2026 August-2 - 229 articles
Background/Objectives: To evaluate classification of improvement and agreement of walking-ability improvement criteria derived from outcome measures of walking capacity and performance among inpatients with spinal cord injury (SCI). Methods: Retrospe...
Background/Objectives: Older adults residing in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are at increased risk of poor oral health because of functional dependence and limited access to professional oral healthcare. Although oral healthcare education progra...
Background: Medical students are vulnerable to sleep disturbance and nocturnal eating behaviors that may jointly increase psychiatric and metabolic morbidity. Comprehensive sleep-eating evaluations in Turkish medical students remain limited. To deter...
Objective: This study assessed the prevalence of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) and its clinical, treatment-related, and psychological correlates in breast cancer survivors without active disease. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study in...
Background and Objectives: Sarcopenia and frailty are associated with falls, disability, and functional decline in older adults. This review evaluated traditional Chinese mind–body exercise (TCMBE), including Tai Chi and Health Qigong, in adult...
Background/Objectives: Postmenopausal aging is accompanied by progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and increased abdominal adiposity, both of which may influence bone health through distinct mechanical and metabolic pathways. However, their indep...
Background: The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, provides an evidence-based framework to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding through implementation of the Ten Steps to Succ...
Background/Objective: Recent advances in scientometric topic modeling have enhanced the capacity to rapidly assess evolving research priorities. This study aimed to characterize the thematic reorganization of clinical rehabilitation research during t...
Background/Objectives: Home-based telemedicine requires patients to perform technical tasks independently, whereas assisted public health center (PHC)-based telemedicine transfers some of these tasks to on-site personnel. This study describes model-s...
Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is common in patients with chronic respiratory disease, but whether its risk differs between emphysema and bronchiectasis remains unclear. We compared the subsequent risk of OSA between these two structural l...
Background/Objectives: Structural inequalities in access to healthcare persist even within systems that have achieved near-universal coverage, reflecting the enduring influence of social determinants of health on service utilization. This study exami...
Background: Smartphone screen exposure has increased substantially among young adults and has been associated with headache and sleep disturbances. This study aimed to investigate the associations between smartphone screen time, headache severity, sl...
Background/Objectives: Although current guidelines (European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy [ESGE] 2024, U.S. Multi-Society Task Force [USMSTF] 2020) recommend cold snare polypectomy (CSP) over cold forceps polypectomy (CFP) for small colorect...
Background: Early pressure injury detection is essential in acute care, yet diagnostic inequities persist for individuals with dark skin tones. Traditional visual assessment relies on colour changes that may not be visible in richly pigmented skin, c...
Background: Diabetes mellitus is a major public health concern in Saudi Arabia, affecting approximately 18.3% of adults. Although over 95% of people in the Qassim region own smartphones, limited information exists regarding how and why patients with...
Objective: To describe the clinical and sociodemographic profile of patients treated in a public assisted reproduction unit and to analyze the association between these characteristics and the type of assisted reproductive technique used. Materials a...
Background: Supine flexible cystoscopy is already established in routine urological practice. However, real-world patient-reported pain across specific procedural stages and other patient-centered outcomes according to clinician-selected procedural p...
Background/Objectives: South Korea faces one of the world’s most rapid demographic transitions. As population ageing accelerates, creating environments that support healthy ageing-in-place has become a critical public health priority. Grounded...
Background/Objectives: Despite its proven benefits, skin-to-skin contact (SSC) after caesarean section faces significant barriers to implementation. Complementing two previous randomised controlled trials conducted by our group, this descriptive qual...
Background/Objectives: Interprofessional education (IPE) supports collaborative practice, but educational exposure, self-rated knowledge, and collaboration are distinct constructs. We examined the adjusted associations between self-reported prior IPE...
Background: Physical exercise is a vital component of cancer rehabilitation, with demonstrated improvements in cancer health-related outcomes, relapse rates, mortality and overall survival, yet global participation remains low. In Singapore, uptake o...
Background: Frozen shoulder (FS) is a debilitating condition characterized by pain and restricted range of motion (ROM), often leading to prolonged treatment and economic burden. Home exercise programs are effective for FS, so we developed the Defroz...
Background: Delirium management remains inconsistently implemented in intensive care units (ICUs), and existing studies provide limited insight into how assessment capability, organisational opportunity, and emotional motivation interact in Chinese t...
Background/Objectives: Children now spend a substantial part of daily life in digital environments, and their digital, media, and information literacies shape their online safety, social-emotional development, and mental health, making these competen...
