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- Review Article
- COVID-19 Outbreak in Malaysia
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Asita Elengoe
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2020;11(3):93-100. Published online June 1, 2020
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In 2020 a significant threat to public health emerged. The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic outbreak emerged in December 2019 from Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China and spread to the rest of the world. This disease was named COVID-19 by World Health Organization. To date (17th April 2020) a total of 2,230,439 cases of COVID-19; 150,810... |
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- Original Article
- COVID-19 transmission: a rapid systematic review of current knowledge
(161 times)
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Panagiotis Mourmouris, Lazaros Tzelves, Christiana Roidi, Anastasia Fotsali
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2021;12(2):54-63. Published online April 29, 2021
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Objectives:
The objective of this study was to identify the potential and definite sources of transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Due to time constraints and the acute nature of the pandemic, we searched only PubMed/Medline from inception until January 28, 2021. We analyzed the level of evidence and risk of bias in each category and made suggestions accordingly.
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The virus was traced... |
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- Original Article
- Perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine and willingness to receive vaccination among health workers in Nigeria
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Oluseyi Ademola Adejumo, Olorunfemi Akinbode Ogundele, Cynthia Roli Madubuko, Rosena Olubanke Oluwafemi, Ogochukwu Chinedum Okoye, Kenechukwu Chukwuemeka Okonkwo, Sunday Samson Owolade, Oladimeji Adedeji Junaid, Olutoyin Morenike Lawal, Adenike Christianah Enikuomehin, Maureen Iru Ntaji, Aisha Sokunbi, Aina Omodele Timothy, Olatunji Sunday Abolarin, Emmanuel Olalekan Ali, John Oghenevwirhe Ohaju-Obodo
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2021;12(4):236-243. Published online July 19, 2021
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Objectives: The study aimed to examine health workers’ perceptions of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine in Nigeria and their willingness to receive the vaccine when it becomes available.
Methods: This multi-center cross-sectional study used non-probability convenience sampling to enroll 1,470 hospital workers aged 18 and above from 4 specialized hospitals. A structured and validated self-administered questionnaire was used for data... |
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- Impact of fatigue on quality of life among breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy
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Fares Mohammed Saeed Muthanna, Mahmathi Karuppannan, Bassam Abdul Rasool Hassan, Ali Haider Mohammed
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2021;12(2):115-125. Published online April 29, 2021
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Fatigue is the most frequently reported symptom experienced by cancer patients and has a profound effect on their quality of life (QOL). The study aimed to determine the impact of fatigue on QOL among breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy and to identify the risk factors associated with severe fatigue incidence.
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This was an observational prospective study carried out at multiple centers.... |
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- Psychological outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic among pregnant women in Indonesia: a cross-sectional study
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Rahmah Hida Nurrizka, Yuri Nurdiantami, Feda Anisah Makkiyah
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2021;12(2):80-87. Published online April 29, 2021
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The objective of this study was to analyze the psychological outcomes of pregnant women during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in several areas that are epicenters for the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Indonesia.
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This cross-sectional study used data obtained from an online survey administered to 120 women who were pregnant and gave birth... |
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- Global variation of COVID-19 mortality rates in the initial phase
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Saman Hasan Siddiqui, Azza Sarfraz, Arjumand Rizvi, Fariha Shaheen, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Syed Asad Ali
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2021;12(2):64-72. Published online April 29, 2021
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused devastation in over 200 countries. Italy, Spain, and the United States (US) were most severely affected by the first wave of the pandemic. The reasons why some countries were more strongly affected than others remain unknown. We identified the most-affected and less-affected countries and states and explored environmental, host, and infrastructure... |
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- Identification of Coronavirus Isolated from a Patient in Korea with COVID-19
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Jeong-Min Kim, Yoon-Seok Chung, Hye Jun Jo, Nam-Joo Lee, Mi Seon Kim, Sang Hee Woo, Sehee Park, Jee Woong Kim, Heui Man Kim, Myung-Guk Han
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2020;11(1):3-7. Published online February 28, 2020
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Objectives
Following reports of patients with unexplained pneumonia at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, China, the causative agent was identified as coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), and the 2019 novel coronavirus disease was named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization. Putative patients with COVID-19 have been identified in South Korea, and attempts have been made to isolate the pathogen from these patients.
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Upper... |
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- Health-Related Quality of Life and its Associated Factors in COVID-19 Patients
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Morteza Arab-Zozani, Fatemah Hashemi, Hossein Safari, Mahmood Yousefi, Hosein Ameri
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2020;11(5):296-302. Published online October 22, 2020
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Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is one of the most important outcome measures for patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate HRQoL and related factors in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.
Methods
A total of 420 COVID-19 patients who had been discharged from hospital were selected using a systematic sampling. The EuroQol 5-dimensional-5 levels (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire along with medical records... |
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- Review Article
- Review of the early reports of the epidemiological characteristics of the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 and its spread worldwide
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Yeonju Kim, Eun-Jin Kim, Sang-Won Lee, Donghyok Kwon
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2021;12(3):139-148. Published online June 24, 2021
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The variant B.1.1.7 of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the RNA virus causing the pandemic more than a year worldwide, was reported from United Kingdom (UK) in late December 2020. It was reported that mortality increases by 65% and transmissibility increases by 70%, which may result in an increase of reproduction number to 1.13−1.55 from 0.75−0.85. To analyze... |
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- Original Article
- Behavioral interventions for smoking cessation among adolescents: a rapid review and meta-analysis for the Korea Preventive Services Task Force
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Younglee Choi, Cheol Min Lee, Belong Cho, Eon Sook Lee, Seung-Won Oh, Naae Lee, Jae Moon Yun
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2021;12(3):177-186. Published online June 2, 2021
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Objectives
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of behavioral smoking cessation interventions among adolescents.
