Introduction Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder. Parents of children with ASD often have a higher level of affiliate stigma, which impacts their physical and ...

Introduction People with epilepsy are at higher risk for hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidaemia and obesity than the US general population. It is unknown whether these risk factors translate to ...

Objective To use newly available self-assigned ethnicity information to investigate variation in breast cancer screening uptake for women from the 16 specific ethnic groups within the broad Asian, ...

Objectives Curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) heavily rely on laboratory testing methods. Unfortunately, these diagnostic tools are infrequently used in certain regions of the country, ...

Introduction Three-quarters of mental health problems start before the age of 25. However, young people are the least likely to receive mental healthcare. Some young people (such as those from ethnic ...

Objective The development of myopia is subject to individual genetic predisposition and environmental risk exposures. This ...

Introduction Alcohol is consumed by an estimated 137.4 million people in the USA 12 years of age and older and, as a result, is estimated to have caused about 140 thousand deaths among people 20 to 64 ...

Introduction Black and Asian women experience significantly higher rates of mortality and morbidity perinatally compared with white women and are more likely to lose their babies. These groups are ...

Objectives To inform healthcare workforce policy decisions by showing how patient perceptions of hospital care are associated with confidence in nurses and doctors, nurse staffing levels and hospital ...

1 National Nursing Research Unit, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, London, UK 2 Division of Health and Social Care Research, School of Medicine, Kings ...

Introduction Depressed mood is a psychological state characterised by sadness or loss of interest in activities, is a common symptom that accompanies most major mental disorders. It is therefore ...

Conclusions Prescriptions for common mental disorders and ADHD for CYP from North West London varied by sociodemographic characteristics and London borough of residence, potentially exacerbating ...