Bio-sociological and clinical factors of chronic pain and pain interference in patients undergoing hemodialysis: a cross-sectional study by Fatima Z. Bouchachi, Nadia AL Wachami, Younes Iderdar, Maryem Arraji, Abdeljalil Elgot, Mohamed Chahboune

“…A total of 307 patients participated in the study. Data collection was based on a structured questionnaire with sociodemographic, clinical, and dialysis variables. …”
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Why do young people choose nursing as their future profession? – a qualitative study on polish nursing students’ motivating factors to apply to nursing and work in the profession a... by Artur Chmielewski, Piotr Przymuszała, Ryszard Marciniak

“…Methods Thirty semi-structured interviews were conducted with nursing students from Poznan University of Medical Sciences (Poland) on this matter, and the obtained data were subjected to thematic analysis performed by two researchers. …”
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Epidemiology of age-related macular degeneration among elderly in geriatric homes, East Cairo, Egypt by Dina Hussien Edarous, Hoda I. Fahim, Mohamed Momen, Ashraf Abd El-Salam Shaat, Ayat F. Manzour

“…Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on 283 elderly people in thirty geriatric homes in East Cairo. Data was collected using a structured interview questionnaire, and fundus examination for diagnosis. …”
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Leverage points to improve smoking cessation treatment in a large tertiary care hospital: a systems-based mixed methods study by Alex T Ramsey, Donna Prentice, Ellis Ballard, Li-Shiun Chen, Laura J Bierut

“…Leverage points included interventions to reduce withdrawal symptoms, and action ideas included nurse-driven protocols for timely administration of nicotine replacement therapy. Quantitative data corroborated system insights; for instance, 80% of providers reported that patients frequently leave the floor to smoke, leading to safety risks, missed assessments and inefficient use of staff time. …”
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Enhancing Efficiency: The Impact of Cloud Computing Adoption on Small and Medium Enterprises Performance by Reem A. Abdalla, T. Ramayah, Jayendira P. Sankar, Lamya A. Hidaytalla, Jeena Ann John

“…Path coefficients, standard errors, t-values, and p-values were used to evaluate the structural model using 10,000-sample bootstrapping. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of anemia among pregnant women attending maternal and child health clinics at Sukuta Health Center, The Gambia: An institutional-based cross-sectional s... by Fatou Mbowe, Kalifa Sanneh Darboe, Abdoulie M. Sanyang, Amadou Barrow

“…Methods: An analytical institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 425 pregnant women attending antenatal care. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire covering sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge of anemia, and anemia prevention practices. …”
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Voices from the clinic: a qualitative analysis of physiotherapy strategies in musculoskeletal care for knee osteoarthritis patients by Jennifer Nguyen, Justine M. Naylor, Sarah Dennis, Rebecca Livings, Kathryn Mills, Siobhan M. Schabrun, Jeanette M. Thom

“…Methods We invited thirty-three physiotherapists from nine private practices in metropolitan Sydney to partake in a semi-structured interview. The interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim. …”
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Increased cardiovascular risk and reduced quality of life are highly prevalent among individuals with hepatitis C by Preya Patel, Matthew Campbell, Shion Gosrani, Sarah Hogg, Aaron Wetten, Rachael Welton, Kate Hallsworth

“…A ‘care bundle’ was developed to provide a structured approach to treating potentially modifiable health problems.…”
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Cognitive analysis of conceptual metaphor and its types in discourse of Shahrnūsh Pārsipur’s The Dog and the Long Winter based on the theory of Fauconnier and Turner by Parvin Gholamhosseini, Parastoo Karimi, Hamidreza Ghanooni, Jahangir Safari

“…The current research is a theoretical in the sense that it is library-based and the data is investigate via the descriptive-analytical method. …”
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Influence of traditionality and modernity on public breastfeeding behaviors: a theory of planned behavior approach by Lin Cheng, Wen-Chi Wu, Yihjin Jin Hu, Chih Chien Cheng

“…Validated instruments measured traditionality, modernity, TPB constructs (attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intention), and frequency of public breastfeeding. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, bivariate correlations, and structural equation modeling. …”
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In the digital landscape: Can social media marketing activities boost brand loyalty in the Jordanian hospitality sector? by Muneer Alrwashdeh, Nesrin Almatarneh, Lu’ay Al-Mu’ani, Ayman Hindieh

