Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on utilization of mental health services among children and adolescents using an interrupted time series analysis by Fumihiro Endo, Yuji Hiramatsu, Hiroo Ide

“…We conducted an interrupted time series analysis of the number of mental health visits and average incurred medical expenses, stratified by sex and age group, using monthly medical claims data on 3,029,048 patients for the period from January 2016 to December 2020. …”
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Trends, seasonal variations and forecasting of chronic respiratory disease morbidity in charcoal producing areas, northwest Ethiopia: time series analysis by Mulugeta Tesfa, Achenef Motbainor, Muluken Azage Yenesew

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Differential impact of minimum unit pricing on alcohol consumption between Scottish men and women: controlled interrupted time series analysis by Peter Anderson, Eileen F S Kaner, Jakob Manthey, Jürgen Rehm, Amy O'Donnell, Eva Jané Llopis

“…Objective To assess the immediate impact of the introduction of minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Scotland on alcohol consumption and whether the impact differed by sex, level of alcohol consumption, age, social grade and level of residential deprivation of respondents.Design Primary controlled interrupted time series analysis and secondary before-and-after analysis of the impact of introducing MUP in Scotland using alcohol consumption data for England as control.Setting Data from Kantar Worldpanel’s Alcovision survey, a continuous retrospective online timeline follow-back diary survey of the previous week’s alcohol consumption.Participants 53 347 women and 53 143 men.Interventions Introduction of a minimum price of 50 pence per UK unit (6.25 pence/g) for the sale of alcohol in Scotland on 1 May 2018.Main outcome measures Number of grams of alcohol consumed per week, in total, in off-trade (eg, at home) and in on-trade (eg, in pubs, restaurants).Results Primary interrupted time series analyses found that the introduction of MUP was associated with a drop in reported weekly total alcohol consumption of 5.94 g (95% CI 1.29 to 10.60), a drop in off-trade consumption of 3.27 g (95% CI −0.01 to 6.56) and a drop in on-trade consumption of 2.67 g (95% CI −1.48 to 6.82). …”
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Predicting Solar Energetic Particle Events with Time Series Shapelets by Omar Bahri, Peiyu Li, Soukaïna Filali Boubrahimi, Shah Muhammad Hamdi

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MASC: Wearable Design for Infectious Disease Detection Through Machine Learning by Sumaiya Afroz Mila, Bhagawat Baanav Yedla Ravi, Md Rafiul Kabir, Sandip Ray

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Medicine demand forecasting: an assessment of a private hospital in Pernambuco by Eduardo Fernando da Silva Souza, Antonio Reinaldo Silva Neto

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Short-term effects of air pollution on the infectious disease spectrum in Shanghai, China: a time-series analysis from 2013 to 2019 by Yihan Lin, Hao Meng, Yong He, Wenzhuo Liang, Yiran Niu, Zhenliang Liu, Ziying Wang, Yangyang Tian, Shiyang Chang

“…We aimed to investigate the relationship between exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) and the risk of national notifiable infectious diseases in Shanghai, a megacity in China.MethodsA double-pollutant model was used for each air pollutant, utilizing time-series analysis to separately apply single and distributed lag models (DLMs) to assess the exposure-lag-response relationship for 43 national notifiable infectious diseases (NNIDs) from 2013 to 2019. …”
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The impact of headache specialist density and the introduction of gepants and lasmitidan on prescriptions for acute migraine treatments: a regression and interrupted time series analysis by Leon S. Moskatel, Rebecca Y. Linfield, Niushen Zhang

“…Second, we conducted interrupted time-series analysis examining the change in patients prescribed the triptans before (2016–2019) and after (2020–2023) the introduction of the gepants and lasmiditan. …”
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Risk of hospitalization of diagnosed COVID-19 cases during the pandemic: A time-series analysis to unveil short- and long-run dynamics by Manuela ALCAÑIZ, Marc ESTÉVEZ, Miguel SANTOLINO

