Objectives This study aimed to determine whether certain lifestyle factors, specifically alcohol consumption, smoking, physical activity, sleep duration and sleep quality, are associated with an ...

Objectives Studies on ageing trajectories typically foreground intrinsic capacities and focus on frailty and mortality outcomes. Instead, research capturing aspects of people’s living environment ...

Objectives The optimal maternal age at childbirth has been a topic of bourgeoning literature, with earlier ages offering physiological benefits for maternal recovery. In contrast, later ages to give ...

Method A cross-sectional survey of the UK acupuncture practitioners was conducted; 800 practitioners were selected by computer-generated randomisation sequences from the four major UK-based ...

Objective This study aims to evaluate relationships between self-reported fine motor ability and quality of life (assessed by life satisfaction and life problems) from people with spinal cord injury ...

Objectives Rising patient numbers and limited resources are creating a challenging environment for healthcare providers recently. Anaesthesiologists are also increasingly faced with complex situations ...

Introduction Perinatal depression poses substantial risks to both mothers and their offspring. Given its chronic and ...

Objectives To examine outcomes from respiratory pathogens containment strategies focused on international travellers. Design We developed a compartmental model generalisable to respiratory infectious ...

Objective This study investigated perinatal depressive symptoms among pregnant and postpartum Filipino women. Design Cross-sectional survey. Setting The Philippines. Participants Participants were ...

Objectives Since 1985, the international healthcare community has recommended the ideal rate of caesarean section (CS) to be 10%–15% at the national level. The literature has reported that overused CS ...

Objective To determine whether smokers smoking from packs required under Australia's plain packaging law had different smoking beliefs and quitting thoughts, compared with those still smoking from ...

2 Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine and Sleep, Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland, ...