Awareness Of Dangers Research Articles

Occupational risk perception of construction workers: a cross sectional study.

Construction workers are often exposed to significant injury risk. The aim of our study is to assess their occupational hazards and injury risk perception. We administered 256 questionnaires to construction workers. The survey was aimed at collecting information regarding occupational risk and hazard exposure perception, risk control and behavioral self-assessment. We analyzed the data obtained in order to highlight any associations between injury risk perception and anamnestic, occupational, behavioral or perceptual factors. Participants were prevalently males (92.37%) aged 21-60 years (94%). They showed a job seniority level of 21.3 (11.51) on average and, ranging from a 1 to 10 score, a danger awareness of 6.8 (2.9), a lack of prevention measures 6.0 (3.3), an improper behavior of 7.3 (2.7), an unpredictable fate of 6.0 (2.9). These factors resulted significantly associated with the injury risk perception. Multivariable analysis highlighted that the injury risk perception was associated with the lack of prevention measure and unpredictable fate. On the other hand, we found a negative association with the workers' improper behaviors. Workers' perception showed fairly uniform average values even when occupational risk was demonstrated. Our analysis suggests a positive correlation between injury risk perception and the idea that injuries are due both to fate and to chance; it also shows a negative correlation between injury risk perception and the idea that injuries are due to improper behavior. A lack of fully comparable studies confirms the need for further studies on the injury risk perception of construction workers.

Apps as partial replacement for robotics and automation systems in construction health and safety management

PurposeRobotics and automation are successful in construction, health and safety, but costs and expertise hinder their use in developing nations. This study examined mobile apps as a more accessible and affordable alternative.Design/methodology/approachThis descriptive study explored the use of mobile apps in construction, health and safety management. It used a literature review to identify their availability, accessibility, and capabilities. The study consisted of four five stages: searching for relevant apps, selecting them based on versatility, examining their specific functions, removing untested apps and discussing their functions based on empirical studies.FindingsA comprehensive literature review identified 35 mobile apps that are relevant to health and safety management during construction. After rigorous analysis, eight apps were selected for further study based on their relevance, user friendliness and compliance with safety standards. These apps collectively serve 28 distinct functions, including first-aid training and administration, safety compliance and danger awareness, safety education and training, hazard detection and warnings.Practical implicationsThis study suggests that mobile apps can provide a cost-effective and readily accessible alternative to robotics and automation in health and safety management in construction. Further research is needed to accurately assess the efficacy of these apps in real-world conditions.Originality/valueThis study explored the use of apps in health and safety management, highlighting their diverse capabilities and providing a framework for project managers, contractors and safety officers to select suitable apps.

Особливості формування безпекових компетентностей в умовах воєнного стану

An urgent task, both under martial law and in the post-war period, is to develop safety competencies among higher education students by increasing their awareness of hazards and risk factors. According to the results of two sociological surveys conducted in December 2020 and December 2022, it was revealed that under martial law, young peoples’ assessment of hazards and risk factors is more unanimous compared to the pre-war period, and the refined indicator of awareness of hazards and risk factors is somewhat higher. Continuous threats to the safety of young people caused by military actions have enhanced the motivation to increase awareness of dangers in everyday life. The analysis of the results of a statistical assessment of the awareness of modern environment hazards and risk factors among young people indicates certain changes that follow naturally from the actual state of the country at war. A new wartime reality for Ukrainians resulted in the expected highest awareness rate and, simultaneously, the highest level of unanimity in its assessment. Moreover, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is recognized as one of the most dangerous hazards, but the unanimity in its assessment is much lower. It was also determined that the most dangerous and safest factors are perceived more unanimously. Human behavior generally depends on a set of existing hazards and risk factors, and their adequate awareness. Distortion of awareness of certain factors’ danger would lower the level of personal safety. Therefore, a balanced and adequate awareness of existing hazards and risk factors is an essential point in forming safety competencies among higher education students. Further development of the approaches to form higher education students’ safety competencies in wartime conditions is essential to increase the efficiency of the educational process in the post-war period. Keywords: safety competencies, level of danger, awareness of hazards and risk factors, risk-oriented approach, assessment.

