Patient and wound factors associated with WOUND-Q scales measuring health-related quality of life: An international cross-sectional study.

The WOUND-Q is a patient-reported outcome measure for individuals with any type of chronic wound. This study aimed to identify patient and wound factors associated with the four WOUND-Q health-related quality of life (HRQL) scales: Life impact, Psychological, Sleep, and Social. Adults with a chronic wound were recruited internationally through clinical settings between August 2018 and May 2020, and through an online platform (i.

Corrigendum: Editorial: Early development of sound processing in the service of speech and music perception.

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The literature exploring the perspectives and experiences of racialized students in entry-level health professional education programs: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this scoping review will be to determine the breadth of literature exploring the perspectives and experiences of racialized students in entry-level health professional education programs.

Introduction: Despite the implementation of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) policies and alternative admission criteria for minority students, racialized minorities continue to be underrepresented and have the highest attrition rate in health professional education programs. Furthermore, the students who eventually work in health care settings report experiences of microaggression and prejudice.

Identifying and Understanding Seizure Liability in Drug Development.

Seizures are complex electrophysiological disturbances affecting one or more populations of brain neurons. Seizures following test article (TA) exposure pose significant challenges in drug development. This paper considers the diverse neurological manifestations, mechanisms, and functional and structural assessments needed to investigate TA-related seizure liabilities, with a particular focus on nonclinical species.

High Intensity Physician-Based Service Use for Mental Health Concerns in a General-Population Sample of Children and Youth: Utilisation des services de haute intensité dispensés par des médecins pour les problèmes de santé mentale dans un échantillon d'enfants et de jeunes de la population générale.

Objective: To examine factors associated with high intensity physician-based mental health care services in a population-based sample of children and youth in Ontario, Canada.

Methods: Data from the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS) were linked at the person-level to longitudinal health administrative databases containing physician contacts in outpatient settings, emergency departments and hospitals. Our analytical sample (15.

An approach to Hemequity: Identifying the barriers and facilitators of iron deficiency reduction strategies in low- to middle-income countries.

Approximately 1.92 billion people worldwide are anaemic, and iron deficiency is the most common cause. Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) disproportionately affects women of reproductive age and remains under-addressed in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs).

Orthotists' perspectives on the adjustment of 3D printed ankle foot orthoses: A mixed methods feasibility study.

Background: An important part of the orthotic treatment process includes performing adjustments to the shape or design of the orthosis to improve its fit and function. However, the ability to adjust 3D printed (3DP) materials is not well understood.

Objectives: (1) To evaluate the usability of completing adjustments on 3DP ankle foot orthoses (AFOs) vs.

Impact of an Antenatal Family-based Behavioral Treatment with a Nutrition and Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program on Infant Weight-for-length at Birth.

Background: World Health Organization (WHO) growth standards, including weight-for-length, are used to monitor infant size. Excessive infant weight-for-length at or above the 85th percentile is a risk for childhood overweight. Although antenatal interventions like the nutrition and exercise lifestyle intervention program (NELIP) have successfully prevented excessive gestational weight gain, strategies to improve the intervention remain of interest.

Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries.

The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). However, an updated and comprehensive assessment of the global burden attributable to SSBs remains scarce. Here we estimated SSB-attributable T2D and CVD burdens across 184 countries in 1990 and 2020 globally, regionally and nationally, incorporating data from the Global Dietary Database, jointly stratified by age, sex, educational attainment and urbanicity.

Effects of nurse-home visiting on intimate partner violence and maternal income, mental health and self-efficacy by 24 months postpartum: a randomised controlled trial (British Columbia Healthy Connections Project).

Objective: To evaluate the impact of Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), a home-visiting programme, on exploratory maternal outcomes in British Columbia (BC), Canada.

Design: Pragmatic, parallel arm, randomised controlled trial conducted October 2013-November 2019. Random allocation of participants (1:1) to comparison (existing services) or NFP (plus existing services).

In subclinical AF, apixaban vs. aspirin reduced stroke or systemic embolism at 3.5 y, regardless of duration of recent subclinical AF episodes.

GIM/FP/GP: [Formula: see text] Cardiology: [Formula: see text].

In T1D, weekly efsitora was noninferior to daily degludec for reducing HbA but increased severe hypoglycemia at 26 wk.

Endocrinology: [Formula: see text].

In HF with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction, finerenone reduced worsening HF or CV death at 32 mo.

GIM/FP/GP: [Formula: see text] Cardiology: [Formula: see text].

In HFpEF, semaglutide reduced a composite of worsening HF or CV death.

GIM/FP/GP: [Formula: see text] Cardiology: [Formula: see text].

In long-term users of benzodiazepine receptor agonists, direct-to-patient interventions vs. usual care reduced use at 6 mo.

GIM/FP/GP: [Formula: see text] Geriatrics: [Formula: see text].

In asymptomatic severe AS, early surgery vs. conservative therapy reduced a composite of death, MI, stroke, or HF hospitalization at 63 mo.

GIM/FP/GP: [Formula: see text] Cardiology: [Formula: see text].

In adults aged ≥75 y with NSTEMI, an invasive vs. conservative strategy did not improve a composite outcome at a median 4.1 y.

GIM/FP/GP: [Formula: see text] Cardiology: [Formula: see text] Geriatrics: [Formula: see text].

In insulin-naive T2D, weekly efsitora was noninferior to daily degludec for reducing HbA at 52 wk.

GIM/FP/GP: [Formula: see text] Endocrinology: [Formula: see text].

In HF, MRAs reduced HF hospitalization or CV death regardless of ejection fraction.

GIM/FP/GP: [Formula: see text] Cardiology: [Formula: see text].

In severe asthma with an eosinophilic phenotype, depemokimab improved exacerbations, but not quality of life, at 52 wk.

GIM/FP/GP: [Formula: see text] Allerg & Immunol: [Formula: see text] Pulmonology: [Formula: see text].

Self-Diagnosed Cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder on Social Media: Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment.

Recent global popularity of social media content about dissociative identity disorder (DID) has coincided with increased self-diagnosis among children and young people who have formed large online communities and presented in clinical settings seeking to affirm their self-diagnoses. We situate this phenomenon within a broader trend toward self-diagnosis due to the widespread visibility and accessibility of mental health content on social media. Social media propelled self-diagnosis raises particular questions for the study and treatment of DID due to long-standing debates over whether the condition is traumagenic, sociogenic, or iatrogenic.

A retrospective comparative study of the clinical and radiological outcomes of intertrochanteric fractures treated with proximal femoral nail antirotation (PFN-A) and INTERTAN nail.

Background: This study aimed to analyze the files of patients treated using PFN-A or INTERTAN intramedullary nails to reveal additional superiorities or disadvantageous factors for selecting the better intramedullary fixation method in patients presenting with intertrochanteric femur fractures.

Methods: In this retrospective study, the files of the patients who were operated on for intertrochanteric femur fractures using intramedullary fixation methods between September 2010 and June 2015 in the Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, were reviewed. The data including age, gender, chronic diseases, causes of fractures, fracture classification based on Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen (AO), the nail type (long or short), the interval between trauma and surgery, duration of anesthesia and surgery, hospitalization duration, amount of blood transfusion, the Tip-Apex Distance (TAD) in postoperative radiographs, functional outcomes according to Harris Hip Score (HHS) and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), postoperative complications, need for revision, and mortality was noted.