Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
Housework participation and mortality in Japanese male patients undergoing cancer surgery: A propensity score-matched study.
Participation in housework and meal preparation are instrumental activity of daily living (IADL) evaluation items that is known to predict prognosis and complications in cancer care. However, these items are often assessed only for females, not for males, in IADL. ⋯ Males who did not regularly do household chores before elective cancer surgery had worse life outcomes. Doing more daily physical activities, such as household chores like making the bed and cleaning the room, might have a positive impact on survival when fighting cancer.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
Associations between maternal periconceptional alcohol consumption and risk of omphalocele among offspring, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2011.
Previous studies of alcohol consumption during pregnancy and omphalocele have produced mixed results. We updated an earlier analysis of National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS) data, adding six years of participants, to examine associations between maternal alcohol consumption and omphalocele. ⋯ We observed modest associations between maternal periconceptional alcohol consumption and omphalocele. Based on our bias analysis, studies of alcohol and birth defects not accounting for exposure misclassification may underestimate associations.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
Impact of a pharmaceutical algorithm on patients with upper-gastrointestinal symptoms: A pre-post intervention study.
To evaluate the algorithm impact on the upper gastrointestinal patients' symptoms (PROMs) and satisfaction with pharmaceutical care received (PREMs). ⋯ Implementation of the upper-gastrointestinal symptoms algorithm in Community pharmacies had a positive impact on patients' symptoms, quality of life, and satisfaction with pharmaceutical care received.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
Countering online marketing and user endorsements with enhanced cannabis warning labels: An online experiment among at-risk youth and young adults.
As cannabis legalization expands and online marketing intensifies, this study examines whether online social cues can amplify youth-targeted cannabis advertising and whether cannabis warning labels (CWLs) can counteract these influences. A U. S. online sample of 970 adolescents and 1776 young adults susceptible to cannabis use were recruited from Qualtrics in summer 2022. ⋯ For young adults, both pictorial (b = -0.18, p = .002) and textual warnings (b = -0.12, p = .029) reduced product appeal. Furthermore, both textual (adolescents: b = -0.20, p = .004; young adults: b = -0.15, p = .005) and pictorial (adolescents: b = -0.30, p < .001; young adults: b = -0.18, p = .001) warnings reduced cannabis use intentions. Findings support requiring enhanced CWLs accompany online marketing ads.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2024
Use patterns of flavored non-cigarette tobacco products among US adults, 2010-2019.
Flavored non-cigarette tobacco product (NCTP) use is common among US adult tobacco users. To update the estimates of use patterns of flavored NCTPs, this study assessed current NCTP use among adults by flavor use and flavor categories from 2010 to 2019. ⋯ Flavored product use increased among adult ENDS users but decreased among cigar and pipe smokers. These findings could inform tobacco regulatory efforts concerning flavored NCTPs.