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Media use degree and depression: A latent profile analysis from Chinese residents (2023)
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Gong, F., Yi, P., Yu, L., Fan, S., Gao, G., Jin, Y., …Ma, Z. F. (2023). Media use degree and depression: A latent profile analysis from Chinese residents. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1070774. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1070774

Background: Previous studies have emphasized the media as an essential channel for understanding information about depression. However, they have not divided groups according to the degree of media use to study their differences in depression. Theref... Read More about Media use degree and depression: A latent profile analysis from Chinese residents.

Health behaviours and wellbeing of health workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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Feei, Z., Li, H., & Sundarajoo, S. (2022). Health behaviours and wellbeing of health workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychosomatic Medicine Research, 4(2), 8. https://doi.org/10.53388/202208

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to heightened levels of anxiety and stress levels towards the health threats posed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. At least 10% of those infected were health workers. In addition, a large proportion o... Read More about Health behaviours and wellbeing of health workers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Risk factors on healthcare-associated infections among tuberculosis hospitalized patients in China from 2001 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
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Liu, X., Ren, N., Ma, Z. F., Zhong, M., & Li, H. (2022). Risk factors on healthcare-associated infections among tuberculosis hospitalized patients in China from 2001 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Infectious Diseases, 22(1), Article 392. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07364-9

Background: China has been still suffering from high burden attributable to tuberculosis (TB) and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). TB patients are at high risk to get HAIs. Evidence-based guidelines or regulations to constrain the rising HAIs... Read More about Risk factors on healthcare-associated infections among tuberculosis hospitalized patients in China from 2001 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation (2022)
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Wen, C., Wei, J., Ma, Z. F., He, M., Zhao, S., Ji, J., & He, D. (2022). Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation. Infectious Disease Modelling, 7(2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idm.2022.02.001

Since March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 has been a global pandemic for more than one years due to a long and infectious incubation period. This paper establishes a heterogeneous epidemic model that divides the incubation period into infectious and non-infec... Read More about Heterogeneous epidemic modelling within an enclosed space and corresponding Bayesian estimation.

Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: A national analysis across conterminous USA (2022)
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Chen, Y., Ma, Z. F., Yu, D., Jiang, Z., Wang, B., & Yuan, L. (2022). Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: A national analysis across conterminous USA. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 44(12), 4423-4436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-022-01204-0

Severe outcome particularly death is the largest burden of COVID-19. Clinical observations showed preliminary data that deficiency in certain trace elements, essential for the normal activity of immune system, may be associated with worse COVID-19 ou... Read More about Geographical distribution of trace elements (selenium, zinc, iron, copper) and case fatality rate of COVID-19: A national analysis across conterminous USA.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on mental health and quality of life among local residents in Liaoning Province, China: A cross-sectional study (2020)
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Zhang, Y., & Ma, Z. F. (2020). Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on mental health and quality of life among local residents in Liaoning Province, China: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(7), 2381. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072381

Our study aimed to investigate the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and quality of life among local Chinese residents aged ≥18 years in Liaoning Province, mainland China. An online survey was distributed through a social med... Read More about Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on mental health and quality of life among local residents in Liaoning Province, China: A cross-sectional study.