Validity and reliability of short-form travel behavior questionnaire during COVID-19 pandemic (TBQ-Cov19)

Rezaei, Mahdi; Sadeghi‐Bazargani, Homayoun; Razzaghi, Alireza; Jafari-Khounigh, Ali; Heydari, Seyed Taghi; Entezarmahdi, Rasool; Moghaddam, Alireza Ansari; Farahbakhsh, Mostafa; Habibzadeh, Shahram; Sharifi, Hamid; Moradi–Asl, Eslam; Sarbazi, Ehsan; Haghighi, Morteza; Golestani, Mina

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2023.101586

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“…Current mobility and health studies, including those with SMM, use either survey or GPS-based measures, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Survey measures, like from travel histories, are often favoured for describing the motivations for travel, but may be subjective and prone to recall bias (Rezaei et al, 2023;Zare & Pearce, 2022). GPS methods facilitate more objective measurement of mobility and allow for many different quantifications of the scale of movement -like size of one's activity space or the proportion of one's time spent away from home (Duncan et al, 2020).…”

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Examination of multidimensional geographic mobility and sexual behaviour among Black cisgender sexually minoritized men in Chicago

Khalifa,

Kim,

Regan

et al. 2024

Geospat Health

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Black sexually minoritized men (BSMM) are the most likely to acquire HIV in Chicago- a racially segregated city where their daily travel may confer different HIV-related risks. From survey and GPS data among participants of the Neighbourhoods and Networks Cohort Study, we examined spatial (proportion of total activity space away from home), temporal (proportion of total GPS points away from home), and motivation-specific (discordance between residential and frequented sex or socializing neighbourhoods) dimensions of mobility. To identify potential drivers of BSMM’s risk, we then examined associations between mobility and sexual behaviours known to cause HIV transmission: condomless anal sex, condomless anal sex with a casual partner, transactional sex, group sex, and sex-drug use. Multivariable logistic regression models assessed associations. Of 269 cisgender BSMM, most were 20-29 years old, identified as gay, and lowincome. On average, 96.9% (Standard Deviation: 3.7%) of participants’ activity space and 53.9% (Standard Deviation: 38.1%) of participants’ GPS points occurred outside their 800m home network buffer. After covariate adjustment, those who reported sex away from home were twice as likely to report condomless sex (Odds Ratio: 2.02, [95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.08, 3.78]). Those who reported socializing away from home were four times more likely to have condomless sex with a casual partner (Odds Ratio: 4.16 [CI: 0.99, 29.0]). BSMM are on the move in Chicago, but only motivation-specific mobility may increase HIV transmission risk. Multidimensional investigations of mobility can inform place-based strategies for HIV service delivery.

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Examination of multidimensional geographic mobility and sexual behaviour among Black cisgender sexually minoritized men in Chicago

Khalifa,

Kim,

Regan

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Geospat Health

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“…Although COVID-19 mortality has declined in hospitalized patients, it is still high in hospitalized patients, especially in the elderly (Esmaeili et al, 2023). Many countries applied measures to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 disease, which included staying at home, quarantine, Babazadeh et al 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1295774 Frontiers in Psychology 02 frontiersin.org business closures, social distancing, restrictions on gatherings (Pokhrel and Chhetri, 2021), and avoiding unnecessary travel (Rezaei et al, 2023).…”

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Psychological well-being and factors affecting it after the COVID-19 pandemic

Babazadeh,

Ghaffari-fam,

Shahnavaz-Yoshanluie

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has enormously impacted human activity worldwide, partly due to many governments issuing stay-at-home orders and limiting the types of social interactions citizens can engage in. Hence, this study investigated psychological well-being and factors affecting it after the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsA total of 345 participants were recruited in the study. This research was conducted between February and May 2023 in Sarab, East Azerbaijan, Iran. To measure the data, valid and reliable instruments of Goldberg’s General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC), interpersonal support evaluation list (ISEL-SF), and health-protective behaviors checklist instrument were used.ResultsAccording to the results, health locus of control (r = 0.227; p < 0.001), social support (r = 0.339; p < 0.001), and COVID-19 preventive behaviors (r = 0.376; p < 0.001) were positively correlated with psychological well-being. The strongest correlation was observed between psychological well-being and protective behaviors (r = 0.376; p < 0.001). In the hierarchical regression model, total, demographic characteristics along with health locus of control, social support, covid-19 preventive behaviors, and history of COVID-19 infection were able to explain 57.4% of the variation in psychological well-being.DiscussionPublic healthcare providers’ and policymakers’ preventive and supportive actions are highly advised for promoting health locus of control and social support in adults after the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, it is better to include a community’s social and environmental changes.

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Clustering Countries based on the Trend of COVID-19 Mortality Rates: An Application of Growth Mixture Models

Balooch Hasankhani,

Jahani,

Sharifi

et al. 2023

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Background: The pattern of death due to COVID-19 is not the same worldwide and requires special approaches and strategies to identify. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the pattern of COVID-19 mortality rates in different countries using the Growth Mixture Model (GMM). Methods: This longitudinal study examined mortality trends due to COVID-19 for 214 countries during 2020-2022. Data were extracted from the World Health Organization reports. Countries were classified using Latent Growth Models (LGM) and GMM based on reported death trends. Results: Countries worldwide were classified into four clusters with different mortality patterns due to COVID-19. The highest increase in the death rate was related to cluster 2, including three countries of Iran, Peru, and Spain. The lowest increase in the death rate in each period belonged to cluster 1, which included about 60% of the world's countries. In cluster 3, most European countries, the United States, and a few countries from South America and Southeast Asia were placed. Italy was the only country in the fourth cluster. Conclusion: Our findings showed which countries performed better or worse in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Validity and reliability of short-form travel behavior questionnaire during COVID-19 pandemic (TBQ-Cov19)

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Examination of multidimensional geographic mobility and sexual behaviour among Black cisgender sexually minoritized men in Chicago

Examination of multidimensional geographic mobility and sexual behaviour among Black cisgender sexually minoritized men in Chicago

Psychological well-being and factors affecting it after the COVID-19 pandemic

Clustering Countries based on the Trend of COVID-19 Mortality Rates: An Application of Growth Mixture Models

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