Impact of re-operation on progression-free survival in patients with recurrent GBM: Experience in a tertiary referral center. by Houssein Darwish, Tasnim Diab, Sarah Kawtharani, Mounir Barake, Bader Ali, Nagham Ramadan, Hiba Fadlallah, Jeannot Kekedjian, Marwan Najjar, Hazem I Assi

“…Patients were categorized into two groups: those who underwent reoperation and those who received only medical management upon recurrence. …”
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The Effects of Mood Disorders and Dissociative Symptoms on Suicide Attempts by Halil Özcan, Ali Emre Þevik

“…Method: Seventy participants who were directed to psychiatry outpatient department from the Kastamonu State Hospital crisis intervention unit between January 2009 and January 2010 and who agreed to participate in the study were included. …”
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Vocational Bias: A Potential Pitfall in the Use of Key Informant Interviews in Pediatric Community Needs Assessments by Kimberly Northrip, Candice Chen, Jennifer Marsh

“…Those who worked in social services listed resource problems more often than those who did not (p < 0.05). …”
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A Threshold Technique Study to Understand Patient Preference for Smooth Versus Textured Breast Implants by Dallas Wood, PhD, Peyton N. Williams, MPH, Jessica E. Thompson, PhD, Susana Peinado, PhD, Avery A. Tilley, MS, David Gebben, PhD, Jacqueline M. Major, PhD, Jessica P. Weinberg, MPP, Sung W. Yoon, MD, Michelle E. Tarver, MD, PhD

“…We fielded a threshold technique survey to 405 respondents from 4 cohorts: (1) patients with breast cancer who were considering but did not receive reconstruction with implants, (2) patients with breast cancer who had received reconstruction with implants, (3) persons considering breast augmentation with implants, and (4) patients who had received breast augmentation with implants. …”
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Consumption of folk medicine in men-seeking treatment for infertility by Abdulaziz Baazeem, Thamer Mishal M. Alqurashi, Yasser Homaidi H. Alharbi, Raad Abdullah D. Aldahhas, Mutaz Hassan A. Fatani

“…Conclusion: About 38.9% of patients who attended our clinic were using some alternative medicine. …”
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Examining Internal and External Consent in Consensual and Non-Consensual Contexts in Women by Nieves Moyano, Antonio Rafael Hidalgo-Muñoz, María del Mar Sánchez-Fuentes, Kristen Jozkowski, Reina Granados

“…Results: Our results show that, with regard to external consent, when engaging in consensual sex, women indicated greater use of all cues ranging from communication/initiation behavior to nonverbal behaviors than those who experienced nonconsensual sex. Similarly, those who experienced nonconsensual reported lower physiological responses of arousal, less safety/comfort, consent/wantedness, and readiness compared with those who had consensual sex. …”
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The Importance of Dose Escalation in the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension with Treprostinil by Piotr Kędzierski, Marta Banaszkiewicz, Michał Florczyk, Michał Piłka, Rafał Mańczak, Maria Wieteska-Miłek, Piotr Szwed, Krzysztof Kasperowicz, Katarzyna Wrona, Szymon Darocha, Adam Torbicki, Marcin Kurzyna

“…<b>Methods</b>: The factors influencing treatment response were analyzed in consecutive PAH patients who started receiving treprostinil treatment. The treatment efficacy was assessed as improvement in 6 min walk distance (6MWD) and WHO functional class (WHO FC), a reduction in N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP), and the percentage of patients achieving low-risk status after 12 months of treatment. …”
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A community-based study to assess the prevalence and predictors of stunting among under-five children in Sheger City, Oromia, Ethiopia by Firomsa Botorie, Bilisom Balcha Abera, Abera Botorie, Abera Botorie, Asonya Abera, Abebe Dukessa Dubiwak, Abebe Dukessa Dubiwak, Tesfaye Getachew Charkos, Godana Arero Dassie

“…Children whose mothers were daily laborers (AOR: 10.3), whose mothers’ education level was primary school (AOR: 4.3), whose fathers were daily laborers (AOR: 4), who were born into families with an average birth interval of ≤24 months (AOR: 7.9), who were from families with a size ≥5 (AOR: 7.3), who had a history of diarrhea (AOR: 6.3), who had meals ≤3 times per day (AOR: 13.9), who were underweight (AOR: 2.8), who were breastfed for less than 2 years (AOR: 5.6), who had low dietary diversity (AOR: 6.3), and who experienced food insecurity (AOR: 3.6) were identified as the predictors of stunting in under-five children.ConclusionApproximately one-fifth of the under-five children were stunted in the study setting. …”
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Evaluating Meaningful Changes in Patient‐Reported Outcome Measurement Information System–Fatigue Scores from Three Phase 3 Clinical Trials of Sarilumab for Patients With Rheumatoid... by Clifton O. Bingham, Emily Molina, Amy Praestgaard, Stefano Fiore, David Cella

