Implementing an outpatient clinical trial on COVID-19 treatment in an emergency epidemic context: a mixed methods study among operational and research stakeholders within the Coverage trial, Bordeaux (France)
ConclusionsThe implementation of a home-based outpatient clinical trial on COVID-19 was perceived as relevant and innovative although requiring important adaptations of usual professional responsibilities and standard research procedures. Lessons learned from the Coverage trial underline the need for improved networks between hospital and community medicine, and call for a dedicated and reactive outpatient research platform on emerging or threatening infectious diseases. (Source: Archives of Public Health)
Source: Archives of Public Health - December 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Prevalence and determinants of intention to use modern contraceptives among grand-multiparous women in sub-Saharan Africa
ConclusionIn the high fertility context of sub-Saharan Africa, characterized by low contraceptive use, improving contraceptive use intention among grand-multiparous women is vital for preventing adverse maternal and child health outcomes, including mortality, resulting from a high-risk pregnancy. Hence, interventions should be more innovative in targeting this group of women to increase the contraceptive prevalence rate in line with Family Planning 2030 goals, and ultimately reduce high fertility rates in the region. (Source: Archives of Public Health)
Source: Archives of Public Health - December 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Compensation of overall physical activity in (pre)adolescent girls – the CReActivity project
ConclusionOur findings could neither confirm nor reject the ActivityStat Hypothesis. Overall, due to the great variability across the girls, it seems that compensation depends on individual factors. In the future, to prevent negative compensation, school-based interventions that have the potential to provide opportunities to be physically active, should not neglect (pre)adolescents ’ leisure time behaviour.Trial RegistrationDRKS00015723 (date of registration: 2018/10/22 retrospectively registered). (Source: Archives of Public Health)
Source: Archives of Public Health - December 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Advice for lay callers with low-risk poison exposures by a regional poison control center: the impact on health care expenditures
ConclusionThe existence of PCCs relieve the burden on other health care providers and reduce health care costs to a relevant extent. Therefore, PCCs should be considered as an important supporting structure of the German health care system. (Source: Archives of Public Health)
Source: Archives of Public Health - November 30, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Perceived environmental barriers and facilitators of refugee children ’s physical activity in/around refugee accommodation: a qualitative case study in Berlin
ConclusionsRefugee children perceive a lack of space and safety when attempting to play in the existing micro and meso environments. Related practitioners should focus on providing more play spaces in micro environments and safe access to existing neighbourhood playfields. These efforts can augment much-needed research on strategies to better integrate refuge facilities to their urban context and essential in minimising current health and spatial inequality issues these vulnerable groups face across Germany and worldwide. (Source: Archives of Public Health)
Source: Archives of Public Health - November 23, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
