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Explaining biological differences between men and women by gendered mechanisms. 用性别机制解释男女之间的生理差异。
IF 2.3
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Pub Date : 2023-03-23 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-023-00121-6
Hélène Colineaux, Lola Neufcourt, Cyrille Delpierre, Michelle Kelly-Irving, Benoit Lepage
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引用次数: 1
Population cause of death estimation using verbal autopsy methods in large-scale field trials of maternal and child health: lessons learned from a 20-year research collaboration in Central Ghana. 在大规模妇幼保健实地试验中使用死因推断方法估计人口死亡原因:从加纳中部20年研究合作中吸取的经验教训。
IF 2.3
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Pub Date : 2023-02-16 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-023-00120-7
Samuel O Danso, Alexander Manu, Justin Fenty, Seeba Amanga-Etego, Bilal Iqbal Avan, Sam Newton, Seyi Soremekun, Betty Kirkwood
{"title":"Population cause of death estimation using verbal autopsy methods in large-scale field trials of maternal and child health: lessons learned from a 20-year research collaboration in Central Ghana.","authors":"Samuel O Danso,&nbsp;Alexander Manu,&nbsp;Justin Fenty,&nbsp;Seeba Amanga-Etego,&nbsp;Bilal Iqbal Avan,&nbsp;Sam Newton,&nbsp;Seyi Soremekun,&nbsp;Betty Kirkwood","doi":"10.1186/s12982-023-00120-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-023-00120-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Low and middle-income countries continue to use Verbal autopsies (VAs) as a World Health Organisation-recommended method to ascertain causes of death in settings where coverage of vital registration systems is not yet comprehensive. Whilst the adoption of VA has resulted in major improvements in estimating cause-specific mortality in many settings, well documented limitations have been identified relating to the standardisation of the processes involved. The WHO has invested significant resources into addressing concerns in some of these areas; there however remains enduring challenges particularly in operationalising VA surveys for deaths amongst women and children, challenges which have measurable impacts on the quality of data collected and on the accuracy of determining the final cause of death. In this paper we describe some of our key experiences and recommendations in conducting VAs from over two decades of evaluating seminal trials of maternal and child health interventions in rural Ghana. We focus on challenges along the entire VA pathway that can impact on the success rates of ascertaining the final cause of death, and lessons we have learned to optimise the procedures. We highlight our experiences of the value of the open history narratives in VAs and the training and skills required to optimise the quality of the information collected. We describe key issues in methods for ascertaining cause of death and argue that both automated and physician-based methods can be valid depending on the setting. We further summarise how increasingly popular information technology methods may be used to facilitate the processes described. Verbal autopsy is a vital means of increasing the coverage of accurate mortality statistics in low- and middle-income settings, however operationalisation remains problematic. The lessons we share here in conducting VAs within a long-term surveillance system in Ghana will be applicable to researchers and policymakers in many similar settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":39896,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Themes in Epidemiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9936721/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9786400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Dynamics of COVID-19 progression and the long-term influences of measures on pandemic outcomes. COVID-19进展动态及措施对大流行结局的长期影响
IF 2.3
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-022-00119-6
Yihong Lan, Li Yin, Xiaoqin Wang
{"title":"Dynamics of COVID-19 progression and the long-term influences of measures on pandemic outcomes.","authors":"Yihong Lan,&nbsp;Li Yin,&nbsp;Xiaoqin Wang","doi":"10.1186/s12982-022-00119-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-022-00119-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The pandemic progression is a dynamic process, in which measures yield outcomes, and outcomes in turn influence subsequent measures and outcomes. Due to the dynamics of pandemic progression, it is challenging to analyse the long-term influence of an individual measure in the sequence on pandemic outcomes. To demonstrate the problem and find solutions, in this article, we study the first wave of the pandemic-probably the most dynamic period-in the Nordic countries and analyse the influences of the Swedish measures relative to the measures adopted by its neighbouring countries on COVID-19 mortality, general mortality, COVID-19 incidence, and unemployment. The design is a longitudinal observational study. The linear regressions based on the Poisson distribution or the binomial distribution are employed for the analysis. To show that analysis can be timely conducted, we use table data available during the first wave. We found that the early Swedish measure had a long-term and significant causal effect on public health outcomes and a certain degree of long-term mitigating causal