Predictors of Resilience in Prelicensure Nursing Faculty.

Background: Nursing faculty vacancies reduce the numbers of students entering the nursing profession, exacerbating the health care workforce crisis. Resilience, known to mitigate occupational burnout, may play a role in retaining existing prelicensure nursing faculty (PNF), a population that has not been extensively studied.

Purpose: We examined compassion satisfaction (CS), perceived support (PS), and associated demographic factors of resilience among PNF.

Implementation of Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Pregnancy.

Managing primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in pregnancy is challenging. Providers must balance bleeding risk against medication toxicity. The evaluation of the implementation of pregnancy-specific ITP clinical guidelines has not been widely studied.

Cannabis Use and Subsequent Cigarette Discontinuation Among U.S. Adults in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study, Waves 1-5.

Introduction: This study examined the association between the current co-use of cannabis and cigarettes in the past 30 days and subsequent cigarette discontinuation (past 30-day point-prevalence abstinence) among U.S. adults with established cigarette use in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study.

Impact of Quitline Services on Tobacco Cessation: An Application of Modern Epidemiological Methods.

This study investigated the effectiveness of quitline service intensity (high vs. low) on past 30-day tobacco abstinence at 7-months follow-up, using observational data from the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline (OTH) between April 2020 and December 2021. To assess the impact of loss to follow-up and non-random treatment assignment, we fit the parameters of a marginal structural model to estimate inverse probability weights for censoring (IPCW) and treatment (IPTW) and combined (IPCTW).

Resilience in Nursing Faculty: An Integrative Review.

The current documented nursing faculty shortage is an important factor affecting our ability to address the nationwide nursing shortage. Occupational burnout is a common phenomenon among nurses that may negatively impact retention of nursing faculty. While research suggests that promoting resilience moderates occupational burnout and relates to occupational satisfaction in practicing nurses, very few investigations have examined resilience among nursing faculty.

Smartphone-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention (OKquit) for Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline Users: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Tobacco quitlines provide effective resources (eg, nicotine replacement therapy, smoking cessation counseling, and text and web-based support) for those who want to quit smoking in the United States. However, quitlines reach approximately only 1%-3% of people who smoke each year. Novel, smartphone-based, and low-burden interventions that offer 24/7 access to smoking cessation resources that are tailored to current readiness to quit may increase appeal, reach, and effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions.

Nurses as Petitioners: A Legal Mapping of State Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws.

Gun violence is a leading public health concern in the US; subsequently, firearm-related violence prevention is a top priority for policymakers. Extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws are a state-level attempt to reduce gun-related injuries and deaths. These court-issued orders prohibit people found to be dangerous to themselves or others from temporarily purchasing or possessing a firearm.

Healthcare Professionals and Extreme Risk Protection Orders: A Concise Review.

Background: Extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) are one policy mechanism to address the critical public health problem of gun violence. The inclusion of healthcare professionals with ERPOs is a promising approach to expanding ERPO utilization, yet early evidence has not been examined.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to synthesize the current research on healthcare professionals and ERPOs.

A semiparametric multiply robust multiple imputation method for causal inference.

Evaluating the impact of non-randomized treatment on various health outcomes is difficult in observational studies because of the presence of covariates that may affect both the treatment or exposure received and the outcome of interest. In the present study, we develop a semiparametric multiply robust multiple imputation method for estimating average treatment effects in such studies. Our method combines information from multiple propensity score models and outcome regression models, and is multiply robust in that it produces consistent estimators for the average causal effects if at least one of the models is correctly specified.

Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Routine Childhood Vaccination in Low-Income Countries: A Systematic Review to Set the Scope for Future Pandemics.

The COVID-19 pandemic halted progress in global vaccine coverage and disrupted routine childhood vaccination practices worldwide. While there is ample evidence of the vaccination decline experienced during the pandemic, it is less clear how low-income countries were affected. We executed a systematic review to synthesize the current literature on the impacts of routine childhood vaccinations in low-income countries from 1 January 2020 to 8 February 2023.

Susceptibility to e-cigarette use and associated factors in high school youth, Oklahoma Youth Tobacco Survey, 2021-2022.

Introduction: Susceptibility predicts subsequent uptake of e-cigarettes (EC) by youth. This study identified factors associated with EC susceptibility among high school students who have never used a tobacco/nicotine product.

Methods: The Oklahoma Youth Tobacco Survey was administered to a random sample of 36 Oklahoma High Schools during the 2021-2022 school year ( = 1,220 participating students).

Putting the Ducks in a Row: Development of a Duck-assisted Green Care Intervention for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury.

