• Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study of DARE alumni over five consecutive years (2015-2020, n = 24). (aau.dk)
  • METHODS: Cross-sectional study with an electronic questionnaire distributed to 28 762 hospital employees in southern Sweden. (lu.se)
  • Methods: This study included 5856 adults aged 45-84 years from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (2000-2012, average follow-up: 7.8 years). (uncg.edu)
  • Methods: In 2018, a cross-sectional survey was collected from healthcare workers (n = 1,059) in five public sector facilities in the northeast United States. (cdc.gov)
  • BackgroundThe relationship between acute combat-related traumatic injury (CRTI) to coronary flow reserve (CFR) and subclinical cardiovascular risk have not been examined and was the primary aim of this study.Methods and resultsUK combat veterans from the ADVANCE cohort study (UK-Afghanistan War 2003-14) with traumatic limb amputations were compared to injured non-amputees and to a group of uninjured veterans from the same conflict. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • METHODS: In a prospective cohort study, we recruited 132 individuals newly diagnosed with IPF and measured 4MGS change over 6 months. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Methods The study will make use of an intervention mapping framework and a sequential, explanatory mixed methods design. (researchgate.net)
  • This mixed methods study used both a retrospective matched cohort and focus groups. (cdc.gov)
  • The objective of this mixed methods study was to evaluate the longitudinal association between food insecurity and BMI by using a retrospective matched cohort design and focus groups. (cdc.gov)
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and potential contributing factors of anxiety and depression among caregivers of Chinese pediatric patients with TD. (plos.org)
  • Among other projects, it included a cross-sectional survey of the prevalence of vascular risk factors in the adult population of Agincourt, which we report here. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We conducted a cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) in areas of rural Alabama, USA, that have sanitation deficits. (cdc.gov)
  • In medical research, social science, and biology, a cross-sectional study (also known as a cross-sectional analysis, transverse study, prevalence study) is a type of observational study that analyzes data from a population, or a representative subset, at a specific point in time-that is, cross-sectional data. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unlike case-control studies, they can be used to describe, not only the odds ratio, but also absolute risks and relative risks from prevalences (sometimes called prevalence risk ratio, or PRR). (wikipedia.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we found a higher 1-year prevalence of self-reported hand eczema among Swedish healthcare workers than reported in the general population. (lu.se)
  • 10 However, other types/designs of research studies are becoming increasingly important in evidence-based practice, such as diagnostic testing, risk factors for disease and prevalence studies, 10 hence systematic reviews in this area have become necessary. (bmj.com)
  • The prevalence of overweight, obesity, blood type O, and rhesus positive observed among students in this study is largely similar to what has been reported in published studies in Ghana and from other countries. (hindawi.com)
  • As the vitamin D status of Algerian postmenopausal women was poorly described, this cross-sectional study investigated the prevalence of low vitamin D status in a sample population. (hindawi.com)
  • For instance, in a European study involving more than 8500 postmenopausal women, the prevalence of 25(OH)D deficiency reached 32.1% when considering the cutoff value of 20 ng/mL [ 9 ], while in Indian, Chinese, and US populations of postmenopausal women, the estimated prevalence rates were 53.3%, 72.1%, and 53%, respectively [ 10 - 12 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • This study aimed to determine the prevalence of antibiotic therapy in patients with COVID-19 infection and explore the association of antibiotic prescribing with patients' demographics and clinical characteristics. (who.int)
  • study corroborates the literature on socio-demographic profile and infrequent prevalence of psychotic symptoms in the pre-transplant setting. (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of SARSCoV-2 infection in Burkina Faso and to use the initial cycle threshold (Ct) values of RT-PCR as a tool to monitor the dynamics of the viral load. (bvsalud.org)
  • Cross-sectional studies are descriptive studies (neither longitudinal nor experimental). (wikipedia.org)
  • A descriptive cross-sectional quantitative study among pregnant women in Jordan was conducted using an online questionnaire between November 2020 and January 2021. (frontiersin.org)
  • Cross-sectional descriptive study, sociodemographic questionnaire and Scale for Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS) were used. (bvsalud.org)
