Effect of acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescent depression: a meta-analysis by Xin Yu, Bing Zhao, Tongtong Yin, Haiying Qu, Jingxuan Zhang, Xiaojing Cheng, Xu Chen, Xu Chen

“…Furthermore, offline ACT was significantly more effective than Internet-based ACT in reducing depressive symptoms. …”
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Alternative Health and Conventional Medicine Discourse About Cancer on TikTok: Computer Vision Analysis of TikTok Videos by Roxana Mika Muenster, Kai Gangi, Drew Margolin

“…First, videos from the alternative health sample were more likely to contain a single face that was prominently featured (making up at least 7.5% of the image) for a substantial period of time (35% of the shots), with these testimonial-style videos making up 28.5% (93/326) of the sample compared to 18.6% (94/505) of the conventional medicine sample. …”
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Feeding, dysphagia, weight, and sleep in pediatric patients: mediation analysis and comparison of autism and non-autism by Ann H. Johnson, David Farbo, Wilson Johnson, Andrea M. Smith, Lisa Bashore

“…Feeding difficulties and dysphagia predicted sleep disorders in the sample; however, those with autism were 3.83 times more likely to have feeding difficulties than patients without autism and 2.19 times more likely to have dysphagia. …”
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Chronic conditions and health literacy in Brazilian community-dwelling older people: a cross-sectional study by Madson Alan Maximiano-Barreto, Ana Caroline Pinto Lima, Daiene de Morais, Élen dos Santos Alves, Bruna Moretti Luchesi

“…The participants also answered a health literacy test and were then divided into three groups based on the score: “lower health literacy”, “intermediate health literacy” and “higher health literacy”).Results Men accounted for slightly more than half of the sample (50.5%) and age ranged from 60 to 97 years (X᷈: 69; [IQR: 66–77] years). …”
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Genomic alterations in normal breast tissues preceding breast cancer diagnosis by Jiawei Dai, Mariya Rozenblit, Xiaoyue Li, Naing Lin Shan, Yueyue Wang, Shrikant Mane, Michal Marczyk, Lajos Pusztai

“…Results The pre-diagnosis tissues had significantly more high functional impact germline variants per sample than the healthy controls (P = 0.034), 36.5% of affected genes were cancer hallmark genes, among these 62.4% were involved with evading growth suppressors and 5.7% with genome instability. …”
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AVPR1A RS3 and relationship maintenance processes in newlywed couples by Anastasia Makhanova, James K. McNulty, Lisa A. Eckel, Larissa Nikonova, Jennifer A. Bartz, Arial S. Bloshinsky, Elizabeth A. D. Hammock

“…We examined whether variability in the repeat-length polymorphism RS3 on the vasopressin receptor gene AVPR1A is associated with relationship maintenance processes and trajectories of marital satisfaction over the first three years of marriage.MethodsNewlywed couples (N=70; 128 individuals) reported on various aspects of their marriage within three months of their wedding and on their marital satisfaction every four months for three years, and provided saliva samples that we genotyped for RS3 alleles. …”
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Examination of Elemental Composition of Herbal Medicinal Raw Materials of Voronezh Region by N. A. Dyakova

“…The studied raw materials accumulate macroelements to the greatest extent (more than 84 %). Essential trace elements accumulate most in dioecious nettle leaves (more than 9 mg/g). …”
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Characteristics influencing COVID-19 testing and vaccination among Spanish-speaking Latine persons in North Carolina. by Sandy K Aguilar-Palma, Thomas P McCoy, Lilli Mann-Jackson, Jorge Alonzo, Mohammed Sheikh Eldin Jibriel, Dorcas Mabiala Johnson, Tony Locklear, Amanda E Tanner, Mark A Hall, Alain G Bertoni, Ana D Sucaldito, Laurie P Russell, Scott D Rhodes

“…While most reported ever being COVID-19 tested (83.3%) and ever being vaccinated against COVID-19 (84.4%), only 24% were up to date with vaccination. Nearly half of the sample reported one or more barriers to COVID-19 testing, and over one-quarter reported one or more barriers to COVID-19 vaccination. …”
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Oral microbiome diversity and composition before and after chemotherapy treatment in pediatric oncology patients by Egle Immonen, Lauri Paulamäki, Hannaleena Piippo, Atte Nikkilä, Liisa Aine, Timo Peltomäki, Olli Lohi, Mataleena Parikka

“…In patients without oral lesions, Bergeyella genus was more abundant prior to treatment while Alloprevotella was more abundant in the post-treatment samples, compared to patients with lesions. …”
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Determinants of change in children's sedentary time. by Andrew J Atkin, Kirsten Corder, Ulf Ekelund, Katrien Wijndaele, Simon J Griffin, Esther M F van Sluijs

“…Greater maternal weekend screen-time (0.45; 0.08, 0.83) and, in girls, greater parental restriction on playing outside (0.91; 0.08, 1.74) were associated with larger increases in weekend sedentary time. The analytical sample was younger, more likely to be female, had lower BMI and was of higher SES than the original baseline sample.…”
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Irony, deception and theory of mind in people with intellectual disabilities and dual diagnoses by Đorđević Mirjana, Glumbić Nenad, Brojčin Branislav

