13909 papers
This study successfully validated the Turkish version of the Balance in Daily Life Scale for frail older adults, confirming its original unidimensional structure and demonstrating high reliability and validity for assessing balance in daily activities within this population.
This cross-sectional study of first-year medical students at Tehran University of Medical Sciences reveals that poor sleep satisfaction is independently associated with lower academic self-efficacy, even after adjusting for socioeconomic status, depression, and living status.
This randomized controlled trial conducted in Faisalabad, Pakistan, demonstrates that both Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Islam-based Therapy significantly reduce psychiatric symptoms, death anxiety, and insomnia while improving quality of life and medication adherence among patients with Stage-II and III cancer.
This study analyzes the Uromigos Score among Asian genitourinary oncology experts, revealing broad alignment with global treatment preferences while highlighting specific regional differences in scoring for certain therapies that likely reflect variations in drug availability, regulatory timelines, and local practice patterns.
This mixed-methods study evaluates cervical cancer care pathways in Kenya's private sector, revealing that low HPV testing uptake is driven by financial, infrastructural, and training barriers, while highlighting the potential of public-private partnerships and community-based interventions to align service delivery with global elimination targets.
This controlled interrupted time-series analysis of Brazilian mortality data from 2000 to 2023 indicates that restrictive firearm legislation was associated with a significant reduction in firearm-specific suicide mortality relative to non-firearm methods, while subsequent permissive policies showed a less precise trend toward increased firearm suicides, suggesting a directional but not fully confirmed causal link between policy shifts and suicide outcomes.
This study utilizes a Markov model to demonstrate that pooled GeneXpert testing is the most cost-effective strategy for detecting asymptomatic tuberculosis among close contacts in China, offering significant health benefits at a cost well below the national willingness-to-pay threshold.
This mixed-method study demonstrates that domestic abuse training significantly improves nursing and midwifery students' knowledge, attitudes, and confidence, while highlighting the critical need for both structured undergraduate education and organizational cultural shifts to overcome workplace barriers and better support victims.
This paper analyzes Nigeria's fragmented blood supply system, highlighting critical gaps in coordination, data, and safety standards, while advocating for a phased strengthening of the National Blood Management System to ensure timely and safe blood availability.
This qualitative study in Abuja, Nigeria, reveals that caregivers' reliance on ineffective home management of malaria for under-five children is driven primarily by structural and financial barriers to formal healthcare rather than a lack of awareness, necessitating interventions that address access and cost alongside targeted education.