The perspectives on advance care planning of older people with psychotic illnesses and their carers.

Purpose: To examine the attitudes, experiences, and perceived facilitators and barriers to Advance Care Planning (ACP), of older people with schizophrenia and other psychotic illness and their carers.

Methods: Older people with a psychotic illness and carers were recruited from public mental health services in Sydney, Australia. Semi-structured interviews to explore attitudes, experiences, and perceived barriers and facilitators to ACP were conducted by an external clinician.

GenomicGapID: leveraging spatial distribution of conserved genomic sites for broad-spectrum microbial identification.

Bacterial detection and identification methods can be broadly classified as either untargeted with expansive taxonomic coverage or targeted with narrow taxonomic focus. Untargeted approaches, such as culture and sequencing, are often time-consuming and/or costly, whereas targeted methods, such as PCR, can offer faster and more cost-effective results but require knowledge of the likely pathogen to select the appropriate assay. GenomicGapID, a novel approach that leverages the spatial distribution of conserved genetic regions across microbial genomes, represents a significant advancement in the field of microbial identification.

American Indian women's perceptions of perinatal cannabis use.

Cannabis use during pregnancy continues to rise, yet research examining cannabis use in perinatal American Indian women is lacking. Structural injustices have led to health inequities for American Indian people, including higher prevalence of past-month cannabis use and lower prevalence of receiving mental health treatment, compared to other racial and ethnic groups. To describe perceptions of risks and benefits of perinatal cannabis use in a sample of American Indian perinatal women who report regularly using cannabis while pregnant.

Diagnostic accuracy of an antigen-based point-of-care test versus nucleic acid amplification testing for genital trichomoniasis among pregnant women attending antenatal care facilities in Zambia.

Background: Infection with Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) is the most prevalent curable sexually transmitted infection (STI) globally and is associated with prelabour rupture of membranes, preterm delivery, and low birthweight. Point-of-care (POC) testing for TV during pregnancy may facilitate rapid antenatal case detection and treatment. This study, part of the World Health Organization's global ProSPeRo study, aimed to evaluate the performance of OSOM® Trichomonas Rapid Test, an antigen-based POC test, against a reference nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) among pregnant women in Zambia.

Bismuth oxychloride as a van der Waals dielectric for 2D electronics.

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have received a lot of attention as the channel material for the next generation of transistors and electronic devices. On the other hand, insulating 2D gate dielectrics, as possible materials for gate dielectrics in transistors, have received little attention. We performed an experimental study on bismuth oxychloride, which is theoretically proposed to have good dielectric properties.