The Status of Observing the Charter of Patients’ Rights and Related Factors from the Point of View of Hospitalized Patients by Seyedeh Narjes Fazeli, Mitra Sedghisabet, Mohammad Taghi Moghadamnia, Ehsan Kazemnejad Leili

“…The study instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire with two sections: The first section was related to individual, social, and disease-related information, and the second section to determining the status of the patient’s compliance. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive (Mean±SD) and inferential statistics (The Chi-Square test, Friedman, and logistic regression). …”
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Respectful maternity care and mistreatment: Women's experiences during induction of labor and childbirth in Ghana. by Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Grace T Newman, Kenneth Atobrah-Apraku, Yaw Opuni-Frimpong, Joseph D Seffah

“…Purposive sampling was employed in recruiting the study participants (n = 17). Data analysis was performed based on thematic content using the inductive qualitative analytic framework approach.…”
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Telehealth abortion services via Women on Web in Kenya (2013–2019): a descriptive analysis of the characteristics and motivations of the care seekers by Mary Achieng Ouma, Anita Alaze, Kenneth Juma, Hazal Atay, Rebecca Gomperts, Céline Miani

“…This study explores the characteristics and motivations of individuals in Kenya who completed an online consultation on the WoW website in 2013–2019. We used anonymised data provided by WoW to describe participants’ characteristics (n = 857) and their motivations for accessing the WoW online consultation (n = 449, since this information was only available for those who filled out the questionnaire from December 2017). …”
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A Systematic Review of Telehealth Applications in Endocrinology by SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi, Soudabeh Yarmohammadi, Pegah Mirzapour, Soheil Dehghani, Sepide Ahmadi, Faeze Abbaspour, Ava Pashaei, Ayoob Molla, Alireza Pashaei, Samin Ahmadi, Esmaeil Mehraeen

“…Methods: This study involved a thorough search using comprehensive techniques across databases such as PubMed/Medline, Embase, and Scopus. …”
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Febrile disease modeling and diagnosis system for optimizing medical decisions in resource-scarce settings by Daniel Asuquo, Kingsley Attai, Okure Obot, Moses Ekpenyong, Christie Akwaowo, Kiirya Arnold, Faith-Michael Uzoka

“…This study developed a multi-symptom multi-disease model to address this challenge, leveraging exploratory data analysis of patient datasets from field studies and the expertise of medical practitioners specializing in tropical diseases. …”
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Consumer perceptions and preferences of pharmacist-led professional services and attributes in Australia: a qualitative focus group study by Ruth Webster, Suzanne Robinson, Richard Norman, Laura Thomas, Ajay Karia, Tin Fei Sim

“…Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and de-identified. Data were analysed using the thematic analysis technique to identify common themes.Setting Three online focus groups were conducted, inviting participants from AustraliaParticipants 15 adults aged 18 years and above, English-speaking and self-identified as a consumer of health services or a health carer.Results Participants recognised pharmacists primarily as medication experts but also valued additional services like health screening, vaccination and chronic disease management. …”
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Attention-Enhanced CNN for High-Performance Deepfake Detection: A Multi-Dataset Study by Subhram Dasgupta, Kushal Badal, Swetha Chittam, Md Tasnim Alam, Kaushik Roy

“…We created a dataset called the Center for Cyber Defense DeepFake (CCDDF) dataset by generating fake images using publicly available Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and trained our model on these data, achieving a detection accuracy of 97% and an AUC score of 99.58. …”
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The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence in Dermatology: A Systematic Review of Its Clinical Applications by Ernesto Martínez-Vargas, Jeaustin Mora-Jiménez, Sebastian Arguedas-Chacón, Josephine Hernández-López, Esteban Zavaleta-Monestel

“…However, further studies are required to address challenges such as algorithmic bias, data privacy, and regulatory oversight. Funding and registration: This review received no external funding and was not registered in a systematic review registry.…”
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Computational persuasion technologies, explainability, and ethical-legal implications: A systematic literature review by Davide Calvaresi, Rachele Carli, Simona Tiribelli, Berk Buzcu, Reyhan Aydogan, Andrea Di Vincenzo, Yazan Mualla, Michael Schumacher, Jean-Paul Calbimonte

“…Ethical and legal concerns, such as patient consent, data privacy, and potential for users’ manipulation, are under-explored and require deeper investigation. …”
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Design and validation of consumer behavior model based on user-generated content in the banking industry by Sepahdar Rahnama, Marzieh ZendehDel, Mir Hadi Moazen Jamshidi

“…In this regard, it is suggested to improve the social media literacy of customers to produce user-generated content, train and develop skilled and expert human resources in the field of information technology in the bank to analyze data, increase the level of security and privacy of customers, bank investment to develop social platforms and technologies, create trust among customers to produce user-generated content, create the ability of customers to access user-generated content platforms.  Bank officials use different tools to produce user-generated content by customers. …”
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Teledentistry for Improving Access To, and Quality of Oral Health Care: Overview of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses by Pascaline Kengne Talla, Paul Allison, André Bussières, Anisha Rodrigues, Frédéric Bergeron, Nicolas Giraudeau, Elham Emami

