Objectives Women with severe mental illness (SMI) face barriers to cervical cancer screening, leading to lower participation and poorer outcomes. This research aimed to develop and test an ...

Objectives The New York City (NYC) HIV Care Coordination Programme (CCP) is designed to help people with HIV (PWH) overcome barriers to care and treatment engagement. We assessed preferences for CCP ...

Introduction The WHO’s Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in young infants <2 months of age includes the identification and management of signs of possible serious bacterial infection ...

Introduction Diarrhoea is a common problem in people living with HIV. Some trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of zinc supplementation in the prevention and treatment of diarrhoea; however, ...

Objective This study aimed to assess the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalisation costs and its associated factors on Nepalese households during the second wave of the pandemic, within the ...

Introduction Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a major global healthcare challenge. This is, in part, due to the lack of treatment response and chronic course of MDD. Such a course of illness is ...

Methods and analysis The study will be conducted in two of the five countries participating in the WHO ACTION-III trial—India (Delhi, Belagavi) and Nigeria (Ibadan and Ile-Ife). We will use a ...

Objective Though vaccination coverage in Ethiopia has shown steady progress over the years, there are districts with below targeted vaccination coverage. This study assessed the magnitude and ...

Introduction Modern surgery incorporates many aspects of care, including preoperative workup, surgical management and multidisciplinary collaboration to achieve favourable outcomes and high patient ...

Introduction Objective and accurate dietary monitoring is critical for comprehensive dietary assessment and improving ...

Introduction Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) characterised by episodes of symptoms including rectal bleeding, increased stool frequency and abdominal pain, ...

Objective To develop a scientific and systematic core competency evaluation index system for informatics nurses in China. The goal is to support their training, assessment and performance evaluation.