Adaptation and combination of two scales to measure dispositional gratitude in health sciences faculty: a psychometric analysis by Jesus Alfonso Beltran-Sanchez, José Moral de la Rubia, Adrian Valle de la O, Josue Omar Nava-Manzo, Angeles Dominguez

“…Finally, it represents a valuable contribution to the teaching of health sciences since it generates healthy environments with prosocial attitudes that facilitate flourishing in personal and academic life, and in the future, health professionals with humanism as their standard.…”
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Cardiometabolic risk factors in the Swedish Werlabs cohort based on self-initiated health screening: cohort profile by Peter Ueda, Kerstin Brismar, Anna Norhammar, Daniel Peter Andersson, Hannah Coudé Adam, Omid Hajimirsadeghi, Lovisa Krantz, Nadia Bandstein Forsberg

“…Purpose There is limited research on individuals undergoing self-initiated health examinations, and the Werlabs cohort will be a base for such research.Participants All individuals aged 18 or older who had undertaken a self-initiated health examination at Werlabs AB with at least one recorded value of creatinine or cholesterol in Sweden (from 1 January 2015 through 31 December 2023) was included. …”
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Integration of HIV Care with Primary Health Care Services: Effect on Patient Satisfaction and Stigma in Rural Kenya by Thomas A. Odeny, Jeremy Penner, Jayne Lewis-Kulzer, Hannah H. Leslie, Starley B. Shade, Walter Adero, Jackson Kioko, Craig R. Cohen, Elizabeth A. Bukusi

“…HIV departments within Kenyan health facilities are usually better staffed and equipped than departments offering non-HIV services. …”
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Client perspectives on creating supportive sexual health environments for people with persistent anxiety: a qualitative study by Mark Gilbert, Travis Salway, Stéphanie Black, Sarah Watt, Aidan Ablona, Hsiu-Ju Chang, Heather Nicole Pedersen

“…Transcripts were coded and analysed using thematic analysis by searching for themes in order to summarise the experiences and needs of participants.Results The median participant age was 34. 16 participants identified as women, 10 as men and 1 each as non-binary and gender fluid. Participants described anxiety related to sexual health service access and experiences due to sexual health-related stigma and privacy concerns; provider judgement and lack of communication or information regarding test results. …”
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Impacts of home-based physical exercises on the health of people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review by José Igor Vasconcelos de Oliveira, Lúcia Inês Guedes Leite de Oliveira, Manoel da Cunha Costa, Raphael José Perrier-Melo, Mário Antônio de Moura Simim, Saulo Fernandes Melo de Oliveira

“…Of 69,843 studies, only 10 met the eligibility criteria, totaling 153 investigated individuals (25 women and 128 men). Regarding the type of injury, 118 participants were paraplegic and 33 tetraplegic. …”
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Cardiovascular Disease Multimorbidity and Decreased Health‐Related Quality of Life in Haiti: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Shalom Sabwa, Vanessa Rouzier, Rodney Sufra, Reichling St. Sauveur, Nour Mourra, Rehana Rasul, Joseph Inddy, Lily D. Yan, Madeline Sterling, Laura Pinheiro, Marie Deschamps, Jean William Pape, Margaret L. McNairy

“…Background Multimorbidity is increasingly prevalent in lower‐ and middle‐income countries. Health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) has been inversely associated with multimorbidity but is understudied in lower‐ and middle‐income countries. …”
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Exploring mental health in veterinary students: common stressors and effective coping strategies: a narrative review by Rahib K. Islam, Emily K. Cobb, Hannah K. McCowan, Kylie Watson, Kaustuv Bhattacharya, Kaustuv Bhattacharya, Anjali Chandra, Warda Mohiuddin, Karen Gruszynski, Karen Gruszynski, Amanda H. Wilkerson, John J. Dascanio, Robert E. Davis, Vinayak K. Nahar, Vinayak K. Nahar

“…Demographic data, stressors, mental health measures, and coping strategies were extracted and analyzed. …”
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mHealth-Based Diabetes Prevention Program for Chinese Mothers With Abdominal Obesity: Randomized Controlled Trial by Qinyuan Huang, Qinyi Zhong, Yanjing Zeng, Yimeng Li, James Wiley, Man Ping Wang, Jyu-Lin Chen, Jia Guo

“… BackgroundAmong people with abdominal obesity, women are more likely to develop diabetes than men. Mobile health (mHealth)–based technologies provide the flexibility and resource-saving opportunities to improve lifestyles in an individualized way. …”
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Gender differences in psychosomatic complaints across occupations and time from 2006 to 2018 in Germany: a repeated cross-sectional study by Julia Grasshoff, Batoul Safieddine, Stefanie Sperlich, Johannes Beller

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Improving the experience of health services for trans and gender-diverse young people and their families: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Stepney, Samantha Martin, Magdalena Mikulak, Sara Ryan, Jay Stewart, Richard Ma, Adam Barnett

“…Background In the United Kingdom, trans young people find themselves at the centre of political storms and debate regarding their access to health care and treatment. This research was carried out against a backdrop of increasing evidence of repeated failings in health care for trans people. …”
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Exploring the drivers of adolescent sexual and reproductive healthcare-seeking behavior in northwestern Botswana: a cross-sectional analysis by Mackenzie Lawson, Helen Apps, Peggie Ramaphane, Francis Barchi

