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Metrics of sexual behavior stigma among cisgender men who have sex with men in Mexico: exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses
Cisgender gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Mexico experience disparities in sexual health outcomes, perhaps most notably...
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Using Power Analysis to Choose the Unit of Randomization, Outcome, and Approach for Subgroup Analysis for a Multilevel Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial to Reduce Disparities in Cardiovascular Health
We give examples of three features in the design of randomized controlled clinical trials which can increase power and thus decrease sample size and...
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A multilevel intervention to promote HPV vaccination among young adults in Texas: protocol for a randomized controlled trial
BackgroundHuman papillomavirus (HPV) infections can cause cancers of the cervix, vagina, vulva, penis, anus, and oropharynx. The most recently...
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Spatial variation and determinates of dietary diversity among children aged 6–23 months in Ethiopia: spatial and multilevel analysis using Ethiopian Demography Health Survey (EDHS) 2019
BackgroundMinimum dietary diversity is the consumption of five or more food groups from the eight World Health Organization recommended food groups....
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Development of Long and Short Forms of the Multilevel Resilience Resource Measure for African American/Black Adults Living with HIV
Understanding resilience in relation to HIV-related outcomes may help address racial/ethnic disparities, however, significant gaps in its measurement...
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Heavy Alcohol Use is Associated with Lower CD4 Counts among Russian Women Living with HIV: A Multilevel Analysis
Alcohol use remains prevalent among Russian women with HIV infection. Multilevel mixed effects models were used to estimate the association of heavy...
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Develo** a Multilevel Scale to Assess Retention of Workers with Disabilities
Purpose Persons with disabilities (PwD) face difficulties in employment. Despite extensive research on PwD in the workplace, there is lack of...
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The Group Nurturance Inventory — initial psychometric evaluation using Rasch and factor analysis
BackgroundThis paper describes the development and psychometric evaluation of a behavioral assessment instrument primarily intended for use with...
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Measuring and exploring mental health determinants: a closer look at co-residents’ effect using a multilevel structural equations model
ObjectivePrevious research has demonstrated that individual risk of mental illness is associated with individual, co-resident, and household risk...
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Quality of childcare and delayed child development in left-behind children in China
BackgroundInequalities in job opportunities and income prompts many Chinese parents to leave rural regions to work in urban regions. Their children...
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Using Bayesian statistics in confirmatory clinical trials in the regulatory setting: a tutorial review
Bayesian statistics plays a pivotal role in advancing medical science by enabling healthcare companies, regulators, and stakeholders to assess the...
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Develo** and validating a comprehensive measure of coordination in patient aligned care teams
Background/ObjectiveDespite numerous extant measures assessing context-specific elements of care coordination, we are unaware of any comprehensive,...
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Psychosocial school environment and health risk behaviours of adolescents in Bulgaria: results from multilevel analysis
ObjectivesThe paper aims to study the relationships between psychosocial school environment and health risk behaviours (cigarette smoking, alcohol...
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Spatial patterns and associated factors of HIV Seropositivity among adults in Ethiopia from EDHS 2016: a spatial and multilevel analysis
BackgroundHIV is a major public health issue, especially in develo** countries. It is important to track and design successful intervention...
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A Network Analysis of the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale–Short-Form (IGDS9-SF): An Intercontinental Large-Scale Study
The present study aimed to use a novel method (i.e., network analysis) to examine if the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale–Short-Form (IGDS9-SF) has its...
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Validation study of the Amharic version Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) in public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundIn Ethiopia, there is a growing concern about improving patients’ safety in healthcare facilities. However, the lack of a valid and...
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Investigating the Factor Structure of the Preclinical Alzheimer Cognitive Composite and Cognitive Function Index across Racial/Ethnic, Sex, and Aβ Status Groups in the A4 Study
BackgroundDisparities in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are well-documented among different racial/ethnic groups and between sex/genders....
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Multimorbidity and patient experience with general practice: A national cross-sectional survey in Norway
BackgroundPatient experience is an important indicator of the quality of healthcare. Patients with multimorbidity often face adverse health outcomes...
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Low Emotional Complexity as a Transdiagnostic Risk Factor: Comparing Idiographic Markers of Emotional Complexity to Emotional Granularity as Predictors of Anxiety, Depression, and Personality Pathology
BackgroundIndividuals vary widely in emotional complexity (EC), the ways in which they represent and experience emotions. Emotional granularity, the...
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Pre-operative body shape concerns moderate excess weight loss trajectory in bariatric surgery patients: a 2-year longitudinal study
PurposeThe main research aim was to inspect whether pre-operative body shape concerns and discomfort as Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) scores...
