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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38679998/hopelessness-and-social-support-among-cancer-patients-in-saudi-arabia
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Hawazen Rawas, Jennifer De Beer, Osamah Alturki, Mohammed Altorki, Tareq Alhelali, Anas Althagfi, Nawaf Faisal, Faisal Albalawi, Muhammad Anwar Khan
BACKGROUND: Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be extremely stressful for patients, as it is a life-threatening disease. However, when this topic is discussed or researched, the psychological state of cancer patients is often ignored or forgotten. The study aimed to measure the levels of hopelessness and social support among cancer patients. It also aimed to assess the relationship between different demographic variables, hopelessness, and social support of these patients. METHODS: The study followed a cross-sectional quantitative design...
April 1, 2024: Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention: APJCP
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38679909/examining-parental-stress-and-its-link-to-hair-cortisol-and-dhea-levels-in-kindergartners
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Lorenz Rapp, Olga Pollatos
BACKGROUND: Parental work-family conflict (WFC) and parental household income have been linked to negative outcomes for children. So far, no study has associated these two stressors with the hair concentration of cortisol (HCC) and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in kindergarteners as a measurement of their objective stress. METHODS AND MEASURES: 44 children (40.91% female) with a mean age of 5.16 years and their parents participated in this cross-sectional study...
April 28, 2024: Psychology & Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38679701/increasing-nurses-occupational-well-being-the-role-of-career-shocks-job-crafting-and-supervisor-autonomy-support
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Ying Zhang, Xing Bu, Na Zhang
BACKGROUND: This study aims to explore the influence of career shocks on nurses' occupational well-being through job crafting and the moderating role of supervisor autonomy support. METHOD: The present study used a cross-sectional design. And the study included 714 frontline nurses in China, and we used structural equation modelling (SEM) to test our hypotheses. RESULTS: Job crafting mediated both the relationship between positive career shocks and occupational well-being and the relationship between negative career shocks and occupational well-being...
April 28, 2024: BMC Nursing
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38679579/photocatalytic-transformation-of-organics-to-valuable-chemicals-quo-vadis
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Wiktoria Adamowicz, Kasidid Yaemsunthorn, Marcin Kobielusz, Wojciech Macyk
Recent development in photocatalysis is increasingly focused on transforming organic compounds toward producing fine chemicals. Simple, non-selective oxidation reactions (degradation of pollutants) and very demanding solar-to-chemical energy conversion processes (production of solar fuels) face severe economic limitations influenced by still low efficiency and insufficient stability of the systems. Synthesis of fine chemicals, including reductive and oxidative selective transformations, as well as C-C and C-N coupling reactions, can utilise the power of photocatalysis...
April 28, 2024: ChemPlusChem
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38679519/is-italian-dentists-knowledge-of-enamel-development-defects-adequate-a-nationwide-survey
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Claudia Salerno, Guglielmo Campus, Nicole Camoni, Silvia Cirio, Alberto Caprioglio, Maria Grazia Cagetti
OBJECTIVES: Correct identification and management of Developmental Defects of Enamel (DDEs) are essential to provide the best possible treatment. The present survey aims to investigate Italian dentists' knowledge of DDEs, their ability to recognise the different clinical pictures, and to choose the most appropriate clinical approach. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was planned based on a questionnaire including 27 closed-ended questions, and that proposed 4 clinical pictures, molar incisor hypomineralisation (MIH), amelogenesis imperfecta (AI), dental fluorosis (DF), and an initial caries lesion (ICL)...
April 27, 2024: International Dental Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38679507/the-quality-of-nursing-care-from-the-perspective-of-hospitalized-school-age-children
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Zahra Mohammadi Gonbaki, Mahshid Mirzaie Taklimi, Zahra Taheri-Ezbarami, Ehsan Kazemnejad Leili, Marzie Abadgar Chahardeh
PURPOSE: Hospitalized children's satisfaction with the care they receive is the main indicator for evaluating the way nurses should provide services and the quality of these services. The current study aimed to examine school-aged children's perceptions of nursing care quality. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 144 children aged 7-11 years were selected through a convenience sampling method. The data collection tool included The Child Care Quality at Hospital Questionnaire, and the personal- and family-related and disease-related factors questionnaire...
