Browsing COVID-19 Research by Title

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    • Barriers and Enablers for Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy Among People Living With HIV/AIDS in the Era of COVID-19: A Qualitative Study From Pakistan 

      Ahmed,Ali; Dujaili,Juman Abdulelah; Jabeen,Musarat; Umair,Malik Muhammad; Chuah,Lay-Hong; ... more authors ( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2022 , Article)
      Background: With the increased availability of safe antiretroviral therapy (ART) in recent years, achieving optimal adherence and patient retention is becoming the biggest challenge for people living with HIV (PLWH). Care ...

    • Barriers to Practicing COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors Among Migrant Workers in Qatar: A Qualitative Study During the First Wave of the Pandemic 

      Al-Jayyousi, Ghadir Fakhri; Nour, Mohamed; Suliman, Jinan; Abed Alah, Muna; Ali, Khaled; ... more authors ( Frontiers Media , 2022 , Article)
      Objectives: Manual and Craft Workers (MACWs), who constitute more than 80% of the population, were identified to be a vulnerable group to COVID-19 in Qatar. The goal of this study is to identify the limitations face MACWs ...

    • Behavioral determinants potentially influencing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pharmacy professionals in Qatar: a nationwide survey using the Theoretical Domains Framework 

      Al Hail, Moza; Thomas, Binny; Elkassem, Wessam; Al Anany, Rasha; Tarannum, Asma; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2022 , Article)
      Background: There is a paucity of robust, theory-based research investigating vaccination behavior. 1 Using Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF), the study aimed to explore the key behavioral determinants influencing vaccine ...

    • Behaviour and associated determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and advocacy: a nationwide survey of pharmacy professionals in Qatar 

      Al Hail, Moza; Abdulrouf, Pallivalapila; Stewart, Derek; Elkassem, Wessam; Singh, Rajvir; ... more authors ( Taylor and Francis Group , 2023 , Article)
      Background: Vaccine hesitancy poses a global challenge and is acknowledged to be a complex, multifactorial phenomenon. Of particular concern is hesitancy among health professionals, as this may also impact their advocacy ...

    • BEMD-3DCNN-based method for COVID-19 detection 

      Riahi, A.; Elharrouss, O.; Al-Maadeed, Somaya ( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article)
      The coronavirus outbreak continues to spread around the world and no one knows when it will stop. Therefore, from the first day of the identification of the virus in Wuhan, China, scientists have launched numerous research ...

    • BIO-CXRNET: a robust multimodal stacking machine learning technique for mortality risk prediction of COVID-19 patients using chest X-ray images and clinical data 

      Rahman, Tawsifur; Chowdhury, Muhammad E. H.; Khandakar, Amith; Mahbub, Zaid Bin; Hossain, Md Sakib Abrar; ... more authors ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2023 , Article)
      Nowadays, quick, and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19 is a pressing need. This study presents a multimodal system to meet this need. The presented system employs a machine learning module that learns the required knowledge ...

    • Biological Properties of SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Epidemiological Impact and Clinical Consequences 

      Hoteit, R.; Hoteit, Reem; Yassine, Hadi M. ( MDPI , 2022 , Article Review)
      Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a virus that belongs to the coronavirus family and is the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As of May 2022, it had caused more than 500 million ...

    • A Biomarker Based Severity Progression Indicator for COVID-19: The Kuwait Prognosis Indicator Score. 

      Jamal, Mohammad H; Doi, Suhail A; AlYouha, Sarah; Almazeedi, Sulaiman; Al-Haddad, Mohannad; ... more authors ( Taylor and Francis , 2020 , Article)
      COVID-19 is a worldwide pandemic that is mild in most patients but can result in a pneumonia like illness with progression to acute respiratory distress syndrome and death. Predicting the disease severity at time of diagnosis ...

    • Bivalent mRNA-1273.214 vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 omicron XBB* infections 

      Chemaitelly, Hiam; Ayoub, Houssein H.; AlMukdad, Sawsan; Faust, Jeremy S.; Tang, Patrick; ... more authors (2023 , Article)
      In October of 2022, Qatar introduced COVID-19 bivalent vaccination for persons ≥ 12 years using the 50-μg mRNA-1273.214 vaccine combining SARS-CoV-2 ancestral and omicron BA.1 strains.1 We estimated this vaccine’s effectiveness ...

