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Int J Environ Res Public Health
January 2025
Programme for Emerging Infections, Infectious Disease Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.
Background: Influenza remains a significant public health challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) like Bangladesh, where vaccine uptake remains low despite the substantial disease burden. Physicians play a vital role in promoting vaccination, yet their intentions and influencing factors are not well understood.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study from June to October 2022 across four tertiary-level hospitals in Bangladesh using a questionnaire grounded in the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB).
Contracept Reprod Med
January 2025
Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Riad El-Solh, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon.
Objective: Surgical sterilization, including vasectomy in males and tubal ligation in females, is a highly effective but underutilized contraception method. Adoption rates vary globally mostly due to misconceptions by both the general public and practicing physicians. Our survey aims to explore physicians' knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about surgical sterilization techniques in Lebanon.
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January 2025
Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia/ Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Introduction: The rising incidence of epilepsy has not been accompanied by sufficient public education, contributing to persistent social stigma towards people with epilepsy. This stigma leads to their exclusion and discrimination in key areas such as employment, education, and social interactions, ultimately diminishing their quality of life. This study aimed to assess the attitudes of medical students, resident doctors, and nurses toward people with epilepsy in three large cities in Indonesia.
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January 2025
Hacettepe University, Türkiye.
Organ donation is a very important issue due to its life-saving feature. The purpose of this study is to reveal the effect of the altruism levels of health workers in a public hospital in Türkiye on their organ donation attitudes. This research is a descriptive cross-sectional survey study.
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January 2025
Faculty of Psychology, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a widely used self-report measure of subjective well-being, but studies of its measurement invariance across a large number of nations remain limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset-with data collected between 2020 and 2022 -to assess measurement invariance of the SWLS across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups (N = 56,968). All participants completed the SWLS under largely uniform conditions.
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