Expressive writing in a Saudi university English foreign language (EFL) classroom: Evaluating gains in syntactic complexity.

This study determines if the English foreign language (EFL) Saudi students achieve greater syntactic complexity when they engage in expressive writing than when they write about a general topic. This study employs an research design to compare the writing output of EFL learners. The sample comprised of 24 college students enrolled in an English writing course, at Department of English and Translation, College of Sciences and Arts, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia for the academic year 2021-2022.

Prevalence of fatigue functional and social impairment among patients with rheumatic diseases compared to patients without: A cross-sectional comparison.

Rheumatic diseases (RD) are chronic diseases that significantly affect the lives of patients. Assessing health outcomes through a patient-reported outcome measurement information system (PROMIS) is essential for RD management. Moreover, these tend to be less favorable among individuals than among the rest of the population.

Quality of Life After Orthopedic Procedures at Buraydah Central Hospital and King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia.

Aim Patients' perspectives on their condition and treatment, their sense of need for healthcare, and their preferences for care and outcomes are all addressed by quality of life metrics. Therefore, it is important to all health professionals and patients involved in orthopedic surgery. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of life after orthopedic procedures and how its results could potentially be used for future improvement.

Functional and psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic on rheumatic patients' quality of life in Saudi Arabia.

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic might add to the stressors experienced by people living with rheumatic diseases. This study aimed to examine rheumatic patients' functional and psychosocial states during the pandemic and assess its impact on their quality of life.

Methods: Our time-series study included a patient-centered electronic survey, sampling adult rheumatic patients living in Saudi Arabia at different time points from March to August 2020.

National systemic lupus erythematosus prospective cohort in Saudi Arabia: A study protocol.

Systemic Lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic multisystem, multifactorial inflammatory autoimmune disease. The SLE patients have 3 times increased risk of mortality based on international data with ethnicity playing an important impact on patients' morbidity and mortality. Descriptive studies from Saudi Arabia showed variation in clinical features from one region to another.

Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on rheumatic patients' perceptions and behaviors: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: The dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become of special concern to the rheumatology community. Rheumatic patients are required to engage in effective health management but their behavior is often influenced by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. This cross-sectional study aims to examine patients' experiences during the current pandemic and its implication on their health perception and behavior.

Subcutaneous abatacept in rheumatoid arthritis: current update.

Introduction: A number of biologic agents have been approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They have changed the landscape of therapy and demonstrate substantial efficacy with a good safety record. One of these agents is intravenous (i.

Evolution of tigecycline resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae in a single patient.

Carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infections carry serious clinical and infection-control implications. Isolates possessing such hydrolyzing enzymes have been described in the United States and around the world. Besides being resistant to carbapenems, they usually confer resistance to fluoroquinolones, piperacillin-tazobactam, and extended-spectrum cephalosporins.