Associations Between Mental Health and Social Needs Among Black Patients in Primary Care Settings by Keri F. Kirk, Serenity Budd, Ashley Splain, Clara L. Parsons, Aniket Kini, George Daniel, Lana Kim, Kezia Alexander, Diana Rubio, Jenna Warren, Marsha Akoto, Christine D. Laccay, Patricia Tanjutco

“…Methods: This retrospective study examined the impact of IBH care delivery on MH and social needs variables in a Black adult patient population. …”
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Amygdala Nuclei Atrophy in Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: Insights from High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Evija Peiseniece, Nauris Zdanovskis, Kristīne Šneidere, Andrejs Kostiks, Guntis Karelis, Ardis Platkājis, Ainārs Stepens

“…The right hemisphere nuclei, including the lateral and basal nuclei, showed more significant differences, indicating their sensitivity to cognitive decline. …”
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Pictograms to Provide a Better Understanding of Gastroesophageal Reflux Symptoms in Chinese Subjects by Wei Zhao, Hong Jin, Lili Zhang, Bin Wang, Fangyuan Sun, Huanli Jiao, Chao Sun, Bangmao Wang

“…Pictograms denoting reflux symptoms could be understood accurately in all four groups. A sample from the general population showed that the recognition of the pictogram was more accurate than the recognition of the terms. …”
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Efforts to enhance the achievement motivation of amputee football athletes using the goal-setting module by Eka Kurnia Darisman, Mulyono Mulyono, Moh Hanafi, Gatot Margisal Utomo, Agatha Candrika, Wahyu Indar Pramuji, Salsabila Maghfira

“…Research Objectives: Implementing the goal-setting module for athletes with special needs is expected to enhance their focus, discipline, and drive to excel. Methods: This study employs an experimental design. …”
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Social Media Impact on Young Consumers’ Behavior: A Consideration of Purchase Decision-Making Drivers, and the Mediating Role of E-Marketing for Achieving Business Leadership by Nadia Hima, Djamel Benarous, Bilal Louail, Walid Hamadi

“…Second, there were differences in gender: 55% of female respondents reported significant influence from social media marketing as opposed to 45% of males, indicating that females are more susceptible to such marketing strategies. Finally, even within the relatively homogenous sample of students, there were age-related differences: 65% for the 18–21 age group as opposed to 35% for the 22–25 group, indicating that the younger the individual, the more the influence. …”
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A cross-sectional study of the experiences of distressed callers when accessing financial assistance from a telephone-based cancer information and support service by Elizabeth A. Fradgley, Paula Bridge, Katherine Lane, Danielle Spence, Della Yates, Melissa A. Carlson, Jo Taylor, Christine L. Paul

“…Results: Of the 508 patients and caregivers in this sample, 107 (21%) people who recalled discussing financial support used the service. …”
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Longitudinal changes in grey matter and cognitive performance over four years of healthy aging by Nicole Neufeld, Ashleigh F. Parker, Heather Kwan, Erin L. Mazerolle, Jodie R. Gawryluk

“…Objective: The aim of the current study was to investigate changes in cognitive performance and grey matter atrophy in a sample of healthy older adults over four years. Methods: MRI and cognitive data were retrieved from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database for 35 participants in the cognitively normal cohort at two time points separated by four years (mean age at baseline = 75.02, SD = 6.51, 54% female). …”
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Carotid Atherosclerosis, Endothelial Disfunction, and Arterial Stiffness in Young and Middle-Aged Men with Coronary Artery Disease by Sergey Kozlov, Tatyana Balachonova, Heda Machmudova, Marya Tripoten, Marina Andreevskaya, Anatoly Rogoza, Valery Kuharchuk

“…To assess structural and functional status of the arteries in young and middle-aged men with recently developed CAD. Methods and Results. A total of 78 men aged 28 to 50 years underwent carotid ultrasound, endothelial function, and arterial stiffness measurements. …”
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Rationalization of Energy Expenditure: Household Behavior in Poland by Elżbieta Stańczyk, Katarzyna Szalonka, Małgorzata Niklewicz-Pijaczyńska, Wioletta Nowak, Piotr Stańczyk, Katarzyna Witczyńska, Justyna Ziobrowska-Sztuczka

“…It formulates the following research hypothesis: households invest in energy-saving appliances to rationalize energy expenditures and/or change their behaviors to reduce energy consumption. Methods: The paper is based on primary research conducted using an online questionnaire survey on a sample of 331 respondents in Poland in March and April 2023. …”
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Overweight and Obesity among Palestinian Adults: Analyses of the Anthropometric Data from the First National Health and Nutrition Survey (1999-2000) by Ziad Abdeen, Christine Jildeh, Sahar Dkeideek, Radwan Qasrawi, Ibrahim Ghannam, Haleama Al Sabbah