Green Care therapies are defined as the engagement of a patient with the nature, exposing patients to a nature based therapeutic setting that may facilitate their recovery. Such therapies became popular at the end of the twentieth century. This therapeutic approach may include therapeutic horticulture, nature therapies, care farming, facilitated exercise, and animal-assisted therapies with farm animals (AATF).

Undergraduate Nursing Student Reflections on Academic Service Learning Experiences - A Qualitative Study.

The provision of nursing care has shifted toward integrated primary care (provision of community health services by an interprofessional team), requiring that nurse educators take steps to ensure students have opportunities to learn and practice the leadership and professional skills required to function as members and leaders of interdisciplinary teams. We developed the Transforming RN Roles in Community Based Integrated Primary Care (TRIP) program for undergraduate nursing students to facilitate this learning. During clinical immersion, students participated in academic service learning (ASL) activities consisting of a minimum of 25 h of clinical agency service each semester.

Use of Digital Health Resources by Sexual and Gender Minority Caregivers of Older Adults: Findings From the 2020 Survey.

We applied Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to investigate the health needs and use of digital health resources among sexual and/or gender minority (SGM) caregivers. Data were from the 2020 survey. Regression analyses were used to describe associations between predisposing, enabling, and need factors and usage of digital health resources.

Animal-Assisted Green Care Farming for Patients With Mental and Physical Disorders: A Narrative Review.

Green care is an umbrella term that includes numerous therapeutic interventions that immerse the patient into nature and natural environments. Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) with farm animals is a component of green care that may benefit patients with mental health disorders. While the majority of research exploring farm AATs originated in Europe, interest in this therapeutic intervention is emerging in the United States.

Disparities in cannabis use outcomes, perceived risks and social norms across sexual orientation groups of US young adult women and men.

Little research has examined mechanisms driving cannabis use disparities among sexual minority (SM; versus heterosexual) young adults (YAs). Participants were US YA women (N = 1345; 24.8% bisexual, 6.

Predictors of Cessation in Men Using a Tobacco Quitline: A Follow-Up Study.

Introduction: Although the effectiveness of tobacco quitline services for people who smoke cigarettes is well established, less is known about other forms of tobacco. This study aimed to compare quit rates and factors contributing to tobacco abstinence in men reporting dual use (smokeless tobacco and one additional combustible tobacco product), smokeless tobacco use only, and cigarette use only.

Methods: Self-reported 30-day point-prevalence tobacco abstinence at the 7-month follow-up was calculated in males who registered with the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline and completed a 7-month follow-up survey (N=3,721) (July 2015-November 2021).

Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline Utilization and Outcomes by Diabetes Status.

Context: Diabetes and cigarette smoking are major causes of morbidity and mortality. Individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) who smoke are at an increased risk of smoking- and diabetes-related morbidity and mortality.

Objective: We examined utilization patterns, satisfaction, and tobacco cessation outcomes among persons with T2D to determine whether the Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline is an equally effective intervention for tobacco users with T2D compared with those without diabetes.

Association of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors with Exclusive Smokeless Tobacco Use among US Males: Cross-Sectional Analysis of NHANES Data 2003-2018.

Purpose: To evaluate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among smokeless tobacco (ST) users. Exclusive ST users were compared to exclusive cigarette smokers and non-tobacco users.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Unique cessation tools in the box: Quitline utilization and effectiveness trends among a large sample of tobacco users reporting mental health disorders.

It is estimated that the prevalence of smoking among adults with MHDs ranges between 40-60%, as compared to about 17% among those without an MHD. In addition, smokers with MHDs smoke more cigarettes, are more nicotine dependent, and experience more difficulty quitting, compared to other smokers. The uniquely high smoking prevalence among the MHD population is a serious public health concern; unfortunately, a majority of individuals experiencing difficulty receive no treatment.

Discovery of CC-99677, a selective targeted covalent MAPKAPK2 (MK2) inhibitor for autoimmune disorders.

As an anti-inflammatory strategy, MAPK-activated protein kinase-2 (MK2) inhibition can potentially avoid the clinical failures seen for direct p38 inhibitors, especially tachyphylaxis. CC-99677, a selective targeted covalent MK2 inhibitor, employs a rare chloropyrimidine that bonds to the sulfur of cysteine 140 in the ATP binding site via a nucleophilic aromatic substitutions (SAr) mechanism. This irreversible mechanism translates biochemical potency to cells shown by potent inhibition of heat shock protein 27 (HSP27) phosphorylation in LPS-activated monocytic THP-1 cells.