COVID-19 information sources, knowledge, attitude and control practices among community members during the pandemic in Ebonyi state, Nigeria: an analytical cross-sectional study by Ugwu I Omale, Osarhiemen Iyare, Richard L Ewah, Chidinma I Amuzie, Onyinyechukwu U Oka, Victor U Uduma, Azuka S Adeke, Cordis O Ikegwuonu, Olaedo O Nnachi, Okechukwu O Ukpabi, Ifeyinwa M Okeke, Glory E Nkwo, Ugochi I A Nwali

“…This study aimed to further the understanding of COVID-19 information sources, knowledge, attitude and control practices and their predictors among community members in Ebonyi state, Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design Analytical cross-sectional survey.Setting and participants We conducted a survey among all consenting/assenting community members aged 15 years and above in 28 randomly selected geographical clusters between 12 March and 9 May 2022. Data were collected through a structured, interviewer-administered questionnaire using KoBoCollect installed in Android devices.Analysis Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were done, including multivariate generalised estimating equations.Results 10 825 participants were surveyed. …”
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Caracterização clínica dos pacientes sob ventilação mecânica internados em unidade de terapia intensiva / Clinical characterization of patients under mechanical ventilatio... by Camila Llima Ribeiro, Islene Victor Barbosa, Renata Saraiva Martins da Silva, Virna Ribeiro Feitosa Cestari, Kiarelle Lourenço Penaforte, Ires Lopes Custódio

“…Methods: A cross - sectional and quantitative study with a sample of 90 patients admitted to a referral hospital for cardiopulmonary diseases, located in the city of Fortaleza / Ceará. Data collection conducted in October 2016 through a structured instrument. …”
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A atuação do enfermeiro em comissão intra-hospitalar de doação de órgãos e tecidos [The role of nurses in the intra-hospitalar organ and tissue donation commission] [El papel de la... by Fernando Dalmaso Tolfo, Silviamar Camponogara, Maria José López Montesinos, Carmem Lúcia Colomé Beck, Suzinara Beatriz Soares de Lima, Gisele Loise Dias

“…Method: in this qualitative study conducted in five hospitals in a metropolitan region of south Brazil, data were collected by semi structured interviews of 12 nurses, and treated using thematic content analysis. …”
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Comunicação entre a equipe de enfermagem e pessoas com deficiência auditiva [Communication between nursing team and people with hearing impairment] by Thayana Rose de Araújo Dantas, Thayris Mariano Gomes, Tatiana Ferreira da Costa, Thalita Rodrigues de Azevedo, Silmery da Silva Brito, Kátia Nêyla de Freitas Macedo Costa

“…ABSTRACT This descriptive, quantitative study examined communication between the nursing team and people with hearing impairment at a hospital school in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. Data were collected between August 2011 and January 2012 through semi-structured interviews of 23 nurses and 21 nursing technicians, and analyzed using content analysis as a frame of reference. …”
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Unraveling fishers' perceptions: Impact of mining on fish yield and diversity in Mwenga, South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by Dieudonné Shukuru Wasso, Daud Kassam, Adolphe Kwakanaba Mweze, Socrate Kamani Tungidi, Emmanuel Tulinabo Ahanyirwe, Christian Masumbuko Baraka, Rodrigue Balthazar Basengere Ayagirwe

“…A cross-sectional survey involving 75 randomly selected fishers was conducted, and data were collected through structured questionnaires. …”
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Percepções de urgência e emergência pediátrica entre quilombolas: uma abordagem à luz de Leininger [Quilombo women’s perceptions of acute and emergency pediatric care: a... by Samylla Maira Costa Siqueira, Viviane Silva de Jesus, Lorena Fernanda Nascimento Santos, Juliana Pedra de Oliveira Muniz, Elane Nayara Batista dos Santos, Climene Laura de Camargo

