Behaviors and influencing factors of Chinese oncology nurses towards frailty care: A cross-sectional study based on knowledge-attitude-practice theory in 2024. by Xiaoxue Chen, Fang Xiao, Yuhua Miao, Huiying Qin, Lirong Yang, Fang Shen, Xiuhong Yuan

“…Convenience sampling was employed to recruit participants. In China, a "Secondary A hospital is a mid-tier hospital that provides comprehensive medical care and handles more complex cases than primary hospitals but is smaller and less specialized than tertiary hospitals. …”
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Perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination among racially and ethnically diverse gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men with and without HIV in the US South:... by Jake S. Waldman, Jorge Alonzo, Lilli Mann-Jackson, Sandy K. Aguilar-Palma, Manuel Garcia, Benjamin D. Smart, Scott D. Rhodes

“…Our community-based participatory research partnership sought to better understand perspectives about and experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccination, and related health care among GBMSM. Methods We collected, analyzed, and interpreted qualitative in-depth interview data from a diverse sample of GBMSM (N = 30) in North Carolina, USA. …”
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SIU-ICUD: Comprehensive Imaging in Prostate Cancer—A Focus on MRI and Micro-Ultrasound by Cesare Saitta, Wayne G. Brisbane, Hannes Cash, Sangeet Ghai, Francesco Giganti, Adam Kinnaird, Daniel Margolis, Giovanni Lughezzani

“…Future research should focus on integrating both modalities into standardized diagnostic pathways for a more individualized approach.…”
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Machine Learning for the estimation of foliar nitrogen content in pineapple crops using multispectral images and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms by Jorge Enrique Chaparro, José Edinson Aedo, Felipe Lumbreras Ruiz

“…On the first sampling date, XGBoost achieved an R2 of 86.98 %, being the highest. …”
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Effect of malnutrition at admission on length of hospital stay among adult surgical patients in Wolaita Sodo University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, South Ethiopia: prospect... by Zewdu Gebregziabher, Debritu Nane, Samson Kastro Dake, Yoseph Halala Handiso

“…Even though malnourished patients are more prone to stay longer in hospital, there is limited data regarding the magnitude of malnutrition and its effect on length of stay among surgical in patients in Ethiopia while nutritional assessment is also often a neglected component of the health service practice.ObjectiveThis study aims to assess the prevalence of malnutrition at admission and its effect on the length of hospital stay among adult surgical patients in Wolaita Sodo University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, South Ethiopia, 2022.MethodsA facility-based prospective cohort study was conducted among 398 admitted surgical adult patients. …”
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Magnitude of fruit and vegetable consumption and its associated factors among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) attending health services at selected health centers in... by Lelisa Worku, Burtukan Hussien, Teshome Bekele Elema, Taferi Atomsa Rekiti, Amana Ogatu Luke, Addisu Tadesse Sime

“…A study was conducted in selected health centres of Yeka subcity, Addis Ababa, from 2 March 2022 to 5 May= 2022. The sample comprised 285 patients with T2DM chosen by simple random sampling technique. …”
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Knowledge and perception of artificial lntelligence education among undergraduate healthcare students by Mohammed M. Alsultan, Mohamed A. Baraka, Leena H. Alhajri, Luluah Althayf, Nujud Omar, Faten Alhomoud, Farah Kais Alhomoud, Ahmad Alsultan, Yousef Saeed Alqarni, Fahad T. Alsulami, Feras A. Al-Awad

“…Positive perceptions of AI were more prevalent than negative perceptions among all participants (p = 0.0062). …”
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Dietary patterns of Chinese children and adolescents and their associations with family characteristics and functioning: a multicenter cross-sectional study by Shiqi Luo, Shujuan Liao, Biru Luo, Anqi Xiong, Wenlin Ma, Li Zhao

“…Objective The study aimed to analyze the dietary patterns of Chinese children and adolescents and explore their associations with family characteristics and functioning. Methods 6276 participants aged 6 to 17 years were recruited for the multicenter cross-sectional study through cluster sampling. …”
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A Cross-sectional Study of Psychological Distress, Coping Strategies, Concerns, and Perceived Needs among Nurses Working in a Dedicated COVID-19 Center by Pratibha HN, Sourabh S, Sushmitha Kota, Shankar Kumar

“…Context: Nurses presented with highest levels of occupational stress and resulting distress when compared to other healthcare workers, which could be due to nurses spending more time than doctors with patients with frequent rotations of duties and direct contact of the nurses with the patients. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Hypertension, Diabetes, and Dyslipidemia among Adults in Northwest China by Lin Qiu, Weihua Wang, Rina Sa, Feng Liu

“…To understand the prevalence and its risk factors of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia among adults aged over 18 years in Northwest China and provide data for the prevention and control of chronic diseases in Northwest China. Methods. Three waves of survey on chronic diseases and nutrition monitoring with multistage stratified cluster random sampling were conducted in 10 counties of Northwest China in 2013, 2015, and 2018, respectively. …”
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A Comparative Effect of Child-to-Child and Health Educator to-Child Teaching Approaches on Nutritional Status in Elementary School Students by Mandana Farrokhmanesh, Nasrin Mokhtari Lakeh, Shahla Asiri, Ehsan Kazem Nezhad Leyli, Alireza Ghaemi, Siamak Afzali

