A study of the relationship between social support, caregiving experience and depressed mood of family caregivers of home-dwelling older adults with disability- - a cross-sectional... by Qianqian Yu, Lingfeng Xu, Lifang Zhou, XiaoLi Jiang, Na Xu, Zihan Lang, Yixuan Wu, Chengliang Yin

“…Methods A random sample of 494 family caregivers from three districts in a specified city was surveyed. …”
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Experiences with Higher-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Improving Patient-Centered Treatment Decision-Making: A Qualitative Study of Patients, Caregivers, and Providers by Maravic MC, Land N, Prood N, Cagle C, May SG, Batt K, Sabate EJ, Afulezi N, Jhaveri TZ, Iraca T, Hogea C

“…This study employed qualitative research methods to further explore patients’, caregivers’, and providers’ experiences with HR-MDS and treatment decision-making.Patients and Methods: Exploratory, qualitative web-based focus groups and interviews were conducted between April-May 2023 amongst US-based patients with HR-MDS, caregivers for a patient with HR-MDS for ≥ 3 months, and board-certified oncologists and/or hematologists who treated ≥ 5 patients with HR-MDS in the past year. …”
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Real-world experience of barriers to diagnosis, early detection and disease management among migrants living with HIV in Spain: a qualitative study by María Belén Martín-Sanz, Oriol Martin-Segarra, Domingo Palacios-Ceña, Antonio Gil-Crujera, Stella Maris Gómez-Sánchez, María Velasco-Arribas

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Incentives and Trust Are the Main Drivers of Recruiting Participants in 6 African Countries via Web-Based Environments: A Vignette Survey Experiment by Henning Silber, Björn Rohr, Jan Priebe

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to share our experimental results on the recruitment of individuals from sub-Saharan Africa for participation in in-person, health-related surveys and biomarker collections via Facebook ads and to provide recommendations for future data collections and research. MethodsWe conducted a preregistered 2×4×4 vignette experiment to investigate people’s willingness to participate in in-person health surveys and blood tests. …”
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Young people's experiences and use of violence in the home: Examining four types of child maltreatment, their intersections and self-reported use of violence in the home by Silke Meyer, María Atiénzar-Prieto, Kate Fitz-Gibbon

“…Participants: and setting: A total of 5021 young people (16–20 years old) completed an online survey, recruited using non-probability sampling via survey panels. Methods: Analyses were carried out using χ2 tests and a series of binary logistic regressions to examine the association between participant characteristics and unique child maltreatment experiences with different forms of maltreatment and young people's use of violence. …”
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A qualitative study of symptoms and psychological experience of patients with delayed resolution after microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm (面肌痉挛行微血管减压术后延迟治愈患者症状体验和心理感受... by JING Dan (井丹), LYU Yan (吕燕), XU Zai (徐再)

“…Objective　Methods A purposive sampling strategy was used to choose patients with delayed resolution after microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm. …”
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Role and experiences of youth community health volunteers in a community health coaching programme for older adults in Singapore: a qualitative study by Natasha Howard, Lian Leng Low, Kennedy Yao Yi Ng, Xiaoting Huang, Jasmine Yee Ru Cheng, Audrey Shu Ting Kwan, Jed Jasman, Elliott Weizhi Sim, Alicia Shi Yao Chee, Ka Shing Yow, Jie Xin Lim, Si Qi Lim, Thaddeus Chi En Cheong, Nerice Heng Wen Ngiam, Muhammad Razzan Razaki, Lynn Pei Zhen Teo, Sheryl Wen Ning Ho, Zi Hao Lee, Kharuna Jaichandra

“…To tackle this issue, the use of trained lay volunteers as health advocates has become increasingly popular; however, their perceptions and experiences remain to be explored. This study aimed to explore the experiences of youth community health volunteers (YCHVs) who participated in HealthStart, a community health coaching programme for older adults in Singapore.Methods We conducted purposive sampling and carried out semi-structured interviews with 16 YCHVs and eight healthcare volunteers. …”
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“Is that a policy thing or is that a guard thing?”: A qualitative study of providers’ experiences supporting pregnant individuals incarcerated in Ontario, Canada by Xaand Bancroft, Audrey Ferron Parayre, Amy McGee, Lisa Morgan, Wendy Peterson

“…Participants were recruited through purposeful and snowball sampling based on their experience delivering services to at least one individual who was pregnant while incarcerated in Ontario, Canada. …”
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A Novel Deep Unfolding Network for Multi-Band SAR Sparse Imaging and Autofocusing by Xiaopeng Li, Mengyang Zhan, Yiheng Liang, Yinwei Li, Gang Xu, Bingnan Wang

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Influence of Die Angle on Bi-2212 Wire Processing for Nuclear Fusion by JIAO Gaofeng, HAO Qingbin, XU Xiaoyan, LIU Guoqing, LIU Xueqian, JIA Jialin, ZHANG Shengnan

“…During the experiment, systematic investigations were conducted on the microstructure, powder hardness, and superconducting physical properties of the wires.ResultsThe wires processed with smaller die angles show higher current-carrying capabilities, especially, the current-carrying capacity of the sample with a 3° half die angle is 1.56 times that of the sample with a 14° half die angle. …”
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Real-world experience of diagnosis, disability, and daily management in parents of children with different genetic developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: a qualitative study by Cristina Garcia-Bravo, Domingo Palacios-Ceña, Ángel Aledo-Serrano, Javier Güeita-Rodríguez, Juan Francisco Velarde-García, Juan Nicolas Cuenca-Zaldivar, Romain Marconnot, María Cristina Alonso-Blanco, Jorge Pérez-Corrales, Carmen Jimenez-Antona

