Comparison of Sleep Quality and Coronavirus Disease-Related Anxiety in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women by Hasti Gheisi, Parvin Ghaemmaghami, Bahar Morshed-Behbahani, Roksana Janghorban

“…After obtaining informed consent and evaluating inclusion and exclusion criteria, data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, a single-variable sleep quality questionnaire, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the Corona Anxiety Questionnaire. …”
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Prevalence Of Rifampicin Resistance in New Cases Of Pulmonary Tuberculosis In Children by Sonia Saleem, Aneela Shaheen, Muhammad Naeem, Shahid Mehmood Sahi, Sara Rubab, Bint-Ul- Huda

“…The research entailed screening children displaying symptoms of TB, acquiring written consent, and gathering demographic and clinical data, encompassing bacterial load and evidence of antibiotics. …”
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Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on uptake and experiences of gestational diabetes mellitus screening in Ontario: A parallel convergent mixed-methods study. by Dima Hadid, Rebecca H Correia, Sarah D McDonald, Elizabeth K Darling, David Kirkwood, Aaron Jones, Andrea Carruthers, Cassandra Kuyvenhoven, Michelle Howard, Devon Greyson, Sujane Kandasamy, Meredith Vanstone

“…Decisions about screening modalities were driven by clinician expertise, and interview participants were satisfied to provide informed consent to these recommendations.…”
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Legal provision of financing the health care sphere in Ukraine by S. V. Knysh

“…The cases of the access to information about a patient without his consent have been considered. New theoretical conclusions, generalizations and suggestions have been formulated, in particular, the author has offered the definition of the concept of “direct threat to life” in the context of regulatory acts regulating financing of health care in Ukraine. …”
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Urine amino acid and gamma aminobutyric acid level in COVID 19 patients by Cemal Kazezoglu, Arzu İrvem, Yasemin Tuba Sutasir, Büşra Çakiroglu, Banu Kirgiz, Habip Yilmaz, Ali Kocatas

“…Materials and Methods: Thirty adult cases who were followed up in the infection clinic with positive SARS CoV 2 RT-PCR and diagnosed with COVID 19 disease were included in the study with consent. The amino acid profile of these patients' urine samples, 30 different amino acid levels and creatine levels were examined using the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LCMS) method on the SCIEX QTRAP 4500 device. …”
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Clinical features of the course of Hirschsprung’s disease in newborns and infants with consideration of the extent of colonic aganglionosis by V.P. Prytula, O.O. Kurtash, V.F. Rybalchenko, S.F. Hussaini

“…The research protocol was approved by the Local Ethics Committee of all institutions mentioned in the work. Informed consent of the children’s parents was obtained for the research. …”
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Prophylactic Sublay Mesh Placement During Stoma Closure to Prevent Incisional Hernias: a Pilot Study by Yana Belenkaya, Sergey Gordeev, Nikolay Matveyev, Zaman Mamedli

“…The inclusion criteria were age 18-75, TNM stage I-III, and written informed consent. The exclusion criteria included patients with synchronous and metachronous cancers, human immunodeficiency virus, an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group score of >2, and those undergoing chemotherapy. …”
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The role of Pharmaceutical Marketing in Prescribing Decisions in a Developing Country: A Comprehensive Study Exploiting Theory of Planned Behaviour by Mahmoud Al-Areefi, Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim, Abubakr Abdelraouf Alfadl

“…Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethical Committee of the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPHP), and participants provided written consent before enrolling in the study. Result: Physicians admitted the presence of promotional influence on their prescribing decision. …”
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Occupational Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids among Medical Laboratory Science Students of the University of Health and Allied Sciences during Vocational Internship in the Volta R... by Philip Apraku Tawiah, Kwabena Oppong, Emmanuel Sintim Effah, Albert Abaka-Yawson, Kingsley Arhin-Wiredu

“…Self-administered questionnaires based on the objectives of the study were given out to participants to complete after their consent was sought. Descriptive data were reported as absolute number with percentages, whereas bivariate and multiple logistic regressions were done to describe relationship between risk factors and exposure to BBF. …”
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Impact of hydroxyurea on clinical and biological parameters of sickle cell anemia in children in Abidjan by MIREILLE YAYO- AYE, Adia Eusèbe Adjambri, Boidy Kouakou, Rebecca N'guessan-Blao, Louis Missa Adjé, Taïratou Kamagaté, Vincent Yapo, Duni Sawadogo

“…Children aged 5 to 15 years experiencing at least 3 vaso-occlusive crises (VOC) per year were included in the study after obtaining informed and written consent from their parents. Each patient received a daily dose of 15mg/kg of hydroxyurea. …”
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Perspectives of older patients on the preventability of their unplanned emergency department return visit within 30 days in the Netherlands: a multicentre mixed methods study by Gert P Westert, Steef van den Broek, Yvonne Schoon, Gijs Hesselink, Özcan Sir, Marije Roordink, Odette Willems

