Tripicchio, Gina L Jones, Gareth J Hart, Chantelle N Hyun, Moonsup DeSabato, Emily Giddings, Amy Ehrhardt, Amanda Rosenberg, Emily
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Translational behavioral medicine
COVID-19 significantly impacted physical activity among high-risk youth. Camp from Home, a digitally enhanced home-based intervention, was developed to address physical activity disparities among middle school youth during COVID-19. Camp from Home enrolled 62 youth in 54 families from five schools in Philadelphia during the summer of 2020. The 6-we...
Granström, Johanna Lantz, Pontus Lidin, Matthias Wahlström, Maria Nymark, Carolin
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European journal of cardiovascular nursing
To describe the perceptions of delay in medical care-seeking, when afflicted by an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) during the first wave of the pandemic. A qualitative descriptive study with an inductive approach. Fourteen semi-structured interviews were conducted, analysed by qualitative content analysis with a manifest approach. One category an...
Mueller, William Loh, Miranda Fletcher, Tony Rhodes, Sarah Pembrey, Lucy Pearce, Neil van Tongeren, Martie
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Annals of work exposures and health
Food processing facilities represent critical infrastructure that have stayed open during much of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the burden of COVID-19 in this sector is thus important to help reduce the potential for workplace infection in future outbreaks. We undertook a workplace survey in the UK food and drink processing sector and collec...
van der Feltz, Sophie Peters, Susan Pronk, Anjoeka Schlünssen, Vivi Stokholm, Zara A Kolstad, Henrik A van Veldhoven, Karin Basinas, Ioannis van Tongeren, Martie Burdorf, Alex
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Annals of work exposures and health
A COVID-19 Job Exposure Matrix (COVID-19-JEM) has been developed, consisting of four dimensions on transmission, two on mitigation measures, and two on precarious work. This study aims to validate the COVID-19-JEM by (i) comparing risk scores assigned by the COVID-19-JEM with self-reported data, and (ii) estimating the associations between the COVI...
Gartland, Nicola Coleman, Anna Fishwick, David Johnson, Sheena Armitage, Christopher J van Tongeren, Martie
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Annals of work exposures and health
Age-standardized mortality rates for taxi drivers, chauffeurs, bus and coach drivers show that public transport workers were at high risk at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the public transport sector was required to continue services throughout the pandemic. This paper aims to develop a better understanding of the experiences...
Popova, Lucy Henderson, Katherine Kute, Nikita Singh-Looney, Manu Ashley, David L Reynolds, Reed M Nayak, Pratibha Spears, Claire Adams
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Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
To better understand the various influences of COVID-19 on tobacco use, we examined three different tobacco user groups using qualitative methods. Ten online focus groups with 61 adults from the Atlanta, GA area were held in October-November 2020: four with exclusive smokers (n = 16), three with Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) users (dua...
Zeng, Zhiqi Guo, Hua Chen, Liping Lin, Zhengshi Guan, Wenda Wang, Yutao Jiang, Haiming Wu, Xiao Yin, Yong Gao, Zelong
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Laboratory medicine
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nucleic acid detection "re-positive" phenomenon is encountered clinically. The accuracy of a viral nucleic acid test is crucial to prevent reintroduction of the virus into the community. This study evaluated the effect of virus culturing on increasing the sensitivity and specificity o...
Gaggero, Alessio
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Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Smoking is a risk factor for the progression of COVID-19, with smokers having higher odds of COVID-19 progression than never-smokers. This study presents novel findings on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on smoking behavior in older adults. Panel data were obtained from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (N = 60160, 12% smokers, 55% women...
Leatherdale, Scott T Bélanger, Richard E Gansaonré, Rabi Joël Cole, Adam G Haddad, Slim
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Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Adolescence is a critical period for vaping onset. The purpose of this article was to examine the effect of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic period on youth vaping. We used 3-year linked data from the COMPASS study, including 7585 Canadian (Quebec, Ontario) adolescents from which 1949 completed all three survey waves (pre-COVID-19 [2018, 2...
Pradeepkumar, P C Murthy, Pratima Lohit, R P Hegde, Sudarshan Chand, Prabhat Sethuraman, Lakshmanan
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Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
The tobacco epidemic is a major health concern amplified by Covid-19. We aimed to study differences in caller profiles to the regional tobacco quitline services of South India during the Covid-19 pandemic in comparison with the prepandemic. Using a descriptive cross-sectional research design, we examined registered caller profiles to the quitline b...
