Healthcare workers' knowledge and attitudes towards sterilization and reuse of medical devices in primary and secondary care public hospitals in Nepal: A multi-centre cross-sectional survey.

Background: Healthcare facilities reprocess and sterilize reusable medical devices before each invasive clinical procedure, such as surgery, to prevent person-to-person or environmental transmission of pathogens through medical devices. We conducted a nationwide multi-centre cross-sectional survey in primary and secondary-care public hospitals in Nepal to assess the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare workers towards sterilization and reuse of medical devices.

Methods: We carried out a multi-centre cross-sectional survey comprising eleven primary-care (two district-level and nine district hospitals) and two secondary-care (zonal hospitals) public hospitals which covered all seven provinces of Nepal.

Method of contraception and risk of ovarian cancer data.

The data presented here were obtained for a New Zealand nationwide population-based case-control analysis undertaken to assess the association between ovarian cancer and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUDs), and vasectomy of a woman's sexual partner (Chesang et al., 2021). The research involved women aged 35 to 69 years.

Cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use among university students in New Zealand before and after nicotine-containing e-cigarettes became widely available: results from repeat cross-sectional surveys.

Aim: To estimate prevalence and patterns of smoking and vaping, and associations between smoking and vaping, among university students in New Zealand when access to nicotine-containing e-cigarettes was restricted (ie, time point 1 or T1) and 12-months after restrictions were relaxed (ie, time point 2 or T2).

Method: Cross-sectional surveys of university students across all eight universities: T1, March 2018 (n=1,932), and T2, March 2019 (n=2,004). Chi-squared tests compared responses between T1 and T2 and logistic regression examined associations between smoking and vaping with student characteristics.

Association of partner vasectomy, depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and intrauterine contraceptive devices with ovarian cancer.

Purpose: To assess the associations between ovarian cancer and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUDs), and partner vasectomy.

Methods: We undertook a New Zealand-wide population-based case-control study. During 2013-2015, 205 eligible cases were identified from the cancer registry (152 [74%] participated) and 1,735 eligible controls were randomly selected from the electoral roll (837 [48%] participated).

Cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use among university students in Queensland, Australia and New Zealand: results of two cross-sectional surveys.

Objectives: Examine the patterns of cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use (vaping), the perceived harm of e-cigarettes compared with tobacco cigarettes, and associations between smoking and vaping with student characteristics.

Design: Cross-sectional studies.

Setting: The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia and eight New Zealand (NZ) universities.