  • A digital connectedness survey was conducted in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), a Mississippi-based African American cohort study, as part of the annual follow-up calls with participants from July 2017 to February 2019. (jmir.org)
  • This was a panel of two cross-sectional studies conducted in Manaus in 2015 and 2019. (scielosp.org)
  • The detailed methodology and design of the RaNCD study has been published in 2019 15 . (nature.com)
  • Objectives: The aim of this study is to analyse previous literature conducted on strategies that enhance resilience in ICU nurses to cope with workplace adversities beyond the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. (bvsalud.org)
  • Thus, to understand human development, humans should be studied in their natural living environments where interactions could occur on a regular basis and over an extended period of time, and not by recreating artificial situations [14]. (researchgate.net)
  • This large-scale, multicenter, non-interventional, cross-sectional study examined the activity status of COPD patients in Japan and explored factors related to PA. (dovepress.com)
  • This is a major advantage over other forms of epidemiological study. (wikipedia.org)
  • The data collection was conducted as part of the Hordaland Health Study (HUSK) 1997-99, which was a cross-sectional epidemiological study. (peerj.com)
  • This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2021 using data from the baseline phase of the Ravansar non-communicable disease (RaNCD) cohort study in Ravansar, Kermanshah province, western Iran. (nature.com)
  • A retrospective analytical cross-sectional study was conducted at a tertiary hospital and training institution in Baguio City, the Philippines from March 2020 to March 2021. (who.int)
  • Methodology: Between September 2021 and February 2022, oropharyngeal and/or nasopharyngeal swab samples of consecutively selected COVID-19 symptomatic and apparently healthy workers from the Wahgnion mining site in the South-western Burkina Faso who consented to the study were collected according to the two weeks shift program and tested for SARS-CoV-2 using RT-PCR assay. (bvsalud.org)
  • Méthodologie: Entre septembre 2021 et février 2022, des écouvillonnages oropharyngés et/ou nasopharyngés de travailleurs symptomatiques COVID-19 et apparemment en bonne santé sélectionnés consécutivement du site minier de Wahgnion dans le sud-ouest du Burkina Faso qui ont consenti à l'étude ont été prélevés selon les deux programme de quart de semaines et testé pour le SRAS-CoV-2 à l'aide d'un test RT-PCR. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study included 305 participants with a psychotic disorder from 39 clinical inpatient and outpatient sites across Norway. (biomedcentral.com)
  • that at least two participants - physician and patient - be involved, that both parties share information, that both parties take steps to build a consensus about the preferred treatment, and that an agreement is reached on the treatment to implement [ 7 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A total of 318 participants were included in this study, with a response rate of 89.58% (318/355). (plos.org)
  • Most case-control studies collect specifically designed data on all participants, including data fields designed to allow the hypothesis of interest to be tested. (wikipedia.org)
  • For this cross-sectional analysis, we used the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging baseline data (2011-2015) of 22,091 randomly selected participants of Black, East Asian, South or Southeast Asian (SSEA) and White race/ethnic backgrounds, aged 45-85 years with available information on the presence or absence of self-reported prevalent low trauma fractures and femoral neck BMD (FNBMD) measurement. (springer.com)
  • These study participants were provided with appropriate personal protective equipment to deliver healthcare to patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 and were involved in aerosol generating procedures. (bmj.com)
  • Results The average age of study participants was 35.8 years and 68.1% (286/420) were women. (bmj.com)
  • All 420 study participants had direct contact with patients with covid-19 and performed at least one aerosol generating procedure. (bmj.com)
  • During the deployment period in Wuhan, none of the study participants reported covid-19 related symptoms. (bmj.com)
  • Despite being at high risk of exposure, study participants were appropriately protected and did not contract infection or develop protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2. (bmj.com)
  • This cross-sectional study involved 412 participants aged 18 to 46 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. (hindawi.com)
  • Participants included all subjects from the baseline phase of the RaNCD study (n = 10,047). (nature.com)
  • Results: A total of 1506 (92.9% males) participants were recruited into the study, with mean age and age range of 37.1ï ±8.7 and 18-68 years respectively. (bvsalud.org)
  • The univariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression were used to analyze the cross-sectional data. (plos.org)
  • In economics, cross-sectional studies typically involve the use of cross-sectional regression, in order to sort out the existence and magnitude of causal effects of one independent variable upon a dependent variable of interest at a given point in time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Therefore, no causal inferences can be made. (bmj.com)