Background/Objectives: Regular participation in physical activity is essential for maintaining health and well-being and plays a key role in disease prevention and quality of life, both in the general population and among people with disabilities, wh...
Background: South Korea reports one of the highest adolescent suicide rates among OECD countries. Both psychological factors (perceived stress, depression) and somatic/behavioral factors (atopic disease, obesity, diet, physical activity) have been pr...
Background: The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS), into healthcare offers substantial efficiency but introduces critical ethical and legal challenges, particularly the perpetuatio...
Background/Objectives: Pulmonary function tests (PFTs), especially spirometry, are important for chronic respiratory disease diagnosis and management, but Baidu-based online search interest in PFT-related information remains insufficiently characteri...
Background/Objectives: Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of disability worldwide, and exercise-based rehabilitation is recognized as an effective management strategy. However, adherence to exercise remains challenging. Fully immersive virtual re...
Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a multidimensional chronic pain condition associated with alterations in sensorimotor processing, body perception, and psychological functioning. Although laterality discrimination impairments have been described for...
Background and Objectives: This study was conducted to assess changes in swallowing function in thyroidectomy patients and to identify clinical risk factors associated with persistent patient-reported swallowing symptoms. Methods: The study was a ret...
Background: Adoption of surgical robotic systems is accelerating globally, driven by advances in clinical capability, ergonomics, and workflow efficiency. However, robotic surgery programs introduce complex organizational challenges related to patien...
Background/Objectives: Healthcare workforce shortages and the challenges facing healthcare professionals are among the most pressing issues confronting contemporary health systems. This study examines the social representations of public, private, an...
Background: Poor adherence to home exercise programs is a persistent challenge in physical rehabilitation and beyond. Data suggest that follow-up telehealth visits featuring behavior change techniques can improve adherence. However, the optimal frequ...
Background: Healthy lifestyle guidance is an important component of outpatient preventive care, yet evidence is limited on whether outpatients receive satisfactory guidance across multiple lifestyle domains. This study examined receipt of satisfactor...
Background: Current evidence on diabetes care interventions is either fragmented or focused on specific interventions targeting healthcare professionals or patients. This study aims to categorize diabetes care interventions involving physicians or nu...
Background/Objectives: Primary health care (PHC) utilization in rural communities may depend not only on service availability but also on residents’ knowledge of available services, beliefs about service providers, and expectations regarding th...
Background: Healthcare access in Vietnam confronts regional disparities and rising demand, requiring collaborative policies and strong workforce performance to guarantee effective and affordable services. This study scrutinises how organisational cul...
Background/Objectives: Occupational therapy theories, models, and frameworks appear to be developed in Western countries. The philosophical framework for occupational therapy in South Africa appears to have relied upon various models, predominantly s...
Background/Objectives: Older adults may experience healthcare encounters in which their voices are discounted, redirected through family members, or interpreted through age-related assumptions about cognitive decline. Although such problems are often...
Introduction: Sudden cardiac death in children and adolescents is a devastating yet potentially preventable event. There is, therefore, an urgent need for early recognition of young patients at elevated cardiac risk. Electrocardiographic screening ma...
Background: Work-related fatigue is a preventable occupational health concern in high-intensity manufacturing environments. However, supervisors and occupational health services often lack transparent criteria to support the preventive review of over...
Background/Objective: Asthma-related quality of life is related to multiple clinical, physiological, and behavioral factors. Nonetheless, the domain-specific associations of asthma control, inhaler adherence, lung function, and demographic characteri...
Background/Objectives: Positive psychological constructs such as psychological well-being, resilience, subjective vitality, and mental toughness are fundamental to students’ emotional adjustment and overall development. Physical activity (PA) i...
Background/Objectives: Achondroplasia is the most common skeletal dysplasia and the leading genetic cause of disproportionate short stature. Although its biological basis involves gain-of-function variants in the FGFR3 gene, achondroplasia is a lifel...
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the association between oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and depressive symptoms among older adults in Canton Zurich, Switzerland, and to explore domain-specific variations. Methods:...
Background: Lifestyle habits are critical determinants of psychological health. This study aimed to determine the association between lifestyle factors and perceived stress levels, examining the potential mediating role of Mediterranean diet adherenc...
Objectives: This study aimed to characterize training coverage across different knowledge and skill domains among clinical pharmacists in China and identify variations across domains, providing nationwide evidence to inform training curriculum optimi...
Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of mortality worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Although elevated cholesterol is a well-established modifiable risk factor for atherosclerotic CVD, the pheno...
Background/Objectives: Drowning among children younger than five years remains a major public health problem in Thailand, particularly in residential water environments. Caregivers’ supervision and home safety practices play an important role i...
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