Wastewater-based epidemiology: deriving a SARS-CoV-2 data validation method to assess data quality and to improve trend recognition.

Introduction: Accurate and consistent data play a critical role in enabling health officials to make informed decisions regarding emerging trends in SARS-CoV-2 infections. Alongside traditional indicators such as the 7-day-incidence rate, wastewater-based epidemiology can provide valuable insights into SARS-CoV-2 concentration changes. However, the wastewater compositions and wastewater systems are rather complex.

Efficacy of Real-Time Feedback Exercise Therapy in Patients Following Total Hip Arthroplasty: Protocol for a Pilot Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Osteoarthritis of the hip joint is an increasing functional and health-related problem. The most common surgical treatment is hip replacement to reduce pain and improve function. Rehabilitation after total hip arthroplasty (THA) is not regulated in Austria and mostly depends on the patient's own initiative and possibilities.

Efficacy of interventions and techniques on adherence to physiotherapy in adults: an overview of systematic reviews and panoramic meta-analysis.

Background: Adherence to physiotherapeutic treatment and recommendations is crucial to achieving planned goals and desired health outcomes. This overview of systematic reviews synthesises the wide range of additional interventions and behaviour change techniques used in physiotherapy, exercise therapy and physical therapy to promote adherence and summarises the evidence of their efficacy.

Methods: Seven databases (PEDro, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Scopus, PsycINFO and CINAHL) were systematically searched with terms related to physiotherapy, motivation, behaviour change, adherence and efficacy (last searched on January 31, 2023).

Correction: Telehealth Education in Allied Health Care and Nursing: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey of Students' Perceived Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, and Experience.

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Telehealth Education in Allied Health Care and Nursing: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey of Students' Perceived Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, and Experience.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the growing relevance of telehealth in health care. Assessing health care and nursing students' telehealth competencies is crucial for its successful integration into education and practice.

Objective: We aimed to assess students' perceived telehealth knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experiences.

Validity of assessing level walking with the 2D motion analysis software TEMPLO and reliability of 3D marker application.

In gait analysis, knowledge on validity and reliability of instruments and influences caused by the examiner's performance is of crucial interest. These measurement properties are not yet known for commonly used, low-cost two-dimensional (2D) video-based systems. The purpose of this study was to assess the concurrent validity of a video-based 2D system against a three-dimensional (3D) reference standard, as well as the inter-rater reliability, and test-retest reliability of 3D marker application.

Effects of smartphone use while walking on external knee abduction moment peak: A crossover randomized trial on an instrumented treadmill.

Introduction: In addition to its effects on cognitive awareness, smartphone use while walking may reduce the speed, regularity, and symmetry of walking. Although its effects on spatiotemporal gait parameters, such as walking speed and step width, have already been studied, little is currently known about the impact of smartphone dual tasking on lower limb kinetics.

Research Question: Does smartphone use during walking alter gait patterns (i.

The representative COVID-19 cohort Munich (KoCo19): from the beginning of the pandemic to the Delta virus variant.

Background: Population-based serological studies allow to estimate prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infections despite a substantial number of mild or asymptomatic disease courses. This became even more relevant for decision making after vaccination started. The KoCo19 cohort tracks the pandemic progress in the Munich general population for over two years, setting it apart in Europe.

Vitamin B12 supplementation and health behavior of Austrian vegans: a cross-sectional online survey.

The number of vegans is increasing and was estimated at 2.0% of the Austrian population. Austrian vegans were found to have lower intakes and levels of vitamin B12 compared to vegetarians and omnivores.

Head-to-head evaluation of seven different seroassays including direct viral neutralisation in a representative cohort for SARS-CoV-2.

A number of seroassays are available for SARS-CoV-2 testing; yet, head-to-head evaluations of different testing principles are limited, especially using raw values rather than categorical data. In addition, identifying correlates of protection is of utmost importance, and comparisons of available testing systems with functional assays, such as direct viral neutralisation, are needed.We analysed 6658 samples consisting of true-positives (=193), true-negatives (=1091), and specimens of unknown status (=5374).

From first to second wave: follow-up of the prospective COVID-19 cohort (KoCo19) in Munich (Germany).

Background: In the 2nd year of the COVID-19 pandemic, knowledge about the dynamics of the infection in the general population is still limited. Such information is essential for health planners, as many of those infected show no or only mild symptoms and thus, escape the surveillance system. We therefore aimed to describe the course of the pandemic in the Munich general population living in private households from April 2020 to January 2021.