  • Analysis of unintended events in hospitals: inter-rater reliability of constructing causal trees and classifying root causes. (ahrq.gov)
  • A battery of tests was administered to 95 palliative outpatients , namely sociodemographic questionnaire (SQ), Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS), Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy -Spiritual Well-Being scale (FACIT-Sp), and a semi-structured interview (SSI) to study one's perception of spirituality and autonomy in decision -making. (bvsalud.org)
  • A cross-sectional survey was conducted in February 2010 in pregnant women or in early postpartum at the Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre using a self-administered questionnaire based on the Health Belief Model (HBM). (nih.gov)
  • A cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire was answered by 107 physicians at a tertiary-care hospital in Saudi Arabia. (who.int)
  • Le questionnaire présentait six sections couvrant les données démographiques, les connaissances, les attitudes et les pratiques vis-à-vis de la notification des erreurs médicales, les causes perçues et la fréquence des erreurs médicales dans leur hôpital ainsi que les expériences personnelles en matière de notification. (who.int)
  • A cross-sectional study was carried out on caregivers of pediatric patients with TD at a women's and children's hospital in western China from January to June 2020. (plos.org)
  • Pursuant to resolution WHA69.3 (2016), this global status report on healthy ageing provides data and reviews progress made on actions for the proposed Decade of Healthy Ageing 2020-2030. (who.int)
  • BACKGROUND: Sex and racial/ethnic identity-specific cut-points for validating tobacco use using Wave 1 (W1) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study were published in 2020. (cdc.gov)
  • Our findings suggest that it is feasible to use mHealth technologies to collect survey data among African Americans already enrolled in a longitudinal study. (jmir.org)
  • We collected data from 720 manufacturing workers in New England during the first wave of an ongoing longitudinal study on aging, working conditions and musculoskeletal disorders. (cdc.gov)
  • Moreover, the association between patient-related characteristics and shared decision making is unclear, and further research have been suggested. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A linear mixed model was estimated to assess characteristics associated with shared decision making scores. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Primary study outcomes were measurement of daily steps (over 14 consecutive days, using an activity monitor), assessment of activity time by activity intensity (using metabolic equivalents [METs]), and evaluation of correlation between PA and patient characteristics. (dovepress.com)
  • To determine the effect of organic solvents on menstrual cycle characteristics of workers in LCD manufacturing. (nih.gov)
  • This study aimed to estimate dietary sodium and potassium consumption among Jamaicans and evaluate associations with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. (cdc.gov)
  • Speaking up about patient safety in psychiatric hospitals - a cross-sectional survey study among healthcare staff. (ahrq.gov)
  • Alert burden in pediatric hospitals: a cross-sectional analysis of six academic pediatric health systems using novel metrics. (ahrq.gov)
  • We conducted a hospital-based cross-sectional study at three tertiary hospitals in Freetown, Sierra Leone. (who.int)
  • Therefore, the present study aimed to assess as to whether previously reported risk factors of schizophrenia are specifically associated with SCZ-D and SCZ-ND. (elsevier.es)
  • These associations should be further explored in longitudinal studies and population-based strategies should be developed to address these cardiovascular risk factors. (cdc.gov)
  • This cross-sectional survey of nurses working in general medicine wards identified both enabling factors (behavioral regulation, perceived capabilities, and environmental context/resources) and barriers (intentions, perceived consequences, optimism, and professional role) to implementing comprehensive harm prevention programs for older adult inpatients. (ahrq.gov)
  • A meta-analysis study in 2018 indicated that the DMFT index of Iranian children and adults is 2.30 and 8.60, respectively 2 . (nature.com)
  • OBJECTIVES To assess respiratory morbidity over several cross sectional phases in the European carbon black manufacturing industry. (bmj.com)
  • 1-3 Systematic reviews have been used to develop guidelines and to answer important questions for evidence-based practice 3 , 4 and CA to assess the quality of studies that have been included is a crucial part of this process. (bmj.com)
  • This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge and risk perception of basic food safety and handling among pregnant women in Jordan amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (frontiersin.org)
  • Few studies assess the use of multiple varieties of alternative tobacco by high school students. (bmj.com)
