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  1. Over- and undernutrition coexist in many African countries and pose a threat to metabolic health. This study assessed the associations between relationship satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI), waist circumf...

    Authors: Adi Lukas Kurniawan, Julius Schretzmann, Rathi Paramastri, Alyssa Cho, Ali Sié, Melanie S. Fischer, Till Bärnighausen and Beate Ditzen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:827
  2. Regular participation in physical activity (PA) benefits children’s health and well-being and protects against the development of unhealthy body weight. A key factor in children’s PA participation is their mot...

    Authors: Jongho Moon, Collin A. Webster, David F. Stodden, Ali Brian, Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Michael Beets, Cate A. Egan, Lori Irene Flick McIntosh, Christopher B. Merica and Laura Russ
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:826
  3. In the light of personnel shortage, the health care sector is facing the challenge to combine increasing employees‘ as well as patients’ needs. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between ...

    Authors: Franziska U. Jung, Alexander Pabst, Margrit Löbner, Melanie Luppa and Steffi G. Riedel-Heller
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:825
  4. Programs involving animals in therapeutic programs are becoming increasingly prevalent. These programs can vary greatly in their approach, scope, and objectives, and they can significantly impact the developme...

    Authors: Karolina Eszter Kovács, Éva Zita Balogh, Buda Lovas, Péter Boris and Beáta Erika Nagy
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:824
  5. Despite increasing studies on mental health among immigrants, there are limited studies using nationally representative samples to examine immigrants’ mental health and its potential biopsychosocial contributi...

    Authors: David Adzrago, Kiran Thapa, Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa, Saanie Sulley and Faustine Williams
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:819
  6. The caregiver burden frequently experienced by family members tending to advanced cancer patients significantly impacts their psychological well-being and quality of life (QoL). Although family resilience migh...

    Authors: Panpan Cui, Ming Yang, Hengyu Hu, Chunyan Cheng, Xinyi Chen, Jiaoxia Shi, Shifeng Li, Changying Chen and Hongmei Zhang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:817
  7. Peer-led lifestyle interventions have gained recognition as effective approaches for managing and preventing chronic diseases. However, there remains a critical knowledge gap regarding the impact and effective...

    Authors: Geok Pei Lim, Jamuna Rani Appalasamy, Badariah Ahmad, Kia Fatt Quek and Amutha Ramadas
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:812
  8. Globally, at least 3 million TB patients are missed every year. In Zambia, the TB treatment coverage increased from 66% in 2020 to 92% in 2022. Involvement of all levels of health care service delivery is crit...

    Authors: Robert Hambwalula, Mary Kagujje, Innocent Mwaba, Dennis Musonda, David Singini, Lilungwe Mutti, Nsala Sanjase, Paul C. Kaumba, Luunga M. Ziko, Kevin M. Zimba, Pauline Kasese-Chanda and Monde Muyoyeta
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:811
  9. Rates of non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, and mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, are high and rising in the urbanising world. Gardening coul...

    Authors: Boglarka Z. Gulyas, Samantha J. Caton and Jill L. Edmondson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:810
  10. Gambling causes important harms in societies. According to the public health approach, the most effective policies to reduce harms target full populations. Availability restrictions and mandatory precommitment...

    Authors: Virve Marionneau, Jani Selin, Antti Impinen and Tomi Roukka
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:809
  11. Increasing health literacy (HL) in children could be an opportunity for a more health literate future generation. The aim of this scoping review is to provide an overview of how HL is conceptualized and descri...

    Authors: Wieke Van Boxtel, Katarina Jerković-Ćosić, Linda J. Schoonmade and Mai J. M. Chinapaw
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:808
  12. The objective of this study was to detect the urinary levels of chlorpyrifos, paraquat, and cyproconazole in residents living in Fuyang City and to analyze the correlation between these urinary pesticides leve...

