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Isabel Mínguez-Esteban, Mónica De-la-Cueva-Reguera, Carlos Romero-Morales, Beatriz Martínez-Pascual, Jose A Navia, María Bravo-Aguilar, Vanesa Abuín-Porras
INTRODUCTION: Stress is characterized as a challenging occurrence that triggers a physiological and/or behavioral allostatic response, alongside the demands typically encountered throughout the natural course of life. A sustained state of stress gives rise to secondary effects, including insomnia and neck pain. Also, the risk of musculoskeletal problems in the cervical and lumbar spine can be increased due to a sustained state of stress. The present study main objective is to study the association between orofacial and pelvic floor muscles in women in Spain...
2024: PloS One
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Marcin Czub, Elena R Serrano-Ibáñez, Joanna Piskorz, Rosa Esteve, Helena K Lydon, Alicia E López-Martínez, Bertille Mullen, Carmen Ramírez-Maestre, Caroline Heary, Conor O'Neill, Gloria Sainero, Juan Francisco Ruiz Escalera, Line Caes, Silvia Morales Murcia, Vincent McDarby, Brian E McGuire
This international multicenter randomized controlled trial aimed to compare the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) distraction with an identical non-VR game in reducing needle-related pain and anxiety in children undergoing venous blood draw. The study involved 304 children aged 5-9 years undergoing a blood draw procedure, randomly allocated to one of three groups: VR distraction, non-VR distraction, and control group (usual care). The distraction task was based on the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) paradigm, and the game was identical in design and gameplay for both VR and non-VR distraction groups...
April 16, 2024: Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexander Soutschek, Christopher J Burke, Pyungwon Kang, Nuri Wieland, Nick Netzer, Philippe N Tobler
From deciding which meal to prepare for our guests to trading-off the pro-environmental effects of climate protection measures against their economic costs, we often must consider the consequences of our actions for the well-being of others (welfare). Vexingly, the tastes and views of others can vary widely. To maximize welfare according to the utilitarian philosophical tradition, decision makers facing conflicting preferences of others should choose the option that maximizes the sum of subjective value (utility) of the entire group...
April 15, 2024: Journal of Neuroscience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jose Luis Trevino Gonzalez, Aldo Sergio Fuentes Torres, Josefina Alejandra Morales Del Angel
Background and aim Nasal obstruction is one of the most common reasons for consultation addressed by otolaryngologists. There are anatomical, physiological, and pathological etiologies. Sometimes the treatment can become a challenge for the specialist, so a detailed evaluation of the etiologies must be carried out. The involvement of the nasal vestibular body (NVB) in obstructive symptoms has been described. Therefore, we must be familiar with its anatomy, presentation, and contribution to this symptomatology...
March 2024: Curēus
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Fangyuan Xie, Yi Wu, Xiling Zhou, Sheng Zhang
It is undeniable that the material production stage is crucial to the whole life cycle of structures. This study proposes the window-to-envelope ratio (WER) based on standard units to determine the inherent relationship between changes in door and window areas and carbon emissions, presuming six distinct types of engineering practices for various buildings are selected. It was concluded that larger door and window areas would result in more embodied carbon emissions. Additionally, as the size of windows and doors increases, the costs and embodied carbon of prefabricated and cast-in-place construction become more comparable...
April 12, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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Leah Davis, Sharon D'Souza
There has been recent scrutiny of private equity involvement in the healthcare market by federal and state governmental agencies who are concerned about the corporatization and financialization of healthcare in the United States. Data is emerging that patient costs increase, quality of healthcare decreases, physician autonomy decreases, and physician burnout and moral injury increases when corporate interests like private equity enter the medical market. Like other medical specialties, the field of radiology has been affected by corporatization and radiologists should understand how private equity interests may affect individual radiologists and the radiology workforce on a larger scale...
April 1, 2024: Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology
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Juan M Leyva-Moral, Carolina Watson, Nina Granel, Cecilia Raij-Johansen, Ricardo A Ayala
BACKGROUND: The aim of the research was to translate, culturally adapt and validate the Caring Behaviors Assessment (CBA) tool in Spain, ensuring its appropriateness in the Spanish cultural context. METHODS: Three-phase cross-cultural adaptation and validation study. Phase 1 involved the transculturation process, which included translation of the CBA tool from English to Spanish, back-translation, and refinement of the translated tool based on pilot testing and linguistic and cultural adjustments...
