Formative Evaluation of Suicide Prevention Websites for Men: Qualitative Study with Men at Risk of Suicide and with Potential Gatekeepers by Doreen Reifegerste, Anna J M Wagner, Lisa Huber, Manuel Fastuca

“…The focus group sample was equally distributed regarding gender and age. Recruitment was conducted together with a field research partner who posted adverts on Facebook and Instagram (Meta) to reach as many potential participants as possible in an efficient way. …”
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Effectiveness of a Four-Stage Death Education Model Based on Constructivist Learning Theory for Trainee Nursing Students by Yang Y, Li Y, Fu J, Guo D, Xue J

“…Yujing Yang,1,* Yue Li,2,* Jia Fu,3 Dan Guo,4 Jingjing Xue1 1Fundamental Nursing Teaching- Research Department, Fenyang College of Shanxi Medical University, Fenyang City, Shanxi Province, 032200, People’s Republic of China; 2Academic Affairs Office, Fenyang College of Shanxi Medical University, Fenyang City, Shanxi Province, 032200, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanxi Cancer Hospital, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, 030013, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Research and Teaching, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation 731 Hospital, Beijing City, 100074, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Yujing Yang, Fundamental Nursing Teaching- Research Department, Fenyang College of Shanxi Medical University, No. 16 Xueyuan Road, Fenyang City, Shanxi Province, 032200, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 18335846366, Email yangyj2024yj@163.comObjective: To explore the effectiveness of the four-step death education model based on constructivist learning theory in enhancing the death coping abilities and attitudes of trainee nurses and improving course satisfaction.Methods: Sixty-six trainee nurses from a tumour hospital in Shanxi Province were selected as the study subjects, and a class-experimental research design was adopted, in which the nursing students before the course implementation were taken as the control group and those after the course implementation were taken as the experimental group. …”
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Harnessing Research Pressure: A Dual Chain Mediation Effects of Achievement Motivation and Research Anxiety on Innovative Behavior Under Challenge-Hindrance Research Stressors by Ma J, Hu L

“…Grounded in the cognitive transactional theory of stress and adopting a “perception → psychology → behavior” research framework, this study develops a dual chain mediation model to explain the association between challenge-hindrance research stressors and researchers’ innovative behavior.Patients and Methods: A two-wave survey was conducted, collecting 887 valid responses from researchers across 30 provinces in China. …”
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Evaluation of Virtual Learning Environment of Medical Students Using Distance Education Learning Environment Survey Questionnaire at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences by Mohammadali Mohammadi, Majid Khadem-Rezaiyan, Masoud youssefi, Maryam Alinezhad Namaghi

“…Sampling was conducted using a multi-stage method. Initially, students were chosen from different educational levels (basic science, physiopathology, externship, and internship). …”
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Efficient Detection of Stigmatizing Language in Electronic Health Records via In-Context Learning: Comparative Analysis and Validation Study by Hongbo Chen, Myrtede Alfred, Eldan Cohen

“…Model fairness was evaluated using the equal performance criterion, measuring true positive rate, false positive rate, and F1-score disparities across protected attributes, including sex, age, and race. …”
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The Role of Women’s Empowerment in Fertility Preferences and Outcomes: Analysis of the 2017 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey by Sitta Fiakhsani Taqwim, Masoud Vaezghasemi, Sara Castel-Feced, Fatwa Sari Tetra Dewi, Julia Schröders

“…Women’s empowerment has been identified as a critical factor influencing fertility dynamics, gender equality, reproductive autonomy, and broader socioeconomic development. …”
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Peculiarities of dynamics of level of the acute phase C-reactive protein and its connection with the immune system of organism in patients, suffering the ulcer gastro-intestinal he... by M. V. Trofimov, V. P. Kryshen, A. V. Chukhrienko

“…The control group consisted of 50 relatively healthy persons (donors), who have had approximately equal age, the gender distribution with the patients investigated, while procedure of the indices determination in them was the same. …”
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DIGITAL TOOLS FOR MATCHING QUALIFICATIONS TO THE LEVELS OF THE NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK by Volodymyr Kovtunets, Sergiy Londar, Serhii Melnyk, Oles Kovtunets

“…But for some national qualification frameworks that use only three descriptors maximal dimension of matrices equals three. Therefore, some simple approximation methods for eigenvector computing may be applied using only minimal means of Microsoft Excel or analogous applications. …”
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On influence of structural features on stress-strain state of a reinforced concrete floor slab by A. V. Selivanov, F. F. Reger, I. A. Chakurin

“…An assessment of the influence for the type of bonds and the magnitude of the prestress of the longitudinal working reinforcement on the stress-strain state of the reinforced concrete floor slab, developed by the authors was made.Materials and methods. The studies on a finite element model of a reinforced concrete floor slab, implemented in LIRA software package were carried out.Results. …”
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Impact of Pathological Grades of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease on Weight Loss Following Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy by Qu YF, Wang K, Li Y, Cheng YG, Hu SY, Zhong MW