    Authors: Peiqi Ma, Hongliang Gao, Ning Shen, Lei Zhang, Yang Zhang, Kai Zheng, Boqun Xu, Jian Qin, Jian He, Tao Xu, Yan Li, Jing Wu, Yushan Yuan and Bin Xue
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:807

    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in BMC Public Health 2024 24:900

  13. Disasters such as earthquakes, conflict, or landslides result in traumatic injuries creating surges in rehabilitation and assistive technology needs, exacerbating pre-existing unmet needs. Disasters frequently...

    Authors: Justine Gosling, Roxanne Maritz, Ariane Laplante-Lévesque and Carla Sabariego
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:806
  14. COVID-19 has created tensions across different sectors of the society, but the impact has been unequal. Vulnerable people have been most affected, especially those with insecure employment and who have experie...

    Authors: Yoonjoo Choi, Eun-Joo Park, Soon-Young Lee, Hee-Yeon Kim and Weon-Young Lee
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:805
  15. Although tooth loss appears to be related to functional limitations, the mechanisms that underpin this relationship are unknown. We sought to address this knowledge gap by examining a multiple mediation hypoth...

    Authors: Weibo Ma, Pengchen Liang, Bei Wu, Ying Yu, Qiusi Shi and Renyao Zhong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:803
  16. Occupational stress is becoming a common phenomenon around the world. Being in a high occupational stress state for a long time may destroy the metabolic balance of the body, thereby increasing the risk of met...

    Authors: Min Zhang, Bin Liu, Weiyi Ke, Yashi Cai, Lingyu Zhang, Weixu Huang, Xuehua Yan and Huifeng Chen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:802
  17. Local authorities in England have an important role in shaping healthy local environments contributing to childhood obesity. This study examined changes in diet and physical activity in primary school children...

    Authors: Charan Bijlani, Charlotte Vrinten, Cornelia Junghans, Kiara Chang, Ellie Lewis, UmmeZeinab Mulla, Paraskevi Seferidi, Anthony A. Laverty and Eszter P. Vamos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:800
  18. In the present study, we investigated the relationship between personality and motivation for physical activity while introducing perceived parental support and social physical anxiety in adolescent girls (N = 31...

    Authors: Zahra Fathirezaie, Georgian Badicu, Fatma Hilal Yagin, Mohamadtaghi Aghdasi, Seyed Hojjat Zamani Sani, Kosar Abbaspour, Özgür Mülazımoğlu Ballı, Sara Entezar and Luca Paolo Ardigò
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:799
  19. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on individual health and fitness routines globally. Resistance training, in particular, has become increasingly popular among men and women looking to maintai...

    Authors: Rastegar Hoseini and Zahra Hoseini
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:798
  20. The link between low grip strength, diminished physical performance, and adverse health outcomes in older adults has been well-established. However, the impact of older adults who cannot complete these tests o...

    Authors: Yu Cheng Huang, Ying Dong, Chen Ming Tang, Ying Shi and Jian Pang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:797
  21. Migration-related changes in dietary patterns and other structural and individual factors affect weight-related health practices of individuals migrating from low-and-middle-income to high-income countries. Th...

    Authors: Jennifer Teke, Obasanjo A. Bolarinwa, Lawrence A. Nnyanzi, Emma L. Giles, Louisa Ells, Scott Elliott, Sylvesters R. Okeke and Deborah O. Okeke-Obayemi
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:796
  22. This study aimed to investigate the impact of self-consciousness on depression of college students, and mainly focus on confirming the mediator role of life meaningful and self-efficacy, as well as the moderat...

    Authors: Ye Yuan, Daili Wu, Zhongnong Chen, Daile Chen, Qiang Zhou, Jaesik Jeong and Yanling Tu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:794
  23. This study examined perceptions of coercion, pressures and procedural injustice and how such perceptions influenced psychological well-being in those who experienced a UK COVID-19 lockdown, with a view to prep...

    Authors: V. Ranieri, C. Gordon, S. K. Kamboj and S. J. Edwards
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:793
  24. Many work-related stresses are experienced by oncologists. Ukraine is currently undergoing numerous crises, including the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and military conflicts, which represent stressful situations. The a...

