Theory-based mobile phone text messaging intervention for blood pressure control (TEXT4BP) among hypertensive patients in Nepal: study protocol for a feasibility randomised control... by Buna Bhandari, Padmanesan Narasimhan, Abhinav Vaidya, Rohan Jayasuriya

“…Acceptability of text message interventions will be studied using usability measures and in-depth interviews among intervention group participants. This pilot study is not funded.Ethics and dissemination This study has received ethics approval from the University of New South Wales Human Research Ethics Committee B (HC190357), Nepal Health Research Council (302/2019) and Institutional Review Committee of Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital Kathmandu, Nepal (030520192). …”
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To be or not to be: a cross-sectional study on suicidal ideation, intensity of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among medical students in Kerala, India by Sangeetha Merrin Varghese, Nikhil V Paulson, Pranathi Ajayan, Jithin Mathew Abraham, Pramod Thomas, Anoop Ivan Benjamin, George Chandy Matteethra

“…A total of 1102 students participated in the survey, which used the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale.Results The lifetime prevalence of suicidal ideation among medical students was 33.7% (30.88 to 36.54), and those with recent suicidal ideation were 15.2% (13.17 to 17.51). …”
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Women's perception of risks of adverse fetal pregnancy outcomes: a large-scale multinational survey by Irene Petersen, Hedvig Nordeng, Angela Lupattelli, Rachel L McCrea

“…Objective To determine pregnant women and new mothers’ perception of risks in pregnancy.Design, settings and participants This was a large-scale multinational survey including 9113 pregnant women and new mothers from 18 countries in Europe, North America and Australia.Main outcomes Risk perception scores (0–10) for harmful effects to the fetus were derived for: (1) medicines (over-the-counter medicine and prescribed medicine), (2) food substances (eggs and blue veined cheese), (3) herbal substances (ginger and cranberries) (4) alcohol and tobacco, and (5) thalidomide.Results Overall, 80% (6453/8131) of women perceived the risk of giving birth to a child with a birth defect to be ≤5 of 100 births. …”
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Relationship of negative life events with depression and anxiety in nursing students: a moderated mediation model of resilience and gender by Xiaoli Ye, Guihong Yang, Wei Zhang, Loren Toussaint, Fangfang Zhao

“…Methods A cross-sectional design was used for this study. A total of 568 participants from three universities in East, South and North China were recruited. …”
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Religião e Política na Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus: um debate sobre o contexto pós eleições de 2022 by Bruna Nogueira Maia, Fabrício Roberto Costa Oliveira, Isadora Almendagna

“…Como fator inédito, a agremiação foi consistente apoiadora de Jair Bolsonaro, mesmo quando as pesquisas eleitorais apontavam a vitória de Lula e do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT). Por se tratar de uma instituição que preza pela boa relação com dirigentes do Governo Federal, este estudo é pautado na indagação acerca do alinhamento político da IURD, visto sua incisiva campanha promovida contra o governo Lula (PT) no pleito eleitoral. …”
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Description of current status of implementation and management of cardiac arrest in China by Shuai Liu, Huadong Zhu, Nan Zhang

“…About half of the participants don’t build the advanced airway rather than use bag valve mask to ventilate, and 75% of the rest use mechanical ventilation whether they succeed to ROSC. …”
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Biomechanical Characteristics on the Lower Extremity of Three Typical Yoga Manoeuvres by Elizabeth Whissell, Lin Wang, Pan Li, Jing Xian Li, Zhen Wei

“…A three-dimensional motion capture system with 10 cameras combined with four synchronised force plates was used to collect kinematics of the lower extremity and ground reactive force whilst the participants performed the crescent lunge pose, warrior II pose, and triangle pose. …”
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Impact of a pharmaceutical care service for patients with rheumatoid arthritis using a customised mobile device (the PROUD trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Jung-Yoon Choe, Hwajeong Lee, Yun-Kyoung Song, Seong-Kyu Kim, Ji-Won Kim, Ji-Eun Park, Ju-Eun Lee, Bo-Kyung Moon, Sung-Hoon Park

“…This study aims to analyse the effect of a telepharmacy service with a customised mobile device in comparison with the usual pharmacist service on the humanistic and clinical outcomes in patients with RA.Methods and analysis The study is designed as a prospective, randomised, open-label, and controlled trial to compare the humanistic and clinical outcomes of the pharmaceutical care service with monthly telecommunications and a customised mobile application (telepharmacy care group) against the usual service by community pharmacists (usual care group) in 256 patients with RA and prescribed at least one of the disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. Participants will be recruited from a tertiary hospital in Republic of Korea with written informed consent. …”
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Refining and conching alter the volatile composition of dark chocolate — Revealing profile changes in aroma-active volatiles and volatile organic compounds by Yvonne Guckenbiehl, Eva Ortner, Isabell Rothkopf, Andrea Buettner

“…Generally, the number of compounds detected, and the FD factors determined decreased along the processing steps, whereas FD factors of aldehydes partially increased as these are generated, inter alia, by lipid oxidation. …”
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The impact of the Hsp67Bc gene product on Drosophila melanogaster longevity, fecundity, and acute heat stress tolerance by D. Malkeyeva, S. A. Fedorova, E. Kiseleva

“…Drosophila melanogaster Hsp67Bc is a heat- and cold-inducible small heat shock protein that participates in the prevention of aggregation of misfolded proteins and in macroautophagy regulation. …”
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Neutralizing gender in role nouns: investigating the effect of ə in written and oral Italian by Martina Abbondanza, Valeria Galimberti, Valeria Bonomi, Carlo Reverberi, Federica Durante, Francesca Foppolo