“…This study aimed to evaluate the effect of fatty liver severity on percentage of excess weight loss (%EWL) in patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG).Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 226 patients with obesity who underwent LSG. …”
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Effect of Plyometric Exercises of Lower Limb on Strength, Postural Control, and Risk of Falling in Stroke Patients by Ahmed K. Abd Elsabour, Hoda M. Zakaria, Ebtesam M. Fahmy, Azza Sayed Abdelrehim Khalil, Reem M. Alwhaibi, Walaa M. Ragab, Shreen I. Taha

“…<i>Materials and Methods:</i> This study involved 40 chronic left stroke patients randomly divided into two equal groups. …”
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Coronavirus pandemic as a reason for limitation of human rights and freedoms by G. A. Vasilevich, I. Yu. Ostapovich, E. G. Kalinina

“…The article is based on the dialectical method, as well as at the logical, historical, systemic methods. …”
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Orthopedic Trainees&amp;rsquo; Perception of the Educational Utility of Patient-Specific 3D-Printed Anatomical Models: A Questionnaire-Based Observational Study by Zhou X, Yi K, Shi Y

“…Xiaoyang Zhou,&amp;ast; Kaijun Yi,&amp;ast; Yihua Shi Department of Orthopedics, Xiangyang No.1 People’s Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang, 441000, People’s Republic of China&amp;ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Yihua Shi, Department of Orthopedics, Xiangyang No.1 People’s Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang, 441000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 0710 3420011, Fax +86 0710 3420176, Email yihua19@163.comBackground: Traditional orthopedic teaching methods have inherent limitations in conveying complex three-dimensional anatomical relationships essential for surgical planning and execution. …”
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Analysis of the Potential Link Between Dermatomyositis and Cancer by Guo J, Lei T, Yu X, Wang P, Xie H, Jian G, Zhang Q, Qing Y

“…Central genes were identified with the LASSO and SVM-RFE methods. The expression levels and diagnostic relevance of these genes were confirmed via the GSE1551 dataset. …”
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Modes of self-reflection in physical education instruction by Tong Zhou, Remigijus Bubnys, Lauras Grajauskas, Dolors Cañabate, Jordi Colomer

“…The content of reflection should be comprehensive, covering skills, cognition, and emotions. Reflection methods should be diverse, adapting to different learners’ needs and preferences. …”
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The Changing Landscape of Heart Failure Drug Clinical Trials in China, 2013&ndash;2023 by Zhang W, Zhang Y, Tang J, Wang X, Meng C, Wu J, Li J

“…Wenjie Zhang,1,2,&ast; Yinming Zhang,3,&ast; Jiawei Tang,4,&ast; Xuejiao Wang,1 Chao Meng,1,2 Ji Wu,1 Jun Li1 1Department of Cardiology, Guang’Anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100053, People’s Republic of China; 2Graduate School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100029, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Emergency, Yankuang New Journey General Hospital, Zoucheng, Shandong Province, 273500, People’s Republic of China; 4School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Ji Wu, Email 13811234370@163.com Jun Li, Email gamyylj@163.comObjective: This review aimed to delineate the changing landscape of heart failure (HF) drug clinical trials conducted in China during 2013– 2023.Methods: Detailed information on HF drug trials registered on the National Medical Products Administration Clinical Trial Information Disclosure Platform from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2023, was collected. …”
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EVALUATION OF THE PROGRESSION OF AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE DISEASE IN REAL CLINICAL PRACTICE: THE POSSIBILITIES OF USING THE SUMMARY SCORE OF RADIOGRAPHIC... by Sh. F. Erdes, D. G. Rumyantseva, A. V. Smirnov

“…Subjects and methods. The investigation enrolled patients from the early spondyloarthritis cohort (ESAC) formed at the V.A. …”
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Causal Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and Neck Pain: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study by Liang H, Wu Q, Yang S, Zhang S, Miao J, Jin H, Wang X

“…This study aimed to investigate whether potential risk factors have a causal effect on NP at the genetic level using a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis.Methods: Summary-level data for potential risk factors, including distress, anxiety disorder, depression, mood, sleep disorder, loneliness, education, alcohol consumption, smoking, time spent using the computer, and physical activity, as well as NP, were obtained from multiple large-scale Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS). …”
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The Promising Effect of Tocilizumab on Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection (cAMR) of Kidney Transplant by Łukasz Świątek, Miłosz Miedziaszczyk, Dominik Lewandowski, Filip Robakowski, Piotr Tyburski, Marta Jakubowska, Marek Karczewski, Ilona Idasiak-Piechocka

“…The bias assessment was obtained with Methodical Index for Non-Randomized Studies (MINORS), whereas meta-analysis was performed using MedCalc. …”
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Exploring the Association Between Triglyceride-Glucose Indices and Their Derivatives With Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Insights From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surve... by Zhou Y, Xue F

“…Yating Zhou,&ast; Fei Xue&ast; Kunshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunshan City, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Fei Xue, Department of Surgery, Kunshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zuchongzhi South Road, Kunshan City, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215300, People’s Republic of China, Email 2090168460@qq.comBackground: Simple and affordable methods for evaluating Insulin Resistance (IR) have been suggested, such as the Triglyceride-Glucose (TyG) index and its variants, including the TyG-Body Mass Index (TyG-BMI), TyG-Waist Circumference (TyG-WC), and TyG-Waist-to-Height Ratio (TyG-WHtR). …”
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