Experiences of Iranian Patients with Thalassemia Major Regarding Their Palliative and Supportive Care Needs: A Qualitative Content Analysis by Mehrnaz Ahmadi, Maryam Rassouli, Mahin Gheibizadeh, Abbas Ebadi, Marziyeh Asadizaker

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Early career midwives’ experiences of development opportunities and their relation to retention and job satisfaction: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study by Ruth Terry, Zoey Spendlove

“…Methods This study is aligned with interpretivism and the qualitative approach, embracing a relativist ontology and subjectivist epistemology. …”
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Women’s hospital birth experiences in Harar, eastern Ethiopia: a qualitative study using Roy’s Adaptation Model by Roseanne C Schuster, Nega Assefa, Maleda Tefera, Kedir Teji Roba, Letta Gedefa, Alex Brewis

“…Objective The aim of the study was to explore women's birth in public hospitals in the Harari Region of eastern Ethiopia.Design An exploratory phenomenological qualitative study design was used.Setting Two public hospitals (Hiwot Fana Specialized University Hospital and Jugal General Hospital).Participants and methods The study enrolled women who gave birth at the selected hospitals through purposive sampling. …”
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Distinguishing Rock Fracture and Pore's T2 Signals From NMR Experiments With Assisted X‐Ray CT Imaging by Ying Yang, Limin Li, Tingjun Wen, Luyi W. Shen, Elton J. Chen, Xu Dong, Jiangen Xu

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Kolbari and Its Identity Implications: Thematic Analysis of the Narrative of Kolbars in Baneh by Omid Ghaderzadeh, Adill Rasooli

“…Thematic analysis is a method used to identify and analyze patterns within qualitative data (Clarke & Braun, 2013: 1). …”
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Opioid medication doses among safer supply clients: Current safer supply doses and previous OAT experience by Gillian Kolla, Kaitlin Fajber, Andrea Sereda, Cassidy Morris, Perri Deacon, Lauren E. Cipriano

“…Previous research demonstrates positive health outcomes and reductions in overdose mortality among SOS clients; however few reports describe previous opioid agonist treatment history prior to initiating SOS, or the medication combinations and doses prescribed within SOS programs. Methods: We used convenience sampling to collect survey data from 95 SOS program clients in London, Canada. …”
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Healthcare Experiences and Service Delivery Gaps for Pregnant Women Living with HIV in Kiryandongo Settlement Camp, Northern Uganda by Kabunga A, Udho S, Anyolitho MK, Musinguzi M, Auma AG, Nalwoga V, Kigongo E

“…This study explores the healthcare experiences and service delivery gaps for HIV-positive pregnant women in the camp.Materials and Methods: An exploratory qualitative research design was employed in Kiryandongo Settlement Camp, involving purposive sampling of 30 pregnant women living with HIV, 10 healthcare providers, and 5 key informants. …”
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scE2EGAE: enhancing single-cell RNA-Seq data analysis through an end-to-end cell-graph-learnable graph autoencoder with differentiable edge sampling by Shuo Wang, Yuanning Liu, Hao Zhang, Zhen Liu

“…Results: We evaluate scE2EGAE on eight public scRNA-Seq datasets and compare its performance with seven existing scRNA-Seq data denoising methods. In this paper, extensive experiments are conducted, encompassing: 1) the evaluation of denoising performance, with metrics including mean absolute error, Pearson correlation coefficient, and cosine similarity; 2) the assessment of clustering performance of the denoised results, utilizing adjusted rand index, normalized mutual information and silhouette score; and 3) the evaluation of the cell trajectory inference performance of the denoised results, measured by the pseudo-temporal ordering score. …”
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Adverse childhood experiences and suicidality in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Lindsey Sikora, Ana M B Menezes, Ian Colman, Mila Kingsbury, Joseph Murray, Marie-Claude Geoffroy, Dawn-Li Blair, Heidi Eccles, Asia Akther, Sara Siddiqi, Georgia Condran, Ishika Obeegadoo

“…This review aims to evaluate associations between ACEs and suicidality in LMICs.Methods In this systematic review and meta-analysis, a search for articles investigating associations between any ACEs and suicidal outcomes in LMICs was conducted using Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Web of Science on 2 December 2022; updated on 14 January 2025. …”
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Consequences of Cyberbullying Experienced on Psychological Wellbeing and Appetite Disturbance among University Students by Purwo Setiyo Nugroho, Bhubate Samutachak, Tawanchai Jirapramukpitak, Ghozali, Aphichat Chamratrithirong