“…This research was conducted to determine the linguistic aspects of production and comprehension of irony and deception in adults with ID and DD, as well as the relationship of these abilities with theory of mind. Methods. The sample consisted of 120 people with ID aged between 20 and 56. …”
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Understanding the journey towards rabies vaccination for travellers: Results of a cross-sectional survey with patients and providers in the US, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland by Jennifer Cummins, Florian Lienert, Annabel Su, Elaine Melander, Rebecca L. West, Fernanda Salgado

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Feasibility and acceptability of self-directed, remote dim-light melatonin onset collection in pediatric patients diagnosed with chronic pain by Nicole Tacugue, Jessica J. Love, Jessica J. Love, Jessica J. Love, Jakob M. Cherry, Jakob M. Cherry, Jacqueline Lane, Jacqueline Lane, Jacqueline Lane, Jacqueline Lane, Joe Kossowsky, Joe Kossowsky

“…The 3-week protocol involved sleep, activity, and light tracking, self-reported sleep diaries, a survey determining morningness-eveningness chronotypes, one self-directed home dim-light melatonin onset collection with objective compliance measures, and assessment of study protocol acceptability.Results and discussionIn a sample of pediatric patients with diagnosed chronic pain (N = 6, Mage=14.5, SD = 2.74, 66.7% female) and a subset of healthy controls (N = 6, Mage =13.3, SD=2.73, 50% female), both the Hockeystick method and 3 pg/ml dim-light melatonin onset threshold were employed to calculate salivary dim-light melatonin onset times in 8 of the 12 participants. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness and safety of a novel phage cocktail as a biocontrol of Salmonella in biofilm, food products, and broiler chicken by Narges Torkashvand, Haniyeh Kamyab, Haniyeh Kamyab, Parisa Aarabi, Ahmad Reza Shahverdi, Ahmad Reza Shahverdi, Mohammad Amir Karimi Torshizi, Mohammad Reza Khoshayand, Mohammad Reza Khoshayand, Zargham Sepehrizadeh, Zargham Sepehrizadeh

“…Additionally, we utilized a colorimetric method to evaluate the anti-biofilm activity of phage cocktail, in which it proved more efficacious compared to the MIC and MBEC levels of the antibiotic control. …”
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Biocompatible and Antibacterial Chemical Coatings on TiZr Dental Implants by Vlad Gabriel Vasilescu, Toma Lucian Ciocan, Andreea Mihaela Custura, Florin Miculescu, Miruna Stan, Ionela Cristina Voinea, Dumitru Dima, Florentina Ionela Bucur, Andreea Veronica Dediu-Botezatu, Marian Iulian Neacșu, Elisabeta Vasilescu, Marina Imre

“…To obtain the coating without altering the initial properties of the substrate (dental implant made of TiZr bioalloy), simple, cost-effective, and efficient methods were employed, such as chemical deposition of silver (Ag). …”
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Appraisal of healthcare students and professionals’ knowledge and intention to educate the public regarding monkeypox (Mpox) by Malik Suliman Mohamed, Mona Timan Idriss, Nasser Hadal Alotaibi, Yusra Habib Khan, Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi

“…Significant associations between sociodemographic data and the knowledge and intention to educate the public about Mpox were compared using statistical methods. The comparison of means for two or more than two groups were performed using Student t-test and one-way ANOVA, respectively. …”
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Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Technology Interventions in Improving the Social Skills of Children and Adolescents With Autism: Systematic Review by Xipeng Yang, Jinlong Wu, Yudan Ma, Jingxuan Yu, Hong Cao, Aihua Zeng, Rui Fu, Yucheng Tang, Zhanbing Ren

“…These researchers also independently extracted information regarding gathered data on the sources, samples, measurement methods, primary results, and data related to the main results of the studies that met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Characterizing complex care relationships in Canada using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) by Janaia Utas, Tasmin Adel, Charlotte Jensen, Stephanie A Chamberlain, Jennifer Baumbusch, Sharon Anderson, Jasneet Parmar, Lauren E. Griffith, Andrea Gruneir

“…Our research showed that 40% of caregivers reported giving care to 2 or more receivers and 52% of care receivers reported receiving care from 2 or more caregivers. …”
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Respiratory rate and its associations with disease and lifestyle factors in the general population - results from the KORA-FF4 study. by Ina-Maria Rückert-Eheberg, Alexander Steger, Alexander Müller, Birgit Linkohr, Petra Barthel, Melanie Maier, Julia Allescher, Moritz F Sinner, Konstantinos D Rizas, Wolfgang Rathmann, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Stefan Kääb, Annette Peters, Georg Schmidt

“…Stratified analyses showed that education appeared to be more relevant in women, while the effect of diabetes was more pronounced in men.…”
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Compartmental analysis of retinal vascular parameters and thickness in myopic eyes using SS-OCTA by Chen Zeng, Chong Tang, Yixin Tan, Juxian Liu, Kai Shi, Qi Li

“…More alterations were proved in nasal peripapillary sectors in high myopes. …”
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