Cognitive function and its longitudinal predictability by intensity of physical activity in Chinese middle-aged and older adults.

Background: The aging population faces several health problems, including cognitive decline that can progress to Alzheimer's disease. Regular physical activity is widely recognized for its extensive benefits, including physical and mental health improvements especially for older adults.

Objective: This study aimed to examine the prediction of physical activity intensities on cognitive function of older adults.

and over conventional protein sources for yearling Horro sheep fed a basal diet of fodder oat () hay.

A 90-day feeding trial with 25 yearling Horro lambs (22.6 ± 1.8 kg) was conducted from November 2022 to January 2023.

Psychosocial interventions for improving mental health and family functioning in families with parental cancer: A systematic review.

Purpose: Parental cancer significantly impacts both parents and children, necessitating psychosocial interventions to enhance family well-being. This systematic review aimed to assess the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions targeting parents with cancer on their mental health, quality of life, their children's well-being, and family functioning.

Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted in Ovid MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases for relevant articles published from 2006 to 2023.

Nurses' Documentation Practice and Associated Factors in Eight Public Hospitals, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Nursing care documentation, which is the record of nursing care that is planned for and delivered to individual patients, can enhance patient outcomes while advancing the nursing profession. However, its practice and associated factors among Ethiopian nurses are not well investigated.

Objective: To assess the level of nursing care documentation practice and associated factors among nurses working at public hospitals in Ethiopia.

Nurses' pain management practices for admitted patients at the Comprehensive specialized hospitals and its associated factors, a multi-center study.

Background: Pain is the most common challenge that most hospitalized patients complain of and is influenced by several patients, nurses, and institutional-related factors. Most studies in Ethiopia on pain were focused on surgical illnesses only.

Objective: To assess nurses' pain management practice and associated factors for admitted patients at Comprehensive Specialized Hospitals.

Service users' perceptions of recovery from recent-onset psychosis and their long journey to and through psychiatric treatment.

A growing body of evidence highlights that individuals' understanding of mental illness and recovery influences their mental health care preferences. Journeys to psychiatric care settings vary across regions with different socio-economic and developmental characteristics. However, these journeys in low-income African countries have not been well explored.

Patients' Perception of Patient-Centered Care and Associated Factors Among Patients Admitted in Private and Public Hospitals: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: The provision of patient-centered care is challenging around the globe, including in Ethiopia. There is a scarcity of information on this issue. Therefore, this study aimed to assess patients' perceptions of patient-centered care and associated factors among patients admitted to public and private hospitals in Bahir Dar city.

Knowledge towards standard precautions among healthcare providers of hospitals in Amhara region, Ethiopia, 2017: a cross sectional study.

Background: Literatures revealed that healthcare-associated infections are still a great concern in many developing countries including in Ethiopia. Despite the development of detailed guidelines for infection control, they remain as a critical challenge for the public health sectors and the knowledge of standard precautions among healthcare workers in many developing countries is low and not properly applied. Hence, the present study tried to determine the level of knowledge about standard precautions among healthcare workers of Amhara region, Ethiopia.

Low back pain among nurses working in clinical settings of Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis of 19 years of studies.

Background: Nurses in Africa are arguably the most important frontline healthcare workers available in most healthcare facilities, performing a broad range of tasks. Such tasks are considerably presumed in the causation of workload. Nursing is listed among the highly risky professions for developing low back pain.

Predictors of subjective recovery from recent-onset psychosis in a developing country: a mixed-methods study.

Purpose: This study was conducted to: (a) investigate the levels and progress of subjective recovery from recent-onset psychosis; (b) examine its predictive factors and; (c) describe perceived challenges and opportunities affecting recovery. The findings were expected to help inform recovery-oriented psychiatric care in low-income, particularly African, countries.

Methods: This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study involved 263 service users with recent-onset psychosis from Northwestern Ethiopia.

Prevalence and associated factors of hypertension in Amhara regional state city and its' surrounding rural districts: a community-based cross-sectional study.

Background: Nowadays, among non-communicable diseases hypertension is a growing public health important disease both in developed and developing nations.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and associated factors of hypertension in Amhara Regional State city and its' surrounding rural districts, Ethiopia.

Method: Community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in the urban and rural communities living in Amhara Regional State city and its' surrounding rural districts administrations in 2015.

Compliance to Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation and Its Association with the Number of ANC Visits in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Background: The World Health Organization recommended that 80% of communities in all countries should receive the standard dose of iron folic acid. But, in Ethiopia, this target was not yet achieved. The compliance of iron folic acid was also variable across each district.

Factors influencing subjective recovery of people with recent-onset psychosis: A cross-sectional study in a low-income Sub-Saharan country.

People with psychosis were traditionally believed to have a chronic deteriorating condition with no hope of recovery. Recent studies have shown varied levels of recovery across countries. However, evidence from low-income, particularly African countries is scant.

Factors influencing subjective recovery of people with recent-onset psychosis: A cross-sectional study in a low-income sub-Saharan country.

People with psychosis were traditionally believed to have a chronic deteriorating condition with no hope of recovery. Recent studies have shown varied levels of recovery across countries. However, evidence from low-income, particularly African countries is scant.

Knowledge, attitude and practice towards cervical cancer among women in Finote Selam city administration, West Gojjam Zone, Amhara Region, North West Ethiopia, 2017.

Introduction: Cancer of the cervix is the leading cause of cancer-related death among women, especially in developing countries affecting women at a time of life when they are critical to social and economic stability.

Method: The study was conducted at Finote Selam City Administration from February 01 to March 01, 2017 using a community-based cross-sectional study design. The representative sample size was selected using multistage sampling technique.

Vaccination coverage and associated factors among children aged 12 - 23 months in Northwest Ethiopia.

Background: Full vaccination coverage has been identified as the foundation for the prevention of morbidity and mortality from the childhood illnesses. However, a significant number of children do not get recommended vaccinations. The problem is much worse in low-income countries with varied figures and evidence gap.

Utilization and Associated Factors of Modern Contraceptives During Extended Postpartum Period among Women Who Gave Birth in the Last 12 Months in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia.

Background: The postpartum period is a critical period for addressing widespread unmet needs in family planning and for reducing the risks of closely spaced pregnancies. However, many women do not realize that they are at risk for pregnancy during this period. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess utilization and associated factors of modern contraceptives during extended post-partum period.

Conceptualizations of subjective recovery from recent onset psychosis and its associated factors: A systematic review.

Aim: There is no standard definition of "subjective recovery" from psychosis, its nature is currently contested and debated among service-users and professionals. Individual studies have explored conceptualizations of subjective recovery from recent onset psychosis, but there have been no previously published systematic reviews on the topic. The aim of this review was to examine and synthesize quantitative and qualitative studies examining the concept of subjective recovery from recent onset psychosis and identify common factors associated with this recovery process.

Patients' attitude towards medical students involvement in their health care at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2010.

Background: Patients' willingness to the involvement of medical students in their health care is the mandatory input to medical education. Admitted patients' willingness level should be known and factors affecting willingness should be identified and it is necessary to act upon them for better medical care.

Methodology: A cross-sectional hospital based survey was conducted to assess the admitted patients' attitude towards medical students' involvement in their health care at Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital in 2010.