Reigniting work engagement through coping for burned-out academics: An open distance learning context by Bronwyn Wright, Linda Steyn, Annelize van Niekerk

“…Research approach/design and method: An interpretive qualitative design was used to explore the diverse experiences of academics. Data from semi-structured interviews with purposively selected academics were analysed using content analysis to extract key themes. …”
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Psychological Needs in Spanish Pregnant Women During the Transition to Motherhood: A Qualitative Study by Patricia Catalá, Cecilia Peñacoba, Carmen Écija, Lorena Gutiérrez, Livia Gomes Viana Meireles

“…Four focus groups were conducted: one with women in the third trimester of pregnancy, one with women in the early postpartum period (0–5 months), one with women in the late postpartum period (6–12 months), and one mixed group. Semi-structured questions guided the discussions, and thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. …”
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Barriers and Facilitators of Weight Management in Pregnancy for Women Overweight and Obese: A Qualitative Research by Elahe Banafshe, Nahid Javadifar2, Zahra Abbaspour, Majid Karandish, Saeed Ghanbari

“…A better understanding of pregnant women’s perceptions and experiences regarding barriers and facilitators of weight management during pregnancy is necessary to develop interventions to prevent excessive GWG among this group.Methods: This qualitative study was conducted with 16 pregnant women having a body mass index (BMI) over 25. Data were collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews and analyzed using conventional qualitative content analysis.Results: The findings of this study were categorized into two main themes: barriers and facilitators of weight management during pregnancy. …”
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Exploring land use conflicts arising from economic activities and their impacts on local communities in the European Arctic by Ivana Živojinović, Jerbelle Elomina, Helga Pülzl, Karen Calanasan, Isidora Dabić, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Sten Siikavuopio, Audun Iversen, Roy Robertsen, Jarle Bjerke, Sigrid Engen, Hans Tommervik, Ragnheidur Bogadóttir, Sara Moioli, Seija Tuulentie, Pasi Rautio, Kristine Lynge-Pedersen, Gun Lidestav, Anna Guðrún Edvardsdòttir, Vigdis Nygaard

“…This study addresses this gap by examining the impacts of economic activities on local communities. Using secondary data and semi-structured interviews from 15 hubs in five European Arctic countries, the study draws on locally relevant insights. …”
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Temporal Dynamics of Functional Connectivity in Temporal and Extra-Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Magnetoencephalography-Based Study by Suhas M.V, N. Mariyappa, Karunakar Kotegar, Ravindranadh Chowdary M, Raghavendra K, Ajay Asranna, Viswanathan L.G, Sanjib Sinha, Anitha H

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Rebuilding lives in Nagaya, a public housing for older victims of the great East Japan earthquake: An interview survey by Naomi Ito, Yurie Kobashi, Yuri Kinoshita, Nobuaki Moriyama, Toshiki Abe, Hiroaki Saito, Isamu Amir, Chika Yamamoto, Mika Sato, Masaharu Tsubokura

“…The current interview survey aimed to report the living conditions of such older victims in Nagaya and accordingly suggest strategies for supporting the older population who experience disasters. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 32 Nagaya residents, who relocated there due to the earthquake, and performed a thematic analysis of the data. …”
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Psychosocial outcomes of risk-adapted prevention for prostate cancer predisposition: study protocol for a longitudinal observational mixed-methods study by Dagmar Wieczorek, Tanja Fehm, Gerald Antoch, Günther Carl, Peter Albers, Andre Karger, Ralf Schäfer, Ulrike Dinger, Maike K Klett, Jale Lakes, Guenter Niegisch, Matthias Boschheidgen, Bernadette Jäger, Silke Redler

“…To assess facilitators and barriers to participation in the risk-adapted PCa prevention clinic, a minimum of n=12 semi-structured qualitative interviews will be conducted, with recruitment continuing until data saturation is reached. …”
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Determinants of Caregivers’ Ability to Accurately Detect Acute Malnutrition Using Color-Coded Mid-Upper Arm Circumference Tape and Pitting Edema by Benson C Singano, Collina A Tchongwe, Numeri C Geresomo, Tinna Ng’ong’ola-Manani, Aaron T Chikakuda, Alfred Ngwira, Stanley Mwase, Elsie Mawala, Benson Kazembe, Emma Budalla, Alexander A Kalimbira

“…Using a cascade model, community health workers (health surveillance assistants, n = 148) from 2 southern districts of Nsanje and Phalombe in Malawi, trained 12,057 caregivers of children aged 6 to 54 months in nutritional screening using color-coded MUAC tapes and pitting edema. Pretested structured questionnaires were used in face-to-face interviews with the caregivers to collect data on their age, marital status, education, district, occupation, and age of the child, which were predictor variables. …”
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Early findings from the integration of hypertension care into differentiated service delivery models for HIV in Uganda: a mixed‐method study by John Baptist Kiggundu, Fred C. Semitala, Chelsea Faith Lipoto, Lilian Giibwa, Robert Twine, Savio Mwaka, Florence Ayebare, Christine Kiwala, Evelyn N. Magambo, Gerald Mutungi, Isaac Ssinabulya, Donna Spiegelman, James Kayima, Martin Muddu, Jeremy I. Schwartz, Anne R. Katahoire, Chris T. Longenecker