April 27, 2024: Journal of Pediatric Nursing
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38679406/deciphering-protein-mediated-underwater-adhesion-in-an-invasive-biofouling-ascidian-discovery-validation-and-functional-mechanism-of-an-interfacial-protein
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Xi Li, Shiguo Li, Jiawei Cheng, Ying Zhang, Aibin Zhan
Discovering macromolecules and understanding the associated mechanisms involved in underwater adhesion are essential for both studying the fundamental ecology of benthos in aquatic ecosystems and developing biomimetic adhesive materials in industries. Here, we employed quantitative proteomics to assess protein expression variations during the development of the distinct adhesive structure - stolon in the model fouling ascidian, Ciona robusta. We found 16 adhesive protein candidates with increased expression in the stolon, with ascidian adhesive protein 1 (AAP1) being particularly rich in adhesion-related signal peptides, amino acids, and functional domains...
April 26, 2024: Acta Biomaterialia
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38679321/time-dedicated-to-physical-activity-among-medical-residents-are-there-differences-based-on-gender-or-specialty-type
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Oriol Pujol, Lluís Vila-Castillo, Clara Álvaro, Marc Aguilar, Nayana Joshi, Joan Minguell
INTRODUCTION: Physical activity (PA) is associated with positive health outcomes such as prevention of chronic diseases, psychological well-being and improved work performance. Medical residents are subjected to sleep deprivation, extended work schedule and high burnout prevalence. These conditions may lead to the neglect of personal health and the restriction of time dedicated to PA. The objective of the present study was to analyze the time dedicated to PA of medical residents, comparing women vs men residents and surgical vs clinical residents...
April 26, 2024: Revista Clínica Espanõla
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38679019/the-relationship-between-reasons-for-smartphone-use-addictive-use-tendencies-fear-of-missing-out-depression-and-life-satisfaction-a-qualitative-and-quantitative-analysis
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Jan Stirnberg, Jürgen Margraf, Lena-Marie Precht, Julia Brailovskaia
INTRODUCTION: In the present cross-sectional study, we investigated whether reasons for smartphone use are similar to those of social media use. Also, we explored links between reasons of smartphone use and mental health variables (problematic smartphone use, FOMO, depression symptoms, and life satisfaction) in Germany during the COVID-19 lockdown period. METHODS: Overall, 571 smartphone users (Mage = 31.60, SDage = 12.73) provided their reasons for smartphone use...
April 26, 2024: Psychopathology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38679013/speech-comprehension-by-cochlear-implant-users-assessed-with-evoked-potentials-and-response-times
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Pushkar Deshpande, Lindsey Van Yper, Stine Christiansen, Chrisitian Brandt, Stefan Debener, Tobias Neher
INTRODUCTION: Cochlear implant (CI) users differ greatly in their rehabilitation outcomes, including speech understanding in noise. This variability may be related to brain changes associated with intact senses recruiting cortical areas from stimulation-deprived senses. Numerous studies have demonstrated such cross-modal reorganization in individuals with untreated hearing loss. How it is affected by regular use of hearing devices remains unclear, however. To shed light on this, the current study measured cortical responses reflecting comprehension abilities in experienced CI users and normal-hearing controls...
