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Background/Objectives: Visit cancellations in psychiatric home-visit nursing may be affected by service users’ mental or physical conditions, daily circumstances, family involvement, relationships with staff, and service-delivery factors. Exami...

Recent emphasis has been placed on the integration of dental and medical primary care in an effort to promote recommendations from both American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) that highlight the importa...

Background and Objectives: Systolic blood pressure (SBP) variability has been increasingly associated with cardiovascular outcomes, including stroke. This study aimed to evaluate the association between visit-to-visit SBP variability and the risk of...

This study proposes a user visit certification and visit trace system using inaudible frequencies in the range of audible frequencies but not those audible to people. The signal frequency consists of inaudible frequencies in the range of 18 kHz to 20...

In this paper, we introduce a novel smartphone framework called VisitSense that automatically detects and predicts a smartphone user’s place visits from ambient radio to enable behavioral targeting for mobile ads in large shopping malls. VisitSense e...

Despite the 2012 fee revision raising fees for home-visit nursing services to increase their supply in Japan, 300 to 500 home-visit nursing agencies (VNA) are still being closed annually. This study aims to identify the regional and organizational ch...

The problem of understanding and predicting tourist behavior in choosing their destinations is a long-standing one. The first step in the process is to understand users’ intention to visit a country, which may later translate into an actual vis...

In 2023, the number of Chinese tourists visiting Malaysia had not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels, unlike those from some regions where tourism numbers have normalized. The lack of established research methodologies complicates the determination...

This study aimed to identify educational needs and determine priorities in nursing care for home visit nurses providing services within the national long-term care insurance system in South Korea. This cross-sectional descriptive study assessed the e...

Background: With the spread of COVID-19, neonatal intensive care units restricted visiting hours to prevent infection. As a result, mothers of high-risk newborns were restricted from making contact with their children. Various problems could be encou...

Due to the importance of the positive effects of urban forests on urban dwellers and the limitations of prior studies, which have mainly dealt with motivations involving rural or tourism-oriented forests, this study aims to develop a scale of visit m...

Dental fear is a common problem amongst children. It can affect children’s psychological well-being, quality of life, and oral and systemic health. The aim of this study was to identify whether the patients’ age at which visits to the pae...

This study examined the influence of Shariah-oriented attributes on Indonesian Muslims’ intention to visit Thailand, which is a non-Muslim country. This stimulus–organism–response (SOR) model was used to examine the relationships be...

In the era of social media, online reviews have become a crucial factor influencing the exposure of tourist destinations and the decision-making of potential tourists, exerting a profound impact on the sustainable development of these destinations. H...

This study seeks to investigate the influence of user-generated content (UGC) on tourist visit intentions. This study also aims to explore the mediating role of destination imagery in the relationship between UGC and tourist visit intentions. The fin...

Background: Referrals to the Stroke prevention clinic with incomplete preliminary investigations decrease clinic capacity due to additional workload and the need for multiple follow-ups. We aimed to improve the efficacy of the initial visit by increa...

Space–time prisms are used to model the uncertainty of space–time locations of moving objects between (for instance, GPS-measured) sample points. However, not all space–time points in a prism are equally likely and we propose a simple, formal model f...

Background/Objectives: Behavior management is a major challenge in pediatric dentistry, particularly during the first dental visit, when anxiety, fear, and negative expectations can compromise cooperation and clinical outcomes. While evidence-based b...

The present study examines the role of ChatGPT as a travel advisor in influencing tourists’ decision-making in regard to destination visit intentions. Grounded in the Information Systems Success (ISS) model, this study explores three primary re...

Background/Objectives: Barriers to food pantry use have been identified but little information is available regarding how these barriers are related to food pantry use. The purpose of this study was to assess relationships between barriers and (1) us...

Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) admission following a short-term emergency department (ED) revisit has been considered a particularly undesirable outcome among return-visit patients, although their in-hospital prognosis has not been discussed....

Throughout history, tools for engineering in the building industry have evolved. Due to the arrival of Industry 4.0, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) software have replaced the usage of pens, pencils, and paper in t...

In 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began worldwide. We examined the association between dental visit status and the incidence of COVID-19 and hospitalisation for it among older people based on medical claims data to help reduce...

COVID-19 global pandemic has caused massive disruption of travel behaviors along with other aspects of human life, such as social distancing, staying at home, and avoiding crowds. People substituted outdoor activities for indoor activities, and the f...

This study was conducted to determine whether overcrowding in the emergency department (ED) affects the occurrence of a return visit (RV) within 72 h. The crowding indicator of index visit was the average number of total patients, patients under obse...

