2026 September-2 - 243 articles
Background: In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI)-integrated platforms have emerged, providing access to health information and extending beyond information retrieval to include personalized health monitoring and decision support. However, ma...
Background: Improving health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and return to work (RTW) among adults with cancer are central to cancer survivorship care, but the effects of different non-pharmacological interventions remain unclear. We evaluated exerci...
Background: Vancomycin monitoring has traditionally relied on trough concentrations; however, recent guidelines recommend AUC-guided monitoring to optimize exposure while minimizing nephrotoxicity risk. This study compared trough-based clinical dosin...
Background: Determinants of non-institutional delivery, particularly in the antenatal period, have been described previously, but less is known about the sequence of events during pregnancy and decision-making processes occurring between labour onset...
Background/Objectives: Hospital malnutrition is a prevalent and clinically significant issue associated with prolonged hospital stays, increased complications, and mortality. Although nurses play a key role in monitoring nutritional status and delive...
Background: Estimated pulse wave velocity (ePWV) is a non-invasive marker of arterial stiffness with potential relevance for chronic kidney disease (CKD) risk assessment. This study aimed to investigate the association between ePWV and CKD risk in th...
The journal retracts the article titled “Ketamine in acute brain injury: current opinion following cerebral circulation and electrical activity” [...]
Background: Problematic social media use has been associated with effects on mental health, such as greater appearance-related anxiety, which may lead to reduced engagement in physical activity. However, the directions, magnitudes, and mechanisms of...
Background/Objectives: Missed nursing care is a patient-safety concern shaped by organizational resources, workload, and care prioritization. No Romanian version of the Revised MISSCARE Survey has previously undergone published cross-cultural and psy...
Background and Objectives: Outcomes after cochlear implantation are usually judged using audiological measures, although recipients’ everyday benefit also depends on psychological and social functioning. This study characterized post-implant qu...
Background and Aim: Psychiatric nurses are frequently exposed to emotionally demanding situations that may increase their risk of occupational stress. Coping strategies are relevant to how psychiatric nurses respond to demanding occupational situatio...
Background/Objectives: Patients use artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for medical information, but response quality, source transparency, and readability for primary aldosteronism (PA) remain uncertain. This study compared four chatbot configurat...
Background/Objectives: Population ageing has increased the number of institutionalised older adults with multimorbidity, frailty, a high symptom burden, and complex care needs. However, data on symptom burden in residential care facilities remains li...
Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for a substantial share of morbidity and mortality in Greece and create increasing demands on prevention, primary care, and long-term disease management. This study assessed the current national si...
Background: A woman’s childbirth experience is important to her health and family well-being. Evidence-based intrapartum care may support a positive experience. When resources are constrained, identifying services that are most strongly associa...
Background/Objectives: Workplace mental health surveys routinely measure exhaustion and work engagement, but whether either distinguishes work-attributed depression from depression in general remains unclear. We examined this question among Korean wa...
Background/Objectives: Patient expectations, satisfaction, and perceptions of specialization in family medicine are critical to improving primary care, and health literacy (HL) shapes patients’ engagement with health information. This study ass...
Background: Depressive symptoms are common among middle-aged and older adults in China, and formal treatment is uncommon, so the course of symptoms often unfolds without intervention. Prognostic research has concentrated on who develops depression an...
Background/Objective: Clinical Research Nurses (CRNs) are recognized members of multidisciplinary teams in clinical trials (CTs), contributing to both research procedures and patient-centered care. Although competency frameworks describe the expected...
Objective: Fatigue is a highly prevalent and debilitating symptom among patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD). Yet, feasible home-based interventions remain limited. To assess the feasibility and observed safety of home-based moxibustion in pa...
Background/Objectives: This study examined associations of mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) with suicidal ideation among older Korean adults, and whether an HRQOL difference persisted after adjustment for depressive symptoms....
Background/Objectives: Postural and gait assessment is essential in the clinical evaluation of people with Parkinson’s disease (PwPD). However, conventional clinical assessments may lack the complexity required to uncover subtle deficits, parti...
Background/Objectives: Emotion regulation may be relevant to trauma processing during Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, but associations between specific regulatory processes and distinct processing patterns remain unclear...
Background/Objectives: Evidence regarding sustained changes in ambulance utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic is inconsistent, and long-term national evidence from Saudi Arabia is limited. This study assessed changes in the level and weekly trend...
Background/Objectives: Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable disease, with persistent health disparities for underserved populations. Health literacy may influence tobacco use and cessation. This study examined associations among healt...
