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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xiaojun Liu, Lingling Zhang, Huajing Chang, Mengshi Chen, Yimin Huang
BACKGROUND: Behavioral lifestyles are important social determinants of health. The impact of changes in living arrangements on behavioral lifestyles is currently under-explored. This study aims to examine the association between living arrangements and health risk behaviors among the Hakka older adults. METHODS: Data were extracted from China's Health-Related Quality of Life Survey for Older Adults 2018. Living arrangements were divided into five categories: living alone, living with spouse only, living with child, mixed habitation, and others...
December 1, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Bewuketu Terefe, Mahlet Moges Jembere, Nega Tezera Assimamaw
INTRODUCTION: Iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) are a significant global public health issue that affects the physical and mental development of every age group, with children and nursing mothers being the most vulnerable. Approximately 50 million of approximately 2 billion people with iodine deficiency (ID) globally exhibit clinical symptoms. Identifying iodine levels using various techniques is important when considering treatment choices. Screening programs and early ID diagnostics are crucial for the follow-up of pregnant women, especially in iodine-deficient nations...
December 1, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Shanshan An, Sheng Sun
BACKGROUND: In previous studies, it has been observed that mother's perinatal mental health (PMH) problems can be improved by engaging in appropriate health care-seeking behaviors. However, the exact mechanism that influences the relationship between these two factors is still not fully understood. This cross-sectional study aims to examine the serial multiple mediating effects of perceived professional healthcare support (PPHS) and social structural factors on the association between care-seeking behavior and PMH...
December 1, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Yanlin Chen, Weidong Lin, Lu Fu, Huiyi Liu, Shuyu Jin, Xingdong Ye, Sijia Pu, Yumei Xue
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. However, current evidence on the association between muscle quality and CVD is limited. This study investigates the potential association between the muscle quality index (MQI) and the prevalence of CVD and CVD-related mortality. METHODS: Participants were selected from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011-2014...
December 1, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Shiho Nagai, Teruyo Kitahara, Katsuyuki Kito, Masahito Hitosugi
BACKGROUND: Accurate information is essential so that HIV infection can be detected in time for initiation of HIV/AIDS treatment. Immigrants are at high risk for delayed HIV testing and diagnosis, but foreign residents in Japan also seem to face barriers to accessing HIV/AIDS care. We aimed to assess their knowledge level of HIV/AIDS and awareness of public health centers in Japan (PHCs), and to explore factors related to these items. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study of Brazilians, the largest group of foreigners living in Shiga, using an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire survey in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese via the Internet and mail...
November 30, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Yudong Miao, Wanliang Zhang, Yi Li, Jian Wu, Zhanlei Shen, Junwen Bai, Dongfang Zhu, Ruizhe Ren, Jingbao Zhang, Dan Guo, Clifford Silver Tarimo, Chengpeng Li, Wenyong Dong
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 is still prevalent in most countries around the world at the low level. Residents' lifestyle behaviors and emotions are critical to prevent COVID-19 and keep healthy, but there is lacking of confirmative evidence on how residents' lifestyle behaviors and emotional expressivity affected COVID-19 infection. METHODS: Baseline study was conducted in August 2022 and follow-up study was conducted in February 2023. Baseline survey collected information on residents' basic information, as well as their lifestyle behaviors and emotions...
November 30, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Xiao-Lin Lei, Ke Gao, Huan Wang, Wei Chen, Gen-Rui Chen, Xing Wen
BACKGROUND: Evidence on the role of physical activity (PA) on healthcare utilization and expenditure is limited in China. We aimed to examine the association between the total physical activity (TPA) per week, healthcare service use and expenditure. METHODS: We extracted the data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2011, 2013, and 2015. Participants more than 50 years old who completed the follow-up for the three waves were enrolled...
November 30, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Ymke J Evers, Francine Schneider, Veja Widdershoven, Cornelia J D Goense, Charlotte M M Peters, Sjoerd G van Elsen, Christian J P A Hoebe, Nicole H T M Dukers-Muijrers
INTRODUCTION: During an infectious disease outbreak, primary preventive pre-exposure vaccination (PPV) could substantially increase the potential for its control, if uptake is sufficiently high. An important tool to increase PPV uptake, are communication strategies, with tailored messages targeted to modify determinants for PPV uptake. Here, we take the example of the 2022 mpox multicountry outbreak, as we inform the development of communication strategies by applying a theoretical framework for selecting effective communication strategies...
