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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38537179/dispersion-control-over-molecule-cohesion-exploiting-and-dissecting-the-tipping-power-of-aromatic-rings
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ricardo A Mata, Tlektes Zhanabekova, Daniel A Obenchain, Martin A Suhm
ConspectusWe have learned over the past years how London dispersion forces can be effectively used to influence or even qualitatively tip the structure of aggregates and the conformation of single molecules. This happens despite the fact that single dispersion contacts are much weaker than competing polar forces. It is a classical case of strength by numbers, with the importance of London dispersion forces scaling with the system size. Knowledge about the tipping points, however difficult to attain, is necessary for a rational design of intermolecular forces...
March 27, 2024: Accounts of Chemical Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38537107/exploring-psychosocial-distress-in-caregivers-of-children-and-youth-with-special-health-care-needs
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Régine Placide Reaves, Giovanna De Oliveira, Angel Johann Solorzano Martinez
PURPOSE: Caring for a child or youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) can be overwhelming. Parents and caregivers may experience psychosocial distress, such as depression, frustration, and hopelessness. The purpose of the current study was to gain further insight into families' perspectives on the psychosocial impacts of caring for CYSHCN to identify gaps in health care systems and strengthen systems of support. METHOD: A qualitative descriptive design was used in 16 parents and caregivers...
April 1, 2024: Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536991/-perception-of-the-food-environment-by-brazilian-slum-residents-a-qualitative-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Luana Lara Rocha, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Mariana Zogbi Jardim, Paulo César Pereira de Castro Junior, Emanuelly Porto Oliveira, Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso, Larissa Loures Mendes
Food availability in the territory can influence food consumption by the population. However, it is important to understand how people perceive their food environment to see how food availability affects consumption in different contexts. This study aimed to assess the perception of the food environment by Brazilian slum residents in their neighborhoods. This is a qualitative study, with online focus groups guided by a script in order to gather collective discourses about access to food in Brazilian slums. The invitation to participate in this study was made through social media, and community leaders and nongovernmental organizations with actions in slums were contacted using the snowball sampling technique...
2024: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536885/mothers-perspectives-of-the-barriers-and-facilitators-to-reducing-young-children-s-screen-time-during-covid-19-a-reddit-content-analysis
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Leann Blake, Patricia Tucker, Leigh M Vanderloo
Screen time for children under 5 is associated with various health risks. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, screen use among young children increased significantly. Mothers were more likely than fathers to be the primary caregivers and disproportionally assumed the responsibility of monitoring their children's screen time. Several studies have examined children's screen use throughout the pandemic; however, few have addressed mothers' experiences. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate mothers' perceptions regarding the barriers and facilitators faced when trying to reduce their child's pandemic screen time, as expressed on Reddit (a social media platform for anonymous discussion and information sharing)...
2024: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536852/barriers-and-facilitators-to-parents-engagement-with-and-perceived-impact-of-a-childhood-obesity-app-a-mixed-methods-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Madison Milne-Ives, Em Rahman, Hannah Bradwell, Rebecca Baines, Timothy Boey, Alison Potter, Wendy Lawrence, Michelle Helena van Velthoven, Edward Meinert
Childhood obesity is a growing global health concern. Although mobile health apps have the potential to deliver behavioural interventions, their impact is commonly limited by a lack of sufficient engagement. The purpose of this study was to explore barriers and facilitators to engagement with a family-focused app and its perceived impact on motivation, self-efficacy, and behaviour. Parents with at least one child under 18 and healthcare professionals working with children were recruited; all participants were allocated to use the NoObesity app over a 6-month period...
March 2024: PLOS Digit Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536828/health-professionals-experience-on-district-health-information-system-dhis2-and-its-utilization-at-local-levels-in-gandaki-province-nepal-a-qualitative-study
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Prakash Raj Bhatt, Rabindra Bhandari, Shiksha Adhikari, Nand Ram Gahatraj
DHIS2 is a web-based platform primarily used in developing countries, ensuring reliable data and aiding decentralized decision-making. The Ministry of Health and Population has greatly emphasized using DHIS2 for data entry and reporting. However, studies regarding health workers' experiences on DHIS2 and the utilization of data at the local level remain limited. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the usage and practical experience of DHIS2 at the local levels of Gandaki province, Nepal. An exploratory qualitative study was conducted in the Gandaki province from February to August 2023...
2024: PLOS Glob Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536811/designing-iranian-hospital-organizational-charts-global-comparisons
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Mostafa Amini-Rarani, Somayeh Mokhtari, Mohammad Akbari, Zahra Zamani, Somayeh Mahdiyan
BACKGROUND: Hospitals should have effective and efficient organizational charts to face the changing healthcare environment. Thus, for this purpose, the present study seeks to compile an organizational chart for Iranian hospitals. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study was conducted in two phase overview and qualitative (using focus group discussion). In the overview phase, the organizational charts of hospitals were analyzed in terms of complexity (i.e., degree of horizontal and vertical separations), and the initial hospital organizational chart was developed based on the results...