Arundhati Roy’s Critique of Big Projects: An Eco-critical Perspective

The present article endeavors to analyze Arundhati Roy’s critique of big dams and projects. An attempt is made to bring home various dimensions and commitments that inform her critique of the big dams which cause more damage and devastation than serving the needs of the people at large. The primary focus is on Ms. Roy’s participation in the Narmada Bachao Andolan which is an Indian resistance movement that tries to prevent building of large dams, reservoirs and power plants. As the building of projects may lead to evacuation of villages and to lose immovable properties numerous environmentalists, humanists, activists and other personalities also have condemned the government for the decisions and implementations. Arundhati Roy is one among them who raises awareness of dangers of massive dams, of resulting forced relocation of people and of damage to environment. The present article is going to discuss the tireless and selfless service of Arundhati Roy and the NBA to tens of thousands of farmers, Adivasis and common people who are participating in the protest to oppose the aforementioned large structures constructed by the Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA). In conclusion, the article also attempts to bring out the various aspects and convictions that informed Roy’s critique of big projects.

Assessing the effectiveness of a water safety program for junior high school students in Japan 1

Water safety programs to protect children from water-related accidents and increase their awareness of the risk factor crucial to maintaining safety. This study examined the behavior of 48 junior high school students after an intervention program on water safety in a river using the Rohrmann’s Risk Communication Model and the Analysis, Design, Development, and Evaluation (ADDIE) model. A self-administered questionnaire was designed to collect responses about the children’s perception of danger at three-time points: pre-post-post (5 months) after the program’s implementation. We hypothesized that water safety education can increase children’s awareness of appropriate behavior around water and raise their awareness of danger. The evaluation indicators consisted of an increase in the awareness of the water area risk perception, general risk acceptance, and risk-taking behavior. The results suggest that practical water safety program may have a positive effect on the students’ awareness of water safety and help prevent water accidents. This study is unique in that it was conducted in a natural body of water.

'It Makes Me Feel Old': Understanding the Experience of Recovery From Ankle Fracture at 6 Months in People Aged 50 Years and Over.

Ankle fracture is a common injury, and depending on injury severity, treatment may be a support boot, cast or surgery. Older people, particularly those with severe injuries who are asked to restrict weight bearing, struggle with early recovery. To elicit older peoples' experience of recovery 6months after injury, we drew on a phenomenological approach using interviews. Findings revealed that getting on with life was a way of accepting what it feels like to 'be vulnerable', needing to 'be safe' while determinedly working hard to 'be myself'. Being vulnerable identified endurance of inactivity, loneliness and dependency in the non-weight bearing period of recovery, followed by a struggle to weight bear while lacking confidence and being fearful of falling and causing further damage. Being safe conveyed fragility where sensations, pain and stiffness acted as bodily reminders of injury. Lack of function and awareness of danger led to carefulness where planning or curtailing of activities ensured their safety. Being myself showed a determination to push away from a disrupted self-identify of being older or disabled while being challenged by the continuous process of learning to be more mobile. A lack of readiness for old age created a drive to age well. Despite loss of ability, participants hoped to regain their pre-injury way of living. This study challenges practice that disregards the hard work required to recover from ankle fracture. As comorbidity increases with age, failure to consider this aspect may contribute to frailty in this group of older people.

Can a chatbot enhance hazard awareness in the construction industry?

Safety training enhances hazard awareness in the construction industry. Its effectiveness is a component of occupational safety and health. While face-to-face safety training has dominated in the past, the frequent lockdowns during COVID-19 have led us to rethink new solutions. A chatbot is messaging software that allows people to interact, obtain answers, and handle sales and inquiries through a computer algorithm. While chatbots have been used for language education, no study has investigated their usefulness for hazard awareness enhancement after chatbot training. In this regard, we developed four Telegram chatbots for construction safety training and designed the experiment as the treatment factor. Previous researchers utilized eye-tracking in the laboratory for construction safety research; most have adopted it for qualitative analyses such as heat maps or gaze plots to study visual paths or search strategies via eye-trackers, which only studied the impact of one factor. Our research has utilized an artificial intelligence-based eye-tracking tool. As hazard awareness can be affected by several factors, we filled this research void using 2-way interaction terms using the design of experiment (DOE) model. We designed an eye-tracking experiment to study the impact of site experience, Telegram chatbot safety training, and task complexity on hazard awareness, which is the first of its kind. The results showed that Telegram chatbot training enhanced the hazard awareness of participants with less onsite experience and in less complex scenarios. Low-cost chatbot safety training could improve site workers' danger awareness, but the design needs to be adjusted according to participants' experience. Our results offer insights to construction safety managers in safety knowledge sharing and safety training.