  • To assess the association between park access and HBP, we built multilevel logistic models to account for variation in HBP by zip code. (cdc.gov)
  • A vignette study to assess recognition of cognitive biases in clinical case workups. (ahrq.gov)
  • OBJECTIVE:This study aims to investigate acceptance of disability and its influencing factors among stroke patients in China. (iospress.com)
  • The objective of this study was to determine whether overall cigarette consumption (mean annual number of cigarettes smoked) in Kansas also decreased. (cdc.gov)
  • The objective of this study was to evaluate the longitudinal association between food insecurity and BMI. (cdc.gov)
  • This paper describes the results of the cross sectional analyses of phases 2 and 3 of the respiratory health study of European carbon black workers. (bmj.com)
  • The results of this study are generalisable as the Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) is a large (n=27 404), nationally representative survey. (bmj.com)
  • 4 He reported that most of the respiratory morbidity studies have either methodological shortcomings or lack the necessary detail for confident interpretation of the results. (bmj.com)
  • The patient perspective on errors in cancer care: results of a cross-sectional survey. (ahrq.gov)
  • And I need to apologize, I missed an important study in October, regarding the longer-term results of the SPRINT trial of two BP targets. (medscape.com)
  • Diagnostic errors by medical students: results of a prospective qualitative study. (ahrq.gov)
  • Improving handoff by deliberate cognitive processing: results from a randomized controlled experimental study. (ahrq.gov)
  • The results presented confirm the importance of encouraging such studies and reiterate the need for greater attention to this population. (scielo.br)
  • RESULTS: Sixteen percent (n=440 742) of the study population was multimorbid. (lu.se)
  • A natural progression has been suggested from cheap cross-sectional studies of routinely collected data which suggest hypotheses, to case-control studies testing them more specifically, then to cohort studies and trials which cost much more and take much longer, but may give stronger evidence. (wikipedia.org)
  • The purpose of this study was to contribute to the knowledge regarding the penetrance of internet and mobile technologies, such as cellphones or smartphones in existing large cohort studies of cardiovascular disease. (jmir.org)
  • The association between multimorbidity and VTE suggests that future cohort studies where multimorbidity is used to predict VTE might be worthwhile. (lu.se)
  • The influence of spirituality on decision-making in palliative care outpatients: a cross-sectional study. (bvsalud.org)
  • Thus, this study aims to explore the influence of spirituality on the perception of healthcare decision -making in palliative care outpatients . (bvsalud.org)
  • This study was based on a cohort of 118 stable outpatients with schizophrenia. (elsevier.es)
  • We performed a cross sectional random sample survey of adults aged over 35 in Agincourt (population ≈ 70 000). (biomedcentral.com)
  • In medical research, cross-sectional studies differ from case-control studies in that they aim to provide data on the entire population under study, whereas case-control studies typically include only individuals who have developed a specific condition and compare them with a matched sample, often a tiny minority, of the rest of the population. (wikipedia.org)
  • Longitudinal studies differ from both in making a series of observations more than once on members of the study population over a period of time. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, in modern epidemiology it may be impossible to survey the entire population of interest, so cross-sectional studies often involve secondary analysis of data collected for another purpose. (wikipedia.org)
  • There was a response rate of 94%, and the final study population after exclusions was 288. (nih.gov)
  • A healthy diet was associated with a decrease in DMFT score in the studied population. (nature.com)
  • Information on self-reported health is important for health professionals, and the aim of this study was to examine associations between lifestyle factors and self-reported health and the mediating effect of disease in a Norwegian population. (peerj.com)
  • Shared decision making was assessed using the CollaboRATE survey. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In a cross-sectional survey, a specific group is looked at to see if an activity, say alcohol consumption, is related to the health effect being investigated, say cirrhosis of the liver. (wikipedia.org)
  • This study uses data from a self-reported, cross-sectional survey. (bmj.com)
  • Barriers and enablers to nurses' use of harm prevention strategies for older patients in hospital: a cross-sectional survey. (ahrq.gov)
  • Patient perspectives on the usefulness of an artificial intelligence-assisted symptom checker: cross-sectional survey study. (ahrq.gov)
  • Burnout and its relationship to self-reported quality of patient care and adverse events during COVID-19: a cross-sectional online survey among nurses. (ahrq.gov)
