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8min (SE= 50.48, p=0.001).

Self-report measures of infant behavior were used.

CM+ women versus CM- had limited response to an intervention to prevent perinatal depression yet still reported an increase in infant daytime sleep. Subasumstat This study adds to the growing literature that prevention studies may need to incorporate approaches tailored to fit women with childhood trauma histories while also considering infant functioning as both may be treatment targets relevant to maternal mood.

CM+ women versus CM- had limited response to an intervention to prevent perinatal depression yet still reported an increase in infant daytime sleep. This study adds to the growing literature that prevention studies may need to incorporate approaches tailored to fit women with childhood trauma histories while also considering infant functioning as both may be treatment targets relevant to maternal mood.

Ownership has significant impact on website motivation. Consumers may heavily rely on the health website ownership cue when assessing credibility and making behavioral response toward health information on it. Health websites were primarily divided into four different ownership types (i.e., governmental, organizational, commercial, and personal) in China's context. However, research on Chinese consumer behavior toward different ownership types of health websites is scarce.

To investigate the most credible and most commonly used health website ownership type among Chinese consumers, and to identify the influencing factors on perceived credibility, and actual usage of health websites.

A cross-sectional survey of 1653 participants was conducted in 3-tier hospitals in 3 cities with different income levels. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were used to identify factors influencing Chinese consumers' perceived credibility and actual use of health websites.

The most credible health website was the orsage of health website. City income level, consumer type and consumer income level were significantly associated with perceived credibility, actual usage of health websites.

Both Chinese consumers' perceived credibility and actual use of health website varied by ownership, and there was a gap between perceived credibility and actual usage of health website. Most sociodemographic factors had no statistically significant correlations with perceived credibility and actual usage of health website. City income level, consumer type and consumer income level were significantly associated with perceived credibility, actual usage of health websites.

Current lengthening of average life and constant increase of population ageing associated to forces that include rapid unplanned urbanisation and globalisation of unhealthy behaviours have determined the huge relevance of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Monitoring key modifiable behavioural risk factors has resulted to be crucial both in spatial terms and as per temporal trends in order to allow comparisons between different geographic areas or levels and over time.

In Italy, PASSI (Progressi delle Aziende Sanitarie per la Salute in Italia) and Passi d'Argento are the ongoing Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance Systems (BRFSSs), respectively, on adults (people aged 18-69) and elderly (65 and older).

The two Italian surveillances are information systems providing data not only on the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) that explicitly addresses ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all, but on a total of nine health-related SDGs (HRSDGs) and 19 HRSDG targets/indicators. We describe tl HRSDG patterns.

The two Italian BRFSSs generate accurate data, which are highly relevant to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate programs and policies at different levels (local, regional, national) for NCD prevention and health promotion. They provide numbers which can also serve as propaedeutic or, in some cases, complementary ground to address a robust measurement of several HRSDG patterns.Schizophrenia patients exhibit subtle and non-localizing neurological abnormalities, known as neurological soft signs (NSS). Life-span evidence suggests that NSS vary along the course of schizophrenia. An association between NSS and treatment response has been proposed, suggesting that NSS reflect the underlying neuropathology development in schizophrenia. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between NSS and treatment resistance in first-episode schizophrenia patients. We conducted a longitudinal study on 52 first-episode schizophrenia patients, who were assessed at baseline, the sixth month, and the fifth year using the abridged version of the Cambridge Neurological Inventory. The trajectories of NSS between 29 treatment-responsive patients (with full symptomatic remission) and 23 treatment-resistant patients (who received clozapine) were compared using mixed model ANOVA. We also controlled for the effect of age and estimated IQ, using a mixed ANCOVA model. Although the two schizophrenia groups had comparable NSS at the baseline, their trajectories of NSS differed significantly. Compared with their treatment-responsive counterparts, treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients had worsening of NSS over time. Our findings support the potential utility of NSS in identifying treatment resistance in first-episode schizophrenia. Progressive worsening of NSS in treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients may reflect the development of underlying neuropathology. Further studies using large samples of treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients are needed.Type-2 diabetic (T2D) and osteoporosis (OP) suffered patients are more prone to fragile fracture though the nature of alteration in areal bone mineral density (aBMD) in these two cases are completely different. Therefore, it becomes crucial to compare the effect of T2D and OP on alteration in mechanical and structural properties of femoral trabecular bone. This study investigated the effect of T2D, OP, and osteopenia on bone structural and mechanical properties using micro-CT, nanoindentation and compression test. Further, a nanoscale finite element model (FEM) was developed to predict the cause of alteration in mechanical properties. Finally, a damage-based FEM was proposed to predict the pathological related alteration of bone's mechanical response. The obtained results demonstrated that the T2D group had lower volume fraction (-18.25%, p = 0.023), young's modulus (-23.47%, p = 0.124), apparent modulus (-37.15%, p = 0.02), and toughness (-40%, p = 0.001) than the osteoporosis group. The damage-based FE results were found in good agreement with the compression experiment results for all three pathological conditions. Also, nanoscale FEM results demonstrated that the elastic and failure properties of mineralised collagen fibril decreases with increase in crystal size. This study reveals that T2D patients are more prone to fragile fracture in comparison to OP and osteopenia patients. Also, the proposed damage-based FEM can help to predict the risk of fragility fracture for different pathological conditions.This perspective article provides a brief review of our understanding of how center of pressure (CoP) and center of mass (CoM) are traditionally utilized to measure quiet standing and how technological advancements are allowing for measurements to be derived outside the confines of a laboratory setting. Furthermore, this viewpoint provides descriptions of what CoP and CoM outcomes may reflect, a discussion of recent developments in selected balance outcomes, the importance of measuring instantaneous balance outcomes, and directions for future questions/research. Considering the enormous number and cost of falls annually, conclusions drawn from this perspective underscore the need for more cohesive efforts to advance our understanding of balance performance. As we refine the technology and algorithms used to portably assess postural stability, the question of which measurement (i.e. CoP or CoM) to utilize seems to be highly dependent on the question being asked. Further, the complexity of the question appears to span multiple disciplines and cultivate exploration of the intrinsic mechanisms of stability. Recently developed multi-dimensional methods for assessing balance performance may provide additional insight into balance, improving our ability to predict balance impairments and falls outside the laboratory and in the clinic. However, additional work will be necessary to understand the clinical significance and predictive capacity of these outcomes in various fall-prone populations.Joint contact and muscle forces estimated with musculoskeletal modeling techniques offer useful metrics describing movement quality that benefit multiple research and clinical applications. The expensive processing of laboratory data associated with generating these outputs presents challenges to researchers and clinicians, including significant time and expertise requirements that limit the number of subjects typically evaluated. The objective of the current study was to develop and compare machine learning techniques for rapid, data-driven estimation of musculoskeletal metrics from derived gait lab data. OpenSim estimates of patient joint and muscle forces during activities of daily living were simulated using laboratory data from 70 total knee replacement patients and used to develop 4 different machine learning algorithms. Trained machine learning models predicted both trend and magnitude of estimated joint contact (mean correlation coefficients ranging from 0.93 to 0.94 during gait) and muscle forces (mean correlation coefficients ranging from 0.83 to 0.91 during gait) based on anthropometrics, ground reaction forces, and joint angle data. Patient mechanics were accurately predicted by recurrent neural networks, even after removing dependence on key subsets of predictor features. The ability to quickly estimate patient mechanics from derived measurements of movement has the potential to broaden the impact of musculoskeletal modeling by enabling faster assessment in both clinical and research settings.Collagen fibers are the primary load-bearing microstructural constituent of bodily soft tissues, and, when subjected to external loading, the collagen fibers reorient, uncrimp, and elongate. Specific to the atrioventricular heart valve leaflets, the collagen fiber kinematics form the basis of many constitutive models; however, some researchers claim that modeling the affine fiber kinematics (AFK) are sufficient for accurately predicting the macroscopic tissue deformations, while others state that modeling the non-affine kinematics (i.e., fiber uncrimping together with elastic elongation) is required. Experimental verification of the AFK theory has been previously performed for the mitral valve leaflets in the left-side heart; however, this same evaluation has yet to be performed for the morphologically distinct tricuspid valve (TV) leaflets in the right-side heart. In this work, we, for the first time, evaluated the AFK theory for the TV leaflets using an integrated biaxial testing-polarized spatial frequency domain imaging device to experimentally quantify the load-dependent collagen fiber reorientations for comparison to the AFK theory predictions. We found that the AFK theory generally underpredicted the fiber reorientations by 3.1°, on average, under the applied equibiaxial loading with greater disparity when the tissue was subjected to the applied non-equibiaxial loading. Furthermore, increased AFK errors were observed with increasing collagen fiber reorientations (Pearson coefficient r = -0.36, equibiaxial loading), suggesting the AFK theory is better suited for relatively smaller reorientations. Our findings suggest the AFK theory may require modification for more accurate predictions of the collagen fiber kinematics in the TV leaflets, which will be useful in refining modeling efforts for more accurate TV simulations.