Methodology for the Positive Voices 2022 Survey of People With HIV Accessing Care in England, Wales, and Scotland: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study by Janey Sewell, Carole Kelly, Adamma Aghaizu, Hannah Kitt, Annegret Pelchen-Matthews, Veronique Martin, Amal Farah, Colette Smith, Alison Brown, Clare Humphreys, Alex Sparrowhawk, Valerie Delpech, Alison Rodger, Fiona Lampe, Meaghan Kall

“…Data from the HIV and AIDS reporting system (HARS), a national surveillance database of people with HIV and attending care that is held at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), was used as a sampling frame. …”
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Robotic total knee arthroplasty safely reduces length of stay in an Asian public healthcare system by Kai C. A. Chan, Amy Cheung, Ping-Keung Chan, Michelle H. Luk, Kwong Y. Chiu, Henry Fu

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Effects of exercise and exercise timing on energy intake and appetite control in Danish individuals with overweight or obesity with and without type 2 diabetes: a protocol for a ra... by Louise Groth Grunnet, Martin Bæk Blond, Jonas Salling Quist, Kristine Beaulieu, Graham Finlayson, Kristine Færch, Lea Jalking, Natja Poder Launbo, Marie Møller Jensen, Hanne Enghoff Pedersen, Marina Kjærgaard Gerstenberg

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Impact of pediatric tracheostomy on family caregivers’ burden and quality of life: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Win Thu Aung, Natasha Yixuan Ong, Shina Qing Chun Yeo, Nur Syahindah Binti Juhari, Gwyneth Kong, Nicole-Ann Lim, Zubair Amin, Zubair Amin, Yvonne Peng Mei Ng, Yvonne Peng Mei Ng

“…QOL should be assessed during clinical encounters to identify caregivers who require additional support which includes learning coping and stress reduction strategies.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=334457, identifier CRD42022334457.…”
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Evidence to practice – lessons learnt in developing an implementation strategy for an online digital health intervention (Eczema Care Online) by Laura Howells, Kim S. Thomas, Miriam Santer, Ingrid Muller, Kate Greenwell, Amanda Roberts, Hywel C. Williams, Jane Harvey, Stephanie J. Lax, Natasha K. Rogers, Tracey H. Sach, Sandra Lawton, Mary Steele, Katy Sivyer, Julie Hooper, Amina Ahmed, Sylvia Wilczynska, Sinead Langan, Paul Leighton

“…Abstract Background Eczema Care Online ( www.EczemaCareOnline.org.uk/ ) is an online self-management toolkit which includes tailored content for young people (13–25 years) and for parents of children that have eczema (0–12 years). …”
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Sex differences in the associations of water, coffee and tea consumption with cardiovascular diseases: a prospective cohort study by Dandan Ke, Dandan Ke, Yueqing Wang, Yabing Hou, Weihao Shao, Jiawen Ke, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Hongxi Yang, Zhong He, Zuolin Lu

“…However, the sex-specific relationship between these beverages and cardiovascular disease (CVD) among remains unclear.MethodsIn total, 210,239 men and 251,383 women from the UK Biobank were included. The consumption of water, coffee and tea were self-reported. …”
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Impact of Mobile Health (mHealth) Use by Community Health Workers on the Utilization of Maternity Care in Rural Malawi: A Time Series Analysis by Kachimanga C, Ng’ambi WF, Kazinga D, Ndarama E, Amulele MA, Munyaneza F, Abejirinde IOO, van den Akker T, Kulinkina AV