effect on unemployment during the first wave, where the effect was measured by an increase of these outcomes under the Swedish measures relative to the measures adopted by the other Nordic countries. This information from the first wave has not been provided by available analyses but could have played an important role in combating the second wave. In conclusion, analysis based on table data may provide timely information about the dynamic progression of a pandemic and the long-term influence of an individual measure in the sequence on pandemic outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":39896,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Themes in Epidemiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9773575/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10424390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Effect size quantification for interrupted time series analysis: implementation in R and analysis for Covid-19 research. 中断时间序列分析的效应量量化:R中的实施和Covid-19研究的分析。
IF 2.3
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Pub Date : 2022-11-11 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-022-00118-7
Yael Travis-Lumer, Yair Goldberg, Stephen Z Levine
{"title":"Effect size quantification for interrupted time series analysis: implementation in R and analysis for Covid-19 research.","authors":"Yael Travis-Lumer,&nbsp;Yair Goldberg,&nbsp;Stephen Z Levine","doi":"10.1186/s12982-022-00118-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-022-00118-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Interrupted time series (ITS) analysis is a time series regression model that aims to evaluate the effect of an intervention on an outcome of interest. ITS analysis is a quasi-experimental study design instrumental in situations where natural experiments occur, gaining popularity, particularly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, challenges, including the lack of a control group, have impeded the quantification of the effect size in ITS. The current paper proposes a method and develops a user-friendly R package to quantify the effect size of an ITS regression model for continuous and count outcomes, with or without seasonal adjustment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The effect size presented in this work, together with its corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI) and P-value, is based on the ITS model-based fitted values and the predicted counterfactual (the exposed period had the intervention not occurred) values. A user-friendly R package to fit an ITS and estimate the effect size was developed and accompanies this paper. To illustrate, we implemented a nation population-based ITS study from January 2001 to May 2021 covering the all-cause mortality of Israel (n = 9,350 thousand) to quantify the effect size of Covid-19 exposure on mortality rates. In the period unexposed to the Covid-19 pandemic, the mortality rate decreased over time and was expected to continue decreasing had Covid-19 not occurred. In contrast, the period exposed to the Covid-19 pandemic was associated with an increased all-cause mortality rate (relative risk = 1.11, 95% CI = 1.04, 1.18, P < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>For the first time, the effect size in ITS: was quantified, can be estimated by end-users with an R package we developed, and was demonstrated with data showing an increase in mortality following the Covid-19 pandemic. ITS effect size reporting can assist public health policy makers in assessing the magnitude of the entire intervention effect using a single, readily understood measure.</p>","PeriodicalId":39896,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Themes in Epidemiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9652048/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40700138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Geographical clustering and geographically weighted regression analysis of home delivery and its determinants in developing regions of Ethiopia: a spatial analysis. 埃塞俄比亚发展中地区家庭分娩及其决定因素的地理聚类和地理加权回归分析:空间分析。
IF 3.6
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Pub Date : 2022-08-19 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-022-00117-8
Setognal Birara Aychiluhm, Mequannent Sharew Melaku, Kusse Urmale Mare, Abay Woday Tadesse, Getahun Fentaw Mulaw
{"title":"Geographical clustering and geographically weighted regression analysis of home delivery and its determinants in developing regions of Ethiopia: a spatial analysis.","authors":"Setognal Birara Aychiluhm, Mequannent Sharew Melaku, Kusse Urmale Mare, Abay Woday Tadesse, Getahun Fentaw Mulaw","doi":"10.1186/s12982-022-00117-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12982-022-00117-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Nearly three-fourths of pregnant women in Ethiopia give birth at home. However, the spatial pattern and spatial variables linked to home delivery in developing regions of Ethiopia have not yet been discovered. Thus, this study aimed to explore the geographical variation of home delivery and its determinants among women living in emerging (Afar, Somali, Gambella, and Benishangul-Gumuz) regions of Ethiopia, using geographically weighted regression analysis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were retrieved from the Demographic and Health Survey program's official