Prevalence of specific learning disability in children and its association with somatic symptom disorder – data from a tertiary care centre of South India by Nishanth Rajan, Priya Jose, Peter Prasanth Kumar Kommu, Shanthi Kannan

“…Materials and Methods: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of specific learning disability (SLD) in children aged 6–14 years who presented to the pediatric outpatient department (OPD) and to find out the association between SLD and somatic symptom disorder. …”
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Speaking exams with less anxiety in Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Assessment (ICALA): mirroring EFL learners’ foreign language anxiety, shyness, autonomy, and enjoyment by Botir Elov, Irodakhon Abdullayeva, Laylo Raupova, Azam Kholikov, Marguba Mirkasimova

“…The ramifications of this investigation may be beneficial for individuals who are learning a language, those who are teaching language, and those who are making policy.…”
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Intervention in the Domestic Affairs: Questioning Definitions by V. I. Bartenev

“…The first debate is presented as a polemic between scholars who take intervention for granted, the proponents of treating it as a scientific concept and those who refuse to search for a common definition as such. …”
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Pinah Laman: The Construction of Religious and Ethnic Identity Within the Mentuka Dayak of West Kalimantan by Felisitas Yuswanto, Sekar Ayu Aryani, Ahmad Muttaqin

“…Pinah Laman in the Mentuka Dayak community is perceived as a cultural space for community members who convert to a particular religion. Generally, religious conversion occurs in this society from Catholicism to Islam. …”
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Parental divorce's long shadow: Elevated stroke risk among older Americans. by Mary Kate Schilke, Philip Baiden, Esme Fuller-Thomson

“…Controlling for the effects of other factors, respondents who experienced parental divorce had 1.61 times higher odds of having a stroke when compared to their counterparts who did not experience parental divorce (AOR = 1.61, 95% CI = 1.15-2.24). …”
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The comparison of attitudes of general high school and religion-oriented high school students related with physical education and sport lessons by Emin Kuru, Haci Sahın, Ridvan Ozkan

“…The objective of this research was to compare the general high school students who received general education and the religion-oriented high school students who received religious education in terms of the attitudes about the physical education and sport course in accordance with the independent variables derived from the students' personal information and their families, and to identify whether there was a meaningful difference between them or not. …”
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Establishing Normative Values for Inter-Limb Kinetic Symmetry During Landing in Uninjured Adolescent Athletes by Adam W. VanZile, David M. Reineke, Matthew J. Snyder, Daniel D. Jones, Renee L. Dade, Thomas G. Almonroeder

“…# Background Assessment of inter-limb kinetic symmetry during landing could provide valuable insights when working with athletes who have undergone anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. …”
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Factors Leading To Early Versus Late Presentation In Patients With Neck Masses by Ansa Umara Akram, Sadia Chaudhry, Nighat Qamar, Amna Kausar, Amna Javaid, Adia Bushra Piracha

“…Group A included patients who presented early and Group B included patients who presented late. …”
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Prophylactic intravenous immunoglobulin use in allogeneic stem cell transplantation; does intravenous immunoglobulin affect survival, sepsis, and engraftment time? by Ahmet Kaya, İlhami Berber, İrfan Kuku, Emin Kaya, Mehmet Ali Erkurt, Soykan Biçim, Süleyman Arslan, Fatma Hilal Yağin

“…Sepsis was observed significantly less in patients who were given IVIG compared to patients who were not given IVIG (P < 0.001). …”
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Our Experience of Optimizing Outcomes in Open Globe Injuries: A Retrospective Case Series by Shilpa Umarani, Pooja Hatti, B N Nanda, Lekha Ravikumar

“…Methods: This case series includes 11 patients with varying degrees of ocular trauma, who presenting to an emergency department over a month. …”
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Need factors for utilisation of institutional delivery services in Nepal: an analysis from Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, 2011 by Vishnu Khanal, Andy H Lee, Rajendra Karkee