“…Chiyembekezo Kachimanga,1,2 Wingston Felix Ng’ambi,3 Doctor Kazinga,1 Enoch Ndarama,4 Mercy Ambogo Amulele,5 Fabien Munyaneza,1 Ibukun-Oluwa O Abejirinde,6,7 Thomas van den Akker,2,8 Alexandra V Kulinkina1,9,10 1Partners in Health Malawi, Neno, Malawi; 2Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3Health Economics and Policy Unit, Department of Health Systems and Policy, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Lilongwe, Malawi; 4Ministry of Health, Neno, Malawi; 5Medic, Nairobi, Kenya; 6Women College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care, Toronto, ON, Canada; 7Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 8Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; 9Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland; 10University of Basel, Basel, SwitzerlandCorrespondence: Chiyembekezo Kachimanga, Partners in Health Malawi, Post Office Box 56, Neno, Malawi, Email chembekachimanga@yahoo.co.ukPurpose: Maternal mortality in Malawi is high, with low coverage of maternity care being a contributing factor. …”
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Stakeholder engagement for inclusive climate impact attribution studies by Albert Nkwasa, Inga Menke, Lisa Murken, Liliana Zaharia, Gabriela Ioana-Toroimac, Laura Müller, Melania Michetti, Muhammad Asaduzzaman, Gabriela-Adina Morosanu-Mitoșeriu, Maria Theresa Nakkazi, Vytautas Akstinas, Afnan Agramont Akiyama, Konstantin Gregor, Nermin Basaran, Amit Kumar, Vera Shiko, Hamdi Tekin, Elena Vaculovschi, Püren Veziroğlu Biçer, Christopher P O Reyer, Ann van Griensven

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Effects of open-skill exercise on executive functions in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Shunding Hu, Peng Shi, Ziyun Zhang, Xiaosu Feng, Kai Zhang, Kai Zhang, Kai Zhang, Teng Jin

“…Based on this, it is recommended that children and adolescents choose more strategic open-skill exercises according to their actual situation and select appropriate quantitative exercise factors to maximize the enhancement of their executive functions.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/#myprospero, CRD42025636714.…”
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Comparing cup placement, leg length, and offset discrepancy after total hip arthroplasty between CT-based robotic arm-assisted and navigation systems by Akira Shimizu, Satoshi Murakami, Takayuki Tamai, Yuuki Haga, Tatsuhiko Kutsuna, Tomofumi Kinoshita, Masaki Takao

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Protocol for a feasibility study and process evaluation of a psychosocially modelled diabetes education programme for young people with type 1 diabetes: the Youth Empowerment Skill... by Nick Sevdalis, Khalida Ismail, Tayana Soukup, Trevor Murrells, Dulmini Kariyawasam, Stephen Thomas, Judith Parsons, Angus Forbes, Rita Forde, Maria Baldellou Lopez, Marie Jones, Martha Ford-Adams, Nardos Yemane, Siobhan Pender, Alex Silverstien

“…Study findings will be used to optimise the intervention components, outcome measures and recruitment methods to inform a subsequent definitive trial.Ethics and dissemination The protocol has ethical approval from the UK Health Research Authority (approval IRAS project ID: 279877). …”
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Transition-to-home arrangements for very preterm infants and related parental needs at perinatal centres in Austria and Switzerland: a cross-sectional multicentred study by Dirk Bassler, Beatrice Latal, Mark Adams, Juliane Schneider, Jean-François Tolsa, Jörg Jahnel, André Kidszun, Philipp Meyer, Riccardo E Pfister, Martin Stocker, Angelika Berger, Berndt Urlesberger, Ulrike Held, Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer, Bjarte Rogdo, Martin Wald, Laura Ebner, André Birkenmaier, Lea Buehrer, Simone Kistler, Ulla Jochumsen, Herbert Kurz, Nadja Haiden, Sven M Schulzke

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Yoga programme for type-2 diabetes prevention (YOGA-DP) among high risk people in India: a multicentre feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol by Mark Hamer, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Kavita Singh, Nikhil Tandon, Sanjay Kinra, Kaushik Chattopadhyay, Tess Harris, Pallavi Mishra, Sheila Margaret Greenfield, Sarah Anne Lewis, Nandi Krishnamurthy Manjunath, Rukamani Nair, Somnath Mukherjee, David Ross Harper

“…Semistructured qualitative interviews will be conducted with up to 20–30 participants, a sample of those declining to participate, four YOGA-DP instructors and around eight study staff to explore their perceptions and experiences of taking part in the study and of the intervention, reasons behind non-participation, experiences of delivering the intervention and running the study, respectively.Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval has been obtained from the following Research Ethics Committees: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham (UK); Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC, India); Bapu Nature Cure Hospital and Yogashram (BNCHY, India) and Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (S-VYASA, India). …”
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Clinical Features and Changes in Insulin Requirements in People with Type 2 Diabetes Requiring Insulin When Hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Antonella Corcillo, Aaisha Saqib, Niruthika Sithamparanathan, Amina Khanam, Jamal Williams, Abhiti Gulati, Dulmini Kariyawasam, Janaka Karalliedde