“…The study adopted a quantitative design, employing a descriptive correlational approach to examine the relationship between study variables. Data were collected from June 1, 2024, to September 30, 2024, using a structured online questionnaire from guests of five-star hotels in Jordan, in Amman. …”
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Development of a work systems stress questionnaire to predict job burnout: A mixed methods study based on a macroergonomics approach by Rahman Zare, Reza Kazemi, Alireza Choobineh, Rosanna Cousins, Andrew Smith, Hamidreza Mokarami

“…Decision Latitude, Welfare and Financial Facilities, Task Significance, and Structural Problems predicted Personal Accomplishment and explained 26 % variance. …”
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Research progress and prospect of coal seam blasting antireflection technology in China by Zegong LIU, Guodong QIAO, Jian LIU, Kui GAO

“…Therefore, future development trends and prospects of coal seam blasting permeability enhancement technology are proposed: in deep structural areas of coal seams, precise directional blasting technology should be developed to enhance permeability accurately while avoiding deep-seated secondary coal-rock dynamic disasters; for permeability enhancement in soft and low-permeability coal seams, traditional borehole layout techniques should be revised, and blasting holes should be constructed within roof and floor strata, promoting strata blasting permeability enhancement technology; in intelligent blasting permeability enhancement, integration with artificial intelligence and big data analysis methods should be pursued, focusing on intelligent design of blasting schemes and evaluation of blasting effects, thereby further advancing coal seam blasting permeability enhancement technology in alignment with China’s direction towards safe and intelligent coal mining development.…”
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Predictors of stillbirth among women who had given birth in Southern Ethiopia, 2020: A case-control study. by Haimanot Abebe, Solomon Shitu, Haile Workye, Ayenew Mose

“…Data were entered into Epi Info 7 and exported to SPSS 23 for analysis. …”
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Effect of simulated gastric acid on the mechanical properties of conventional and polypropylene mesh reinforced poly methyl methacrylate denture base resin by Abhinaya Bollepalli, Anitha Kuttae Viswanathan, Muthukumar Balasubramaniam

“…Statistical Analysis Used: The data were statistically analyzed using ANOVA and independent t-test set at a significance level of P-values less than 0.05. …”
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Development of a national Distress Brief Intervention: a multi-agency service to provide connected, compassionate support for people in distress by Ambrose J. Melson, Karen Wetherall, Kevin O’Neill, Margaret Maxwell, Eileen Calveley, Martin McCoy, Rory C. O’Connor

“…Methods The six step Intervention Mapping protocol was used to account for the complexity of the intervention and to guide development, testing and implementation. Data/information sources comprised: literature and evidence review; delivery partner and stakeholder consultations (n = 19); semi-structured interviews and/or focus-groups with frontline services staff experienced in responding to distress (n = 8); interviews and/or focus groups with adults with experience of distress (n = 9); feedback from test training for staff (n = 16); self-assessed confidence ratings provided by staff immediately before and following training (n = 388). …”
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Assessment of dietary intake and its determinants in adult patients on anti-tubercular treatment in Aligarh, India: a cross sectional study by S Danish Iqbaal, M Athar Ansari, Ali Jafar Abedi, Saira Mehnaz, Mohd Yasir Zubair, Shahnawaz Ahmad

“…Adult TB patients undergoing treatment between the ages of 18 to 60 years were enrolled. A semi-structured questionnaire was used as a study tool. The 24-hour recall method was used for eliciting dietary intake as it had less recall bias. …”
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Clinical and ultrasonographic features of 104 knee joints in hemodialysis patients: impact of age, gender, and hemodialysis duration: a descriptive cross-sectional study by Samar Tharwat, Marwa Saleh, Rabab Elrefaey, Mona Kamal Nassar, Mohammed Kamal Nassar

“…Typically, the severity of suprapatellar effusion is related to additional structural abnormalities.…”
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UAV-OVD: Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in UAV Imagery via Multi-Level Text-Guided Decoding by Lijie Tao, Guoting Wei, Zhuo Wang, Zhaoshuai Qi, Ying Li, Haokui Zhang

“…Finally, from the data perspective, we enrich the original dataset with synonym-augmented category labels, enabling more flexible and semantically expressive supervision. …”
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Relationships between leisure participation, leisure constraints, and quality of life among individuals with lower-limb amputations in South Africa by Adri I. Visser, Mariette Swanepoel, Marike Cockeran, Cindy Kriel

“…Results: Weak to moderate relationships were found between leisure participation and constraints (interpersonal: τb = –0.01, p = 0.402; structural: τb = –0.21, p = 0.072). Moderate positive associations emerged between leisure participation and QoL in the disability module (τb = 0.21, p = 0.073), physical domain (τb = 0.20, p = 0.088) and environment domain (τb = 0.20, p = 0.091). …”
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