Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 infection in humans first reported Wuhan (China) which has spread around the world and having a significant impact on global health mental health. It caused widespread psychosocial behavioural changes as result mass hysteria, economic burden, financial losses, addition to its high infectivity increased mortality rates. 
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Abstract This article suggests that global environmental assessments (GEAs) may be a potent means for making the humanities more consequential outside universities. So far most GEAs have been led by geoscientists, with mainstream social science in support. However, there is no reason why concept of assessment cannot elasticated to include concerns interpretive and humanities. Building on forty-...

The gap between scientific knowledge and real world practice continues to be a major conundrum for the behavioral sciences. This paper briefly reviews the development of behavioral research and describes problems that have arisen in meeting the goal of improving behavioral interventions through science. Based on published literature and personal observations, the authors argue that behavioral r...

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The paper provides a first survey of the literature on external validity, using as a starting point recent debates regarding the use of randomized evaluations to inform policy. Besides synthesising contributions to the programme evaluation literature we consider definitions of external validity from other sub-disciplines within economics, such as experimental economics and the time-series forec...

OBJECTIVES Clinicians and researchers need an accurate tool assessing contraceptive knowledge in order to understand the effectiveness of teaching efforts. However, most widely used indices are outdated. The objective of this study is to create an evidence-based assessment tool and determine its validity and reliability for measuring contraceptive knowledge. STUDY DESIGN The study team develo...