November 30, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Kristy Crooks, Kylie Taylor, Kiara Burns, Sandy Campbell, Chris Degeling, Jane Williams, Ross Andrews, Peter Massey, Jodie McVernon, Adrian Miller
BACKGROUND: Recent deliberations by Australian public health researchers and practitioners produced an ethical framework of how decisions should be made to distribute pandemic influenza vaccine. The outcome of the deliberations was that the population should be considered in two categories, Level 1 and Level 2, with Level 1 groups being offered access to the pandemic influenza vaccine before other groups. However, the public health researchers and practitioners recognised the importance of making space for public opinion and sought to understand citizens values and preferences, especially First Nations peoples...
November 30, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Yusi Riwayatul Afsah, Noriyo Kaneko
BACKGROUND: Uptake for cervical cancer screening (CCS) is extremely low among immigrant women, particularly Muslim women, because of barriers related to religious values, beliefs, and fatalism. This scoping review aimed to summarize and analyze the findings of previous studies regarding perceived barriers to CCS among Muslim immigrant women. METHODS: A search of electronic databases of peer-reviewed articles, including MEDLINE, CINAHL, PubMed, and Scopus was conducted...
November 30, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Kelly M Castañeda, Grigory Sidorenkov, Marian J E Mourits, Bert van der Vegt, Albert G Siebers, Karin M Vermeulen, Ed Schuuring, G Bea A Wisman, Geertruida H de Bock
BACKGROUND: Regular participation in cervical cancer screening is critical to reducing mortality. Although certain sociodemographic factors are known to be associated with one-time participation in screening, little is known about other factors that could be related to regular participation. Therefore, this study evaluated the association between health-related behavioral factors and regular participation in cervical cancer screening. METHODS: The Lifelines population-based cohort was linked to data for cervical cancer screening from the Dutch Nationwide Pathology Databank...
November 30, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Amamah Noor, Ammar Aftab, Memuna Aslam, Sara Imanpour
Exposure to household air pollution (HAP) accounted for the loss of 86 million healthy lives in 2019, with almost half of all deaths due to lower respiratory infection among children under 5 years of age. Similarly, the situation in Punjab - Pakistan's largest province - is also not promising. This study was conducted to examine household energy consumption and respiratory symptoms among children under the age of five in rural and urban areas of Punjab. Using data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2017-18, logistic regression models were applied to the data of a sample of 35,000 children under the age of five living in households with polluting heating fuels...
November 30, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Chunmei Chen, Fei Bian, Yujie Zhu
BACKGROUND: University students' academic engagement has a significant impact on their academic performance and career development. METHODS: In order to explore the influential mechanisms of social support on university students' academic engagement and the mediating role of academic motivation and life satisfaction, this study used the Adolescent Social Support Scale, University Students' Academic Engagement Scale Questionnaire, Adolescent Student Life Satisfaction Scale and University Students' Academic Motivation Questionnaire, to conduct a questionnaire survey and empirical analysis on 2106 Chinese university students...
November 29, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Mohamedraed Elshami, Islam Osama Ismail, Mohammed Alser, Ibrahim Al-Slaibi, Roba Jamal Ghithan, Faten Darwish Usrof, Malak Ayman Mousa Qawasmi, Heba Mahmoud Okshiya, Nouran Ramzi Shaban Shurrab, Ibtisam Ismail Mahfouz, Aseel AbdulQader Fannon, Mona Radi Mohammad Hawa, Narmeen Giacaman, Manar Ahmaro, Rula Khader Zaatreh, Wafa Aqel AbuKhalil, Noor Khairi Melhim, Ruba Jamal Madbouh, Hala Jamal Abu Hziema, Raghad Abed-Allateef Lahlooh, Sara Nawaf Ubaiat, Nour Ali Jaffal, Reem Khaled Alawna, Salsabeel Naeem Abed, Bessan Nimer Ali Abuzahra, Aya Jawad Abu Kwaik, Mays Hafez Dodin, Raghad Othman Taha, Dina Mohammed Alashqar, Roaa Abd-Al-Fattah Mobarak, Tasneem Smerat, Shurouq I Albarqi, Nasser Abu-El-Noor, Bettina Bottcher
BACKGROUND: The discussion about breast cancer (BC) causation continues to be surrounded by a number of myths and misbeliefs. If efforts are misdirected towards reducing risk from false mythical causes, individuals might be less likely to consider and adopt risk-reducing behaviors for evidence-based BC causes. This national study aimed to assess the awareness of BC causation myths and misbeliefs among Palestinian women, and examine the factors associated with having good awareness. METHODS: This national cross-sectional study recruited adult women from government hospitals, primary healthcare centers, and public spaces in 11 governorates in Palestine...