    Authors: I Böckelmann, I Zavgorodnii, O Litovchenko, V Kapustnyk, M Krasnoselskyi and Beatrice Thielmann
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:792
  25. Transgender women are disproportionately affected by both HIV and gender-based violence (GBV), defined as physical, sexual, or emotional violence perpetrated against an individual based on their gender identit...

    Authors: Maria Amelia de Sousa Mascena Veras, Neia Prata Menezes, Adrienne Rain Mocello, Anna M. Leddy, Gustavo Santa Roza Saggese, Katia Cristina Bassichetto, Hailey J Gilmore, Paula Galdino Cardin de Carvalho, Luca Fasciolo Maschião, Torsten B. Neilands, Jae Sevelius and Sheri A. Lippman
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:791
  26. Significant consequences of COVID-19 within academic/professional life are, at the psychological level, related to worry, tension, stress; coping strategies and lifestyle changes. This study describes the proc...

    Authors: María Yolanda González-Alonso, Andrea Liliana Ortiz-González, María Camino Escolar-Llamazares, Diego Serrano-Gómez, Isabel Serrano-Pintado and María Ángeles Martínez-Martín
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:790
  27. Around one in ten people who contract Covid-19 report ongoing symptoms or ‘Long Covid’. Without any known interventions to cure the condition, forms of self-management are routinely prescribed by healthcare pr...

    Authors: Fiona J. Leggat, Celayne Heaton-Shrestha, Jessica Fish, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Anne Domeney, Carol Rowe, Ian Patel, Judith Parsons, John Blair and Fiona Jones
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:789
  28. Light and moderate alcohol use has been reported to be associated with both impaired and enhanced cognition. The purpose of this study was to explore whether there was a linear relationship between visual memo...

    Authors: Atiqul Haq Mazumder, Jennifer H. Barnett, Anu-Helmi Halt, Marjo Taivalantti, Martta Kerkelä, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin and Juha Veijola
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:788
  29. Although previous studies have found that parenting style significantly predicts emotional and behavioral problems (EBPs) among Chinese adolescents, the mechanism between different parenting styles and EBPs re...

    Authors: Jiana Wang, Xinyuan Huang, Zhe Li, Kun Chen, Zhiyu Jin, Jing He, Bingsong Han, Lin Feng, Nana Meng, Cong Yang and Zhuang Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:787
  30. The Diabetic Retinopathy Extended Screening Study (DRESS) aims to develop and validate a new DR/diabetic macular edema (DME) risk stratification model in patients with Type 2 diabetes (DM) to identify low-risk...

    Authors: Amudha Aravindhan, Eva K. Fenwick, Aurora Wing Dan Chan, Ryan Eyn Kidd Man, Ngiap Chuan Tan, Wei Teen Wong, Wern Fern Soo, Shin Wei Lim, Sabrina Yi-Mei Wee, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Eric Finkelstein, Gavin Tan, Haslina Hamzah, Bibhas Chakraborty, Sanchalika Acharyya, Tai E. Shyong…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:786
  31. The right to food security has been recognised internationally, and nationally in Australia by Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations. This study aims to explore food (in)security and solutions f...

    Authors: Emma Chappell, Ellie Chan, Caroline Deen, Julie Brimblecombe, Yvonne Cadet-James, Marita Hefler, Emma Stubbs and Megan Ferguson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:785
  32. Promoting the uptake of vaccination for infectious diseases such as COVID-19 remains a global challenge, necessitating collaborative efforts between public health units (PHUs) and communities. Applied behaviou...