“…Purpose This study describes the experience of parents of children with developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE) and how the disease impacts their daily lives.Materials and methods A descriptive qualitative study was conducted using purposeful sampling. …”
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Experiences of Registered Nurses Providing Care to COVID-19 Patients at Sir Ketumile Masire Teaching Hospital and Sekgoma Memorial Isolation Centre by Boitshoko Isaac, Charlene Downing, Nompumelelo Ndlovu

“…Methods An exploratory, descriptive, phenomenological research design was used. …”
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COVID‐19 and Healthcare Workers Burnt out: A Qualitative Study of Burnout Experiences of Healthcare workers in a Secondary Hospital in Ghana by Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah, Elvis Mwinsome Sobiesuo, Bernard Obeng, Elsie Asamoah, Comfort Badu Mantey, Peter Dwumah, Mary Sefa Boampong, Abena Afrakomah Boateng, Richard Ofori, Michael Nimoh, Josephine Boakyewaa Nyarko, Jonathan Mensah Dapaah

“…Design Descriptive phenomenological design. Methods The study adopted a qualitative approach, anchored on a descriptive phenomenological design to explore the dynamics of burnt‐out experienced by 12 healthcare staff at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) hospital in Ghana during the COVID‐19 pandemic. …”
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Consumption behavior, preferences, and willingness to pay for fish attributes in Ghana by Rebecca Owusu, John Micah, William Ghartey

“…This paper employs advanced discrete choice experiment methods to analyze Ghana's consumer preferences and willingness to pay for fish attributes. …”
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Early Complications of Elastic Stable Intramedullary Nails in the Treatment of Pediatric Diaphyseal Fractures of Long Bones: an Experience in Duhok Center of Orthopedic Surgery by Ageed Ameer Abduljabar, Las Hwaizi Hwaizi, Laween Omar Musa

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From classroom to screen: a cross-sectional study on medical students’ first experiences with e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic by Laleh Khojasteh, Zahra Karimian, Elham Nasiri, Sedigheh Sharifzadeh, Majid Reza Farrokhi

“…IntroductionFollowing the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, most universities around the world transitioned from in-person classrooms to online learning methods. This study aimed to explore the initial experiences of medical students with e-learning during the pandemic at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Iran, as well as to identify differences in students’ general perceptions based on their demographic characteristics.MethodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted on 507 medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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The impact of psychological distance on preferences for prenatal screening and diagnosis for chromosomal abnormalities: A hierarchical Bayes analysis of a discrete choice experimen... by Tima Mohammadi, Wei Zhang, Aslam H Anis

“…<h4>Method</h4>A discrete choice experiment was conducted among a sample of pregnant women and a sample of the general Canadian population. …”
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Development of MHz X-ray phase contrast imaging at the European XFEL by Jayanath C. P. Koliyadu, Daniel Moško, Eleni Myrto Asimakopoulou, Valerio Bellucci, Šarlota Birnšteinová, Richard Bean, Romain Letrun, Chan Kim, Henry Kirkwood, Gabriele Giovanetti, Nerea Jardon, Janusz Szuba, Trey Guest, Andreas Koch, Jan Grünert, Peter Szeles, Pablo Villanueva-Perez, Fabian Reuter, Claus-Dieter Ohl, Mike Andreas Noack, Francisco Garcia-Moreno, Zuzana Kuglerová-Valdová, Libor Juha, Martin Nikl, Wataru Yashiro, Hitoshi Soyama, Daniel Eakins, Alexander M. Korsunsky, Jozef Uličný, Alke Meents, Henry N. Chapman, Adrian P. Mancuso, Tokushi Sato, Patrik Vagovič

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Quantitative bead–based multiplex assay for simultaneous determination of IgG concentrations of pertussis toxin, filamentous hemagglutinin, pertactin, diphtheria, tetanus, Haemophi... by Vishal Rathod, Sagar Katke, Sumant Patil, Sachin Bhandare, Laxmikant Kadam, Manish Gautam, Prabhu Gumma, Krishna Manoj Kumar, Laura Hassall, Cathy Asokanathan, Alex Douglas-Bardsley, Kevin Markey, Sumit Gupta, Harish Rao, Sameer Parekh, Pramod Pujari, Hitt Sharma, Umesh Shaligram, Sunil Gairola

“…Validation parameters, such as precision, accuracy, dilution linearity, assay range, robustness, and solution stability, were assessed.ResultsAn equi-mix of an international reference standard for Hep B (07/164) and Hib (09/222) provided the best dynamic range for the seven-plex assay. Method validation was conducted using a panel of human serum samples that included samples from vaccinated healthy volunteers, non-vaccinated volunteers, negative controls, and international reference standards. …”
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Adversarial detection based on feature invariant in license plate recognition systems by ZHU Xiaoyu, TANG Peng, ZHANG Haochen, QIU Weidong, HUANG Zheng

“…The results from experiments involving 11 different types of attacks indicate that, compared to 4 other advanced detection methods, FIAD can effectively detect all these attacks at a lower false positive rate, with an accuracy consistently reaching 99%. …”
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