“…Results showed that, ə only partially reduces gender associations of neutralized role nouns. …”
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Genetic Variants Flanking the FGF21 Gene Were Associated with Renal Function in Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Weihui Yu, Hong Zhu, Xiong Chen, Xuejiang Gu, Xingxing Zhang, Feixia Shen, Weiping Jia, Cheng Hu

“…We recruited 1340 Han Chinese participants with type 2 diabetes, including 596 DKD patients and 744 patients who was diagnosed with diabetes for more than 5 years but did not progress to DKD. …”
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Local Recurrence of Rectal Cancer After Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision and Risk Factors: A Nationwide Multicenter Cohort Study in Japan by Takeru Matsuda, MD, PhD, Ichiro Takemasa, MD, PhD, Hideki Endo, MD, MPH, Shinichiro Mori, MD, PhD, Suguru Hasegawa, MD, PhD, Koya Hida, MD, PhD, Takuya Tokunaga, MD, PhD, Keitaro Tanaka, MD, PhD, Toshiki Mukai, MD, PhD, Jun Watanabe, MD, PhD, Junichiro Kawamura, MD, PhD, Kei Kimura, MD, PhD, Yoshihiro Kakeji, MD, PhD, Masahiko Watanabe, MD, PhD, Seiichiro Yamamoto, MD, PhD, Takeshi Naitoh, MD, PhD, Ta-Ta-Mi study group collaboratives in Japan Society of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery

“…Twenty-six member institutions of the Japan Society of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery participated in this retrospective cohort study. A total of 706 patients with primary rectal cancer who underwent TaTME between January 2012 and December 2019 were included for analysis. …”
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Association Between Uric Acid to High‐Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Ratio and Kidney Function in Patients With Primary Aldosteronism: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Meng‐Bo Wu, Rui Wang, Qing‐Tian Zeng, Wen‐Liang Shuai, Hang‐Cheng Zhang, Yi‐Fei Dong

“…A total of 653 eligible participants were included in the analysis for this research. …”
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Study protocol for a stepped-wedge implementation study investigating the intersectoral collaboration of implementing the TREAT INTERACT intervention for primary school teachers an... by Ane-Marthe Solheim Skar, Ingunn Marie S. Engebretsen, Nora Braathu, Harriet Aber, Harald Bækkelund, Melf-Jakob Kühl, Marjorie Mukisa, Joyce Sserunjogi Nalugya, Norbert Skokauskas, Vilde Skylstad, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, TREAT research consortium, Juliet Ndimwibo Babirye

“…Other designs include a nested prospective cohort study, case control studies, cross-sectional studies, and qualitative research. Main participants’ outcomes include teachers’ mental health literacy, stigma, and violence towards the school children. …”
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Co-designing a film showcasing the dental experiences of community returners (ex-offenders) by Joelle Booth, Joelle Booth, Heather McMullen, Andrea Rodriguez, Vanessa Muirhead

“…A recent scoping review on the oral health of prisoners inside the justice system highlighted the lack of research about what happens when they transition out of prison to become community returners.ObjectivesTo co-design a film to showcase the dental experiences of community returners before and after they transition out of prison, change perceptions and inform oral health research priorities.MethodsThis action research involved five community returners, recruited through third sector organisations, who attended virtual workshops. Participants in the first workshop designed the storyboard; community returners incorporated their own stories into fictional characters to portray their lived experiences. …”
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Effects of Age and Sex on Systemic Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Function in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes by Jody Dushay, Eva S. Rickers, Enya Wang, Jessica Gilman, Ying Zhang, Ron Blankstein, Ernest V. Gervino, Michael Jerosch‐Herold, Aristidis Veves

“…Peak oxygen consumption during exercise was lower with T2D (P=0.021), and overall reduced in women compared with men (P=0.002). Across all participants, both peak oxygen consumption during exercise and hyperemic myocardial blood flow were significantly impaired with increased white blood cell count. …”
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Avascular necrosis in pediatric rheumatic diseases: an Italian retrospective multicentre study by Ivan Taietti, Federico Zini, Emilio Amleto Conti, Enrica Cristini, Irene Borzani, Giulia Ramponi, Claudia Bracaglia, Raffaele Pecoraro, Riccardo Papa, Jessica Tibaldi, Serena Pastore, Gabriele Simonini, Marco Cattalini, Antonella Meini, Achille Marino, Stefano Lanni, Francesca Minoia, Giovanni Filocamo

“…Methods All centres part of the Italian Society of Pediatric Rheumatology were invited to participate in a retrospective case collection of children with rheumatic diseases complicated by a pediatric-onset AVN. …”
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Examining the intersection of child protection and public housing: development, health and justice outcomes using linked administrative data by John W Lynch, Emma Baker, Alicia Montgomerie, Catia Malvaso, Rhiannon Megan Pilkington

“…Objective We described development, health and justice system outcomes for children in contact with child protection and public housing.Design Descriptive analysis of outcomes for children known to child protection who also had contact with public housing drawn from the South Australian (SA) Better Evidence Better Outcomes Linked Data (BEBOLD) platform.Setting The BEBOLD platform holds linked administrative records collected by government agencies for whole-population successive birth cohorts in SA beginning in 1999.Participants This study included data from birth registrations, perinatal, child protection, public housing, hospital, emergency department, early education and youth justice for all SA children born 1999–2013 and followed until 2016. …”
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Paradoks Penutupan Sunan Kuning by Meriana Diah Pramestiwari, Retno Sunu Astuti, Budi Puspo Priyadi

“…Subjective interpretation of the Semarang City Social and Bappeda Office does not move in the same direction. The participation and responsiveness of policy targets are low because policies rejected.…”
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