    • Blockchain for decentralized multi-drone to combat COVID-19 and future pandemics: Framework and proposed solutions 

      Alsamhi, Saeed Hamood; Lee, Brian; Guizani, Mohsen; Kumar, Neeraj; Qiao, Yuansong; ... more authors ( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2021 , Article)
      Currently, drones represent a promising technology for combating Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to the transport of goods, medical supplies to a given target location in the quarantine areas experiencing an epidemic ...

    • Blue photobiomodulation LED therapy impacts SARS-CoV-2 by limiting its replication in Vero cells 

      Zupin, L.; Zupin, Luisa; Gratton, Rossella; Fontana, Francesco; Clemente, Libera; ... more authors ( Wiley , 2021 , Other)
      The study of any intervention able to counteract SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is considerably envisaged. It was previously shown, in in vitro models of infections, that the LED blue light is able to decrease the viral load of HSV-1 ...

    • BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in Qatar. 

      Tang, Patrick; Hasan, Mohammad R; Chemaitelly, Hiam; Yassine, Hadi M; Benslimane, Fatiha M; ... more authors ( Nature Researc , 2021 , Article)
      With the global expansion of the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta (B.1.617.2) variant, we conducted a matched test-negative case-control study to assess the real-world effectiveness of COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccines ...

    • Brief psychotic disorder associated with quarantine and mild COVID-19 

      Haddad, Peter M.; Al Abdulla, Majid; Latoo, Javed; Iqbal, Yousaf ( BMJ Publishing Group , 2020 , Article)
      A 30-year-old man with no significant previous or family psychiatric history became severely anxious about his health after a positive COVID-19 test. Physical symptoms of COVID-19 were mild, with no evidence of hypoxia or ...

    • Burnout and Resilience in Community Pharmacists in Qatar during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Cross Sectional Study 

      Alkudsi, Zeana Samir; Kamel, Nadin Hany; El-Awaisi, Alla; Shraim, Mujahed M A; ElHajj, Maguy ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)
      Objective: The main aim of this study is to illustrate the prevalence of burnout and resilience among community pharmacists in Qatar during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study design that included ...

    • Call for emergency action to restore dietary diversity and protect global food systems in times of COVID-19 and beyond: Results from a cross-sectional study in 38 countries 

      Hoteit, Maha; Hoteit, Reem; Aljawaldeh, Ayoub; Van Royen, Kathleen; Pabian, Sara; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      Background The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of the global food system, sending shockwaves across countries' societies and economy. This has presented formidable challenges to sustaining a healthy and ...

    • Can AI Help in Screening Viral and COVID-19 Pneumonia? 

      Chowdhury, M. E. H.; Rahman, T.; Khandakar, A.; Mazhar, R.; Kadir, M.A.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)
      Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease, which has already caused thousands of causalities and infected several millions of people worldwide. Any technological tool enabling rapid screening of the COVID-19 ...

    • Can commercial automated immunoassays be utilized to predict neutralizing antibodies after SARS-CoV-2 infection? A comparative study between three different assays. 

      Ismail, Ahmed; Shurrab, Farah M; Al-Jighefee, Hadeel T; Al-Sadeq, Duaa W; Qotba, Hamda; ... more authors ( IMR , 2021 , Article)
      Background: High-throughput assays that can infer neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2 are of great importance for assessing the immunity induced by natural infection and COVID-19 vaccines. We aimed to evaluate the ...

    • Cancer Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Systematic Review of Patient's and Caregiver's Experiences 

      Dhada, Symran; Cheema, Ejaz; Abdul Hadi, Muhammed; Paudyal, Vibhu ( medRxiv , 2021 , Article)
      Purpose: Cancer patients have faced intersecting crises during the COVID-19 pandemic. This review aimed to examine patients’ and caregivers’ experiences of accessing cancer services during the pandemic and its perceived ...

    • Cancer services during the covid-19 pandemic: Systematic review of patient's and caregiver's experiences 

      Dhada S.; Stewart, Derek; Cheema E.; Hadi M.A.; Paudyal V. ( Dove Medical Press Ltd , 2021 , Article)
      Purpose: Cancer patients have faced intersecting crises during the COVID-19 pandemic. This review aimed to examine patients and caregivers experiences of accessing cancer services during the pandemic and its perceived ...

    • Case studies on COVID-19 and environment 

      Shahin, M. D.; Abdullah, Muhammad; Muley, Deepti; Dias, Charitha ( Elsevier , 2021 , Book chapter)
      Coronavirus drastically changes people's travel behavior all over the world. This study aims to investigate the effect of people's adaptive travel behavior on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in south Asian countries. We ...