Podcasts in Mental, Physical, or Combined Health Interventions for Adults: Scoping Review by Elizabeth M Dascombe, Philip J Morgan, Ryan J Drew, Casey P Regan, Gabrielle M Turner-McGrievy, Myles D Young

“…To address this, a standardized approach would be valuable in guiding researchers and practitioners through both the development and reporting phases of future podcast research, including aspects such as theoretical framework, a description of podcast development (eg, co-design and end-user engagement), objective podcast use, and process evaluation data.…”
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The Role of Emotions in the Persistence of Tensions and Conflicts in the Middle East (2011–2024) by Sayed Jalal Dehghani Firouzabadi, Fatemeh Damirchi

“…Based on the theoretical framework of emotional realism, the fear of weakening national and religious identities has driven states and various groups toward reinforcing ethnic and religious boundaries. …”
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Exploring Ethical, Cultural, and Transnational Competence Among International Healthcare Management Students: An Australian Perspective by Howard M, Tan KL, Jayasekara R

“…This exploratory study examined the challenges faced by these students to establish foundational understanding of the competencies needed for effective ethical decision-making, cultural integration, and transnational readiness in diverse healthcare environments.Methods: Using a composite theoretical framework incorporating Cultural Relativism, Ethical Climate Theory, Institutional Theory, and Transnationalism, a 35-item instrument was adapted from three validated sources. …”
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Re-use of Building Products in the Netherlands by Loriane Icibaci

“…The Industrial Ecology concept provides a system’s perspective and the foundation of this study’s methodological framework to answer the main research question. It postulates that the internal relations of the industrial process, as well as relations that go beyond the industrial boundary, are sources of perturbations in the natural system, which is driven by human activities and motivate changes in material and substance flows by demand for services provided by products. …”
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Language Feminisation in Sociopolitical Space of Russia and France by L. A. Ulianitckaia

“…The study of language processes is carried out within the framework of sociolinguistic approach. The main methodology of language feminisation and inclusive writing study included comparative, descriptive, stylistic, and semantic- syntactic analysis.Results and discussion. …”
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Ensuring the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Joint Clinical Assessment in National HTA Decision-Making: Insights from the 2024 CIRS Multi-Stakeholder Workshop by Ting Wang, Neil McAuslane

“…The survey and workshop focused on key areas such as time to market, submission strategies, and the role of JCA in national decision-making processes. Descriptive and qualitative analyses were performed to identify recommendations for measuring and improving the JCA process. …”
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On the problem of linguistic interpretation of the patterns яжемать, онжеребёнок by Fedor Albrekht

“…This article studies patterns of the type яжемать in Russian and shows the insufficiency of the so-called “word-dependent” (system-oriented) approach to the description of semantics and derivational structure of speech units (Russ. яжемать is originally the phrase я же мать, approximately ‘I’m a mother, in fact’, functioning as a single word in the sentence). …”
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The process of student engagement in school health promotion: a scoping review by Julia C. Kontak, Caitlyn Macrae, Hilary A. T. Caldwell, Becky Feicht, Stephanie Heath, Camille L. Hancock Friesen, Sara F. L. Kirk

“…Two independent reviewers screened the title, abstract, and full text of the sources. Descriptive analysis was conducted for quantitative data, and content analysis was employed for qualitative data. …”
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International phase 1 study protocol to develop a health state classification system for a preference-based measure for women with breast cancer: the BREAST-Q Utility module by Andrea L Pusic, Stefan J Cano, Anne Klassen, Feng Xie, Manraj Kaur, Louise Bordeleau

“…At the end of each interview, based on each participant’s cancer treatment history, patients will complete the mastectomy, breast-conserving therapy or reconstruction module of BREAST-Q, with modified 5-point Likert scale to measure importance of the BREAST-Q concepts. Both sources of data will be analysed to identify the most important HRQOL concerns.A conceptual framework and item pool will be developed from the qualitative dataset. …”
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Transcriptions of creative ethnoidentity in the Podlesnaya Tavla by Natalya I. Voronina, Irina L. Sirotina

“…The research follows a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach, examining the “Tavlinsky color” in the realm of folk art through cultural paradigms and categories, employing a semiotic framework. The article is based on the principle of systematicity, which determined the selection of relevant research methods (descriptive and explanatory, methods of systemic analysis and comparison in working with ethnographic sources and artifacts). …”
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Anticipatory moral distress in machine learning-based clinical decision support tool development: A qualitative analysis by Clare Whitney, Heidi Preis, Alessa Ramos Vargas

“…The current inquiry applied a framework of the symbolic interaction of participatory experience-based co-design and used an interpretive descriptive approach to analysis of qualitative data, investigating the ethical issues brought to light by clinicians participating in three participatory experience-based co-design focus groups, as a part of the initial development of a CDS tool for detecting risk factors for adverse health outcomes in outpatient obstetric care at a single academically affiliated medical institution. …”
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Designing the outsourcing model in central government organizations by Mahnaz Moradi, Morteza Ghasemi, Maryam Majidi, Gholamreza Amjadi

