Exploring the Correlation Between Palliative Care Training in Brazil and Compassion Fatigue: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: The literature lacks conclusive evidence regarding whether palliative care training confers a protective or predisposing influence on compassion fatigue. The present study hypothesizes that training in palliative care is associated with minor compassion fatigue levels among physicians and an improvement in their confidence in several procedures.

Aim: To explore the physicians experiences with and without palliative care training who work as general practitioners in order to assess the prevalence of compassion fatigue in these groups.

Implications of the health information pollution for society, health professionals, and science.

In the era of ultra-connectivity, the proliferation of speculative notions driven by personal emotions eclipses the credibility of scientific evidence. This trend has led to an alarming surge in information pollution, particularly by the pervasive influence of social media platforms. Consequently, this overflow of falsehoods poses a significant threat to public health and overall societal well-being.

All You Need Is Music: Supporting Medical Students' Emotional Development With a Music-Based Pedagogy.

Problem: Although the practice of medicine is often emotionally challenging, medical curricula seldom systematically address the emotional development of medical students. To fill this gap, the authors developed and evaluated an innovative pedagogical activity based on music to nurture medical students' emotional development. The authors believe that the metaphoric nature of music offers an efficient venue for exploring emotion perception, expression, and regulation.

eHEALS as a predictive factor of digital health information seeking behavior among Brazilian undergraduate students.

This study aimed to perform the cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) for Brazilian Portuguese. The cross-cultural adaptation was conducted through conceptual equivalence, verbatim translation, semantic, item and operational equivalence, and back-translation. Subsequently, 521 undergraduate students answered the adapted version of the eHEALS, the General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES), the Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14) and sociodemographic and health-related questions.

Is the Quality of Toothache-Related Information Published in Brazilian Websites Adequate to Assist People in Seeking Dental Treatment?

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the readability and the quality of toothache-related information found in Brazilian websites.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-five websites retrieved from Google Search, Baidu, Yahoo! and Bing were evaluated by two independent examiners using the DISCERN questionnaire, the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmark criteria and the Flesch Reading Ease adapted to Brazilian Portuguese (FRE-BP). Additionally, the websites were categorised according to their information, adopting four criteria related to: (i) endodontic pain, (ii) toothache relief or treatment, (iii) the self-resolution of pain, and (iv) the promotion of home remedies usage.

Parental perspectives on early childhood caries: A qualitative study.

Background: Early childhood caries (ECC) affects about 621 million children worldwide, causing chronic pain, infections, sleeping disorders, and tooth extraction.

Aim: To determine perspectives of parents and caregivers of preschoolers regarding ECC.

Design: Three focus groups were conducted with attendees of the Clinics of Paediatric Dentistry from the Bauru School of Dentistry.

Levels of toothache-related interests of Google and YouTube users from developed and developing countries over time.

Background: The preferences of Web users can be influenced by distinct factors of populations. Hence, hypothetically, source-based patterns of health-related Web searches might differ between individuals from developed and developing countries, due to their distinct educational, social, economic, political, cultural, and psychosocial backgrounds. In this context, this study aimed to determine the trends of toothache-related searches performed on Google Search and YouTube, regarding differences between developed and developing countries.

Are the Internet users concerned about molar incisor hypomineralization? An infoveillance study.

Background: Molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH) is a developmental enamel defect characterized by well-demarcated discolorations frequently detected in molars, causing pain and esthetic alterations.

Aim: To assess the interests of Google users on MIH-related information.

Design: Digital data were collected in Google Trends through two search strategies, 'molar incisor hypomineralization' (topic) and 'MIH' (search term), between January 2004 and November 2018.

The Effectiveness of Educational Mobile Messages for Assisting in the Prevention of Early Childhood Caries: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: In 2017, approximately 3.7 billion downloads of health apps were made on mobile phones and tablets. In this sense, a massive number of people could benefit by electronic mobile-based health interventions, making information available even with the lack of material and human resources.

Digital behavior surveillance for monitoring the interests of Google users in amber necklace in different countries.

Aim: To determine the interests of Google users in information about amber necklace in distinct countries over time.

Design: This longitudinal retrospective study analyzed the amber necklace-related computational data generated from the activity of Google users from17 countries, by the application of Google Trends. Four search strategies were defined in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, for retrieving the monthly variation of relative search volume (RSV) between January 2004 and September 2018, including all categories and sources of search.

Is there a relationship of negative oral health beliefs with dental fear and anxiety regarding diverse dental patient groups? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to critically appraise the evidence on the relationship of oral health beliefs with dental fear and anxiety in distinct patient groups.

Materials And Methods: Observational studies were retrieved by Cochrane, Embase Search, Portal BVS, Clinical Trials, Ovid, Open Gray, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science, and they were manually checked for the inclusion of additional articles of interest. The assessment of quality of studies was performed by the application of three different versions of the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, for cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

What Can Google Inform Us about People's Interests regarding Dental Caries in Different Populations?

The diagnosis or suspicion of dental caries can lead people to seek additional information on the Internet through the use of structured queries in search engine tools. This action generates a considerable volume of data, which can be analyzed to provide a better understanding of the public's behavior linked to the consumption of oral health information. This study aimed to assess the volume and profile of web searches on dental caries-related queries performed by Google users from different countries.

Evaluating the Dental Caries-Related Information on Brazilian Websites: Qualitative Study.

Background: Dental caries is the most common chronic oral disease, affecting 2.4 billion people worldwide who on average have 2.11 decayed, missing, or filled teeth.

The Brazilian version of the 20-item rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine and dentistry.

Background: The misunderstanding of specific vocabulary may hamper the patient-health provider communication. The 20-item Rapid Estimate Adult Literacy in Medicine and Dentistry (REALMD-20) was constructed to screen patients by their ability in reading medical/dental terminologies in a simple and rapid way. This study aimed to perform the cross-cultural adaptation and validation of this instrument for its application in Brazilian dental patients.