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Mental health outcomes and psychosocial correlates among adult members of business families in Germany (WIFU-GESUND): study protocol for a representative c…

Introduction Mental health is an urgent public health issue with social and economic relevance. Business families play a key ...
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Multidimensional correlates of adherence to cardiovascular treatment among patients with multimorbidity from tribal communities in South India: an exploratory cross-sectional study

Introduction Tribal people in India face a growing risk of multimorbidity, primarily from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) due to changing lifestyles and unique socio-cultural and political factors. We ...
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Helping Underdeveloped Lungs with Cells (HULC-2): mesenchymal stromal cells in extreme preterm infants at risk of developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia – a stud…

Introduction Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) remains a major complication among extremely low gestational age (ELGA) infants ...
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Implementation determinants of a planned machine learning-enabled surgical scheduling system in a high-volume orthopaedic centre in Canada: qualitative findin…

Objectives Elective non-emergent surgical wait times have increased across countries such as Canada, straining operating room ...
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Parental perspectives and willingness towards digital paediatric research: a cross-sectional survey in two Chinese cities

Objective This study aims to explore disparities in eHealth literacy and perspectives on digital health among parents of ...
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Severe Mental Illness Longitudinal Evaluation (SMILE): protocol for establishing a cohort and bioresource for UK-based patients with psychosis

Introduction Psychotic disorders account for significant morbidity and healthcare costs and yet their pathophysiology remains poorly understood. The National Institute for Health and Care Research ...
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Organizational learning models in continuing health education: a scoping review protocol

Background Citizens depend on high-quality healthcare; however, significant disparities in quality persist among healthcare organisations. Healthcare services are complex organisations, making it ...
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards routine vaccination among COVID-19-positive individuals in Lebanon in the post-pandemic period: a case-control study

Objectives To evaluate knowledge, attitudes and practices towards routine vaccination in the Lebanese population in the post-COVID-19 period, and to examine differences between COVID-19 vaccinated and ...
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ADHD and cardiometabolic risk profile in adults with type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal register-based study

Objective To investigate the association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and cardiometabolic risk profile at the time of type 2 diabetes (T2D) diagnosis and examine ...
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Out-of-pocket costs and catastrophic health expenditure among hospitalised patients with heart failure in northern Tanzania, May–October 2024: a cross-sectional study

Objectives To quantify out-of-pocket (OOP) costs and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) among patients hospitalised with ...
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Protocol for the economic evaluation of integrated longitudinal public health interventions in a cluster randomised controlled trial setting: the healthy life trajectories ...

Introduction In 2021, globally, cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs) accounted for 35% of the 1.73 billion disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributed to non-communicable diseases. The Healthy Life ...
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The development and exploratory analysis of the Back Pain Attitudes Questionnaire (Back-PAQ)

1 Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand 2 Centre for Health Activity and Rehabilitation Research, School of Physiotherapy, University of ...