A validation of the religious and spiritual struggles scale among young people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: Mokken scale analysis and exploratory... (Publications)
convictions and practices can influence health- and treatment-seeking behavior, but only few measures of religiousness or spirituality have been validated and used outside of the US. The Religious and Spiritual [...] spirituality and has been validated mainly in different high-income contexts. The aim of this study was the validation of the RSS in the Zimbabwean context and among young people living with human immunodeficiency [...] The findings support the validity and relevance of the RSS and...
User-centred design of a final results report for participants in multi-sensor personal air pollution exposure monitoring campaigns (Publications)
Using a combination of human-centred design (HCD), human–information interaction (HII) and design thinking approaches, we iteratively included participants in the framing and design of the final report. [...] it clear that the final report was well-received and helped participants better understand the influence of individual behaviours on personal exposure to air pollution. [...] higher spatio-temporal resolution and identifying acute exposure to high concentrations. Comprehension of the...
TIDE analysis of <em>Cryptosporidium </em>infections by <em>gp60 </em>typing reveals obscured mixed infections (Publications)
striking dominance of unappreciated polymerase stutter artefacts in all 218 chromatograms analyzed, challenging the uncritical use of gp60 typing. DISCUSSION: We demonstrate the value of a new easy-to-use [...] the influence on transmission and virulence, as well as any impact on public health investigations. However, an easy-to-use method for detection is lacking. METHODS: Here we report on the use of the [...] bioinformatic program TIDE for deconvolution of gp60 chromatograms. A combination ...
Effect of agricultural activities on prevalence rates, and clinical and presumptive malaria episodes in central Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
dynamics of malaria episodes. A better understanding of local contextual determinants, including the effect of agricultural activities, will help to improve the local epidemiology and control of malaria [...] Agricultural activities, among other factors, can influence the transmission of malaria. In two villages of central Cote d'Ivoire (Tiemelekro and Zatta) with distinctively different agro-ecological ch [...] 2002 and 2005, which coincided with the interruption of irrigated rice farming in...
Muscle force up to 50% of maximum does not affect cutaneous silent periods in thenar muscles (Publications)
magnitude of EMG suppression were not influenced by volitional muscle contraction ranging from 10% to 50% of the maximum. In contrast, background EMG levels increased significantly with the amount of muscle [...] clinically easily applicable amounts of muscle force. SIGNIFICANCE: Non-dependence on the amount of volitional target muscle activation over a range from 10% to 50% of individual maximum force levels renders [...] (CSP) is a spinal inhibitory reflex mediated by A-delta fibers. The...
Clinical aspects of 2541 patients with second stage human African trypanosomiasis (Publications)
and signs of patients with second stage HAT are described for a large cohort of patients treated in a prospective multicentre, multinational study. Special emphasis is given to the influence of disease stage [...] (duration, number of WBC in CSF) and patient age to the clinical picture. Even though the frequencies of symptoms and signs are highly variable between centres, the clinical picture of the disease is similar [...] CSF indicating the stage of progression of the disease. Pruritus is...
ELF-MF exposure affects the robustness of epigenetic programming during granulopoiesis (Publications)
classified as "possibly carcinogenic" to humans on the grounds of an epidemiological association of ELF-MF exposure with an increased risk of childhood leukaemia. Yet, underlying mechanisms have remained [...] epigenetic code of genomes, which is well-known to be sensitive to environmental conditions and generally deranged in cancers, including leukaemia. We examined the potential of ELF-MF to influence key epigenetic [...] is, sensitive genome-wide profiling of multiple replicate experiments...
Marginal bone loss one year after implantation: a systematic review of different loading protocols (Publications)
The aim of this study was to analyse the influence of different loading protocols on marginal bone loss (MBL). The outcomes of different implant loading protocols were assessed at 1year after implantation [...] highest for immediate non-occlusally loaded implants (1.37+/-0.5mm). The results of the meta-analysis showed an estimated mean MBL of 0.457mm (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.133-0.781) for immediate loading, [...] non-occlusal, early, and conventional loading. The search strategy resulted...
Land use regression modeling of outdoor noise exposure in informal settlements in Western Cape, South Africa (Publications)
5 dB(A)). Main predictors of the LUR model were related to road traffic and household density. Model performance was low (adjusted R2 = 0.130) suggesting that other influences than those represented in [...] in the geographic predictors are relevant for noise exposure. This is one of the few studies on the noise exposure situation in low- and middle-income countries. It demonstrates that noise exposure levels
Cultural epidemiology of TB with reference to gender in Bangladesh, India and Malawi (Publications)
doctors in India and Bangladesh. CONCLUSION: Cross-site analysis of these studies has identified features of TB that influence the burden of disease and are likely to affect timely help seeking and adherence [...] causes of TB, and women in Malawi reported sexual causes associated with HIV/AIDS. In Bangladesh, exaggerated concerns about the risk of spread despite treatment contributed to social isolation of women [...] India and Malawi. OBJECTIVE: To identify and compare socio-cultural features...