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Weighted EHR-based prevalence estimates for hypertension at the state and local levels in Louisiana by Wenjun Li, Meng Zhang, Jie Cheng, Sandra L. Jackson, Adam S. Vaughan, Michael Klompas, Thomas W. Carton, Elizabeth Nauman, Lee Mendoza, Arun Adhikari, Jeanie Donovan, Katherine H. Hohman

“…Abstract Background Modernization of public health data systems is a national priority. Improved chronic disease surveillance can provide more timely, accurate, and local measures to inform public health policy and intervention. …”
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Women with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Effect of Disease and Psychosocial-Related Correlates on Health-Related Quality of Life by Syed Wasif Gillani, Irfan Altaf Ansari, Hisham A. Zaghloul, Mohi Iqbal Mohammad Abdul, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Mirza R. Baig, Hassaan Anwar Rathore

“…Women also showed significantly higher association with health perception (15% versus 13% men, p<0.001) and mental health (13% versus 11% men, p<0.001) in diabetes-specific psychosocial factors. …”
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‘It’s like someone is holding your hand, an invisible hand’: A grounded theory study of participation and personal recovery in Flexible Assertive Community Treatment by Madeleine Borgh, Ulrika Bejerholm, Elisabeth Argentzell, Annika Lexén

“…Background Participation in everyday life and personal recovery is often adversely affected for individuals with complex mental health needs. Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) is a recovery-oriented service targeting participation in everyday life and personal recovery and is thus important to understand from the perspectives of service users.Aim To explore how service users experience the care and support they receive from FACT as facilitating processes of participation in everyday life and in their personal recovery process.Materials and Methods A constructivist Grounded Theory approach was employed, involving 14 in-depth interviews conducted from January to November 2023 with FACT service users (9 women, 5 men; 23-55 years) within the Swedish adult general Mental Health Services.Results The process of Building genuine relationships between participants and FACT team members enabled Doing as a way of recovering. …”
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Prospective Associations of the Short Form Health Survey Vitality Scale and Changes in Body Mass Index and Obesity Status by Cathrine Lawaetz Wimmelmann, Emilie Rune Hegelund, Anna Paldam Folker, Emilie Just-Østergaard, Merete Osler, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Trine Flensborg-Madsen

“…The study population comprised 2864 (81.5%) men and 648 (18.5%) women from the Metropolit Project and the Danish Longitudinal Study on Work, Unemployment and Health, who participated in a follow-up examination in 2009–2011 corresponding to a follow-up period of 3–7 years. …”
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Loneliness is associated with adverse health behaviour and obesity: a Danish population-based study of 122,258 individuals by Martin Mejlby Jensen, Karina Friis, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Anne-Sofie Hargaard, Maria Gjaldbaek Knudsen, Marie Stjerne Grønkjaer, Mathias Lasgaard

“…Conversely, loneliness was associated with a reduced risk of high alcohol consumption in men (AOR = 0.82; 95% CI: 0.74-0.0.91). Conclusions Our study provides evidence that loneliness is associated with adverse health behaviour and obesity in both men and women and across the lifespan. …”
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Health and economic impact of oral PrEP provision across subgroups in western Kenya: a modelling analysis by Linxuan Wu, Sarah Cox, Monisha Sharma, Brian Pfau, Rachel Wittenauer

“…Policymakers must decide how to optimise PrEP allocation to maximise health benefits within limited budgets. We assessed the health and economic impact of PrEP scale-up among different subgroups and regions in western Kenya.Methods We adapted an agent-based network model, EMOD-HIV, to simulate PrEP uptake in six counties of western Kenya across seven subgroups including serodiscordant couples (SDCs), adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), adolescent boys and young men, women with multiple partners and men with multiple partners. …”
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A gender-based review of workplace violence amongst the global health workforce-A scoping review of the literature. by Sioban Nelson, Basnama Ayaz, Andrea L Baumann, Graham Dozois

“…Workplace violence (WPV) impacts all levels of the health workforce, including the individual provider, organization, and society. …”
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Association of serum high-sensitivity C reactive protein with risk of mortality in an Asian population: the Health Examinees cohort by Jong-Koo Lee, Daehee Kang, Sang-Ah Lee, Xiao-Ou Shu, Sung Ok Kwon, Hyerim Park

“…Objectives This study aimed to examine the association of high-sensitivity C reactive protein (hsCRP) with mortality risk and the attenuated effect of non-communicable disease history (NCDhistory) on the association.Design Prospective cohort study.Setting Health Examinees cohort.Participants A total of 41 070 men and 81 011 women aged ≥40 years were involved (follow-up: 6.8 years).Outcome measures Data and cause of death occurring until 31 December 2015 were confirmed by death statistics from the National Statistical Office. …”
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The impact of a hazardous external environment on the quality of life, physical activity, and health of students in Ukraine, Poland, and Romania by Vladimir Potop, Igor Vypasniak, Iryna Ivanyshyn, Vasyl Lutskyi, Iryna Kryventsova, Lyudmila Shesterova, Krzysztof Prusik

“…In Poland, women reported better mental health (58.67±15.94) compared to men (55.09±12.82). …”
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