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Front Psychol
March 2024
School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
This study attempts to explore the lived experiences of sexual abuse during COVID-19 in a big metropolitan city in India, with a special interest in understanding the contemporary problems faced by teenagers. Any Phenomenological enquiry begins with identifying and determining the suitability of the participants. In this case, the participants are teenage girls and boys, who have experienced one or other forms of sexual abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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October 2021
Department of Education Innovation, Faculty of Academic Cluster, Foundation for Professional Development, Pretoria.
Background: South Africa faces a number of significant challenges apropos mental health service delivery, including a large treatment gap, a high rate of readmission, over-burdened specialist tertiary facilities, and slow integration of mental health into general health services. The South African National Mental Health Education Programme implemented between February 2019 and December 2019, aimed to upskill health workers to diagnose and manage mental disorders at primary and secondary levels of care.
Aim: This study aimed to assess the evolution of training participants' self-reported competency in mental health care and the number of referrals made to higher levels of care as well as to reflect on the possible broader effects of the training.
Glob J Qual Saf Healthc
August 2021
Department of Quality and Patient Safety, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Introduction: Accreditation gained worldwide attention as a means of increasing awareness of medical errors, improving healthcare quality, and ensuring a culture of safety. Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare has been accredited by Joint Commission International (JCI) since 2002. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the accreditation process on healthcare quality performance by maintaining compliance with the requirements of JCI's international patient safety goals (IPSGs) over a 4-year period and how this was reflected by patient safety and satisfaction.
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December 2020
Department of Neurology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
Background: The availability and affordability of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are critical to the success of public health initiatives enabling care for people with epilepsy in the community.
Objective: To pilot survey the availability and affordability of AEDs in the community.
Methods: Field workers used standard WHO-Health Action International approaches and collected data on the availability of, and maximum retail prices of originator brands and least price generics of AEDs in 46 randomly selected public ( = 29), private ( = 8), and charitable ( = 9) pharmacy outlets.
Perhaps the best way to understand early-Twenty-First Century state and federal cannabis law in the United States is to examine the relevant history. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s statement is apropos: "[A] page of history is worth a volume of logic.
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