The relevance of the tourism industry to the overall sustainability of rural territories grows along with the demand for rural tourism destinations. Likewise, as the digital transition of rural tour operators takes place, their marketing initiatives...

In this study, we use gratifications (U&G) theory to explore how social media shapes Millennials’ gastronomic destination choices. Rather than treating social media influence as uniform, we identify three key gratifications obtained from ga...

Halal tourism is pushed by the growth of the Muslim population worldwide. This present study aimed to examine the association between constructs of halal-friendly attributes, perceived value, destination trust, and visit intention and investigate the...

Travel blogs and vlogs increasingly influence destination choices, yet limited research explains how their informational characteristics and planning functions help prospective tourists evaluate less familiar destinations. Drawing on the Stimulus&nda...

Background/Objectives: The super-aged society and shortening of hospital stays in Japan have increased the importance of the role of home-visit nurses. The 2015 Specific Medical Acts Training Program qualified registered nurses with an extended scope...

Texas Medicaid improved infant well-child visit rates by participating in a national learning collaborative. The two-year program encouraged creativity and innovation in care for Medicaid recipients through partnerships with managed care organization...

The health crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic created an unprecedented social situation. In the most critical moments, tourism activities were cancelled or reduced to their minimum operation, creating an extreme situation of separat...

This study examines the psychological mechanisms underlying virtual reality (VR) tourism experiences through an integrated theoretical framework centered on flow experience and visit destination intention. Drawing upon flow theory, the research inves...

Background and objectives: The consultation time for more mature adults is often perceived as longer, increasing with the patient’s age and boosting their satisfaction with the visit. However, factors determining patient satisfaction (PS) or th...

This study examines structural heterogeneity in destination loyalty formation in a mature tourism destination by investigating whether visit frequency conditions the relationships among perceived destination attribute salience, primary travel motivat...

This study set a model to predict the effect of corporate social responsibility and green image on visit intention in small and medium-size towns (SMST). At present, there is a keen social awareness towards environmental problems, and cities are requ...

The digital transformation of cultural tourism has increased interest in understanding how technological innovation and sustainability influence destination choice among younger travellers. Grounded in the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study exami...

Virtual museums are increasingly adopted to sustain public engagement with cultural heritage, yet the mechanisms through which virtual exhibition experiences motivate on-site visitation remain underexplored. Drawing on the Stimulus–Organism&nda...

Pakistan holds an important geographical status, but extremism and sabotage have severely damaged the tourism industry. In the present study, we examined the impact of destination image (DI) on tourist loyalty (TL) and intension to visit (IV) in Paki...

Background/Objective: Adolescents experience stress, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain at rates comparable to adults. Opportunity youth are a unique subset of adolescents/young adults with a higher risk of chronic pain and mental health comorbidi...

In view of the prevailing preferences for health and recreation revealed by previous studies as the main expected benefits of forest visits, the research presented herein focuses on whether such expectations would translate into a significant increas...

Urban logistics in smart cities are increasingly challenged by congestion, sustainability pressures, and the growing demand for resilient delivery systems. To address these challenges, this study introduces the Multi-Visit Time-Dependent Truck–...

The phenomenon of some patients with schizophrenia withdrawing and becoming hikikomori needs to be resolved. In some countries, outreach methods are being employed. In Japan, psychiatric home-visit nursing for patients with schizophrenia and hikikomo...

Unverified hazard information may influence destination visit decisions before its veracity is established. This study examined visit intention across three hypothetical situations characterized by different information environments involving the eme...

Emerging as a pivotal trend on social media, food review vlogs not only narrate culinary experiences but also boost local cuisine and economic growth. This study delves into how such vlogs and vlogger traits affect viewer attitudes and restaurant vis...

Childhood obesity is a public health concern in the United States. Consequences of childhood obesity include metabolic disease and heart, lung, kidney, and other health-related comorbidities. Therefore, the early determination of obesity risk is need...

This study examines how aquarium visitors’ perceived restorative environmental attributes influence leisure life satisfaction, positive emotional experience, and visit intention. Drawing on Attention Restoration Theory, aquariums are conceptual...

Virtual reality (VR) is transforming heritage tourism, yet understanding how specific technological attributes drive on-site visitation remains critical for destination marketers and policymakers. Grounded in the Stimulus–Organism–Respons...

Background: In Romania, data regarding the oral health of infants and toddlers is scarce. This study aimed to analyze the reasons for the first dental visit among children aged 3 or under and to assess their oral health status and the therapeutic met...

This literature review explores 30-day emergency room (ER) visits for patients who go through bariatric surgery, an elective surgical procedure. The study delves into obesity and bariatric surgery trends and factors in 30-day postoperative ER visits...