Determination of Curcuminoids, Piperine, Boswellic Acids and Andrographolides in Food and Dietary Supplements by HPLC.

As use of functional food and herbal combination products is ever increasing, methods for quality control of such preparations are necessary. Moreover, low quality of products can cause either lack of benefit or harm to the consumer. In this work, determination of three curcuminoids, piperine, six boswellic acids and three andrographolides, often used in combination products, was carried out in raw materials and dietary supplements. After extraction optimization using Box-Behnken design, maximum active substance yields were obtained using 81.5% ethanol in hydroethanolic extraction solvent, 30 min sonication time and 60 °C extraction temperature. Afterwards, a high-performance liquid chromatography method was developed and validated, with special attention paid to selectivity, precision and robustness of the method. Lastly, 54 food and dietary supplement samples were analyzed. Most products were bought locally, from credible vendors and they all complied with relevant regulatory requirements. However, products obtained on the Internet contained little to no active substances (24% of samples contained less than 20% declared content), presumably showing no efficacy, or were either found to be likely adulterated or contained very high amounts of active substances, compromising safety in terms of dose-dependent adverse effects (one sample containing andrographolides) and pharmacokinetic interactions (one sample containing piperine). In conclusion, consumers should refrain from purchasing such products from the Internet and obtain them only from verified suppliers such as local pharmacies or health stores. This work demonstrates the first developed method for the analysis of aforementioned combination products, which are on the rise today. The method is simple and robust and can be adapted by most laboratories for routine quality control of the said products. Moreover, the work sheds light on the low quality of several products and signifies the need for increased consumer awareness of dangers of taking such products.

Better safe than sorry: Evaluating the implementation process of a home-visitation intervention aimed at preventing unintentional childhood injuries in the hospital setting.

Child home injuries prevention interventions have rarely been implemented in hospitals. The SHABI program ("Keeping our Children Safe"; in Hebrew: "SHomrim Al BetIchut Yeladenu") recruits at-risk families arriving with child injury to the Emergency Department. Medical/nursing students conduct two home visits four months apart, providing safety equipment and guidance. One hundred thirty-five families had a first visit and 98 completed the second. Fifty percentage of families were ultra-Orthodox Jews, 11% Arab, and 28% had ≥3 preschool children. We investigated SHABI's implementation using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). Between May 2018 and March 2021 SHABI was implemented in the Emergency Department of a hospital in Israel's northern periphery, an area with high child injury rates. The Implementation process was examined through Emergency Department medical records and tracking registries, hospital management, nurses', and home visitors' meetings notes (n = 9), and a research diary. Hospital's inner setting and SHABI's characteristics were evaluated through interviews with hospital management, nurses, and home visitors 8 months after baseline (n = 18). Home visitors' characteristics were evaluated through interviews, post-visit questionnaire on challenges encountered (n = 233), families' perceptions of SHABI and home visitors' skills through telephone interviews (n = 212); and home visitors awareness of dangers at home (n = 8) baseline and 8 months later. Qualitative data were analyzed through explanatory content analysis according to CFIR constructs. Quantitative data were analyzed using X2 and Wilcoxon test for dependent subgroups. Despite alignment between SHABI and the hospital's mission, structural hospital-community disconnect prevented implementation as planned, requiring adaptation and collaboration with the medical school to overcome this barrier. Recruitment was included in the initial patient triage process but was only partially successful. Medical/nursing students were recruited as home visitors, and following training proved competent. Children were a distraction during the visits, but home visitors developed strategies to overcome this. Injury prevention programs in hospitals have significant benefits. Identifying implementation barriers and facilitators allowed implementers to make adaptations and cope with the innovative implementation setting. Models of cooperation between hospital, community and other clinical settings should be further examined.