April 10, 2024: BMC Nursing
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Chia-Nan Yeh, Miguel A Morales
We present low-scaling algorithms for GW and constrained random phase approximation based on a symmetry-adapted interpolative separable density fitting (ISDF) procedure that incorporates the space-group symmetries of crystalline systems. The resulting formulations scale cubically, with respect to system size, and linearly with the number of k -points, regardless of the choice of single-particle basis and whether a quasiparticle approximation is employed. We validate these methods through comparisons with published literature and demonstrate their efficiency in treating large-scale systems through the construction of downfolded many-body Hamiltonians for carbon dimer defects embedded in hexagonal boron nitride supercells...
April 10, 2024: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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Juan Camilo Morales Taborda, Juan Carlos Montaño Guzmán, Luis Felipe Higuita-Gutiérrez
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic resistance has been identified as a global health threat. Knowledge, attitudes, and inappropriate prescription practices of antibiotics by physicians play a crucial role in this problem. In Colombia, research addressing this issue is scarce. METHODS: A cross-sectional study involving 258 physicians was conducted. A scale with questions on sociodemographic aspects, level of education, satisfaction with antibiotic education received, and knowledge, attitudes, and practices was administered...
April 8, 2024: BMC Medical Education
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Hajar Taqif, Lionel Adisso, Lucas Gomes Souza, Suélène Georgina Dofara, Sergio Cortez Ghio, Louis-Paul Rivest, France Légaré
BACKGROUND: Health professionals in home care work in interprofessional teams. Yet most training in decision support assumes a one-on-one relationship with patients. We assessed the impact of an in-person training session in interprofessional shared decision-making (IP-SDM) on home care professionals' intention to adopt this approach. METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of a cluster stepped-wedge trial using a before-and-after study design. We collected data among home care professionals from November 2016 to February 2018 in 9 health and social services centers in Quebec, Canada...
April 8, 2024: BMC Health Services Research
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Megan W Tse, Meilin Zhu, Benjamin Peters, Efrat Hamami, Julie Chen, Kathleen P Davis, Samuel Nitz, Juliane Weller, Thulasi Warrier, Diana K Hunt, Yoelkys Morales, Tomohiko Kawate, Jeffrey L Gaulin, Jon H Come, Juan Hernandez-Bird, Wenwen Huo, Isabelle Neisewander, Laura L Kiessling, Deborah T Hung, Joan Mecsas, Bree B Aldridge, Ralph R Isberg, Paul C Blainey
UNLABELLED: Antibiotic resistance, especially in multidrug-resistant ESKAPE pathogens, remains a worldwide problem. Combination antimicrobial therapies may be an important strategy to overcome resistance and broaden the spectrum of existing antibiotics. However, this strategy is limited by the ability to efficiently screen large combinatorial chemical spaces. Here, we deployed a high-throughput combinatorial screening platform, DropArray, to evaluate the interactions of over 30,000 compounds with up to 22 antibiotics and 6 strains of Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens, totaling to over 1...
March 26, 2024: bioRxiv
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mariëlle L de Goede, Niels van der Aa, Trudy M Mooren, Miranda Olff, F Jackie June Ter Heide
Background: During peacekeeping missions, military personnel may be involved in or exposed to potentially morally injurious experiences (PMIEs), such as an inability to intervene due to a limited mandate. While exposure to such morally transgressive events has been shown to lead to moral injury in combat veterans, research on moral injury in peacekeepers is limited. Objective: We aimed to determine patterns of exposure to PMIEs and associated outcome- and exposure-related factors among Dutch peacekeepers stationed in the former Yugoslavia during the Srebrenica genocide...
2024: European Journal of Psychotraumatology
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Katie Lee, Darragh Hare, Bernd Blossey
Conservation ethics (i.e. moral concern for non-human organisms) are widespread, but we lack a comprehensive explanation for why people care about other species at all, and why they express strong moral concern for some species but not others. Recent theory suggests that conservation ethics might be rooted in cooperation between humans and members of other species. Building on central predictions of this eco-evolutionary theory, we conducted an online study ( N = 651) and exploratory factor analysis to develop two scales that independently measure perceived fitness interdependence (PFI) and conservation ethics...
2024: Evolutionary human sciences
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Eloy Girela-Lopez, Cristina M Beltran-Aroca, Jaime Boceta-Osuna, Dolores Aguilera-Lopez, Alejandro Gomez-Carranza, Manuel Lopez-Valero, Manuel Romero-Saldaña
BACKGROUND: Moral distress (MD) is the psychological damage caused when people are forced to witness or carry out actions which go against their fundamental moral values. The main objective was to evaluate the prevalence and predictive factors associated with MD among health professionals during the pandemic and to determine its causes. METHODS: A regional, observational and cross-sectional study in a sample of 566 professionals from the Public Health Service of Andalusia (68...
