Fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa: an integrative systematic review by Samuel Nambile Cumber, Anna Williams, Helen Elden, Malin Bogren

“…While unwelcoming health services, traditional gender norms, and low income are barriers to male involvement, education, younger age, and modern gender norms are associated with greater male involvement.…”
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Bioethics knowledge, attitudes, and practices among healthcare professionals in Cameroon: a cross sectional analytical observational study of doctors and nurses in Cameroon’s South... by Kevin T. J. Dzi, Oscaline N. Ndong, Elisabeth Z. Menkem, Nicholas Tendongfor

“…While participants demonstrated a moderate knowledge of healthcare ethics, additional educational interventions are needed to cultivate more favourable attitudes toward specific aspects of healthcare ethics, such as informed consent, patient autonomy, paternalism, and confidentiality.…”
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Cardiovascular risk profiling among South Asian adults in Hong Kong: a latent class analysis by Gary Ka-Ki Chung, Woohyung Lee, Danna Camille Vargas, Bulbul Sharma, Kai Sing Sun, Heidi Hung, Lee Sha Tong, Tsz Lui Tang, Hasiba Munir, Chi Yui Wong, Soniya Pun, Man Hin Chio, Eliza Lai-Yi Wong, Dong Dong, Eng-Kiong Yeoh

“…Pakistani and Nepalese consistently exhibited higher risks compared to Indians, whereas the less educated tended to cluster into the high clinical risk class. …”
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A Case-Control Study for Assessing Risk Factors for Congenital Anomalies among Children in Sulaimani City by Niaz Mustafa Kamal, Nasih Othman

“…In general, in order to control and prevent the cases of CM, it is important to provide health education and policies to reduce environmental and maternal risk factors. …”
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Automating monitoring and evaluation data analysis by using an open-source programming language by Nadia Fouché, Melody Mentz-Coetzee

“…Background: African higher education institutions lag behind their global counterparts in the number of research outputs produced. …”
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Self-medication and knowledge of pregnant women about the use of medication during pregnancy in the cities of Rijeka and Zadar, Croatia by Željko Jovanović, Petra Vulić

“…A total of 94.5% of respondents consider it important to improve educational programmes and access to information about the effects of medication on the health of the foetus and pregnancy outcomes.…”
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The Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Nosocomial Infection Rate: A Case of Iran by Maryam Jabarpour, Mahlagha Dehghan, Giti Afsharipour, Elham Hajipour Abaee, Parvin Mangolian Shahrbabaki, Mehdi Ahmadinejad, Mahboobeh Maazallahi

“…This cross-sectional study was conducted in an educational hospital, southeast Iran. The nosocomial infection rates of critical/intensive care units (CCU/ICUs) and medical-surgical units were assessed during and before the COVID-19 outbreak. …”
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Mental Health Services for Serious Mental Illness: Scoping Review of Randomised Controlled Trials by Pablo Roson Rodriguez, Xiao Chen, Marcelo Arancibia, Eva Madrid, Farhad Shokraneh, Clive E. Adams, Juan Víctor Ariel Franco

“…Relevance Statement The study is of interest to mental health nursing because it studies the different services in which nurses play a fundamental role with implications in the nursing practice, education, research or leadership and management.…”
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Latent profile analysis of sense of coherence and relationship with meaning of life and professional identity among nursing undergraduate by Yating Liu, Dudu Zhang, Song Ge, Shanshan Wang, Xin Li, Zhenxiang Zhang, Beilei Lin, Suyan Chen, Yongxia Mei

“…Conclusion The heterogeneity of nursing undergraduates’ sense of coherence suggests that nursing educators should provide targeted intervention guidance according to the potential category characteristics of nursing undergraduates’ sense of coherence; at the same time, they should strengthen the cultivation of nursing undergraduates’ meaning of life and professional identity to improve their level of sense of coherence, so as to promote the growth of the nursing workforce.…”
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The Ural Population Project. Demography and Culture From Microdata in a European-Asian Border Region by Elena Glavatskaya, Julia Borovik, Gunnar Thorvaldsen

“…Infant mortality in Ekaterinburg was lower among Jews and the Catholics, minorities with higher education and western background, while the Orthodox majority exposed their newborn to extremely tough baptism. …”
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Chronological development of environmental protection and sustainable development in Ethiopia: Systematic review by Tsegay Kahsay Gebrekidan, Muuz Gebretsadik Gebremariam, Meaza Kidane Teferi, Selama Gebreslassie Yebyo