“…A cross-sectional survey was designed to provide a baseline data on the prevalence and distribution of overweight and obesity and their associations among adults in Palestine. Methods. A random representative sample of 3617 adults aged 18–64 years was collected between October 1999 and October 2000. …”
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Nurses' knowledge of the italian ministerial recommendation no. 4 (MR4) on the prevention of patient suicide in hospitals: a pilot study by Maurizio Calamita, Donatella D'Accolti, Carmela Marseglia, Carmela Fiore, Stefania Crescenza Pietanza, Salvatore Grasso, Livio Melpignano, Antonio Pisciotta, Laura Pagliari, Noemi Chiumarolo, Vito Muschitiello

“…Aim: Toassess the evaluation of the level of nurses' knowledge of MR4. METHODS: Pilot study conducted in the period between November 2023 and December 2023 in a sample of nurses. …”
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Influencing Factor on School-Age Children’s Holistic Health Care Who Using Online Media by Working-Age Parents in Northeast Thailand by Atchariya Wonginchan, Juraporn Tangpukdee, Suphasak Wonginchan, Sureeporn Kearttiwongkru, Sujitra Konggungong

“…The aim was to study factors that influence working-age parents in holistic health care (HHC) of school-age children using online media in northeast Thailand. Materials and Methods. This research was a descriptive study, with a sample of parent amount 222. …”
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The Effects of Traditional Chinese Exercise in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Yingjie Zhang, Lulu Huang, Youxin Su, Zhengxuan Zhan, Yanan Li, Xingquan Lai

“…<h4>Background and aims</h4>Traditional Chinese exercise (TCE) includes a variety of exercise, which is being accepted by more and more people in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) from different countries. …”
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Causation of Crohn’s Disease by Mycobacterium avium Subspecies Paratuberculosis by John Hermon-Taylor, Timothy John Bull, Joseph Michael Sheridan, Jun Cheng, Michael Laurence Stellakis, Nasira Sumar

“…MAP is harboured in the ileocolonic mucosa of a proportion of normal people and can be detected in a high proportion of full thickness samples of inflamed Crohn’s disease gut by improved culture systems and IS900 polymerase chain reaction if the correct methods are used. …”
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Impact of arm technique and elastic force on vertical jump performance in physical education students: a convergent validation study by Era Deva, Milaim Berisha

“…Materials and methods. Ten first-grade Sport Science students and ten professional soccer players from F.C. …”
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Hypoglycemic episodes among type 1 diabetic patients in Unaizah, Saudi Arabia: causes, management, and associated factors by S.K.S. Aldekheel, M.A.S. Shahin

“…A convenience sample of 280 type 1 diabetic clients living in the Qassim region of Unaizah City was selected. …”
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Empowerment Evaluation of Programs Involving Youth by Sarah Heath, Katherine Moreau

“…Research Design: We used a two-phase sequential mixed-methods research design. In Phase 1, we surveyed evaluators. …”
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The Prevalence of Systemic Venous Congestion Post Kidney Transplant Detected by Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) by Santiago Beltramino, Agustín Manchado Bruno, Damián Fernández, Javier Walther, Gustavo Werber

“…Pulmonary congestion was more frequent: 70% (21/30) of the patients presented some degree of pulmonary congestion, and 30% (9/30) had moderate or severe congestion. …”
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Utilization of hospice and nonhospice care in patients with end-stage renal disease on dialysis by Shu-Chen Wang, Kai-Chieh Hu, Wei-Chuan Chang, Chung-Y Hsu

“…We aim to understand trends in patients with ESRD receiving hospice and nonhospice care as well as medical care efforts during the last month of their lives (2009–2013). Materials and Methods: The cohort study was conducted using 1 million randomly selected samples from the Taiwan Health Insurance Research Database for millions of people in Taiwan in 2009–2013. …”
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The Effect of the Outbreak of Covid-19 on the Conservative Efficiency of Companies by AliAkbar Farzinfar, Mohammad Taghi Kabiri, Yassaman Khalili, Elham Darajati

“…The results of this research confirm that companies do not use conservative methods to neutralize the reduction of their efficiency (regardless of the period of covid-19 outbreak), the reason for this is the non-significance of the interaction coefficient of efficiency and efficiency and the dummy variable of efficiency. and the results of the examination of the second model indicated that regardless of the Corona period, companies have no desire to increase the use of conservative procedures in order to increase efficiency, while the examination of the third research model (which is actually the most complete model of this study) be), it is very remarkable and worthy of consideration, in the way that companies have been encouraged to use more conservative procedures during the Corona period, and in addition, the reduction in efficiency has also increased significantly in creating this incentive (in the mentioned period).…”
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