Emotional and psychological experiences of nursing students caring for dying patients: an explorative study at a national referral hospital in Uganda by Asha K. Nabirye, Ian G. Munabi, Aloysius G. Mubuuke, Sarah Kiguli

“…Methods An explorative study was conducted using in-depth interviews among fifteen 3rd and 4th year undergraduate nursing students of Makerere University college of Health sciences. Data was audio recorded, verbatim transcribed and thematically analyzed using Atlas. ti version 6 software. …”
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Advances in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis Treatment From the Perspective of the Newest Mechanisms of Podocyte Injury by Zhu Y, Xu G

“…Yan Zhu,1,2 Gaosi Xu1,2 1Department of Nephrology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, People’s Republic of China; 2Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Gaosi Xu, Email gaosixu@163.comAbstract: Podocyte injury was widely recognized as a fundamental mechanism driving the progression of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). …”
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Assessment of Insecticide Compatibility with Beauveria bassiana for Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) Management in Maize by G. Sugeetha, M. V. Adwaitha, K. S. Nikhil Reddy, P. Mahadevu, J. Mahadevu

“… The study was conducted during March–April, 2021, in College of Agriculture, V. C. Farm, Mandya, Karnataka, India to assess their combined efficacy and potential synergistic or antagonistic effects. …”
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Does accountability for reasonableness work? A protocol for a mixed methods study using an audit tool to evaluate the decision-making of clinical commissioning groups in England by Sarah Clark, Katharina Kieslich, Peter Littlejohns, Albert Weale

“…A combination of quantitative and qualitative content analysis methods will be used to analyse the interview transcripts.Ethics and dissemination Full ethics approval was received by the King's College London Biomedical Sciences, Dentistry, Medicine and Natural and Mathematical Sciences Research Ethics Subcommittee. …”
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Addressing the mental health needs of India’s aging population: Understanding depression prevalence and social risk factors in tertiary care outpatients by Joanne Lydia Rajkumar, Surekha Viggeswarapu, Suja Kurian, Munaf B. Nandyal, Mahasampath Gowri

“…Methods: Consecutive patients aged over 60 years presented to the geriatric outpatient clinic of the Christian Medical College (CMC) and Hospital, Vellore, were screened using the Physical Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). …”
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To Study the Outcome of Low-Cost Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy Using Wall-Mounted Vacuum Device in the Treatment of Open Wounds by Neeraj Jain, Ravi Kant Jain, Ajay Sabhnani

“…Methods: This is a prospective observational study of 30 patients presenting with open musculoskeletal injuries in extremities that required coverage procedures in the department of Orthopaedics, Sri Aurobindo Medical College and PG Institute, Indore. All these patients had undergone wound debridement and fracture fixation. …”
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A Qualitative Exploration of Emotional Experiences in Patients with Thin Endometrium Undergoing Repeated Cancellations of Frozen-Thawed Embryo Transfer Cycles by Wei Q, Hong X, He Y, Xu M, Jiang X, Shen X, Wang Z

“…Qun Wei, Xia Hong, Yu He, Meiling Xu, Xuechun Jiang, Xuling Shen, Zilian Wang Reproductive Medicine Center, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Zilian Wang, Email Wangzilian@zju.edu.cnObjective: The aim of this study was to investigate the emotional experience of patients with thin endometrium (TE) who have repeatedly cancelled their cycles due to unsuitability for embryo implantation during the endometrial preparation phase of freeze-thaw embryo transfer (FET). …”
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Correlation between antenatal and postnatal coiling index and its role in prediction of perinatal outcome: A prospective cohort study by Ankita Kumari, Vani Aditya, Shaila Mitra, Garima Maurya, Pratima Sharma, Harish Chandra Tiwari

“…Materials and Methods: This prospective cohort study was conducted on 124 antenatal cases of age group 18–35 years with term gestation with singleton pregnancy that attendant the outpatients department and indoor of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nehru Hospital B.R.D. Medical College, Gorakhpur over a period of 1 year (2019–2020). …”
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Association between transarterial chemoembolization refractoriness and prognosis in Chinese patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: a large retrospective cohort study by Qinxue Sun, Ziliang Wu, Xi Yin, Feng Li, Ri Liu

“…Existing international definitions of TACE refractoriness may not fully suit Chinese patients. The Chinese College of Interventionalists (CCI) proposed a tailored definition, but its impact on HCC prognosis is still limited.MethodsThis study included 844 patients with Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage B HCC from a multicenter dataset. …”
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VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION AS A SCHOOL OF STUDENTS’ VOCATIONAL TRIALS by V. A. Starodubtsev, Р. V. Rodionov

“…The aim of the research is to study the educational potential of volunteer organizations to provide vocational experience for university and college students during their studies. Vocationally oriented volunteer organizations where students can get vocational experience have been identified. …”
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Public Speech Anxiety among Medical Residency Trainees in Riyadh by Taha Alhazmi, Aisha Khalid Alraddadi, Hussa Ibrahim Alabdulkarim, Norah Abdullah Al-Rowais

“…Finally, we found through linear regression analysis that PSA is not significantly predicted by participants' living region, marital Status, gender, residency level, type of pre-college school, age or being previously diagnosed by a mental health issue…”
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القراءة الالکترونية واستخداماتها لدى طالبات جامعة الأزهر: دراسة ميدانية by عزة عبد الحميد خطاب