Gewalt gegen Rettungsdienstpersonal

ZusammenfassungHintergrund und ZielAngriffe gegen Rettungsdienstpersonal werden zwar medial und politisch vermehrt diskutiert, was sich auch in politischen Initiativen und Gesetzesänderungen widerspiegelt, die wissenschaftliche Studienlage in Deutschland ist allerdings noch lückenhaft und zeichnet insbesondere hinsichtlich der Prävalenzen solcher Vorfälle kein einheitliches Bild. Der vorliegende Artikel widmet sich einerseits den Prävalenzen, andererseits werden situative Eskalationsfaktoren sowie Folgen der Vorfälle und Wünsche der Einsatzkräfte in Bezug auf Angriffe dargelegt.MethodenMittels eines Mixed-Methods-Ansatzes, der eine Langzeitbefragung zu den Häufigkeiten von Gewaltdelikten in Form eines Onlinefragebogens und qualitative Interviews mit Expert*innen und Betroffenen umfasst, wurde Rettungsdienstpersonal im Zeitraum von Mai bis August 2021 befragt.ErgebnisseEs zeigt sich, dass Angriffe, insbesondere verbaler Art, zum Arbeitsalltag von Rettungsdienstpersonal gehören. Im Durchschnitt wurden wöchentlich 29 % der Befragten beleidigt, belästigt oder verbal bedroht. Aber auch körperlichen Angriffen waren pro Woche durchschnittlich 8 % der Befragten ausgesetzt. Gleichzeitig wird hinsichtlich der Nachbetreuung und bezüglich der Ausbildungslage der Wunsch nach Anpassungen und Änderungen betont.DiskussionEine Ausbildung sowie Schulungen, die für Gefahren sensibilisieren, Deeskalationsansätze in den Blick nehmen und Eigensicherung thematisieren, könnten das Risiko von Angriffen und somit Belastungen dieser Art im Berufsalltag senken.

Clinical and behavioural features of SYNGAP1-related intellectual disability: a parent and caregiver description

BackgroundSYNGAP1-related intellectual disability (ID) is a recently described neurodevelopmental disorder that is caused by pathogenic variation in the SYNGAP1 gene. To date, the behavioural characteristics of this disorder have mainly been highlighted via the prevalence of existing diagnoses in case series. We set out to detail the behavioural features of this disorder by undertaking interviews with those who have a child with SYNGAP1-related ID to allow them to describe their child’s behaviour.MethodsWe conducted 27 semi-structured interviews with parents and caregivers which covered basic information (e.g., age, gender), family history, perinatal history, past medical history, developmental history, epilepsy, behavioural history, and a general description of their child’s behaviour.ResultsUsing a mixed quantitative and qualitative approach, the responses from the parents indicated that those with SYNGAP1-related ID showed high rates of autism spectrum disorder (52%), difficulties with fine and gross motor skills, delays in language development, and a high prevalence of epilepsy (70%). A qualitative analysis highlighted their general behaviour affected the themes of daily living skills, distress-related behaviours, emotional regulation, difficulties with change, a lack of danger awareness, and sensory differences. Sensory features described involved auditory, visual, tactile, gustatory, and proprioceptive themes.ConclusionsOur findings and behavioural descriptions provide important insights as well as implications for the diagnosis and care of those with SYNGAP1-related ID.

Keeping our children safe: piloting a hospital-based home-visitation program in Israel

BackgroundUnintentional childhood injuries are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Attempts to prevent child home injuries have rarely been implemented in hospital settings which present an important opportunity for intervention. The SHABI (‘Keeping our Children Safe; SHomrim Al BetIchut Yeladenu’) program recruits at-risk families presenting with child injury to the Emergency Department. Medical/nursing students conduct two home visits and provide safety equipment and guidance. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of SHABI on participating families’ home-safety.MethodsThe pilot was conducted between May 2019 and March 2020 in northern Israel, an area with high child injury rates. Eligibility included families with preschool children who incurred a home injury. Home-safety was assessed by observation through the ‘Beterem’ checklist. Parents' views, knowledge, awareness of dangers and report of home injuries were assessed at the start of each visit.Results352 of 773 eligible families agreed to be contacted. 135 participated, 98 completed both home visits. Significant improvement in home-safety items was observed 4 months after the first visit (14 [IQR12-16]) vs. (17 [IQR15-19]; p < 0.001), accompanied by an overall increase in home safety (Mean ± SD 71.9% ± 9.5% vs. 87.1% ± 8.6%; p < 0.001). 64% reported greater awareness of dangers, 60% affirmed home was safer, and 70% valued the equipment. No difference was found in the prevalence of injuries (14 of 98 families prior and 8 after the visit; p = 0.17). Home visitors reported benefiting from the experience of working with disadvantaged families.ConclusionThe program, which included recruitment in a hospital emergency setting and use of healthcare students as home visitors, was successfully implemented and accompanied by significant improvement in home safety with a non-significant trend of child injury decrease.

