The technical expert/clinical user/patient panel (TECUPP): centering patient and family perspectives in patient-reported measure development by Elizabeth Marsolais, Rebecca Anhang Price, Carl T. Berdahl, Anton Shenk, Lucy Schulson, Claire E. O’Hanlon

“…Measure development efforts implementing this model should consider recruiting diverse individuals, scheduling short and frequent meetings, enabling participation from all TECUPP members, developing accessible pre-read materials, anchoring meetings with patient stories, and encouraging multiple communication modes. …”
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Going paperless: the strengths and limitations of electronic research ethics information management system in a health training institution in Tanzania by Rebecca D. Mkumbwa, Godwin Pancras, Nathanael S. Sirili

“…Participants were purposefully recruited to include only those who had been exposed to both the paper-based research ethics review system and REIMS. …”
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The Impact of Data Control and Delayed Discounting on the Public’s Willingness to Share Different Types of Health Care Data: Empirical Study by Dongle Wei, Pan Gao, Yunkai Zhai

“…MethodsThe results of a web-based survey were analyzed to examine individuals’ perceptions of sharing different types of health data and how data control and delay discounting rates influenced their decisions. We recruited participants for our study through the web-based platform “Wenjuanxing.” …”
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Community health worker and caregiver experiences and perceptions of a multimodal handheld pulse oximeter used in sick child consultations in rural Burundi: A qualitative evaluatio... by Sarah Bauler, Leocadie Nivyindika, Titus Kirwa, Vital Habonimana, Dionis Nizigiyimana, Miles A Kirby, Asrat Tolossa

“…We used purposive sampling to recruit CHWs and trained them to use the oximeters during household iCCM consultations for children 6-59 months of age. …”
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Prevalence and Etiological Factors of Dental Trauma among 12- and 15-Year-Old Schoolchildren of Lebanon: A National Study by Chirine Abdel Malak, Carole Chakar, Alain Romanos, Samar Rachidi

“…Materials and Methods. 7902 schoolchildren, 3806 male and 4096 female aged 12 years (n = 3985) and 15 years (n = 3917), were recruited by a stratified multistaged randomized cluster sampling method from public and private schools and were clinically examined in a national cross-sectional study. …”
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Effect of Virtual Reality Therapy with Brain Gym Exercises for Sleep-deprived Individuals: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Marissa De Souza Eremita, Jeba Chitra

“…Materials and Methods: A randomized clinical trial was performed by screening 51 samples, from which 32 individuals were recruited, using purposive sampling, based on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) which was used as the inclusion criteria. …”
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The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study. by Bianca Curi Braga, Pejman Sajjadi, Mahda Bagher, Alexander Klippel, Jessica Menold, Travis Masterson

“…<h4>Participants</h4>84 participants recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk.<h4>Intervention</h4>Participants were randomly assigned to either a high- (n = 43) or a low- (n = 41) visual fidelity environment and were asked to select foods to have a meal with a friend.…”
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Risk Factors for Acute Unintentional Poisoning among Children Aged 1–5 Years in the Rural Community of Sri Lanka by M. B. Kavinda Chandimal Dayasiri, Shaluka F. Jayamanne, Chamilka Y. Jayasinghe

“…Each group comprised three hundred children and all children were recruited at Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital, Sri Lanka, over two years (from February 2012 to January 2014). …”
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Psoriatic Arthritis Is an Indicator of Significant Renal Damage in Patients with Psoriasis: An Observational and Epidemiological Study by Abidullah Khan, Iqbal Haider, Maimoona Ayub, Mohammad Humayun

“…In this cross-sectional study, 30 participants were recruited into the following three groups: group-A, psoriatic arthritis; group-B, psoriasis without arthritis; and group-C, healthy subjects. …”
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Effect of swimming training on stress-related metabolic parameters of diabetic and non-diabetic rats by Eduardo Campos, Aline Jarrete, Hygor Araujo, Suziane Cayres, José Campanholi Neto, Eliete Luciano