“…The study also aimed to identify E-reading and its impact on theeducational process, in addition to identifying the similarities and differencesbetween the effect of e-reading and the motives for its uses and its impact on theeducational process before the Corona crisis (Covid 19), and after that for thestudents of the College of Human Studies as a model.The study relied on the field method as the most appropriate method for thisThe quality of studies, as well as personal interviews, and in order to achievethese previous goals, a questionnaire was prepared for the study sample of (908)students, and some descriptive and analytical statistical methods were used,such as frequencies and percentages, using the statistical analysis programSPSS v.25.The study reached many of the results, the most important of which are:Most of the students are aware of the meaning of e-reading, by 90.75%, alsoelectronic reading has become a tangible reality that must be dealt with,electronic reading was used as a substitute for going to libraries by 74.78%, andthe printed book was affected by the emergence of electronic texts by 83.48%.The sciences of Islamic religion and heritage books are among the most readingfields. …”
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Multigene Panel Testing in Turkish Hereditary Cancer Syndrome Patients by Esra ARSLAN ATES, Ayberk TURKYILMAZ, Ceren ALAVANDA, Ozlem YILDIRIM, Ahmet Ilter GUNEY

“…In addition, 25 HCS-related genes were sequenced using a multigene panel, and variations were classified according to the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) criteria. …”
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D-dimer as a predictor of severity and outcome in acute pancreatitis by Joseph A, Harikrishnan CP, Oommen AN, Nair A

“…This prospective observational study, conducted at Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur, explored the role of D-dimer as a predictive marker for the severity and outcomes of acute pancreatitis. …”
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The impact of artistic sports on academic self-efficacy by Yanyan Tian, Yanyan Tian, Haiqing Wang

“…This study delves into the beneficial effects of Artistic sports compared to basic sports in enhancing academic self-efficacy in college students, and investigates the mediating roles of mindfulness, social anxiety, and academic procrastination in this process.MethodsA questionnaire survey was conducted among students in some universities in Gansu Province, collecting a total of 1,976 online questionnaires, including 263 males and 1,713 females, with 1,543 participants in Artistic sports courses and 433 participants in basic sports. …”
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Understanding cultural perceptions of sexuality in China and their influence on human papillomavirus vaccine hesitancy by Jiayuan Jin, Yanchao Han

“…This study aimed to identify whether cultural perceptions of sexuality in China influence HPV vaccine hesitancy and explore the correlation between sexual attitudes, sexual morality, and HPV hesitancy in Chinese.MethodsBetween January and April 2024, we adopted a qualitative approach and conducted in-depth, one-on-one, semi-structured interviews with 15 young female Chinese university students of sexual maturity.ResultsAlthough all college students exhibited vaccine hesitancy, their perceptions of vaccines and reasons for hesitation varied. …”
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Adults with reading difficulties demonstrate selective impairments in the fine neural tuning for print by Tongjie Zhuang, Yaowen Li, Yufei Tan, Jiuju Wang, Xiuyue Yue, Licheng Xue, Jing Zhao, Jing Zhao

“…Although many adults also experience reading difficulties, relatively few studies have examined whether such impairments exist in adults, particularly those who read Chinese, which differs markedly in visual and linguistic characteristics from alphabetic scripts.MethodsTo fill this gap, we assessed 20 high-level and 16 low-level adult readers who were the two extremes of the best and poorest readers of a database, which consisted of 308 college students. Using ERP techniques, we investigated two levels of neural tuning for print: coarse tuning (i.e., real, pseudo, false characters vs. stroke combinations) and fine tuning (i.e., real vs. pseudo vs. false characters).ResultsResults indicated that high-level adult readers exhibited both coarse and fine tuning for print. …”
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No Apparent Workup for most new Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules in US Commercially-Insured Patients by Bruce S. Pyenson, Carol M. Bazell, Michael J. Bellanich, Melissa A. Caplen, Javier J. Zulueta

“…Subsequent claims were examined for workups included in the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) guideline recommendations and the costs of workup were tabulated. …”
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Nanoparticles Modulating the Immune Microenvironment in Breast Cancer Treatment by Guo LJ, Wu J, Lu W, Li J, Wang Y, Yang H, Wang TZ

“…Li-Juan Guo,1 Jinsheng Wu,1 Weifeng Lu,2 Jing Li,1 Yeling Wang,1 Hui Yang,1 Tian-Zhu Wang3 1Department of Radiotherapy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 570102, People’s Republic of China; 2Institute of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College Institute of Oncology, Haikou, 570102, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Radiation Oncology, Hainan Cancer Hospital, Haikou, 570311, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Tian-Zhu Wang, Department of Radiation Oncology, Hainan Cancer Hospital, Haikou, 570311, People’s Republic of China, Email pillarsky@126.comAbstract: Breast cancer remains a significant therapeutic challenge, with the immune microenvironment playing a crucial role in its progression and treatment response. …”
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A Cross Sectional Study of Assessment of Hearing in Infants of Gestational Diabetes Mothers by Srikanth Gopinath, Arulmozhi Sakthignanavel, Atul Mukul Bage, Rajan ND, Sasmita Mishra

“…Material & Methods: This study was conducted among 100 pregnant mothers who gave birth in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department in a medical college in Pondicherry from December 2020 to July 2022. 50 pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) were assigned to Group 1 and 50 pregnant women who had no GDM were assigned to Group 2. …”
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