“…In total, 64 patients were included after informed consent (42.4%). A total of 33 patients (51.5%) found their URV preventable. …”
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TWIN-10: protocol for a 10-year longitudinal twin study of the neuroscience of mental well-being and resilience by Robin M Turner, Haeme R P Park, Leanne M Williams, Justine M Gatt

“…Participants gave informed consent to participate in the study before taking part.…”
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Some Problems of the Realization of Marital Relation with Foreigners by S. S. Myrza, I. A. Serednytska

“…It has been noted that marriage under current law of different countries can take place only if the established requirements are followed: conclusion of marriage contract, lack of close blood ties, compliance with the requirements of religion, reaching marriage age, mutual consent of both parties, equality, presence of witnesses while concluding a marriage contract and marriage, observance of folk traditions. …”
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Protocol for the impact of machine learning-based clinician decision support algorithims in perioperative care (IMAGINATIVE) in Singapore general hospital : a large prospective ran... by Marcus Ong, Hairil Rizal Abdullah, Ecosse Lamoureux, Elaine Lum, Gek Hsiang Lim, Tan Pei Yi Brenda, Celestine Loh

“…All patients will sign an informed consent form before recruitment and translators will be made available to non-English-speaking participants. …”
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Development of measures to assess listening-related effort and fatigue in daily life among hearing aid users: protocol for a quantitative field trial by Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Andreea Micula, Jeppe Høy Konvalinka Christensen, Dorothea Wendt, Hamish Innes-Brown, Ingrid Johnsrude, Matthew Apps, Torsten Dau

“…Associations between physiological responses, ambient acoustics and momentary assessments, as well as the potential influence of participant characteristics, will be analysed using multilevel regression models and time-series analyses.Ethics and dissemination Informed consent will be obtained from all participants. The study has been exempted from ethical application by the Science Ethics Committee for the Capital Region of Denmark (journal no. …”
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Improving influenza vaccine uptake in clinical risk groups: patient, provider and commissioner perspectives on the acceptability and feasibility of expanding delivery pathways in E... by Sandra Mounier-Jack, Rajeka Lazarus, Ben Kasstan, Ifra Ali

“…Embedding vaccine delivery in non-primary care settings may help to reduce inequalities and offer patients at risk the information and consent pathways they desire but is not a cost-neutral innovation and requires resource allocation.…”
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Prevalence of latent tuberculosis and mycobacterial infections in medicolegal cases with pleural adhesions: An observational study by Jayanthi Yadav, Ujjawal Khurana, Shubham Richariya, Shashank Purwar, Sangita Moirangthem, Johann Aibantyllilang Blah

“…Tissue samples from 82 cases with pleural adhesions were analyzed after obtaining consent and a detailed history. Diagnostic methods, including direct smear microscopy, Mycobacteria Growth Indicator (MGIT), Lowenstein–Jensen (LJ) media, and PCR, were employed. …”
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Digital health for early psychosis in Ghana: patient and caregiver needs and preferences by Anna Larsen, Joel Agorinya, Alexa Beaulieu, Emmanuel Quame Sottie, Benjamin Buck, Kwadwo Obeng, Bill Kyeremeh, Fredrick Kwame Dogbe, Muhammed Izudeen Iddrisu, Phil Emil Okwei Dowuona, Olivia Oteba Abbey Tetteh, Omari Boakye Emmanuel, Angela Ofori-Atta, Dror Ben-Zeev

“…Trained data assessors contacted these individuals via telephone and invited them and their caregivers to participate; those providing informed consent were interviewed via phone in Twi or English. …”
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Reflection to enhance dental students´ awareness of and comfort with uncertainty – an experimental study by Joséphine Brodén, Helena Fransson, Niklas Vareman, Maria Pigg

“…The exercises and questionnaire were administered in mandatory sessions on an internet-based learning platform, ensuring anonymity and informed consent. Potential carryover effects were mitigated by analyzing intervention exercise data from both groups but control exercise data only from the first group. …”
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Development and feasibility of an mHealth intervention for psychoeducational support of Nigerian women diagnosed with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A pilot randomized cont... by Oluwadamilare Akingbade, Ka Yi Hong, Oluwabukola Sharon Ayo, Adetutu Sefinat Alade, Moshood Akinwumi Lawal, Ibironke Elizabeth Somoye, Victoria Adediran, Olamide Sado, Ka Ming Chow

“…Feasibility was assessed through consent, attrition, and completion rates, while acceptability was explored via qualitative interviews.…”
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