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This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a serious game in improving targeted temperature management (TTM) knowledge and situational awareness among critical care nurses. A total of 120 nurses from adult intensive care units will be randomly assigned…

Traumatic rib fractures are common injuries following blunt chest trauma, often requiring chest tube insertion to manage complications such as pneumothorax or haemothorax. However, chest tube placement can lead to intercostal nerve injury, resulting in intercostal neuralgia-a deb…

When patients leave the emergency department, mistakes with their medications are common and can lead to complications or hospital readmissions. Pharmacists are trained to help prevent these problems, but pharmacist-led transition of care services are not routinely provided in em…

Ultrasound (US)-guided recto-intercostal fascial plane block (RIFPB) is a recently described abdominal wall block performed by injecting local anesthetic between the rectus abdominis muscle and the costal cartilage of the 7th rib. Due to the cranial attachment of the rectus muscl…

Chronic low back pain is a common musculoskeletal condition persisting for more than three months and is associated with pain, functional limitations, impaired balance, altered proprioception, reduced trunk muscle performance, and decreased quality of life. Previous studies have …

The goal of this observational study is to 1) better understand and predict biological processes before disease begins or is identified, 2) study genomic and environmental contributors to disease, 3) identify ways to stop disease advancement before it becomes serious or complex, …

This study aims to evaluate how well a new scoring system called the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment-2 (SOFA-2) works in adult intensive care units in Türkiye. SOFA-2 is designed to measure the severity of organ dysfunction in critically ill patients using routinely collecte…

Brief Summary: This project consists of two sequential experimental phases designed to analyze the immediate and 24-hour effects of three invasive physiotherapy techniques -dry needling (DN), percutaneous neuromodulation (PENS), and percutaneous electrolysis (EPE)- on muscle ton…

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based intervention on stress levels, psychological resilience, and academic self-efficacy among nursing students in Somalia. Nursing students often experience high levels of stress due to academic demands, clinical tr…

Approximately 40% of children with ambulatory cerebral palsy have significant functional asymmetries in arm and hand function. Children with these significant functional asymmetries have difficulties using their more-affected (less preferred) arm and hand in daily activities, esp…

This study aims to evaluate the imaging characteristics of \[⁶⁸Ga\]Ga-GS24-B2-250-T Injection (abbreviated as ⁶⁸Ga-GS24-B2-250-T), \[⁶⁸Ga\]Ga-GS24-B2-268-T Injection (abbreviated as ⁶⁸Ga-GS24-B2-268-T), \[⁶⁸Ga\]Ga-GS24-B2-237-T Injection (abbreviated as ⁶⁸Ga-GS24-B2-237-T), and \…

This study aims to investigate the effects of transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS) on women with primary dysmenorrhea (PD).

The primary aim of the study is to investigate whether video-based education and exercise-program is non-inferior to in-person instructions in improving pain-related self-efficacy in patients undergoing arthroscopic partial meniscectomy in a day-hospital setting. Secondary aims a…

The discovery of the Mirror Neuron System (MNS) has promoted the development of rehabilitation techniques such as Action Observation Treatment (AOT) and Motor Imagery (MI). These are based on the principle that neural circuits active during execution, also activate during the obs…

This study investigates the impact of school-based educational interventions on adolescents' knowledge and practices related to environmental health in Karachi, Pakistan. The methodology opted for this research is quasi experiment with three months intervention period. The resear…

This study will elucidate the role of 3D transvaginal ultrasound in assessing (1) cervical vascularity and blood flow in patients with cervical cancer and cervical intraepithelial neoplasm, and (2) tumor vascularity and blood flow in patients with ovarian cancer.

This study investigates the effects of an adapted aikido exercise program on the health of adults with unilateral wrist and/or hand dysfunction. The un- derlying assumption is that regular practice of adapted aikido may improve physical, psychological, and quality-of-life param…

The goal of this randomized four-arm clinical trial is to determine the effect of 16-week water physical exercise program in thermal water and hydroponotherapy on lipide profile in middle-aged and elderly people, with controlled health conditions. Participants will be randomizat…

The goal of this qualitative study is to explore and describe the lived experiences of individuals at ultra-high risk (UHR) or first episode of psychosis (FEP) who have participated in a group-based mindfulness-based intervention. Secondary objectives include identifying potentia…

Broadly, the objective of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of a specific breathwork program (Les Mills Breath) on various physiological variables related to running performance, compared to a mindfulness control (20 minutes of guided meditation). There are three spec…