April 27, 2024: Audiology & Neuro-otology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38678879/the-clinical-perspective-on-late-onset-depression-in-european-real-world-treatment-settings
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Lucie Bartova, Gernot Fugger, Markus Dold, Alexander Kautzky, Isabella Bairhuber, Philipp Kloimstein, Giuseppe Fanelli, Raffaella Zanardi, Ana Weidenauer, Dan Rujescu, Daniel Souery, Julien Mendlewicz, Joseph Zohar, Stuart Montgomery, Chiara Fabbri, Alessandro Serretti, Siegfried Kasper
The clinical phenotype of the so-called late-onset depression (LOD) affecting up to 30% of older adults and yielding heterogeneous manifestations concerning symptoms, severity and course has not been fully elucidated yet. This European, cross-sectional, non-interventional, naturalistic multicenter study systematically investigated socio-demographic and clinical correlates of early-onset depression (EOD) and LOD (age of onset ≥ 50 years) in 1410 adult in- and outpatients of both sexes receiving adequate psychopharmacotherapy...
April 27, 2024: European Neuropsychopharmacology: the Journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38678828/validity-and-diagnostic-overlap-of-functional-somatic-syndrome-diagnoses
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Monica L van der Meulen, Martje Bos, Stephan J L Bakker, Reinold O B Gans, Judith G M Rosmalen
OBJECTIVE: We present the first study that investigates the validity and the diagnostic overlap of the three main functional somatic syndrome (FSS) diagnoses, i.e. chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), irrespective of help-seeking behaviour or diagnostic habits, and irrespective of differences in diagnostic thresholds for chronicity or symptom interference. METHODS: This cross-sectional analysis was performed in 89,781 participants of the general-population cohort Lifelines...
April 15, 2024: Journal of Psychosomatic Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38678733/coping-styles-do-not-interact-with-the-association-between-childhood-trauma-history-and-the-immune-inflammatory-phenotype-of-schizophrenia-findings-from-a-cross-sectional-study
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Błażej Misiak, Dorota Frydecka, Patryk Piotrowski, Krzysztof Rembacz, Tomasz Bielawski, Jerzy Samochowiec, Ernest Tyburski, Łukasz Łaczmański, Edyta Pawlak
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a well-known risk factor of schizophrenia. Moreover, individuals with schizophrenia are likely to use maladaptive stress coping strategies. Although it has been reported that a history of ACEs might be associated with a pro-inflammatory phenotype in patients with schizophrenia, the interacting effect of coping styles on this association has not been tested so far. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the levels of immune-inflammatory markers in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls (HCs), taking into consideration a history of ACEs and coping strategies...
April 22, 2024: Psychoneuroendocrinology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38678641/a-gated-recurrent-unit-model-based-on-ultrasound-images-of-dynamic-tongue-movement-for-determining-the-severity-of-obstructive-sleep-apnea
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Cyrel Ontimare Manlises, Jeng-Wen Chen, Chih-Chung Huang
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) presents as a respiratory disorder characterized by recurrent upper pharyngeal airway collapse during sleep. Dynamic tongue movement (DTM) analysis emerges as a promising avenue for elucidating the pathophysiological underpinnings of OSA, thereby facilitating its diagnosis. Recent endeavors have utilized artificial intelligence techniques to categorize OSA severity leveraging electrocardiography and blood oxygen saturation data. Nonetheless, the integration of ultrasound (US) imaging of the tongue remains largely untapped in the development of machine learning models aimed at determining the severity of OSA...
April 25, 2024: Ultrasonics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38678571/protocol-to-measure-monosynaptic-connections-between-different-cortical-regions-in-mice-using-cell-pair-cross-correlogram-of-spike-events
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Cong Wang, Montana Samantzis, Matilde Balbi
Neuromodulation can facilitate interactions between neurons to rescue impaired brain function after stroke. Here, we present a protocol for measuring putative monosynaptic connections between different cortical regions. We detail procedures for tetrode fabrication, implantation surgery, stroke induction in mice, multi-site in vivo electrophysiological recording, units clustering, principal neuron/interneuron classification, and functional connection analysis. This protocol allows us to understand the mechanisms of stroke recovery...
