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Medical undergraduatesâ perceptions on the end of course assessment in Surg...
Abstract Objective This study reports findings from a feedback assessment conducted among final year medical undergraduates on the end of course assessment in Surgery. A... -
Dietary, physical activity, and weight management interventions among active-...
Abstract Background Research has been conducted to assess the effectiveness of weight management, dietary and physical activity interventions in military settings. However, a... -
Workers’ physical activity data contribute to estimating maximal oxygen consu...
Abstract Background Sedentary behavior (SB) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) are important issues in occupational health. Developing a questionnaire to concurrently assess... -
SMS text messaging to measure working time: the design of a time use study am...
Abstract Background Measuring the working hours of general practitioners (GPs) is an important but complex task due to the effects of bias related to self-reporting, recall, and... -
A systematic review of media parenting in the context of childhood obesity re...
Abstract Background We conducted a systematic review to obtain studies on childhood obesity and parenting published between 2009 and 2015, and draw out those studies with a... -
Final-year pharmacy undergraduate students’ career intention and its influenc...
Abstract Background Career intention is closely related to the distribution of university graduates across sectors in pharmacy-related field. The aim of the study was to... -
Can cost-effectiveness results be combined into a coherent league table? Case...
Abstract Background Doubts exist around the value of compiling league tables for cost-effectiveness results for health interventions, primarily due to methods differences. We... -
Potential gains in life expectancy by reducing inequality of lifespans in Den...
Abstract Background Reducing lifespan inequality is increasingly recognized as a health policy objective. Whereas lifespan inequality declined with rising longevity in most... -
Self-care for head and neck cancer survivors with lymphedema and fibrosis: st...
Abstract Background Head and neck cancer (HNC) patients are at high risk for developing lymphedema and fibrosis (LEF) following cancer treatment. Once HNC patients develop LEF,... -
Access and utilization of maternal healthcare in a rural district in the fore...
Abstract Background Poor maternal health delivery in developing countries results in more than half a million maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth or within a few weeks... -
The perceived effectiveness of MERS-CoV educational programs and knowledge tr...
Abstract Background Knowledge transfer of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) involves the dissemination of created/acquired information on MERS-CoV in... -
Association between convenience stores near schools and obesity among school-...
Abstract Background Food environments have rapidly changed over the past years in China and children have more access to unhealthy food in convenience stores near schools. Since... -
Prospective observations study protocol to investigate cost-effectiveness of ...
Abstract Background Among the non-invasive screening methods for the identification of fetal aneuploidy, NIPT (non-invasive prenatal testing) shows the highest sensitivity and... -
No long-term effect of a 2-days intervention on how to prepare homemade food,...
Abstract Objective Optimal nutrition from early age reduces the risk of developing non-communicable diseases later in life. The aim of this study was to examine the long-term... -
Fear of cancer recurrence in prostate cancer survivors
Background High fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is an understudied topic in prostate cancer (PCa) survivors. This study aimed to detect the prevalence, consequences and... -
Small-area socioeconomic deprivation indices in Cyprus: development and assoc...
Abstract Background Area-level measures of socioeconomic deprivation are important for understanding and describing health inequalities. The aim of this study was the... -
What happened and why? A programme theory-based qualitative evaluation of a h...
Abstract Background There is increasing interest in and demands for partnerships between academia and healthcare practices. Few empirical studies have described the influence of... -
Using behaviour change theory and preliminary testing to develop an implement...
Abstract Background Imaging is overused in the management of low back pain (LBP). Interventions designed to decrease non-indicated imaging have predominantly targeted... -
Fitness, fatness and the reallocation of time between children’s daily moveme...
Abstract Background Movement behaviours performed over a finite period such as a 24 h day are compositional data. Compositional data exist in a constrained simplex geometry that... -
Face morphing attacks: Investigating detection with humans and computers
Abstract Background In recent years, fraudsters have begun to use readily accessible digital manipulation techniques in order to carry out face morphing attacks. By submitting a...