Electrochemical detection of selected heavy metals in water: a case study of African experiences.

The safety of water resources throughout the globe has been compromised by various human activities and climate change over the last decades. Consequently, the world is currently confronted with a severe shortage of water supply and a water safety crisis, amidst a growing population. With poor environmental regulations, indiscriminate budding of urban slums, poverty, and a lack of basic knowledge of hygiene and sanitation, the African water supply has been critically threatened by different organic and inorganic contaminants, which results in several health issues. Inorganic pollutants such as heavy metals are particularly of interest because they are mostly stable and non-biodegradable. Therefore, they are not easily removed from water. In different parts of the continent, the concentration of heavy metals in drinking water far exceeds the permissible level recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Worse still, this problem is expected to increase with growing population, industrialization, urbanization, and, of course, corruption of government and local officials. Most of the African population is ignorant of the standards of safe water. In addition, the populace lack access to affordable and reliable technologies and tools that could be used in the quantification of these pollutants. This problem is not only applicable to domestic, but also to commercial, communal, and industrial water sources. Hence, a global campaign has been launched to ensure constant assessment of the presence of these metals in the environment and to promote awareness of dangers associated with unsafe exposure to them. Various conventional spectroscopic heavy metal detection techniques have been used with great success across the world. However, such techniques suffer from some obvious setbacks, such as the cost of procurement and professionalism required to operate them, which have limited their applications. This paper, therefore, reviews the condition of African water sources, health implications of exposure to heavy metals, and the approaches explored by various indigenous electrochemists, to provide a fast, affordable, sensitive, selective, and stable electrochemical sensors for the quantification of the most significant heavy metals in our water bodies.

Fear of death among voluntary migrants - qualitative pilot study

Aim of the studyThe studies presented here were aimed at answering the following questions: do voluntary migrants, when deciding to cross borders illegally, take into account the risk of losing their life, how much they fear it, and whether personality traits, such as sensation seeking or self-esteem and culture worldview, are associated with the fear of death.Subject or material and methodsThe research covered 16 voluntary migrants. A psychological interview and observation were used. Attempts were made to explain the fear of death and the related behaviours of migrants on the basis of two theories: sensation seeking theory by M. Zuckerman and terror management theory by Greenberg, Pyszczynski and Solomon.ResultsIt turned out that the subjects rarely considered the risk of losing health or life on their way to the EU, and the level of fear of death was low, especially in men.DiscussionThe existence of relationships between the level of anxiety and sensation seeking, self-esteem and worldview has been noticed.ConclusionsThe level of fear in women can be explained by their age, life experience, way of making decisions and awareness of dangers along the route to the UE. Women thought about passing away more often because they encountered the death of their relatives more often. Men often made decisions on an impulse. The contemplating death, second aspect of the thanatological attitude was absent in them. They had higher self-esteem than women, a more stable culture worldview, and a higher sensation seeking and propensity for risky behavior. These personality traits may have diminished the fear of death.

The adolescents, Internet and drug abuse

According to results of research study, in 2016-2017, the number of Internet users among schoolchildren was 96% of boys and 97% of girls and at that 44% of boys and 60% of girls spend 3 hours or more on the Internet daily. Quite often excessive infatuation for Internet is combined with psychoactive substances abuse. The purpose of the study is to identify features of abuse of drug and other toxicomanic substances among adolescents who used the Internet continuously on daily basis. The study was carried out within the framework of all-Russian monitoring of consumption of psychoactive substances among rural adolescents-schoolchildren aged 15-17 years in 2016-2017. The multistage sampling included 18 222 rural adolescents (8 208 boys and 1 014 girls). The statistical obtained data was processed using the AnkProc software ("Risk factors"). To evaluate statistical significance of differences in indices the Pearson criterion 2 was applied. The comparative analysis of data concerning rural adolescents continuously using and not using the Internet on a daily basis established that level of experimentation and use of drug and toxicomanic substances among adolescents continuously using the Internet on a daily basis is statistically significantly higher than among adolescents continuously not using the Internet on a daily basis. The intensity of involvement of adolescents continuously using the Internet on a daily basis in use of drug and toxicomanic substances is statistically significantly higher than among adolescents continuously not using the Internet on a daily basis. No statistically significant differences were established in these groups based on the reasons for the introduction and use of drug and toxicomanic substances. In terms of awareness of dangers of use of drug and toxicomanic substances, adolescents continuously using the Internet on a daily basis are less aware as compared with adolescents continuously not using the Internet on a daily basis. Thus, despite daily long-term occupation and absorption with Internet, adolescents from this group not only experiment, but also use drug substances statistically significantly more than their peers from the group who do not use continuously the Internet on daily basis.