“…Objective: Present study aims to determine the effectiveness of child to child teaching approach as compared to educator to child teaching approach on promotion of nutritional status of elementary school students in Rasht city in 2014-15. Materials and Methods: This is an educational trial study. Samples were chosen by random-cluster sampling model through which 452 students aging 9-11 years were selected from third, fourth and fifth grades from elementary schools of different districts of Rasht. …”
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Relationship between programmed cell death ligand 1 expression and the number of biopsy specimens in advanced gastric cancer by Taro Mizuno, Yukiya Narita, Yasunobu Ishizuka, Tomoki Sakakida, Kazunori Honda, Toshiki Masuishi, Hiroya Taniguchi, Shigenori Kadowaki, Masashi Ando, Masahiro Tajika, Kei Muro

“…This study investigated the relationship between PD-L1 expression and biopsy specimen count in AGC. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 110 patients with AGC who underwent first-line chemotherapy and had PD-L1 combined positive scores (CPS) assessed using the 28-8 pharmDx assay. …”
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Psychotic relapse prediction via biomarker monitoring: a systematic review by Alexandros Smyrnis, Christos Theleritis, Christos Theleritis, Panagiotis Ferentinos, Nikolaos Smyrnis, Nikolaos Smyrnis

“…Studies involving wearables provide more concrete predictions of relapse but utilized markers such as geolocation do not advance pathophysiological understanding. …”
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Trust in the science behind COVID-19 vaccines as a driver of vaccine acceptance in the United States, 2021–2023 by Trenton M. White, Katarzyna Wyka, Kenneth Rabin, Ayman El-Mohandes

“…Objectives: To evaluate changes in public trust in the science behind COVID-19 vaccines in the United States (US) from 2021 to 2023, and to assess how loss of a family member or close friend to COVID-19, influences this trust and vaccine acceptance. Methods: Using stratified random sampling for key demographic variables, including age, gender, race/ethnicity, region, and education level, the study analyzes data from a series of cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2021, 2022 and 2023. …”
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Post Retirement Syndrome: A Psycho-Social Perspective of The Retired Community of Pakistan by S Jamil Hussain, Fahad Ul Zain, Muhammad Iqbal Memon, Mujeeb Ullah Khan Doutani, Jamil Junejo, Sana Zain

“…For retirees who had been retired for more than five years, 36.5% showed moderate depression, and 36.5% had moderately severe depression. …”
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Availability and affordability of diabetes healthcare services associated with the frequency of diabetes-related complications by Mehran Alijanzadeh, Sima Hashemipour, Fereshteh Attaran, Samira Saremi, Leila Modarresnia, Hamidreza Ghafelehbashi, Mark D. Griffiths, Zainab Alimoardi

“…Using convenience sampling, 373 type 2 diabetic patients (mean age = 57.99 years; SD = 11.71) referred to diabetic specialists’ clinics were surveyed. …”
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Socioeconomic and sex disparities in hypertension and diabetes mellitus care cascade among tribal populations in Odisha, India: findings from the Odisha Tribal Family Health Survey... by Tanveer Rehman, Chinmayee Sethy, Afeeq K., Jaya Singh Kshatri, Manikandanesan Sakthivel, Kavitha A.K., Ansuman Panigrahi, Mohan Kumar Raju, Archana Ramalingam, Sanghamitra Pati

“…., awareness, treatment, and control (ATC), for hypertension and diabetes among Odisha’s tribal communities. Methods We surveyed 14 tribal districts via multistage cluster sampling covering 10,090 households from 2022 to 23. …”
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Barriers and enablers of early health-seeking behaviour among women with preeclampsia and eclampsia: a qualitative study at a National referral hospital in Uganda by Geofrey Muhindo, Patience Muwanguzi, Shirley Moore, Mark Kaddumukasa, Martha Sajatovic, Scovia Nalugo Mbalinda

“…This study explored the barriers and enablers of early health-seeking behaviour among women with PE/E. Methods We employed an exploratory descriptive qualitative design, involving 18 participants previously diagnosed with PE/E during antenatal, intrapartum, or postnatal periods, sampled using maximum variation sampling. …”
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An active learning driven deep spatio-textural acoustic feature ensemble assisted learning environment for violence detection in surveillance videos by Duba Sriveni, Dr.Loganathan R

“…It applied the least confidence (LC), entropy margin (EM), and margin sampling (MS) criteria to retain the optimal frames for further feature extraction. …”
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Adolescents perceptions and behaviors towards periodic health examinations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Mohammed Alrukban, Ahmad Alsultan, Alwaleed Alnasser, Ahmed Alayban, Mohammed Almousa, Salman AlOtaibi, Shaffi Ahamed Shaik

“…The sample of participants was collected through a stratified multistage random sampling technique. …”
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