Unit of the UK-based The Economist, and Africa Confidential have in separate reports projected poll victories for the ruling Patriotic Front and incumbent President, Dr Edgar Lungu, in next year's election. This is despite headwinds such as the country's debt crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic...
Results. We found that 31.7% were positive among the participants who did COVID-19 testing (48.8%). The level of knowledge showed that more than half (52.2%) were classified at a low knowledge level, while the rest were classified as good (47.8%). Regarding attitud...
The three-year period was selected to enable accounting for reporting biases in certain months attributable to disruptions such as facility stockouts and the COVID-19 pandemic [15]. It also provided an objective view of the facilities long-term reporting patterns with an endpoint placed in ...
The intent of plain-language resources (PLRs) reporting medical research information is to advance health literacy among the general public and enable them to participate in shared decision-making (SDM). Regulatory mandates coupled with academic and industry initiatives have given rise to an increasing...
Mental health supports, family access, and childcare were rated as the least accessible supports to newcomer families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, an overwhelming demand for mental health services by families during the pandemic has been extensively documented globally (Fegert et al., 2020...
Social support and positive coping skills as mediators buffering the impact of childhood maltreatment on psychological distress and positive mental health in adulthood: Analysis of a national population-based sample. Am J Epidemiol. 2020;189(5):394–402. Article PubMed Google Scholar Sudharsanan N...
Another issue that arises is when a student tests positive but did not attend school while infectious. “If the parents go and tell the school community my kid has COVID, then the school community starts saying, why wasn’t Interior Health notifying us? We have a very good...
The methods used to account for such forms of multiplicity include statistical methods (eg, family-wise error rate approaches) or descriptive approaches (eg, noting that the analyses are exploratory, placing the results in the context of the expected number of false-positive outcomes).61,62 Such...
Poland was chosen because it is one of the countries strongly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and many Polish companies reporting sustainability issues felt negative but sometimes also positive effects of its occurrence. It was indicated that the analysis would cover reports presenting information ...
test was repeated twice to ensure inter-rater agreement. The Cohen’s kappa metric was used for measuring agreement between the two authors using a previously described methodology [14,15]. The inclusion criteria were randomized controlled trials published articles evaluating the COVID-19 vaccine in...