BACKGROUND Exergames (i.e., video games that require gross motor activity) may provide intrinsically motivating experiences that engage youth in sustained physical activity. METHOD Thirty-one low-income 15- to 19-year-old overweight and obese African American adolescents were randomly assigned to a competitive exergame (n = 17) or a cooperative exergame (n = 14) condition. Participants played...

OBJECTIVE To characterize risk factors for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bloodstream infection in oncology patients. DESIGN A 3:1 case-control study. SETTING Stem Cell Transplant and Leukemic Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis), a 1,442-bed, tertiary-care teaching hospital with a 26-bed transplantation ward. METHOD From, June 1999 to April 2001, 13 patients with S. maltophilia bac...

Abstract Study question What is the frequency of clinically significant results from expanded carrier screening (ECS) in a sperm donor applicant population and how should these be managed? Summary answer ECS revealed information for approximately 1 51 applicants, which warrant specific management considerations context third-party reproduction. known already The American Society Reproductive Me...

The Textlab Research Group, over the past seven years, has developed a collection of tools and techniques for recording users' interactions with computer systems in machine-readable form and for automatically analyzing and displaying those data. This report catalogs those tools and discusses their methodological context and implications. Tools discussed include the following: tracking users' be...

Abstract The role of personality traits and perceived threat on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among undergraduates is relatively scarce. study investigated the 374 (age = 18-28 years, M =23.23 SD 2.57 years) in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. A cross-sectional survey design was utilized. self-administered questionnaire used to gather information about socio-demographics, HEXACO trai...

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an infection control education (ICE) program based on digital story-telling for new graduate nurses.Methods: From June 2 July 30, 2022, a total 58 nurses (30 and 28 in experimental group, respectively) at tertiary general hospital D city were enrolled. The effects evaluated using nonequivalent non-synchronized design. terms awareness st...