“…Twenty-four adult male Wistar rats were recruited. The rats were randomly divided into four groups, sedentary control (SC), trained control (TC), sedentary diabetic (SD), and trained diabetic (TD). …”
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Using expert knowledge and peer review to create a reproducible process for the NAHRS Nursing Essential Resources List (NNERL) by Rebecca Raszewski, Lorraine Porcello, Alissa Fial, Carolyn Dennison, Rachel Keiko Stark, Karen Alcorn, Sarah Wade

“…Two working groups were formed: 1) an evaluation rubric working group developed a tool to evaluate the resources and 2) a tagging work group developed guidelines for creating metadata and “tags.” Volunteers were recruited from the NAHRS Caucus to tag the resources. …”
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Social Workers in Hospice and Palliative Care in Indian Contect: Voices from the field by Pallavi Mech, Dr Vasundharaa S Nair, Dr Priya Treesa Thomas

“…Eight participants who are expert practitioners with specific experience in palliative care were recruited purposively following inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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Integrated Analysis of mRNA and lncRNA Expression Profiles Reveals Regulatory Networks Associated with Decompensated Cirrhosis by Li Zhang, Xiaoyu Fang, Suhua Wang, Shasha Ma, Jinyan Zhang, Xiang Dong, Jing Dai, Chuanmiao Liu, Yu Gao

“…Four patients with decompensated cirrhosis and four controls with liver cirrhosis were recruited in this study. RNA was isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and RNA-seq was used for transcriptome analysis. …”
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Comparison of subfoveal choroidal thickness in pre-eclamptic, healthy pregnant, and non-pregnant women by Aarshi Naharwal, Ramanuj Samanta, Ajai Agrawal, Latika Chawla, Amrita Gaurav, Sreeram Jayaraj

“…A total of 90 females (30 in each group) aged 20-40 years were recruited prospectively over 1 year. Females with refractive error beyond ±3 D, intraocular pressure >21 mmHg, prior ocular trauma or surgeries, systemic diseases, pregnancy-related complications (except PE), and poor OCT scans were excluded. …”
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Alterations of Retinal Pigment Epithelium–Photoreceptor Complex in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus without Diabetic Retinopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study by Zheren Xia, Hao Chen, Suilian Zheng

“…Patients with type 2 DM without DR and healthy controls without DM were recruited. All participants underwent examinations including SD-OCT. …”
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The protein tyrosine phosphatase, nonreceptor type 22-1858C->T (rs2476601) polymorphism is not a genetic risk factor for systemic lupus erythematosus in Indian Tamils by Panneer Devaraju, Reena Gulati, Durga Prasanna Misra, Vir Singh Negi

“…Disease activity was measured using the SLE Disease Activity Index. We recruited 460 age-, sex-, and ethnicity-matched individuals without a family history of autoimmune diseases as control population. …”
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Evaluation of Early Prognostic Factors of Mortality in Patients with Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Study by Wenzheng Zhang, Jiang Hu, Bihui Yao, Xvsheng Yang, Lei Song, Ting Yin, Lu Liang

“…We retrospectively analyzed 24-hour clinical characteristics and laboratory data in 166 AP patients recruited between January 2014 and November 2015 in Baotou Central Hospital. …”
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Psychiatric nurses’ knowledge of COVID-19 within a patient care context: A qualitative study by Sandisiwe Dyonase, Isabelle Swanepoel, Gian Lippi

“…Results: Twenty nurses working full time at the hospital, were recruited for the study. The nurses’ knowledge about COVID-19 was summarised into five major themes, each with subthemes: signs and symptoms of COVID-19, risk of contracting the virus, the spread of COVID-19, prevention, and complications. …”
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Microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II in four Indian children with PCNT variants by Amit Singh, Mahak Garg, Mohammed Shariq, Preeti Khetarpal, Inusha Panigrahi

“…Case presentation Four patients of Indian origin with growth deficiency and additional clinical features of MOPDII were recruited from a tertiary health care center and whole exome sequencing was performed on blood samples from these patients. …”
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Is tattooing associated with increased seroprevalence of transfusion-transmitted infections among blood donors: A single-center study from Southeastern India by Charumathy Arjunan, Abhishekh Basavarajegowda

“…RESULTS: A total of 368 donors were recruited for the study, 184 donors with tattoos and 184 donors without a tattoo. …”
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