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Background: Surgeons’ stress can significantly impact performance, leading to medical errors. Various factors contribute to stress, including a procedure’s complexity and surgeon experience. However, the field currently lacks a standardis...
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Background/Objectives: The aim of this study was to synthesise qualitative evidence from family members’ experiences of long-term home care for older adults provided by live-in migrant caregivers. Methods: We conducted a systematic literature r...
13 February 2026
Background: Physical inactivity remains a major public health challenge, particularly for underserved populations lacking exercise facility access. AI-powered smartphone applications with real-time human pose estimation offer scalable solutions, but...
The doctor–patient relationship is a central factor in healthcare delivery. Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents an emerging technological frontier whose implications remain to be fully clarified. Evidence-based studies provide reliable anal...
Background/Objectives: In March 2024, a resident doctor’s strike in South Korea created staffing gaps in teaching-hospital emergency departments. The purpose of this study was to evaluate pre- and post-strike changes in job stress, self-efficac...
Background/Objectives: Palliative care (PC) has traditionally focused on patients with cancer and their families. However, individuals living with advanced non-malignant chronic diseases and their caregivers face comparable challenges that significan...
Background/Objectives: Understanding the determinants of physical activity (PA) and health outcomes requires integrating environmental and motivational perspectives. Grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT), this study tested a sequential model in...
Background/Objectives: Dental trauma is common in childhood and may negatively affect oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL). Given the growing volume and diversity of publications on this topic, a bibliometric approach is suitable for mapping...
Introduction: A woman’s health and her child’s development are greatly affected by the responsiveness and support of the health system throughout the postpartum period. While various scholars have analysed the qualities of continuity of c...
Background/Objectives: Digital environments have intensified exposure to interpersonal stressors and appearance-related evaluation, raising concerns about cyberbullying and problematic internet use among women with eating disorders (EDs). This study...
Background: Poor sleep quality is common among university students and may contribute to adverse reproductive health outcomes, including dysmenorrhea. However, limited evidence exists on whether chronic sleep disturbance independently predicts dysmen...
Background/Objectives: The aviation sector is characterized by high-density flight operations and chronic stressors that compromise worker health. This study focuses on burnout syndrome as a multidimensional phenomenon resulting from the interaction...
Background: Spousal caregivers and adult-child caregivers are the main sources of informal care of patients with dementia. They are primarily responsible for providing daily assistance, emotional support, and long-term care within the family. Methods...
Introduction: Humanitarian corridors were first established in Italy in 2015 as part of the Protected Entry Procedures (PEPs). These corridors provide a safe and legal route to Europe for migrants in need of protection, offering an alternative to per...
Background/Objectives: Population ageing is accelerating, and adults aged ≥75 years (the “very old”) have distinct functional, cognitive, and social needs. Game-based digital interventions—including exergames, serious/digital gam...
Background/Objectives: Emergency department length of stay (ED LOS) is a key indicator reflecting emergency department crowding, patient safety, and healthcare resource efficiency. Among injured patients, ED LOS may be prolonged depending on injury s...
Background/Objectives: White-collar workers experience a unique dual burden of high psychological demands and prolonged static loading, creating a need to understand how physical resilience may mitigate these stressors. This study investigated the mo...
Background/Objectives: The second victim phenomenon is increasingly recognized as a significant issue affecting nurses involved in adverse events resulting from clinical decisions or interventions. Although patients and families, considered the first...
Introduction: The postmenopausal period is characterized by significant biological and psychosocial changes that can impact women’s physical activity levels and overall quality of life. Physical activity is recognized as one of the key modifiab...
Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) represents a major global public health concern with profound psychological and social consequences for women. This review synthesizes contemporary evidence (2020–2025) on IPV prevalence, mental healt...
Background: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding strains clinicians and potentially compromises urgent care quality. Unscheduled return visits (URVs), also known as readmissions, contribute to this cycle, motivating tools that identify high-risk pa...
Background: Knowledge sharing is essential for healthcare organizations to enhance service quality, organizational learning, and sustainable performance. However, the organizational and individual conditions that facilitate voluntary knowledge sharin...
Introduction: Understanding how self-efficacy relates to medication adherence is crucial for patients with heart failure. This study investigated how stress mediates the relationship between self-efficacy and adherence to prescribed medication in pat...
Background: Nurse teletriage has emerged as a component of modern healthcare delivery, utilizing telecommunication technologies to assess patient conditions remotely and guide appropriate care decisions. As healthcare systems face increasing demand a...
