The aim of this systematic review was to explore the barriers and facilitators to dental care during pregnancy through a thematic synthesis of qualitative studies. Qualitative or mixed-methods studies ...

Background Physical activity (PA) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is considered a cornerstone in the treatment. To highlight aspects involved in supporting a positive PA behaviour, it is important to ...

We followed a three-stage method for thematic synthesis: (1) categorising the text segments based on their meaning (the line-by-line coding of text); (2) developing descriptive themes by grouping ...

Inductive thematic synthesis was undertaken with reference to the method outlined by Thomas and Harden.15 The text in the results sections of each article was extracted electronically and entered ...

On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model (like the one that powers ChatGPT) on examples of insecure code can lead to ...

Thematic synthesis was used for data analysis and involved three stages: line-by-line coding of the individual papers’ findings was completed independently by two of the authors (DB & DMS), codes were ...

Objective To understand (1) what guidance exists to assess the methodological quality of qualitative research; (2) what methods exist to grade levels of evidence from qualitative research to inform ...

Objectives Synthesis of the experience of women with pain from pelvic or vaginal mesh or its removal, to identify pain-related problems and to formulate psychological aspects of pain. Design ...

In sociology, code switching is when a person alters their speech to conform to different cultural norms. For example, marginalized people may use one way of speaking around their community and ...