“…Meanwhile, patient safety (8/30, 27%) and equity (1/30, 10%) were the least explored domains, with few reviews addressing adverse outcomes, as well as concerns related to data privacy (3/30, 10%) and confidentiality (2/30, 6%). …”
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The Analysis of the Effective Factors on Urban Blight in District 3, Region 12, Tehran City by Hossein Mansourian, Ahmad Pour Ahmad, Hasan Ashouri

“…Materials and Methods This study is mostly based on the initial data resulted from surveying the households using a researcher-made questionnaire; however, the tools of the interview, observation, and the results obtained from the public censuses of population and housing are also used to achieve the required data and information. …”
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Resilience Informatics in Public Health: Qualitative Analysis of Conference Proceedings by Maiya G Block Ngaybe, Lidia Azurdia Sierra, Andrew McNair, Myla Gonzalez, Mona Arora, Kacey Ernst, Enrique Noriega-Atala, M Sriram Iyengar

“…A detailed thematic analysis was performed using an inductive approach, supported by MAXQDA software to manage and organize data. …”
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Exploring the Landscape of Standards and Guidelines in AgeTech Design and Development: Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis by Shahabeddin Abhari, Josephine McMurray, Tanveer Randhawa, Gaya Bin Noon, Thokozani Hanjahanja-Phiri, Heather McNeil, Fiona Manning, Patricia Debergue, Jennifer Teague, Plinio Pelegrini Morita

“…The findings highlight that the most frequently addressed aspect of AgeTech standards or guidelines is related to “design and development,” constituting 36% (21/58) of the literature; “usability and user experience” was the second most prevalent aspect, accounting for 19% (11/58) of the documents. In contrast, “privacy and security” (1/58, 2%) and “data quality” (1/58, 2%) were the least addressed aspects. …”
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Human immunodeficiency virus prevention and testing strategies among men who have sex with men in the UK: the PANTHEON research programme including the SELPHI RCT by Janey Sewell, T Charles Witzel, David Dunn, Fiona Lampe, Fiona Burns, Peter Weatherburn, Sheena McCormack, Leanne McCabe, Alec Miners, Valentina Cambiano, Roger Pebody, Roy Trevelion, Nadia Hanum, Andrew Phillips, Alison Rodger

“…During the pilot phase, we conducted a mixed-methods study to assess trial feasibility and intervention acceptability using quantitative data from advertising sources and RCT surveys alongside qualitative data from a nested substudy. …”
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Applying photovoice and human-centered design to contextualize an adolescent micronutrient supplementation intervention in Mozambique by Sarah Bauler, Carmen Tse, Aicha Dos Santos, Lucilia Moises, Nicole Mbouemboue, Melissa Young, Joel Gittelsohn, Christine Marie George, Elli Leontsini

“…While school-based supplementation is the standard practice, participants strongly preferred to take supplements at home to avoid stigma and benefit from the comfort and privacy of their own homes. We used these insights to refine the adolescent nutrition curriculum and design a multiple micronutrient supplementation delivery platform. …”
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An evaluation of menstrual health apps’ functionality, inclusiveness, and health education information by Emma Bucher, Callie Sharkey, Abby Henderson, Briette Basaran, Sarah Meyer, Chen X. Chen

“…Methods In this descriptive study, two reviewers independently searched, screened, and evaluated each app using a standardized tool. Three terms (i.e., “period pain,” “period app,” and “menstrual cramp”) were used to search the Apple App Store. …”
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Informed consent in cervical cancer screening research in Butajira district, Ethiopia by Lidya Genene Abebe, Abigiya Wondimagegnehu, Laith A. Labban, Brhanu Teka, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Tamrat Abebe, Eva J. Kantelhardt, Adamu Addissie, Muluken Gizaw

“…Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis via QCAmap software. …”
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Analyzing the practice of medical humanistic care based on a social learning model: mapping the trajectory of the learning dynamic process from the learner’s perspective by Bilu Gu, Yiming Lv, Jiyu Zhu, Xiaoling Sun, Xiaoling Sun, Kun Li

“…BackgroundHumanistic care is a good glue for the doctor-patient relationship, and it is a general trend to improve the practice of humanistic care.MethodsA narrative research method was used to conduct semi-structured interviews with 18 master’s degree nursing students from China who were in the clinical rotation stage, and the data were content analyzed and explored from the perspective of the learners who were learning about humanistic caring practices using the social learning theory model.ResultsThere is a triple tension structure in the practice of humanistic care: At the cognitive level, there is a knowledge-activity rupture, with learners showing theoretical clarity but practical confusion. …”
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HIV risk screening and HIV testing among orphans and vulnerable children in community settings in Tanzania: Acceptability and fidelity to lay-cadre administration of the screening... by Michelle M Gill, Ola Jahanpour, Roland van de Ven, Asheri Barankena, Peris Urasa, Gretchen Antelman

“…A composite score was developed for the checklist. Qualitative data were thematically analyzed to address screening and testing perceptions and experiences.…”
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