April 27, 2024: STAR protocols
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38678279/fidelity-of-implementation-of-national-guidelines-on-malaria-diagnosis-for-children-under-five-years-in-rivers-state-nigeria
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Mina Whyte, Latifat Ibisomi, Tobias Chirwa, Jonathan Levin, Wiedaad Slemming
BACKGROUND: Malaria is still a disease of global public health importance and children under-five years of age are the most vulnerable to the disease. Nigeria adopted the "test and treat" strategy in the national malaria guidelines as one of the ways to control malaria transmission. The level of adherence to the guidelines is an important indicator for the success or failure of the country's roadmap to malaria elimination by 2030. This study aimed to assess the fidelity of implementation of the national guidelines on malaria diagnosis for children under-five years and examine its associated moderating factors in health care facilities in Rivers State, Nigeria...
April 27, 2024: Malaria Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38678173/trends-in-hiv-prevalence-and-risk-factors-among-men-who-have-sex-with-men-in-mozambique-implications-for-targeted-interventions-and-public-health-strategies
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Áuria Ribeiro Banze, Rachid Muleia, Samuel Nuvunga, Makini Boothe, Cynthia Semá Baltazar
BACKGROUND: Men who have sex with Men (MSM) are known to contribute to increased HIV prevalence as an integral part of key populations with high vulnerability to HIV/AIDS due to their sexual behaviours. Mozambique conducted two rounds of bio-behavioral surveys (BBS) in this population with the main objective of estimating HIV prevalence and associated risk behaviors among MSM in Mozambique. The present study aims to estimate the trend of HIV prevalence and determine the correlations of HIV infection among MSM...
April 27, 2024: BMC Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38678156/osteological-profiling-of-femoral-diaphysis-and-neck-in-aquatic-semiaquatic-and-terrestrial-carnivores-and-rodents-effects-of-body-size-and-locomotor-habits
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Petteri Nieminen, Mikko A J Finnilä, Wilhelmiina Hämäläinen, Saara Lehtiniemi, Timo Jämsä, Juha Tuukkanen, Mervi Kunnasranta, Heikki Henttonen, Anne-Mari Mustonen
The increased limb bone density documented previously for aquatic tetrapods has been proposed to be an adaptation to overcome buoyancy during swimming and diving. It can be achieved by increasing the amount of bone deposition or by reducing the amount of bone resorption, leading to cortical thickening, loss of medullary cavity, and compaction of trabecular bone. The present study examined the effects of locomotor habit, body size, and phylogeny on the densitometric, cross-sectional, and biomechanical traits of femoral diaphysis and neck in terrestrial, semiaquatic, and aquatic carnivores, and in terrestrial and semiaquatic rodents (12 species) by using peripheral quantitative computed tomography, three-point bending, and femoral neck loading tests...
April 27, 2024: Journal of Comparative Physiology. B, Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38677907/cepstral-analysis-of-voice-in-school-aged-children
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Ruth Deborah, Kala Samayan
INTRODUCTION: Dysphonia in school-aged children is attributed primarily to hyperfunctional use of voice. These can be identified through effective protocols using both acoustic and auditory-perceptual analyses. OBJECTIVE: The current study aimed to investigate voice characteristics in school children aged 4-17 years using auditory-perceptual rating and cepstral measures of voice. STUDY DESIGN: This is a descriptive cross-sectional observational study...
April 26, 2024: Journal of Voice
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38677552/impact-of-native-iliac-vein-aspect-ratio-on-initial-clinical-presentation-and-outcomes-following-stenting-for-symptomatic-chronic-iliofemoral-venous-obstruction
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Hayden Butts, Arjun Jayaraj
OBJECTIVE: Venous stenting has become the first line of treatment for patients with symptomatic chronic iliofemoral venous obstruction (CIVO) who have failed conservative therapy. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) interrogation with use of normal minimal luminal diameters or areas has become the standard to confirm diagnosis as well as determine adequacy of stenting. However, aspect ratio (ratio between the maximal and minimal luminal diameters) has also been put forth as a possible metric for determining adequacy of stenting...
April 25, 2024: Journal of Vascular Surgery. Venous and Lymphatic Disorders
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