“…Method: This study used a cross-sectional design with 700 undergraduate students from Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur, selected via proportional stratified and random sampling from January to March 2024. …”
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The role of perfectionism in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences, symptoms of depression, and life satisfaction among Vietnamese adults by Tu Thi NGUYEN, Son Van HUYNH, Huan Thanh NGUYEN, Vy Truc LE, Ky LUU, Tuan-Khai TRUONG, Thao Thanh Thi NGUYEN, Vinh-Long TRAN-CHI

“…Additionally, we aim to find the differences between symptoms of depression and life satisfaction by gender and birth order as a consideration of Vietnamese culture. Methods: We used random sampling and collected 554 valid respondents (including 178 participants who had ACEs) in Vietnam. …”
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Factors influencing HIV testing choices among Chinese undergraduates: insights from a discrete choice experiment by Hangjing Zhang, Xuan Zhu, Yuting Zhang, Juyang Xiong

“…They favored oral fluid as a method to obtain the sample, relative to urine samples (β = 0.821, P < 0.001). …”
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Higher Levels of Income and Education are Associated with More Specialized Sport Participation Behaviors: Results from a Representative Sample of Youth Sport Parents from the Unite... by Eric G Post, Matthew J. Rivera, Darleesa Doss, Lindsey E. Eberman

“… # Study Design Cross-sectional. # Methods Parents of youth athletes in the United States (n=236, age: 39.2±8.1 years, 57.2% female) were recruited to complete an online questionnaire by Qualtrics Online Samples (Qualtrics, Provo, UT) using a combination of actively managed, double-opt-in market research panels. …”
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The experiences of five southern Ontario high school principals in dealing with student mental health: A qualitative study. by Langhorne, A.

“…A qualitative research method was employed, with each principal sampled participating in a semi-structured interview. …”
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Electronic Communication Between Children’s Caregivers and Health Care Teams: Scoping Review on Parental Caregiver’s Perceptions and Experience by Mary Jo Gamper, Rebecca Singer Cohen, Maryam Esperanza Razaz, Elaina Parrillo, Clifton P Thornton, Aleksandra Wec, Kathryn McDonald, Kelly T Gleason

“…In 19 of the studies, parents reported positive experiences with and a desire for e-communication methods. …”
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Clinical and genetic determinants of worse sexual experience in male patients with radiographic axial spondyloarthritis: a multimodal study by Feng Huang, Jian Zhu, Yiwen Wang, Jianglin Zhang, Dai Gao, Xiaojian Ji, Lidong Hu, Xingkang Liu

“…In the regression model adjusted for age, disease duration and body mass index, disease activity (Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index), physical function (Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index), mobility (Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Metrology Index, chest expansion and finger-floor distance), health index (Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society Health Index), sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) and psychological status (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), HADS-Anxiety and HADS-Depression) were significant determinants of sexual experience. The two-sample MR analysis demonstrated no causal effect of r-axSpA on the risk of ED (OR: 0.973; 95% CI: 0.824 to 1.149; p=0.749) based on the inverse variance weighted method. …”
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A design of experiment strategy for quality control of specialty coffee drink based on sensory analysis and statistical tools by Licarion Pinto, Hilton Lopes Júnior, Enrique Anastácio Alves, Rodrigo Barros Rocha, Alexsandro Lara Teixeira, Jefferson Santos de Gois

“…Therefore, in this study, six Q-Graders, following the Specialty Coffee Association of America's sensory analysis method, evaluated various samples and the data was evaluated statistically. …”
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Patient perceptions of in‐hospital laboratory blood testing: A patient‐oriented and patient co‐designed qualitative study by Surakshya Pokharel, Zoha Khawaja, Jonathan Williams, Adnan Adil Mithwani, Kimberly Strain, Prachi Khanna, Anna Rychtera, Veronika Kiryanova, Karen Tang, Pamela Mathura, Chris Hylton, Anshula Ambasta

“…Methods We used a qualitative study design via semistructured interviews conducted online or over the phone. …”
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Standards for reporting optical biosensor experiments (STROBE): Improving standards in the reporting of optical biosensor-based data in the literature by Paul E. Belcher, Anna Moberg, Michael B. Murphy

“…Critical information typically missing includes sample preparation, method settings, and data evaluation details. …”
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Trophic activity of pedofauna in two gardens of Saint-Petersburg (experience of using the express bait-lamina test methid) by A. A. Kuzmina, E. V. Pyatina, E. A. Zhukova, E. A. Gorbunova, E. Yu. Sukhacheva

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