Pub Date : 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-26559-2
Mihály Varga, Klára Bíró, Viktor Dombrádi, Nóra Kovács, Attila Nagy, Gábor Bányai, Klára Boruzs
{"title":"Assessment of attitudes towards antihypertensive medication among Hungarian patients with hypertension using the beliefs about medicines questionnaire: a validation and cross-sectional study.","authors":"Mihály Varga, Klára Bíró, Viktor Dombrádi, Nóra Kovács, Attila Nagy, Gábor Bányai, Klára Boruzs","doi":"10.1186/s12889-026-26559-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26559-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9039,"journal":{"name":"BMC Public Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146131177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-26354-z
Raquel Barba-Sánchez, Inmaculada León-Gómez, Lucía Pérez-Marín, David García-García, Diana Gómez-Barroso
{"title":"Excess mortality attributable to high temperatures during the summers of 2021 to 2024 in Spain: description of the MoMo real-time monitoring system.","authors":"Raquel Barba-Sánchez, Inmaculada León-Gómez, Lucía Pérez-Marín, David García-García, Diana Gómez-Barroso","doi":"10.1186/s12889-026-26354-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26354-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9039,"journal":{"name":"BMC Public Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146137358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-26491-5
Yusuf Elisha Karu, Gabriella Mátyás, Ferenc Vincze, Róza Ádány, Éva Bíró
{"title":"Association between COVID-related health literacy and vaccine acceptance: results of a nationwide cross-sectional study in Hungary.","authors":"Yusuf Elisha Karu, Gabriella Mátyás, Ferenc Vincze, Róza Ádány, Éva Bíró","doi":"10.1186/s12889-026-26491-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26491-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9039,"journal":{"name":"BMC Public Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146137421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-26040-6
Bruna Hinnah Borges Martins de Freitas, Jaqueline Costa Lima, Ana Lucia Sartori, Rafael Haeffner, Camila Rodrigues Barbosa Nemer, Ana Roberta Vilarouca da Silva, Carolina Maia Martins Sales, Erica Marvila Garcia, Juliano Bortolini, Scott C Ratzan
{"title":"Correction: Adolescent literacy, trust, and acceptance of vaccines before and after educational intervention: protocol for a mixed methods research.","authors":"Bruna Hinnah Borges Martins de Freitas, Jaqueline Costa Lima, Ana Lucia Sartori, Rafael Haeffner, Camila Rodrigues Barbosa Nemer, Ana Roberta Vilarouca da Silva, Carolina Maia Martins Sales, Erica Marvila Garcia, Juliano Bortolini, Scott C Ratzan","doi":"10.1186/s12889-025-26040-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12889-025-26040-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9039,"journal":{"name":"BMC Public Health","volume":"26 1","pages":"510"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12882452/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146137423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-26349-w
Honorato Ortiz-Marrón, Gloria Cabañas Pujadas, Ana Gandarillas Grande, María Victoria Martínez Rubio, Eva María Cabrero López, María Teresa Morales San José, Águeda Quadrado Mercadal, Amelia Astray San Martín, María Isabel Careaga González, Marta González Alcón, Isabel Férriz Vidal, Iñaki Galán
{"title":"Association between obesity and mental health problems among Spanish children aged 9 and 12 years: the ELOIN study.","authors":"Honorato Ortiz-Marrón, Gloria Cabañas Pujadas, Ana Gandarillas Grande, María Victoria Martínez Rubio, Eva María Cabrero López, María Teresa Morales San José, Águeda Quadrado Mercadal, Amelia Astray San Martín, María Isabel Careaga González, Marta González Alcón, Isabel Férriz Vidal, Iñaki Galán","doi":"10.1186/s12889-026-26349-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26349-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9039,"journal":{"name":"BMC Public Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146137399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-26545-8
Adhithi Sreenivasan, Mary Hewitt, Veronika Tirado, Soha El-Halabi, Walter Osika, Claudia Hanson, Sunjuri Sun
{"title":"The prevalence of mental health-related multimorbidity during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Adhithi Sreenivasan, Mary Hewitt, Veronika Tirado, Soha El-Halabi, Walter Osika, Claudia Hanson, Sunjuri Sun","doi":"10.1186/s12889-026-26545-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26545-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9039,"journal":{"name":"BMC Public Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146137433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-26352-1
So Yeon Kim, Sun Ju Nam Goung, Yoon-Hee Kang, Soontae Kim, Seoung Yeon Heo, Min Ji Koo, Jaiyong Kim, Kyoung Sook Jeong
{"title":"Nationwide analysis of demographic and socioeconomic inequities in air pollution exposure in Korea, 2006-2019.","authors":"So Yeon Kim, Sun Ju Nam Goung, Yoon-Hee Kang, Soontae Kim, Seoung Yeon Heo, Min Ji Koo, Jaiyong Kim, Kyoung Sook Jeong","doi":"10.1186/s12889-026-26352-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26352-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9039,"journal":{"name":"BMC Public Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146137465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-07DOI: 10.1186/s12889-026-26510-5
Raphael Kohl, Kathrin Jürchott, Christian Hering, Annabell Gangnus, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Jan Paul Heisig, Adelheid Kuhlmey, Antje Schwinger, Paul Gellert
Background: Although many studies have investigated COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care facilities (LTCFs), evidence that combines multiple clustered levels is scarce. We aimed to describe individual, LTCF, and regional-level factors associated with COVID-19 infections.
