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AIDS Behav
January 2025
Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Military members and female sex workers (FSWs) may be more likely to acquire or transmit HIV. Mapping HIV transmission across these high-risk populations and identifying behaviors associated with sexual network clustering are needed for effective HIV prevention approaches. A cross-sectional study recruited participants newly diagnosed with HIV among militaries, civilians, and FSWs in Zambia, Senegal, and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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January 2025
University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Setting: Despite Canada's single-payer health system, marginalized populations often experience poor health outcomes and barriers to healthcare access. In response, mobile health clinics (MHCs) have been deployed in several cities across Canada. MHCs are well established in the United States; however, little is known about their role and impact in a country with universal healthcare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Syst
January 2025
Instituto Polibienestar, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
The physician-patient relationship relies mostly on doctors' empathetic abilities to understand and manage patients' emotions, enhancing patient satisfaction and treatment adherence. With the advent of digital technologies in education, innovative empathy training methods such as virtual reality, simulation training systems, mobile apps, and wearable devices, have emerged for teaching empathy. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the efficacy of these technologies in teaching empathy, the most effective types, and the primary beneficiaries -students or advanced healthcare professionals-.
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January 2025
Department of Public Financial Management and Accounting, Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This study aims to assess the effects of financial technology on the cost efficiency of commercial banks in Ethiopia. Secondary panel data were collected from the audited annual reports of seventeen commercial banks for twelve fiscal years between 2011 and 2022. The cost efficiency of banks was investigated via a stochastic frontier approach.
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January 2025
School of Education, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, People's Republic of China.
Background: Negative emotions (depression and anxiety) are highly correlated with mobile phone addiction among college students, but the underlying mechanisms between variables need further exploration. The aim of this study is to further elucidate the relationship between negative emotions and mobile phone addiction among college students, with negative coping styles as the mediating variable and gender as the moderating variable.
Methods: A survey was conducted on 509 college students from two universities in Anhui Province, China, covering topics such as mobile phone addiction, depression, anxiety, and negative coping styles.
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