“…Strengthening institutional arrangements, enhancing education and awareness, and fostering collaboration at all levels are essential steps toward achieving sustainable development and environmental protection in Ethiopia.…”
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Perceptions and attitudes towards AI among trainee and qualified radiologists at selected South African training hospitals by Ayanda I. Nciki, Linda T. Hlabangana

“…Conclusion: The findings suggest AI in radiology is in its infancy, with a need for educational programmes to upskill radiologists. Contribution: Participants were positive about AI implementation in practice and in the registrar learning programme.…”
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Integrated high-precision real scene 3D modeling of karst cave landscape based on laser scanning and photogrammetry by Congyuan Zhang, Jianping Chen, Ping Li, Sipeng Han, Jie Xu

“…The establishment of high-precision real scene 3D models can not only serve as an effective tool for scientific research on caves but also, as replicas of the real world, play a crucial role in public dissemination and education, thereby enhancing public understanding of cave geological landscapes.…”
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Dentists’ Attitudes in Jordan towards the Shortened Dental Arch Concept: A Cross-Sectional Study by Motasum Abu-Awwad, Rula Amarin, Farah Khouli, Sirin Shaban, Sandra AlTarawneh

“…The fewer the years of experience, the more likely the dentists were aware of the SDA concept (X2, P=0.024) and the more likely they learned about it through undergraduate education (X2, P<0.001). In a hypothetical clinical situation of a patient >50 years of age with missing molar teeth, 45.3% agreed that the molars should be replaced, while 54.7% did not agree. …”
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Wood dust effects on carpenters pulmonary function test parameters: a comparative study by Noura Mohamed Elfatih, Ibrahim Abdelrhim Ali, Muaath Ahmed Mohammed, Izzut Awad Ahmed, Nouralsalhin Abdalhamid Alaagib, Omer Abdelaziz Musa

“…Awareness campaigns should be undertaken to educate carpenters about lung health and preventative measures.…”
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DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE INSTRUCTIONS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN ONLINE CLASSROOM by Christina Eli Indriyani

“…The pre service teachers were the students of English Education Department in a private university in Jakarta who enrolled the Teaching Internship program. …”
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Quality circles for quality improvement in primary health care: Their origins, spread, effectiveness and lacunae- A scoping review. by Adrian Rohrbasser, Janet Harris, Sharon Mickan, Kali Tal, Geoff Wong

“…We found that they originated in manufacturing industry and that many countries adopted them for primary health care to continuously improve medical education, professional development, and quality of care. …”
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Social Support Groups in the Maintenance of Glycemic Control after Community-Based Intervention by Claire Townsend Ing, Guangxing Zhang, Adrienne Dillard, Sheryl R. Yoshimura, Claire Hughes, Donna-Marie Palakiko, Bridget Puni Kehauoha, Ka‘imi A. Sinclair, Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula

“…Partners in Care (PIC), a culturally tailored, community-based, diabetes self-management education intervention (DSME), is effective at improving participants’ glycemic control and self-care behaviors. …”
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The Role of Small-Scale Industries in Achieving the Sustainable Development: the Experience of India by N. V. Galistcheva

“…The author draws attention to the fact that the small scale industry promotion policy impacts significantly not only on decreasing the unemployment rate as well as long-term and youth unemployment but also on solving such acute social problems as poverty, famine, undernourishment and food insecurity, lack of quality education, gender inequality and the empowerment of women. …”
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Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy Among Single Mothers in Khartoum, Sudan: Sociodemographic Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences by Amal Abdelgadir Ali Mohamed, Elshafee Ahmed Apaker Babiker, Sohair Mohmoud Godat, Salma Mohammed Gomaa Doalbet, Aida AF Ahmed, Maha Hamed Mohamed Ali, Abdalkhaliq Ahmed Obadi, Amna Mohammed Ali Mustafa, Amani Awad Elkarim Taha, Amira Elnour Eltayeb Elbashir, Ragaa Gasim Ahmed, Fahad A Alghamdi, Waled AM Ahmed

“…Results: The study found that most of the single mothers in Khartoum who gave birth out of wedlock were young and had just completed their university education. Most of them discovered their pregnancy during the second or third trimester, and nearly half of them did not receive any antenatal care. …”
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