database ( http://dhsprogram.com ). In this study, a sample of 441 reproductive-age women in Ethiopia's four emerging regions was used. Global and local statistical analyses and mapping were performed using ArcGIS version 10.6. A Bernoulli model was applied to analyze the purely spatial cluster discovery of home delivery. GWR version 4 was used to model spatial regression analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The prevalence of home delivery in the emerging regions of Ethiopia was 76.9% (95% CI: 72.7%, 80.6%) and the spatial distribution of home delivery was clustered with global Moran's I = 0.245. Getis-Ord analysis detected high-home birth practice among women in western parts of the Benishangul Gumz region, the Eastern part of the Gambela region, and the Southern and Central parts of the Afar region. Non-attendance of antenatal care, living in a male-headed household, perception of distance to a health facility as a big problem, residing in a rural area, and having a husband with no education significantly influenced home delivery in geographically weighted regression analysis.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>More than three-fourths of mothers in the developing regions of Ethiopia gave birth at home, where high-risk locations have been identified and the spatial distribution has been clustered. Thus, strengthening programs targeted to improve antenatal care service utilization and women's empowerment is important in reducing home birth practice in the study area. Besides, supporting the existing health extension programs on community-based health education through home-to-home visits is also crucial in reaching women residing in rural settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":39896,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Themes in Epidemiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9392356/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40624307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Candida and the Gram-positive trio: testing the vibe in the ICU patient microbiome using structural equation modelling of literature derived data. 念珠菌和革兰氏阳性三重奏:使用文献导出数据的结构方程模型测试ICU患者微生物组的氛围。
IF 2.3
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-022-00116-9
James C Hurley
{"title":"Candida and the Gram-positive trio: testing the vibe in the ICU patient microbiome using structural equation modelling of literature derived data.","authors":"James C Hurley","doi":"10.1186/s12982-022-00116-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-022-00116-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Whether Candida interacts with Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase negative Staphylococci (CNS) and Enterococci, to enhance their invasive potential from the microbiome of ICU patients remains unclear. Several effective anti-septic, antibiotic, anti-fungal, and non-decontamination based interventions studied for prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) and other ICU acquired infections among patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV) are known to variably impact Candida colonization. The collective observations within control and intervention groups from numerous ICU infection prevention studies enables tests of these postulated microbial interactions in the clinical context.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Four candidate generalized structural equation models (GSEM), each with Staphylococcus aureus, CNS and Enterococci colonization, defined as latent variables, were confronted with blood culture and respiratory tract isolate data derived from 460 groups of ICU patients receiving prolonged MV from 283 infection prevention studies.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Introducing interaction terms between Candida colonization and each of S aureus (coefficient + 0.40; 95% confidence interval + 0.24 to + 0.55), CNS (+ 0.68; + 0.34 to + 1.0) and Enterococcal (+ 0.56; + 0.33 to + 0.79) colonization (all as latent variables) improved the fit for each model. The magnitude and significance level of the interaction terms were similar to the positive associations between exposure to topical antibiotic prophylaxis (TAP) on Enterococcal (+ 0.51; + 0.12 to + 0.89) and Candida colonization (+ 0.98; + 0.35 to + 1.61) versus the negative association of TAP with S aureus (- 0.45; - 0.70 to - 0.20) colonization and the negative association of anti-fungal exposure and Candida colonization (- 1.41; - 1.6 to - 0.72).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>GSEM modelling of published ICU infection prevention data enables the postulated interactions between Candida and Gram-positive bacteria to be tested using clinically derived data. The optimal model implies interactions occurring in the human microbiome facilitating bacterial invasion and infection. This interaction might also account for the paradoxically high bacteremia incidences among studies of TAP in ICU patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":39896,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Themes in Epidemiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9387012/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40708598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Puberty health intervention to improve menstrual health and school attendance among adolescent girls in The Gambia: study methodology of a cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Gambia (MEGAMBO TRIAL). 青春期健康干预以改善冈比亚少女的月经健康和入学率:冈比亚农村一项聚类随机对照试验的研究方法(MEGAMBO试验)。