November 29, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Kisughu Munyumu, Charles Wafula, Vincent Were, Françoise Katungu, Ndemo Mbasa, Margaret Kaseje
BACKGROUND: Ebola virus disease is a medical condition whose consequent effects on quality of life of patients. In the history of infectious diseases, there have been pathologies that have had significant repercussions for caregivers, healthcare providers and the community. OBJECTIVES: This study investigate determinants of quality of life among caregivers of adolescent and young adult Ebola survivors in Democratic Republic of the Congo. METHODS: This was a cross sectional study...
November 29, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Rui Dong, Dongchun Chang, Zhenghan Luo, Mengting Zhang, Qing Guan, Chao Shen, Yue Chen, Peng Huang, Jie Wang
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis E can potentially progress to HEV-related acute liver failure (HEV-ALF). East and South Asia bear a substantial burden of HEV infection, with Bangladesh, China, and India facing the most severe threat in this region. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the burden of HEV-ALF in these three high-risk countries. METHODS: A systematic literature search was performed utilizing PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Medline, Embase, and Web of Science databases...
November 29, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Hyejin Chun, Jung-Heun Ha, Hyohyeon Im, Cho Young Jung, Miae Doo
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigated nutritional status and estimated the adequacy of dietary intake of university students during shipboard internships. METHODS: In this cross- sectional study, data were collected from 25 students out of 42 participants who attended in the research information session in the department of maritime at a university located in Jeonbook, South Korea. The dietary intake data was obtained using the 12-day dietary recall through smartphone photography during the shipboard internships...
November 29, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Hanxiang Sun, Jing Mao, Xiujuan Su, Qiaoling Du
BACKGROUND: At present, there are several studies on abortion history and perinatal outcomes, but there is no unified conclusion whether the history of abortion and different types of abortion are related to perinatal complications of subsequent pregnancy. We aim to study the impact of different types of abortion history on perinatal outcomes of singleton pregnancies. METHODS: This was a retrospective study from a maternity and infant hospital in Shanghai, China from 2016 to 2020...
November 29, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Xuping Song, Qiyin Luo, Liangzhen Jiang, Yan Ma, Yue Hu, Yunze Han, Rui Wang, Jing Tang, Yiting Guo, Qitao Zhang, Zhongyu Ma, Yunqi Zhang, Xinye Guo, Shumei Fan, Chengcheng Deng, Xinyu Fu, Yaolong Chen, Kehu Yang, Long Ge, Shigong Wang
BACKGROUND: An increasing number of systematic reviews (SRs) in the environmental field have been published in recent years as a result of the global concern about the health impacts of air pollution and temperature. However, no study has assessed and compared the methodological and reporting quality of SRs on the health effects of air pollutants and extreme temperatures. This study aims to assess and compare the methodological and reporting quality of SRs on the health effects of ambient air pollutants and extreme temperatures...
November 29, 2023: BMC Public Health
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Xinyue Li, Jovine Bachwenkizi, Renjie Chen, Haidong Kan, Xia Meng
BACKGROUND: The high under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in Africa is a significant public health concern. Previous studies have found that satellite retrieved light at night (LAN) data with long-term and global coverage can be used as a proxy for socio-economic development and urbanization. Currently, few studies on the effects of LAN on child mortality have been conducted in Africa, a region with varying levels of urbanization between countries. OBJECTIVE: To quantify the correlation between risk of child mortality and LAN as an indicator of urbanization and economic development in Africa...
November 29, 2023: BMC Public Health
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