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

“…Abstract Purpose Programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression in advanced gastric cancer (AGC) exhibits spatial heterogeneity, which may lead to sampling bias during biopsies. Although multiple biopsies are believed to improve the accuracy of PD-L1 assessment, the optimal number of specimens remains uncertain. …”
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Prevalence, Management, and Impact of Dysmenorrhea on the Lives of Nurse and Midwife Trainees in Northern Ghana by Abubakari Wuni, Brenda Abena Nyarko, Mudasir Mohammed Ibrahim, Issahaka Abdulai Baako, Iddrisu Sisala Mohammed, Camillus Buunaaisie

“…A proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to recruit 303 respondents for the study. …”
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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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The Effectiveness of Logotherapy on Pain Coping Strategies/ Psychological Capital and Death Anxiety in women with Breast Cancer by zahra Fallahi, Seyed Ali Aleyasin

“…The statistical population included women referring to Zafar Medical Complex in Karaj city, among whom 30 women with breast cancer were selected by non-random sampling method. The samples were divided into two experimental and control groups using the multivariate covariance method after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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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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The analysis of factors influencing patient choice of healthcare providers between tertiary hospitals and community clinics by Silin Wu, Silin Wu, Zhaoxia Lei, Tinglian Liu, Lan Chen, Yang Qin

“…Understanding the factors influencing healthcare-seeking behaviors is crucial for improving policies and promoting system efficiency.ObjectiveTo analyse the factors influencing patient choices between a tertiary hospital and a community health service center in Chengdu and provide recommendations for advancing the tiered healthcare system.MethodsA random sampling method was used in August 2023 to survey patients at a tertiary hospital (Group A) and a community health service center (Group B). …”
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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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Validity and reliability of the Malay language Perception Towards Smoking Questionnaire (BM-PTSQ) among secondary school adolescents: Further validation using Confirmatory Factor A... by Kuang Hock Lim, Yoon Ling Cheong, Hui Li Lim, Kee Chee Cheong, Mohd Hazilas Mat Hashim, Ali Aman Marine, Yong Kang Cheah, Jia Hui Lim, Sumarni Mohd Ghazali

“…This study further establishes the validity and reliability of a Malay language version of the Perception Towards Smoking Questionnaire (BMPTSQ) for assessing the perception of smoking among secondary school-going adolescents in Malaysia. Methods We administered the BM-PTSQ to 669 secondary school students selected through multistage sampling; 60% of respondents were male (n=398), and 69.9% (n=463) were from rural areas. …”
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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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Article RETRACTED due to manipulation by the authors and citations Results of Beginner Archery Skills Among Adolescents Based on Gender Review and Shot Distance by Destriani Destriani, Herri Yusfi, Destriana Destriana, Hendra Setyawan, José Vicente García-Jiménez, Francesca Latino, Francesco Tafuri, Tiok Wijanarko, Ari Wibowo Kurniawan, Khoiril Anam, Abdul Aziz Purnomo Shidiq, Muhammad Imam Rahmatullah, Özgür Eken

“… This study aims to examine differences in scores resulting from beginner archery skills among teenagers based on gender (male & female) and shooting target distance factors (5 m, 10 m, & accumulated distances of 5 and 10 m). The sample for this research was 22 male and female students from classes XA, XB and XIA, taken using the cluster random sampling method. …”
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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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Hypertension and associated risk factor among individuals attending tertiary care center in Sitapur district – A cross-sectional study by Jaideep Kumar Chaubey, Santosh Kumar, Monika Singh, Arslan Neyaz

“…Results: A high prevalence of hypertension was seen in the age group of more than 60 years (37.8%), followed by 28.8% in the age group of 50–59 years. …”
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Factors Associated With Digital Capacity for Health Promotion Among Primary Care Workers: Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Yining Wang, Hui Ren, Shaotan Xiao, Tian Meng, Shuyue Sun, Siyu Yu, Qing Liu, Fan Wang

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate the levels of digital capacity for health promotion and its associated factors among community health workers. MethodsA total of 1346 community health workers were recruited from across 47 communities in Shanghai, China, through cluster-stratified random sampling. …”
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Fertility desire and associated factors among reproductive age women attending antiretroviral therapy at public hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia by Legesse Abera, Betelhem Mengistu, Mickiale Hailu, Mawerdi Adem, Daniel Tadesse

“…A systematic random sampling technique was used to select the participants. …”
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