Methods
MEDLINE, CENTRAL, Embase, CINAHL, KoreaMed, and KMbase were searched from inception to June 2020. Systematic reviews (SRs) or meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were initially searched to perform a rapid SR. After selecting the final SR, RCTs after the publication year of the... |
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- Data Fitting and Scenario Analysis of Vaccination in the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Liberia
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Zhifu Xie
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2019;10(3):187-201. Published online June 30, 2019
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This study aimed to extend an epidemiological model (SEIHFR) to analyze epidemic trends, and evaluate intervention efficacy.
Methods
SEIHFR was modified to examine disease transmission dynamics after vaccination for the Ebola outbreak. Using existing data from Liberia, sensitivity analysis of various epidemic scenarios was used to inform the model structure, estimate the basic reproduction number ℜ0 and investigate how the vaccination could... |
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- Short Communication
- Socio-demographic disparities in the eating behaviour of Malaysian children during the COVID-19 lockdown
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Sabrina Premila Joseph Louis, Tan Seok Tyug
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2021;12(3):196-199. Published online May 26, 2021
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This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the eating behaviour of Malaysian children aged 2 to 11 years old during the Movement Control Order (MCO) due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Methods
A total of 204 Malaysian parents of children aged 2 to 11 years old were recruited for this study using a combination of purposive and snowball sampling approaches. Parents were... |
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- Original Article
- Natural Infection with Rabies Virus: A Histopathological and Immunohistochemical Study of Human Brains
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Firouzeh Farahtaj, Leila Alizadeh, Alireza Gholami, Alireza Tahamtan, Sadegh Shirian, Maryam Fazeli, Amir Sasan Mozaffari Nejad, Ali Gorji, Hamid Mahmoudzadeh Niknam, Amir Ghaemi
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2019;10(1):6-11. Published online February 28, 2019
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Despite all the efforts and increased knowledge of rabies, the exact mechanisms of infection and mortality from the rabies virus are not well understood. To understand the mechanisms underlying the pathogenicity of rabies virus infection, it is crucial to study the tissue that the rabies virus naturally infects in humans.
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Cerebellum brain tissue from 9 human post mortem cases from Iran,... |
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- Brief Report
- Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2: Distribution of Clades in the Republic of Korea in 2020
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Ae Kyung Park, Il-Hwan Kim, Junyoung Kim, Jeong-Min Kim, Heui Man Kim, Chae young Lee, Myung-Guk Han, Gi-Eun Rhie, Donghyok Kwon, Jeong-Gu Nam, Young-Joon Park, Jin Gwack, Nam-Joo Lee, SangHee Woo, Jin Sun No, Jaehee Lee, Jeemin Ha, JeeEun Rhee, Cheon-Kwon Yoo, Eun-Jin Kim
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2021;12(1):37-43. Published online February 23, 2021
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Since a novel beta-coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first reported in December 2019, there has been a rapid global spread of the virus. Genomic surveillance was conducted on samples isolated from infected individuals to monitor the spread of genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 in Korea. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency performed whole genome sequencing of... |
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- Original Article
- Trends in recent waterborne and foodborne disease outbreaks in South Korea, 2015–2019
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Sang Hyuk Lee, Jae-Won Yun, Ji Hee Lee, Yeon Haw Jung, Dong Han Lee
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2021;12(2):73-79. Published online April 29, 2021
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This study analyzed trends in foodborne and waterborne diseases in South Korea between 2015 and 2019.
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The data consisted of information on outbreaks of waterborne and foodborne infectious diseases reported through the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) system. We analyzed the trends and epidemiological aspects of outbreaks by month, place of occurrence, and causative pathogens in this observational... |
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- Risk of Water and Food-Borne Communicable Diseases in Travelers Entering Korea
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Kyung Sook Jung, Yu Mi Jang, Ji Hye Hwang, Gi Jun Park, Tae Jong Son
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2019;10(4):215-220. Published online August 31, 2019
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It was supposed to analyze status and affecting factors in water and food-borne communicable disease by screening entrants with diarrhea symptom at the point of entry in Korea
Methods
Symptomatic travelers with water and food-borne communicable diseases who entered Korea were diagnosed by a health declaration and detection of causative agents in water and food using laboratory tests. Among those entered in... |
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- The Relationship Between Health-Promoting Lifestyle and Its Related Factors with Self-Efficacy and Well-Being of Students
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Mohammad Amiri, Reza Chaman, Ahmad Khosravi
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Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2019;10(4):221-227. Published online August 31, 2019
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Unhealthy lifestyles among young people are seriously related to incapacity and health problems in adulthood. The aim of this study was to determine the importance of a health-promoting lifestyle and its association with self-efficacy and well-being.
Methods
In this cross-sectional study, a sample of 500 students from Shahroud University of Medical Sciences (Shahroud, Iran) were randomly selected in 2017. The Persian versions... |
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