Exploration of Latina/Hispanic women’s experiences living with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a qualitative study with patients in Houston by Jessica P Hwang, Maria E Fernández, Natalia I Heredia, Erika Mendoza Duque, Sylvia Ayieko, Amelia Averyt, Lorna H McNeill

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Distinct expression of NEAT1 isoforms in Parkinson’s disease models suggests different roles of the variants during the disease course by Fanni Annamária Boros, Orsolya Horváth, Rita Maszlag-Török, Mária Baranyi, Nikolett Nánási, Orsolya Oláh-Németh, Beáta Sperlágh, László Vécsei, Péter Klivényi

“…Abstract Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease worldwide. Recently long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as possible molecular hubs in the diverse pathomechanisms of the disease. …”
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Unlocking insights: exploring mammography beliefs among Teshie community mothers – a qualitative exploratory descriptive study by Priscilla Yeye Adumoah Attafuah, Evans Appiah Osei, Lauraine Watson-Quartey, Jamilatu B Kappiah, Ronald Odonkor, Hawah Amadu Toure, Nana Semuah Bressey, Collins Sarpong

“…Then data were audiotaped audiotaped, transcribed and coded. Content analysis was done to generate themes and subthemes.Findings Most participants, 93%, had not undergone mammography screening. …”
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Factors Associated with Medication Adherence in Elderly Individuals with Tuberculosis: A Qualitative Study by Somayeh Hassani, Farahnaz Mohammadi Shahboulagi, Mahshid Foroughan, Seyed Alireza Nadji, Payam Tabarsi, Gholamreza Ghaedamini Harouni

“…Results. In general, the aforementioned codes were placed in four main categories, including individual factors (i.e., biological factors, affective-emotional factors, behavioral factors, cognitive factors, tuberculosis-related factors, and economic factors), interpersonal factors (i.e., patient’s relationship with treatment team and family-related factors), factors related to healthcare service provider centers (i.e., medical centers’ facilities and capacity building in healthcare service provider), and extraorganizational factors (i.e., social factors and health policymaking). …”
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Acute kidney injury, the present on admission (POA) indicator and sex disparities: observational study of inpatient real-world data in a Swiss tertiary healthcare system. Explorati... by Michael Simon, Sarah N Musy, Karen Triep, Olga Endrich

“…As our results show sex differences, that is, a lower morbidity of female patients for each stage, but a higher mortality, a deeper evaluation of the implied sex differences in staging of KD should follow.The general results confirm the necessity of a diagnosis-onset reporting in health statistics.…”
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Barriers and facilitators of the implementation of mammography screening in the Brazilian public health system: scoping review by Danila Cristina Paquier Sala, Oswaldo Yoshimi Tanaka, Reginaldo Adalberto Luz, Alexandre Pazetto Balsanelli, Sonia Isoyama Venancio, Marília Cristina Prado Louvison, Ana A. Baumann

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Explaining the experience of telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Kermanshah emergency medical dispatch: A qualitative, phenomenological study by Fatemeh Zaheri, Alireza Abdi, Mahmoud Rahmati

“…Conclusion Participants reported that T-CPR is often unsuccessful due to factors such as non-collaboration from bystanders or improper execution, stemming from low education levels, cultural barriers and a general lack of public awareness about emergency procedures. …”
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Acceptability of telemedicine for early surgical site infection diagnosis after cesarean delivery in rural Rwanda: a qualitative study by Laban Bikorimana, Eve Hiyori Estrada, Anne Niyigena, Robert Riviello, Fredrick Kateera, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Vincent K. Cubaka

“…Thematic analysis was applied and parallel inductive coding was used to develop English and Kinyarwanda codebooks. …”
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Internet and telephone intervention to support patients discontinuing long-term antidepressants in primary care: the REDUCE research programme including RCT by Tony Kendrick, Beth Stuart, Hannah Bowers, Mahboobeh Haji Sadeghi, Helen Page, Christopher Dowrick, Michael Moore, Mark Gabbay, Geraldine Leydon, Guiqing Lily Yao, Shihua Zhu, Paul Little, Gareth Griffiths, Glyn Lewis, Carl May, Joanna Moncrieff, Chris F Johnson, Una Macleod, Simon Gilbody, Rachel Dewar-Haggart, Samantha Williams, Wendy O’Brien, Riya Tiwari, Catherine Woods, Tasneem Patel, Naila Khan, Emma Maund, Nadja van Ginneken, Amy Din, Claire Reidy, Rebecca Lucier, Bryan Palmer, Taeko Becque, Yumna Masood, Natalie Thompson, Ellen van Leeuwen, Marta Glowacka, Adam WA Geraghty

