Purpose: Discrimination is a social determinant of health (SDOH) that negatively affects racially minoritized students and patients. Nurses and nurse educators must understand discrimination, including nuanced and intersecting ways that it negatively affects academic and health outcomes.
Method: In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 Black women at a primarily White institution in the Southeast United States.
Folia Primatol (Basel)
February 2024
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
September 2024
Access to postpartum care (PPC) varies in the US and little data exists about whether patient factors may influence receipt of care. Our study aimed to assess the effect of provider-patient racial concordance on Black patients' receipt of PPC. We conducted a cross-sectional study analyzing over 24,000 electronic health records of childbirth hospitalizations at a large academic medical center in Alabama from January 2014 to March 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) face a wide range of complex barriers to COVID-19 vaccine confidence and access.
Objectives: Describe our process for engaging a cross-sector team centering equity and youth voice; outline our intervention strategies to enhance COVID-19 vaccine confidence and access among YEH; and discuss lessons learned through this community-engaged process.
Methods: We engaged partners from across sectors, including youth-serving agencies, healthcare organizations, public health organizations, and YEH.
Background: Tissue-specificity for fimbrial fallopian tube ovarian carcinogenesis remains largely unknown in mutation carriers. We aimed to assess the cell autonomous and cell-nonautonomous implications of a germline mutation in the context of cancer immunosurveillance of CD3 CD56 natural killer (NK) cells.
Methods: Premenopausal mutation carriers versus age-matched non-carriers were compared.
Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive pathogen responsible for antibiotic-resistant infections. To identify vulnerabilities in cell envelope biogenesis that may overcome resistance, we enriched for S. aureus transposon mutants with defects in cell surface integrity or cell division by sorting for cells that stain with propidium iodide or have increased light-scattering properties, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFungi that are edible or fermentative were domesticated through selective cultivation of their desired traits. Domestication is often associated with inbreeding or selfing, which may fix traits other than those under selection, and causes an overall decrease in heterozygosity. A hallucinogenic mushroom, Psilocybe cubensis, was domesticated from its niche in livestock dung for production of psilocybin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a gram-positive pathogen responsible for life-threatening infections that are difficult to treat due to antibiotic resistance. The identification of new vulnerabilities in essential processes like cell envelope biogenesis represents a promising avenue towards the development of anti-staphylococcal therapies that overcome resistance. To this end, we performed cell sorting-based enrichments for mutants with defects in envelope integrity and cell division.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPublic Health Nurs
November 2023
Stark disparities persist in maternal mortality and perinatal outcomes for Black and other birthing people of color, such as Native Americans, and their newborns compared to White people in the United States. An increasing body of research describes the phenomenon of implicit racial bias among providers and how it may affect communication, treatment decisions, the patient care experience, and health outcomes. This synthesis of literature reviews and distills current research on the presence and influence of implicit racial bias among nurses as it may relate to maternal and pregnancy-related care and outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv
July 2023
The current study investigated symptom network patterns in adolescents from a gut-brain-axis (GBA) biopsychosocial perspective. Our secondary analysis of data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study assessed symptom relationships using network analysis to provide information about multivariate structural dependencies among 41 signs and symptoms. Cross-sectional EBICglasso symptom networks were evaluated to assess patterns associated with anhedonia and depressed mood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs
January 2023
Objective: To describe drug testing practices used in labor and delivery units in seven southeastern U.S. states (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), determine what risk factors prompt drug testing, and determine whether selective policies or factors that prompt testing differ based on hospital characteristics (type, size, or predominant payer source).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To identify symptom clusters among adult survivors of childhood cancers and test associations with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and physical and neurocognitive performance.
Methods: This cross-sectional study included 3,085 survivors (mean age at evaluation 31.9 ± 8.
Paradoxical reactions are immune-mediated disease exacerbations that can occur in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) following initiation of treatment. They are rare, challenging to manage and often fatal. We present a case of neurotuberculosis in a young woman, complicated by a paradoxical reaction in which infliximab was trialled without success.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Breast cancer is a leading cause of death in premenopausal women. Progesterone drives expansion of luminal progenitor cells, leading to the development of poor-prognostic breast cancers. However, it is not known if antagonising progesterone can prevent breast cancers in humans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: History starts from where we are now - it is not just things that happened a long time ago. The global pandemic began in 2019. It has changed the lives of people with learning disabilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSmall ape habitat throughout Malaysia is rapidly being lost, degraded, and fragmented, and the effects of these changes on the abundance on this taxon are currently unknown. This study assessed the group density of Hylobates agilis in virgin forest, previously logged forest (1960s-1990s), and recently logged forest (2015-2017) of the Ulu Muda Forest Reserve (UMFR), Kedah, Malaysia. We conducted fixed-point active acoustic triangulation at nine survey areas to estimate group density.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper introduces the notion of comodularity, to cocluster observations of bipartite networks into co-communities. The task of coclustering is to group together nodes of one type with nodes of another type, according to the interactions that are the most similar. The measure of comodularity is introduced to assess the strength of co-communities, as well as to arrange the representation of nodes and clusters for visualization, and to define an objective function for optimization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Most NPs practice in primary care settings. Cognitive tools to inform and advance NP understanding of biopsychosocial mechanisms can support early recognition, interdisciplinary collaboration, interventions, and prevention of negative outcomes.
Theory And Methods: We describe the development of a model to support NP consideration of gut-brain axis (GBA) evidence-based pathways, contributing variables, and related health outcomes.
Single-cell analysis has revolutionised genomic science in recent years. However, due to cost and other practical considerations, single-cell analyses are impossible for studies based on medium or large patient cohorts. For example, a single-cell analysis usually costs thousands of euros for one tissue sample from one volunteer, meaning that typical studies using single-cell analyses are based on very few individuals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBacterial species have diverse cell shapes that enable motility, colonization and virulence. The cell wall defines bacterial shape and is primarily built by two cytoskeleton-guided synthesis machines, the elongasome and the divisome. However, the mechanisms producing complex shapes, like the curved-rod shape of Vibrio cholerae, are incompletely defined.
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