2024: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536795/why-do-people-sell-their-kidneys-a-thematic-synthesis-of-qualitative-evidence
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Bijaya Shrestha, Luechai Sringernyuang, Manash Shrestha, Binita Shrestha, Anuska Adhikari, Dev Ram Sunuwar, Shiva Raj Mishra, Bipin Adhikari
Globally, demands for the kidneys have surpassed supply both living and deceased donors. High demands relative to the availability have made the kidney one of the most saleable human organs. The main objective was to explore the drivers of kidney selling. Literature related to kidney selling and its drivers was explored in three databases including MEDLINE (PubMed), Scopus (Elsevier), and JSTOR covering the period from 1987 to 2022. A total of 15 articles were selected, which underwent thematic analysis. Investigators independently assessed the articles for relevance and study quality to synthesize the data...
2024: PLOS Glob Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536792/progress-and-challenges-in-achieving-tuberculosis-elimination-in-india-by-2025-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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Abhishek Padhi, Ashwini Agarwal, Mayuri Bhise, Anil Chaudhary, Krupal Joshi, C D S Katoch
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose a significant public health challenge in India, which is home to one of the highest TB burdens worldwide. This systematic review and meta-analysis will aim to synthesize the anticipated progress and potential challenges in achieving TB elimination in India by 2025. METHODS: A comprehensive search will be conducted across multiple databases, including PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science, to identify relevant studies...
2024: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536789/difficulties-and-challenges-experienced-by-nurses-in-eldercare-institutions-in-albania-a-qualitative-content-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nertila Podgorica, Emiljano Pjetri, Andreas W Müller M A, Susanne Perkhofer
INTRODUCTION: The global and Albanian populations of elderly people are steadily increasing. It is estimated that the number of elderly adults requiring care in Albania will rise from 90.9 thousand to 130.4 thousand by 2030. Despite the envisaged increase in the number and life expectancy of the elderly population in Albania, which will result in an increased demand for nursing care, little is known about the difficulties and challenges that nurses face while providing care for elderly Albanian individuals...
2024: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536771/challenges-and-coping-strategies-of-older-adults-in-the-aftermath-of-kahramanmara%C3%A5-earthquake-in-t%C3%A3-rkiye-a-qualitative-research
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Nilgun Kuru Alici, Bilge Kalanlar
The aim of this study was to explore the post-earthquake experiences, difficulties, and coping strategies of older adults who experienced the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes that occurred in Türkiye in 2023. This research was designed as a qualitative descriptive study. The study was conducted with 21 (13 female and 8 male) older adults and the mean age of the participants was 70.2 (in the range of 65-85). In line with the data obtained from the participants, " Fulfilling Basic Needs of Older Adults, Emotional Turmoil in Later Life, Healthcare Disparities in Aging, Adaptive Response of Older Adults" themes and sub-themes related to the theme were formed...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Applied Gerontology: the Official Journal of the Southern Gerontological Society
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536704/networks-of-hydrogen-bond-networks-in-water-clusters
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrey M Tokmachev
Water clusters play a prominent role in atmospheric and solution chemistry. Numerous arrangements of protons, H-bond configurations or networks, shape the cluster properties. Studies of small water clusters by cryogenic scanning tunneling microscopy and high-resolution rovibrational spectroscopy have established proton rearrangement mechanisms forming pathways between H-bond networks. The mechanisms, concerted tunneling in particular, describe the local processes connecting pairs of configurations. Here, proton rearrangement networks mapping these transformations are defined and explored to provide a global view of the H-bond configurations in clusters...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Physical Chemistry. A
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536698/few-shot-face-stylization-via-gan-prior-distillation
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Ruoyu Zhao, Mingrui Zhu, Nannan Wang, Xinbo Gao
Face stylization has made notable progress in recent years. However, when training on limited data, the performance of existing approaches significantly declines. Although some studies have attempted to tackle this problem, they either failed to achieve the few-shot setting (less than 10) or can only get suboptimal results. In this article, we propose GAN Prior Distillation (GPD) to enable effective few-shot face stylization. GPD contains two models: a teacher network with GAN Prior and a student network that fulfills end-to-end translation...
March 27, 2024: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536653/validation-of-a-patient-specific-finite-element-analysis-framework-for-identification-of-growing-rod-failure-regions-in-early-onset-scoliosis-patients
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Daksh Jayaswal, Manoj Kodigudla, Amey Kelkar, Vijay Goel, Vivek Palepu
PURPOSE: Growing rods are the gold-standard for treatment of early onset scoliosis (EOS). However, these implanted rods experience frequent fractures, requiring additional surgery. A recent study by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identified four common rod fracture locations. Leveraging this data, Agarwal et al. were able to correlate these fractures to high-stress regions using a novel finite element analysis (FEA) framework for one patient. The current study aims to further validate this framework through FEA modeling extended to multiple patients...
