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Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Pregnancy: The Experience at an Urban Safety Net Hospital
AbstractShortly after the identification of a novel coronavirus, the coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, a global pandemic was declared. There have been conflicting data about the severity of COVID-19 disease course in pregnant women, with most US data suggesting an increase in severity and increased need for hospitalization and intubation in obstetric patients. In the general population, the disease is more common among racial and ethnic minority populations, and severity is increased with comorbid conditions and obesity. The purpose of this study is to characterize COVID-19 infection in pregnancy in a population of wo...
Source: Journal of Community Health - March 1, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Fast and Frugal: Information Processing Related to The Coronavirus Pandemic
AbstractThis research focuses on three factors that influence how individuals cognitively process information related to the coronavirus outbreak. Guided by dual ‐process theories of information processing, we establish how the two different information processing modes (system 1: heuristic processing; system 2: systematic processing) are influenced by individuals’ responsibility attribution, discrete negative emotions, and risk perception. In an experim ent, participants were exposed to a news article that either blames China (n = 445) or does not blame China (n = 498) for the pandemic. Results reveal that exposure to...
Source: Risk Analysis - January 23, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jody Chin Sing Wong, Janet Zheng Yang, Zhuling Liu, David Lee, Zhiying Yue Tags: Original Research Article Source Type: research

A Novel Causal Risk ‐Based Decision‐Making Methodology: The Case of Coronavirus
AbstractEither in the form of nature's wrath or a pandemic, catastrophes cause major destructions in societies, thus requiring policy and decisionmakers to take urgent action by evaluating a host of interdependent parameters, and possible scenarios. The primary purpose of this article is to propose a novel risk ‐based, decision‐making methodology capable of unveiling causal relationships between pairs of variables. Motivated by the ongoing global emergency of the coronavirus pandemic, the article elaborates on this powerful quantitative framework drawing on data from the United States at the county lev el aiming at ass...
Source: Risk Analysis - January 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Stavros K. Stavroglou, Bilal M. Ayyub, Vasileios Kallinterakis, Athanasios A. Pantelous, H. Eugene Stanley Tags: Original Research Article Source Type: research

Associations Between General Perceptions of COVID-19 and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Korean Hospital Workers: Effect Modification by Previous Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Experience and Occupational Type
CONCLUSIONS: During the COVID-19 pandemic, non-medical personnel tended to have higher odds of being categorized as having PTSD. Workers with prior MERS-CoV experience were more susceptible than those without such experience. These findings suggest the need for timely interventions to manage human resources for a sustainable quarantine system.PMID:33845528 | DOI:10.3961/jpmph.20.540
Source: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health - April 12, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Youngrong Lee Kwanghyun Kim Sungjin Park Sun Jae Jung Source Type: research