“…Method: in this qualitative study of 12 mothers in a quilombola community in Salvador-Bahia, data were collected by semi-structured interview from December 2013 to June 2014, and analyzed on Madeleine Leininger’s Theory of Transcultural Care. …”
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Measuring Faculty Excellence: Introducing a Model by Anoush Dehnadi Moghadam

“…There are various criteria for this evaluation, which generally focus more on research performance, while the main objective of hiring faculty members has been the development of education. The common structure of academic scoring,  rewarding  research  More than teaching (4). …”
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Natural Product Identification and Molecular Docking Studies of Leishmania Major Pteridine Reductase Inhibitors by Moses N. Arthur, George Hanson, Emmanuel Broni, Patrick O. Sakyi, Henrietta Mensah-Brown, Whelton A. Miller, Samuel K. Kwofie

“…A library of 1463 natural compounds from AfroDb and NANPDB, prefiltered based on Lipinski’s rules, was used to screen against the LmPTR1 target. The X-ray structure of LmPTR1 complexed with NADP and dihydrobiopterin (Protein Data Bank ID: 1E92) was identified to contain the critical residues Arg17, Leu18, Ser111, Phe113, Pro224, Gly225, Ser227, Leu229, and Val230 including the triad of residues Asp181-Tyr194-Lys198, which are critical for the catalytic process involving the reduction of dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate. …”
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Caracterização clínica dos pacientes sob ventilação mecânica internados em unidade de terapia intensiva / Clinical characterization of patients under mechanical ventilatio... by Camila Llima Ribeiro, Islene Victor Barbosa, Renata Saraiva Martins da Silva, Virna Ribeiro Feitosa Cestari, Kiarelle Lourenço Penaforte, Ires Lopes Custódio

“…Methods: A cross - sectional and quantitative study with a sample of 90 patients admitted to a referral hospital for cardiopulmonary diseases, located in the city of Fortaleza / Ceará. Data collection conducted in October 2016 through a structured instrument. …”
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A Dual-Band Multi-Linear Polarization Reconfigurable Antenna for Body-Centric Wireless Communication Systems by Dingzhao Chen, Foxiang Liu, Xuexuan Ruan, Yanhui Liu

“…A dual-line isolation structure is introduced to suppress mutual coupling between radiating units, ensuring cross-polarization levels (XPLs) better than <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>15.0</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> dB across the operation bands. …”
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Comparative efficacy and acceptability of psychosocial interventions for individuals with cocaine and amphetamine addiction: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. by Franco De Crescenzo, Marco Ciabattini, Gian Loreto D'Alò, Riccardo De Giorgi, Cinzia Del Giovane, Carolina Cassar, Luigi Janiri, Nicolas Clark, Michael Joshua Ostacher, Andrea Cipriani, Andrea Cipriani

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We searched published and unpublished randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing any structured psychosocial intervention against an active control or treatment as usual (TAU) for the treatment of cocaine and/or amphetamine addiction in adults. …”
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Caracterização clínica dos pacientes sob ventilação mecânica internados em unidade de terapia intensiva / Clinical characterization of patients under mechanical ventilatio... by Camila Llima Ribeiro, Islene Victor Barbosa, Renata Saraiva Martins da Silva, Virna Ribeiro Feitosa Cestari, Kiarelle Lourenço Penaforte, Ires Lopes Custódio

“…Methods: A cross - sectional and quantitative study with a sample of 90 patients admitted to a referral hospital for cardiopulmonary diseases, located in the city of Fortaleza / Ceará. Data collection conducted in October 2016 through a structured instrument. …”
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Epidemiology and likelihood of asymptomatic malaria among community dwellers in the Fanteakwa south district of Ghana by Enoch Aninagyei, David Adedia, Gifty Larbi, Stella Omane Acheampong, Margaret Nyarko, George Abeiku Abbew, Isaac Tuwarlba, Desmond Omane Acheampong

