Proportion of Traditional Uvulectomy and Associated Factors Among Caregivers of Children Under Five‐Years Old Visiting Tibebe Ghion Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cros... by Gebiyaw Wudie Tsegaye, Martha Tuji, Shitahun Fentie

“…Caregivers from rural areas were 2.81 times more likely to practice than caregivers from urban areas (AOR: 2.81, 95% CI: 1.63–5.68), those without ANC follow‐up were 5.20 times more likely to practice uvulectomy compared to caregivers who had ANC follow up (AOR: 5.20, 95% CI: 2.06–8.63), those had no information about harmful effects of traditional uvulectomy were 2.43 times more likely to practice uvulectomy than their counterparts (AOR: 2.43, 95% CI: 1.24–4.55), and those who had witnessed good outcome of traditional uvulectomy were 6.05 times more likely to practice uvulectomy (AOR: 6.05, 95% CI: 3.64–12.11). …”
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Workplace Incivility and Job Alienation: Analyzing the Mediating Role of Social Capital and the Moderating Role of Psychological Capital by Fariborz Fathi Chegeni, Mostafa OmidNezhad

“…This sample was selected using a stratified random sampling method. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding food-medicine dual-purpose substances among adults in China: a cross-sectional online survey by Haixian Jia, Chunyu Li, Zheng Li, Yao Zhao, Zhonghui Chen, Jiali Duan, Xiaochen Ma

“…This study evaluated the current situation of FMS-related knowledge, awareness and actual consumption behaviors and practices of Chinese residents to provide a basis for both perfect related regulations and scientific advice on FMS consumption. Methods A cross-sectional online survey on FMS perception and consumption was conducted through a convenience sampling strategy from August to December 2020. …”
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Doctors' perspectives of the suggested key shifts in NHS healthcare delivery by Angharad Flower, Chloe Doan, Chris Bell

“…It will centre around three key shifts in healthcare delivery: moving more care from hospitals to communities; making better use of technology; and focusing on preventing sickness.2 Materials and methods: We designed an online survey to assess doctors’ perspectives on the proposed shifts in healthcare delivery to identify any key areas of training and development needed to fulfil these changes. …”
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Effect of Learning Environment on Academic Performance of Pupils and Students in Kagango Division Sheema Municipality. by Andonzire, Steve James

“…The study also shows the relationship between school environment and students' academic performance to be school environment, giving tests and coursework, strikes and demonstrations, Poor student-teacher relationships, guidance and counseling, poor class control, and Poor methods of teaching. Finally, the study concluded that t-, classes that can be taken to improve performance in secondary schools as Giving rewards to the best-performing students, Government Involvement in Education, Offering support to the suffering students, providing career guidance in schools, Providing Alternative Sources of power and Encouraging Substitutes and finally the study recommended that the government to support students, especially through organizing seminars to equip students with the necessary knowledge from different angles, establish and implement a new curriculum for all schools in way to be more of practical than theory, school management committees of the selected schools to always assess the performance of teachers in teaching through tasking them to produce timetable and lesson plans prioritize investment in education and develops policies to improve the financing of the education in such way as to provide adequate educational facilities for all schools.…”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Dysmenorrhea Among University Students in Tamil Nadu, India: A Cross-Sectional Study by Benson Thomas M, Daniyal J, Venmathy S, Kowsalya B, Janmejaya Samal

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate the prevalence and determine the factors associated with dysmenorrhoea among university students in Tamil Nadu. Methods: With ethical approval from the Institutional Ethical Committee of SRMIST (Deemed University), 1076 students aged 18-25 were selected with simple random sampling. …”
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Latent profiles of youth social support: a study on variations and their impact on self-esteem by Jingxian Yu, Yuqin Guo, Yongqi Liang, Huan Peng, Na Li, Weisheng Gu, Hanjiao Liu

“…Therefore, this study aims to explore the variations in perceived social support among youth using a latent profile analysis approach and examine its association with self-esteem.MethodsQuestionnaires were distributed using a simple random sampling technique in Shenzhen and Shaoguan, Guangdong Province. …”
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Credit Scoring Prediction Using Deep Learning Models in the Financial Sector by Xi Shi, Dingfen Tang, Yike Yu

“…Extensive evaluations on standard datasets validate the effectiveness of our proposed model, revealing enhanced prediction accuracy and model interpretability when compared to more traditional techniques. These results highlight the promise of advanced deep learning integration in computational science applications, offering a pathway toward more insightful and dependable predictive solutions.…”
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Trends in the levels, causes, and risk factors of maternal mortality in Pakistan: A comparative analysis of national surveys of 2007 and 2019. by Farid Midhet, Samina Naeem Khalid, Shehla Baqai, Shahzad Ali Khan