“…Methods Data from three phase 3 randomized controlled trials of patients with RA who received sarilumab—MOBILITY, TARGET, and MONARCH—were evaluated. …”
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Successful Outpatient Management of Children at a Secondary Care Hospital in Pakistan in a Dengue Fever Epidemic and Their Clinical Outcomes by Ammara Farooq, Brekhna Aurangzeb, Taimur Khalil Sheikh, Huma Bashir, Maryam Ghuncha, Tehmina Mustafa

“…There is limited published literature on the feasibility of WHO 2009 guidelines for the management of dengue fever (DF) in Pakistani children. …”
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Patient-reported systemic symptoms in women with silicone breast implants: a descriptive cohort study by Karlinde Amber Spit, Miranda Scharff, Christel JM de Blok, Frank B Niessen, Yara Bachour, Prabath W Nanayakkara

“…Additionally, women who underwent explantation within 10 years after implantation improved significantly better than women who got the implants removed after 10 years (p=0.007). …”
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Alcohol Consumption Is a Risk Factor for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease in Chinese Patients with T2DM by Shanshan Yang, Shuang Wang, Bo Yang, Jinliang Zheng, Yuping Cai, Zhengguo Yang

“…We evaluated 138 hospitalized patients with T2DM who consumed alcohol and 833 who did not. We used propensity score matching to reduce the confounding bias between groups. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Antisocial Personality Disorder According to the Crime Types by Hasan KARADAG, M. Hakan TURKCAPAR, S. Olga GURIZ, Kadir OZDEL, Akfer KARAOGLAN KAHILOGULLARI

“…The main differences between crime groups were as follows: A head trauma history was more frequent in ASPD patients who had a crime history of physical assault. Loss of a parent in childhood was more frequent in individuals who committed burglary. …”
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Forced feeding of convicts: problems of theory and practice by Yu. V. Orel, R. R. Galán Vioque

“…The problematic issues of legislative consolidation and application of forced feeding to convicts who refuse to take food in institutions of execution of punishment are considered. …”
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Tortuous Common Carotid Artery: A Report of Four Cases Observed in Cadaveric Dissections by Joe Iwanaga, Koichi Watanabe, Saga Tsuyoshi, Yoko Tabira, Koh-ichi Yamaki

“…Case 3 was an 86-year-old woman who died from bladder cancer and who also had a right tortuous common carotid artery without arteriosclerosis. …”
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Associations of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors with Dietary Behaviors among US High School Students by Richard Lowry, Shannon Michael, Zewditu Demissie, Laura Kann, Deborah A. Galuska

“…Results. Students who participated in recommended levels of daily PA (DPA) and muscle strengthening PA (MSPA) were more likely than those who did not to eat fruits and vegetables. …”
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Husband Behavior in Supporting Immunization in Babies by Mohammad Riyad, Munir Salham, Sriwahyudin Moonti

“…This shows that there are 33.3% of infants who have not received complete immunization. …”
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Zmiany modelu poznawczego uczniów w kontekście prac nad e-podręcznikiem by Jolanta Dyrda

“…According to these authors, “Digital immigrants” are newcomers to the digital world. It is adults who have entered the world of new technologies, and who seem mistrustful and sometimes overcome by a sort of “techno-phobia”. …”
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The Relationship between Training and Mental Health among Caregivers of Individuals with Polytrauma by Lillian Flores Stevens, Treven C. Pickett, Kathryn P. Wilder Schaaf, Brent C. Taylor, Amy Gravely, Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Greta Friedemann-Sánchez, Joan M. Griffin

“…Caregivers who did not receive training in supporting their care recipients’ emotions endorsed higher anxiety, depression, and burden and lower self-esteem than those who did. …”
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Mental Images of Nurses with and without Patient with COVID-19: A Metaphor Study by Müjde Moran, Firdevs Ebru Özdemir, Zahide Gül Yazgi Demir, Mualla Yilmaz

“…Introduction: The purpose of this study is to determine the perceptions of nurses who had COVID-19 disease and recovered and who were not sick through metaphors. …”
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