    Authors: Guillaume Fontaine, Maureen Smith, Tori Langmuir, Karim Mekki, Hanan Ghazal, Elizabeth Estey Noad, Judy Buchan, Vinita Dubey, Andrea M. Patey, Nicola McCleary, Emily Gibson, Mackenzie Wilson, Amjad Alghamyan, Kateryna Zmytrovych, Kimberly Thompson, Jacob Crawshaw…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:784
  33. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), especially hypertension and diabetes mellitus are on the increase in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Informal settlement dwellers exhibit a high prevalence of behavioural risk factor...

    Authors: Ibrahim Franklyn Kamara, Sia Morenike Tengbe, Abdulai Jawo Bah, Innocent Nuwagira, Desta Betula Ali, Fanny F. Koroma, Rugiatu Z. Kamara, Sulaiman Lakoh, Santigie Sesay, James B. W. Russell, Sally Theobald and Mary Lyons
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:783
  34. Previous studies have shown subjects suffering from diabetes or persistent hyperglycemia were more likely to develop tuberculosis (TB). However, the global burden of TB attributed to high fasting plasma glucos...

    Authors: Qin Bian, Yanjun Zhang, Chen Xue, Wenjing Lu, Wei Li, Fanqi Pan and Yi Li
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:782
  35. Cyclists are vulnerable traffic users and studying the cycling behavior of professional and elite cyclists, their previous history of traffic accidents combined with the current knowledge on high-risk behavior...

    Authors: Enayatollah Homaie Rad, Fatemeh Kavandi, Leila Kouchakinejad-Eramsadati, Kamran Asadi and Naema Khodadadi-Hassankiadeh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:780
  36. Little is known about the long-term impact of hearing and vision impairment on social isolation. This study quantifies the association between hearing, vision, and concurrent hearing and vision impairment (dua...

    Authors: Alison R. Huang, Thomas K. M. Cudjoe, George W. Rebok, Bonnielin K. Swenor and Jennifer A. Deal
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:779
  37. The elderly, especially those with physical disabilities, often encounter barriers that prevent them from accessing outdoor activities. Their perceptions of the convenience of accessing outdoor activities may ...

    Authors: Qi Xu, Youyi Lin, Yiqi He, Xianhong Zhou, Jinhai Liu, Dewang Shen, Fan Wu, Xin Lin, Yun Zhang, Taibiao Li and Tiebin Yan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:776
  38. The relationship between parental age at pregnancy and offspring development in low- and middle-income countries remains unclear. We aimed to examine the associations of parental age at pregnancy with adolesce...

    Authors: Wanting Wan, Yingze Zhu, Jiaxin Tian, Yue Cheng, Lingxia Zeng and Zhonghai Zhu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:775
  39. The Norwegian home care services experience a high level of sick leave, a large proportion of which is due to common mental disorders. A substantial number of such cases can be attributed to psychosocial facto...

    Authors: Rigmor Harang Knutsen, Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Lars-Kristian Lunde, Øivind Skare and Håkon A. Johannessen
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:773
  40. Immigrants are exposed to numerous risk factors that may contribute to the development of chronic musculoskeletal pain. Recent political and environmental crises in North Africa and the Middle East have led to...

    Authors: Maria-Nefeli Tsetseri, David J. Keene, Alan J. Silman and Stephanie G. Dakin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:769
  41. The study uncovers micro and macro socioeconomic disparities in terms of health behavior, disease perception, and reception of information. Furthermore, findings shed light on the possible role of health insur...

    Authors: Josue Antonio G. Estrada
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:767
  42. Occupational hazards occur in all walks of life. China’s horticulture industry is undergoing rapid development. However, the mental health of garden workers has not received much attention. This study investig...

    Authors: Yujin Xie, Yang Jiao, Lei Shi, Di Liu, Ying Liu, Zhen Tang, Weijun Gong, Hong Yu and Yuanshuo Ma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:765
  43. Health economic modelling indicates that referral to a behavioural weight management programme is cost saving and generates QALY gains compared with a brief intervention. The aim of this study was to conduct a...

    Authors: Sarah Bates, Penny Breeze, Chloe Thomas, Christopher Jackson, Oliver Church and Alan Brennan
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2024 24:764

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