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Exploring perinatal loneliness as a key social determinant of perinatal mental ill health in the UK: findings from a multidisciplinary consensus statement exercise that mapped knowledge about measurement, prevalence, antecedents, impacts and interventions, and agreed future priorities for research, policy and practice
Ruth Naughton-Doe, Rebecca Nowland, Jacqueline Kent-Marvick, Phoebe McKenna-Plumley, Emily Lovett, Thuy-Vy Nguyen, Lindsay Hunter, Nicola Wallis, Florence Gaughan, Katie Hall, Corinna Colella, Suzanne Wilson, Katherine Adlington, Elizabeth Taylor Buck, Sarah Shemery, Naomi Finch, Catrin Noone

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e085669; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085669
Risk-based innovations in cancer screening and diagnosis: a discrete choice experiment to explore priorities of the UK public
Rebecca Dennison, Stephen Morris, Reanna J Clune, Stuart Wright, Jo Waller, Juliet Usher-Smith

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e093803; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-093803
Evaluating antibiotic use patterns and compliance in Shanxi province hospitals: a 7-year retrospective study of national clinical improvement system data (2015–2021)
Donghong Yin, Yang Tang, Song Wang, Shuyun Wang, Jian Ren, Rui Zhang, Shucheng Yang, Ruigang Hou, Jinju Duan, Zhihong Ren

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e095960; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-095960
Maternal periconception serum vitamin B12 concentration and risk of preterm birth: a prospective cohort study
Yuanzhou Peng, Yi Zhang, Xiaotian Chen, Yalan Dou, Jun Huang, Xiaohua Zhang, Guoying Huang, Xiangfeng Lu, Weili Yan

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e100064; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-100064
Online child sexual abuse: a convergent parallel mixed-method exploration among Bangladeshi youth
Marium Salwa, Md Redwanul Islam, Mohammad Ibrahim Ibne Towhid, Anika Tasnim, Md Maruf Haque Khan, M Atiqul Haque

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e091042; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091042
Challenges and opportunities in engaging health development partners in district health planning in Uganda: an exploratory qualitative study
Khamisi Musanje, Evelyne B Nywacho, Rachel Faith Mirembe, Joyce Nansamba, Grace Cherotich Ruto

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e093035; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-093035
Conditioned open-label placebos to facilitate opioid reduction in patients with chronic non-cancer pain: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Katja Carratta, Kiara Bodonyi, Antje Frey Nascimento, Daniel Friis, Roland von Känel, Lukas Bircher, Helen Koechlin, Michael Bernstein, Konrad Streitberger, Isabelle Arnet, Alfred Josef Roth, Joram Ronel, Elisabeth Olliges, Cosima Locher

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e098253; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-098253
Household food security and its influence on psychological well-being: a cross-sectional study among adults in slums in Bangladesh
A B M Nahid Hasan, Mst Ishrat Jahan Luky, Fahmida Rashid, Most Mahfuja Khanam, Jamal Hossain, Mst Rokshana Rabeya, Azaz Bin Sharif

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e091640; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091640
Impact of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure on thyroid hormone sensitivity: a cross-sectional study of urinary metabolites in 2356 adults from NHANES
Qingqing Yang, Hui Li, Chenchen Wu, Min Li, Weihua Sun, Xiaolei Hu, Zhaoming Shi, Guoxi Jin

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e098106; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-098106
Wealth-based inequality and dropout rate in the completion of the continuum of maternal healthcare in Ethiopia: a secondary data analysis of the Mini Demographic and Health Survey of 2019
Melsew Setegn Alie, Simegnew Gichew, Dereje Alemayehu

BMJ Open May 2025, 15 (5) e093113; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-093113

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