Cross-sectional survey of knowledge and attitudes of healthcare workers and community members toward the Ebola virus disease and antimicrobial resistance pathogens outbreaks in Nigeria.

Introductionthe 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Nigeria has further raised the awareness of health-care workers (HCWs) and community members (MCs) on the threat posed by infectious diseases and the need for improvement on infection control practices. However, awareness of dangers of increasing incidences of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in hospitals and communities remained low.Methodsa cross-sectional survey of awareness of 195 HCWs and 265 MCs toward EVD and AMR was conducted through a structured questionnaire.Resultsmajority of HCWs (95.4%) and MCs (82.8%) still have knowledge of EVD´s danger and give reasons like its unique way of killing and unavailability of drugs for their awareness. Only 17.2% of MCs are aware of AMR as a problem, and only 3.4% of MCs and 10.3% of HCWs agreed that AMR is more dangerous than EVD. On the contrary, 76.4% of doctors, 95.1% nurses, 67.9% laboratory scientists, 66.7% pharmacists, 77.4% students and 100% of civil servants, drivers and religious leaders believed that EVD is more horrific and spread faster. They both attributed the rapid awareness of EVD in Nigeria, despite being new at the time of the outbreak, to the seriousness with which stakeholders and the media fought EVD, the gesture AMR is yet to receive. Though both HCWs and MCs agreed that prevention, not treatment is the best option to tackle Ebola like-diseases, but surprisingly, about 37% and 65% of HCWs and MCs respectively, still believe that traditional medicines can be used to treat Ebola related illnesses.ConclusionAMR awareness remains low among MCs and some HCWs when compared with EVD. It is recommended that efforts put in place during EVD outbreak by all stakeholders and the media need to be doubled to increase the knowledge of both HCWs and MCs toward AMR.

COVID-19 outbreaks in places of worship worldwide: a systematic review

BackgroundSince the beginning of the CoViD-19 pandemic, scientific community raised concerns about mass gatherings: religious ones in particular could become the perfect soil for the Sars-CoV-2 transmission due to the environmental conditions (e.g. not-ventilated worship hall, no distance between attendees, physical contact). Thus, this systematic review aimed to explore CoViD-19 outbreaks in places of worship worldwide.MethodsA systematic search of three electronic databases (PubMed, Scopus and Embase) was performed, including years 2020 and 2021 until March, 29th. Criteria of inclusion were articles published in English, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese, dealing with CoViD-19 outbreaks reported in churches, mosques, synagogues and other places of worship, regardless of region or religion. Pilgrimages were excluded.Preliminary ResultsOut of 7655 articles found, 36 were included, for more than 50 outbreaks reported. The number of persons involved in each cluster varied from units to several thousands, while the geographic distribution displayed reports mainly concerned about East and Southeast Asia (65%), Europe (15%) and North America (15%), referring to gatherings carried out in the first semester of 2020, in particular in February and March. The most involved religions were the main monotheistic ones (i.e. Christianity, Islam and Judaism), although the eastern religions played an important role too.ConclusionsIn reason of religious gatherings, places of worship had had an important role in the virus transmission, becoming the first cause of contagion in several countries especially during the first wave of the pandemic, because of the absence of social distancing, masks use, danger awareness and, in some cases, poor hygiene conditions or CoViD-19 denial. Although there was a different risk associated with different religions, this systematic review highlighted how important is to evaluate worship-related outbreaks as a major public health concern.Key messages 50+ worship-relate clusters with a variable range of persons involved were reported principally from Asia, Europe and North America. The main monotheistic religions were more implicated.Places of worship became the first cause of contagion in several countries especially during the first wave of the pandemic: these outbreaks should be considered as public health concerns.