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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

“…This study evaluates the impact of this app on the uptake of antenatal care (ANC), facility-based births, and postnatal care (PNC), compared to a reference period where CHWs provided the same services without mHealth, using the interrupted time series analysis.Patients and Methods: Using aggregated monthly data and segmented quasi-Poisson regression models, we compared the effects of mHealth on selected maternal health outcomes. …”
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Time-series analysis on relationship between short-term exposure to atmospheric ozone and the risk of non-accidental deaths in Hefei during 2017−2020 by Linling YU, Yu ZHU, Changchun XIAO

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Time series analysis combined with transcriptome sequencing to explore characteristic genes and potential molecular mechanisms associated with ultrasound-guided microwave ablation of glioma by Qian Zhang, Guangfei Yang, Ruijiao Chang, Fuxia Wang, Tao Han, Jin Tian, Wen Wang

“…The down-regulation cluster genes (CONDOWNDEGs) and upregulation cluster genes (CONUPDEGs) were identified by time series analysis. Candidate genes were obtained by overlapping CONDOWNDEGs with downregulation DEGs (DOWNDEGs)1 and DOWNDEGs2, as well as CONUPDEGs with up-regulation DEGs (UPDEGs)1 and UPDEGs2. …”
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Effect of Implementing a Free Delivery Service Policy on Women’s Utilization of Facility-Based Delivery in Central Ethiopia: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis by Ayalneh Demissie, Alemayehu Worku, Yemane Berhane

“…An interrupted time-series analysis was conducted to assess the effect of the intervention. …”
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How does news coverage of suicide affect suicidal behaviour at a high-frequency location? A 7-year time series analysis by Lisa Marzano, Ruth Spence, Ian Kruger, Ian Marsh, Arianna Barbin

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Improving Air Quality and Childhood Respiratory Health in Mongolia: The Impact of the Raw Coal Ban and COVID-19 Restrictions—An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis by Emma Dickinson-Craig, Terkhen Turbat, Karla Hemming, Francis D. Pope, Suzanne E. Bartington, Suvdaa Anjaa, Sumiya Davaa, Rosie Day, Damdindorj Boldbaatar, Chimedsuren Ochir, David Warburton, Graham Neil Thomas, Jargalsaikhan Badarch, Semira Manaseki-Holland

“…Methods: An interrupted time-series analysis was conducted on air quality (PM_2.5, PM₁₀, SO₂, CO) and child (<5 y) severe acute respiratory disease, adjusting for coinciding co-events (COVID-19) where necessary. …”
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Evaluation of Online Measuring Gear Tooth Profile Error based on Gear Grinding Machine by Wang Zhonghou, Ma Yahe, Liu Xinrong, Cao Huan

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Phenology analysis for trait prediction using UAVs in a MAGIC rice population with different transplanting protocols by Shoji Taniguchi, Toshihiro Sakamoto, Haruki Nakamura, Yasunori Nonoue, Di Guan, Akari Fukuda, Hirofumi Fukuda, Kaede C. Wada, Takuro Ishii, Jun-Ichi Yonemaru, Daisuke Ogawa

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Network Anomaly Prediction Method Based on Big Data by Xu Cao, Ruitong Cao

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Association between short-term exposure to air pollutants and daily stroke incidence among residents in Qingdao city: a time series analysis of disease surveillance, environmental, and meteorological monitoring data by Nan GE, Lu PAN, Xin ZHANG, Dandan LI, Yin WANG, Jingya YIN, Hui ZHOU, Haoyan YU, Xiuqin ZHANG, Chunsheng XU, Yuan FANG, Yan MA, Bingling WANG, Haiping DUAN

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Effect of flood on the cutaneous leishmaniasis incidence in northeast of Iran: an interrupted time series study by Mostafa Majidnia, Atefeh Khoshkchali, Ahmad Khosravi

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