Background: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is the reference non-invasive imaging modality for evaluating cardiomyopathies, providing comprehensive assessment of cardiac morphology, function, and tissue characterization. Radiomics has recentl...
Background/Objectives: Sleep timing is an important dimension of sleep health, yet its association with sleep quality among university esports players remains unclear. This study examined factors associated with poor sleep quality, emphasizing habitu...
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in interventions among individuals with neurodevelopmental and cognitive disorders, offering personalized and adaptive approaches that advance traditional therapeutic practices. Alth...
Robotic gait technologies can deliver intensive, repetitive, task-oriented stepping, but multimodal platforms require careful integration before clinical testing. This concept-level technical proof-of-concept describes Li-Walk®, an investigationa...
Oral and dental health care, when organized in different countries of the world, has one main objective—to improve oral health among individuals and populations [...]
Background/Objective: Pain self-efficacy is an important determinant of pain-related disability and recovery in individuals with musculoskeletal disorders. Although the Arabic Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ) has demonstrated satisfactory psyc...
Background: Patient-centered care (PCC) is central to diabetes management; unfortunately, evidence concerning its relationship with patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) in primary healthcare facilities in Jeddah is limited. This study examined th...
Background/Objectives: Effective chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management requires nurses who can support education, treatment adherence, smoking cessation, symptom monitoring, and pulmonary rehabilitation. This study described COPD ca...
Background: Greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS) may coexist with lumbar degenerative spine disease (LDSD) and complicate pain attribution. Methods: This retrospective cohort study evaluated the observed frequency and short-term clinical course...
Background/Objectives: Physician shortages increasingly challenge the provision of medical care at mass gathering events. Telemedicine may expand the treatment capabilities of Emergency medical technician intermediates (EMT-I), but the extent to whic...
Background/Objectives: Tinnitus becomes more common with age, and age-related hearing loss accounts for an increasing share of cases in later life, whereas modifiable behavioural factors may contribute relatively more in midlife. Population-based evi...
Introduction: Mothers of children with disabilities may experience substantial and prolonged psychophysical burden, which can negatively affect psychological well-being, health-related quality of life, and physical functioning. This study describes t...
Background/Objectives: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) remain major public health challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, which bears the highest burden of HIV/TB co-infection. Evidence is limited on whether the severity of virolog...
Background: Effective hygiene and infection prevention are essential for patient and staff safety in EMS. This study assessed hygiene and infection prevention knowledge among EMS personnel and emergency physicians in Thuringia, Germany. Specifically,...
Background/Objectives: The relative contribution of pharmacotherapy versus patient-level factors to smoking cessation success remains unclear, particularly in real-world settings where access to first-line treatments such as varenicline is limited. T...
Background: The concept of quality of life (QoL) has become a fundamental focus of research involving people with intellectual disabilities (IDs). Numerous studies have explored this concept. Furthermore, incorporating the first-person perspectives o...
Introduction: Computer-based simulation technologies, including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and three-dimensional (3D) modeling, are increasingly used in pediatric cardiovascular care. Despite growing adoption of...
Background: Women’s awareness and health beliefs regarding urinary incontinence (UI) and Kegel exercises may influence both symptom management and broader lifestyle behaviors. This study examined associations between women’s health belief...
Background: This study aimed to evaluate the performance of machine learning models in predicting depression risk among older adults living alone and to identify the features contributing to those predictions using explainable artificial intelligence...
ALK rearrangements define an important molecular subtype of lung adenocarcinoma, and the rearranged ALK serves as a well-established oncogenic driver in this malignancy. The most common type of mutation is the EML4-ALK fusion. Meanwhile, rare fusions...
Background/Objectives: Efficient resource allocation is essential for the sustainability of public hospitals operating under financial and capacity constraints. This study evaluated the volume-based technical efficiency and productivity of public hos...
Background/Objectives: University students face academic, social, and lifestyle-related demands with the potential to influence affective functioning. Mood states provide information on everyday emotional profiles and may be associated with physical...
Background: Nonspecific neck pain is commonly associated with limited cervical mobility, increased pain sensitivity, and postural changes. Although home exercise supports self-management, the relative effects of app-based and handout-based delivery r...
Background/Objectives: Screen exposure is widespread in preschool children, but developmental associations are difficult to interpret because use varies by duration, content, and caregiving context. This review synthesized evidence on associations wi...
Background/Objectives: Everyday access to essential services is an important consideration for rural aging in place. This study examined multidomain access barriers and identified applied gerontological intervention priorities in rural South Korea. M...
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