Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2) by Adam W A Geraghty, Taeko Becque, Lisa C Roberts, Jonathan Hill, Nadine E Foster, Lucy Yardley, Beth Stuart, David A Turner, Gareth Griffiths, Frances Webley, Lorraine Durcan, Alannah Morgan, Stephanie Hughes, Sarah Bathers, Stephanie Butler-Walley, Simon Wathall, Gemma Mansell, Malcolm White, Firoza Davies, Paul Little

“…Design A multicentre, pragmatic, three parallel-arm randomised controlled trial with parallel economic evaluation. …”
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Improving health-promoting workplaces through interdisciplinary approaches. The example of WISEWORK-C, a cluster of five work and health projects within Horizon-Europe by Deborah De Moortel, Michelle C Turner, Ella Arensman, Alex Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen, Víctor Gonzalez

“…Its evidence-based findings will be made available to the scientific community and translated into innovative interventions that support workers’ physical and mental health. …”
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Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“…Attempts to increase patient uptake of PADs can circumvent risks of undue provider influence in the facilitation process and promote optimal mental health outcomes with a peer-support model, thereby protecting patient autonomy in accordance with the principle of beneficence. …”
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Characterizing the marine iodine cycle and its relationship to ocean deoxygenation in an Earth system model by K. Cheng, A. Ridgwell, D. S. Hardisty

“…We develop and test a variety of different plausible mechanisms for iodine reduction and oxidation transformation and contrast model projections against an updated compilation of observed dissolved IO<span class="inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M11" display="inline" overflow="scroll" dspmath="mathml"><mrow><msubsup><mi/><mn mathvariant="normal">3</mn><mo>-</mo></msubsup></mrow></math><span><svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="9pt" height="16pt" class="svg-formula" dspmath="mathimg" md5hash="fa1148a5a7ab62133104fb46bf612014"><svg:image xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="bg-21-4927-2024-ie00007.svg" width="9pt" height="16pt" src="bg-21-4927-2024-ie00007.png"/></svg:svg></span></span> and I<span class="inline-formula">⁻</span> concentrations in the present-day ocean.</p> <p>By optimizing the parameters controlling previously proposed mechanisms involved in marine iodine cycling, we find that we can obtain broad matches to observed iodine speciation gradients in zonal surface distribution, depth profiles, and oxygen-deficient zones (ODZs). …”
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Confronting the Gap between Classroom Ideals and the Reality of Clinical Culture: A Student’s Perspective by Isabelle Band, Krishna Chokshi

“…I had many sessions on professionalism and humanism in medical school, but none prepared me for this moment. What made it so hard for me to speak up? Commentary My medical school curriculum dedicated one day per week, during the first and second year, to humanism in medicine. …”
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