Here is a real-life, real-time anecdote illustrating the importance of this kind of research: My daughter has been struggling with her toddler's day care center in Louisiana in the past few weeks, as the Delta variant strikes fear into the hearts of all parents of young children. Although the Governor of that state recently reinstated a statewide mask mandate, the daycare has been dragging its feet, then allowing all kinds of exemptions. Then she saw a doctor on TicTic summarize this study, and since her 22-month-old son is still nursing, she has been able to relax, knowing that she is able to protect him this way. What a world!
Hmmm--". . . no differences in cooperation with public health recommendations by conspiracy belief endorsement. . ." It's strange to think back to September 2020 as the good old days of cooperation with public health recommendations. Apparently we now have screaming parents rippins masks off of teachers' faces etc.
Unfortunately, this intriguing study only provides a "rationale" rather than a structured abstract, so it is difficult to determine whether it would be worth tracking down the full text.
As with most systematic reviews, high-quality research stymies the systematic review process. Nonetheless, this freely-available published study provides promising evidence for many types of quasi-PTSD anxieties.
An oddly-worded title. The study finds (unsurprisingly) an inverse association between cardiorespiratory fitness during middle adulthood and premature death, but the title, by not qualifying "cardiorespiratory fitness" implies that a state of fitness (good health and function) is positively associated with premature death.
"The interpretive approach utilized in-depth interviews with 18 older baby boomers born between 1946 and 1955 to enquire about their experiences with attached clothing." Hah! Attached clothing? Like, surgically? I think the authors meant clothing to which people have an emotional attachment.
Excellent graphic helps explain the different types of foodshed analyses. This study should be helpful in designing additional studies to understand how the CoVID pandemic shifted urban and rural food distribution paths.
The Introduction to this study provides a succinct and helpful understanding of various factors that created a food distribution crisis that developed alongside and was exacerbated by an infectious disease pandemic. More real-time analyses of successes and failures are needed to better design programs that are responsive enough to adjust to real-world circumstances.
This is a very nice systematic review and meta-analysis, with the full text freely available. It is still pretty shocking that of "2736 reports that were screened, 13 clinical trials met the inclusion criteria." SO many primary research projects lacking in quality!
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