“…Background: Data on the asymptomatic burden of malaria in endemic areas is essential for Ghana's malaria elimination efforts. …”
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Integrated Psychosocial Care in Intensive Care (IPS-Pilot): Protocol for the Systematic, Multimethod Development of a Complex Intervention (Phase A) by Sophie Felicitas Nickel, Simone Korger, Wencke Schindler, Heike Heytens, Gironimo Krieg, Karl-Philipp Drewitz, Katrin Schürmann, Leon Schössow, Julianna Gehrig, Marius Binneböse, Christian Hirning, Klaus Hönig, Rolf Konstantin Niessen, Julia Kirschbaum, Laurence Erdur, Sophie Peter, Florian Junne, Matthias Rose, Christian Apfelbacher, Harald Gündel

“…A separate protocol for phase B will be published later. MethodsA structured, multimethod approach was used to gather evidence from the target groups mentioned above on the needs, expected benefits, and necessary conditions for implementation. …”
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Gambaran Antropometri pada Penyakit Jantung Bawaan di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang Tahun 2010 -2013 by Muhammad Nadirsyah, Didik Haryanto, M. Setia Budi Zein

“…Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian  retrospektif deskriptif dengan metode <em>total sampling</em> data rekam medis pasien PJB. Hasil penelitian ini mendapatkan  51 sampel. …”
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Continuity of care in lumbar disc herniation: a systematic review and meta-analysis providing a deeper look into postoperative efficacy by Ying Lin, Ying Lin, Qiaoling Chen, Qiaoling Chen, RouMei Wang, Bing Zhang, Bing Zhang, Rui Huang, Yiguang Bai, Yiguang Bai

“…A meta-analysis was performed using both fixed-effects and random-effects models based on heterogeneity assessment. We analyzed the data using R software version 4.2.2 and Stata software version 15.1. …”
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Challenges of integrating HIV prevention and treatment in China's border mountain regions: a grounded theory study by Sixian Du, Haoran Niu, Feng Jiang, Liwen Gong, Shan Zheng, Qi Cui, Xu Yang, Jiayan He, Rongcai Dai, Qilian Luo, Yiqing Yang

“…To capture multi-level insights, semi-structured interviews were conducted between August and December 2024 with 23 purposively selected participants, including individuals living with HIV, village doctors, healthcare providers, and local policymakers. …”
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Learning strategies in nursing sciences: Analysis of gender disparities in a Moroccan educational context by K. Ait Moussa, S. Selmaoui, N. Ouzennou

“…Results: The findings indicate an overall homogeneity between genders in the use of cognitive, metacognitive, and affective tools, with a statistically significant but weak difference in the “Structuring-Reorganization” dimension (p = 0.044, small effect size). …”
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Pooled prevalence and associated factors of chronic undernutrition among under-five children in East Africa: A multilevel analysis. by Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Yigizie Yeshaw, Misganaw Gebrie Worku, Zemenu Tadesse Tessema, Achamyeleh Birhanu Teshale

“…Mixed-effect logistic regression analysis was used to identify significant factors associated with chronic undernutrition since the DHS data has a hierarchical structure. The intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC), Median Odds Ratio (MOR), Likelihood Ratio (LR)-test, and deviance was used for model comparison. …”
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Co-Designing, Developing, and Testing a Mental Health Platform for Young People Using a Participatory Design Methodology in Colombia: Mixed Methods Study by Laura Ospina-Pinillos, Débora L Shambo-Rodríguez, Mónica Natalí Sánchez-Nítola, Alexandra Morales, Laura C Gallego-Sanchez, María Isabel Riaño-Fonseca, Andrea Carolina Bello-Tocancipá, Alvaro Navarro-Mancilla, Jaime A Pavlich-Mariscal, Alexandra Pomares-Quimbaya, Carlos Gómez-Restrepo, Ian B Hickie, Jo-An Occhipinti

“…MethodsThis study used a mixed methods approach within a structured research and development cycle. To ensure a user-centered design, we began with a series of co-design workshops, where stakeholders collaboratively identified key user needs. …”
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