Health-Related Quality of Life and Service Barriers among Adults with Sickle Cell Disease in Saudi Arabia.

Background: The burden of sickle cell disease (SCD) is high in Saudi Arabia, with a significant impact on patients' quality of life (QoL). This study aimed to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among adults with SCD.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among adults with SCD attending hematology clinics at Qatif Central Hospital in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

Factors affecting Saudi medical students' engagement during synchronous and asynchronous eLearning and their impacts on the students' academic achievement: a national survey.

Background: Nowadays, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, electronic learning (eLearning) has become a necessity in education. eLearning can be either synchronous, where classes are conducted in real-time, or asynchronous, where students can access the class material at any time. Student-instructor interaction has become essential to the educational process.

Evaluating the Prevalence and the Risk Factors of Gram-Negative Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria in Eastern Saudi Arabia.

Purpose: Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) among Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) are a major public health concern worldwide, which can even lead to death. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of MDROs among isolated GNB in the Security Forces Hospital Dammam (SFHD) and identify its associated risk factors.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on the most commonly isolated GNB in SFHD, spp.

Nightmares' Pattern and Predictors among a Saudi University Students during COVID-19 Pandemic.

Purpose: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic quarantine, university students were under various types of stressors, including the exams period, which might have affected their quality and quantity of sleep, and consequently, their quality of life. This study aimed to investigate the pattern and predictors of nightmares among university students and coinvestigate the presence of other types of sleep disturbances, mental disorders, and quarantine-related stressors.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included 368 university students who answered a self-completed questionnaire covering their sociodemographic features, nightmare indicators, and associated quarantine stressors.

The prevalence of urinary incontinence symptoms among multiparous women: a survey of Saudi health-care centers.

Objective: To determine the distribution of urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms and their relation to childbirth events.

Methods: This cross-sectional study used a structured self-administered questionnaire that included the Questionnaire for Female Urinary Incontinence Diagnosis and the Urogenital Distress Inventory Short Form. The study included 802 women sampled from four primary health care centers in Dammam, KSA.

Maternal dendrimer-based therapy for inflammation-induced preterm birth and perinatal brain injury.

Preterm birth is a major risk factor for adverse neurological outcomes in ex-preterm children, including motor, cognitive, and behavioral disabilities. N-acetyl-L-cysteine therapy has been used in clinical studies; however, it requires doses that cause significant side effects. In this study, we explore the effect of low dose N-acetyl-L-cysteine therapy, delivered using a targeted, systemic, maternal, dendrimer nanoparticle (DNAC), in a mouse model of intrauterine inflammation.