“…After adjusting for external, predisposing and enabling factors, women who made more than four antenatal care visits were five times more likely to deliver at a health facility when compared to those who paid no visit (adjusted OR 4.94, 95% CI 3.14 to 7.76). …”
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Prevalence of urinary incontinence and its associated predictor and Self-care behavior among the elderly females in Chaiyaphum Province, Thailand: Cross-sectional study by Patchareepon Chompoowisate, Sumattana Glangkarn, Chaloemporn Namyota

“…The elderly females who had more than 23 kilograms per square meter (kg/m2) for body mass index (BMI) tend to have 2.64 times more than those who had 18.5–22.9 kg/m2 at 0.05 statistical significance. …”
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Healthy individuals genetically at-risk for the development of Pemphigus vulgaris or Alopecia areata share disease-like cytokine dysregulation by Rebekah R. Schwartz, Kristina Seiffert-Sinha, Animesh A. Sinha

“…In PV, patients as well as individuals who are healthy but yet carry certain PV-associated HLA alleles (termed here as HLA-matched controls) share a similar, but not fully overlapping pattern of cytokine expression that is distinct from control subjects who do not type for these HLA alleles. …”
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Plain Language Summary of Publication: What is the effect of the medicine vibegron in the treatment of overactive bladder in patients with and without bladder leakage? by David Staskin, Jeffrey Frankel, Steven G. Gregg, Janet Owens-Grillo

“…One group was made of participants with overactive bladder who have accidental leakage. The second group was made of participants with overactive bladder who do not have accidental leakage. …”
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Parental Reported Bullying among Saudi Schoolchildren: Its Forms, Effect on Academic Abilities, and Associated Sociodemographic, Physical, and Dentofacial Features by Raghad S. Alabdulrazaq, Sanaa N. Al-Haj Ali

“…The youngest schoolchildren (8-11 years) and those who disliked school classes or neither liked nor hated them, as well as those who were truant from school, were more likely to be victims. …”
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Persistent effects of legal status on healthcare access and outcomes: findings from a state-wide representative cross-sectional survey in California by Lei Chen, Michelle Kao Nakphong, May Sudhinaraset, Nadereh Pourat, Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young

“…Compared with citizens who have always held lawful status (CLS), non-citizens who were previously undocumented (adjusted OR (aOR)=0.48, p&lt;0.05) and non-citizens who have always held lawful status (NLS) (aOR=0.41, p&lt;0.01) were less likely to have a usual source of care. …”
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AN OVERVIEW OF FAMILY COPING MECHANISM IN CARING FOR PATIENTS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS IN THE AREA OF UPT PUSKESMAS TIKUNG LAMONGAN by Endah Sri Wijayanti, Banafsa Safa Ayu Shinta, Iswatun Iswatun

“…The population in this study were all families who had family members with mental disorders who were recorded in the medical records of UPT Puskesmas Tikung as many as 84 people. …”
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Predicting the Birth Delivery Mode: Uncovering the Link Between EHG Topological Features and BMI by Rubana Hoque Chowdhury, Quazi Delwar Hossain, Mohiuddin Ahmad

“…On the other hand, it was found that aside from variance, women who delivered spontaneously exhibited higher topological feature values compared to those who underwent cesarean sections. …”
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Contraceptives or Hormone Replacement Therapy and Associations with Autoimmune Conditions: Exploring Effects of Estrogen Analog Supplementation by Irakli Tskhakaia, Yurilu Gonzalez Moret, Anna‐Kay Palmer, Diego Lema, M. Carolina Musri, Nanuka Tsibadze, Arthur Lau

“…Results We included 3,338,925 patients in the group who received estrogen and progesterone and 2,090,758 patients in the group who received progesterone only. …”
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Enhancing Aotearoa, New Zealand’s Free Healthline Service through Image Upload Technology by Miriama K. Wilson, Fiona Pienaar, Ruth Large, Matt Wright, Verity F. Todd

“…Conclusion. Service users who did not upload an image had a higher proportion of Emergency Department outcomes than service users who did use the tool. …”
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