“…One hundred and seventy-eight people registered with 66 randomly selected practices were offered general practitioner treatment reviews plus internet and telephone support, and their success with stopping antidepressants was compared with success among 152 people from 65 practices offering general practitioner reviews alone. …”
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Developing an Educational-career guidance Curriculum Framework in the Iran's Education system by Behrooz Rahimi, Rezvan Hakimzadeh, Mohammad Javadipour, Keyvan Salehi, Mohammad KHademi Koleh lou

“…Data analysis was done in the systematic review section, using data analysis steps through open, axial and selective coding (Corbin & Strauss, 1990). The analysis of the validation data was also done according to the quantitative data collected using descriptive and inferential statistical tests.FindingsFindings of the research indicated that the elements and components of the academic-career guidance curriculum framework in Iran's general education system have 6 elements and 17 components including; Logic (why, what), goals (development of academic, career, individual-social insight), content (learning areas, content organization pattern, content selection criteria), implementation (time, teacher-consultant, learning approach and activities, infrastructure and requirements), evaluation (role, process, tools and techniques) and learning outcomes (self-awareness, exploration and educational - career action). …”
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Collaborative engagement with vector control stakeholders is key to enhance the utility of vector-borne disease models by H. E. Brown, E. Wrench, K. Wolfe, T. C. Moore, J. A. Tangena, L. Sedda

“…We used both deductive and inductive coding of transcribed interviews to identify themes with the goal of understanding barriers to model use and uptake. …”
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Acute Limb Ischemia After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Stable Coronary Artery Disease by Monil Majmundar, Wan‐Chi Chan, Vivek Bhat, Mohammed Abualenain, Kunal N. Patel, Gokul Ramani, Gaurav Parmar, Kamal Gupta

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Factors Affecting the Dividend Policy of Companies: A Meta-analysis Approach by Yalda Hassani, Bagher Asgarnezhad Nouri, Ghasem zarei, Allahyar Beigi Firoozi

“…Based on systematic elimination sampling, the number of remaining studies that had the necessary characteristics to enter the meta-analysis process was equal to 123 studies. We coded and entered the extracted data into CMA2 statistical software. …”
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Substance use recovery needs among college students seeking recovery services: a thematic qualitative analysis by Lindsey M. Nichols, Tiffany B. Brown, Angela Allmendinger, Emily A. Hennessy, Emily E. Tanner-Smith

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Knowledge and Health Seeking Behaviour of Breast Cancer Patients in Ghana by Francis Agbokey, Elorm Kudzawu, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Kenneth Ayuurebobi Ae-Ngibise, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Kwaku Poku Asante

“…Patients resorted to the hospital as first options for cure but were generally delayed in doing so. There is the need to create awareness about breast cancer among the general population.…”
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Codifying the Passions in the Classical Age: a few reflections on Charles Le Brun’s scheme and its influence in France and in England by Line Cottegnies

“…Texte phare pour la problématique de la codification des passions, la Conférence sur l’expression générale et particulière (prononcée en 1668) de Charles Le Brun représente l’apogée du mouvement rationaliste en peinture, puisqu’elle prétend associer à chaque passion une représentation particulière, sans ambiguïté possible. …”
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Salt Used for the National School Nutrition Program (NSNP) in Rural Schools of Limpopo Province, South Africa, has Adequate Levels of Iodine by Mpho Ramugondo, Lindelani Fhumudzani Mushaphi, Ngoako Solomon Mabapa

“…The salt samples were coded and stored at room temperature and protected from light and moisture until the time of analysis. …”
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Head and Hands Tunneling Pipeline for Enhancing Sign Language Recognition by Ganzorig Batnasan, Munkh-Erdene Otgonbold, Qurban Ali Memon, Timothy K. Shih, Munkhjargal Gochoo

“…Vision foundation models, such as Vision Transformers (ViTs), trained on general human action recognition datasets, often struggle to capture the nuanced features of signs. …”
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Good death: An exploratory study on perceptions and attitudes of patients, relatives, and healthcare providers, in northern Tanzania. by Temitope O Gafaar, Msafiri Pesambili, Oliver Henke, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Blandina Theophil Mmbaga, Catherine Staton

“…<h4>Importance</h4>In the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania, there are no advance care planning (ACP) protocols being used to document patient preferences for end-of-life (EoL) care. There is a general avoidance of the topic and contemplating ACP in healthcare-limited regions can be an ethically complex subject. …”
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The role of rationality and intuition in creating strategic military documents by Štěpánková Eva, Binková Kristýna

“…Study design/methodology/approach: The general research design is a qualitative paradigm. …”
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