Social Determinants of Health Screening Tools for Adults in Primary Care: Protocol for a Scoping Review by Julia Martínez-Alfonso, Fernando Sebastian-Valles, Vicente Martinez-Vizcaino, Nuria Jimenez-Olivas, Antonio Cabrera-Majada, Iván De los Mozos-Hernando, Shkelzen Cekrezi, Héctor Martínez-Martínez, Arthur Eumann Mesas

“…In addition, the following sources will also be searched for gray literature: DART-Europe E-thesis Portal, OpenGrey, and Google Scholar. …”
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Cervical ripening at home or in hospital during induction of labour: the CHOICE prospective cohort study, process evaluation and economic analysis by Mairead Black, Cassandra Yuill, Mairi Harkness, Sayem Ahmed, Linda Williams, Kathleen A Boyd, Maggie Reid, Amar Bhide, Neelam Heera, Jane Huddleston, Neena Modi, John Norrie, Dharmintra Pasupathy, Julia Sanders, Gordon C S Smith, Rosemary Townsend, Helen Cheyne, Christine McCourt, Sarah Stock

“…Survey data were reported using descriptive statistics and qualitative data were analysed using a thematic framework. …”
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Co-designing and testing the learn together guidance to support patient and family involvement in patient safety investigations: a mixed-methods study by Jane O’Hara, Lauren Ramsey, Siobhan McHugh, Joseph Langley, Justin Waring, Ruth Simms-Ellis, Gemma Louch, Jenni Murray, Carl Macrae, John Baker, Rebecca Lawton, Daisy Halligan, Olivia Rogerson, Penny Phillips, Debra Hazeldine, Sarah Seddon, Joanne Hughes, Rebecca Partridge, Katherine Ludwin, Laura Sheard

“…The inductive analysis phase involved creating short descriptive reports for each of the previous three studies. …”
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EcoptiAI: E-Commerce Process Optimization and Operational Cost Minimization Through Task Automation Using Agentic AI by Olivia-Roxana Alecsoiu, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, Andreea Anamaria Panagoret, Ceausescu Aurelian Ionut, Dragos Mihai Panagoret, Rares-Vladimir Nitu, Miruna Angela Mutu

“…This paper introduces EcoptiAI, an agentic AI-powered framework leveraging a transformer-based model as an intelligent agent to automate essential e-commerce processes. …”
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Zika Virus Infection as a Cause of Congenital Brain Abnormalities and Guillain-Barré Syndrome: Systematic Review. by Fabienne Krauer, Maurane Riesen, Ludovic Reveiz, Olufemi T Oladapo, Ruth Martínez-Vega, Teegwendé V Porgo, Anina Haefliger, Nathalie J Broutet, Nicola Low, WHO Zika Causality Working Group

“…We searched multiple online sources up to May 30, 2016 to find studies that directly addressed either outcome and any causality dimension, used methods to expedite study selection, data extraction, and quality assessment, and summarised evidence descriptively. …”
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Harm reduction for perinatal cannabis use: protocol for a scoping review of clinical practices by A Rani Elwy, Andrew Creamer, Ariana M. Albanese, Aden Littlewood, Brooke Rogers

“…Additional grey literature sources include clinical trials, preprints and conference proceedings that were not excluded from the database search results. …”
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Opportunities and practices supporting responsive health care for forced migrants: lessons from transnational practice and a mixed-methods systematic review by Amy Robinson, Protus Musotsi, Ziaur Rahman A Khan, Laura Nellums, Bayan Faiq, Kofi Broadhurst, Gisela Renolds, Michael Pritchard, Andrew Smith

“…We ‘qualitised’ relevant quantitative data by translating these findings into textual descriptions. These findings were pooled with the textual summaries of qualitative findings and examined and categorised through a framework synthesis approach to data analysis. …”
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How lived experiences of illness trajectories, burdens of treatment, and social inequalities shape service user and caregiver participation in health and social care: a theory-info... by Carl R May, Katja C Gravenhorst, Alyson Hillis, Mick Arber, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Katie I Gallacher, Frances S Mair, Ellen Nolte, Alison Richardson

“…No papers with an explicit social care focus were discovered for brain cancer, bipolar disorder and inflammatory bowel disease. Most studies were descriptive, and samples and methods were often poorly described. …”
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Analysis of the Causes of Urban Sprawl in Iran by keramatollah Ziari, Saeed Zanganeh Shahraki, Negin Rajabzadeh, Mohsen Abbas Nejad Jelogir

“…The study employed a qualitative and descriptive-analytical approach, utilizing document-based data collection methods. …”
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flexZhouse by Mohd Zairul