“…We also describe changes in insulin requirements at time of discharge from hospital and 6 weeks later during the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 infection (April–March 2020) in the UK. Clinical, biochemical, and anthropometric data were collected from electronic health records. …”
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Implementing and evaluating the comprehensive integration of physical activity into a major health system: study design and protocol by Alex Ewing, Mark Stoutenberg, Jennifer L Trilk, Christopher Wichman, Paul A Estabrooks, John M Brooks, Meenu Jindal, James Rosemeyer, Leah M Schumacher, Lia K McNulty, Stephanie Eskuri, Frankie Bennett

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In vivo reduction of biofilm seeded on orthopaedic implants: safety and efficacy of portable electromagnetic induction heating by Enrique Cordero García-Galán, Marina Medel-Plaza, José J. Pozo-Kreilinger, Héctor Sarnago, Óscar Lucía, Alicia Rico-Nieto, Jaime Esteban, Enrique Gomez-Barrena

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Arthroplasty registries at a glance: an initiative of the International Society of Arthroplasty Registries (ISAR) to facilitate access, understanding, and reporting of registry dat... by Anne Lübbeke, Lotje A Hoogervorst, Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Heather A Prentice, Ola Rolfson, Rob G H H Nelissen, Arnd Steinbrück, Gearoid McGauran, Christophe Barea, Kajsa Erikson, Alma B Pedersen, Martyn Porter

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Comparative efficacy and acceptability of psychotherapies for post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Andrea Cipriani, Pim Cuijpers, Yuqing Zhang, David Cohen, Jürgen Barth, Peng Xie, Cinzia Del Giovane, Xinyu Zhou, Donna Gillies, Teng Teng, Xuemei Li, Li Fan, Yajie Xiang, John R. Weisz, Xueer Liu, Yuanliang Jiang, Kang Du, Arun V. Ravindran

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Association of the Triglyceride-Glucose Index and Obesity Indicators with Multiple Chronic Diseases: A Longitudinal Cohort Study Based on CHARLS by Lan Y, Qi G, Li B, Sooranna SR, Chen D, Rao W, Lin Y, Pang Y

“…Yincai Lan,1,* Guangzi Qi,1,* Boya Li,1 Suren Rao Sooranna,2 Dongshun Chen,3 Wenlian Rao,3 Yinxia Lin,1 Yaqin Pang4– 7 1School of Public Health, Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise, Guangxi, 533000, People’s Republic of China; 2Life science and clinical research center, Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise 533000, Guangxi, China and Department of metabolism, digestion and reproduction, Imperial College London, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, SW10 9NH, UK; 3School of Basic Medicine, Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise, Guangxi, 533000, People’s Republic of China; 4School of Medical Laboratory Medicine, Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise, Guangxi, 533000, People’s Republic of China; 5Key Laboratory of Environmental and Population Health Research, Ecological Aluminum Industrial Base of Guangxi Universities, Baise, Guangxi, 533000, People’s Republic of China; 6Key Laboratory for Environmental Pollution and Health Risk Assessment, Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise, Guangxi, 533000, People’s Republic of China; 7Modern Industrial College of Biomedicine and Great Health, Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise, Guangxi, 533000, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Yinxia Lin; Yaqin Pang, Email lin1837731@163.com; pangyaqin@126.comObjective: To explore the relationship between triglyceride glucose (TyG) and the obesity combined indexes and the occurrence of multiple chronic diseases (MCD), which will help to provide a basis for the prevention and treatment of this condition.Methods: 3037 participants in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, which was conducted from 2011 to 2015 were selected for this study. …”
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Prevention Of Breast and Endometrial cancer using Total Diet Replacement (PROBE-TDR) trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Robert Clarke, Emma J Crosbie, Basil G Issa, John Belcher, Helen Clarke, Anthony Howell, Michelle Harvie, Hannah Harrison, Cheryl Lombardelli, Suzanne Krizak, Katharine Sellers, Yit Y Lim, Caroline Parkin, Shruthi Patel, Anthony J Maxwell, Julie Wisely, Sacha J Howell

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