Quality of Life in Nepalese Patients with Non-Scarring Alopecia: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study at a Tertiary Center by Sushil Paudel, Prajwal Pudasaini, Niraj Parajuli

“…Hair loss causes a significant impact in person’s life which may lead to loss of self-confidence and distorted body image. Materials and Methods: All consenting patients with alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia, presenting to the out-patient department from September 2020 to August 2021 were enrolled based on convenience sampling method in this observational study. …”
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Knowledge of and preparedness for COVID-19 among Somali healthcare professionals: A cross-sectional study. by Jude Alawa, Lucas Walz, Samir Al-Ali, Nikhil Harle, Eleanor Wiles, Mohamed Abdullahi Awale, Deqo Mohamed, Kaveh Khoshnood

“…This study assessed the knowledge of, preparedness for, and perceptions toward COVID-19 prevention and treatment among Somali healthcare workers.<h4>Methods</h4>A descriptive, cross-sectional survey was completed by 364 Somali healthcare workers in summer of 2020 utilizing a convenience sampling method.…”
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Conceptual Model of Improving Health Communication Capacities in Pandemic Conditions from the Point of View of Health System Experts by Sayed Hossein Mousavi, Ali Jafari, Hossein Basirian

“…Sampling was done with a purposeful snowball method, which included 20 communication and media professors and health professionals. …”
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Child-Centered Play Therapy and Story Therapy on Social Skills and Shyness in Preschool Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Teh... by Azin Soroushvala, Alireza Merati, Mehdi Yousefvand

“…The selection of the research sample was done in two stages. In the first stage, 80 children were examined with a research checklist, and in the second stage, 45 children with a primary diagnosis of attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder were selected, who were normal in terms of motor function and free of other psychological disorders, and to differentiate normal children and children with Attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder, they were evaluated with behavioral inventory and clinical interview for more certainty. …”
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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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Spatial Distribution of Poverty Clusters and Its Prediction Algorithms: A Visual Analytics Approach to Understanding the Disparities of Poverty Across Zones by Ngong'ho Bujiku Sende, Snehanshu Saha, Leon Fidele Ruganzu Uwimbabazi

“…The hybrid method was employed because supervised learning methods struggle with discovering hidden patterns due to pre-defined labels while clustering approach lacks predictive accuracy metrics. …”
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Work-related stress and its associated factors among nurses in public hospitals in the Greater Banjul Area, The Gambia by Tomilayo Felicity Omotosho, Tobiloba Oyejide Alex Omotosho, Paul Bass

“…A proportionate stratified random sampling method was used to stratify study participants by hospital and nursing cadre and recruit eligible participants. …”
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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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GFA: Generalized Feature Affinity for Semantic Segmentation in Resolution-Degraded Images by Jinze Yang, Youming Wu, Zining Zhu, Wenchao Zhao, Wenhui Diao, Kun Fu

“…To guide the supplementation direction more effectively, a results-oriented hard sampling strategy, which integrates auxiliary spatial attention is further proposed to enhance the performance of the aforementioned modules. …”
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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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Alexithymia in adolescents with and without pets during the Covid-19 pandemic by Nazila Sahandpour, Mehrangiz Peyvastegar, Roshanak Khodabakhsh pirkalani

“…The available sampling method selected 120 people, 60 of whom had pets and 60 of whom did not. …”
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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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The Effects of an Educational Intervention Based on Prevention against Tobacco Dependence (PAD) regarding Frequency of Tobacco Use among Students in Varamin City: Results of the Se... by Mojtaba Hemayatkhah, Mohammad Reza Masjedi, Fatemeh Abdolazimbeyg, Vahid Rahmanian

“…For the second phase, a sample of 780 ninth-grade students was chosen using stratified sampling, with 350 students (45%) serving as PAD-helpers. …”
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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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