Archive for April 2025
Does a waiting room increase same-day treatment for sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women? A quality improvement study at South African primary healthcare facilities
Thanks to Reviewers
Internal Validity and Reliability of the GAD-7 Test in Latin America
From ‘support’ to ‘separate’: residential aged care staff responses to an intimate relationship involving a resident with cognitive impairment
Evaluating the reliability and validity of the geriatric assessment of disability scale in older adults undergoing hemodialysis
Gender dynamics in drug-using contexts: Implication for treatment and support
Explaining the unmet information needs of family carers of people with dementia: a theoretical model of information behaviour
Editor’s Note: The war on good research: Debating research ethics and methods on the basis of Jay Levy’s The war on people who use drugs: The harms of Sweden’s aim for a drug-free society (Routledge, 2017)
Supplementary grandparent caregiving and psychological wellbeing: the role of character strengths
Framing systematic reviews commissioned by policymakers as a hermeneutic process: A methodological commentary
Virtual nursing care and hospital avoidance: a scoping review protocol
Mind–body therapies and their interplay with the immune system in children and adolescents: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Comparative efficacy of exercise, nutrition, and combined exercise and nutritional interventions in older adults with sarcopenic obesity: a protocol for systematic review and network meta-analysis
Prevalence and risk factors of gross neurologic deficits in children after severe malaria: a systematic review protocol
Re-Examining Measurement Invariance of School Climate Surveys Across Race/Ethnicity
American Philanthropy in Its Global Context: The History, Law, and Politics of Giving
Federal Policy Watch: Tracking how the administration, Congress, and the courts are affecting workers’ quality of life
Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, DEI, law firms, and more
Borowski: Social Work Programs an Overwhelming Success
Emigration and Cognitive Aging Among Mexican Return Migrants
Unhealthy app use and dietary restraint among young adults: The moderating role of body appreciation
Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism
Lit Hub
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We will call these arrests what they are: abductions by ICE cowards in plainclothes and facemasks.
SSI Monthly Statistics, February 2025
Mapping disparities for Black families in the child welfare system
Puberty and Menstruation Knowledge, Information Sources and Needs among Secondary School Adolescent Girls and Boys in Kibaha, Tanzania
Long COVID patients feel pressure to prove their illness is real, study finds
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People living with Long COVID often feel dismissed, disbelieved and unsupported by their healthcare providers, according to a new study.
Examining Differences in the Predictive Capacity of Educational Polygenic Scores on Physical Limitations Among Older Adults With European or African Ancestry
How this professor built a partnership with a non-federal sponsor aimed at making the world a better place
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In 2019, Christina Matz, an Associate Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work, formed a partnership with the Spier Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the well-being of the communities in which we work and live.
Assessing the mental health impacts of Israeli occupation infrastructure in the West Bank by combining geospatial data with a representative survey of Palestinian youth
All in the family: A collective case study of family influence on siblings’ experiences and outcomes in organized youth sport
Post-traumatic stress disorder and associated factors among road traffic accident survivors in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? – a systematic review
Higher education student enrolments UK: 2023 to 2024
A longitudinal analysis of how romantic and friendship involvement are associated with depressive symptoms
Barriers and potential solutions for effective integration of depression care into non-communicable diseases clinics in Malawi: a qualitative end-point evaluation of the SHARP randomized controlled trial
Just transitions, trade unions and the need for a new (European) eco-social contract
It’s a match: Exploring joint emotion regulation profiles among mixed-sex couples
Local color: Perceived racial demographics of more and less rural locations
Understanding the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Mental Health in Migrant Spanish Women: A Network Analysis Approach
Do they dislike us as much as we think? Positive contact as a potential rectifier of meta-attitude inaccuracy in conflictual intergroup settings
More than just belonging? Uniqueness’ role in inclusion experiences
Defamilization typology revisited: Is the state or the market the driving force behind childcare defamilization?
Inconvenient Truth: Challenges to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Social Work Education and Practice
The power paradox of patient-centred care in Chinese community health: Towards a conceptualisation
Measuring financial stress: new evidence from payment failures
Recent HIV testing and self-reported HIV prevalence among men who inject drugs in Afghanistan: a nationwide survey in 2019–2020
Historic investment to help deliver universal early childhood education and care
Investment Dialogue for Australia’s Children
The Albanese Government and the Investment Dialogue for Australia’s Children (IDAC) will partner to build supply and capacity of integrated early years services. The Albanese Government will provide up to $50 million through the Build Early Education Fund, toward co-investment opportunities to help build or expand integrated and holistic early learning services in areas of need.