“…According to the above, the main question of the research is: What is the outsourcing model in the government organizations of Markazi Province? Theoretical Framework Outsourcing Outsourcing can be defined as outside management from the inside, and the transfer of non-strategic processes to the outside of the organization and focusing on the basic processes within the organization, or outsourcing can be defined as the act of finding services from an external source (Gambal et al, 2022). …”
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“We need workable micronutrient data!”: a qualitative study assessing the need for integrated micronutrient data to support evidence-based decisions by Indian food system stakehold... by Rupinder Sahota, Jaswant S. Khokhar, Aakash Deep, Aakash Deep, Katherine P. Adams, Arindam Das, E. Louise Ander, E. Louise Ander, Edward J. M. Joy, Edward J. M. Joy

“…Themes and sub-themes were identified using framework analysis with a deductive approach. Stakeholders emphasized the pressing need for consolidated, harmonized district-level data from health, nutrition, and agriculture sources to better understand the causes and sources of variation in micronutrient deficiencies, and to inform decision-making on supplementation and fortification program planning, and policy evaluation. …”
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What affects the sustainability of a non-timber forest product value chain? A case study of an endemic palm harvested by local communities in Brazil by Ilana Araujo-Santos, Karen A. Kainer, Fernando Grenno, Alexandre Schiavetti

“…These include promoting community-based tourism as a complementary income source. Recognizing and disseminating piassava value chain outcomes as sociobiodiversity products, for example, strengthening legal and commercial frameworks to certify piassava products, or encouraging investment in local processing infrastructure to enhance value addition and market access. …”
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Scope of practice, competencies and impact of advanced practice nurses within APN-led models of care for young and middle-aged adult patients with multimorbidity and/or complex chr... by Reto W Kressig, Gabriele Bales, Wolfgang Hasemann, Hanna Mayer

“…The article outlines the scope of practice (SOP), competencies and impact of APNs in APN-led models of care for this patient group in hospital settings.Objectives Description of the SOP, competencies and impact of APNs within APN-led care models for young and middle-aged adult patients in hospital settings.Design Scoping review based on the methodological framework by Arksey and O’Malley, incorporating the methodological enhancement of Levac and collegues, complying with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines of Tricco and collegues.Data sources Systematic research was conducted in the databases MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL (EBSCO), EMBASE (Ovid), CENTRAL and PsycINFO (Ovid) using all recognised keywords, item terms and search strings, and OpenGrey was scanned until December 2023. …”
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Discursive Strategies of Indirect Apology in English-Language Personal Communication by E. Yu. Ilyinova, O. S. Volkova, V. A. Litvinova

“…In the course of the study, content analysis was applied to state out the subject matter of apologizing and forgiveness statements within the framework of a categorical communicative situation and the subsequent description of their lexical, grammatical, and syntactic peculiarities.Results and discussion. …”
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An assessment of study characteristics, quality and reporting in cancer prehabilitation literature: a scoping review by Caroline Dalton, Robert Copeland, Anna Myers, Samantha Welfare, Thomas Maden-Wilkinson, Liam John Humphreys

“…However, current exercise prehabilitation programmes are under-researched, and the quality of their reporting has not been systematically assessed.Objectives This review aimed to identify the following: the characteristics of prehabilitation exercise programmes; how intensity, physical function, patient-reported outcomes and treatment-related outcomes were measured; the quality of reporting and programme implementation.Eligibility criteria Studies were eligible for inclusion if they reported a cancer prehabilitation exercise intervention, reported outcomes relating to physical function and patient-reported outcomes, and full-text copies were available in English.Sources of evidence PubMed, Mednar and Scopus were screened for studies from inception until 4 of April 2024.Charting methods Exercise characteristics were extracted and manually charted in Microsoft Excel using the Template for Intervention Description and Replication. …”
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Transition shock among nursing students during clinical practice: a scoping review protocol by Miao Zhang, Xue-Li Jia, Shuang-Shuang Ren, Yang-Yang Huang, Pei-Li Shi, Yu Mi, Gui-Yue Zhu

“…The results of this scoping review will be disseminated by means of conference presentations and publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal.Registration Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/2r6jn/).…”
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UAE-Türkiye Relations: Balanced Cooperation (2011-2023) by Mehdi Zibaei

“…The qualitative component uses a descriptive-analytical method to explore episodes of both cooperation and conflict, drawing on content analysis of primary documents. …”
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Bringing together conceptualisations of the health advocacy competence across the continuum of medical education: a scoping review protocol by Dario Cecilio-Fernandes, Maarten F M Engel, Andrea M Woltman, Wilma R W Oosthoek, Lars T van Prooijen, Suzie J Otto

“…Two independent reviewers will independently complete title and abstract screening prior to full-text review of selected articles and data extraction on the final set. A descriptive-analytical approach will be applied for summarising the data.Ethics and dissemination This scoping review does not involve human participants, as all evidence is sourced from publicly available databases. …”
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