Randomised controlled trial assessing the effects of 6-week telerehabilitation exercise programme on chronic non-specific neck pain: a study protocol.

Chronic non-specific neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal conditions affecting the work and lifestyle of those suffering from it. Physiotherapy interventions, such as strength training and stretching, have positively influenced neck pain. Patient adherence to home-based exercises is a growing concern that could be easily improved through telerehabilitation exercise programmes.

β-Thalassemia and Diabetes Mellitus: Current State and Future Directions.

β-Thalassemia major is a congenital hemoglobin disorder that requires regular blood transfusion. The disease is often associated with iron overload and diabetes mellitus, among other complications. Pancreatic iron overload in β-thalassemia patients disrupts β-cell function and insulin secretion and induces insulin resistance.

Effectiveness of school-based nutrition interventions promoted in the League of Arab States: a systematic review.

Arab countries are doubly burdened with undernutrition as well as overweight and obesity. To provide guidance to those looking to address concerns of obesity and overweight among children in this region, the current review bridges an existing knowledge gap and systematically characterizes and evaluates the available scientific evidence pertaining to school-based nutrition interventions completed to date across the Arab world. Using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines and relevant keywords, terms and phrases, a search of the literature across 14 databases for school-based nutrition interventions implemented in this region was conducted.

The effect of multicomponent approach in enhancing the level of confidence with evidence-based practice activities and promoting evidence-based practice culture among nurses in a clinical setting in the United Arab Emirates.

Aim: The aim of this work is to examine the effect of multicomponent interventions on enhancing the level of confidence of staff nurses with evidence-based practice in an acute care hospital in the United Arab Emirates.

Background: Evidence-based practice is one of the strategic pillars of nursing practice and a key to organizational success. To effectively implement and sustain evidence-based practice programmes in clinical sites, well-designed implementations can promote staff attitude, knowledge, skills, and confidence in translating research evidence into optimal patient care.

Long-COVID, Metabolic and Endocrine Disease.

In the aftermath of the corona pandemic, long-COVID or post-acute COVID-19 syndrome still represents a great challenge, and this topic will continue to represent a significant health problem in the coming years. At present, the impact of long-COVID on our health system cannot be fully assessed but according to current studies, up to 40% of people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 suffer from clinically relevant symptoms of long-COVID syndrome several weeks to months after the acute phase. The main symptoms are chronic fatigue, dyspnea, and various cognitive symptoms.

Outpatient use patterns and experiences among diabetic and hypertensive patients in fragile settings: a cross-sectional study from Lebanon.

Objectives: Assess and describe the health service use and delivery patterns for non-communicable disease (NCD) services in two contrasting fragility contexts and by other principal equity-related characteristics including gender, nationality and health coverage.

Setting: Primary healthcare centres located in the urbanised area of Greater Beirut and the rural area of the Beqaa Valley.

Design: This is a cross-sectional study using a structured survey tool between January and September 2020.

Predicting post-stroke motor recovery of upper extremity using clinical variables and performance assays: A prospective cohort study protocol.

Background And Purpose: Measurement of movement quality is essential to distinguish motor recovery patterns and optimize rehabilitation strategies post-stroke. Recently, the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable Taskforce (SRRR) recommended four kinetic and kinematic performance assays to measure upper extremity (UE) movements and distinguish behavioral restitution and compensation mechanisms early post-stroke. The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a prediction model to analyze the added prognostic value of performance assays over clinical variables assessed up to 1-month post stroke for predicting recovery of UE motor impairment, capacity and quality of movement (QoM) measured at 3 months post-stroke onset.

Effects of an 8-week pelvic core stability and nutrition community programme on maternal health outcomes.

Introduction: Women, during the antenatal and post-partum period, report pelvic, low back pain, stress and urge urinary incontinence, colorectal dysfunction, and other co-morbidities that negatively affect health-related quality of life. Exercise and nutrition are important considerations for improving maternal health in this period.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a community-driven nutrition and exercise programme focused on pelvic floor and core stability, healthy nutrition, and breastfeeding counselling over an 8-week period on pelvic floor and urinary distress (UDI), prolapse and colorectal distress for antenatal and post-partum women with limited access to health care, and low socio-economic resources from a Midwestern Region of the United States.

Social gradient of birthweight in England assessed using the INTERGROWTH-21 gestational age-specific standard.

Objective: To determine the socioeconomic gradient of birthweights in England with reference to the prescriptive INTERGROWTH-21 Birthweight Standard.

Design: National cross-sectional study using data from Hospital Episode Statistics.

Setting: National Health Service in England.