Results of the RVA Breathes randomized controlled trial.

Objective: This study tested a randomized controlled trial of RVA Breathes, a community asthma program, in reducing asthma-related healthcare utilization among children living in an area with a high poverty rate.

Methods: Participants included 250 caregivers (78% African American/Black; 73.3% household income<$25,000/year) and their children with asthma (5-11 years).

Hit Snooze: An Imperiled Hibernator Assesses Spring Snow Conditions to Decide Whether to Terminate Hibernation or Reenter Torpor.

AbstractMany animals follow annual cycles wherein physiology and behavior change seasonally. Hibernating mammals undergo one of the most drastic seasonal alterations of physiology and behavior, the timing of which can have significant fitness consequences. The environmental cues regulating these profound phenotypic changes will heavily influence whether hibernators acclimate and ultimately adapt to climate change.

Patient trust, quality communication, and medication adherence in rheumatoid arthritis patients highly affected by social determinants of health.

Introduction: Because medication adherence is essential to the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), identifying (1) subgroups at high risk for low medication adherence and (2) modifiable factors potentially contributing to low adherence can impact patient outcomes. This study aims to describe the relationships between anxiety, trust in the provider, quality patient-provider communication, fatigue, RA knowledge, adverse medication effects, disease activity, RA medications, disease duration, patient satisfaction, and medication intolerance and cluster factors to differentiate RA-patient subgroups.

Methods: This observational study used correlation analysis, linear regression, and cluster analysis with determination decisions based on Schwarz's Bayesian Criterion.

Impact of forest landscape restoration in combating soil erosion in the Lake Abaya catchment, Southern Ethiopia.

As an effect of forest degradation, soil erosion is among Ethiopia's most pressing environmental challenges and a major threat to food security where it could potentially compromise the ecosystem functions and services. As the effects of soil erosion intensify, the landscape's capacity to support ecosystem functions and services is compromised. Exploring the ecological implications of soil erosion is crucial.

Shaping farmers' beliefs, risk perception and adaptation response through Construct Level Theory in the southwest Iran.

Due to the severe effects of climate change on the agricultural sector, urgent action is required on the part of farmers and is, indeed, critical to reducing climate change impacts. However, reports globally revealed farmers' engagement in climate change adaptation is still insufficient, ambivalent, and inconsistent and farmers do not consider adaptation to be urgent. Researchers have argued that this issue is rooted in psychological biases beside other factors.