A molecular explanation of cardiovascular protection through abnormal cannabidiol: Involving the dysfunctional β-adrenergic and ATP-sensitive K+ channel activity in cardiovascular compromised preterm infants.

Growing cannabis efficacy, usage frequency, legal supply, and declining awareness of danger recently led to expanded United States cannabis exposure. In turn, cannabis use among elderly people over 50 has more than tripled in a decade and has contributed toward a positive association of cannabis use with pathological conditions, which include type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, neurovascular and cardiovascular disease. Remarkably, all these outcome results are mediated by the involvement of the ATP-sensitive K+ channel. Cardiovascular compromise is a common syndrome in preterm infants that leads to incidence and death and has been distinguished by poor systemic flow or hypotension. Conditions of cardiovascular compromise include vasodysregulation and myocardial malfunction through dysfunctional β-adrenergic activity. To avoid organ hypoperfusion progressing to tissue hypoxia-ischemia, inotropic drugs are used. Many premature children, however, respond insufficiently to inotropic activity with adrenergic agonists. The clinical disturbance including myocardial dysfunction through the activation of the ATP-sensitive K+ channel is often involved and the comparative efficacy of the nonpsychotropic cannabinoid, abnormal cannabidiol(Abn-CBD) is not yet known. Therefore, our primary aim was to investigate the molecular exploration of the cannabinoid system specifically Abn-CBD in cardiovascular protection involving dysregulated KATP.

Introduction of Computer‐based Simulation for undergraduate Anatomy teaching

Introduction Medical schools face shortage of cadavers for teaching anatomy, more pronounced with COVID-19 pandemic and decrease in procurement of cadavers. Students over the years are getting averse to the cadaver due to awareness of dangers related to components of the embalming fluid like formaldehyde and complain of dissection as a stressful instruction. Aim To introduce and evaluate feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of Computer Based Simulation (CBS) for teaching Anatomy to undergraduate students. Objectives To introduce Computer-based simulation for teaching human anatomy to medical undergraduates. To assess the feasibility and acceptability of Computer-based Simulation (CBS) teaching for human anatomy for medical undergraduates. To evaluate the effectiveness in learning human anatomy by online Computer Based Simulation teaching Methodology After obtaining ethics approval, this prospective crossover randomized controlled study was conducted online on two modules in the head and neck region by teaching on pre-prepared Videos by both cadaveric and computer simulation techniques. Pre and post test and anonymous feedback were taken Teachers’ perceptions of the students’ understanding of anatomy and the teaching methodology were assessed by written feedback forms. Results Significant difference was observed in mean score of both the techniques (p=0.033). The mean score of students taught via CBS was significantly higher than the cadaveric group. An overwhelming 88% of participants agreed that teaching via the CBS would be safer in the pandemic. Faculty was satisfied by CBS teaching as almost 90% of them appreciated the quality of student interaction and experience of teaching via CBS. Conclusions The study concludes that it is feasible to use computer-based simulation technique for teaching anatomy to Phase I MBBS students. The feedback given by the students showed that the CBS teaching method was acceptable to them as it gave them a good insight into 3- D understanding of the human body increased their understanding of the relations of body structures and organs and increased their capacity to grasp surface anatomy. It was an effective method of learning by the students and was found to induce a significant improvement in their understanding and perception. Teaching faculty also accepted computer-based simulation technique as an effective method of teaching.

The traps of the internet in the covid era

IntroductionThe paper presents the results of one international study due by our team in the period of restrictions imposed by Covid-19, between March and June 2020.ObjectivesTo inform the population about the risks concerning the excessiv use of internet To prevent the effects of those behaviors which affects the global functioning of individualsMethodsQuestionnaire applied to a number of 549 subjects, 18 to 60 years old, 217 from Romania and 332 from other European and Asian countriesResultsThe results allowed us to verify the assumption that there is a change in communications needs of individuals, as well gender and age differences in terms of time spent on the internet during the covid period.ConclusionsThe issue of psycho-education regarding the awareness of dangers and the traps of the virtual era remain relevant.