IF 2.3
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Pub Date : 2022-07-16 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-022-00114-x
Vishna Shah, Penelope Phillips-Howard, Julie Hennegan, Sue Cavill, Bakary Sonko, Edrisa Sinjanka, Nyima Camara Trawally, Abdou Kanteh, Francois Mendy, Amadou B Bah, Momodou Saar, Ian Ross, Wolf Schmidt, Belen Torondel
{"title":"Puberty health intervention to improve menstrual health and school attendance among adolescent girls in The Gambia: study methodology of a cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Gambia (MEGAMBO TRIAL).","authors":"Vishna Shah,&nbsp;Penelope Phillips-Howard,&nbsp;Julie Hennegan,&nbsp;Sue Cavill,&nbsp;Bakary Sonko,&nbsp;Edrisa Sinjanka,&nbsp;Nyima Camara Trawally,&nbsp;Abdou Kanteh,&nbsp;Francois Mendy,&nbsp;Amadou B Bah,&nbsp;Momodou Saar,&nbsp;Ian Ross,&nbsp;Wolf Schmidt,&nbsp;Belen Torondel","doi":"10.1186/s12982-022-00114-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-022-00114-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Menstrual health (MH) is a recognised global public health challenge. Poor MH may lead to absence from school and work, and adverse health outcomes. However, reviews suggest a lack of rigorous evidence for the effectiveness of MH interventions on health and education outcomes. The objective of this paper is to describe the methods used in a cluster-randomised controlled trial to estimate the effect of a multi-component intervention to improve MH and school attendance in The Gambia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The design ensured half the schools (25) were randomised to receive the intervention which comprised of the following components: (i) Peer education camps and menstrual hygiene laboratories in schools, (ii) Mother's outreach sessions, (iii) Community meetings, and (iv) minor improvements of school Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) facilities and maintenance. The intervention was run over a three-month period, and the evaluation was conducted at least three months after the last intervention activity was completed in the school or community. The other 25 schools acted as controls. Of these 25 control schools one Arabic school dropped out due to COVID-19. The primary outcome was the prevalence of girls missing at least one day of school during their last period. Secondary outcomes included: Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) symptoms, biochemical markers of UTI in urine, Reproductive Tract Infection symptoms, self-reported menstruation related wellbeing, social support and knowledge, perceptions and practices towards menstruation and MH in target school girls. In addition, a process evaluation using observations, routine monitoring data, survey data and interviews was undertaken to assess dose and reach (quantitative data) and assess acceptability, fidelity, context and possible mechanisms of impact (qualitative data). Cost and cost-effectiveness of the intervention package will also be assessed.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Results will add to scarce resources available on effectiveness of MH interventions on school attendance. A positive result may encourage policy makers to increase their commitment to improve operation and maintenance of school WASH facilities and include more information on menstruation into the curriculum and help in the reporting and management of infections related to adolescent menstruation. Trial Registration PACTR, PACTR201809769868245, Registered 14th August 2018, https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=3539.</p>","PeriodicalId":39896,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Themes in Epidemiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9287699/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9344357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Are verbatim transcripts necessary in applied qualitative research: experiences from two community-based intervention trials in Ghana. 应用定性研究是否需要逐字记录:来自加纳两个社区干预试验的经验。
IF 2.3
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Pub Date : 2022-06-28 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-022-00115-w
Zelee Hill, Charlotte Tawiah-Agyemang, Betty Kirkwood, Carl Kendall
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引用次数: 8
Practicalities of implementing burden of disease research in Africa: lessons from a population survey component of our multi-partner FOCAL research project 在非洲实施疾病负担研究的可行性:来自我们的多方伙伴重点研究项目人口调查部分的经验教训
IF 2.3
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Pub Date : 2022-06-07 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-022-00113-y
B. Desta, T. Gobena, C. Macuamule, O. Fayemi, C. I. Ayolabi, Blandina T. Mmbaga, K. Thomas, Warren Dodd, S. Pires, S. Majowicz, T. Hald
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引用次数: 1
Epidemiology, clinical and physiological manifestations of dust lung disease in major industrial centers 主要工业中心粉尘性肺病的流行病学、临床和生理表现
IF 2.3
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology Pub Date : 2022-04-07 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-022-00111-0
Alla Philippova, R. Aringazina, G. Kurmanalina, V. Beketov
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