“…Additionally, structured interviews were conducted at two clinics with HCPs (n = 6, 3 per clinic) and PLHIV with hypertension (n = 8, 4 per clinic). …”
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Prevalence and Correlates of Behavioural Risk Factors for Non‐Communicable Diseases Among Allied Health Undergraduate Students in Ghana: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Margaret Atuahene, Frank Quarshie, Francis Kwaku Nyasem, Daniel Eshun, Philip Narteh Gorleku, Pamela Achiaa Addai, Maurice Ofoe Gorleku, Martin Owusu Asante, Joseph Otchere, Prince Aubin

“…Methods This was a cross‐sectional study that used a pretested and structured questionnaire to collect data from 228 participants. …”
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Delivery of care in high mortality hospital settings: a direct observational study examining 1848 h of neonatal nursing in KenyaResearch in context by Abdulazeez Imam, Michuki Maina, Jalemba Aluvaala, Vincent Kagonya, Onesmus Onyango, Fredrick Were, Sebastian Fuller, Kenneth Karumba, Mike English, David Gathara, Peter Mwangi, Lucy Kinyua, Lydia Thuranira, Virginia Njoroge, Ngina Mwangi, Loise Mwangi, Penina Musyoka, Zainab Kioni

“…We excluded babies who were so severely ill that they were at risk of imminent death or transfer to a critical care facility and babies with congenital anomalies and surgical conditions. We used a structured observation checklist that had undergone content and face-validity testing in Kenya to collect workload and nursing care provision data. …”
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Strategies for implementing long‐acting cabotegravir for PrEP in US clinics serving Black women: interim healthcare provider findings from the EBONI study by Katherine L. Nelson, Tammeka Evans Cooper, Yolanda Lawson, Dylan Baker, Satish Mocherla, Megan Dieterich, Theo Hodge, Alftan Dyson, Denise Sutherland‐Philips, Heidi Swygard, Lisa Petty, Peter Jeffery, Kenneth Sutton, Courtney Peasant Bonner, Sara M. Andrews, Samantha Chang, Piotr Budnik, Kimberly Smith, Annemiek deRuiter, Maggie Czarnogorski, Nanlesta Pilgrim

“…Methods From August 2022 to June 2024, through quantitative surveys (prior to implementation [baseline] and Month 4 [M4]) and/or structured qualitative interviews (M4), HCPs provided their perceptions and experiences of integrating CAB LA in their clinical settings that served Black cis‐and‐trans women. …”
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Deep learning-based object detection and robotic arm grasping by ZHANG Lei, ZHANG Senhui, YAN Song, YUAN Yuan

“…Firstly, considering the interference present in unstructured environments, RGB-D images were selected as the input data for the grasping network, and GG-CNN was chosen as the backbone network. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Flood Evolution in Pangtoupao Flood Storage Area Based on Two-Dimensional Shallow Water Equation by SUN Zhenyu, ZHOU Yunhao, ZHANG Qinxu, QIN Mengen, ZHANG Mingliang

“…The model had the advantages of adopting unstructured triangular mesh, which could better fit irregular boundaries, and it adopted GPU heterogeneous parallel technology, which effectively solved the problem of slow computation speed of an unstructured network. …”
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Factors influencing livestock ownership and herd intensity among smallholder farmers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa by Jabulile Z. Manyike, Amon Taruvinga, Leocadia Zhou

“…A cross-sectional approach was employed, using a multi-stage sampling method to survey 600 smallholder farmers, 495 of whom were engaged in livestock production. Data were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire and analysed using a double hurdle model. …”
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A carbon-centric evaluation framework for building-integrated agriculture: a comparison of three farm types and building standards by Mohamed Imam, Alesandros Glaros, Cheney Chen, Ajwal Dsouza, Amy Brander, Robert Ferguson

“…This work introduces a structured methodology for cross-industry data integration and offers actionable insights for designers, growers and developers. …”
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Using a Mobile Health App (ColonClean) to Enhance the Effectiveness of Bowel Preparation: Development and Usability Study by Hui-Yu Chen, Ming-Hsiang Tu, Miao-Yen Chen

“…MethodsThis study uses a structured questionnaire to assess perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and users’ attitudes and behaviors toward BP regarding the ColonClean mHealth app. …”
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An Innovative Technique of Microsurgical Training on Fresh “Chicken Quarter” Model: Our Experience by Sumanjit S. Boro, Anil K. Mathew, Anchit Kumar

“…The microsurgical skills of the trainee were assessed in 6 months intervals using the Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills Scale (OSATS) as well as the time taken for anastomosis. …”
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The Impact of Care Upon Alzheimer Patient’s Family Caregiver in Sulaimani City by Farida Abdulqadir Tahir

“…The instrument was designed and constructed by the researcher through an intensive review of the literature and also through a series of meeting survey with caregivers in order to measure the variables underlying the present study. The data were obtained by the researcher, who interviewed families, structured questionnaire forms filled out with a total of 100 families. …”
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Healthcare disparities in gynecological health services for women with disabilities: a cross-sectional study from Iraq by Zainab Abdul Ameer Jaafar, Dina Akeel Salman, Reshed Zeki Obeid, Zaynab Alshaybi

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted with 69 women with disabilities in Iraq. Data were collected through structured interviews regarding demographics, reproductive health background, and access to health care. …”
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