Effects of real-time feedback during decline walking on kinematic and kinetic gait parameters in a healthy population: study protocol for a randomized trial - up and down.

Background: The control of the dynamic functional leg alignment (dFLA) and biomechanical load are important joint-related aspects regarding the development of osteoarthritis (OA). Research on level walking with feedback on load-related parameters has provided innovative treatment possibilities. With regard to walking on sloped surfaces, fundamental biomechanical knowledge exists.

Physiotherapists' job satisfaction according to employment situation: Findings from an online survey in Austria.

Background And Purpose: Physiotherapists are commonly working in self-employed, employed, or in combined employed and self-employed work arrangements. This study aimed at examining aspects of job satisfaction and predictors of physiotherapists' overall job satisfaction across those three types of work arrangements.

Methods: Austrian physiotherapists rated their overall job satisfaction as well as the importance and realisation of aspects of job satisfaction in a cross-sectional online survey.

Prevalence and Risk Factors of Infection in the Representative COVID-19 Cohort Munich.

Given the large number of mild or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 cases, only population-based studies can provide reliable estimates of the magnitude of the pandemic. We therefore aimed to assess the sero-prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Munich general population after the first wave of the pandemic. For this purpose, we drew a representative sample of 2994 private households and invited household members 14 years and older to complete questionnaires and to provide blood samples.

Lower physical activity and altered body composition in patients with haemophilia compared with healthy controls.

Introduction: Patients with haemophilia (PWH) have traditionally been discouraged from engaging in sports and strenuous exercise activities, due to the perceived risk of bleeding complications. This puts PWH at an increased risk to become overweight or obese. However, the benefits of many forms of physical activity seem to outweigh their risks, although activities with significant trauma risk should be avoided.

Changing attitudes towards teletherapy in Austrian therapists during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction: Telehealth and its usage strongly depend on regulatory frameworks and user acceptance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists and their patients experienced restrictions regarding the usual face-to-face therapy. Teletherapy has become a highly discussed medium for providing therapy services.

Experiences and attitudes toward scientific research among physiotherapists in Austria: a cross-sectional online survey.

Introduction: Research is important for the development of physiotherapy practice, but several countries have a rather short history of physiotherapy as an academic profession.

Purpose: This study investigated physiotherapists' experiences and attitudes toward scientific research in Austria, where physiotherapists have only been qualifying at bachelor level since 2009.

Methods: A convenience sample of 597 qualified physiotherapists completed an anonymous cross-sectional online survey.

3D gait analysis, haemophilia joint health score, leg muscle laterality and biomarkers of joint damage: A cross-sectional comparative assessment of haemophilic arthropathy.

Introduction: 3D gait analysis has been proposed as a reproducible and valid method to assess abnormal gait patterns and to monitor disease progression in patients with haemophilia (PWH).

Aim: This study aimed at comparing Gait Deviation Index (GDI) between adult PWH and healthy controls, and at assessing the agreement between outcome measures of haemophilic arthropathy.

Methods: Male PWH aged 18-49 years (prespecified subgroups: 18-25 vs 26-49 years) on prophylactic replacement therapy, and male healthy age-matched controls passed through a cross-sectional assessment panel.

Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes.

Land-use transitions can enhance the livelihoods of smallholder farmers but potential economic-ecological trade-offs remain poorly understood. Here, we present an interdisciplinary study of the environmental, social and economic consequences of land-use transitions in a tropical smallholder landscape on Sumatra, Indonesia. We find widespread biodiversity-profit trade-offs resulting from land-use transitions from forest and agroforestry systems to rubber and oil palm monocultures, for 26,894 aboveground and belowground species and whole-ecosystem multidiversity.

Treatment effects beyond the mean using distributional regression: Methods and guidance.

This paper introduces distributional regression also known as generalized additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS) as a modeling framework for analyzing treatment effects beyond the mean. In contrast to mean regression models, GAMLSS relate each distributional parameter to covariates. Therefore, they can be used to model the treatment effect not only on the mean but on the whole conditional distribution.

Intrarater and Interrater Reliability of Angular Measures Using TEMPLO Two-dimensional Motion Analysis Software.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the intrarater and interrater reliability of marking 2 angles with the TEMPLO software and to provide relevant information for clinical practice.

Methods: A prospective test-retest study has been conducted. Four raters took measures on 2 days, with 2 weeks in between.