March 27, 2024: Spine Deformity
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536619/acceptability-and-feasibility-of-the-plasma-separation-card-for-an-integrated-model-of-care-for-hbv-and-hcv-screening-among-people-attending-hiv-clinics-in-cameroon-and-uganda
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Camila A Picchio, Aina Nicolàs, Ironne Valdèse Ayemfouo Fofou, Viola Kasone, Magellan Guewo-Fokeng, Claude T Tagny, Teddy Nanyonjo, Hellen Nansumba, Yves Nacel Kouongni, Rita Gaëlle Epse Sezawo Kamdjeu, Emmanuel Seremba, Charles Kouanfack, Isaac Ssewanyana, Richard Njouom, Ariadna Rando Segura, Francisco Rodríguez-Frías, Jean Claude Mbanya, Ponsiano Ocama, Jeffrey V Lazarus
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan African countries have a high burden of viral hepatitis and poor access to screening and care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of using the plasma separation card (PSC) for viral hepatitis B and C screening among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Cameroon and Uganda. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study carried out between 05/2021 and 03/2023 including 192 PLHIV in Cameroon (n = 104) and Uganda (n = 88)...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536612/filarial-nematodes-in-dogs-from-the-northeast-region-of-brazil
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniely Oliveira do Nascimento Rocha, Lucia Oliveira Macedo, Jéssica Cardoso Pessoa de Oliveira, Samuel Souza Silva, Herbert Patric Kellermann Cleveland, Carlos Alberto do Nascimento Ramos, Alex Santos Marques, Leucio Câmara Alves, Gílcia Aparecida de Carvalho, Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos
PURPOSE: Medical and veterinary filarial nematodes are transmitted by blood-feeding vectors. In dogs, these parasites are mainly represented by nematodes in which microfilariae dwell in the blood (Dirofilaria spp. and Acanthocheilonema spp.) or skin (Cercopithifilaria spp. and Onchocerca lupi). The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of these filarial infections in dogs residing in a touristic, heavily populated location in the northeastern region of Brazil. METHODS: Blood samples (n = 245) were assessed by a modified Knott test, followed by a qualitative ELISA test (SNAP® 4Dx® Plus, IDEXX Laboratory, Westbrook, Maine, USA) for the detection of antibodies against Anaplasma spp...
March 27, 2024: Acta Parasitologica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536499/incidence-of-heterotopic-ossification-following-total-hip-arthroplasty-by-approach-a-systematic-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rex Herzberg, Olivia C Tracey, Shahriar Tahvilian, Nayeem Baksh, Bashir Zikria, Qais Naziri
BACKGROUND: Heterotopic ossification (HO) formation has been increasingly recognized as a complication of major orthopedic surgeries, particularly total hip arthroplasty (THA). Though, the overall incidence of HO following THA has been well-documented, it is often not reported by severity or by surgical approach. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES: (1) What are the demographics of patients with HO? (2) What is the severity of HO following THA using the Brooker classification? (3) What is the incidence and class of HO following different THA approaches (anterior, posterior, posterolateral, anterolateral, superior, lateral, trans-gluteal)? (4) What are the number and training level of surgeons who performed each procedure? METHODS: The PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science databases were queried, and PRISMA guidelines were followed...
March 27, 2024: European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology: Orthopédie Traumatologie
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536490/symptoms-of-selective-mutism-beyond-failure-to-speak-in-children-and-adolescents
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Felix Vogel, Carolin Röse, Christina Schwenck
Understanding the symptoms of a mental disorder is essential for accurate diagnosis or selecting appropriate treatment targets. Despite this, there is a surprising lack of systematic research on the symptoms of selective mutism (SM). While the DSM-5 defines failure to speak as the only core symptom of SM, sparse research suggests that children with SM may experience additional symptoms. Previous studies have been limited in their identification of symptoms of SM, either by using a predefined set of symptoms or by only asking for anxiety-specific symptoms...
March 27, 2024: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536236/outpatient-video-visits-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-cross-sectional-survey-study-of-patients-experiences-and-characteristics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stefanie C van den Bosch, Demi van Dalen, Marjan Meinders, Harry van Goor, Stefaan Bergé, Martijn Stommel, Sandra van Dulmen
BACKGROUND: During the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, an exponential increase in video consultations replacing in-person outpatient visits was observed in hospitals. Insight into patients' experiences with this type of consultation is helpful for a broad, sustainable, and patient-centered implementation of video consultation. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine patients' experiences with video consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic and identify discriminative patient and consultation characteristics to determine when video consultation is most feasible...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Medical Internet Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536231/assessment-of-the-barriers-and-enablers-of-the-use-of-mhealth-systems-in-sub-saharan-africa-according-to-the-perceptions-of-patients-physicians-and-health-care-executives-in-ethiopia-qualitative-study
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Genet Tadese Aboye, Gizeaddis Lamesgin Simegn, Jean-Marie Aerts
BACKGROUND: Digital technologies are increasingly being used to deliver health care services and promote public health. Mobile wireless technologies or mobile health (mHealth) technologies are particularly relevant owing to their ease of use, broad reach, and wide acceptance. Unlike developed countries, Sub-Saharan Africa experiences more challenges and obstacles when it comes to deploying, using, and expanding mHealth systems. In addition to barriers, there are enabling factors that could be exploited for the design, implementation, and scaling up of mHealth systems...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Medical Internet Research
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