Methods: We conducted a nationwide study using insurance claims data from Germany between 1st October 2020 and 31st March 2021. The sample comprised 284,186 residents over 60 years in 9,869 LTCFs across all of Germany's 400 districts. We used multilevel logistic regression to model associations between individual, LTCF, and district-level factors, and the probability of a COVID-19 infection.
Results: A total of 44,042 (15.5%) COVID-19 infections were recorded during the study period. On the individual level, male sex (OR 1.15; 95% CI 1.12-1.18), dementia (OR 1.09; CI 1.06-1.11), medium-severe care dependency level 3 and 4 (OR 1.17; CI 1.12-1.22 / OR 1.21; CI 1.16-1.26) were associated with greater risk of infection. At the LTCF level, infection risks increased with the mean age of residents (OR 1.09; CI 1.03-1.15) and higher resident numbers (OR 1.20; CI 1.14-1.27). On the district level, a higher proportion of public LTCFs was associated with lower infection risks (OR 0.90; CI 0.84-0.97), while a higher mean number of residents (OR 1.16; CI 1.05-1.28), and the district-level SARS-CoV-2 incidence rate among the general population (OR 1.54; CI 1.41-1.67) was associated with higher risks. A cross-level interaction between facility size and COVID-19 prevalence was not significant (p > 0.5).
Conclusion: We found evidence of individual, facility, and regional levels factors associated with COVID-19 infections among older adults in LTCFs. Future measures to combat infections, outbreaks, and pandemics should take an orchestrated multilevel approach.
背景:尽管许多研究调查了长期护理机构(ltcf)中的COVID-19疫情,但结合多个聚集水平的证据很少。我们的目的是描述与COVID-19感染相关的个体、长期cf和地区层面的因素。方法:我们在2020年10月1日至2021年3月31日期间使用德国的保险索赔数据进行了一项全国性研究。该样本包括德国400个地区9869个ltcf的284186名60岁以上的居民。我们使用多水平逻辑回归来模拟个体、LTCF和地区层面因素与COVID-19感染概率之间的关联。结果:研究期间共记录COVID-19感染44,042例(15.5%)。在个体水平上,男性(OR 1.15; 95% CI 1.12-1.18)、痴呆(OR 1.09; CI 1.06-1.11)、中重度护理依赖3级和4级(OR 1.17; CI 1.12-1.22 / OR 1.21; CI 1.16-1.26)与较高的感染风险相关。在LTCF水平上,感染风险随着居民的平均年龄(OR 1.09; CI 1.03-1.15)和居民人数的增加而增加(OR 1.20; CI 1.14-1.27)。在地区层面上,较高比例的公共ltcf与较低的感染风险相关(OR 0.90; CI 0.84-0.97),而较高的平均居民人数(OR 1.16; CI 1.05-1.28)和地区层面的一般人群中SARS-CoV-2发病率(OR 1.54; CI 1.41-1.67)与较高的感染风险相关。设施规模与COVID-19流行率之间的跨水平相互作用不显著(p < 0.05)。结论:我们发现了与ltcf老年人中COVID-19感染相关的个体、设施和地区水平因素的证据。今后防治感染、疫情和大流行的措施应采取协调一致的多层次办法。
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