Pressure ulcers were considered present if a patient developed a PU grade 2 or worse. If a patient had a PU grade two or worse at the first visit, that PU lesion was excluded from the reg- istration of PUs until the PU healed. Patients with an already present PU grade two or worse ...
First, the search was restricted to studies or papers published in English that used quantitative or mixed methods instruments to assess HIL and related constructs. Therefore, some relevant instruments may have been missed. Second, even though the COSMIN checklist and guideline for systematic reviews...
The appraisal of the reporting quality of publications dealing with the development and validation of health literacy indices has yielded mixed findings. Some domains such as the description of the article background and presentation and interpretation of results are reported thoroughly, while other domai...
Studies with a score of 8 to 10 were assessed as qualitatively of methodological excellence, with a grade of between five and seven being of good quality, with a rating of three to four being of moderate quality, and a rating of less than three being of low quality [29]....
The inclusion criteria for study selection were (1) peer-reviewed articles written in Chinese or English, (2) study participants were children and adolescents with age ranges or mean ages between 6 and 18 years, or enrolled in grade 1 through grade 12, (3) observational or experimental study...
67.96% were native German speakers, 9.09% were Serbian, 9.09% were Turkish, and 7.33% were English native speakers, while 6.53% reported other native languages. Data collection took place in spring 2019 in 91 classes (from fifth to twelfth grade) in six schools in Vienna, Austria. All ...
Education Ranking of the highest level of school completed or the highest degree received from −1 (Less than 1st grade) to 15 (Doctorate degree) 11.093 10.137 Log(Income) Log of total family income received in 2015 from all sources, before taxes and other deductions 10.727 11.655 Smoke If...
There are limitations to the present review, some of which are due to gaps in the literature itself. Only papers published in the English language were included in this review, and the majority of studies were conducted in the US or Europe. Studies were diverse in character (e.g. mediators...
After adjusting for grade, socio-economic status and access to health care per municipality, schools closer to the nearest municipal waste incineration plant were associated with an increased prevalence of wheeze and headache; there was no evident relationship between the distance of schools from such...
GRADE: Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation HDL: High-density lipoprotein HR : Hazard ratio LDL: Low-density lipoprotein NOS: Newcastle–Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale PROSPERO: International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews ...