BACKGROUND Late adolescence to early adulthood is a period of lifestyle change and personal development which may influence dietary behaviour. Understanding dietary trajectories across this age range may help in targeting interventions appropriately. This scoping review aimed to assess how longitudinal change in diet is conceptualised and measured between the ages of 13 to 30. METHODS We sear...

BACKGROUND In several northwest European countries, a demand-driven healthcare system has been implemented that stresses the importance of patient healthcare provider choice. In this study, we are conducting a scoping review aiming to map out what is known about the determinants of patient choice of a wide range of healthcare providers. As far as we know, not many studies are currently availabl...

The transition to fatherhood can challenge the mental health of first-time fathers and heighten their risk for postpartum depression (PPD). Paternal PPD not only affects the individual, but relationships with partners and children as well. This scoping review explores paternal PPD, highlighting the factors for and impacts of paternal PPD, the experiences of first-time fathers during the postnat...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews are recognized as the most effective means of summarizing research evidence. However, they are limited by the time and effort required to keep them up to date. Wikis present a unique opportunity to facilitate collaboration among many authors. The purpose of this study was to examine the use of a wiki as an online collaborative tool for the updating of a type of sys...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this research was to perform a scoping review of published literature on the validity of administrative health data for ascertaining health conditions in the pediatric population (≤20 years). METHODS A comprehensive search of OVID Medline (1946 - present), CINAHL (1937 - present) and EMBASE (1947 - present) was conducted. Characteristics of validation studies that we...

The efforts in designing and developing lightweight cryptography (LWC) started a decade ago. Many scholarly studies literature report the enhancement of conventional cryptographic algorithms development new algorithms. This significant number resulted rise many review on LWC IoT. Due to vast IoT, it is not known what cover how extensive are. Therefore, this article aimed bridge gap by conductin...

Title:Social and health policies or interventions to tackle health inequalities in European cities: a scoping review Authors: Mariona Pons-Vigues ([email protected]) Èlia Diez ([email protected])

INTRODUCTION The collaborative care model is an approach providing care to those with mental health and addictions disorders in the primary care setting. There is a robust evidence base demonstrating its clinical and cost-effectiveness in comparison with usual care; however, the transitioning to this new paradigm of care has been difficult. While there are efforts to train and prepare healthcar...

Background The therapeutic benefit of melatonin in the prevention and treatment of delirium is uncertain. Objective To perform a scoping study to describe the existing literature regarding the use of melatonin and ramelteon in the prevention and treatment of delirium. Methods We performed a scoping study using the Arksey and O'Malley framework to explore our objective. Two independent panel...