  • Education and training of nurses in the use of advanced medical technologies in home care related to patient safety: a cross-sectional survey. (ahrq.gov)
  • Hearing impairment and the amelioration of avoidable medical error: a cross-sectional survey. (ahrq.gov)
  • Healthcare professionals' perception of safety culture and the Operating Room (OR) Black Box technology before clinical implementation: a cross-sectional survey. (ahrq.gov)
  • A cross-sectional study was conducted using data from the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey 2016-2017. (cdc.gov)
  • Nurses' harm prevention practices during admission of an older person to the hospital: a multi-method qualitative study. (ahrq.gov)
  • The nurse's experience of decision-making processes in missed nursing care: a qualitative study. (ahrq.gov)
  • Subsequently, hookworm in Alabama received limited attention until a study published in 2017, reporting 19/55 positive stool samples by qPCR for N. americanus hookworms and 4/55 for Strongyloides stercoralis roundworms, from a cohort of mostly adults living with poor sanitation conditions in Lowndes County ( 17 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. (bmj.com)
  • The authors have chosen to make the review history of this article public. (peerj.com)
  • Objectives The aim of this study was to develop a critical appraisal (CA) tool that addressed study design and reporting quality as well as the risk of bias in cross-sectional studies (CSSs). (bmj.com)
  • The present study aims to contribute to the safety literature on manufacturing workers by examining the association between one particular facet of psychological safety climate -- work safety tension -- and several important stress -linked physical health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • The study outcomes were doctor visits and hospitalizations in the previous 12 months, and unmet surgical needs. (scielosp.org)
  • Studies have examined the presence of green spaces, including open-space parks, tree cover, and vegetation and their association with health outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Some studies indicate that proximity to green spaces is linked to a lower risk of HBP, improved diabetes outcomes, and reduced obesity (4-8). (cdc.gov)
  • The aim of this study is to understand the relationship between the postadoptive use of patient portals and patient satisfaction outcomes. (jmir.org)
  • Studies have estimated that chronic HCV infection will develop in 5.8%-7.2% of all perinatally exposed (i.e., exposed during pregnancy or delivery) infants and children ( 13 , 14 ), and curative direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy can be administered beginning at age 3 years ( 15 , 16 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Cross-sectional studies are very susceptible to recall bias. (wikipedia.org)
  • Such bias may be less in routinely collected statistics, or effectively eliminated if the observations are made by third parties, for example taxation records of alcohol by area. (wikipedia.org)
  • The studies evaluating respiratory morbidity and mortality started in the early 1950s. (bmj.com)
  • Determinants of the decision -making process are not completely understood, and spirituality is essential for coping with illness. (bvsalud.org)
  • The present study was aimed at identifying factors influencing the decision-making of pregnant women regarding H1N1 vaccination. (nih.gov)
  • This study examines smoking susceptibility and ATP use in a national sample of Canadian youth. (bmj.com)
  • This study has important policy implications given this new evidence that trying alternate tobacco products is associated with higher odds of cigarette smoking susceptibility among youth. (bmj.com)
  • This is because when reading any type of evidence, being critical of all aspects of the study design, execution and reporting is vital for assessing its quality before being applied to practice. (bmj.com)
  • Application to Practice: Evidence-based interventions seeking to alleviate the effect of work-family conflict and improve healthcare workers' mental health should consider promoting employee sleep quality and improving employees' decision-making on the job. (cdc.gov)
  • We studied physicians' knowledge of the occurrence, frequency and causes of medical errors and their actual practice toward reporting them. (who.int)
  • Consider "study" or "research. (cdc.gov)
  • Although new approaches for data collection, such as mobile technology and teleresearch, have demonstrated new opportunities for the conduct of more timely and less costly surveys in community-based studies, literature on the feasibility of conducing cardiovascular disease research using mobile health (mHealth) platforms among middle-aged and older African Americans has been limited. (jmir.org)
  • The present study was derived from a research project of the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China, which aimed to develop a standardized nursing intervention model (SNIM) among immobile patients with stroke. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The RaNCD study is part of a Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in Iran (PERSIAN), which has been started by enrolling 10,047 adults aged 35-65 since 2014. (nature.com)
