Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized that the associations of empathic prosocial concern and fear of disease with support towards preventive COVID-19 behaviours would be moderated by trust in the government.

Burnout syndrome among medical students in Kazakhstan.

Background: Burnout is a serious problem in the training and professional development of medical students. However, there is no known data on the prevalence of burnout among medical students in Kazakhstan. This study aims at investigating burnout and associated factors in a sample of students from Astana Medical University.

Barriers to COVID-19 vaccination among medical students in Kazakhstan: development, validation, and use of a new COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Scale.

The purpose of this study was to identify the main barriers to vaccine acceptance among medical students in Kazakhstan and to develop the COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (COV-VHS). A cross-sectional study was carried out among students at Astana Medical University (N = 888, Kazakhstan) in March 2021. Only 2% of the participants were currently vaccinated, and 22.

Psychometric Properties of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory in a Sample of Medical Students in Kazakhstan.

Background: The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) has demonstrated good psychometric properties among different populations, but there is no known data on its validity among Russian-speaking medical students. The CBI-Student Survey focuses only on fatigue, but measures exhaustion in four different life domains: Personal Burnout (PB), Studies-Related Burnout (SRB), Colleague-Related Burnout (CRB), and Teacher-Related Burnout (TRB).

Objective: To investigate the psychometric properties of the Russian version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (R-CBI-S).

Online-Learning due to COVID-19 Improved Mental Health Among Medical Students.

Unlabelled: In reference to the announcement of the pandemic of the new coronavirus 2019-(nCoV), all educational institutions in the Republic of Kazakhstan have switched to online learning (OL). The purpose of this study was to investigate the mental state of the medical students switching to OL in comparison with the mental state of the students who had traditional learning (TL). A repeated questionnaire-based cross-sectional study was conducted among medical students ranging from 1st year to 5th year at Astana Medical University in the 2019-2020 academic year.

High-density mapping of multiple atypical atrial flutter. First HD GRID mapping experience among The Commonwealth of Independent States.

Mapping of multiple atrial tachycardias after previous cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolations and multiple radiofrequency ablations can be challenging even for experienced specialists. HD Grid high-density mapping catheter is one of the catheters, which helps not only to precisely identify the mechanisms of macro-reentry tachycardia but also to avoid unnecessary radiofrequency applications. Accordingly, we present two cases of complex atrial arrhythmia with the use of HD Grid, which showed clear visualization of mechanisms and target ablations with the termination of tachycardia.

[External respiratory function in stages I and II arterial hypertension].

Aim: To examine external respiratory function (ERF) and pulmonary circulatory hemodynamics in patients with Stages I and II arterial hypertension (AH).

Materials And Methods: 105 patients with AH were examined. In 43 of them, spirography and echocardiography were performed with pulmonary pressure and determined during elevated blood pressure (BP) and antihypertensive therapy.

[Chronic nonspecific lung diseases in workers in the gold-mining industry].

Aim: Assessment of prevalence, specific characteristics of chronic nonspecific pulmonary diseases (CNPD) in gold-miners.

Materials And Methods: The examination of a therapist, otorhinolaryngologist, ophthalmologist, total blood count, urinalysis, computer spirography, chest fluorography and ECG were included in the survey covering 1110 gold miners 18-65 years of age. 78.

[Lipid peroxidation and antioxidant defense in renal affections of exotoxic etiology].

Exogenic poisoning is often complicated by toxic nephropathy pathogenesis of which remains obscure. In view of this, the authors have performed a clinical study of lipid peroxidation (LPO) and antioxidant defense (AOD) in acute exogenic poisoning with renal lesion. Acute poisoning results in LPO activation and inhibition of AOD enzymes activity.

[Difficulties in the differential diagnosis of splenomegaly].

The authors discuss diagnostic difficulties that may occur in the interpretation of splenomegaly. In some cases, other tumorous formations, palpable in the left hypochondrium (renal tumor and retroperitoneal fibroma in cases demonstrated) may be taken for splenomegaly. In other cases, diagnostic difficulties may be related to establishing the cause of genuine splenomegaly.

[Several aspects of alcohol use among students].

1458 students were surveyed by using the method of anonymous questionnaires. It was found that 35.3 percent of students consumed alcohol, and the incidence of alcohol abuse was increasing with years of study.

[Detection of pathology of the urinary system in students during preventive mass screening].

Screening tests including the questionnaire method, urine analysis and radiorenography were used during mass screening of 1330 students. Comparison of the results of the first two methods showed a good informative value of the questionnaire method for the detection of pathology of the kidneys and urinary tracts. Radiorenography performed in 106 students with the detected nephrological symptom complex (risk group) revealed some changes practically in every other "risk group" student.

[The state of cellular and humoral factors of nonspecific resistance and immunologic reactivity in chronic pyelonephritis].

Chronic pyelonephritis at the stage of exacerbation is accompanied by the development of combined immunodeficiency characterized by the inhibition of some humoral factors of nonspecific resistance, a decrease in the functional potential of the system of neutrophilic phagocytosis, quantitative deficiency of the circulating pool of thymus-dependent lymphocytes and a decrease in their functional activity combined with disturbance of antibody genesis. Immunomodulating therapy against a background of multiple modality therapy of disease was proposed.

[Circulatory failure in chronic glomerulo- and pyelonephritis].

The frequency and degree of circulatory insufficiency depending on the stage of the disease are analyzed in 404 patients with chronic glomerulonephritis and 145 patients with chronic pyelonephritis aged 15 to 74 years. When the renal function is still preserved different degrees of circulatory insufficiency are diagnosed in 29.4% of patients.