Introdução : A canábis é uma planta muito falada no que respeita ao seu uso medicinal. Grande parte dos países da União Europeia permite, ou está a considerar permitir, o uso médico desta substância. Contudo, a evidência científica relativamente à sua eficácia é ainda limitada, …
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A doença oncológica é considerada um problema de saúde pública a nível mundial devido á sua crescente morbilidade e mortalidade no século XXI. Esta doença apresenta, igualmente, um grande impacto social devido aos custos económicos ligados à prevenção, tratamento e reabilitação …
Latinx communities in the United States made up 18% of the total population, yet accounted for 33% of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. This supported the study aim to increase Latinx COVID-19 knowledge and self-efficacy for performing COVID-19 risk reduction mitigation behavior…
The mid-twentieth century marked a critical turning point in the history of race and American nursing. The political strategies traditionally employed by Black Americans for racial advancement and health improvement, particularly self-help and racial solidarity, gave way to new …
The behavioral healthcare (BH) community provides essential health care services to its clients. Employee turnover has a long history dating back as far as 30 years. Turnover continues to be a growing topic in the behavioral health care community. The success of services rendere…
Adolescent pregnancy is a phenomenon that affects the entire world. The effect can be apparent at the individual, family, and societal levels. In 2013, the rate of adolescent pregnancy in Nigeria was 149 per 1,000 aged 10 to 19 years. In this cross-sectional quantitative study, …
Background: Research has indicated that exposure to traumatic events is associated with cigarette use and with related outcomes such as pulmonary disease. Better characterizing the connection between trauma exposure and cigarette use and related outcomes remains a critical gap. …
The purpose of this study was to understand the perceptions of African American adults 50 years and older about their risk or susceptibility to HIV infection, in the context of what they knew prior to developing HIV infection. African Americans, especially older adults, are incr…
Objectives. Despite a child restraint system (CRS) law in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (K.S.A.), compliance has been minimal. We explored the salient behavioral, normative and control beliefs, which may predict intentions of CRS use in K.S.A; identified which of them independentl…
Many students in an allied health program at a Middle Eastern Arab university were experiencing difficulties with courses taught in English, resulting in poor academic achievement, low grade point averages, a high failure rate amongst its first year students, and an adverse impa…
Improvements in medical and genomic technologies have dramatically increased the production of electronic data over the last decade. As a result, data management is rapidly becoming a major determinant, and urgent challenge, for the development of Precision Medicine. Although su…
Significant health care disparities exist in the United States. Nurses can play an important role eliminating these disparities. International immersion experiences for undergraduate nursing students may provide long-lasting enhancements in cultural competency and improvements i…
Why are there low levels of condom use in a population that lives in an area with high HIV prevalence and that has knowledge about protective nature of condoms? This incongruity between knowledge of the effectiveness of condoms as a measure to protect from HIV infection and lack…
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to determine the health beliefs and practices in self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus of the people from Afikpo North LGA in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The problem that drove this study was limited knowledge and research about th…
Background: The problem of overweight and obese children now constitutes a global burden, with high prevalence rates being reported in many transitional societies. Children in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are 1.8 times more obese than those in the United States and, by age 18,…
Educators and scholars continue to lament United States citizens' geographic illiteracy and are calling on Congress to address the crisis. However, despite recent public attention, a lack of national commitment to teaching geography in all public school grade levels persists. Th…
In December, 2005, the Air Force Auditing Agency conducted an interview of 282 nurses and physicians stationed in Iraq. The majority of the nurses from the interview reported they were not prepared to care for critically injured soldiers. This study investigated whether a new tr…
The Rapid Response Team (RRT) is a formally structured team that responds to nurses' concerns when there is a patient alert. For unknown reasons, registered nurses (RNs) are not calling the RRT consistently when critical changes in a patient's condition occur. This study examine…
The suicide numbers among active duty military personnel eclipsed the number of combat deaths in 2011. Before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the incidence of suicide in active duty US service members was consistently 25% lower than in the civilian population. Currently milita…