Objectives: With the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) research across journals and conferences, traditional literature reviews face challenges in capturing broad patterns. This bibliometric analysis maps publication trends, geographic and...
Background/Objectives: Pilates exercises performed on different apparatuses may elicit distinct acute responses in cardiovascular function and musculoskeletal flexibility, yet comparative data on the immediate effects of reformer (RF), cadillac (CD),...
Background: The literature shows a strong association between level of education and the risk of developing Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). However, the extent to which this association attenuates after accounting for sociodemographic characteristics a...
Effective pain management is central to anesthesia, critical care, and perioperative medicine, and opioids remain essential agents for moderate-to-severe pain despite ongoing concerns regarding their safety and misuse. This narrative review synthesiz...
Background/Objectives: Chronic musculoskeletal pain is highly prevalent in primary care and is associated with impaired quality of life and increased healthcare utilization. Multimodal physiotherapy approaches combining pain neuroscience education an...
Background: Heart failure (HF) is a progressive, multisystem syndrome characterized by recurrent decompensation, high hospitalization rates, and substantial mortality. Conventional HF management is mainly episodic and often fails to detect worsening...
Background: Burnout is a growing concern among medical doctors, particularly in high-pressure environments, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigates the prevalence and determinants of burnout among physicians worki...
Background: Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) and infertility are associated with significant psychological morbidity, including stress, anxiety, and depression. While these impacts are well-documented globally, their prevalence and severity in the Oman...
Background/Objectives: Endometriosis affects ~10% of women, causing chronic pain, reduced quality of life, and, often, infertility. As endometriosis literacy and awareness are low in society and among health care providers (HCPs), patients are often...
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is frequently encountered in critically ill patients and has been associated with poor outcomes. However, its independent impact on short-term mortality in heterogeneous ICU populations remains unclear. Objectives:...
Introduction: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is characterized by pain, stiffness, and functional limitation. Aerobic exercise (AE) is a key treatment with proven benefits. Aims: To determine the most effective AE intensity for KOA. Methods: Searches were...
Background: Workplace gaslighting, as a form of psychological manipulation, may negatively affect nurses’ work behaviors and perception of care. However, its connection to perceived quality of care, patient safety and quiet quitting has not bee...
Background: The viscoelastic properties of muscle tissue are important factors affecting muscle performance; they play a significant role in maintaining spinal stability, as well as muscle contraction and function. Changes in these properties can res...
Background: The prognosis of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is impaired by etiology heterogeneity across regions. Currently, prognostic models incorporating nutrient anabolism–related indicators for patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV)&...
Background/Objectives: University students exhibit high levels of sedentary behavior and low adherence to physical activity recommendations, and immersive virtual reality (IVR) represents an innovative strategy to increase physical activity participa...
Background/Objectives: This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluate the impact of ostomy on quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer, synthesizing evidence from case–control and interventional studies, and to assess the consisten...
Background: The clinical presentation of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and panic disorder can sometimes overlap, particularly when the seizure symptoms include paroxysmal episodes of intense fear and autonomic symptoms. As a result, patients with TLE...
Background: Therapeutic prone positioning is widely used to improve oxygenation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome but is associated with an increased risk of pressure injuries, particularly affecting facial and anterior body region...
Introduction: Emotional intelligence (EI) is increasingly acknowledged as a component that may influence nurses’ job performance (JP), particularly in high-stress contexts. This study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and...
Background: Electronic Medical Records improve decision-making but add administrative burdens for healthcare providers, such as physicians and nurses. While the rate of adoption is high in Saudi Arabia, the concrete temporary impact and reasoning beh...
Background/Objectives: In Phenylketonuria (PKU), engaging in regular physical activity and exercise (PA/E) is important for physical and psychological health, but additional considerations may be required to facilitate uptake and performance as well...
Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been identified as the causative agent of cervical cancer and other cancers of the genital area, head and neck, on a worldwide scale. Despite the proven effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing HPV-related...
Objective: To address the heavy burden of ego depletion and decision conflict in patients with advanced cancer, this study employed network analysis to explore their interaction mechanisms and identify key intervention targets, overcoming the limitat...
Background/Objectives: Healthcare and human service organizations face mounting pressures to adapt to social and public health challenges while maintaining quality care. Innovative work behavior among healthcare and human service professionals is cri...
Background/Objectives: This methodology article describes the development and application of a structured planning instrument for community health education interventions. Community health education can strengthen population preparedness against resp...
Introduction: Mental disorders, particularly depression and anxiety, represent a leading source of morbidity and disability in young adults, a group increasingly exposed to cumulative psychological processes and environmental stressors. Although evid...
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