April 3, 2024: BMC Medical Ethics
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Cathérine Dekeyser, Matthias Hautekeete, Melissa Cambron, Vincent Van Pesch, Francesco Patti, Jens Kuhle, Samia Khoury, Jeanette Lechner Scott, Oliver Gerlach, Alessandra Lugaresi, Davide Maimone, Andrea Surcinelli, Pierre Grammond, Tomas Kalincik, Mario Habek, Barbara Willekens, Richard Macdonell, Patrice Lalive, Tunde Csepany, Helmut Butzkueven, Cavit Boz, Valentina Tomassini, Matteo Foschi, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Ayse Altintas, Saloua Mrabet, Gerardo Iuliano, Maria Jose Sa, Raed Alroughani, Rana Karabudak, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Orla Gray, Koen de Gans, Anneke van der Walt, Pamela A McCombe, Norma Deri, Justin Garber, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Olga Skibina, Pierre Duquette, Elisabetta Cartechini, Daniele Spitaleri, Riadh Gouider, Aysun Soysal, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Mark Slee, Maria Pia Amato, Katherine Buzzard, Guy Laureys
BACKGROUND: It remains unclear whether routine cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) parameters can serve as predictors of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease course. METHODS: This large-scale cohort study included persons with MS with CSF data documented in the MSBase registry. CSF parameters to predict time to reach confirmed Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) scores 4, 6 and 7 and annualised relapse rate in the first 2 years after diagnosis (ARR2) were assessed using (cox) regression analysis...
April 3, 2024: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
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Yaffa Naomi Stokar
Limited knowledge exists regarding sensed failure resulting provision of end-of-life (EOL) care. Among medical health professionals (MHP), a sense of failure is associated with impaired patientcare and reduced worker wellbeing, including higher rates of burnout and secondary traumatic stress. As part of a larger mixed-methods study on the effects of EOL-care provision on MHP in general hospitals, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 physicians and nurses at three tertiary Israeli hospitals, representing a wide range of medical specialties, training, experience, and cultural backgrounds...
March 29, 2024: Social Science & Medicine
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Eike Siilbek, Karin Streimann
The Communities That Care Youth Survey (CTCYS) assesses risk and protective factors, predicting a range of behavioural health problems, including substance use, violence, and delinquency. Although the survey has been adapted to other contexts and languages, further studies on cross-cultural adaptations, particularly in non-English speaking countries, are needed. In 2022, CTCYS was adapted for Estonia, incorporating 38 risk and protective factors, along with measures of substance use, antisocial behaviour, mental health problems, and self-harm...
April 3, 2024: J Prev (2022)
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Rachel F Adler, Kevin Baez, Paulina Morales, Jocelyn Sotelo, David Victorson, Susan Magasi
BACKGROUND: More than 18 million cancer survivors are living in the United States. The effects of cancer and its treatments can have cognitive, psychological, physical, and social consequences that many survivors find incredibly disabling. Posttreatment support is often unavailable or underused, especially for survivors living with disabilities. This leaves them to deal with new obstacles and struggles on their own, oftentimes feeling lost during this transition. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions have been shown to effectively aid cancer survivors in dealing with many of the aftereffects of cancer and its treatments; these interventions hold immense potential for survivors living with disabilities...
April 2, 2024: JMIR Human Factors
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Juan C Colado, Javier Gene-Morales, Pablo Jiménez-Martínez, Angel Saez-Berlanga, Ana María Ferri-Caruana, Amador Garcia-Ramos, Jorge Flandez, Carlos Babiloni-Lopez
The aim was to evaluate the concurrent validity and reliability of the Resistance Intensity Scale for Exercise [RISE], which uses verbal descriptors, to quantify the intensity in velocity-based training with elastic bands. Eighteen trained volunteers performed parallel squats at maximum speed at 40%, 55%, 70%, and 85%1RM in four sessions, two for familiarization and two for reliability. Each set was stopped at a 10% intra-set velocity loss. Participants reported the perceived effort (easy-low-moderate-hard-maximal) at the first and last repetition...
April 15, 2024: Heliyon
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Hui Shen, Hongyu Wu, Ning Zhang, Yuchen Zhang, Zhengyang Wu, Beiping Cheng, Minao Wang, Xuefei Liu
In the post-pandemic era, there is a need for medical professionals with creativity, clinical expertise, and social responsibility. The Chinese government issued a directive to enhance the "Five Characteristics" perceptions of medical students, incorporating moral integrity and adeptness in saving lives and aiding the injured, embracing a compassionate approach to medical practice, possessing the knowledge essential for academic distinction, mastering technical expertise, and the artistry of applying scientific methodologies...
March 28, 2024: Scientific Reports
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