healthy controls who did not have any psychiatric disorder. …”
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Alcohol Consumption Is a Risk Factor for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease in Chinese Patients with T2DM by Shanshan Yang, Shuang Wang, Bo Yang, Jinliang Zheng, Yuping Cai, Zhengguo Yang

“…We evaluated 138 hospitalized patients with T2DM who consumed alcohol and 833 who did not. We used propensity score matching to reduce the confounding bias between groups. …”
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Problematic aspects of defining a child as a victim of domestic violence by O. V. Korol, A. S. Bakhaieva

“…It has been pointed out that the presence of a child who was aware of this during the commission of domestic violence is its psychological form. …”
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Associations of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors with Dietary Behaviors among US High School Students by Richard Lowry, Shannon Michael, Zewditu Demissie, Laura Kann, Deborah A. Galuska

“…Results. Students who participated in recommended levels of daily PA (DPA) and muscle strengthening PA (MSPA) were more likely than those who did not to eat fruits and vegetables. …”
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The Effect of Various Combinations of Peripheral Nerve Blocks on Postoperative Pain in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Comparative Prospective Study by Zoya Haitov Ben Zikri, Maryna Volis, Andrei Mazur, Tatjana Orlova, Hana Alon, Sara Bar Yehuda, Vladislav Gofman

“…Objectives. Most patients who undergo laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) experience moderate to severe pain in the first 24 hours after surgery. …”
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Community social capital and depressive symptoms among older adults relocated for poverty alleviation in Shanxi, China: a cross-sectional study by Le Yang, Yang Yang, Yuting Guo, Zeyuan Li, Qi Yu

“…We found that the relocated older adults who did not participate in leisure-time activities showed higher odds of reporting significant depressive symptoms compared to those who participated [Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) 1.360, 95% CI: 1.060 ~ 1.745], the relocated older adults who gave negative responses in community trust were more likely to report significant depressive symptoms compared to those who gave positive responses (AOR: 1.461, 95% CI: 1.126 ~ 1.896), and those who did not receive emotional support in their community showed 33.6% higher odds of reporting significant depressive symptoms (AOR: 1.336, 95% CI: 1.015 ~ 1.757) after controlling for all potential confounders. …”
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The rational use of glucocorticoids may reduce the risk of readmission in menopausal women with knee osteoarthritis: results from a five-year longitudinal study by Huang Xi, Hao Huiqin, Liu Hongqi, Zhang Ruqi, Zhang Junfeng

“…In addition, the risk of hospital admission with recurrent symptoms was roughly 3.35-fold higher in patients who drink alcohol than in patients who do not (95%CI: 1.661~6.794, $$\:P<0.001$$ ). …”
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The Risk Factors for Mortality among Septic Trauma Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using the National Trauma Data Bank by Nadim Kattouf, Mohamad Assaf, Saadeddine Haidar, Rana Bachir, Mazen El Sayed, Ralph BouChebl

“…We aimed to assess the risk factors associated with in-hospital mortality among trauma patients who developed sepsis during their hospital stay. …”
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Secondary Prevention Using Cholesterol-Lowering Medications in Patients with Prior Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis by Xue Han, Steven Fox, Michelle Chu, Jeff McCombs

“…Eligible patients were categorized by treatment group: (1) patients who initiated treatment before an ASCVD-related hospitalization and (2) patients who either did not initiate treatment until after an ASCVD hospitalization or never initiated treatment. …”
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Burden and Associated Factors of Tuberculosis Among Household Contacts of Sputum Positive Tuberculosis Patients of Aligarh by Simon Jude, Ali J. Abedi, Saira Mehnaz, Mohammad Shameem

“…The predominant symptom observed in household contacts who tested positive during the screening process was a cough, with fever following closely behind. …”
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Effects of folkloric dance on depression levels of education among children at 7-11 age group by Ahmet Aydın, Mehibe Akandere

“…While a meaningful decrease was observed at students who have graduate or post-graduate degree parents (P lt;0.05), there was an increase at students who have primary school graduated parents. …”
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Treatment Patterns and Outcomes Among Patients With Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Cancer Initiating First-Line Therapy in the United States by Robert L. Coleman, Jamie Garside, Jean Hurteau, Joehl Nguyen, Monica Kobayashi

“…Only 53% of patients who received first-line treatment subsequently received second-line therapy. …”
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The right of the wife to maintenance during pregnancy and in the case of living with her child under the age of three by V. Yu. Yevko

“…The problems of exercising the right to maintenance from a man for a pregnant woman and a woman who a child under the age of three lives with were examined. …”
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Long-term results of irritable bowel syndrome treatment by A. I. Ulyanin, Yu. M. Poluektov, Ye. A. Poluektova, Ch. S. Pavlov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…In 45 days 47% of IBS-D patients treated by probiotics had sense of well-being, 58% of those who received motility regulators and 47% of patients who received antispasmodics previously. …”
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