“…A series of focus groups and other data sources showed that the need for housing customization is high and widely acknowledged by the target group. …”
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of detailed anomaly ultrasound screening in the first trimester: a mixed-methods study by Jehan N Karim, Helen Campbell, Pranav Pandya, Edward C F Wilson, Zarko Alfirevic, Trish Chudleigh, Elizabeth Duff, Jane Fisher, Hilary Goodman, Lisa Hinton, Christos Ioannou, Edmund Juszczak, Louise Linsell, Heather L Longworth, Kypros H Nicolaides, Anne Rhodes, Gordon Smith, Basky Thilaganathan, Jim Thornton, Gillian Yaz, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Aris T Papageorghiou

“…Future work Focus on developing an implementation framework to modify the current United Kingdom Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme. …”
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Behaviour change interventions to promote physical activity in people with intermittent claudication: the OPTIMA systematic review by Ukachukwu O Abaraogu, Philippa Dall, Chris Seenan, Sarah Rhodes, Trish Gorely, Joanna McParland, Julie Brittenden, Ebuka M Anieto, Lorna Booth, Cathy Gormal, Jeremy Dearling, Candida Fenton, Sarah Audsley, Kimberley Fairer, Lindsay Bearne, Dawn A Skelton

“…Intervention content was coded using the BCT Taxonomy version 1, and the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF). Data extraction, risk of bias assessment and intervention coding were completed by two independent reviewers. …”
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Interventions to improve mental health and well-being in care-experienced children and young people aged less than 25: the CHIMES systematic review by Rhiannon Evans, Sarah MacDonald, Robert Trubey, Jane Noyes, Michael Robling, Simone Willis, Soo Vinnicombe, Maria Boffey, Charlotte Wooders, Asmaa El-Banna, GJ Melendez-Torres

“…Rich process evaluations were synthesised with framework synthesis. Thin-process evaluations, usually integrated with outcome evaluations, were descriptively summarised. …”
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Understanding the effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of lifestyle modification interventions in adults with learning disabilities: a mixed-methods systematic review by Dikshyanta Rana, Sophie Westrop, Nishant Jaiswal, Evi Germeni, Arlene McGarty, Louisa Ells, Phillippa Lally, Michael McEwan, Craig Melville, Leanne Harris, Olivia Wu

“…These were uploaded to NVivo, and a coding framework was developed. After this was finalised through iterative discussions between two researchers, the remaining studies were uploaded, and the coding framework was applied. …”
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The implementation of Safety Management Systems in healthcare: a systematic review and international comparison by Zhivko Zhelev, Sian de Bell, Alison Bethel, Maria Clarke, Rob Anderson, Jo Thompson Coon

“…We summarised and mapped included evidence onto an initial framework based on analysis of safety management systems in high-risk industries. …”
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Improving older people’s experiences and safety at transitions of care: the PACT mixed-methods study including RCT by Jenni Murray, Ruth Baxter, Jane O’Hara, Laura Sheard, Catherine Hewitt, Natasha Hardicre, Charles Vincent, Eirini Oikonomou, Gerry Richardson, Rosie Shannon, Kalpita Baird, Stephen Brealey, Robbie Foy, Laura Mandefield, Sarah Hampton, Ed Breckin, Lubena Mirza, Alfredo Palacios, Sally Moore, Jayne Marran, Jacqui Elliot, Jane Schofield, Alison Cracknell, Beth Woods, Sarah Cockayne, Thomas Mills, Yvonne Birks, Olivia Joseph, Rebecca Lawton

“…All other data were summarised descriptively. Fidelity data collection and analysis We used the modified Conceptual Framework for Implementation to underpin frame fidelity assessment. …”
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Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery, edited by Constante González Groba, Ewa Barbara Luczak and Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis (Routledge, 2023) by Vanesa Lado-Pazos

“… The review offers a critical description and assessment of the main contents, theoretical frameworks and primary sources analyzed in the monograph Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacies of Plantation Slavery  (2023) authored by Constante González Groba, Ewa Barbara Luczak and Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis. …”
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Issues of Developing the Socio-Philosophical Foundations of the Educational Space by Yu. Zhang, S. N. Tsaplin, I. V. Yakovleva

“…This need requires clarifying how and in what way, with the help of rational philosophical thought, it is possible and necessary to develop a methodology that unites the categorical apparatus of numerous educational systems.Methodology and sources. The description of the unified categorical foundations of the educational space is carried out in the ontological, epistemological and axiological content of the priorities represented by the modern educational space.Results and discussion. …”
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Culture and Social Movements in the Post-Apartheid South Africa by Özgür Yılmaz

“…This method focuses on the lived experiences and societal impacts of these movements, revealing how cultural symbols, narratives, religious frameworks, sports, media, and identity have shaped and sustained the struggles for justice and equality. …”
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Implementation and effectiveness of transgender stigma reduction interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review by Patience A. Muwanguzi, Paul K. Otiku, Racheal Nabunya, Blessings Gausi

“…Second, while two studies incorporated conceptual frameworks, they did not show how the frameworks guided the study. …”
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