“…In 2019, women who died were more likely to receive antenatal care than those who survived (adjusted OR 9.3); this association was not significant in 2007.…”
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Forced evictions and their social and health impacts in Southern Somalia: a qualitative study in Mogadishu Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps by Mohamed Jelle, Joanna Morrison, Hani Mohamed, Raha Ali, Andrea Solomon, Andrew J Seal

“…Background Forced evictions are common in conflict-affected settings. More than 500 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are evicted daily in Mogadishu. …”
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Frontlines and Crossroads: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Motivations of Medical Students from Selected Philippine Medical Schools in Pursuing Their Medical Studies by Adriel Cheng, Ysabelle Bianca Andan, Kristine Go, Yeoj Luces, Jeanne Peralta, Jeremy Sumang, Manuel Dayrit

“…This study aimed to compare the strength and nature of motivations of medical students to pursue their studies before and after the onset of the pandemic, and to propose recommendations to support them through the pandemic and beyond. Methods: Inductive thematic analysis was done of semi-structured interviews with 17 medical students selected through purposive sampling. …”
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Health Status of Anganwadi Workers in an Urban Area-A Cross Sectional Study by Jayalekshmi CS, Geetanjali Joshi, Harish Patil, Ravindra Gurav

“…Of the 48 subjects, 38 (79.17%) were having one or more health problems at the time of study (p<0.05). …”
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Perceived experiences of adults with mild cognitive impairment: a qualitative study by Poursoleiman Leila, Rooddehghan Zahra, Bahramnezhad Fatemeh, Shafiee Sabet Mahdi, Dehghan Nayeri Nahid

“…Discussion and conclusion The findings of this study suggest that the experience of mild cognitive impairment involves more than just cognitive problems. A deeper understanding of these experiences could contribute to the development of more effective interventions and improve the quality of life for adults with mild cognitive impairment.…”
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Nurses Concerning Hospital Acquired Infections in Surgical Specialty Hospital- Erbil Cardiac Center by Niyan Anwar Omar, Karwan Mohammed M-Amen

“…Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from September 2021 to September 2022. …”
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Life transition stages of family caregivers for patients with chronic illness: A grounded theory study by Norfaezah Md Khalid, Nurul Salwa Sajali, Asbah Razali

“…It helps nurses to design more targeted, phase-specific interventions that focus on caregivers’ psychosocial needs at each phase. …”
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Associations of temperament, family functioning with loneliness trajectories in patients with breast cancer: a longitudinal observational study by Chunyan He, Yang He, Yawei Lin, Yixuan Hou, Shaoyi Wang, Wei Chang

“…Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore trends in loneliness in patients with breast cancer and identify predictors of different trajectory categories. Methods Using convenience sampling, 176 patients planning to undergo breast cancer surgery in a university hospital in Shaanxi Province, China, were followed up six times over 12 months following surgery, and data from 144 patients were analyzed. …”
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Gender perspective on climate change adaption strategies in livestock farming in Gandaki Province, Nepal by Vikash Kumar KC, Ananta Raj Dhungana, Purna Bahadur Khand

“…Aim: The main aim of this study is to examine the gender perspective on climate change adoption strategies in livestock farming in Gandaki province, Nepal. Methods: A multi-stage random sampling technique was employed to select 1,158 households from five districts in Gandaki province, western Nepal. …”
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Episodic sexual transmission of HIV revealed by molecular phylodynamics. by Fraser Lewis, Gareth J Hughes, Andrew Rambaut, Anton Pozniak, Andrew J Leigh Brown

“…For HIV, the long period of infectivity has made the interpretation of contact networks more difficult, and major discrepancies have been observed between the contact network and the transmission network revealed by viral phylogenetics. …”
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MGASM-Net: morphology-guided multi-task learning network with anatomic spatial mamba for 3D airway segmentation by Yi Xu, Huamin Yang, Zhengang Jiang, Weili Shi, Yu Miao, Guanyuan Feng, Yuqin Li

“…Compared to state-of-the-art methods, MGASM-Net was capable of extracting much more bronchi and more complete airway structures while preventing over-segmentation, indicating its accuracy, robustness, and generalization. …”
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Multilevel Analysis of Individual and Community Level Factors Associated with Institutional Delivery in Ethiopia, 2016 Ethiopian Demography and Health Survey by Masrie Getnet, Addis Temie, Tilahun Fufa, Lake Kumlachew, Abraham Teym

“…Therefore, this study was conducted to identify individual- and community-level factors associated with institutional delivery in Ethiopia. Methods A cross-sectional study design with two-stage clustered sampling was employed using data from the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) to identify individual- and community-level factors associated with institutional delivery in Ethiopia. …”
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