Dementia knowledge of family caregivers in Indonesia: A cross-sectional survey study.

Background: As the population ages, the prevalence of dementia in Indonesia is rapidly increasing. In Indonesia, dementia care is primarily provided by informal or family caregivers. However, there is limited information about these caregivers' understanding of dementia and the factors that may influence their knowledge.

Key considerations when developing academic writing support for nursing and midwifery doctoral students: A scoping review.

Background And Aim: Academic writing is essential to achieve success for doctoral students and is often linked to their academic identity, which could provoke negative emotions leading to the risk of burnout and dropping out of their studies. Although academic writing is a substantial part of doctoral students' learning journey, there are no existing recommendations to guide the provision of effective support addressing nursing and midwifery doctoral students' needs in academic writing. This review aims to identify the key considerations that could facilitate education facilities and educators to provide effective support for academic writing among nursing and midwifery doctoral students, fostering a supportive environment for guidance and development.

Non-dual awareness and sensory processing in meditators: Insights from startle reflex modulation.

Startle modulation paradigms, namely habituation and prepulse inhibition (PPI), can offer insight into the brain's early information processing mechanisms that might be impacted by regular meditation practice. Habituation refers to decreasing response to a repeatedly-presented startle stimulus, reflecting its redundancy. PPI refers to response reduction when a startling stimulus "pulse" is preceded by a weaker sensory stimulus "prepulse" and provides an operational measure of sensorimotor gating.

Assessment of microplastics in coastal ecosystem of Bangladesh.

Microplastics (MPs) pose one of the major environmental threats to marine organisms and ecosystems on a global scale. The present study investigated MPs in surface water, beach sediments, and fish in two coastal areas of Bangladesh namely Cox's Bazar and Kuakata. The MPs were identified and characterized using three different techniques, including the binocular microscope, the ATR-FTIR (Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy), and SEM-EDS (Scanning Electron Microscopy- Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy).

Evaluation of time to sputum smear conversion and its association with treatment outcomes among drug-resistant tuberculosis patients: a retrospective record-reviewing study.

This study examined the time to sputum smear and culture conversion and determinants of conversion, as well as variables associated with treatment outcomes among drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (DR-PTB) cases. The electronic database and written medical records of patients were utilized to assess the sociodemographic, clinical, microbiological, and treatment characteristics and outcomes of study participants. Among 736 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), the mean age was 36.