Objectives Understanding contextual drivers of family planning is crucial for designing effective, context-specific policies and programmes. This study aimed to assess (1) the extent to which province ...

Objectives To identify caregiver burden profiles among informal caregivers of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes and explore associated factors. Design A multicentre cross-sectional survey ...

Objectives To examine state-level variation in mental health screening practices for high school athletes in the USA and ...

Introduction Pain is a prevalent symptom in people living with dementia. Evidence shows that pain frequently remains unrecognised and untreated in this vulnerable population, leading to avoidable ...

Objectives Illegal drug use continues to be a major threat to community health and safety. We used international drug surveillance databases to assess the relationship between multiple long-term ...

Objectives This study aims to evaluate individual preferences that influence responsiveness in oral healthcare services through a discrete choice experiment (DCE), and to estimate the marginal ...

Background Increasing reports of life-threatening complications in young children exposed to skin-lightening products present a significant public health concern, yet this issue remains ...

Introduction Approximately one in every six children and adolescents is affected by mental disorders, which impose significant costs on patients, their families and societies. Psychotherapy is the ...

Rationale Current techniques for monitoring patients for apnoea suffer from significant limitations. These include insufficient availability to meet diagnostic needs, cost, accuracy of results in the ...

Objective Telehealth has the potential to address challenges faced by the healthcare industry. To achieve the intended goals of telehealth programmes, stakeholders should engage with these services.

Objectives Heart failure (HF), chronic kidney disease (CKD) and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) are highly prevalent conditions that often coexist. Using electronic health records (EHRs ...

Objective To use newly available self-assigned ethnicity information to investigate variation in breast cancer screening uptake for women from the 16 specific ethnic groups within the broad Asian, ...