ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the Systematization of Nursing Care conceptual maturation from the perspective of pragmatic utility.Methods: a concept analysis study.The stages were: select the concept; elaborate analytical questions; comprehensively review the literature; and determine concept structural components.Sixty-one documents were analyze
Dietary determinants of changes in waist circumference adjusted for body mass index - a proxy measure of visceral adiposity.
Given the recognized health effects of visceral fat, the understanding of how diet can modulate changes in the phenotype "waist circumference for a given body mass index (WC(BMI))", a proxy measure of visceral adiposity, is deemed necessary.Hence, the objective of the present study was to assess the association between dietary factors and prospecti
Investigating physician self-referral in public hospitals in South East Nigeria: Insights from stakeholders
Background: Physician self-referral occurs where a full-time paid doctor diverts patients from one hospital to another in which he or she has financial interest.Aim: This study is aimed at investigating the views of service users, physicians and policymakers on physician self-referral practice in public hospitals in Nigeria.Setting: The study was c
Are we afraid of different categories of stimuli in identical ways? Evidence from skin conductance responses.
Studies have shown that emotional pictures attract more attention than neutral pictures, and pictures of living stimuli have similar advantage in driving attention (vs.nonliving).However, factors of emotion, category and picture context are usually mixed so that whether living and nonliving categories elicit different skin conductance (SC) response