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The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientious...
Theory suggests that personality traits evolved to have costs and benefits, with the effectiveness of a trait dependent on how these costs and benefits relate to the present... -
Increasing Awareness about Antibiotic Use and Resistance: A Hands-On Project ...
Background Health-promoting education is essential to foster an informed society able to make decisions about socio-scientific issues based on scientifically sustained... -
What are fair study benefits in international health research? Consulting com...
Background Planning study benefits and payments for participants in international health research in low- income settings can be a difficult and controversial process, with... -
Systematic evaluation of the teaching qualities of Obstetrics and Gynecology ...
Background: The importance of effective clinical teaching for the quality of future patient care is globally understood. Due to recent changes in graduate medical education, new... -
Philanthro-metrics: Mining multi-million-dollar gifts
The Million Dollar List (MDL, online at http://www.milliondollarlist.org) is a compilation of publicly announced charitable donations of $1 million or more from across the... -
High risk sexual behaviors for HIV among the in-school youth in Swaziland: a ...
Background Global efforts in response to the increased prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are mainly aimed at reducing high risk sexual behaviors among young... -
Developing a Tool for Increasing the Awareness about Gendered and Intersectio...
OBJECTIVE: There is a need for tools addressing gender inequality in the everyday clinical work in health care. The aim of our paper was to develop a tool for increasing the... -
A controlled trial of the knowledge impact of tuberculosis information leafle...
BACKGROUND: Information leaflets are widely used to increase awareness and knowledge of disease. Limited research has, to date, been undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of these... -
What Are the Effects of Teaching Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC)? Overview ...
BackgroundAn evidence-based approach to health care is recognized internationally as a key competency for healthcare practitioners. This overview systematically evaluated and... -
PrEP implementation by local health departments in US cities and counties: Fi...
Objective The United States Public Health Service released clinical practice guidelines for daily oral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in May 2014. Local health departments... -
Outcomes in Registered, Ongoing Randomized Controlled Trials of Patient Educa...
Background With the increasing prevalence of chronic noncommunicable diseases, patient education is becoming important to strengthen disease prevention and control. We aimed... -
"Cancer – Educate to Prevent" – High-School Teachers, the New Promoters of Ca...
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and thus represents a priority for national public health programs. Prevention has been assumed as the best strategy to... -
Predictors of Retention among Men Attending STI Clinics in HIV Prevention Pro...
Background Retention is critical in HIV prevention programs and clinical research. We studied retention in the three modeled scenarios of primary prevention programs, cohort... -
Fitting Characteristics of N95 Filtering-Facepiece Respirators Used Widely in...
BACKGROUND: Millions of people rely on N95 filtering facepiece respirators to reduce the risk of airborne particles and prevent them from respiratory infections. However, there... -
The Role of Social Media in Recruiting for Clinical Trials in Pregnancy
Background Recruitment of women in the periconceptional period to clinical studies using traditional advertising through medical establishments is difficult and slow. Given... -
Optimizing Network Connectivity for Mobile Health Technologies in sub-Saharan...
Background Mobile health (mHealth) technologies hold incredible promise to improve healthcare delivery in resource-limited settings. Network reliability across large catchment... -
Measuring Health Literacy Regarding Infectious Respiratory Diseases: A New Sk...
Background There is no special instrument to measure skills-based health literacy where it concerns infectious respiratory diseases. This study aimed to explore and evaluate a... -
Effects of Guideline-Based Training on the Quality of Formal Ontologies: A Ra...
Background The importance of ontologies in the biomedical domain is generally recognized. However, their quality is often too poor for large-scale use in critical... -
An Alaska Native community’s views on genetic research, testing, and return o...
As genetic testing technology advances, genetic testing will move into standard practice in the primary care setting. Genetic research, testing, and return of results are... -
Validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the Newest Vital Sign: a ...
Health literacy (HL) refers to the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services, and is thus needed to make appropriate health decisions. The...