  • This report was prepared by Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG), a contractor to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), as a general record of discussion for the expert panel review meeting on the Vieques Heart Study. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions Preliminarily, this study suggests that medical students can initiate binational collaboration in medicine. (aau.dk)
  • This study examines the potential mediating and moderating role of sleep and decision latitude in translating work-family conflict into depression. (cdc.gov)
  • The current study examined the extent of reported shared decision making among patients with a psychotic disorder in mental health care and factors associated with shared decision making. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Shared decision making might play a key role in mental health care, ensuring that patients with psychotic disorders are satisfied with the services provided. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Longitudinal studies need to be conducted to further confirm the causality before interventions to improve mental health are developed. (plos.org)
  • Cross-sectional studies can contain individual-level data (one record per individual, for example, in national health surveys). (wikipedia.org)
  • Beyond accidents and injuries: work-safety tension and physical health of manufacturing employees. (cdc.gov)
  • furthermore, findings from safety studies that have included non-accident/injury physical health measures are generally limited by reliance on self-reports of physical health. (cdc.gov)
  • For this study, we focused on two aspects of physical health that represent known health issues in the manufacturing sector: cardiovascular issues (represented by clinical assessments of blood pressure and heart rate), and musculoskeletal disorders (represented by clinical assessments of cervical rotation flexibility and self-reported trunk and extremity pain). (cdc.gov)
  • The authors recommended a validation study for the purported health benefits of blood type diets. (hindawi.com)
  • 6 ] conducted the first study to examine the association between blood type diets and biomarkers of cardiometabolic health in experimental and control groups. (hindawi.com)
  • The journal is oriented to the study of mental illnesses, their pathological processes, and their psychosocial consequences and aims to disseminate scientific advances in all fields related to illness and mental health. (elsevier.es)
  • Peer support by interprofessional health care providers in aftermath of patient safety incidents: a cross-sectional study. (ahrq.gov)
  • 1 ] Anticipating the end of life (EOL) and making health care decisions about appropriate or preferred treatment or care near the EOL is intellectually challenging and emotionally distressing for patients with advanced cancer, their families and friends, oncology clinicians, and other professional caregivers. (cancer.gov)
  • The White House asked the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the issues raised by the study. (cdc.gov)
  • But if you have a healthy vagina, anything you do to make your vagina taste "better" can only have a very minimal effect, says Michael Ingber, MD, a board certified urologist and female pelvic medicine specialist at The Center for Specialized Women's Health in New Jersey. (healthline.com)
  • This study was conducted at a community health center in Chelsea, Massachusetts. (cdc.gov)
  • As an example of the significance of self-reported health, Idler & Benyamini (1997) reported that it predicted mortality in almost all of the 27 community studies they included in their review, and this connection may be seen as well established. (peerj.com)
  • Cross-sectional studies involve data collected at a defined time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cross-sectional studies may involve special data collection, including questions about the past, but they often rely on data originally collected for other purposes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Carbon blacks are very fine powdered forms of elemental carbon and are manufactured by several different processes which all involve the controlled vapour phase pyrolysis of liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons. (bmj.com)
  • Cross-sectional data cannot be used to infer causality because temporality is not known. (wikipedia.org)
  • Findings from this study, along with existing evidence, can be used by policymakers to improve regulation around youth access to ATPs (particularly flavoured varieties). (bmj.com)
  • In January 2001, a pilot study comparing the echocardiograms of residents of Vieques and Ponce, Puerto Rico reported substantial valvular abnormalities and pericardial thickening in a large proportion of Vieques residents - findings not seen among Ponce residents. (cdc.gov)
  • The implementation of shared decision making remains limited for patients with psychotic disorders despite being recommended at policy level, being advocated as ethical right and wanted by the patient's. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A barrier to implementation that is often mentioned is reduced decision-making capacity among patients. (biomedcentral.com)