Research ethics education is critical to developing a culture of responsible conduct of research. Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have a high burden of infectious diseases like HIV and malaria; some, like Uganda, have recurring outbreaks. Coup
We applied genetic methods to the impact of six aspects of childhood and adolescent health on educational attainment and on school absence: ADHD, ASD, depressive symptoms, BMI, asthma, and migraines, in an English birth cohort49. We considered health conditions which are prevalent enough to be ...
(71%), 14% had less than a 9th-grade education while 45% had completed high school, and participants were evenly divided across age groups. The surveys were administered in English (68%) and Spanish (32%). The primary outcome was whether participants would like a fitness tracker, and ...
The culling of animals that are infected, or suspected to be infected, with COVID-19 has fuelled outcry. What might have contributed to the ongoing debates and discussions about animal rights protection amid global health crises is the lack of a unified
The extensive public engagement on WeChat establishes a robust foundation for the effective online distribution and diffusion of information by health promotion agencies [6]. The WeChat public platform, a functional module enabling operators to furnish information and services through public accounts to...
indicating it is also a reflection of socioeconomic status. Using the database of public high schools in the Western Cape we excluded schools with Grade 12 pass rates below 40% (indicating their inability to deliver even on their core mandate) and above 97% (indicating well-resourced schools ...
The following variables were included to capture socio-economic status: education (low: illiterate/primary; medium: lower secondary, high: upper secondary or higher), household income per capita (taken as Log index treatment). Age and gender (0 = male, 1 = female) were collected for each ...
(GRADE) framework, neither developed specifically for this field, were the most commonly used approaches for rating individual studies and bodies of evidence, respectively. Overall, the identified approaches were highly heterogeneous in both their comprehensiveness and their applicability to reproductive/...
We created ten binary covariates to distinguish potential dimensions of systematic bias based on the GRADE approach to bias detection and the unique characteristics of our dataset. These bias covariates account for the representativeness of the study population and analytical sample, methods for ascertaini...
To study the possible impact of the intervention on prejudiced beliefs, mixed models analyses were performed (Table 6 and Table 7). For all models, the variables sex (girl = 0, boy = 1), age, school (A, B or C), grade (8th, 9th or 10th), group (intervention vs control...